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Core Actors

Engaging Social Science Structural Changes Happening in Delta • Hiring: New Delta Science staff are social scientists • Advising: Delta Social Science Task Force, Advisory Boards, Committees, Planning Efforts • Funding: Write social science into requests for proposals Appreciating Social Science Culture • Social science is a “real” science: we have theories, we need money, we need to publish, we are not a “service bureau” • Social science is diverse: Not just economics. Qualitative and quantitative • Social science can “play nice” in interdisciplinary projects