<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top"> hi,<div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_0.35297798085957766">Please read the below message where I explain why I did not attend last year's annual meeting and will not attend this year's.</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_0.35297798085957766"><br><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_0.9590694403741509">This year is particularly important for me because I will be working with pteridologists in their effort to network and share their data.</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_0.9590694403741509"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_0.9590694403741509">I write this because I don't want you to get funny ideas of me leaving my job any time soon. Apparently because of a bad joke I made in my last presentation to the LUQ community, some of you got the idea that I was retiring soon...that will have to happen some day, all of us will have to retire eventually but when I
decide it, I will plan for it and whoever is my boss will know in advance...</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_0.9590694403741509"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_0.9590694403741509">I hope you have a great meeting!</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_0.9590694403741509"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_0.9590694403741509">EDA<br><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_0.3658684245310724"><a href="https://overview.mail.yahoo.com/mobile/?.src=Android" id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_0.33645674330182374">Sent from Yahoo Mail o</a><hr><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif;color:#7e7d80;" id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_0.08153431746177375"><b>From</b>:"McDowell, Bill" <Bill.McDowell@unh.edu><br><b>Date</b>:Sun, May 31, 2015 at 7:22 pm<br><b>Subject</b>:Re: [LTER-luq] minimal field lists for specific studies<br><br></div>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433100581357_18998">Unfortunately, I will not be at this year's Annual meeting either. Last year I attended a Convention on Drupal, the platform we use as our website and at the same time our Information Management System.
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433100581357_19003">This year, I will be part of a workshop: "<span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433100581357_21486" lang="EN-US" style=""><b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433100581357_21492" style="">Field ecology of ferns: a call
for new standard methods and opportunities for collaboration among pteridologists”</b> in Washington D.C., June 5<sup class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433100581357_21488" style="">th</sup> 2015.</span></div>
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forward to participating in this international event for which I had the honor to be invited.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span> </b>McDowell, Bill <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Bill.McDowell@unh.edu" target="_blank" href="javascript:return">Bill.McDowell@unh.edu</a>>;
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</span> </b>RE: [LTER-luq] minimal field lists for specific studies
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span> </b>Sun, May 31, 2015 6:26:40 PM <br clear="none">
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<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" id="yiv9671488679yui_3_16_0_1_1433100581357_17393" name="_MailEndCompose"><span id="yiv9671488679yui_3_16_0_1_1433100581357_17392" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">OK, I look forward to seeing you this week. Bill</span></a></div>
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<div class="yiv9671488679MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433100581357_19097"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">Director, NH Water Resources Research Center (</span><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://wrrc.unh.edu/"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:blue;">http://wrrc.unh.edu/</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;">)</span></div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, May 31, 2015 9:58 AM<br clear="none">
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<div class="yiv9671488679MsoNormal"><span style="">Sorry. I misunderstood a question from a scientist that was really asking about a list of essential fields to document a biological data set. In other words, he was asking about metadata and not data.
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I guess the word "metadata" is not really widely used and since he asked for a minimal list of fields for data files, I thought for some areas of investigation there might be a minimal list of measurements investigator should do when conducting a specific
experiment. I realized he was talking about metadata after we talked about it some more.<br clear="none">
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Thank you for telling me you did not understand my question...probably nobody did and I can clarify it to the rest of the group.<br clear="none">
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Sorry. Don't really understand the question. Bill<br clear="none">
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On May 29, 2015, at 5:31 PM, Eda C. Melendez-Colom <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect">edacorreo@yahoo.com<mailto:edacorreo@yahoo.com</a>>> wrote:<br clear="none">
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Do we prepare lists of minimal amount and type of measurements to take depending on the field of study?<br clear="none">
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Maybe another way to put it is a list of minimal data fields in a table for specific data set types.<br clear="none">
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