Is there anyone left to review these proposals? This seems like a huge number to deal with.
My understanding is that part of the reason for the switch to a once-a-year preproposal system was to reduce the amount of grant writing and the amount of reviewing. Sounds like this first year has created a feeding frenzy (when there's actual less meat to compete over) and it resulted in more reviewing and grant writing headaches. It will be interesting to see what happens over the years - is this a blip or will this trend for huge numbers of submissions continue? We have current and ex-NSF people on the forum. What do you make of this? Thanks, John. _____________________________________ Dr. John Swaddle Professor, Biology Institute for Integrative Bird Behavior Studies College of William and Mary Millington Hall Landrum Drive Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795 http://jpswad.people.wm.edu/ Tel. 757.221.2231 Fax. 757.221.6483 -----Original Message----- From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news [mailto:ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU] On Behalf Of David Inouye Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 12:14 PM To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Subject: [ECOLOG-L] NSF pre-proposal count DEB received a little over 1600 pre-proposals. IOS had their pre-proposal deadline yesterday - they received over 1800. About 500 in Population and Community Ecology, about 315 in Ecosystem Science. Dr. David W. Inouye, Professor Associate Chair, Director of Graduate Studies Dept. of Biology University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742-4415 Rocky Mtn. Biological Laboratory PO Box 519 Crested Butte, CO 81224 ino...@umd.edu 301-405-6946
