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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">I would like to chime in with the well wishers for your retirement. And thank you for all your hard work and many contributions to the LTER IM work.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">We will miss you at the meeting and I am sorry we can't give you an appropriate send off into the next chapter of your life.</p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 27, 2018 9:17 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Eda C. Melendez-Colom; Information Managers LTER<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Jess Zimmerman<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [LTER-im] the DEIMS session at ASM ==> my farewell to my dear IM group</font>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">HI Eda,</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">It has been a great pleasure and joy to work with you. I will miss your camaraderie and your willingness to question why and how we do things. It always
leads to great discussions. </span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">Good luck on your next stage. May it be a fun one.</span></p>
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Arctic LTER<br>
Marine Biological Lab<br>
7 MBL St.<br>
Woods Hole, MA 02543<br>
Phone:508 289 7476<br>
Email: </span><a href="mailto:jlaundre@mbl.edu" id="LPlnk525195" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#0563C1">jlaundre@mbl.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> im [mailto:im-bounces@lists.lternet.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Eda C. Melendez-Colom<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 25, 2018 10:49 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Information Managers LTER <im@lternet.edu><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Jess Zimmerman <jesskz@ites.upr.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [LTER-im] the DEIMS session at ASM ==> my farewell to my dear IM group</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">I want to tell you that I have not been active/responsive to your emails and working groups because I have been preparing for retirement. This will happen on Dec 31, 2018. Till then, I
will remain active with the DEIMS group but will not take any more responsibilities for obvious reasons.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Things has gotten difficult in my institution and I don't have the patience neither the physical stamina to endure what is happening and what is yet to come. I suggested my Boss, Jess Zimmerman,
to give me a professional contract so I can remain working for LUQ and the LTER but I don't think that is going to happen due to the difficult times that my University is going through.
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">I want you to know that if I was able to endure the past 29 years, in a great part, was thanks to the camaraderie and good hard work I was always engaged with you, the IMs. We have been
a great group and I sincerely hope that this group never looses its path to collaboration and its ability to learn from each other and work harmoniously together, something that I dare to say we have been a model of in the LTER scientific community, local
and internationally, for many years.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">I am writing my farewell letter early to spare Jess the uneasy task of telling you I am retiring in the next ASM. He will be there substituting me (due to my doctor's order not to flight)
so please take good care of him.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">I have to be honest and tell you that although I am sad not be able to continue working with my fellow IMs and co-workers at my office, I am looking forward to this new stage of my life.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">You will remain in my mind and heart and I hope we will see each other some day.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Stay cool. Enjoy the meeting!</span></p>
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Natural Science Department</span></p>
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</span><a href="https://aka.ms/o0ukef" target="_blank" id="LPlnk294327" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Outlook for iOS</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#26282A"></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"> Kristin Vanderbilt <</span><a href="mailto:krvander@fiu.edu" id="LPlnk780209" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">krvander@fiu.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, September 22, 2018 3:46 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Eda C. Melendez-Colom; Yang Xia<br>
<b>Subject:</b> the DEIMS session at ASM </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#26282A"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">Jason Tallant, the information manager from the Michigan Biological Station, would like to join the DEIMS working group meeting at ASM remotely. He has
a possible solution to the challenge of migrating DEIMS to a new version or platform when the time comes. There is another Drupal data management system called dkan that he is migrating his DEIMS in to. Would it be possible for him to join your working
group via zoom? He can demonstrate some of the features of dkan (similar functionality of DEIMS, but a much larger user community).
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<p style="margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">The dkan website is here: </span><a href="https://getdkan.org/" target="_blank" id="LPlnk396218" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">https://getdkan.org/</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"></span></p>
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Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Program<br>
OE 148, Florida International University<br>
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