IS THE PRESIDENTS SCIENCE ADVISOR FINALLY ASSEMBLING A TEAM?
The Office of Science and Technology got off to a fast start in January when Jack Gibbons was confirmed as Director. The next step was to fill the four Associate Director positions, but it was not until this month that Lionel S. Johns, who came from OTA with Gibbons, was confirmed as Associate Director for Technology, leaving three AD positions still to be filled. Last week, the President announced his “intention to nominate” Marci Greenwood to be AD for Science, and Jane Wales for International Affairs and National Security. Greenwood, Dean of Graduate Studies at UC Davis, is an expert on obesity; Wales is chair of the Cooperative Security Program of the Carnegie Corporation. That still leaves Environment to be filled. We are told the President intends to announce his “intention to nominate” Robert Watson of NASA for the job. Watson is chief scientist of Mission to Planet Earth. 4. HOUSTON WILL BE HEADQUARTERS FOR THE REDESIGNED SPACE STATION! Consolidation at one location was expecte
