<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Dear LTER information managers and management teams--</span><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">With new personnel coming on board for the summer and new proposals now funded, it's time to update the personnel and site information for your LTER. Please review your site information by </span><b><font size="4" color="#990000">June 23</font></b><span style="font-size:12.8px"> and update your personnel information by </span><b><font size="4" color="#990000">June 30</font><span style="font-size:12.8px">. </span></b><span style="font-size:12.8px">We are beginning a redesign of the web site and will need to freeze updates for about 2 months after that. </span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><b>Personnel updates</b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Please take a look at your personnel list here: <a href="https://dbadmin2.lternet.edu/admin/" target="_blank">https://dbadmin2.<wbr>lternet.edu/admin/</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">and add, deactivate, or update individuals as needed. If you find you don't have adequate permissions or need to move someone from a different site, please drop me a line. For the moment, please don't use the tech-support email address.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><b>Email lists:</b> </div><div style="font-size:12.8px">LPI, im-rep, edu-rep, grad-rep, and student lists are role-based and will update automatically when people are added to those categories.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">site-exec, im, education, investigators, and other committee and interest-group lists are updated manually. If you need to add people to any of those lists, (site-exec is the most likely) please let me know. </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Most sites have already moved their local (site-specific) email lists off of the lternet mailman system to enhance local control. If you have -- and no longer want to use the the lternet mailling system for that purpose, please let me know and we'll archive and shut down those lists.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">If you don't have a good local option for maintaining site-specific lists, we can maintain a limited number of lists for your site, but let's confer to see what is actually being used and what is vestigial.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><b><a href="http://lternet.edu">lternet.edu</a> personal addresses</b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">We are no longer planning to maintain personal email addresses through <a href="http://lternet.edu">lternet.edu</a> (i.e. <a href="mailto:personname@lternet.edu">personname@lternet.edu</a>). There are very few of these remaining, but if you know of anyone who may still be using an lternet address for their email, please alert them to the change (and let me know about them so I can coordinate). </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><b>Site information updates:</b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Since approximately 2013, SiteDB has been maintained on an old and out-of-date server and has not been updating the lternet web site as it was originally intended. This has caused a great deal of confusion and divergence of information, with one set of information being maintained in siteDB (see <a href="http://sites.lternet.edu">http://sites.lternet.edu</a>) and a (sometimes different) set of information maintained and displayed on the <a href="http://lternet.edu/" target="_blank">lternet.edu</a> web site (see <a href="https://lternet.edu/lter-sites">https://lternet.edu/lter-sites</a>).</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">With a web site redesign getting underway, the NCO intends to focus on a limited set of site information that can be maintained within the lternet web site (itself a MySQL database) -- ultimately giving site information managers direct access to update that information once the web site is complete. </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">For the purposes of the redesign freeze, please check the information displayed on your site profile (linked here: </span><a href="https://lternet.edu/lter-sites" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">https://lternet.edu/lter-sites</a><wbr><span style="font-size:12.8px">) and let me know about any corrections </span><b><span style="font-size:12.8px">by </span><font size="4" color="#990000">June 23</font></b><span style="font-size:12.8px">. </span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br clear="all"><div>The ultimate disposition of SiteDB will be addressed in a formal request for comments, which will be jointly issued by EDI and NCO within the next few weeks. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks, </div><div>Marty</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><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">Marty Downs<div>Deputy Director/Communications</div><div><a href="https://nco.lternet.edu/" target="_blank">LTER Network Communications Office (LTER NCO)</a></div><div><a href="http://us12.campaign-archive1.com/?u=d7494403ed9d8c97a5479f0d4&id=7e63967daf&e=[UNIQID]" target="_blank">LTER Science Update</a></div><div>t: @USLTER</div><div>f: USLTER</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)</span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">University of California, Santa Barbara</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:small">Office: 805-893-7549</span></div><div><span style="font-size:small">Cell: 617-833-7930</span></div><div><a href="mailto:downs@nceas.ucsb.edu" target="_blank">downs@nceas.ucsb.edu</a></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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