<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Mary, Sorry to have missed you and all at the meeting.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This looks to be evolving into a great piece! I am happy to look over the entire draft with a fine-tooth comb (to look for consistency of messaging, tone, language, ideas, etc as well as just plain typical editing) but want to do this at the point when it is of most use to you and to the process. Not sure if this version is it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Peter</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>
<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 26, 2019, at 5:18 PM, Mary O'Connor <<a href="mailto:oconnor@zoology.ubc.ca" class="">oconnor@zoology.ubc.ca</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello everyone!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">[i’m resending this, I sent it out on the 23rd but I think I got the listserv address wrong.]</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We made great progress on our working group paper, (working title): <span class="" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Agenda 2070: Challenges for biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research for the next 50 years. </span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here: </span><font face="Arial" class=""><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IVv7hjz-jZxKWlvNWbtsQNUFtO9V0U1kb6rxj_wp-lA/edit" class="">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IVv7hjz-jZxKWlvNWbtsQNUFtO9V0U1kb6rxj_wp-lA/edit</a></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">This draft is rough, it is not time to dive in and edit words! This is an ‘opt-out’ paper from the working group, which means we are all authors unless you communicate to me that you would rather not be. This reflects contributions from anyone at the previous meetings, because we have discussed it and worked on it each time.</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">There are two ways to continue to contribute at this time: </span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">1. If you are interested in helping to draft text to get us to a first full draft: </span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>please take a look at sections you worked on, or would like to work on, and work on them! Some sections are more polished than others, and wording and ideas can still be streamlined a bit among sections. Do what you can by March 4th so we can call the March 4th version our first full draft. I will be working on it too next week, as I can.</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">If you worked on one of the challenges, I would appreciate it if you could review your challenge text. </span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">2. If you would like to wait and review a full first draft, then…please plan to do that in early-mid March.</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The idea is to get a good draft that we like, and then share with colleagues outside our group to guage how/whether our proposal here resonates with them, or what suggestions they might have. I’d like to be ready for this in April. </span></font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please let me know if you have any questions. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Mary</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br class="">Dr. Mary O'Connor<br class="">Associate Professor, Department of Zoology<br class="">Associate Director, Biodiversity Research Centre<br class="">University of British Columbia<br class=""> <br class="">ph: 604-827-5653<br class=""><a href="mailto:oconnor@zoology.ubc.ca" class="">oconnor@zoology.ubc.ca</a><br class=""><a href="http://oconnorlab.weebly.com" class="">oconnorlab.weebly.com</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 25, 2019, at 10:47 AM, Jane Cowles <<a href="mailto:jcowles@umn.edu" class="">jcowles@umn.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi all,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thanks for those who attended last weeks meeting -- it was very productive & quite fun! We really appreciate everyone's time and input to make the meeting a success, including those that participated remotely and/or contributed ideas in previous meetings.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">You can find the spreadsheet of projects, next steps, and contact info in the <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LX400TISO1ERwCWI_5i6vfzlrrZP9DMvgevhoSknx1I" class="">LTER google drive</a>: <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LX400TISO1ERwCWI_5i6vfzlrrZP9DMvgevhoSknx1I/edit?usp=sharing" class="">SCUBA Projects Summary (Feb 2019)</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">If you can't find it or can't access it: let me know!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">For those that couldn't make it, check out the project list and get in touch with me and/or the project leads for more information about individual projects. You can see there is a column for opt in or opt out or "contact lead", these indicate the structure of authorship for the papers.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Forest will continue to solicit and send bi-monthly updates from the project leads (a vote of those present suggested this was working well, both as a way to stay in the loop and as a (often unexpected!!) reminder to everyone that two months has passed. I know I appreciate this in both capacities!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">We also hope to remain in touch regarding ways in which we can continue to work on (and pursue funding to work on) these fun & important ideas.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thanks again for your time and energy! Looking forward to watching these projects continue to grow & take shape.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">All the best,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Jane</div></div></div></div><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">Jane M. Cowles</span><br style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">Postdoctoral Associate</span><div style="font-size:12.8px" class="">Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior<br class="">University of Minnesota</div><div class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><a href="http://z.umn.edu/jcowles" target="_blank" class="">http://z.umn.edu/jcowles</a></span><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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