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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi All,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Our next IMC Virtual Water Cooler will take place next week on Monday, September 11<sup>th</sup> at 11am Alaska, 12pm Pacific, 1pm Mountain, 2pm Central, 3pm Eastern. This VWC topics include the LTER Unit Registry and Unit Dictionary and
will be moderated by Margaret O’Brien representing EDI. Work on the LTER Unit Dictionary dates back to 2005, which led to the development of the Unit Task Force, UTF, in 2007 (remember the t-shirts?, if not, go see the group photo) and resulted in the two
pivotal products, the Unit Registry (2011) and relevant Best Practice document (v14 2011) on formulation and use of scientific units within the community. EDI have been reviewing the registry and have begun to develop some recommendations for its future that
they will share as well as the RFC process on the recommendations and planned implementation.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please join the VWC with this zoom link: <span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
<a href="https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/8058932071">https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/8058932071</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">References:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2007 group photo: <a href="http://im.lternet.edu/news/meetings/2007/participants">
http://im.lternet.edu/news/meetings/2007/participants</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Unit Registry: <a href="http://unit.lternet.edu/unitregistry/">
http://unit.lternet.edu/unitregistry/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Best Practice document: <a href="http://im.lternet.edu/sites/im.lternet.edu/files/LTERunitBestPractices_V14.pdf">
http://im.lternet.edu/sites/im.lternet.edu/files/LTERunitBestPractices_V14.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Unit Working Group project page: <a href="http://im.lternet.edu/projects/units">
http://im.lternet.edu/projects/units</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">See you around the water cooler!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Suzanne<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Suzanne Remillard</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Andrews LTER Information Manager</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Oregon State University</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Corvallis, OR 97331</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">(541) 758-8767</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">suzanne.remillard@oregonstate.edu</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
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