<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi all,<div class="">Marty can elaborate if needed, but if we have to go through the official channels for getting formal activities at ASM, the due dates and types of proposed activities can be found here: <a href="https://lternet.edu/2022-all-scientists-meeting/" class="">https://lternet.edu/2022-all-scientists-meeting/</a>. If a “track" of workshops is of interest, those proposals are due the day of our next meeting (Feb 15). For the other types of activities, we’d have more time. (I haven’t heard anything about keynote speaker selection.)</div><div class="">Joel</div><div class=""> </div><div class=""><div><br class=""><div class="">On Jan 14, 2022, at 2:28 PM, Baird, Cora Ann Johnston (caj2dr) <<a href="mailto:caj2dr@virginia.edu" class="">caj2dr@virginia.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Dear LTER DEI reps,</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">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 class=""><sup class="">th</sup> - checking in and getting situated for this semester's meetings.</span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><span class="">We aim to</span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><ul class=""><li class=""><span class="">Share an overview of priority topics for our spring sessions</span></li><li class=""><span class="">Check in on timing (Does our meeting schedule still work for you?)</span></li><li class="">Hear site highlights and updates</li><li class=""><span class="">Let working groups check in to identify their prior progress and next step for February's working groups meeting</span></li><li class=""><span class="">Begin discussing how we want to intersect with Network-wide ASM (Sept 2022) - hosting sessions, suggesting speakers, etc.</span></li></ul><div class="">Also, we encourage you to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">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><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As always</div><div class=""><b style="font-weight: normal;" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: 400;" class="">Standing Zoom link:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/826568709" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(26, 115, 232); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/826568709</span></a></div></b></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Agenda: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_D1FnCzTofZ6q4r4LxFbrkNbrSQNHERG9o9ZGDsQZ3o/edit" id="LPNoLPOWALinkPreview" class="">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_D1FnCzTofZ6q4r4LxFbrkNbrSQNHERG9o9ZGDsQZ3o/edit</a></div><div class="_EReadonly_1 _EType_OWALinkPreview _Entity _EId_OWALinkPreview"></div><br class=""><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">See you next Tuesday.</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Regards,</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Cora & Nameer</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">LTER DEI co-chairs</div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div id="Signature" class=""><div class=""><div class=""></div><div class=""></div><div class=""></div><div class=""></div><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(0, 47, 108); font-family: "Arial Narrow", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><b class=""></b></span></p><span id="ms-rterangepaste-start" class=""></span><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(0, 47, 108); font-family: "Arial Narrow", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><b class="">Cora A. 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MS#33</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11px;" class="">Woods Hole, MA 02543<br class="">508-289-3845 (office), 774-327-9666 (cell)<br class=""></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11px;" class=""><a href="http://www.whoi.edu/science/B/FOLFElab" class="">www.whoi.edu/science/B/FOLFElab</a> </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11px;" class="">he/him</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11px;" class="">_______________________________</span></div></div></div></div></div>
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