• Presentation by Ted Von Hippel on the article and its survey. Linked at
• Moving forward with Agency Statistics and Analysis. The Longer report on Proposal Pressures that was not in finished form by the March 2015 AAAC report, may be a good place to start. What are the questions not yet answered, what additional information is required to make a case.

1. Use the data already collected and mine it for some more specific questions and data-driven scenarios
   • Ted and Keivan present extensions to models of “time until proposal exhaustion”
2. Determine what information didn't make it into the original survey and incorporate it in the new one.
   • Go over questions below. Create small group to prepare new survey and report to larger group.
3. Gather a larger data set and cover more agencies for the conditional and correlated information.
   • Create subgroup to follow through on this. Agency liaison model. Report back to whole group.

= Important note: This list is far too long and we would clearly need to reduce the number of questions, The ones listed are just examples =

• How would the following actions by the funding agencies affect you?
  • Limiting applicants to one PI or CoI proposal per year:
    • would increase the time I could spend on my research
    • would reduce my chances for tenure.
    • would cause me to leave the field.
    • would reduce the number of proposals I submit.
    • would improve the quality of those proposals I submit
    • would reduce the size of my research group
  • Calling for proposals every other year
    • Etc..
  • Introducing a pre-proposal stage.
    • Etc…
  • Reducing the amount of funding for individual proposals
    • Etc..
  • Creating smaller research grants for exploratory research, with an expectation that successful proposals are likely to be funded in the following year

• Proposals to non-governmental research funds are easier to get funded (or “are available to me” )
• There are too many scientists in the field of astrophysics and the low success rate is an appropriate method of population control

• If my proposal is rejected, (choose one answer that best represents your action)
  • I resubmit the same proposal the next year
  • I submit a different type of proposal the next year
  • I support my research on someone else's grant
  • I submit a similar proposal to a different federal funding source
  • I submit a similar proposal to a private funding source
  • I concentrate on other aspects of my job (e.g. teaching)

= The Longer report on Proposal Pressures that was not in finished form by the March 2015 AAAC report, may be a good place to start. What are the questions not yet answered, what additional information is required to make a case.=