• 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…
  • Introducing an exploratory stage with minimal funding.
    • Etc…
  • Reducing the amount of funding for individual proposals
    • Etc..
  • Eliminating one-

• 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)
• If I am unsuccessful at obtaining federal funding for 5 years, I am most likely to
  • Switch research fields
  • Switch jobs into something that does not require resea
  • Concentrate on non-federal funding sources
  • Move to another country in order to pursue the same research field

Which group do you consider your primarily scientific affiliation: AAS, SPD, DPS, other At what kind of institution do you work? Res.U., FFRDC, Commercial, College, other What fraction of your salary comes from . your home institution? . competed research grants funded by NSF, NASA, DOE, other? . other projects funded by U.S. govt. agencies? . grants on which you are the PI? . grants on which you are not the PI?

If you are a PI . How many science FTE's are supported by grants on which you are the PI?