In his remarks, Dr. Holdren underscored the importance of mentoring in his own education.
President Obama will consult his new Nasa Administrator Charles Bolden and chief scientist John Holdren before responding.
Scientists monitoring the landing at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, including the President's Science Advisor, John Holdren, were elated.
Holdren and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, USAID co-hosted a conference entitled Transforming Development through Science, Technology, and Innovation.
In opening remarks, Dr. Holdren emphasized the key role of STEM in addressing grand challenges and growing the economy.
Dr. Holdren requested that agencies provide OSTP with progress reports within 120 days.
Dr. Holdren also encouraged those agencies that have submitted drafts to keep up the pace and move toward finalizing their policies.
WHITEHOUSE: Director Holdren Announces New Scientific Integrity Deadline | The White House
Next week Dr Holdren will set out new regulations that he says will prevent scientific advice from being influenced by politics.
According to sources, Holdren stood by as the White House openly meddled.
Dr Holdren was confident that that a similar bill would be passed by the US Senate in time for the Copenhagen summit meeting.
Yet the Holdren-Beddington article is based on data and studies from the Congressional EMP Commission--that warns about both natural and nuclear EMP threats.
Some 19 Federal entities had submitted either draft or final policies as of last week, the deadline Dr. Holdren had set for draft submissions.
As Holdren and Beddington note, the solar maximum, and increased possibility of a great geomagnetic storm, is fast approaching, now less than a year away.
Dr. John Holdren, my Science and Technology Advisor -- where's John?
Holdren called both winners today to convey those good wishes.
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In order to maintain the momentum, OSTP Director John Holdren today is requesting that every covered department and agency provide its draft scientific integrity policy within 90 days from today.
WHITEHOUSE: Director Holdren Announces New Scientific Integrity Deadline | The White House
Holdren and I have testified before Congress, there is a growing awareness of the value of integrated Earth observations for meeting a variety of environmental and other public policy objectives.
On Monday in Washington, DC, OSTP Director John Holdren spoke to an audience of scientists and innovators, including the student finalists of the Siemens Foundation Competition in Math, Science, and Technology.
Only 10% of meteors more than 150 yards wide -- dubbed "potential city killers" by Holdren -- have been detected, meaning more than 10, 000 are out there without our knowledge, he said.
Federal departments and agencies are making good progress on the development of scientific integrity policies, as initially called for by OSTP director John Holdren in a December 2010 Executive Branch memorandum.
The January 15th issue of Science News reports comments from White House Science Adviser John Holdren on how the Obama Administration plans to deal with the new Republican majority in the House .
As you know, Dr. John Holdren is the director of the Office of Science and Technology who is all over this all the time, and making sure the President is kept abreast of developments.
The White House's chief scientist, John Holdren, said "it would be only prudent" to review the human spaceflight programme given the scale of its ambition and "the significant investment of both funds and scientific capital".
Strangely, Holdren and Beddington warn only about the natural EMP threat from a great geomagnetic storm, and ignore the manmade EMP threat posed by a nuclear weapon in the hands of terrorists or rogue states.
Dr. Holdren noted the power of such ambitious goals and STEM innovations generally to capture imaginations including that of the President himself, as was never more evident than at the last White House Science Fair.
White House science adviser John Holdren told a congressional committee in March that as few as 10% of asteroids more than 150 yards wide -- which he called "potential city killers" -- have been detected.
On March 9, the day before the Holdren-Beddington article appeared, North Korea reportedly attacked U.S. and South Korean military communications, and disrupted communications in three South Korean cities, using a non-nuclear EMP jammer purchased from Russia.
President Obama's new science adviser, John Holdren, is a fervent believer in the crank theories of Paul Ehrlich, a once popular scientist who wrote the 1968 bestseller The Population Bomb, along with treatisespredicting imminent mass global starvation and various other apocalypses.
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