USDOE Human Subjects Research Database, fiscal year 1995

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Project Identifier: ORNL-93-28

Project Title:

Relating Ecological Indicators to Societal Values

Principle Investigator: Dr. Amy K. Wolfe

Project started in: 1993

Fiscal Year 1995 Funding for Research on Human Subjects:

Project Funding Information:
Project did not receive funding in Fiscal Year 1995.
Project did not use human subjects in Fiscal Year 1995.

Explanation:

Responses to the survey were always anonymous. No funds were spent on collecting personally identifiable data.

Funding Sources:

Non-DOE Federal: Environmental Protection Agency

Amount: $0

Information on Use of Human Subjects:

Project does not involve use of multiple protocols/subprojects.

IRB Review:
Type of Review: Expedited
Most Recent Approval: August 03, 1995

Number of Human Subjects in the Last Reporting Period for this Project: 0
(Reporting periods vary.)

Type of Human Subjects Involvement:

Other use of human subjects:

Use of survey that collects data that cannot be identified with a particular person.

(a. Objectives, b. Methodology, c. Ionizing Radiation, Radioactive Substances, or Chemical Substances to which human subjects are exposed, d. Involvement of Human Subjects [d.1. procedures used, d.2. risks if any])

a. To develop and test three alternative methods (telephone, mail, and personal interviews) for conveying information about environmental indicators, such as water or air quality, to members of the public and for soliciting their rankings of combinations of those indicators that characterize different states of ecological systems.

b. The particular systems and indicators used will be defined by the case-study region: the forests, surface waters, and integrated resources of the Southern Appalachian Man and Biosphere region. Human subjects will be queried via phone, mail, and in-person surveys concerning environmental indicators.

c. None

d1. Phone and in-person interviews.

d2. No social or physical risks are anticipated.