<div dir="ltr">Dear LTER Colleagues, <div><br></div><div>The LTER Network has received some great press lately that I wanted to share with you. Each spring, a group of LTER scientists meet in Washington DC to share the latest research from across the Network. In 2017, the topic of this symposium was the <i>Discovering the Nature of Ecosystem Change</i>. </div><div><br></div><div>The NSF Public Affairs team put together an outstanding article on the event, that you may want to share with colleagues, particularly as <b>June 5 is World Environment Day</b>.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://twitter.com/NSF_GEO/status/871320472084000768" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px"><b>https://twitter.com/NSF_GEO/<wbr>status/871320472084000768</b></a><br></div><div><br></div><div>If you're on Twitter, direct link to NSF's tweet is here: <a href="https://twitter.com/NSF_GEO/status/871320472084000768">https://twitter.com/NSF_GEO/status/871320472084000768</a></div><div><br></div><div>Also, Discover Magazine has a <i><a href="http://discovermagazine.com/galleries/2017/june/changing-planet#"><b>Diary of a Changing Planet</b></a> </i>photo essay, drawn from a variety of previous NSF postings about the Network.</div><div><br></div><div><div>If you're tweeting professionally, please include the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NSFfunded?src=hash" class="gmail-twitter-hashtag gmail-pretty-link gmail-js-nav" dir="ltr" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(0,132,180);text-decoration-line:none;outline:0px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.27px;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#0084b4" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;outline-color:initial;outline-style:initial;letter-spacing:0.27px;white-space:pre-wrap">#</span></font><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(0,132,180);text-decoration-line:underline;outline:0px;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.27px;white-space:pre-wrap">NSFfunded</span></a> hashtag and/or the @uslter handle. If you're tweeting personally, use your best judgement.</div><div><br></div><div>This is perhaps also a good time to remind you all that both the <a href="https://nco.lternet.edu/">Network Communications Office</a> and <a href="https://www.nsf.gov/news/newsroom.jsp">NSF Public Affairs</a> need your help to help you get the best coverage. If you have a advance notice of a paper coming out that may be of public interest, please drop me and Cheryl Dybas (DEB Public Affairs at N<font color="#000000">SF; <span style="font-family:"normal arial",sans-serif;font-size:12px">cdybas</span><wbr style="font-family:"normal arial",sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:"normal arial",sans-serif;font-size:12px">@<a href="http://nsf.gov">nsf.gov</a>) a line. </span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"normal arial",sans-serif;font-size:12px">We can't cover everything, but really appreciate the opportunity to get a public message out at the time of publication.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"normal arial",sans-serif;font-size:12px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"normal arial",sans-serif;font-size:12px">Thanks, </span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"normal arial",sans-serif;font-size:12px">Marty</span></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Marty Downs<div>Deputy Director/Communications</div><div><a href="https://nco.lternet.edu/" target="_blank">LTER Network Communications Office (LTER NCO)</a></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>
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