Slide title: The Future of America

Slide words: 2009 Budget Request

Slide image: A photo showing a graduate student holding a guinea pig (left); A photo showing Johns Hopkins graduate student Karina Zavala, breaking up samples of igneous rock from the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. (center); A photo showing three students Aaron Bini, master's candidate in the University at Buffalo Department of Geology, undergraduate J.R. Noble, and assistant professor Jason Briner showing off a sediment core that they have just collected from a lake on northeast Baffin Island, Arctic Canada. (right)
Image credit: Atlanta Center for Behavioral Neuroscience (left); National Science Foundation (center); Elizabeth Thomas, University at Buffalo (right)
Slide background image: A computer simulation showing turbulence
Slide background credit: Laboratory for Computational Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota
Design by Adrian Apodaca, National Science Foundation