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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The November Virtual
<span>Water</span> <span>Cooler</span> is rapidly approaching and will take place this coming Monday, November 8 at 3pm ET/12pm PT. This makes Monday a double-header since VWC coincides with the LTER Science Council site lightning talks, which IMs can attend
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here</a>, and you can register for the Monday lightning talks <a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fucsb.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2FWN_cMq8h4QOTjeoK8CGt6UIBw&data=04%7C01%7Cgmaurer%40nmsu.edu%7C5baf644025544141300808d99e45b804%7Ca3ec87a89fb84158ba8ff11bace1ebaa%7C1%7C0%7C637714844540136509%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=SrwdXMdbuM6HiSq%2Be6kFAAwLKq2q%2Fe%2BJL2xqXJhA3No%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="Verified" shash="BEgbqEH3VbFQJZ/8Nl9C35nIcL3/n9kP4+R4jzoeQT1P/j3SDLFgR/hwpXuWjunECoA03xVMl9o4MPECRwGpj+DCaEVSPvS4hd5bL1FJE8QmnPoSVBNm1ozJNe5dC/yJCsn+0yRKFiuQxSgRZ5t7EPVh9rIRizMitcXMC+Xs5H8=" title="Original URL: https://ucsb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cMq8h4QOTjeoK8CGt6UIBw. Click or tap if you trust this link." data-linkindex="1">
here</a>. The VWC is scheduled during an hour-long coffee break between lightning talks, so you can attend without missing anything.
<span>The lightning talks will be recorded too, so you can safely prioritize the VWC and catch up on lightning talks late</span>r when you are less prone to Zoom fatigue.<br>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">This month at the VWC, Tim Whiteaker and An Nguyen of BLE will be presenting on their efforts to adapt Zotero for use as a data catalog. This might be a particularly
 helpful use-case for LTER sites that have data holdings outside of EDI that they wish to list on their website. If you don't use Zotero as a bibliography manager for your site, you can see an excellent example of this
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at the BLE website</a> to re-familiarize yourself with how great a tool it can be.</span></p>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><b>One other reminder! </b>The Wednesday after our VWC there will be a DataOne community call that is highly relevant to IMC. It's about cross-linking data across repositories. Info and registration here:
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