WMOD00593

• Contract/Permit #: 14-06-D-7052
• Title: Ecological Impacts of Snowpack Augmentation in the San Juan Mountains, Colorado
• Date: 3/1/1976
• State: CO
• Weather Modification - Doc Type: Report

Table 3. Style of SJEP administration
Question No. of Responses Modal Response No. in Mode
7.c. Classify the project's flexibility 16 Flexible 8 (10)
7.d. How much change in structure? 16 Little Change 7 (9)
7.e. Change to more flexibility? 16 No change 6 (11 )
7.f. Project structure is .... 16 Centralized 5 (8)
7.b. Effectiveness of project committees 15 Effective/ineffect. 6 (12)
4.f. How structured is your job? 16 Unstructured 7 (9)
4.g. Relationship, leader to others 16 Informal 6 (11)
4.a. How democratic is the project? 16 Democrat./Authoritn. 6 (12)
1.a. Do you have flexibility in work
schedules? 16 Very Flexible 8 (9)
1.b. Do you have independent fiscal
control? 16 Independent 5 (9)

Source: Responses to the questionnaire administered to SJEP investigators by Benton & Meiman in mid-1975
(Appendix A).

Questions condensed from the actual form used.

All questions were scored by each respondent on a scale with 7 classes. The modal response is the one used
most frequently by respondents. For range of modal response classes, see Appendix A.

Values in parentheses are for the modal class and the two adjacent ones.

'Split responses', e.g. effective/ineffective, indicate a response intermediate between the two described
classes.

research proposals from Phase I to external review
by the Bureau of Reclamation and by a group of con-
sultants employed by the SJEP Steering Committee.

As shown in Figure 1, SJEP was composed of two parts
(Phases I and II) which barely overlapped in time.
Phase I was a period of literature survey and prob-
lem analysis. Phase II (for which this is the
final report) encompassed research and impact
evaluation. Since the same workers were, with
few exceptions, involved in both phases of the
project, an obvious source of bias was introduced
to the definition of ecological problems. An
attempt was made to minimize this bias by subjecting

A total of 27 projects were proposed during Phase I
of which 14 were finally funded. Two different
approaches were taken in soliciting proposals on the
two main university campuses. At CSU, ecosystem
components that might prove susceptible to cloud
seeding were defined by a modified matrix approach.

Table 4. Perceived administrative effectiveness

Question

No. of Responses

Modal Response

No. in Mode

16

Often

6 (9)

6.a.
6.b.

How often is authority delegated?

Is technical knowledge used in
decision-making?

Does decision-making encourage
teamwork?

14

Partially

14

(No real consensus)

6.c.

4 (8)

8.c.

Your responsibility for achieving
project goals?

Project goals are set ...

Does the leader try to get ideas
and use them?

Is leader concerned with job
completion?

Is the leader concerned for good
interpersonal relations among team?

16

Concerned

15
15

Substantial
After discussion

4 (10)
6 (12)

8.d.
4.e.

Often/Very Often

5 (9)

16

4.b.

8 (10)

15

Concerned

4.c.

6 (11)

Source: Responses to the questionnaire administered to SJEP investigators by Benton & Meiman in mid-1975
(Appendix A).

Questions have been condensed from the original form.

All questions were scored by each respondent on a scale with 7 classes. The modal response is the one used
most frequently by respondents. For range of modal response classes, see Appendix A.

Values in parentheses are for the modal class and the two adjacent ones.

'Split responses', e.g. Often/Very Often, indicate a response intermediate between the two described classes.

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