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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi LTER Comm Comm,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Liz and I are excited to report that we are on target for printing the 2020 LTER 40<sup>th</sup> Year Anniversary Calendar. Marty has been helping us think through a distribution plan for the calendars of which we are planning to order
1000. (We are only <b>$300 short</b>! Let me know if you have any brilliant ideas for coming up with that money).
<b>I’d love your thoughts on the following plan:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b>LTER sites – 700 CALENDARS:<o:p></o:p></b></li><ol style="margin-top:0in" start="1" type="a">
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Each site will receive 25 calendars. I’ll send a note to PIs next week informing them of this and suggesting a few ways to distribute them:<o:p></o:p></li></ol>
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</span>i.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><![endif]>share with university administrators, grants offices<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>ii.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><![endif]>share with field station staff/managers<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>iii.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><![endif]>send along with holiday messages to partners and collaborators<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>iv.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><![endif]>send along with holiday messages to major individual donors, benefactors, neighbors<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>v.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><![endif]>local media contacts<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>vi.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><![endif]>artists in residence<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>vii.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><![endif]>site PIs/co-PIs, techs, etc.<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>viii.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><![endif]>use as incentives/prizes to attend meetings!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b>LTER NCO – 300 CALENDARS to send to:<o:p></o:p></b></li><ol style="margin-top:0in" start="1" type="a">
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">NSF<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">NOAA<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">USFS<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">US Park Service<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Synthesis Centers: Powell Center, SESYNC, NimBIOS, Idiv<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">ESA, SEEDS, COMPASS, SEJ, ARIS, UFERN, SACNAS and AISES<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">The SACNAS conference<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">AGU meeting<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">Others?<o:p></o:p></li></ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Who are we forgetting? Thanks for your help,<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Julie<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">-- <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></p>
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