date: Wed Jan 28 13:39:56 2009 from: Keith Briffa subject: Fwd: NERC collection of Output and Performance Measures 2008/09 to: Tim Osborn From: To: Subject: NERC collection of Output and Performance Measures 2008/09 Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:16:07 -0000 X-Mailer: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000 Thread-Index: AcmAki3K//pvxEecRZmKAD8DCVLD3A== X-Null-Tag: 0e1822ce2ec219af206e4c95856b46f6 X-MailScanner-NERC-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner-NERC-ID: n0RFHOYM032257 X-MailScanner-NERC: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-NERC-From: opm@nerc.ac.uk X-Canit-CHI2: 0.00 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN, f023) X-Spam-Score: 0.00 () [Tag at 5.00] SPF(none,0) X-CanItPRO-Stream: UEA:f023 (inherits from UEA:10_Tag_Only,UEA:default,base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 16423395 - e837bff8b227 X-Antispam-Training-Forget: [1]https://canit.uea.ac.uk/b.php?i=16423395&m=e837bff8b227&c=f X-Antispam-Training-Nonspam: [2]https://canit.uea.ac.uk/b.php?i=16423395&m=e837bff8b227&c=n X-Antispam-Training-Spam: [3]https://canit.uea.ac.uk/b.php?i=16423395&m=e837bff8b227&c=s X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 139.222.131.185 Dear Professor Briffa, Award title: Quantitative applications of high-resolution late Holocene proxy data sets: estimating climate sensitivity and thermohaline circulation influences. I would be grateful for your input to the annual collection of output and performance measures (OPMs) relating to your NERC award. These data should be submitted through NERC's web-based research outputs database (ROD). Making your return on ROD: To access ROD simply go to [4]http://rod.nerc.ac.uk/ and enter: - Your reference number/username: NER/T/S/2002/00440 - Your password: rubybadger You will then enter the system at the home page for your award. From there you will be able to navigate within ROD and enter your OPM data. The deadline for the submission of 2008/09 data is WEDNESDAY, 18 MARCH 2008. It is essential that returns are made on time. As ever, the early deadline is necessary to select and validate NERC's top science and organisational achievements for reporting through the NERC Annual Report and to provide us with statistical evidence required by the Department for Innovation Universities and Skills (DIUS) to demonstrate the impact and quality of the research undertaken with NERC funding. This information is essential in helping us secure future funding. Once again may I express our sincere thanks for the level and quality of reporting over the past three years and to request your continuing support. This has been vital to provide us with evidence of our performance that can be demonstrated to NERC Council and to government. For example, a NERC citations impact study conducted in 2008 reviewed the ISI publications data on ROD for the years 2003 - 2005. Results of the study will be published on the NERC website. Thank you to those who provided feedback to the ROD questionnaire over the summer. A small number of replies raised a range of issues that will help inform future collections. Within the team we remain mindful of the need to keep the burden of reporting as light as possible, whilst allowing you the maximum opportunity to tell us about your outputs, outcomes and impacts. Process details: If necessary, sanctions will be applied rigorously to retain the high OPMs return rate. The Chief Executive will in the next few days write to Heads of Departments to confirm this. We hope there will be no need to apply sanctions and we will provide every support to ensure this. We ask that your submissions to ROD be completed for every award for which you are responsible for reporting. The sanction for failing to comply is ineligibility to apply for new grants (responsive mode, knowledge exchange and research programme) for 12 months. It is important you let us know well in advance of the 18 March deadline if there are any circumstances that make your compliance problematic. You are reminded that split and consortium awards are considered to have one Principal Investigator at the lead institution, who is responsible for collecting, consolidating and reporting the OPMs data for all Co-Investigators on the award. All award holders are reminded that, as a condition of their award, they must provide OPMs data annually during the life of their award, during the year funding completes, and for a further two years. Support: There is extensive online help available via the help and user-guide icons. The OPM questions should be familiar to previous users. There are no substantive changes to ROD this year when reporting on grants. The homepage has a feedback form through which you can raise issues with the ROD support team. Additionally, assistance will be available during office hours by telephoning Claire Hendry on 01793 411556. There is also a dedicated address for emails - opm@nerc.ac.uk Note, further communications will be issued via email only. You will not receive a hard copy of this letter. Many thanks for your continuing co-operation, Gregor McDonagh Business Performance Measurement Manager, Strategic Management Group Tel: 01793 442514 -- This message (and any attachments) is for the recipient only. NERC is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the contents of this email and any reply you make may be disclosed by NERC unless it is exempt from release under the Act. Any material supplied to NERC may be stored in an electronic records management system. -- Professor Keith Briffa, Climatic Research Unit University of East Anglia Norwich, NR4 7TJ, U.K. Phone: +44-1603-593909 Fax: +44-1603-507784 [5]http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/people/briffa/