<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">---------- Forwarded message ---------</span><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Marty Downs</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:downs@nceas.ucsb.edu">downs@nceas.ucsb.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 5:22 PM<br></div><br>
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<div>Dear LTER IMs, </div>
<div>Thanks for a good meeting today. For those who were not able to attend, I have a few direct links and a deadline to share:</div>
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<li><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1_1shXGZzCN-tCxlcFckV7jLDk72WFVej" target="_blank">The recording</a> is now available on the shared google drive, under VWC > Recordings > 2021-10-18.</li><li>The very short version is that the Network is planning to request ROR's as a group and I think it is reasonable for everyone to contribute their information within the next month, so have set a deadline of
<b>November 24</b> (day before Thanksgiving) to do so. If that poses a problem for your site, let me know, but it's really not too much information.</li><li>We've set <a href="https://lter.github.io/im-manual/site-identifier" target="_blank">up a page with background information and instructions</a> for how to contribute your information to the Network request for ROR's. <br>
</li><li>The spreadsheet where you can <a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1Gyt3bpXZG87XBEmFFM-8yTrXziC_5K8q" target="_blank">
enter your information is linked</a> (and available in the google drive under working-groups.site-identifiers).</li><li>IM-Exec members have started entering their information and surfaced a bunch of questions, but I'm sure there will be a few more. Just send them along and I'll update the instructions as new questions come up and are resolved.</li></ol>
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<div>Stevan and Suzanne are also in the midst of putting together the annual IM report and asked for feedback on a new question, specifically:</div>
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<div><span id="m_-8243965084258981251gmail-docs-internal-guid-8c39eb89-7fff-2786-d771-947d7e2ca0d3"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Do
you see specific opportunities for improving network coordination (or coordination with other networks) that are of interest to your committee?</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap">If
so, are there specific ways that the network leadership (PIs, LNO) could support your committee to realize those opportunities?</span></div>
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<div>We had a helpful discussion on how to maintain links to ILTER and the huge variety of other data-focused organizations that have emerged over the past decade or 2, but more ideas are definitely welcome.</div>
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<div>If you have thoughts, please send them along to Stevan and Suzanne.</div>
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<div>Thanks, </div>
<div>Marty</div>
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Marty Downs (she/her) | <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2833-956X" target="_blank">ORCID</a>
<div>Director, LTER Network Office</div>
<div>National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis</div>
<div>University of California - Santa Barbara</div>
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