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Scientific grading of service applications

All service applications are scientifically assessed by a referee (independent of the ING, and nominated by your host country's time assignment panel). Referees will endeavour to assess the applications allotted to them within a week after the deadline (0 hr on the first day of each month). However, PIs should be aware that due to illness, travel etc., applications may not become active for up to one month after the deadline.

The possible grades are, in order of priority:

Grade 1 proposals will be attempted at the earliest opportunity, and take priority over all other proposals in the queue.

Grade 2 proposals will be attempted as high priority, and _should_ get done over the active 1-year lifetime of the proposal, weather and instrument availability permitting.

Grade 3 and 4 proposals will only be attempted when there are no higher graded proposals in the queue, and there is therefore no guarantee that they will be attempted at all.

Grade 5 and 6 proposals will not be attempted.

Please note that the exact date when a proposal is attempted depends on weather conditions and on instrument and target availability. Remember that there will in general be several high priority proposals in the queue waiting to be done. Applicants should also be aware that service time is allocated to each nationality (UK,NL,ES) on a very strict time basis, and therefore not all highly-rated proposals from a particular nationality will necessarily be completed.

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Last Updated: Jan 17, 2002
Pierre Leisyservice@ing.iac.es