<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" style=""><span class="gmail-" style="">Dear LTER Network participants--</span></div><div dir="ltr" style=""><span class="gmail-" style=""><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" style=""><span class="gmail-" style="">One of the outcomes of the recent CZO/LTER/NEON/ISMC modeling workshop, <a href="http://www.neonscience.org/obs-networks-earth-system-understanding-2018">Using Observation Networks to Advance Earth System Understanding: State of the Art, Data-Model Integration, and Frontiers</a>, is an effort to develop a consortium on biogeochemical modeling. The effort is at an early stage, with goals and plans still taking shape. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style=""><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="">If you are interested in participating, please contact Peter Groffman, <a href="mailto:Peter.Groffman@asrc.cuny.edu" id="gmail-m_5680384364664155238NoLP" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Peter.Groffman@asrc.cuny.edu</a>, who will coordinate LTER interest.</div><div dir="ltr" style=""><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="">Want to know more about the workshop? Agenda and presentations are available at the above link.<br><span class="gmail-" style=""><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Cheers, </p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Marty</p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, March 4, 2018 10:51 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Greg Tucker; Alejandro Flores; Young, Michael H; <a href="mailto:lynn.mccready@colorado.edu" target="_blank">lynn.mccready@colorado.edu</a>; Irina Overeem; Andrew Fox; Adrian Rocha; <a href="mailto:sihid@ornl.gov" target="_blank">sihid@ornl.gov</a>; <a href="mailto:dwoo5@illinois.edu" target="_blank">dwoo5@illinois.edu</a>; <a href="mailto:h.vereecken@fz-juelich.de" target="_blank">h.vereecken@fz-juelich.de</a>; Jiri Simunek; Eugenie Euskirchen; <a href="mailto:eugene.kelly@colostate.edu" target="_blank">eugene.kelly@colostate.edu</a>; Daniel
 Potma; <a href="mailto:ccagnar@ceh.ac.uk" target="_blank">ccagnar@ceh.ac.uk</a>; <a href="mailto:j.vanderborght@fz-juelich.de" target="_blank">j.vanderborght@fz-juelich.de</a>; Lu Zhai; Peter Groffman; Samantha Weintraub; <a href="mailto:yzh120@psu.edu" target="_blank">yzh120@psu.edu</a>; <a href="mailto:bruddell@gmail.com" target="_blank">bruddell@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:wwieder@ucar.edu" target="_blank">wwieder@ucar.edu</a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Lifen Jiang<span class="gmail-"><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Consortium of biogeochemical modeling across CZO/LTER/NEON/ISMC</span></font>
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Dear all,</p>
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You has expressed, or your friends have volunteered you to express, an interest in the consortium.</p>
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This is a great group to start with.</p>
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Now it is time to figure out what to do with this consortium. If our goal is to exchange ideas and promote collaboration, we may need to </p>
<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"></p><ol><li>understand each others' research scopes, approaches, and focuses within this group<br></li><li>identify our common interests where we can collaborate<br></li><li>develop an action plan.  <br></li></ol><p></p>


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An action plan could include the following <span style="font-size:12pt">activities:</span></p>
<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"></p><ol><li>Meeting(s), such as workshops, conferences, or symposia. We may develop proposals to organize sessions at AGU, EGU, ESA, or other conferences.<br></li><li><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:12pt">Model </font><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:12pt">inter-comparison</font><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:12pt"> project (MIP) or model-data intecomparison
 project (MDIP) at some co-located CZO-LTER-NEON sites.</font><br></li><li>Joint proposals<br></li><li>Working groups to tackle specific questions.</li></ol>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">We may have another person to co-coordinate this consortium. Any volunteers are welcome.</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">For the time being, let us discuss whether those ideas make sense to you or not. Also, please make new suggestions.</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">Best,</font></p><span class="gmail-">
<p><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">Yiqi </font></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">Yiqi Luo, Ph.D.<br>
Professor<br>
Center for Ecosystem Science and Society (Ecoss) </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">Department of Biological Sciences</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri">Northern Arizona University<br>
Flagstaff, AZ 86011<br>
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