<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear LTER Diversity Committee, </div><div><br></div><div>We will hold our first meeting of the renewed LTER diversity committee tomorrow. </div><div>After a brief review of recent diversity-related activities, we'll spend the majority of this first meeting on introductions and idea-gathering. To facilitate capturing ideas, we'll use a <b><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_D1FnCzTofZ6q4r4LxFbrkNbrSQNHERG9o9ZGDsQZ3o/edit">shared google doc for agenda and notes</a>.</b></div><div><br></div><div>For introductions, I'll ask for:</div><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-236f19df-7fff-1819-91f5-e6bb6118dca1"><br><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Name</span></p></li><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Site and role</span></p></li><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Relevant experience or interest </span></p></li><li style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Favored ideas or approaches for improving diversity, equity and inclusion in the LTER network (doesn't need to be original, a +1 to someone else's idea or doubling down on current strategies is OK)</span></p></li></ul><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial"><div><span><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial"><br></span></span></div>We'll only be able to allocate a minute each for </span>introductions<span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial"> -- and clearly some ideas will require a bit more background and might benefit from sharing links. Please feel free to start jotting things down in the agenda or the <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TYEYdMBLgbA0KT8fRVcKbRZph5neCrKnL6y6HFeXevE/edit" style=""><b>ideas document</b></a> now and refer to them during tomorrow's meeting.</span><br></span></div><div><span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial"><br></span></span></div><div><span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial">I could also use a volunteer for </span></span></div><div><span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial">1) notetaking</span></span></div><div><span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial">2) timekeeping</span></span></div><div><span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial"><br></span></span></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">Look forward to seeing you tomorrow.</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">Marty</span></font></div><div><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:large">Friday, March 13 at 11 am Pacific time (12 MT / 1 pm CT / 2 pm ET). </span><br></div><div><b>Connection information is here:</b><br></div><div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">Join Zoom Meeting</span></div><div><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https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, 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></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>