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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Good morning IMs, and Happy New Year!</span><span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our first Virtual
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2022 is coming this Monday, so please mark your calendars for January 10th at 3pm ET/12pm Pacific.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This month, the VWC will focus on site renewals and we will have a panel of four IMs that participated in their sites' proposal efforts in the 2019/2020 LTER
renewal cohort. This is timely since the renewal solicitation has just (finally)
</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nsf.gov%2Fpubs%2F2022%2Fnsf22543%2Fnsf22543.htm&data=04%7C01%7Cgmaurer%40nmsu.edu%7C6a33ea3bddfe479934f908d9c962bcc5%7Ca3ec87a89fb84158ba8ff11bace1ebaa%7C1%7C0%7C637762248181225267%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=8leTKg%2F60URW1vrmwzqDaA5FSAA2ILvf9lwF9vTSPok%3D&reserved=0" title="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nsf.gov%2Fpubs%2F2022%2Fnsf22543%2Fnsf22543.htm&data=04%7C01%7Cgmaurer%40nmsu.edu%7C6a33ea3bddfe479934f908d9c962bcc5%7Ca3ec87a89fb84158ba8ff11bace1ebaa%7C1%7C0%7C637762248181225267%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=8leTKg%2F60URW1vrmwzqDaA5FSAA2ILvf9lwF9vTSPok%3D&reserved=0"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">been
released</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, and quite a few sites are up for renewal this year. Panelists will discuss preparation of Data Management Plans, dataset tables, and other pointers for making your site
worthy of NSF's continued funding graces. Some people from EDI will also be on hand to address questions & concerns about getting dataset listings and other useful information out of PASTA. Agenda and connection info below.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few other reminders/requests, particularly
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>if you didn't do these things during the December VWC</b></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">:</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br>
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<li style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Add your questions about site renewals to
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Jamboard</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (this will help during the Monday VWC)</span><span><br>
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</span></li><li style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Give IMExec additional feedback on VWCs on </span><span><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CeIKAR4WBJg-1TLoXZ8SrNIUFWLUDAztOWZYdHmKKuE/edit?usp=sharing" title="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CeIKAR4WBJg-1TLoXZ8SrNIUFWLUDAztOWZYdHmKKuE/edit?usp=sharing"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">this
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<p style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 66, 170); font-size: 11pt;">VWC Agenda (tentative):</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p>
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<li style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">General news and announcements (</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i>All, bring your good news!</i></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">) ~5 min</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Four 5-7 minute presentations from IMs (~28 minutes)</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Discussion and questions/answers (~27 minutes)</span><span style="font-size:12pt"><br>
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<p style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 66, 170); font-size: 11pt;">January VWC Connection Info:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p>
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<p style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you and we look forward to seeing your fresh faces on Monday!</span></p>
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