<div dir="ltr"><div><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,"times new roman","bitstream charter",times,serif;font-size:16px"><img class="gmail-aligncenter gmail-size-full gmail-wp-image-587" src="https://nco.lternet.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/stearnswharf-cropped-nco-news-1-e1478205826475.png" alt="Santa Barbara shoreline and wharf header" width="800" height="152" style="height: auto; max-width: 100%; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"></p><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,"times new roman","bitstream charter",times,serif;font-size:16px;text-align:right"><span>November 2, 2016</span></p><h2 style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,"times new roman","bitstream charter",times,serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,128);font-family:"open sans""><b>Synthesis</b></span></h2><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,"times new roman","bitstream charter",times,serif;font-size:16px;padding-left:30px"><span>The LTER-NCO received nineteen proposals for Synthesis Working Groups in the October call for proposals. The review committee meets in late November and selections will be announced in December.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,"times new roman","bitstream charter",times,serif;font-size:16px;padding-left:30px"><span>Meanwhile, the </span><a href="https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/featured/sokol"><span>Metacommunities Working Group</span></a><span> got started with a bang, hosting a very successful </span><a href="https://eco.confex.com/eco/2016/webprogram/Session11862.html"><span>workshop at ESA</span></a><span> and their first meeting at the LTER-NCO in September.</span></p><h2 style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,"times new roman","bitstream charter",times,serif"><span style="font-family:"open sans";color:rgb(0,0,128)"><b>Mark your calendars</b></span></h2><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,"times new roman","bitstream charter",times,serif;font-size:16px;padding-left:30px"><span>The NSF mini-symposium is scheduled for March 21, 2017. Keep an eye on the web site for topics and speakers.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,"times new roman","bitstream charter",times,serif;font-size:16px;padding-left:30px"><span>The annual Executive Board meeting is scheduled for May 16, 2017 at Hubbard Brook LTER. The Science Council meeting will follow on May 17th, 18th, and 19th.</span></p><h2 style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,"times new roman","bitstream charter",times,serif"><span style="font-family:"open sans";color:rgb(0,0,128)"><b>Communications Trainings</b></span></h2><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,"times new roman","bitstream charter",times,serif;font-size:16px;padding-left:30px"><span>By popular demand, the NCO is hosting a </span><a href="https://nco.lternet.edu/video-abstracts-where-when-why-and-how/"><span>discussion of video abstracts and video shorts</span></a><span> on November 17, 2016. </span><a href="https://ucsb.zoom.us/meeting/register/7fb8907223bc4ce9cde7dc3c8da9331e"><span>Pre-registration</span></a><span> is required and </span><a href="https://nco.lternet.edu/nco/communications/videos/"><span>background reading</span></a><span> is recommended.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,"times new roman","bitstream charter",times,serif;font-size:16px;padding-left:30px"><span>Through a collaboration with SciFund Challenge, the NCO is offering an 8 week online, interactive course in science communications fundamentals: </span><a href="https://nco.lternet.edu/science-communications-fundamentals/"><span>Telling the Right Story, for the Right People, at the Right Time</span></a><span>. The course will run from January 8-March 4, 2017.</span></p><h2 style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,"times new roman","bitstream charter",times,serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,128);font-family:"open sans""><b>Meetings and Outreach</b></span></h2><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,"times new roman","bitstream charter",times,serif;font-size:16px;padding-left:30px"><b>ILTER</b><span>: Almost 50 US LTER researchers were among the 300 delegates at </span><a href="https://lternet.edu/ilter2016"><span>ILTER’s first open science meeting</span></a><span>,  held October 9-13 in Kruger National Park, South Africa. Meeting highlights included workshops on uncertainty in long-term research, distributed experiments, and visits to the many long-term sites operated by SANParks and SAEON.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,"times new roman","bitstream charter",times,serif;font-size:16px;padding-left:30px"><b>AGU Meeting</b><span>: LTER researchers will present over 100 talks and posters at the </span><a href="https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/"><span>American Geophysical Union meeting</span></a><span>, December 12-16.  Find a list of </span><a href="http://lternet.edu/agu2016abstracts"><span>LTER-related talks</span></a><span> on the LTERNET web site. Did we miss yours? Drop a line to <a href="mailto:nco-comm@lternet.edu">nco-comm@lternet.edu</a> to add it. And next year, be sure to include “LTER” somewhere in your affiliation or abstract!</span></p><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,"times new roman","bitstream charter",times,serif;font-size:16px;padding-left:30px"><b>OBFS Annual Meeting</b><span>: Matt Jones presented at the Organization of Biological Field Stations </span><a href="http://www.obfs.org/annual-meeting"><span>Annual Meeting</span></a><span> Sept 21-25 in Sitka, Alaska on behalf of the LTER-NCO and the Network. He encountered strong interest in developing collaborative working group proposals.</span></p><h2 style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,"times new roman","bitstream charter",times,serif"><span style="font-family:"open sans";color:rgb(0,0,128)"><b>NCO Personnel Update</b></span></h2><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,"times new roman","bitstream charter",times,serif;font-size:16px;padding-left:30px"><span>The NCO welcomes our new Education Lead, </span><a href="https://nco.lternet.edu/nco/nco-personnel/"><span>Sam Norlin</span></a><span>. He’ll continue as Project Director for  the Raising Educational Achievement through Cultural Heritage (REACH Up) Project at University of Alaska-Fairbanks while devoting 30% of his time to stewarding the LTER Network education effort.</span></p><h2 style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,"times new roman","bitstream charter",times,serif"><span style="font-family:"open sans";color:rgb(0,0,128)"><b>LTER Newsletters</b></span></h2><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,"times new roman","bitstream charter",times,serif;font-size:16px;padding-left:30px"><a href="http://us12.campaign-archive1.com/?u=d7494403ed9d8c97a5479f0d4&id=4bd8b90142"><span>LTER Science update</span></a><span>, issued monthly, provides brief, accessible summaries of recent science from across the Network. It is designed to inform partners, educators, and the broader ecological community as well as Network scientists. Please share and encourage your colleagues to subscribe.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,"times new roman","bitstream charter",times,serif;font-size:16px;padding-left:30px"><a href="https://nco.lternet.edu/news-from-the-nco/"><span>News from the NCO</span></a><span>, issued quarterly, provides regular organizational updates to LTER-associated personnel.</span></p><h2 style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,"times new roman","bitstream charter",times,serif"><span style="font-family:"open sans";color:rgb(0,0,128)"><b>LTER Mailing List Reference</b></span></h2><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,"times new roman","bitstream charter",times,serif;font-size:16px;padding-left:30px"><span>Quick! Which email lists reaches site administrators and which reaches site PI’s? The NCO has recently updated the major centrally-managed email lists and added this </span><a href="http://intranet2.lternet.edu/content/frequently-requested-network-email-lists"><span>handy reference page</span></a><span> to the web site.  </span></p><h2 style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,"times new roman","bitstream charter",times,serif"><span style="font-family:"open sans";color:rgb(0,0,128)"><b>Open Positions</b></span></h2><ul style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,"times new roman","bitstream charter",times,serif;font-size:16px"><li><span>The </span><a href="https://lternet.edu/CAP-Program-Manager"><span>Central Arizona-Phoenix LTER is seeking a program manager</span></a><span>. Deadline is November 10. Spread the word, fast.</span></li><li><span>The Environmental Data Initiative is </span><a href="https://lternet.edu/EDI-Data-Manager-UW"><span>seeking a data manager</span></a><span>. Deadlinbe: November 21.</span></li><li><span>Santa Barbara Coastal LTER </span><a href="http://sbc.lternet.edu/"><span>seeks a data manager</span></a><span>.</span></li><li><a href="https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/positionsopen"><span>NCEAS is currently seeking</span></a><span> a deputy director, a scientific programmer, and a training and outreach coordinator.</span></li></ul><h2 style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,"times new roman","bitstream charter",times,serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,128);font-family:"open sans""><b>Conferences and Special Issues</b></span></h2><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,"times new roman","bitstream charter",times,serif;font-size:16px;padding-left:30px"><span>LTER is partnering with ESA to get out the word about their annual </span><a href="http://www.esa.org/ldc/"><b>Life Discovery Conference</b></a><span>, which highlights leading science, curriculum design, implementation, and data exploration for high school and undergraduate education. </span><a href="http://www.esa.org/ldc/cfp/"><span>Proposals</span></a><span> for short presentations and hands-on workshops are being accepted until December 15, 2016</span><span><br></span><span><br></span><a href="http://www.journals.elsevier.com/science-of-the-total-environment/"><b>Science of the Total Environment</b></a><span> is planning a special issue on detecting and explaining natural and anthropogenic changes by making use of large extent, long-term ecological research facilities of the international long-term ecosystem research (ILTER) network.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,"times new roman","bitstream charter",times,serif;font-size:16px;padding-left:30px"><span>They are particularly interested in regional or global studies. To inquire about contributing a manuscript, email <a href="mailto:peter.haase@senckenberg.de">peter.haase@senckenberg.de</a> by December 1, 2016, with: Name of author(s), institute, country, indicative title, abstract.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,"times new roman","bitstream charter",times,serif;font-size:16px;padding-left:30px"><a href="http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?m=1122476215901&ca=cd38f801-c45f-4e55-acd4-af868f91d3c0"><b>ESA invites proposals</b></a><span> for </span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001IAlGR-8t49Stu3bhOt2kvFiKv9PxTpbFda-Jl-rVfPKI_rcErwI4v5m0apKu9TlGZQzDz-t21HRKOKAoDa2svnKNB6kPt5E7L6ci7HbwL-CCeKF4Xt2jqI065I5xT_q_L5cnzN7aVpyKya2C6Owy6SQ_PWAaDXEVL14CKEWUhjSXMSSVQk_xU2vaeehfmR3OdYQcWXbZBSM=&c=&ch="><span>Workshops</span></a><span>, </span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001IAlGR-8t49Stu3bhOt2kvFiKv9PxTpbFda-Jl-rVfPKI_rcErwI4v5m0apKu9TlGT4fViLOJ0pC-5DvQ3yYmX5ocL2sqYb72ROG1lE0AELWdOIeRdTGN88HxBTUXaIEUXFVRAL4S1r2r6qo8WUZ4eLhO7FeuBhedTx542mEIE8Roh7ImmVuFjWRgk5gIU1HgR9HXgcJSQSE=&c=&ch="><span>Special Sessions</span></a><span>, </span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001IAlGR-8t49Stu3bhOt2kvFiKv9PxTpbFda-Jl-rVfPKI_rcErwI4v5m0apKu9TlGRSn7HwazmVE0AXYGgcF5T0rtrOJPL5CdNStV0RddYsB9VdyWP9KhTdMS5gSxS5-_H-TgcWz13bxLzZ3s_sJrljzDavKk-Q6bNkILaLAMQSuaCGBBAcRBlXwxP9Fm71s4doUH_2nal4g=&c=&ch="><span>Field Trips</span></a><span>, and </span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001IAlGR-8t49Stu3bhOt2kvFiKv9PxTpbFda-Jl-rVfPKI_rcErwI4v5m0apKu9TlGTdM9izrc77f5FnsBrUAzevP8VL3ZQaAxTUlAnzwaGnVgIzog2UetySVwBaOvPvX2v3N4IQhu91xI7wRHEeMZnCg-fopnFAJlH244nhkdm3Am0Znf0Also9YycC0cxXx9BiLz9_RZ8lk=&c=&ch="><span>Ignite Sessions</span></a><span> for the 2017 Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon. The meeting theme is "Linking biodiversity, material cycling and ecosystem services in a changing world."</span></p></div><div><br></div><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Marty Downs<div>Communications Lead</div><div>LTER Network Communications Office (LTER NCO)</div><div><a href="http://us12.campaign-archive1.com/?u=d7494403ed9d8c97a5479f0d4&id=7e63967daf&e=[UNIQID]" target="_blank">LTER Science Update</a></div><div>t: @USLTER</div><div>f: USLTER</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)</span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">University of California, Santa Barbara</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:small">Office: 805-893-7549</span></div><div><span style="font-size:small">Cell: 617-833-7930</span></div><div><a href="mailto:downs@nceas.ucsb.edu" target="_blank">downs@nceas.ucsb.edu</a></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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