<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Hi Marty et al.,<br><br></div>This is an excellent list of speakers and topics. I suggest slight additions to the title to read as: "Drought, fire, rising seas: discovering and forecasting the long-term nature of ecological change". I just don't think we can underscore enough the importance of the long term in LTER and how it is needed to enable site-based discoveries as well as help us understand and forecast areas of change among other non-LTER sites.<br><br></div>DC-based panelist suggestion: Scot Haggerthy US EPA.<br><br></div>Thanks for this effort!<br><br></div>John<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 5:04 AM, Foster, David R. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drfoster@fas.harvard.edu" target="_blank">drfoster@fas.harvard.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<b>To: </b>"Johnson, Sherri" <<a href="mailto:sherri.johnson@oregonstate.edu" target="_blank">sherri.johnson@oregonstate.<wbr>edu</a>>, Jess Zimmermann <<a href="mailto:jesskz@ites.upr.edu" target="_blank">jesskz@ites.upr.edu</a>>, John Kominoski <<a href="mailto:jkominoski@gmail.com" target="_blank">jkominoski@gmail.com</a>>, Kathy Lambert <<a href="mailto:kathleen.lambert3@gmail.com" target="_blank">kathleen.lambert3@gmail.com</a>>, "Weiss, Marissa S." <<a href="mailto:marissaweiss@fas.harvard.edu" target="_blank">marissaweiss@fas.harvard.edu</a>><wbr>, Erica Goldman <<a href="mailto:egoldman@compassonline.org" target="_blank">egoldman@compassonline.org</a>>,
LTER Communications <<a href="mailto:commcom@lternet.edu" target="_blank">commcom@lternet.edu</a>>, Nancy Baron <<a href="mailto:nbaron@compassonline.org" target="_blank">nbaron@compassonline.org</a>><br>
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