SOEST Bulletin

Vol. 24, No. 21, May 16, 2013

Calendar of Events

Monday, May 20

No events.

Tuesday, May 21

No events.

Wednesday, May 22

No events.

Thursday, May 23

Hanauma Bay Thursday Evenings: Kirsten Oleson, Assistant Professor, UHM Dept. of Natural Resource and Environmental Management Dept., and Tom Oliver, Researcher, UHM Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology, Starting Small but Starting Loud: Catalyzing Community Based Management of Small-Scale Fisheries, Hanauma Bay Education Center Theater, 6:30 p.m. Event is free and open to the public, with no charge for parking after 5:30 p.m. For more information on UH Sea Grant Hanauma Bay Education Program events and activities, navigate to the online Calendar of Events.

Friday, May 24

No events.

Announcements

2013 RCUH Fiscal Year End Deadlines: Please be advised that the 2013 RCUH fiscal year end deadlines are as follows.

--Friday, June 7th 2013--Submission of all RCUH payment documents to SOEST Fiscal Office for Service Ordered Accounts (i.e., RCUH project accounts #0007xxx, #0008xxx, and #009xxx). This will include PO payments, contract payments, direct payments (i.e., AFPs, cash reimbursements, etc.), travel requests with advances, and any travel completions.

--Friday, June 14th 2013--Submission of RCUH payment documents to SOEST Fiscal Office for all other extramural accounts (#4xxxxxx, #6xxxxxx), direct projects and recharge accounts (#0001xxx, #0002xxx or #0003xxx).

If you have any payments that cannot be completed by these deadlines but may need to be processed by year end, please contact your Fiscal Authority directly. You should still allow sufficient time for processing. Be sure to allow time for documents to go back and forth for review and corrections. Please make sure your departmental staff and PIs are aware of these dates.

2013 UH Fiscal Year End Deadlines: Please be advised that fiscal year end deadlines are as follows.

--Friday, May 31, 2013--Submission of KFS payment documents to SOEST Fiscal Office. This will include PO payments, DVs (including stipends), contract payments, direct payments, travel requests with advances, and any travel completions.

--Friday, June 7, 2013--Submission of RCUH payment documents to SOEST Fiscal Office for Service Ordered Accounts (i.e., RCUH project accounts #0008xxx or #0009xxx).

Further information regarding payments via the RCUH system (i.e., extramural, direct projects, and recharge/revolving projects) will be forthcoming. As stated above, stipends for postdocs, regardless of the funds, will be due in the SOEST Fiscal Office by May 31. It would be advisable to submit your June stipend payments by this date and to hold July system payments until the system reopens in early July 2013. Any pending eDocs in the system after these deadlines may be automatically disapproved when the fiscal year ends. Remember to allow time for documents to go back and forth for review and corrections. Please make sure your departmental staff and PIs are aware of these dates.

New F&A Rate Agreement: The University has completed negotiation of its facilities & administrative costs (F&A) rate agreement, which covers fiscal years (FY) 2013 through 2017. A table summarizing the F&A rates can be found at the ORS website. Principal investigators can begin using the new negotiated rates in proposals that will result in new awards and for competing continuations. On June 1, 2013, use of the new rates is mandatory.

New awards, including competing continuations, will be handled in the following manner.

1. Awards received before July 1, 2013 that use the old negotiated rates will be accepted at the old rates.
2. Awards received July 1, 2013 and after should be made using the new negotiated rates by the federal sponsor. Per UH APM A8.927, an F&A reduction or waiver must be approved in writing by the appropriate chancellor or chancellor's designee.
3. Please note that, per UH APM A8.927, proposals and awards for non-competing continuations should use the same rates as the original award.

Should you have any questions, please contact Kevin Hanaoka, Cost Studies Manager at hanaokak@hawaii.edu or 956-9242.

SOEST Contribution List Online

A list of the fifty most recent publications assigned SOEST numbers is available here.

Latest SOEST Grants Received

(New grant unless amount is designated "supplement.")

P.I.: Erica Goetze
Agency: $199,405
Amount: National Science Foundation
Title: RAPID: Basin-scale Genetics of Marine Zooplankton
P.I.: B. Ray Hawke
Agency: $64,900
Amount: NASA
Title: Regional Planetary Image Center
P.I.: Dave Karl
Agency: $50,000 (supplement)
Amount: Agouron Foundation through UH Foundation
Title: Contemporary Challenges in Microbial Oceanography
P.I.: Paul Lucey
Agency: $114,875 (supplement)
Amount: NASA
Title: The Mafic Component of the Lunar Crust

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