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Appendix D Summary of Researcher Survey Results
Appendix D Summary of Researcher Survey Results
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D Summary of Researcher Survey Results CONTENTS Overview, 128 Researcher Concerns Regarding ARIF, 129 Examples of ARIF and Fields Requiring ARIF, 137 Policy Recommendations, 142 Researcher Survey on Advanced Research Instrumentation, 144 List of Responding Researchers, 146 OVERVIEW In addition to the types of advanced research instrumentation and facilities (ARIF) at universities and the concerns of university administrators, the committee wanted a better idea of the concerns and issues, if any, for individual investigators.
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AP P E N D I X D 129 University of Houston, for example, noted that without continued infrastructure support .
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An investment on the order of mag nitude of 10 or 100 million dollars will pay off many times over if it opens up opportunities to discover new sources of energy, cures for diseases, etc. Beyond potential revenue-generating applications, having access to advanced research instrumentation also opens up avenues for fundamental discoveries, the implica tions of which may be currently unfathomable.
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AP P E N D I XD 131 out of town. There should be some way to coordinate the placement of such instruments that takes into account the locality of the most need and what makes sense in terms of spreading out across the country.
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Unfortunately, public institutions have been seeing a downward trend in funding from the State, and the first place that is cut is funds for instrumentation. It would also be advantageous if NIH comes up with another instrumentation grant to cover bundled instruments (i.e., a number of lower-cost items, e.g., centrifuges, fluorescence spectroscopy, or microscopy)
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Acquisition of advanced research instrumentation with these capital costs must be part of a strategic plan that encompasses the academic, research, and economic development missions of the university. Acquisition with institutional funds of such large instruments is beyond the capability of this institution.
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134 A DV A N C E D R E S E A R C HIN S T R U M E N T A T I O N A N DFA C I L I T I E S that the entire budget of NSF is less than the cost of two of our most advanced planes. There is an increasing need for advanced research instrumentation in many fields.
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AP P E N D I XD 135 supporting after a defined period. Even so, support for the startup period would be a problem.
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. However, looking at instrumentation in general, much of the major instrumentation is highly specialized to specific disci plines (e.g., high-energy physics)
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Particle Physics "Advanced research instrumentation is becoming ever more important to the US scientific community as science becomes increasingly specialized, and as new 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Particle Proteomics NMR Cyber- Geo- Detectors Materials Physics infrastructure sciences Science FIGURE D-2 Examples of ARIF or fields requiring ARIF mentioned in the researcher survey.
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This can easily be understood when one realizes that there is an enormous latent demand for neutron scattering and other types of neutron-based research, which will only get bigger as the US research community is given greater access and becomes better educated in the area of neutron science. State-of-the-art beamlines at the APS (and other beamlines at the ALS, SSRL, and NSLS)
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Proteomics "In molecular biology we have little need for individual equipment in this price range. However, we do have needs for systems whose aggregate cost can be in this range, such as instrumentation for proteomics analysis (advanced mass spectrometers coupled to gel handling systems)
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In chemistry, there are limited types of instrumentation that fit this category. In my particular discipline within chemistry, only really high field NMR spectrometers
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AP P E N D I XD 141 and very fancy and powerful mass spectrometers would come close to the minimum $2M level you are talking about. It is unlikely that individual institutions can afford to purchase such instruments for local use only.
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(Heuer) · An NIH instrumentation grant to support bundled instruments under $100K -- an ensemble of low-cost items.
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AP P E N D I XD 143 · `Funding should include infrastructure support such as technical personnel and service contracts. Institutions should be required to contribute to such support.
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, but instead falls in between these two designations. To respond to its charge from Congress and NSF, the Committee is interested hearing your thoughts on instrumentation in your field, as well as your opinions concerning current and possible future federal programs and policies for advanced research instrumentation.
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DUNNING, Jr., Director, National Center for Supercomputing Appli cations, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign FRANK FERNANDEZ, Distinguished Instititute Technical Advisor, Stevens Institute of Technology MARILYN L FOGEL, Staff Member, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington LESLIE KOLODZIEJSKI, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sci ence, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ALVIN KWIRAM, Professor of Chemistry, University of Washington, Vice Provost for Research Emeritus WARREN S
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LIST OF RESPONDING RESEARCHERS Akerib, Daniel Bland, Paul Cipolla, Sam Csiszar, Katalin DeGraffenreid, William DeGuire, Mark Duerk, Jeffrey Ernst, Frank Esembeson, Bweh Fertig, Chad Field, Robert Fujita, Hilzu Gallagher, Patrick Habicht, Gail Heuer, Arthur Hochstein, John Holmes, Richard Kirz, Janos Knothe Tate, Melissa LiWang, Patricia Miner, Steve Nicol, Malcolm
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AP P E N D I XD 147 Paule, Marv Pettitt, Montgomery Pratt, Daniel Reinhardt, William Reisler, Hanna Resnick, Andrew Rybicki, Edmund Sayre, Lawrence Schrader, David Storey, Dan Stwalley, William Sun, Jiayang Surko, Clifford William, Lee Yorio, Thomas
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