Slide title: Invests in Major Research Tools

Slide images: Combination of photographs and illustrations of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) summit facility and of Calypso, the small adjacent atmospheric telescope (top left); still from a video showing the launch of the Alaska Region Research Vessel Sikuliaq (top center); photo of the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (ATST) under construction (top right); illustration of the anticipated "reach" of the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (AdvLIGO); illustration of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) global mooring array (bottom center); artist's conception of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) (bottom right)

Image credits: LSST Corporation (top left); University of Alaska, Fairbanks/National Science Foundation (top center); Tony Gibson, National Science Foundation (top right); R. Powell, http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com (galaxy map, bottom left); Jack Cook, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (bottom center); Nicolle Rager Fuller, National Science Foundation (bottom right)