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

P.I.：Lutz，Richard A.提案#：9529819记住，该计划在个人获奖/不获奖决定中权衡次要考虑因素，查看数字评级统计数据仍然是有用的，以对可用资金的竞争水平有一些感觉。就常规小组而言，获奖率目前约为收到的建议书总数的15%。我们最近努力让评审员和专家小组清楚地了解资金竞争的总体水平，预计对个人提案的评估和提案之间的歧视将在一定程度上受到这些信息的影响。在这个小组中，50%的提案的平均数字邮件审查排名为非常好或更好(~2.0，其中1=优秀，5=差)。随着研究成本的增加(以及提案中美元要求的增加)、颁发长期奖项的指令、提交给定期小组的提案数量一直很多，以及没有增加资金支持未被确定为战略举措的领域的研究，本计划预计我们将继续面临不推荐许多重要的、有价值的和高评级的提案以供基金会支持的令人不快的现实。

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.