Infrastructure costs gobbling up U.S. funding for core research -- report

摘要

Ocean research should focus on sea-level risks, forecasting natural disasters and global warming's impacts on marine ecosystems, the National Research Council said in a report released today. The report sets out eight priorities for the next decade that emphasize the need for funding and cross-agency collaboration. Specifically, it warns that infrastructure costs are beginning to overshadow research funding amid flat and declining federal budgets.