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Appendix B: Summary of Online Questionnaire Results
Pages 163-168

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... The questions provided an opportunity for respondents to identify the most important science questions for the coming decades and to share thoughts on the "next generation" of polar scientists. Following a short set of general background questions (career stage, scientific discipline)
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... Questionnaire respondents included graduate students (pre-Ph.D.) and early-career scientists, midcareer scientists, and late-career scientists (see Figure B.2)
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... Note that questionnaire respondents were permitted to select more than one option to answer the question, "Where have you conducted research? " TABLE B.1 Respondents Represented a Range of Disciplines That Were Grouped into Eight Categories Discipline Respondents (%)
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... About 15 percent indicated that they became involved via an established colleague, and 10 percent answered that they wrote a proposal that was funded. PIs were also asked if they were able to find the postdocs and graduate students that they needed.
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... Appendix B FIGURE B.4 Responses to the online questionnaire question regarding the availability of postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and more generally a "next generation of scientists." The majority of respondents indicated that there is a next generation to carry the science forward in the coming decades.


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