<div dir="ltr"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(83,83,83);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The LTER Network Communications Office developed this monthly webinar series to keep investigators across the community apprised of new developments from the <a href="https://lternet.edu/current-working-groups/" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration:none">LTER synthesis groups</a>. </span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(83,83,83);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font size="4">June 7</font></b></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(83,83,83);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;padding-left:30px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><font size="4" style=""><b>Integrating population and community synchrony across LTER sites</b></font><br style="box-sizing:border-box"></span><span style="font-size:14px;box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:400">Lauren Hallett, Lawrence Sheppard, Jonathan Walter<br style="box-sizing:border-box"></span><b style="font-size:14px;box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">REGISTER:<span> </span></b><b style="font-size:14px;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration:none;font-weight:700"><a href="https://ucsb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ouhbrC5LQwKFCOXukI8JCA" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration:none">https://ucsb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ouhbrC5LQwKFCOXukI8JCA</a></b></span></p><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">All past webinars  in the 2018 series are available online on the LTER Network website: <a href="https://lternet.edu/stories/2018-synthesis-webinars/">https://lternet.edu/stories/2018-synthesis-webinars/</a><div><br></div><div>We have also added a July 12 webinar to the series. It offers an opportunity for all sites to become involved in a synthesis project emerging from the 2017 Science Council Meeting and lays the groundwork for related activities at the All Scientists' Meeting.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div id="gmail-main-content" class="gmail-col-md-8" style="box-sizing:border-box;min-height:1px;padding-right:30px;padding-left:0px;float:left;width:789.594px;color:rgb(83,83,83);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><article id="gmail-post-78302" class="gmail-cf gmail-post-78302 gmail-stories gmail-type-stories gmail-status-publish gmail-has-post-thumbnail gmail-hentry gmail-story_types-lter-network-news gmail-story_types-synthesis" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:block;clear:both"><section class="entry-content gmail-cf" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:block"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"><font size="4">July 12, 11 am PDT</font><br style="box-sizing:border-box"></strong></span></p></section></article></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail-col-md-8" style="box-sizing:border-box;min-height:1px;padding-right:30px;padding-left:0px;float:left;width:789.594px;color:rgb(83,83,83);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><article class="gmail-cf gmail-post-78302 gmail-stories gmail-type-stories gmail-status-publish gmail-has-post-thumbnail gmail-hentry gmail-story_types-lter-network-news gmail-story_types-synthesis" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:block;clear:both"><section class="entry-content gmail-cf" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:block"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b style=""><font size="4">Contributions of long-term ecological research to changing theoretical paradigms of disturbance ecology<br><span style="font-size:14px;font-weight:400;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Evelyn Gaiser, Dan Childers, Peter Groffman, John Kominoski, Steward Pickett, Julie Ripplinger, and others</span><br></font></b></span></p></section></article></div></div><div><div class="gmail-col-md-8" style="box-sizing:border-box;min-height:1px;padding-right:30px;padding-left:0px;float:left;width:789.594px;color:rgb(83,83,83);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><article class="gmail-cf gmail-post-78302 gmail-stories gmail-type-stories gmail-status-publish gmail-has-post-thumbnail gmail-hentry 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n alter systems differently as environments change.</span></p></section></article></div></div><div><div class="gmail-col-md-8" style="box-sizing:border-box;min-height:1px;padding-right:30px;padding-left:0px;float:left;width:789.594px;color:rgb(83,83,83);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><article class="gmail-cf gmail-post-78302 gmail-stories gmail-type-stories gmail-status-publish gmail-has-post-thumbnail gmail-hentry gmail-story_types-lter-network-news gmail-story_types-synthesis" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:block;clear:both"><section class="entry-content gmail-cf" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:block"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">This interactive webinar will present a refined conceptual model for synthesizing disturbance across systems with long-term social-ecological research. We will complete the conceptual diagram for a few illustrative systems, laying the groundwork for a broader workshop at the LTER All Scientists’ Meeting. In the process, presenters will illustrate the utility of the conceptual model for building site- level understanding of disturbance outcomes, and its potential for driving insights across different types of ecosystems.</span></p></section></article></div></div></blockquote><div><div class="gmail-col-md-8" style="box-sizing:border-box;min-height:1px;padding-right:30px;padding-left:0px;float:left;width:789.594px;color:rgb(83,83,83);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><article class="gmail-cf gmail-post-78302 gmail-stories gmail-type-stories gmail-status-publish gmail-has-post-thumbnail gmail-hentry gmail-story_types-lter-network-news gmail-story_types-synthesis" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:block;clear:both"><section class="entry-content gmail-cf" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:block"><div class="gmail-img-holder gmail-aaa" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:15px 0px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><img class="gmail-aligncenter gmail-size-full gmail-wp-image-79460 gmail-lazyloaded" src="https://lternet.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/disturbance-framework-2.0.jpg" alt="" width="860" height="739" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; height: auto; width: 759.594px; float: none; margin: 0px;"></span><p class="gmail-wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;padding:12px 14px;font-size:13px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Credit:</strong><span> </span>Frameworks Working Group, 2017 LTER Science Council</span></p></div><div class="gmail-post-meta-data" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1em"></div></section></article></div><br><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><br clear="all"></span><div><br></div>-- <br><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"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:small">Marty Downs</span><div style="font-size:small">Deputy Director, LTER <span style="font-size:12.8px">Network Communications Office</span></div><div style="font-size:small"><br><img src="https://drive.google.com/a/nceas.ucsb.edu/uc?id=1qFadGx0hEm04xFRLFpVFxBUSEQk5T4c4&export=download" width="200" height="37"><br>​<br><a href="https://lternet.edu/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://lternet.edu</a><br><a href="http://us12.campaign-archive.com/?u=d7494403ed9d8c97a5479f0d4&id=9c0b9b36a4" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">LTER Science Update</a><br></div><div style="font-size:small">t: @USLTER</div><div style="font-size:small">f: USLTER</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8px">National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)</span><br></div><div style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8px">University of California, Santa Barbara</span><br style="font-size:12.8px">Office: 805-893-7549</div><div style="font-size:small">Cell: 617-833-7930</div><div style="font-size:small"><a href="mailto:downs@nceas.ucsb.edu" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">downs@nceas.ucsb.edu</a></div><div><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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