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3 CESI Program Management
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Management of CESI program categories was an additional responsibility given to staff already employed by DOI agencies in South Florida. The CESI coordinator works closely with the program category managers to develop science objectives and priorities, solicit and review research proposals, and coordinate with 4 1
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Priority objectives for individual CEST program categories are developed in consultation with the program category managers, the program advisory committees, the SCT, and the executive director of the SFERTF (Figure 3-2~. The CEST manager then determines final allocations for each of the program categories with advice from the executive director of the SFERTF, in order to coordinate the program funding with science budgets of other agencies (SFERTF, 2002~.
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Proposal Funding Process Program category managers develop requests for proposals for the highestpriority objectives in each program category, and the CEST coordinator notifies potential researchers of the program's interest in receiving proposals on particular topics. Notification goes to a limited set of agencies involved in South Florida ecosystem research and to several universities in the region.
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tend not to fully utilize their program advisory committees for advice or review. All program category managers should be required to work closely with formal program advisory committees in order to enable additional input from outside experts and to promote closer linkages with other South Florida ecosystem monitoring and research activities.
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The NPS could address these concerns and improve the effectiveness of the CEST program to protect DOT's numerous land-management interests by removing the SFNRC from the organizational and supervisory structure of Everglades National Park. The current SFNRC research director should work cooperatively with the park superintendents in South Florida but should have organizational and fiscal autonomy.
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There are well-established accountability procedures in place through the Everglades National Park contracting office for the cooperative agreements managed by the NPS. However, the CEST manager does little monitoring of work funded by interagency agreements because these instruments generally transfer large sums of money in very broad categories and leave the responsibility of allocating and reviewing expenditures to the receiving agency.
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In that spirit, the following discussion focuses on ways that the CEST program could improve the reliability and objectivity of its peerreview process and thereby strengthen its scientific research program. In the CEST process, formal requests for proposals are not widely dispersed to researchers but are instead generally limited to the South Florida ecosystem science community.
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so Science and the Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration users in the planning and management communities without detailed technical review (William Perry, UPS, personal communication, 2002~. CESI program managers hope that researchers will eventually publish their results in the refereed literature, and they assume that publication will occur because most researchers operate in institutions (e.g., universities and the USGS)
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. The purpose of the MOU is to coordinate DOI research, monitoring, and planning efforts in support of the South Florida ecosystem restoration.
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A senior scientist serving in the role of the CESI coordinator but working closely with the SCC and any associated steering committees could help retain the appropriate focus on addressing the critical science gaps. The senior scientist ideally should not be affiliated with any one particular agency but would offer respected leadership among all South Florida ecosystem science entities.
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Second, the CEST program must broaden the involvement of expert advisors in the priority-setting and proposal-review processes by fully utilizing its program advisory committees and coordinating closely with the SCT and RECOVER. Additional CEST management changes are needed in order to develop an effective peer-review system for CEST research results, improve the accountability of funding allocated through interagency agreements, increase the public awareness of CEST contributions, and more effectively address DOT restoration science needs outside of Everglades National Park.
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