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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear IMs,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Date: Monday, August 13<sup>th</sup> at 12 pm PDT/3 pm EDT<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Topic: Working Group updates, continued<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Connection: <span style="color:black"><a href="https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/8058932071">https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/8058932071</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In preparation for on annual IMC meeting on September 30<sup>th</sup>, we continue to share updates from working groups and other IM activities. For this upcoming August VWC, we will hear from two groups:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">IM Website Improvement and Redesign (WIRED) - (Suzanne Remillard)
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">LTER Unit Registry & Dictionary (Units) - (Margaret O'Brien)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For our September 10<sup>th</sup> VWC, we will have a discussion on the types of questions we have planned to ask the attending NSF officers.
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are beginning to pull documents together for our meeting. These are available through our intranet Annual Meetings page:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://im.lternet.edu/news/meetings/2018">http://im.lternet.edu/news/meetings/2018</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">There is a participant sheet that we ask you to complete, if you are attending the meeting.<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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