<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px">Greetings all, </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px">NEON is hosting an interactive discussion on the spatiotemporal scales, process representation, and motivating science questions by modelers involved in the CZO, LTER, ISMC, and NEON communities. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px">Specifically, we seek to identify previously unrealized opportunities for synthesizing understanding across modeling perspectives, gaps in understanding that require new  collaborations and approaches, and key observations from within and across the different networks that could support interdisciplinary breakthroughs in near Earth surface modeling. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px">The webinar will begin with ‘lightning’ presentations from several panelists, with plenty of time for discussion led by Pamela Sullivan (University of Kansas) and Lejo Flores (Boise State University).</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><b>What:</b> Webinar, <i>Harmonizing scale and process representation across the ecosystem of critical zone-oriented models and opportunities for cross-network synthesis</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><b>When</b>: Weds Dec 6th @ 9 AM Mountain Time</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><i>More details and link to register: <a href="http://www.neonscience.org/opportunities/events/harmonizing-scale-process-representation-across-ecosystem-critical-zone" target="_blank">http://www.<wbr>neonscience.org/opportunities/<wbr>events/harmonizing-scale-<wbr>process-representation-across-<wbr>ecosystem-critical-zone</a></i></p><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Please email <span style="color:rgb(0,115,207);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9pt"><a href="mailto:name@battelle.org" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(149,79,114);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px">sweintraub@BattelleEcology.org</a> </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">with any questions. We look forward to talking next week.</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Best, </div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-family:Helvetica"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,115,207)">Samantha R. Weintraub, Ph.D.</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Terrestrial Biogeochemist</span></i></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">National Ecological Observatory Network</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9pt">Office: <a href="tel:(720)%20921-2719" value="+17209212719" target="_blank">720.921.2719</a></span></div></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:name@battelle.org" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,115,207)">sweintraub@BattelleEcology.org</span></a></div></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><div style="font-size:11pt;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=1685+38th+St,+%23100%0D+Boulder,+CO+80301&entry=gmail&source=g">1685 38th St, #100</a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="font-size:11pt;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=1685+38th+St,+%23100%0D+Boulder,+CO+80301&entry=gmail&source=g">Boulder, CO 80301</a></span></div></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,115,207);font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#954f72"><a href="http://www.neonscience.org/" target="_blank">http://www.neonscience.org</a></font></span></div></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div di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