Slide title: NSF FY 2012 Budget Request

Slide words: TOTAL: $7.767 billion
Increase: 13 percent over 2010 enacted level

Slide image: Cover of the National Science Foundation's FY2012 BUDGET REQUEST TO CONGRESS
Cover image: "Microbe vs. Mineral - A Life and Death Struggle in the Desert," a photo of light passing through salt crystals

Cover image credit: Michael P. Zach, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

Bottom banner images (left to right): Image of an F4 Phantom fighter jet created with a 3D telepresence system; photo of scientists deploying an apparatus for taking sonar measurements from the seafloor; artist's conception showing the newly discovered planet GJ 581g of the Gliese 581 system; artist's conception of a molecular robot; photo of a fifth-grade student; sketch of RNA molecules

Bottom banner images credits (left to right): University of Arizona; Igor Semiletov, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Lynette Cook; Zina Deretsky, National Science Foundation; Elsa Head, Tufts University; Dr. Jennifer Henke, Princeton University