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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Happy New Year.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">I will not be on today’s LTER Ed Rep call.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Attached is a summary of ideas for cross LTER REU programming, along with a couple of ideas at the graduate level. This is a collection of the ideas we shared last fall, with some updates. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">REQUESTS:</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4"><span style="color:#1f497d"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="color:#1f497d">Please comment on the ideas here, either via email or in the google doc. It’s in the Cross-Site REU folder in the LTER-Education-Committee folder.</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4"><span style="color:#1f497d"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="color:#1f497d">Please consider filling out the google sheet in that same folder called LTER REU Projects for 2018 with information about REU projects at LTER sites this summer. It would be AMAZING to know what is happening at all the sites! Here’s a link directly to this sheet for sharing with others.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uEqsk5aeSz0si6MdQ4xSLmVf_-980EHG2WK2z4Dd4VQ/edit?usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uEqsk5aeSz0si6MdQ4xSLmVf_-980EHG2WK2z4Dd4VQ/edit?usp=sharing</a> </span></p><div><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4"><span style="color:#1f497d"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="color:#1f497d">Please let me know if you’d like to be part of the Higher Ed group (which, for now, is focusing mainly on REU ideas).</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4"><span style="color:#1f497d"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="color:#1f497d">Please suggest activities for the Higher Ed group for the ASM.</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4"><span style="color:#1f497d"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="color:#1f497d">Please share other thoughts and suggestions.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Thanks,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Alan</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Alan R. Berkowitz, Ph.D.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Head of Education</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Millbrook, NY 12545</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Phone: (845) 677-7600 ext. 311</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Fax: (845) 677-5976</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><a href="mailto:berkowitza@caryinstitute.org">berkowitza@caryinstitute.org</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:20.25pt"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *</span></p></div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></div></div></div></body></html>