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AAAS Resolution:
In Support of Continuation of the United States Geological Survey
Whereas the American Association for the Advancement of Science wishes to reaffirm the value of scientific research as part of our national heritage, and
Whereas the United States Geological Survey is one of the oldest Federal science agencies and has, since its founding in 1879, promoted the economic development of America through its work on water, minerals, and fuels, and
Whereas the Survey has conducted basic and applied scientific research that, because it claims no proprietary interest, has been made impartially and widely available to all American citizens, and
Whereas the Survey's cartographic, seismologic, hydrographic and geologic research, in such diverse areas as coastline erosion, estuaries and bays, large-scale movements of underground water in arid and semiarid agricultural environments, earthquake hazards, volcanism, strategic minerals, and fossils underpins a broad range of scientific projects throughout the United States, in federal, state, and local settings and in a wide range of corporate and educational institutions, and
Whereas decision making about land and water resources demands the highest quality of scientific knowledge, such as that provided by the more than a century of productive research by the United States Geological Survey,
Therefore be it resolved that the American Association for the Advancement of Science supports the resolution of its Section on Geology and Geography and the Executive Committee of its Pacific Division endorsing the continuing existence of the United States Geological Survey. [Approved by the AAAS Council, February 19, 1995.]
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