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Dear LTER DEI reps,</div>
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Welcome back to the spring semester. I hope you had a restful break, even with the newest challenges from COVID. To get us back into action for the spring semester, we will spend our January meeting - next Tuesday, the 18<span><sup>th</sup> - checking in and
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<span>We aim to</span></div>
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<li><span>Share an overview of priority topics for our spring sessions</span></li><li><span>Check in on timing (Does our meeting schedule still work for you?)</span></li><li>Hear site highlights and updates</li><li><span>Let working groups check in to identify their prior progress and next step for February's working groups meeting</span></li><li><span>Begin discussing how we want to intersect with Network-wide ASM (Sept 2022) - hosting sessions, suggesting speakers, etc.</span></li></ul>
<div>Also, we encourage you to <b>invite others from your site who would like to learn more about our committee or join our regular meetings</b>. As a representative committee, we are required to have one rep per site on the DEI committee; however, our meetings
are open to others in the Network who'd like to be part of DEI discussions. By recruiting more attendees, we may be able to distribute the burden of work and accomplish more. If you have a DEI committee at your site, please consider inviting that broader group
to join this month's meeting. They are welcome at future meetings, but we hope that this one will be a good starter session.</div>
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<div>As always</div>
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Agenda: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_D1FnCzTofZ6q4r4LxFbrkNbrSQNHERG9o9ZGDsQZ3o/edit" id="LPNoLPOWALinkPreview">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_D1FnCzTofZ6q4r4LxFbrkNbrSQNHERG9o9ZGDsQZ3o/edit</a></div>
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See you next Tuesday.</div>
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Regards,</div>
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Cora & Nameer</div>
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in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional. We must embark on a cultural shift that places science in its rightful place...as an indispensable part of what
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