<div dir="ltr"><div>Please note, the submission deadline for abstracts for the ILTER meeting in South Africa is <b>March 15</b> (tomorrow)!</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Jordan Halland, NCO Travel Coordinator </div><div><br></div><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="garamond, serif" size="2">Jord<font color="#000000">an Halland</font></font><div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="2">Travel Coordinator</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="2">National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis</font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="garamond, serif" size="2">735 State Street, Suite 300</font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="garamond, serif" size="2">Santa Barbara, CA 93101</font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="garamond, serif" size="2">(805) 893-2500</font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="mailto:halland@nceas.ucsb.edu" target="_blank"><font face="garamond, serif" size="2">halland@nceas.ucsb.edu</font></a></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Frank Davis</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:frank.davis@nceas.ucsb.edu">frank.davis@nceas.ucsb.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 9:04 AM<br>Subject: [LTER-All-lter] NSF funding for travel to ILTER Open Science Meeting, Kruger NP, Oct 9-13<br>To: <a href="mailto:All-lter@lists.lternet.edu">All-lter@lists.lternet.edu</a><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Colleagues,<br><br>NSF has provided supplemental funding to the NCO to expand
collaboration between LTER and ILTER scientists. Funds are available to
support travel by LTER scientists to the first ILTER Open Science
Meeting, being held <b><span><span>9-13 October 2016</span></span></b> in the Kruger National Park, South Africa.</div><div><br></div><div>The
meeting will focus on long-term ecosystem research for sustainability
under global changes, with topical themes in the following areas:</div><div><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:12px"><li>Nitrogen impacts on ecosystems structure and function</li><li>Carbon and water cycles under climate change</li><li>Towards sustainable usage of ecosystem services (local, regional & global)</li><li>Drivers of biodiversity across scales</li><li>Data integration and interoperability linking global scale ecosystem research and environmental monitoring</li><li>Linking local, regional and global Earth system observations and models</li><li>Long-term studies of population dynamics</li><li>Long-term changes in nutrient cycling</li></ul><div>Depending on the number of requests, we can provide full or partial funding to two individuals per site, with priority given to early-career researchers.<font face="Arial" color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12px"> To request travel funding, please send an e-mail to Jordan Halland (<a href="mailto:halland@nceas.ucsb.edu" target="_blank">halland@nceas.ucsb.edu</a>) with the subject heading <b>ILTER travel request</b> and the following information:</span></font></div></div><div><font face="Arial" color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12px"><br></span></font></div><ol><li><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial">Name </span><br></li><li><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial">Position</span><br></li><li><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial">LTER site affiliation</span><br></li><li>Title of proposed talk, poster or workshop<br></li><li>Details
of a specific collaboration you plan to begin or expand, with a few
sentences on how attending the ILTER meeting would contribute to
building the proposed collaboration and what your goals are for the
meeting.<br></li><li>Brief budget, to include estimated airfare, hotel, meals and lodging</li></ol>With best regards,<br></div>FD<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><div><br>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><pre cols="72"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Frank W. Davis<br>Director, LTER Network Communications Office<br></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Director, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span></span><br>University of California, Santa Barbara
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