Temporal Changes in Biological Community Structure at Nascent Hydrothermal Vents on the EPR Crest

P.I: LUTZ, Richard A.提案#:9529819请记住，该计划在个人奖励/不奖励决定中考虑次要因素，查看数字评级统计数据以对可用资金的竞争程度有一些感觉仍然是有益的。就常规评审小组而言，得奖率目前约为收到的建议书总额的15%。我们最近做了一些努力，让评审人员和小组清楚地了解资金竞争的总体水平，希望这些信息能在一定程度上影响对个别提案的评价和提案之间的歧视。在这个小组中，50%的提案的平均邮件审查数字排名非常好或更好（在1=优秀，5=差的范围内约为2.0）。随着研究成本的增加（以及提案中美元要求的增加）的压力，制定长期奖励的指令，提交给常规小组的大量提案，以及支持非战略倡议领域的研究的资金没有增加，该计划预计我们将继续面临不愉快的现实，即不推荐许多重要的，值得基金会支持的高评价提案。

P.I.: LUTZ, Richard A. Proposal #: 9529819 Keeping in mind that the program weighs secondary considerations in the individual award/no-award decisions, it is still informative to look at the numerical rating statistics to have some feeling for the level of competition for available funds. For the regular panels, award rates are currently about 15% of the total proposals received. We have made recent efforts to let the reviewers and panels know clearly what the general level of competition for funds is like, expecting that evaluations of individuals proposals and discrimination among proposal will be influenced to a degree by this information. In this panel, 50% of the proposals had average numerical mail review rankings of very good or better (~2.0 on a scale where 1=Excellent and 5=Poor). With the pressures of increased costs of doing research (and increased dollar requests in proposals), the directive to make longer-term awards, the consistently large number of proposals submitted to the regular panels, and with no increases in funds to support research in areas not identified as strategic initiatives, the Program expects that we will continue to face the unpleasant reality of not recommending many important, worthy and high-rated proposals for support by the Foundation.