Kroll, Jim, author2016-08-092016-08-092016-07-21http://hdl.handle.net/10217/176329http://dx.doi.org/10.25675/10217/176329Presented at the Retractions conference: keeping the pool clean: prevention and management of misconduct related retractions held on July 20-21, 2016 at Hilton Fort Collins in Fort Collins, Colorado.Jim Kroll has been the Director of Research Integrity and Administrative Investigations for the National Science Foundation's Office of the Inspector General since April 2001. In this role, Jim is primarily responsible for leading the investigation and resolution of all allegations that, if substantiated, would result in administrative action rather than civil or criminal prosecution. These include allegations of: research misconduct under NSF proposals and awards; certain types of employee misconduct; violations of NSF regulations, policy or directives; improprieties in program management that can not be practicably resolved by management itself; and other issues that are not of a civil/criminal nature. Prior to working for the OIG, Jim served 21 years as a meteorological officer with the U.S. Air Force. Jim completed his undergraduate studies at Rutgers University where he received his B.S. in Meteorology in 1980. Jim later attended North Carolina State University where he received his M.S. in Atmospheric Sciences in 1985 and his Ph.D. in 1988.PowerPoint presentation given on Day 2: Thursday, July 21st, 2016.born digitalPresentation slidesengresearch communityinvestigationsresearch integritymisconductNSF programsTextThis presentation is open access and distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).