<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello IMs -</div><div><br></div><div>ESA planning is well underway. I am sending along a few related announcements, as an addendum to Stevan's email from IMExec containing general info.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Abstracts due soon:</b></div><div>I'm sure you all know that <b>poster and talk abstracts are due next week: Thursday, Feb 20 (COB, eastern time)</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><br></div><div><b>Open Science Section:</b></div><div>This section is becoming reinvigorated. It currently has an interim executive committee of 4 (me included), and will hold a business meeting at ESA 2020 to set leadership and plan a path forward, and probably also a social event. I encourage you to add this section to your ESA membership (the first section is free, additional sections are $5; you can add them any time). The sections have access to those funds.  </div><div><br></div><div><b>Data Help Desk:</b></div><div>EDI is again very active in the Data Help Desk. Here is a blog post describing the 2019 DHD: <a href="https://www.esa.org/esablog/guest-posts/data-questions-data-help-desk-has-the-answers/">https://www.esa.org/esablog/guest-posts/data-questions-data-help-desk-has-the-answers/</a></div><div>The DHD coordinates with ESA to provide demonstration activities for ESA Career Central - a mini-theater usually within the exhibit hall. There are slots open; contact Margaret if you would like to present one.  Of course, IMC members are welcome to populate the DHD any time. You all have appropriate expertise, and we are always in need of subs to free up a bit of time for us to attend a few talks (again, reply here if you are interested).</div><div><br></div><div><b>Abstract Reviewers:</b></div><div>To build a robust and transparent review process while maintaining the quality expected of presentations at ESA meetings, volunteers are needed to review abstracts submitted for ESA 2020.<br></div><div><br>Acting as an abstract reviewer is a great way to add to your CV, and improve your own abstracts! Any ESA member is eligible to serve, including students and postdocs.  No reviewer will review their own abstract. </div><div><br></div><div>Reviewers will complete reviews online over three weeks in March.  Each reviewer will be assigned 100-150 abstracts (fewer if there are more volunteers); each abstract will have more than one reviewer. The Meetings Committee considers reviewer ratings and comments in deciding which abstracts to accept, and this groups' skills are essential this year -- where the theme is "Harnessing the Data Revolution". Email me and I'll pass on your name.</div><div><br></div><div>best,</div><div>Margaret</div><div><br></div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="monospace, monospace"><span style="font-size:small">Margaret O'Brien</span><br><span style="font-size:small">ORCID: 0000-0002-1693-8322</span><br><span style="font-size:small">Information Management</span><br><span style="font-size:small">Marine Science Institute, UCSB</span><br><span style="font-size:small">Santa Barbara, CA 93106</span><br><span style="font-size:small">805-893-2071 (voice)</span><br><a href="http://environmentaldatainitiative.org" target="_blank">http://environmentaldatainitiative.org</a><br><a href="http://sbc.marinebon.org" target="_blank">http://sbc.marinebon.org</a></font><div><font face="monospace, monospace"><a href="http://sbc.lternet.edu" target="_blank">http://sbc.lternet.edu</a></font></div><div><br><div><pre cols="72"><pre cols="72"><br></pre></pre></div></div></div></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Stevan Earl</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:stevan.earl@asu.edu">stevan.earl@asu.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 3:55 PM<br>Subject: [LTER-im] ESA and IMC 2020 meeting updates from IM Exec<br>To:  <<a href="mailto:im@lternet.edu">im@lternet.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" id="m_-1556281510906715360m_-8593252305064562662gmail-docs-internal-guid-1be602b6-7fff-26e4-edd7-2af9026769fe"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">LTER IMs and Friends,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">summary:</span></p><ul><li><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ESA is always an excellent meeting but the theme this year is particularly relevant to IMs. Please plan to participate in the entire meeting.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">February 20 is the deadline to submit an abstract to present a </span><a href="https://www.esa.org/saltlake/call-for-contributed-oral-abstracts/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">talk</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> or </span><a href="https://www.esa.org/saltlake/call-for-contributed-poster-abstracts/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">poster</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> at ESA.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Explore meeting registration options early. It may be more cost effective to become an ESA member to receive membership pricing for meeting registration. ESA membership is a reimbursable expense if it reduces the overall cost of registration.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Work with your site or other resource to address lodging expenses, which will not be covered by the LNO or EDI.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Contact Li Kui (</span><a href="mailto:li.kui@ucsb.edu" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">li.kui@ucsb.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) if you are interested to participate in her session designed to help investigators publish their data.</span></li></ul><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Although August is still in the distance, deadlines loom and preparations are underway for our annual IMC meeting in Salt Lake City. IM Exec would like to bring to your attention the following items.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ESA is the preeminent meeting of ecologists, and we encourage IMs to take advantage of this opportunity by attending some or, ideally, all of the meeting (not just our IMC meeting). Recall that the theme of the meeting this year is </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">harnessing the ecological data revolution</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, so count on a lot of relevant content. There will also be events to celebrate 40 years of LTER in which you can participate or, at least, will not want to miss.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Depending on your position and/or income, it may be more cost effective for you to become an ESA member to qualify for meeting registration member pricing. If that is the case, you may register to become an ESA member as a reimbursable meeting expense. Please save documentation that shows becoming an ESA member to receive a membership rate on registration was less than the cost of registering without becoming a member, and be aware that you will be eligible for reimbursement after the meeting regardless of when you sign up to become an ESA member. Please recall that the LNO/EDI are not covering lodging at this year's meeting so work with your site or other resource to address that expense.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If you are already an ESA member or sign up to become one as part of this meeting, we encourage you to join the </span><a href="https://www.esa.org/openscience/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Open Science section</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. Participating in a section provides resources to connect people working in that space. Additionally, sections are being asked to recruit abstract reviewers, and the Open Science section may want to recruit from among data managers. ESA members can select one section at no cost when they join, and participate in additional sections for a small fee.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sharing your work will contribute toward a strong showing by the IMC. We encourage IMs to consider submitting an abstract to present a </span><a href="https://www.esa.org/saltlake/call-for-contributed-oral-abstracts/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">talk</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> or </span><a href="https://www.esa.org/saltlake/call-for-contributed-poster-abstracts/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">poster</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> at the meeting. There is an additional fee for oral presentations ($60) but this is a reimbursable meeting expense. Meeting registrants can submit a poster presentation as part of their registration costs. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">February 20 is the deadline to submit an abstract.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> If you are planning to submit an abstract, please send the details to IM Exec to help us coordinate meeting activities.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Below are some details of just a few events that we know will be of interest:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Li Kui is organizing a 90-minute workshop titled </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Get Your Data into a Repository</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> designed to help investigators publish their data. Please contact Li (</span><a href="mailto:li.kui@ucsb.edu" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">li.kui@ucsb.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) if you are interested in assisting with this important effort. In addition to helping contribute to data curation, it should provide an opportunity to explore other approaches to publishing data that may be valuable at your own site.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Margaret O'Brien is organizing a session titled </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Working with LTER Data</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> that will feature a panel of pre-identified data managers who will comment on approaches to publishing data, and field questions from the audience.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Corinna Gries is organizing an Inspire session that will address </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">reusing ecological data to answer new questions - persistent problems and promising progress</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">More news and announcements are forthcoming but please do not hesitate to contact IM Exec at any time with questions, concerns, or, especially, ideas. In the meantime, please submit an abstract!</span></p><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thank you,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">IM Exec</span></p><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:9pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Stevan Earl</b></span><br>Information Manager, Central Arizona<span>–</span>Phoenix LTER



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