<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear LTER Diversity Committee, </div><div><br></div><div>I hope most of you will be able to join us for tomorrow's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee meeting. The presentation to the Science Council--co-organized by Cora Johnston, Cristy Portales Reyes, Gretchen Hofmann and Marty Downs-- went well and netted a lot of good information in a short period of time. </div><div><br></div><div>I've included a link to the presentation and a summary of the feedback we received in the proposed agenda, below, but summarizing clearly reduces the richness of the responses, so if you possibly can, please visit and at least scan through the full notes, here: <a href="https://docs.google.com/a/nceas.ucsb.edu/document/d/1pHRpIfrNXGsCZRyqUl2guQFcY5BqBrq4pDCAnfmerMM/edit?usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/a/nceas.ucsb.edu/document/d/1pHRpIfrNXGsCZRyqUl2guQFcY5BqBrq4pDCAnfmerMM/edit?usp=sharing</a></div><div><br></div><div>I think we are all anxious to get moving on committee activities and the question about network-level priorities offers some good fodder. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Key Links:</b></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-27df40b8-7fff-c501-83cc-1f6ced6895ec"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;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-wrap">Standing Zoom link: </span><a href="https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/826568709" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(26,115,232);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/826568709</span></a></p></span></div><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-27df40b8-7fff-c501-83cc-1f6ced6895ec"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;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-wrap">Google Drive: </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0ADLoMoVJ7gTEUk9PVA" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0ADLoMoVJ7gTEUk9PVA</span></a></p></span></div><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-27df40b8-7fff-c501-83cc-1f6ced6895ec"><span style="font-size:11pt;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-wrap">Trello Board: </span><a href="https://trello.com/b/eywetYEs/lter-diversity-inclusion-committee" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://trello.com/b/eywetYEs/lter-diversity-inclusion-committee</span></a></span></div></blockquote><div><b>Draft agenda: </b></div><div><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;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-wrap"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Review </span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10BpoM_d2oErzJVnFGvPOd86lz-kVS_IZJF2fYhACCes/edit#slide=id.g8451f61289_0_9">Science Council presentation</a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> and outcomes (last several slides of the linked presentation.</span></p></li><li style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;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-wrap"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Identify 3 (?) priority committee activities and working group members for each</span></p></li><li style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;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-wrap"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Process for sharing successes/resources</span></p></li><li style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;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-wrap"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p></li><ul><li><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap">Share resource/success story on google drive</span></li><li><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap">Solicit and incorporate feedback from committee</span></li><li><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap">Where resources seems broadly relevant, share to website (Marty)</span></li></ul></ul><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">See you tomorrow, </span></font></div></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap">Marty</span></font></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:small">Marty Downs (she/her/hers)</span><div style="font-size:small">Director, LTER <span style="font-size:12.8px">Network Office</span></div><div style="font-size:small"><br><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1yrok44TDXB6Sp6GbxXmKCdh8gT7Jj9Mj&revid=0B3xT0TaiQmt0RnJRSzB2RS9kYUFIbnhiU0k1SmZwSmt6MFZRPQ" width="200" height="48"><br><br><a href="https://lternet.edu/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://lternet.edu</a><br></div><div style="font-size:small">t: @USLTER</div><div style="font-size:small">f: USLTER</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8px">National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)</span><br></div><div style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8px">University of California, 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>