# Presentation: 181177

## BASIC ENERGY SCIENCES -- Serving the Present, Shaping the Future

***Dr. Patricia M. Dehmer***
***Director, Office of Basic Energy Sciences***
***Office of Science***
***U.S. Department of Energy***
***5 May 2004***
***Advanced Photon Source 2004 Users Meeting***

***The Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Money, and You***
***Some budget basics for the non-specialist and why you should care***

***Office of Basic Energy Sciences******Office of Science******U.S. Department of Energy***

***http://www.sc.doe.gov/bes/***

## BES Facilities for X-ray and Neutron Scattering

**National Synchrotron**
**Light Source**

**Advanced Photon Source**

**Stanford Synchrotron**
**Radiation Laboratory**

**Advanced Light Source**

**High-Flux**
**Isotope Reactor**

**Intense Pulsed Neutron Source**

**Manuel Lujan Jr. Neutron Scattering Center**

***BES Facilities for X-ray and Neutron Scattering***

**Spallation Neutron Source**

**Linac Coherent**
**Light Source**

## BES FY 2005 President’s Budget Request

**B/A in millions of dollars**

**$ 1,063.5**

**20.3**

**178.3**

**240.1**

**287.7**

**9.8**

**81.8**

**13.6**

**231.9**

**Construction**

**Research**

**(Laboratories)**

**User Facilities**

**(Operating)**

** ****Research**

**(Universities*)**

**Capital**

**Equipment**

**SBIR/STTR**

**GPP**

**AIP**

- * Includes the funding for not-for-profits, other

- agencies, and private institutions.

_**CONSTRUCTION**_** **
**(Spallation Neutron Source, ****Nanoscale Science Research Centers, & Linac Coherent Light Source)**

_**FACILITY OPERATIONS**_
**(X-ray and Neutron Scattering Facilities &**
**the Combustion Research Center)**

_**RESEARCH**_
**(Materials Sciences and Engineering Subprogram**
** ****&**
**Chemical Sciences, Geosciences,**
** ****and Biosciences Subprogram)**

**You are here.**

**You are here, too.**

## BES FY 2004 Budget – Pretty Good News

***Conference Report, H.R. 108-357***
- The conference agreement included $1,016,575,000 for basic energy sciences, an increase of $8,000,000 over the budget request. The conference agreement included $575,711,000 for materials sciences and engineering research, and $220,914,000 for chemical sciences, geosciences, and energy biosciences. **The additional $8,000,000 for materials sciences and engineering research was to support additional nanoscience research at existing user facilities and the new nanoscale science research centers. **For construction, the recommendation was the same as the request.

## BES FY 2004 Budget – the $8M

| Action | $K |
| --- | --- |
| Postdoctoral research associates for researchers associated with the Nanoscale Science Research Centers.  Postdocs will conduct research and will serve users in the "pilot" user programs that are being beta tested prior to the commissioning of the Centers.  All five NSRCs are participating in the pilot studies, which place users in the labs of Laboratory scientists, many of whom will eventually be part of the NSRCs.  The pilot programs have been significantly oversubscribed. | $1,500 |
| Fabrication of the insertion device and front end components for the new nano-magnetism beamline at the SSRL. | $2,000 |
| Fabrication of the insertion device and front end components for the hard x-ray nanoprobe beamline at the APS, currently under development. | $2,400 |
| Fabrication and installation of components for the beamline for spectroscopy and diffraction at the nanoscale at the ALS. | $1,500 |
| Support for beamline scientists to maintain the beamline and serve users at the newly constructed beamline for Photoelectron Emission Microscopy at the soft x-ray ring at the NSLS. | $600 |

## The Office of Science FY 2005 Budget RequestMore Pretty Good News

***The Office of Science FY 2005 Budget Request******More Pretty Good News***

***Office of Science***

***U.S. Department of Energy***

## BES Budget Trends FY 1988 – FY 2005

***BES Budget Trends FY 1988 – FY 2005***

## ?

**?**

***What’s Next – Budget Trends Beyond FY 2005***

***What’s on the horizon?  Should you be concerned?  Do you have a role to play in affecting the outcome?******First, you need to understand the larger Federal funding picture.***

**?**

## You are here.

**You are here.**

## The APS is here.

**The APS is here.**

## The APS is here.

**The APS is here.**

## Slide 12

## Slide 13

## Slide 14

## No longer “pretty good news.”

**No longer “pretty good news.”**

## Slide 16

## Community Challenges

- Out-year budgets for discretionary spending, i.e., science, will likely be constrained.  You need to understand the proposed magnitudes and impacts.
- Simple and compelling expositions of the “what” and the “worth” of non-medical-related physical sciences research are not yet perfected.
- Big challenges exist for policy makers:  The funding balance among scientific disciplines; among research sectors; among large-scale science projects; and between large-scale science and individual-investigator activities must be addressed.
- Community planning must at once incorporate grand challenge, visionary goals – even if expensive – and recognize the likely near-term funding situation.
- The scientific communities and their stakeholders (i.e., disciplinary communities, agencies, and the NRC) might experiment with paradigm shifts in the way science is communicated to decision makers.