<div dir="ltr"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:"Open Sans";font-size:13px;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><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="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block;"></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:13px;text-align:right"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">July 15, 2017</font></span></p><h3 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:30px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.5;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1.125em"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,128)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Governance Update</font></span></h3><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">The LTER Science Council and Executive Board met at Hubbard Brook, May 16-19, where they welcomed representatives of <span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:600"><a href="https://lternet.edu/node/84416" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:none;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-decoration-line:none">three new LTER sites</a></span>, discussed some great science, and made a few key decisions:</font></p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:13px;list-style-position:initial"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><a href="http://intranet2.lternet.edu/documents/lter-network-bylaws-2017-revisions" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:none;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-decoration-line:none">LTER bylaws</a> have been revised to refer to the <a href="https://nco.lternet.edu/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:none;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-decoration-line:none">Network Communications Office (NCO)</a>, rather than the LTER Network Office (LNO) and to clarify the relationships among the LTER Executive Board, the Science Council, the Network Communications Office, and the <a href="https://environmentaldatainitiative.org/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:none;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-decoration-line:none">Environmental Data Initiative (EDI)</a>.</font></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">The Director of the LTER Network Communications Office will hold a voting seat on the LTER Executive Board and the Director of the Environmental Data Initiative will hold an <em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:inherit">ex officio</em> seat on the LTER Executive Board. The Information Management and Education and Outreach Committees will continue to hold non-voting seats on the LTER Executive Board and the LTER Science Council.</font></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">The Science Council approved a recommendation by the Executive Board to update the <a href="http://intranet2.lternet.edu/documents/data-access-policy-revised-5192017" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:none;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-decoration-line:none">LTER data access policy</a> to reflect the movement towards open and unrestricted access to data. When no specific access policy is specified for a data set, the LTER data portal will now default to  a Creative Commons license requiring attribution (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:none;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-decoration-line:none">CC BY 4.0</a>).</font></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">We appreciate the service of  Anne Giblin (PIE), Gary Lovett (HBR), and Sherrie Johnson (AND), who rotated off the Executive Board, and welcome new (and returning) EB members: Katherine Suding (NWT), David Foster (HFR), and Jess Zimmerman (LUQ).</font></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">The LTER Information Management Committee is meeting before the <a href="http://www.esipfed.org/meetings/upcoming-meetings/esip-summer-meeting-2017" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:none;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-decoration-line:none">Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)</a> Annual Meeting in Bloomington, Indiana, July 24.</font></li></ul><h3 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:30px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.5;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1.125em"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,128)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Synthesis Activities</font></span></h3><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><font size="2"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit">In addition to the <a href="https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/lter-network-communications-office#synthesis" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:none;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-decoration-line:none">five synthesis working groups</a> currently underway, the LTER Science Council</span> </font><span style="font-size:13px">is working on products emerging from the 2017 and 2018 Science Council meetings.</span></font></p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:13px;list-style-position:initial"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Peter Groffman is pulling together a set of papers from each site on LTER Futures for a special issue of <em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:inherit">Ecosphere.</em></font></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">A team led by Evelyn Gaiser is organizing a manuscript that will elaborate a framework for understanding humans as an integral part of ecosystems.</font></li></ul><h3 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:30px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.5;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1.125em"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,128)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">LTER at the Ecological Society of America (ESA) Meeting</font></span></h3><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">A listing of talks and posters being presented at ESA will be available shortly. Meanwhile please plan on joining us for:</font></p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:13px;list-style-position:initial"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:600"><a href="http://portland-esa-mixer.weebly.com/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:none;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-decoration-line:none">Science Stories</a></span>, the Wednesday evening mixer at McMenamins Mission Theater, cosponsored by <a href="https://lternet.edu/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:none;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-decoration-line:none">LTER</a>, <a href="https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:none;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-decoration-line:none">NCEAS,</a> and <a href="http://snappartnership.net/about/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:none;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-decoration-line:none">SNAPP</a>.</font></li></ul><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">The NCO is organizing three workshops at ESA, and will be promoting REU opportunities at the Diversity Luncheon, but will not have a booth this year. Workshops:</font></p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:13px;list-style-position:initial"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><a href="https://eco.confex.com/eco/2017/webprogram/Session13182.html" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:none;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-decoration-line:none">Video in a Hurry (and on a Shoestring)</a>, Sunday, August 6, 12-5 p.m.</font></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><a href="https://eco.confex.com/eco/2017/webprogram/Session13159.html" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:none;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-decoration-line:none">Phenomenal Ecology in the Classroom: Turning Phenomena into Something Phenomenal for K-12 Learning, </a>Tuesday, August 8, 2017: 11:30 AM-1:15 p.m.</font></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><a href="https://eco.confex.com/eco/2017/webprogram/Session13164.html" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:none;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-decoration-line:none">Data Nuggets and Data Jams: Strategies to Increase Your Broader Impacts and Student Quantitative Reasoning, </a>Thursday, August 10, 2017: 11:30 AM-1:15 p.m.</font></li></ul><h3 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:30px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.5;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1.125em"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,128)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Communications Trainings</font></span></h3><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit">Curriculum materials from the NCO’s  8-week online, interactive course in science communications are now available online at  </span><a href="https://nco.lternet.edu/science-communications-fundamentals/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:none;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-decoration-line:none">Telling the Right Story, for the Right People, at the Right Time</a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit">. </span></font></p><h3 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:30px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.5;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1.125em"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,128)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Save the Dates</font></span></h3><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:13px;list-style-position:initial"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">The<span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:600"> 2018 Science Council/Executive Board Meeting</span> will be hosted by the Northern Temperate Lakes LTER. Madison, here we come!</font><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;list-style:disc"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">May 15: Executive Board</font></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">May 16 & 17: Science Council</font></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px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px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">To learn about LTER Network-related job openings as they arise, email downs@nceas.ucsb requesting to join <a href="mailto:opportunities@lternet.edu">opportunities@lternet.edu</a> or visit our <a href="https://lternet.edu/opportunities" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:none;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-decoration-line:none">opportunities page</a>.</font></p><h3 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:30px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.5;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1.125em"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,128)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Conferences and Special Issues</font></span></h3><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><a href="https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2017/abstract-submissions/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:none;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-decoration-line:none">Abstracts for the Fall 2018 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Meeting</a> are due August 2 (July 26 for early submission). Please include LTER or Long-Term Ecological Research in your abstract to help us find and promote your talk.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Also, consider submitting an abstract to Public Affairs session 013: <a href="https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session24142" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:none;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-decoration-line:none">How Does Your Geoscience Research Matter and Can You Explain How it Matters to the Public?</a></font></p><h3 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:30px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.5;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1.125em"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,128)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Newsletters</font></span></h3><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:inherit"><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><a href="http://us12.campaign-archive1.com/home/?u=d7494403ed9d8c97a5479f0d4&id=51157f4ed5" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:none;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-decoration-line:none">LTER Science update</a>, 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 LTER Network scientists. Please share and encourage your colleagues to subscribe.</font></em></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:inherit"><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><a href="https://nco.lternet.edu/news-from-the-nco/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:none;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-decoration-line:none">News from the NC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