<div dir="ltr">Latest from Lou after I sent him a more detailed schedule. We may need to add more.<div><br></div><div>jess</div><div><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">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Kaplan, Louis Arnold</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:LKAPLAN@nsf.gov">LKAPLAN@nsf.gov</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 4:30 PM<br>Subject: RE: Luquillo LTER progress report<br>To: Jess Zimmerman <<a href="mailto:jesskz@ites.upr.edu">jesskz@ites.upr.edu</a>><br><br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Hi Jess,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Thanks for sharing this with me. My initial reaction to the schedule is that it largely addresses one of the five areas for the report, the site-based science.
An emphasis on that is appropriate, as I think the research at the site is the foundation for the LTER. However, it will be important to touch on the other 4 areas of the report to provide the site review team with the information needed for the whole report.
Also, within the site-based research, it will be important to address the 5 core areas of the long-term monitoring and I’m not sure that I see a time set aside for that. This is a little surprising given Mike’s comments about the core data collection effort
during our phone conversation. I do see the education and outreach topic on day 2 (item 4 below), and I’m glad to see time set aside for presentation about the Forest Service Research, but I do not see specifically where topics 2,3, and 5 will be presented.
Certainly I anticipate that for topic 2, Information Management, there will be exchanges between your site IM manager and the IM reviewer, but as IM should be integrated into the whole of the LTER project, I would hope that at least an overview of the topic
would be presented to the review team as a whole. I also recognize that the poster session will be an opportunity to meet and talk with students and post-docs, but I think at least some time should be set aside for a sit down with these individuals and perhaps
include technicians at the site for the review team to be able to better evaluate parts of item 5 below. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">I hope this is helpful. Don’t hesitate to contact me if you have questions or comments.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Best,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">1.
<b>Site-based Research</b>, including the conceptual model, long-term experiments, modeling as a tool for insight, and the collection of long-term data in the 5 core areas of primary production, population dynamics and trophic structure, organic matter accumulation,
inorganic inputs and movements of nutrients through the ecosystem, and patterns and frequency of disturbances. </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<b>Information Management</b>, including activities that address the 2 essential objectives of Information Management at a LTER site: (1) the collection and analysis of data necessary to complete the proposed research activities and (2) the availability of
data and other relevant digital products to science, education, and general public users. </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<b>Network-Level Participation and Synthesis</b> activities including any cross-site research. </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">4.
<b>Education, Outreach and Training</b>, including REUs, graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, and the schoolyard LTER activities </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<b>LTER Site Management</b> including leadership structure and decision making, fiscal accountability and budgets, site security and management, engagement of new investigators, promoting diversity of the scientific team.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 13, 2017 2:02 PM</span></p><div><div class="h5"><br>
<b>To:</b> Kaplan, Louis Arnold <<a href="mailto:LKAPLAN@nsf.gov" target="_blank">LKAPLAN@nsf.gov</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Luquillo LTER progress report<u></u><u></u></div></div><p></p><div><div class="h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Lou,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I share a preliminary next draft of the schedule for your input. We are meeting tomorrow to finalize this, but I thought I'd let you look it over first for your input if you have the time. I have built in lots of extra time, knowing the
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 1:12 PM, Kaplan, Louis Arnold <<a href="mailto:LKAPLAN@nsf.gov" target="_blank">LKAPLAN@nsf.gov</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Thanks,</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Program Director, Ecosystem Science Cluster</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Jess Zimmerman [mailto:</span><a href="mailto:jesskz@ites.upr.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">jesskz@ites.upr.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">]
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 13, 2017 12:12 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: Luquillo LTER progress report</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In the meantime, I can give you a more detailed scheduled for them to see all the stops and how they fit with the proposal. How about that?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Do you have a sense of when you will be sending me your progress report document for distribution to the site review team? The team has had some initial reactions to the site review
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