Cooperative Stewardship Managing the Nation's Multidisciplinary User Facilities for Research with Synchrotron Radiation, Neutrons, and High Magnetic Fields (1999) / Chapter Skim
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3 Management Models
3 Management Models
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While the current management model, the steward-partner model, has proved successful, modifications can be made to enable it to better accommodate changes in usage and budgetary limitations. In this chapter the successes and limitations of past and present management models are reviewed as a basis for formulating a cooperative stewardship model, which will be discussed in Chapter 4.
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The operational mode for the Manuel Lujan Neutron Scattering Center at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) could at first glance appear to be parasitic as well.
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Because of these real and potential instabilities, the early dispersed funding and management model of multidisciplinary facility operation was superseded by a single-source funding and management model the stewardship model with the assignment of responsibility for HFBR to a single division at DOE. Stewardship Models Simple Steward Model By the time new user facilities (i.e., synchrotron light sources, neutron sources, and a combustion research facility)
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The steward-partner model of funding and management has predominated at the synchrotron facilities since the late 1970s, when the Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES) and DOE built the first dedicated storage ring facility for the condensed matter and materials science user community at NSLS (CHESS does not use this model.)
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Interagency Support In the steward-partner management model discussed above, many of the experimental stations are funded by government agencies other than the facility
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at NIST. While interagency funding provides beamline development and instrumentation for the facilities, it also encourages expansion of the facility enterprise in terms of number of users, areas of users, and demands on the source.
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The growing numbers of less-experienced users are demanding greater scientific support, and the issue of providing such support is causing strains in this operating model for synchrotron facilities. Neutron Facilities All neutron sources in the United States except LANSCE and NIST are operated under a simple stewardship model.
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As indicated above, in the United States the steward-partner model has generated a mixture of FOB s and PRTs, with the 3For instance, in the late 1980s the United Kingdom unilaterally reduced its support for ILL, causing serious funding instability and negatively impacting staff morale.
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The main advantage of the European facilities arises from the commitment of the research councils to fuller support of the facilities than in the United States. The main disadvantage of the international facilities is the inherent instability of their distributed funding mechanisms.
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The simple steward model works well as long as the steward has sufficient funds to fulfill its responsibilities. The steward-partner model works well as long as the steward agency funding a facility is also the dominant source of funds for the research programs conducted at the facility and has sufficient funds to fulfill its responsibilities.
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