<div dir="ltr">Hi Lou,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for your reply earlier this month. One or the other of us is traveling through the end of the year, so January 4th or 5th would be best for us. Whendee Silver, Mike Willig, and I are available to meet via GoToMeeting (I can share a link) or phone conference.</div><div><br></div><div>The issues we would like to discuss are the following:</div><div><br></div><div>1. How are the preparations for the Site Review going on your end? We have a draft schedule we can share with you. We are assuming the review will be two and a half days with the last half day for the team to prepare their report. Who will be on the review team?</div><div><br></div><div>2. How is the development of the new LTER Renewal Solicitation going? I got the sense at NSF that there had been some consultations with the community regarding the new solicitation but no formal development yet. I was unable to learn much more until there is a solicitation published. We will want to emphasize to you that any unusual delays in the publication of the new solicitation will make it difficult to develop our new proposal.</div><div><br></div><div>3. I intend to turn in our annual report by mid January. Is this OK? Even though our money does not renew until 1 April, we had a three month delay for the start of the new funding, you recall, and I want to keep us on a calendar year schedule. This gives you plenty of time to review it, request changes if necessary, and then approve it. There is then plenty of time to receive the new funding increment and write and approve amendments for our subawardees. BTW, were you happy with last year's report?</div><div><br></div><div>4. There is also planned a visit by folks from the Division of Grants and Agreements to UPR at the time of the Site Review. Are you aware of this? What do we need to do to prepare?</div><div><br></div><div>I think that is all for now. I may want to add some things before we meet.</div><div><br></div><div>Hope your holidays are happy ones,</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>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Thursday, December 8, 2016 at 2:22 PM<br>
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<div>I have had a productive couple of days here at NSF, talking about LTER and other things. However, because you are our official PO, there are things we need to talk about. I understand from the folks here that you are traveling through the end of the
year. We were wondering if you are available the first week of the year to talk to us. It would likely be me and two members of our Management Committee (MC), Whendee Silver and Mike Willig. Let me know your thoughts.</div>
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Department Environmental Sciences<br>
University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras<br>
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