What's Up Re NSF Letter of Intent in Adjacent E-Mail
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 14:27:58 -0500 (EST)
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From: Daniel Janzen <djanzen@sas.upenn.edu>
Subject: what's up re NSF Letter of Intent in adjacent e-mail
27 Nov 1998
Philadelphia
We ate too much turkey.
NSF has issued its new program Integrated Research Challenges
(http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1999/nsf9912/nsf9912.htm) and our "letter of
intent" to them today is in the adjacent e-mail. The final proposal is
due 9 February 1999, and baring a volcanic eruption in Costa Rica or a
political erruption over Santa Elena, we should be able to make that
deadline. We like to dream that your direct involvement in that PROPOSAL
will be at the level of asking various of you for letters of support, and
comments on drafts via e-mail in January. If it flies, then many of you
would be involved in the two planning and mid-trip workshops, and/or the
parasitoid systematics.
HOWEVER, if any of you want to whip out a Letter of Intent by close of 30
November to do something in parallel or complementary for the caterpillars
(or other ecoscapes) in your specific place-based research (e.g., for Papua
New Guinea and/or Great Smokies National Park and/or La Selva - what a
combination!), that would seem to be very reasonable to us. The first
integration would occur when writing the respective full proposals, we
presume (when would we have a first draft for the ACG? by end of December)
but what we see as most viable is that each proposal is an entity unto
itself so that if NSF should ever be XX amount generous with this TYPE of
proposal, it can fund or reject 1, 2, 3, etc. at whatever funding cycle
without jeopardizing the others (we could even dream of a succession of
them). In other words, each proposal needs to stand totally on its own,
but the potential value-added of these place-based projects running in
networked intellectual parallel and synergism is obvious and enormous (and
costly for NSF in conspicuously large incremental lumps, in a world where
they will obviously want to fund across a variety of kinds of proposals).
We have played fast and loose in including a few specific names as examples
in the Letter of Intent, based on a shrewd examination of their behavior
over the past several decades - but please unabashedly stand aside from
this wildly rolling rock if so inclined.
Go.
Dan and Winnie and Espinita and Pavo Lazarus
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