Webinar: Outcomes from the ALMA Cycle 8 Review
Anthony Remijan National Radio Astronomy Observatory
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) introduced a number of changes to the proposal process in Cycle 8 2021, including the adoption of dual anonymous practices for all proposals (in which neither the reviewer nor proposing team know the identity of the other) and distributed peer review (in which each proposing team provides a reviewer for ten other submitted proposals). Overall, 1,735 proposals were reviewed — 1,497 of which were reviewed using distributed peer review — and the top ranked proposals populated the observing queue for Cycle 8, which began in October 2021.
In this webinar, we will summarize the changes made to the proposal review process and the results of the distributed peer review process. We will also present overviews of the extensive analyses performed on the final submitted ranks and review comments, as well as surveys of the process participants. We will describe the effect the process had on existing systematic trends apparent over the last several proposing cycles.
Learn more about these changes at the ALMA webinar on Thursday, 17 February, at 3:00 pm ET.