date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:24:29 -0400 from: "DOE Survey" subject: DOE-Science Technical Manpower Survey to: 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