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Appendix E Summary of Disciplinary Society Survey Results
Pages 148-161

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From page 148...
... To obtain more information, committee staff drafted a survey of disciplinary societies that was distributed to roughly 150 executive officers and directors and federations of such societies. The survey asked for an overview of the types of ARIF that were used in the fields represented by the societies and an assessment of the availability of and need for the instruments.
From page 149...
... EXAMPLES OF ARIF This section provides the responses from professional societies regarding current ARIF examples in their field: Chemical Physics "Experimental instrumentation in this price range currently reside primarily at the national laboratories (LANL, LLNL, LBL, ORNL, PNNL, BNL, FNL, ANL, INEL, SNL, etc.) and include what might be termed `big science,' that is, instrumental approaches that are not possible at independent research institutions.
From page 150...
... American Society of Plant Biologists Political Science "Major instrumentation requirements in political science largely rest in the operation of major longitudinal data series and the maintenance of the institu tional support for them, with the peak example being the National Election Survey sustained by the National Science Foundation and currently managed by the University of Michigan. This operates in the $7-$8 million range.
From page 151...
... Michael Brintnall Executive Director American Political Science Association (Individual response) Particle Physics "One often thinks of an `Instrument' as a facility for making measurements, such as a scanning electron microscope or CAT imager, where a user may come in and make measurements on a sample of interest.
From page 152...
... to support the on-going programs. Division of Particles and Fields American Physical Society
From page 153...
... As the SNS goes online at Oak Ridge, there are many instruments associated with this source that should be built. The SNS has the potential to be the premier neutron diffraction facility in the world with its predicted high neutron fluxes.
From page 154...
... will also become more prevalent. American Society for Mass Spectrometry Political Science "This is difficult to assess beyond recognizing the continued evolution of the themes mentioned above -- especially increasing need for infrastructure for longi tudinal data sets and enhanced capacity for political science laboratory work.
From page 155...
... Likely political science will purchase `time' on equipment in other sciences for this work rather than make major instrumentation investments ourselves, but the demand nevertheless is likely to grow rapidly in the future. Michael Brintnall Executive Director American Political Science Association (Individual response)
From page 156...
... For example, mass spectrometry is the fastest-growing of all segments of the spectroscopy market and is a larger market than NMR, but receives only a fraction of the federal funding allocated to NMR. A big reason is the NMRs cost the right amount of money- e.g., major equipment at ~$1M (with a limit of 1-2 awards per institution)
From page 157...
... While this is particularly crucial for very large projects, it impacts medium-scale projects and detector technology development as well. Division of Particles and Fields American Physical Society
From page 158...
... 158 A DV A N C E DRE 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 Chemical Physics "One of the biggest issues is the balance between funding for very expensive research instrumentation and funding for research programs that will use the instruments. The perception is that it is easier politically to secure funding for new instrumentation, so that funding for new facilities seems to rise faster than funding for research programs in the basic sciences.
From page 159...
... The study is examining federal programs and policies related to advanced research instrumentation used for interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and disciplinary research. If needed, the Committee will propose policies to make the most effective use of federal agency resources to fund such instruments.
From page 160...
... , President, Science Strategies DAVID BISHOP, VP Nanotechnology Research, President, NJNC, Bell Labs MARVIN CASSMAN, Independent Consultant ULRICH DAHMAN, Director, National Center for Electron Microscopy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory THOM H 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
From page 161...
... 4. Besides additional federal funding, what is the primary federal agency policy issue your field faces and what is your assessment of current agency policies for advanced research instrumentation?


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