<div dir="ltr">Dear Marty,<div><br></div><div>I discussed hosting the Science Council Meeting with our Management Committee and we are open to the idea. Our thinking is that if you can get one of two hotels in the area of the field site (links below) that have good meeting facilities, that this would make things easy on us. We would not need to deal with logistics other than a half day field trip, which would be easy to organize. We have hosted a local science meeting (our CZO) with great success at Rio Mar. The rooms were relatively cheap (for a resort) and the meeting rooms and food were great. We suggest you next contact each of the hotels to see what sort of deal they can give us. If it fits the budget then it will work. If not, we may need to do it at another site.</div><div><br></div><div>One other important thing to evaluate is the Zika virus. The situation is nuanced and I personally think a lot of this is overblown (I can explain in detail with citations why), but I would be hard pressed to convince a pregnant woman of this. The downsides are pretty severe. The meeting will not happen for over a year from now and I would expect the Zika epidemic to have subsided by then (we can check the timing of past epidemics), but we need to consider the issue before committing ourselves.</div><div><br></div><div>Here are the links to Rio Mar and Gran Melia:</div><div><a href="http://www.wyndhamriomar.com/">http://www.wyndhamriomar.com/</a><br></div><div><a href="https://www1.melia.com/en/hotels/puerto-rico/rio-grande/gran-melia-puerto-rico-golf-resort/index.html">https://www1.melia.com/en/hotels/puerto-rico/rio-grande/gran-melia-puerto-rico-golf-resort/index.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>If you or Frank wants to talk on the phone about this, I am happy to set up a time.</div><div><br></div><div>jess</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Jess K. Zimmerman<br>Professor</div><div>Lead PI, Luquillo LTER Program</div><div>Director, El Verde Field Station<br>Department Environmental Sciences<br>University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras<br>Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico</div><div><br></div><div>Tel: 787-764-0000 ext. 1-XXXX-# where XXXX is:<br> LTER Program Office: 88233<br> El Verde Field Station: 83467<br></div><div></div><div>Mobile: 787-380-3311</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 11:19 AM, Jess Zimmerman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jesskz@ites.upr.edu" target="_blank">jesskz@ites.upr.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Marty,<div><br></div><div>We are having our site review the last week in March of 2017 and will be preparing a proposal for March of 2018. I'll discuss it with our Management Committee at tomorrow's meeting, but we may decline. I'll let you know after we discuss it.</div><div><br></div><div>jess</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Jess K. Zimmerman<br>Professor</div><div>Lead PI, Luquillo LTER Program</div><div>Director, El Verde Field Station<br>Department Environmental Sciences<br>University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras<br>Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico</div><div><br></div><div>Tel: <a href="tel:787-764-0000%20ext.%201" value="+17877640000" target="_blank">787-764-0000 ext. 1</a>-XXXX-# where XXXX is:<br> LTER Program Office: 88233<br> El Verde Field Station: 83467<br></div><div></div><div>Mobile: <a href="tel:787-380-3311" value="+17873803311" target="_blank">787-380-3311</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div class="h5">
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Marty Downs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:downs@nceas.ucsb.edu" target="_blank">downs@nceas.ucsb.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Jess-</div><div>Did I talk to you about the 2017 science council meeting -- or only imagine that I did?</div><div>We had planned on Coweeta, but they're no longer interested for obvious reasons. NTL would be next in line, but they are hosting a review. </div><div><br></div><div>LUQ has not hosted since 1999. Do you think you'd be up for it? Typically, the meeting is in mid-late May (17-19 this year).</div><div><br></div><div>Of course, you'll have to consult the team, but let me know your consensus as soon as you can. It would be good to get this nailed down and start planning. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks, </div><div>Marty</div><div>-----</div><br clear="all"><div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Marty Downs<div>Communications Lead</div><div>LTER Network Communications Office (LTER NCO)</div><div>t: @USLTER</div><div>f: USLTER</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)</span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">University of California, Santa Barbara</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:small">Office: <a href="tel:805-893-7549" value="+18058937549" target="_blank">805-893-7549</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size:small">Cell: <a href="tel:617-833-7930" value="+16178337930" target="_blank">617-833-7930</a></span></div><div><a href="mailto:downs@nceas.ucsb.edu" target="_blank">downs@nceas.ucsb.edu</a></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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