<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"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><img class="gmail-aligncenter gmail-size-full gmail-wp-image-79577" src="https://lternet.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/LTER-Network-News-header.png" alt="" width="934" height="195" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; height: auto; width: 759.594px; float: none; margin: 0px;"></em></p><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-align:right"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">December 2018</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(83,83,83);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:14px"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">LTER Network News is a forum for sharing news and activities from across the LTER Network. This is our water cooler. If you have personnel changes, new grants, cross-Network activities that might interest your LTER colleagues, please send them along to <a href="mailto:weiss@nceas.lternet.edu">weiss@nceas.lternet.edu</a>. </em></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(83,83,83);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:14px"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">If you have recently accepted publications to share, email <a href="mailto:cdybas@nsf.gov">cdybas@nsf.gov</a>.</em></p><h3 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;line-height:1.4;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:16px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#0b5394">LTER at AGU</font></span></h3><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(83,83,83);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:14px;padding-left:30px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Several LTER sites are presenting research at next week’s Annual AGU meeting. Be sure to check out the <a href="https://lternet.edu/stories/lter-at-agu-2018/" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none">full list of LTER talks and posters</a> and show support for our Network colleagues.</span></p><h3 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;line-height:1.4;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:16px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#0b5394">Save the Dates</font></span></h3><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(83,83,83);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:14px;padding-left:30px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">2019 LTER Science Council Meeting</span>: the 2019 Meeting of the LTER Science Council will be the week of May 14, 2019. Additional details coming soon.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(83,83,83);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:14px;padding-left:30px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"><a href="http://www.ilter-2019-leipzig.de/" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none">2019 ILTER Open Science Meeting</a>.</span> The International Long Term Ecological Research Network 2nd Open Science Meeting will be held <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">2–6 September 2019</span> at the Helmholz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig, Germany.</span></p><h3 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;line-height:1.4;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:16px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#0b5394">Recent Press</font></span></h3><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;padding-left:18px;color:rgb(83,83,83);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:14px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="https://nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=297215" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none">Scientists to present new long-term ecological research findings at fall American Geophysical Union meeting</a> | NSF</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/article/rare-and-diverse-giant-viruses" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none">Rare and diverse giant viruses unexpectedly found in a forest soil ecosystem</a> | UMass Amherst</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="https://news.virginia.edu/content/nsf-renews-three-decade-coastal-research-program-67-million-grant" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none">NSF renews three-decade coastal research program with $6.7 million grant</a> | UVA Today</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="http://www.wbur.org/news/2018/11/27/phragmites-salt-marsh" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none">Why this invasive plant has a shot at some redemption</a> | WBUR</span></li></ul><h3 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;line-height:1.4;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:16px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#0b5394">Papers of Interest</font></span></h3><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;padding-left:18px;color:rgb(83,83,83);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:14px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="http://apps.webofknowledge.com/full_record.do?product=WOS&search_mode=AdvancedSearch&qid=1&SID=5FZ5gFChSzIg6iOVaE4&page=4&doc=38&excludeEventConfig=ExcludeIfReload" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome</a></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="http://apps.webofknowledge.com/full_record.do?product=WOS&search_mode=AdvancedSearch&qid=1&SID=5FZ5gFChSzIg6iOVaE4&page=5&doc=41&excludeEventConfig=ExcludeIfReload" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Can we detect ecosystem critical transitions and signals of changing resilience from paleo-ecological records?</a></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="http://apps.webofknowledge.com/full_record.do?product=WOS&search_mode=AdvancedSearch&qid=1&SID=5FZ5gFChSzIg6iOVaE4&page=5&doc=43&excludeEventConfig=ExcludeIfReload" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Negotiating local versus global needs in the International Long Term Ecological Research Network’s socio-ecological research agenda</a></li></ul><h3 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;line-height:1.4;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:16px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#0b5394">Committees and Interest Groups</font></span></h3><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(83,83,83);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Several LTER committees and interest groups are experiencing a surge of activity in the wake of  the LTER All Scientists’ Meeting. Participation is entirely voluntary, but if you are interested in the following issues and activities, please reach out to the listed contact people for more information:</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(83,83,83);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:14px;padding-left:30px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Cross-site REU proposal team</span>: A group of investigators and REU coordinators are looking at developing a proposal for a cross-site REU program. Sam Norlin (<a href="mailto:norlin@nceas.ucsb.edu">norlin@nceas.ucsb.edu</a>) is coordinating interest</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(83,83,83);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:14px;padding-left:30px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Diversity Committee</span>: Interested in helping develop a set of resources and best practices to apply across the Network? Alan Berkowitz (<a href="mailto:berkowitza@caryinstitute.org">berkowitza@caryinstitute.org</a>) co-chairs this committee.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(83,83,83);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:14px;padding-left:30px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">International LTER Committee:</span> Are you involved in international research or have ideas about how to expand international connections? Mark Watkins (<a href="mailto:Mark.Watkins@asu.edu">Mark.Watkins@asu.edu</a>) is coordinating interest.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(83,83,83);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:14px;padding-left:30px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Communications Committee</span>: Clarisse Hart (<a href="mailto:hart3@fas.harvard.edu">hart3@fas.harvard.edu</a>) and Julie Doll (<a href="mailto:jedoll@msu.edu">jedoll@msu.edu</a>) chair this committee that is building a community of practice among LTER communicators and investigators.</span></p><h3 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;line-height:1.4;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:16px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#0b5394">Around the Network</font></span></h3><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(83,83,83);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:14px;padding-left:30px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">New AAAS Fellows! Congrats to  <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/today/2018/11/27/2-professors-named-aaas-fellows-2018" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none">Katie Suding of Niwot Ridge LTER</a>, <a href="https://www.unh.edu/unhtoday/news/release/2018/11/27/unh-professor-awarded-honor-2018-aaas-fellow" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none">Bill McDowell of Luquillo LTER</a>, and <a href="http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/019274/research-pioneers?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Read%20More&utm_campaign=December%204%2C%202018" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none">Craig Carlson of Mo’orea Coral Reef LTER</a> for being named as 2018 AAAS Elected Fellows. This lifetime award honors their extraordinary achievements in advancing science. Did we miss you? Please drop us a line.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(83,83,83);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:14px;padding-left:30px"><strong>LTER on social media: </strong>Like the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/uslter">LTER Facebook page</a> or join private Facebook groups to continue the conversations from the ASM: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/LTER.education">Education</a>; <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/LTER.graduate/">Graduate Students</a>; <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/LTER.Communications/">Communications and Outreach</a>.  Follow <a href="https://twitter.com/USLTER">LTER on Twitter</a> for the most current updates. And keep an eye out for the LTER community Instagram account, coming soon!<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></p><h3 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;line-height:1.4;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:16px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#0b5394">Announcements</font></span></h3><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(83,83,83);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:14px;padding-left:30px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">UFERN Webinar</span>: The Undergraduate Field Experiences Research Network (UFERN) is pleased to announce a new webinar series focused on 21st-century field education. The 2nd webinar in this series on <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">December 12th at 10 am PST</span>, and will feature Dr. Alison Jolley (AJ), Science Teaching and Learning Fellow/Lecturer at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Jolley will present “Can’t beat it on a good day: Investigating student experiences on field trips with different instructors and variable weather.” <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"><a href="https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xnyjDmmfSS22aOdH1Zk_gg" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none">Click here to register</a></span> for the live webinar on December 12. For additional information about upcoming webinars or to register for the listserv, visit <a href="http://ufern.net/" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none">http://ufern.net/</a>.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(83,83,83);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:14px;padding-left:30px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">EGU 2019 Abstracts</span>: The EGU 2019 General Assembly (April 7-12, Vienna Austria) call for abstracts is now open. You are encouraged to <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"><a href="https://egu2019.eu/abstracts_and_programme/how_to_submit_an_abstract.html" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none">submit an abstract</a></span> to the session on “<a href="https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2019/sessionprogramme/HS#s31640" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none">Hydrochory and biotic transport in streams and open channels</a>” (HS10.9). The deadline for abstract submission is <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">10 January 2019</span>.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(83,83,83);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:14px;padding-left:30px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">NSF DEB Working Group</span>: You are invited to apply for a spot in an NSF DEB Ecosystems funded data synthesis working group titled, “Ecosystem Responses to Hurricanes Synthesis Workshop,” to take place in Corpus Christi, TX on April 28th – May 1st, 2019. The working group will bring together scientists and practitioners studying recent the impacts of recent hurricanes.</span></p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;padding-left:18px;color:rgb(83,83,83);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:14px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v7AH6zTPe1Q1kQ9J_168FnWvAD40OTnQOYezyramxn0/edit?usp=sharing" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Information on working group goals and organizers</a></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="https://goo.gl/forms/Jtm7bI0b2f0UHZBu1" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none">Workshop application form</a>. <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Deadline: December 21, 2018</span></span></li></ul><h3 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;line-height:1.4;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:16px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#0b5394">Jobs and graduate opportunities</font></span></h3><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;padding-left:18px;color:rgb(83,83,83);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:14px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="https://lternet.edu/opportunities/quantitative-forest-ecologist-washington-state-university-asst-professor/" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none">Quantitative Forest Biologist</a>, Washing State University, Asst Professor</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="https://lternet.edu/opportunities/ph-d-assistantship-in-arctic-estuarine-ecology/" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none">PhD Assistantship in Arctic Estuarine Ecology</a>, University of Texas</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="https://lternet.edu/opportunities/lter-postdoc-coastal-food-web-ecology/" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none">LTER Postdoc in Coastal Food Web Ecology</a>, Florida International University</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="https://lternet.edu/opportunities/director-uc-santa-barbara-santa-cruz-island-reserve/" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none">Director, Santa Cruz Island Reserve</a>, UC Santa Barbara</span></li></ul><h3 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;line-height:1.4;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:16px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#0b5394">Funding Opportunities</font></span></h3><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(83,83,83);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:14px;padding-left:30px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"><a href="https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2019/nsf19528/nsf19528.htm" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none">Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems (CNH2)</a></span>: The CNH2 Program supports research projects that advance basic scientific understanding of integrated socio-environmental systems and the complex interactions (dynamics, processes, and feedbacks) within and among the environmental (biological, physical and chemical) and human (“socio”) (economic, social, political, or behavioral) components of such a system. Letter of Intent (required): <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">December 17, 2018;</span> full proposal: <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">February 14, 2019</span>.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(83,83,83);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:14px;padding-left:30px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"><a href="https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2019/nsf19501/nsf19501.htm" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none">Accelerating Research through International Network-to-Network Collaborations (AccelNet):</a></span> The goals of the Accelerating Research through International Network-to-Network Collaborations (AccelNet) program are to accelerate the process of scientific discovery and prepare the next generation of U.S. researchers for multiteam international collaborations.  The AccelNet program supports strategic linkages among U.S. research networks and complementary networks abroad that will leverage research and educational resources to tackle grand scientific challenges that require significant coordinated international efforts. Letter of Intent: <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">December 21, 2018</span>; full proposal: <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">February 28, 2019.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(83,83,83);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:14px;padding-left:30px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Powell Center Call for Proposals:</span> <a href="https://powellcenter.usgs.gov/proposals" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none">Powell Center Working group proposals</a> are due <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">January 31, 2019</span>. The Powell Center seeks projects that address development and testing of important Earth system science ideas and theories using existing data, cutting-edge analysis of Earth system information, and use of sound science in policy and management decisions.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(83,83,83);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:14px;padding-left:30px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"><a href="https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2019/nsf19538/nsf19538.htm" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none">Macrosystems Biology and NEON-Enabled Science  (MSB-NES)</a></span>. Research on Biological Systems at Regional to Continental Scales program will support quantitative, interdisciplinary, systems-oriented research on biosphere processes and their complex interactions with climate, land use, and invasive species at regional to continental scales as well as training activities to enable groups to conduct Macrosystems Biology and NEON-Enabled Science research. Full proposals: <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">February 25, 2019.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(83,83,83);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:14px;padding-left:30px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"><a href="https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504833&org=NSF" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none">Frontier Research in the Earth Sciences (FRES)</a></span>: The FRES program will support research in Earth systems from its core through the critical zone. Full proposal target date: <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">February 20, 2019</span>.</span></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="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><span></span></div>