<div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-weight:400">Hi folks,</span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Wanted to bring this to your (and "your" researchers) attention-- sorry for any cross-postings...</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">___________________________________________<br><div style="font-size:12.8px;font-weight:400"><br></div><div><p class="gmail-m_5332451541780930162gmail-m_-6580802778766781707gmail-m_1771954690940286519gmail-m_-3024541174291553089gmail-m_6340613554994403747gmail-MsoBodyText" style="font-size:12.8px;font-weight:400;box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;font-feature-settings:'liga' 1,'dlig' 1;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif">To promote the analysis and synthesis of Arctic data, as well as to inform ongoing development of the NSF data repository, the <a href="https://arcticdata.io/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Arctic Data Center</a> is soliciting requests for proposals for a <i style="box-sizing:border-box">Synthesis Working Group</i>, with research to begin<i style="box-sizing:border-box"> by October 2018</i>.<br><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br>Funding is available for one Working Group, consisting of hosting two meetings of approximately 15 participants each, over an anticipated 1-1.5 year period.  Meetings will take place at the Arctic Data Center, operated out of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (</span><a href="https://nceas.ucsb.edu/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:12.8px">https://nceas.ucsb.edu</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">) in Santa Barbara, California. </span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;font-feature-settings:'liga' 1,'dlig' 1;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Proposals must focus on Arctic-related research issues, and primarily (but not necessarily exclusively) involve the analysis and synthesis of data contained within the </span><a href="https://arcticdata.io/catalog" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:12.8px;font-weight:400">Arctic Data Center Repository</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">. </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">We request that all synthesis proposals <em style="box-sizing:border-box;font-style:italic">explicitly address factors related to one or more human dimensions of the Arctic experience</em>, in addition to earth and environmental aspects. </span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;font-weight:400;box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;font-feature-settings:'liga' 1,'dlig' 1;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif">Proposals can be up to a maximum of 2000 words, and are due by end-of-day <span class="gmail-m_5332451541780930162gmail-m_-6580802778766781707gmail-m_1771954690940286519gmail-m_-3024541174291553089gmail-aBn" style="box-sizing:border-box">May 23, 2018</span>.</p><p style="font-size:12.8px;font-weight:400;box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;font-feature-settings:'liga' 1,'dlig' 1;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif">For details, see <a href="https://arcticdata.io/proposals" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://arcticdata.io/prop<wbr>osals</a><br><font color="#333333" style="font-size:12.8px">For questions about this<span> </span><span class="gmail-m_5332451541780930162gmail-il">RFP</span>, please email: </font><a href="mailto:proposals@arcticdata.io" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">proposals@arcticdata.io</a><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><wbr> </span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;font-weight:400;box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;font-feature-settings:'liga' 1,'dlig' 1;margin:0px 0px 1.5em"><font color="#333333" style="font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif">*************</font><br><font color="#333333" style="font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif">The </font><a href="https://arcticdata.io/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(51,65,167);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;box-sizing:border-box;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-decoration:none">Arctic Data Center</a><font color="#333333" style="font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> is an NSF-funded (award #1546024) archive for Arctic science data and related research documents. Operational since March 2016, the Arctic Data Center is a national partnership, led by the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (</font><a href="https://nceas.ucsb.edu/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(51,65,167);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;box-sizing:border-box;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-decoration:none">NCEAS</a><font color="#333333" style="font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">) at the University of California Santa Barbara, in collaboration with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Centers for Environmental Information (</font><a href="https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(51,65,167);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;box-sizing:border-box;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-decoration:none">NCEI</a><font color="#333333" style="font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">) and the NSF-funded Data Observation Network for Earth (</font><a href="https://dataone.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(51,65,167);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;box-sizing:border-box;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-decoration:none">DataONE</a><font color="#333333" style="font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">). The long-term Arctic Data Center repository allows for the preservation and sharing of data spanning many disciplines from the Arctic, now and into the future.<br></font><font color="#333333" style="font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif">*************</font></p></div></div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">thank you for your interest...</span><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Mark Schildhauer<br class="gmail-m_5332451541780930162gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div dir="ltr">-----</div><div dir="ltr">Mark Schildhauer, PhD<div>Director of Computing (ret.)</div><div>Co-PI, Arctic Data Center</div><div>Co-PI, LTER Network Communications Office</div><div>National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, NCEAS, UCSB</div><div>735 State St., Suite 300</div><div>Santa Barbara CA 93101</div><div>Email: schild at nceas dot ucsb dot edu      </div><div>Web: <a href="http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu</a>;<a href="http://arcticdata.io/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"> http://arcticdata.io</a>; <a href="http://lternet.edu/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://lternet.edu</a></div><div>NOTE CHANGE-- Ph: 805-886-9526  FAX: 805-893-7541  </div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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