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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hello!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I submitted the list of reviewers for the LTER Futures papers this morning. For each paper, I listed one Comm Comm member as the first reviewer – see below for assignments. Of course, if you can’t do it just
let me know. (Not on the list and bummed out by that?<br>
Email me!)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">A little background on this project (sorry for the delay on this info, Alex!). Under Peter Groffman’s leadership, folks from across the Network thought hard about what we’ve learned from our long-term data
sets and what we can say about the future of Earth’s ecosystems. They submitted short syntheses to Peter; he and others spent hours compiling them into 5 papers (see below). He reached out to the journal Ecosphere and pitched the idea of a special feature
for these stories – they loved the idea!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Right now we’re in the review process for the papers. They’ve all been submitted to Ecosphere and I just submitted a list of 6 potential reviewers for each paper. Our hope is that they are reviewed by one
member of this committee (for flow, cohesiveness) and one scientist (for content). I’d really like this committee to provide some consistent suggestions to each of the lead authors for making the papers more cohesive as a special feature.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I am hopeful we’ll all read ALL of the papers at some point, as we have talked about plans to use these papers as a platform for doing some exciting communication activities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Kristin Weiss</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> - Future trajectories for ecosystems in the U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network: The
importance of state changes<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Alex Rose</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> - Future trajectories for ecosystems in the U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network: Cascading
effects<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Lina DiGregorio</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> - Future trajectories for ecosystems in the U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network:
The importance of connectivity in space and time to ecosystem dynamics<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Marty Downs</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> - Ecosystem trajectories, resilience, and the state of our future earth: insight from the U.S.
Long Term Ecological Research Network<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Sarah Garlick</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> - Future trajectories for ecosystems in the U.S. Long-term Term Ecological Research Network:
The importance of time lags<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">All best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Julie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">-- <br>
Julie E. Doll, Ph.D.<br>
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Education & Outreach Specialist<br>
Agriculture & Ecology<br>
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Kellogg Biological Station Long-term Ecological Research Program<br>
Michigan State University<br>
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<a href="http://www.lter.kbs.msu.edu/"><span style="color:#0563C1">www.lter.kbs.msu.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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