{"id":230,"date":"2025-10-06T14:38:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T14:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neos.epss.ucla.edu\/?p=230"},"modified":"2025-10-06T14:39:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T14:39:20","slug":"the-importance-of-federal-funding-advocacy-and-investing-in-future-generations-of-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neos.epss.ucla.edu\/index.php\/2025\/10\/06\/the-importance-of-federal-funding-advocacy-and-investing-in-future-generations-of-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"The importance of federal funding advocacy and investing in future generations of scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"573\" src=\"https:\/\/neos.epss.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/neowise-hero-1024x573.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/neos.epss.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/neowise-hero-1024x573.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/neos.epss.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/neowise-hero-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/neos.epss.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/neowise-hero-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/neos.epss.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/neowise-hero-1536x859.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/neos.epss.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/neowise-hero.jpg 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out this article written by the University of California President Office: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universityofcalifornia.edu\/news\/finding-asteroids-could-hit-earth-early-enough-humanity-act\">Finding asteroids that could hit Earth \u2014 early enough for humanity to act<\/a>.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b77badbc8fad41e9bb07e39d4fb609a0\">The article underscores that proactive planetary defense, exemplified by NASA&#8217;s NEO Surveyor mission, is wholly dependent on continuous, robust federal funding and sustained governmental support. Cuts to science agencies like NASA and the NSF not only threaten the critical work of tracking potentially hazardous asteroids but also endanger the pipeline of specialized scientists and engineers needed for this essential long-term security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this article written by the University of California President Office: Finding asteroids that could hit Earth \u2014 early enough for humanity to act. The article underscores that proactive planetary defense, exemplified by NASA&#8217;s NEO Surveyor mission, is wholly dependent on continuous, robust federal funding and sustained governmental support. Cuts to science agencies like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11,10,13,9,12],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-post","tag-epss","tag-nasa","tag-nasa-mission","tag-neo-surveyor","tag-ucla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neos.epss.ucla.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neos.epss.ucla.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neos.epss.ucla.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neos.epss.ucla.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neos.epss.ucla.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/neos.epss.ucla.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"https:\/\/neos.epss.ucla.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neos.epss.ucla.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neos.epss.ucla.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neos.epss.ucla.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}