[LTER-im] Personnel request questions

[Marty Downs]

Sharing this answer with other IM's who may be facing some of the same
questions. If you are not the person at your site who is dealing with this
request, please pass it along to whoever is.

Hi Don,
Thanks for tackling it.
1) Please retain (if you still have them) the institution and email address
that you had at the time former members were associated with the LTER.
We're not expecting you to track down current addresses, though if you have
them, it would be helpful. We would like to keep track of former graduate
students and investigators (it's one way of showing our influence in the
field) and that information will at least give us a starting point.
2) Year of thesis is expected for PhD students and investigators. It will
be a private field (not displayed in the directory) that is used to keep
track of early career investigators. It doesn't apply for Master's students
and you can leave it blank.
3) The categories of full, partial, and no support apply either currently
or at the last time the person was associated with your LTER site. So -- if
a student received full support for a few years of their PhD work at an
LTER site and they are now an associated investigator receiving partial
support, you would choose partial support. It's not a perfect system, but
it will at least help us to document that most "LTER investigators"
actually receive little or no financial support.

Thanks,
Marty


On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 10:49 AM Henshaw, Donald <
don.henshaw at oregonstate.edu> wrote:

> Hi Marty,
>
> I’m addressing the 40-year review personnel request (everyone else punted
> on this!). A couple of questions:
>
> I am assuming we only need institution and email addresses for current
> members. We do not keep track of former grad students or investigators who
> have moved on. Is this true?
>
> I was going through our theses list and assigning year of thesis to all
> LTER grad students going back 10 years. Should I assign the year of masters
> as well as PhD? The attribute is PhD year but I was putting the year of the
> masters thesis in there as well. Is this appropriate?
>
> For LTER support, Should I put “full” if they were only supported
> full-time for a year or two in the past 10 years? Or, how do I handle this?
> I don’t have access to knowing which years someone is supported but I
> probably know if they were given full or partial support for some period of
> time. I also do not have access to temporary summer workers or REU’s that
> may have been supported and will not include them.
>
>
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Don
>
>
>
> Don Henshaw
>
> Andrews Forest LTER Information Manager
>
> U.S. Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station
>
> Forestry Sciences Laboratory
>
> 3200 SW Jefferson Way
>
> Corvallis, OR 97331
>
>
>
> don.henshaw at oregonstate.edu
>
> dhenshaw at fs.fed.us
>
> Office: (541) 750-7335
>
> Fax: 541-758-7760
>
>
>
>
>


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