<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Teresa Mourad</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Teresa@esa.org">Teresa@esa.org</a>></span><br><br><br><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="m_-8945793936106629030WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Dear LDC Collaborators and partners:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thank you once again for agreeing to be a Conference Collaborator.  Please send this promo out to your networks. We appreciate your support.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">******************************<wbr>******************************<wbr>************<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><u></u> <u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Early Bird Registration September 8, 2017<u></u><u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>4^th Life Discovery – Doing Science Education Conference <u></u><u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>DATA: Discover, Investigate, Inform<u></u><u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>October 19-21, 2017, University of Oklahoma<u></u><u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><a href="http://www.esa.org/ldc" target="_blank">www.esa.org/ldc</a> <u></u><u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">Recent efforts to curate, archive and disseminate research data as well as new tools available that make data more accessible to the education community allow <strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;font-weight:normal">educators to successfully bring data and authentic research into both high school and college classrooms!   The time is right to accelerate this effort and to contribute to the national dialogue on how to incorporate data in your classroom. </span></strong></span><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><u></u><u></u></span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;font-weight:normal"><u></u> <u></u></span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">: Preconference Workshop on Oct 19 on Bringing Lecture to Life: The Use of Modern Research Instrumentation in the Classroom and Lab led by LI-COR Biosciences team.</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><u></u><u></u></span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;font-weight:normal"><u></u> <u></u></span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">FREE MEMBERSHIP: </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">The Ecological Society of America and the Botanical Society of America are pleased to offer free online 2018 membership for registered attendees who have not been members of these societies. <u></u><u></u></span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;font-weight:normal"><u></u> <u></u></span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">TRAVEL GRANTS:  </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">Still available for faculty from tribal and community colleges and minority-serving institutions.  Please forward to your colleagues! Contact <a href="mailto:teresa@esa.org" target="_blank">teresa@esa.org</a> <u></u><u></u></span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;font-weight:normal"><u></u> <u></u></span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">REGISTER TODAY! </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.esa.org/ldc" target="_blank">www.esa.org/ldc</a> </span></strong><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">******************************<wbr>******************************<wbr>****************<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Vivaldi;color:#525252">Teresa<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Teresa Mourad<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Director, Education and Diversity Programs<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:teal"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tre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