All researchers receiving GSCSSA funding must prepare a progress report according to the attached format. It is recognized that some researchers on the first-year projects may have limited or no results to date for this year’s research. If this is the case, submit a progress report acknowledging and documenting this limited or no progress. Send an electronic copy of the progress report to ARCGrants@wsu.edu or mail one camera-ready, single-sided copy of your report as well as a disk to:

Dr. Ralph P. Cavalieri, Program Administrator
cavalieri@wsu.edu
Agricultural Research Center
Washington State University
P O Box 646240
Pullman, WA 99164-6240

All margins must be 1 inch. Single space all text materials and double space between categories. To conserve space, begin each section on the same line as the capitalized heading. Concise tables and figures of data are encouraged. Reports longer than four pages will be returned to the Principal Investigator(s) to shorten. Use U.S. units in your report, except where S.I. units are better understood (e.g., soil bulk density as kg m-3).

Reports will be used to judge satisfactory progress. Members of the Scientific Review Panel and the Industry Advisory Committee will read all progress reports. For continuing projects, an in-depth review accompanied by written comments will be conducted by an individual with technical expertise in the area of the project. These in-depth reviewers will be drawn from the Scientific Review Panel and other scientists as deemed necessary by the Project Coordinator. After the reports have been reviewed, the Industry Advisory Committee will discuss each report with members of the Administrative Advisory Committee. The in-depth reviewer will integrate comments from the evaluations of the Scientific Panel and Industry Advisory Committees. Written evaluation reports will be forwarded to the Program Coordinator.

The evaluation criteria for progress reports are as follows.

1. Are the original objectives being addressed; and if not, why?
2. Has reasonable research and technology transfer progress occurred during the past year?
3. Do the results show reasonable promise for providing useful and significant information to growers, government agencies, and scientists?
4. Has there been interaction with GSCSSA scientists working on similar projects?
5. Was the report prepared in a timely manner and in the requested format?