{"id":4302,"date":"2023-11-28T14:18:38","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T19:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/?p=4302"},"modified":"2023-11-28T14:18:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T19:18:38","slug":"some-behind-the-scenes-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/2023\/11\/28\/some-behind-the-scenes-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Some behind the scenes progress&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4304\" style=\"width: 485px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4304\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-4304 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2023\/11\/28140546\/collection_scene.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"315\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4304\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>A lovely old meteorite recovery scene from 40 years ago (the 84-85 season), starring Catherine King-Frazier and mountaineer Carl Thompson.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jim received this email \u00a0earlier today (the day before the team departs for Antarctica):<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; <em>Hi Jim,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>NSF has finished our review of the ANSMET procedures for documentation, collection, and curation of meteorites for the 2023-2024 season and found them to be in compliance with the regulations in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecfr.gov\/current\/title-45\/subtitle-B\/chapter-VI\/part-674\">45 C.F.R. part 674<\/a>. Please find attached a letter to this effect, attached to your submitted plans for your work this season.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Please let me know if you have any questions, and best of luck for a successful season.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Best,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Andrew<\/em><br \/>\n<em>&#8212; <\/em><br \/>\n<em>Andrew Titmus, Ph.D.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Environmental Program Manager<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Office of Polar Programs<\/em><br \/>\n<em>National Science Foundation<\/em> \u00a0&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the critical bits of &#8220;approval&#8221;among the dozens that are required each year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecfr.gov\/current\/title-45\/subtitle-B\/chapter-VI\/part-674\">If you&#8217;re not clear on what regulation 45 C.F.R. part 674 is, \u00a0 click on the link here (or above)&#8230;&#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Approval is one of those unreal things that are absolutely essential to the civilized world. \u00a0I need to write a book entitled &#8220;The Search for Approval&#8221;. \u00a0Oh wait, \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/seeking-approval-Books\/s?k=seeking+approval&amp;rh=n%3A283155\">many already exist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4>Godspeed to the rest of the crew, who are departing tomorrow (wednesday)&#8230;&#8230;..<\/h4>\n<p><em>-Ralph, \u00a0from wintery Novelty OH (10 inches of snow last night).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim received this email \u00a0earlier today (the day before the team departs for Antarctica):<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; <em>Hi Jim,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>NSF has finished our review of the ANSMET procedures for documentation, collection, and curation of meteorites for the 2023-2024 season and found them to be in compliance with the regulations in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecfr.gov\/current\/title-45\/subtitle-B\/chapter-VI\/part-674\">45 C.F.R. part 674<\/a>. Please find attached a letter to this effect, attached to your submitted plans for your work this season.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Please let me know if you have any questions, and best of luck for a successful season.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Best,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/2023\/11\/28\/some-behind-the-scenes-progress\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Some behind the scenes progress&#8230;..<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":4304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[27,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artscimedia.case.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2023\/11\/28140546\/collection_scene.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4302"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4306,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302\/revisions\/4306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caslabs.case.edu\/ansmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}