date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:24:29 -0400
from: "DOE Survey" <survey@ascr.doe.gov>
subject: DOE-Science Technical Manpower Survey
to: <P.Jones@uea.ac.uk>

DOE Office of Science



Dear Professor Jones,

We would like to ask for a few minutes of your time to complete an
online survey regarding your Department of Energy (DOE) sponsored
project or projects.  The DOE
Technical Manpower survey will provide Congress with accurate
information regarding the lasting impact of DOE research and development
funding.  Your help is crucial to demonstrating the contribution of DOE
funding to the training of future generations of scientists and other
technical personnel.

Your survey will concern the following grant(s):
ER62601  - Climate Data Analysis and Models for the Study of Natural
Variability and Anthropogenic Change


If you are currently funded under more than one DOE grant, you will
receive one email per grant.

We want to assure you that the information will not be used in any way
to evaluate your own project, but instead will be aggregated with other
respondents' data and used to evaluate the activity of the DOE itself.
Therefore, we have retained an outside consulting firm (Summit
Consulting LLC) to implement this survey.  Summit staff will contact you
shortly with instructions for completing this online survey.  Summit
will also remove your ID number before any analysis or data are
transmitted to DOE to ensure confidentiality.

This survey will ask questions about the number of graduate students and
principal investigators currently funded by your DOE-sponsored project,
and the number of hours per week they are employed.  This survey will
also inquire about the number of students who worked for you last year
and completed their degree during that time period.  For these
questions, you might need to consult with your grants administrator if
you are unsure about their answers.

Sincerely,


Jerry Elwood, PhD
Acting Associate Director for Biological and Environmental Research
Office of Science
Department of Energy


Michael Strayer,
Associate Director for Advanced Scientific Computing Research
Office of Science
Department of Energy

