[LTER-luq-pi] Fwd: DEB 1546686 - Luquillo renewal

Tue Sep 8 10:07:59 MDT 2015

And, the reviews are in.  Haven't started reading them yet.

jes

Jess K. Zimmerman
Professor
Lead PI, Luquillo LTER Program
Department Environmental Sciences
University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras
Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico

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From: Twombly, Saran <stwombly at nsf.gov>
Date: Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 9:53 AM
Subject: DEB 1546686 - Luquillo renewal
To: "jesskz at ites.upr.edu" <jesskz at ites.upr.edu>

Dear Jess,

As we discussed rather briefly at the All Scientists’ Meeting last week,
your renewal proposal for the Luquillo LTER reviewed quite well and we plan
to recommend it for 3 years of support at the levels requested. The
proposal received 7 reviews – 2 Excellents and 5 Very Goods. Several of the
reviews contain constructive comments and concerns that you will find
useful as you plan the next three years of research. I (of course) cannot
help but elaborate on these, and all comments are provided in order for you
to strengthen your future research. The reviews and my comments won’t be
released officially until NSF releases an award letter; I have provided
them in advance so that you can get a head start. We won’t be able to move
our recommendation forward until October at the earliest.

We talked about some of the subawards included in the proposal. I am
particularly concerned about those from Uriarte/Columbia, Crowl/Florida
International, Willig/UConn, and Cantrell/Universidad del Turabo. NSF will
need a more complete description of what each of these subawardees will do
for the project before we can make a recommendation. The budget
justifications provided do little more than re-state the numbers listed on
the budget forms. PI names are associated with the different hypotheses
posed in the proposal, but it is not possible to figure out what research
activities each PI will do or have responsibility for. As a result, the
subawards are not adequately justified, with the exception of Silver’s. You
mentioned wanting to submit a revised budget to take care of these changes
– do you still think this is the best route?

Finally, do you need IACUC permits for the work you will do? You mention
sampling bats and lizards – will you sample fish as well? Or maybe there
aren’t fish in your streams?

Please let me know if you have questions about the reviews attached, once
you have time to read them over. Also please let me know if you will be
submitting a revised budget. I will work here to forward our recommendation
as quickly as possible, noting that you have requested a starting date of 1
December 2015.

Congratulations to you and your team, Jess. You have overcome significant
difficulties over the past 2 years, and put together a convincing proposal.
I look forward to working with you to make the project even stronger over
the coming 3 years,

Regards,

Saran

___________________________________________________________________________________

Saran Twombly, Program Director  Population and Community Ecology
Division of Environmental Biology,

National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 635, Arlington,
VA  22230. 703.292.8133 (voice);

703.292.9064 (fax)
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