Is SMD Paying Attention to White House Priorities?

Editor’s note: The Obama administration is clearly interested in Earth science and has focused most of NASA’s stimulus package funds on climate and Earth science issues. Right now a volcano (Mount Redoubt) is about to erupt in Alaska with the potential to disrupt life in the region. With this renewed focus on Earth science you’d think that NASA SMD would take a little time to gather all the things their various satellites can do with regard to this volcano and put it online – if for no other reason to show that they are paying attention to the White House. Alas, a look at SMD’s news page shows nothing. Nor is there anything on SMD’s home page or NASA.gov for that matter.
Ed, there was no telescope or planetary spacecraft money in the science portion of that package – just “critical Earth science missions”.
Redoubt Activity, Alaska Volcano Observatory
Inlet volcano keeps geologists on alert, AP