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3. Grant Award Policies and Procedures
3. Grant Award Policies and Procedures
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provides its funds to outside investigators primarily through an open, competitive process (with some exceptions, as discussed in Chapter 6~. OSRI's grant policies are outlined in its Oil Spill Recovery Institute Grant Policy Manual.
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have not always been publicly announced long enough for adequate responses to be generated. One example is the BAA seeking proposals related to Biological Monitoring of Herring and Pollock in Prince William Sound: it was posted on December 15, 1999 and had a closing deadline of January 7, 2000 (Box 3-1~.
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., . OSRI generally discourages unsolicited proposals, but the Grant Policy Manual outlines procedures for dealing with them.
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A BAA for such a project, if designed to bring forward a variety of ~inking, might have been phrased to request: "Provide a survey of important biomass components of Prince William Sound in a manner compatible with their use in OSRI-funded modeling efforts." The review process would then select the best ideas.
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There are only two sentences and a title indicating the subject area to potential researchers. The title and text imply that the BAA is requesting simulations of the spatial-temporal distribution and impacts of dispersed and nondispersed oil spills.
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OSRI must write BAAs and RFPs that are consistent with its mission and long range plan and not simply write solicitations designed to garner known responses. The committee deliberated on the appropriateness of using BAAs as the primary funding vehicle for soliciting research proposals, in contrast to other vehicles such as an REP process.
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According to the current Grant Policy Manual, all proposals are reviewed "by at least three individual peer reviewers through a mail review and/or a panel review." In the past, proposals often had only two reviews with a third requested if "deemed necessary." This increase in number of reviewers is one of several examples of changes that have been made by the Advisory Board to improve the proposal process. Until now all proposal reviews (with the exception of a few of the smaller education proposal reviews)
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Furthermore, applicants could be requested to submit information identifying relevant close colleagues such as previous graduate studies advisors, former graduate students, and co-principal investigators on other recent projects, so that these people are not inadvertently selected as reviewers. The broad categories assessed by reviewers include need, benefits, implementation, financial matching, experience, milestones, repayments, and risk sharing.
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DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS BY CATEGORIES ., . As mentioned earlier, the OSRI Advisory Board mandated that funds be spent in an approximate split of 40 percent for applied technology, 40 percent for predictive ecology, and 20 percent for education and outreach.
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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PWSSC AND OSRI The historical relationship between the Prince William Sound Science Center (PWSSC) and the Oil Spill Recovery Institute (OSRI)
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Public Education & Outreach Small Tide Height Data Collection Applied Technology Medium MeteorolgicalData Collection Applied Technology Medium Current Validation Predictive Ecology Medium Hinchinbrook Entrance ADCP Predictive Ecology Medium Graduate Fellowship (standing solicitation) Public Education & Outreach Small Workshops (standing solicitation)
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GRANT AWARD POLICIES AND PROCEDURES Manse 43 Award Category Number Submitted Number Funded utreach Small 4 utreach Small 7 utreach Small/Medium 8 unteach Small 10 1 utreach Small 7 utreach Small 8 1 utreach Small/Medium 14 3 Large 10 3 outreach Small/Medium O O outreach Small 3 3 atreach Small 2 atreach Small 1 Medium 13 atreach Small/Medium 5 4 outreach Small 1 1 Medium 7 Large 7 Medium 2 1 outreach Small 10 1 Large 1 1 Large 2 1 outreach ~ Small . 3 2 outreach Small 2 outreach Medium 2 2 Small 2 outreach Small 1 3 Medium 3 Medium 3 ~ Medium 2 1 Medium 3 0 outreach Small 3 2 outreach Small/Medium 2 1 outreach Small 1 1 6
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$121,175 (8%) $1oo,oooa TOTAL $197,232 $1,012,159 $1,245,366 $1,518,443 NOTE: The numbers were calculated from data provided by the OSRI, "OSRI Contracts Awarded 1997-Present," and are based on amount spent.
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and is not unreasonable. TABLE 3-4 Amount of Total Funding by Category Awarded to Prince William Sound Science Center Amount (Percent of Total Amount in Category from Table 3-la)
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The committee strongly encourages OSRI to emphasize the funding of projects that are likely to lead to information that can be published in refereed journals with broad distribution. OSRI should also take care to be sure that it is credited for all the publications and presentations that arise from the projects it supports (e.g., fellowships often result in theses and publications that often go unreported)
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