January 14, 2021 11am-12:30pm January 14, 2021 11:00 AM to January 14, 2021 12:30 PM Virtual Meeting Talk Abstract: A key challenge of science policy is to achieve sustained benefit from scientific grantmaking. In this presentation, I will provide a framework for thinking about sustainability in scientific software projects, based on empirical studies of development and use of software in science. The framework starts by asking: what is it that causes sustainability problems? Over time, software declines in scientific usefulness, ...