The FNC process will primarily affect 6.2 and 6.3 expenditures, but it is expected to have impact on priorities established at the 6.1 level. This major effort is nearly complete, with the exception of long coring at the Eel River margin site, anticipated for the summer of 2002. The other main theme for program support relates to predicting the conditions of mine burial in the littoral zone, both during deployment and impact on the seafloor and as a result of post-deployment processes, such as scour, liquefaction and bedform migration. Budget considerations continue to result in fewer proposals being funded by all of the programs. Finally, congratulations on continuing to improve PI publication records.
Publications are our products, and are thus a very important part of our funding considerations.
Principal Investigators who submit planning letters that meet program objectives will be asked to submit a full proposal. Final funding decisions will be based on submission of full proposals. Although full proposals can be submitted to the program at any time without going through the planning letter stage, we strongly encourage you to submit a planning letter for evaluation first. It may save you a lot of unnecessary effort. Budget - only provide a bottom line dollar figure for each task for each year.