Are funding levels for collections declining relative to past support levels (have priorities shifted)?
Available information shows a consistent trend of declining funding for culture collections. However, there is currently insufficient information to conclude that these reductions are due to priority shifts by the Federal agencies. A sense of gravity for the situation does exist, but the concern is based on anecdotal observations. Discussions with academic and government researchers in the field suggest significant difficulty in retaining adequate funding for culture collections. For example, funding for the NRRL collection in Peoria and a joint project between the EPA and ATCC were seriously challenged, and the fundees at the NSF/Genetics Society workshop all reported funding shortages last year (workshop report attached). Two separate searches of on-line NIH, NSF and USDA grant databases, conducted via the Internet, suggest that funding has been fixed from past years, and remains flat, leading to an effective decrease in funds available to the collections because of growth in fixed c
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