SCOPE OF WORK AND SCHEDULE FOR PROJECT FIRST

YEAR ONE
1. Assemble Field Station Team
   Prior to May 1998 the FIRST site should identify their primary participants - the Field Station
    team (FS team). Each team will be composed of three individuals:
    1. Team leader from the field station who will be the lead contact for the project and will recruit
        two team members.
    2 and 3. Team Members. These individuals should be faculty members either based at the field
        station, regular users of the station, or faculty who have expressed a strong interest in
        associating with your field station. They should all be involved in teaching and preferably at
        least one of them should be a faculty member early in her/his career, or a postdoctoral student.
        If appropriate, we strongly encourage faculty who teach courses taken by general biology
        majors/non majors, many of whom are likely to go on to be K - 12 teachers.
            The team should be designed to build a support network that will enhance collaboration
        among representative constituents from the field stations and their undergraduate institutions,
        and to provide long-term administrative support for dissemination of the project to other
        faculty.

2. Field Station Team Institute 1 - May 14 - May 18, 1998
    The field station team should attend Field Station Team Institute I at the Oregon Institute of
    Marine Biology. On completion of the Institute the FS teams will:
    a. Begin to identify and contact their institutional team members. Each FS team will recruit five
        institutional teams of three individuals each from universities and four and two-year colleges in
        their region.
    b. Continue the design of the professional development institutes they will conduct with their
        institutional teams.
    c. Communicate plans for their professional development institutes to the project directors and
        the other FS teams.

3. Field Station Team Institute 2 - September 20 - 22, 1998
    The field station team should attend Field Station Team Institute II at Archbold Field Station in conjunction with the Organization of Biological Field Station’s meeting. On completion of the Institute the FS teams will:
   a. Finalize the recruitment of the five institutional teams and provide project director’s with
        information on how participants were selected.
   b. Finalize the design of the professional development institutes to be conducted with the
        institutional teams.
   c. Continue to communicate plans for their professional development institutes to the project
        directors and the other FS teams.

4. Institutional Team Orientation
     Prior to May 1,1999 the FS teams will hold a one-day orientation at their field station with their institutional teams to introduce the project and begin faculty development. A report of this meeting including the participants names and addresses will be provided to the project directors.

5. Project FIRST Evaluation
     Throughout the year FS teams will participate in the evaluation of the FIRST project by providing details of their activities to the grant principal investigators, Jan Hodder (UO) and Diane Ebert-May (NAU).

BUDGETED FUNDS AND ACCOUNTING FOR YEAR ONE

1. The FIRST project will transfer $5,150 to the field station for year one of the FIRST project.
    a. $5,000 is for program support to cover costs for field station team expenses.
ALLOWABLE COSTS
        Personnel, such as administrative, graduate student or faculty support.
        Communication costs.
        Travel costs and other expenses associated with the development of the institutional teams.           Computer hardware or software to use for the FIRST project.
        Supplies needed by the field station teams to implement the FIRST project.
NONALLOWABLE COSTS
        Travel costs associated with attendance at Institute 1 and 2.
        Indirect institutional costs.
    b. $150 is for educational supplies for the institutional team orientation ($10/participant).

    The Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between your field station and the University of Oregon outlines general categories for allowable /nonallowable costs for this program. Please make sure you and the person who will be administering the funds reads the document. The listed copies are available from the UO. Below are more specific directions for use of funds. Should you have questions about fund use please contact Jan Hodder.

    A budget that projects the expenditure of these funds should be provided to Jan Hodder by July 1, 1998. At the end of the first year (May 1, 1999) Jan Hodder should receive a report that accounts for how the funds were spent. Any unobligated funds from year one may be carried forward to year two with written approval.

2. Stipends of $50/day will be paid to each participant (up to a total of 3 participants/field station) for institute 1 (total $250/participant) and institute 2 (total $100/participant). In addition to these funds the FIRST grant will cover the costs of housing and meals for the three participants/field station team at OIMB and Archbold.

BUDGETED FUNDS FOR YEAR TWO

On successful completion of year one each field station will receive $9,550 for activities to take place in year two. The following budget details this amount. A MOA for year two of the FIRST project will be drafted between your field station and the UO.

Budget for Year Two a. $5,000 for program support to cover costs for field station team expenses.

b. Funds for your Institutional Workshop.

i. Room and board expenses for 15 institutional team members for the 5 day institutional team workshop. $50/day for five days = $250/participant = $3,750 for 15 participants.

ii. $200 for travel at your field site during the institutional workshop

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