<div dir="ltr">Hi all - Please see the message below.<div><br></div><div>Sarah<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Dear
Colleague,</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">We
are writing to invite you to participate in a National effort to
create a new pathway to archive data from individual ecological
studies and sites into LTER’s Provenance Aware Synthesis
Tracking Architecture (PASTA; see attachment) data repository.
We are in the process of resubmitting a proposal titled “ABI
Development: Enabling broad-scale ecological analysis and
synthesis through PASTA Plus, the enhanced LTER data repository”
to the National Science Foundation in support of an open data
repository to host data (and metadata) from research projects
like yours. We received high scores on the reviews in the last
round and believe that we are addressing most of the reviewers
concerns in this resubmission. As you are well aware, many
scientists across our country are concerned that valuable data
are being lost because they are not preserved in a persistent
and accessible archive, and are therefore, not available for
present or future comparisons and synthesis. We begin to address
this critical need for archiving “dark data” with our proposal
(see attached summary).</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">We
hope you will support our proposal by providing a letter of
cooperation. One of the principal criticisms of our last
proposal was the absence of such letters. The attached
template, in the format required by NSF, should take only a
minute to complete. By providing a letter, you are agreeing
that someone from your station (e.g., director, information
manager, scientist) will attend one meeting in Albuquerque
during the next three years (at our expense) and deposit at
least one data set from your project/station into PASTA for
future generations of scientists to explore and analyze. You
also agree to provide us feedback based on the meeting on how to
improve the PASTA software to better serve OBFS members. You
will receive a Digital Object Identifier for each contributed
data set, which will allow attribution for any data that is used
in future projects, including synthesis and or journal
publications. You will also be able to use the DOI to cite your
data in your own publications. By putting your data into the
PASTA repository, you will fulfill the requirement of many
journals to archive data supporting manuscripts in a public
archive. Perhaps the greatest benefit of supporting this
project is the assurance that your data will be preserved in an
open repository and made discoverable to a broad community of
like minded scientists.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span> <br>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">If
you decide to participate, please fill out, sign, and return the
attached template to Bob Waide no later than Monday, 21
September 2015. NSF requires the exact wording in the template,
so please do not make any changes to the body of the letter.
Any questions can be directed to Mark Servilla (</span><a href="mailto:mservilla@lternet.edu" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline"></span></a><a href="mailto:mservilla@lternet.edu" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:mservilla@lternet.edu" target="_blank">mservilla@lternet.edu</a><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">)
or Bob Waide (<a href="mailto:rwaide@lternet.edu" target="_blank">rwaide@lternet.edu</a>).</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Thank
you for considering participation in this project. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Sincerely,</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Dr.
Mark Servilla (PI)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Dept.
of Biology</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">University
of New Mexico</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="mailto:servilla@lternet.edu" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:servilla@lternet.edu" target="_blank">servilla@lternet.edu</a></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Dr.
Robert Waide (Co-PI)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Dept.
of Biology</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">University
of New Mexico</span></p>
<span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="mailto:rwaide@lternet.edu" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:rwaide@lternet.edu" target="_blank">rwaide@lternet.edu</a></span><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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Robert B. Waide
Executive Director
Long Term Ecological Research Network Office
MSC03 2020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
Phone: <a href="tel:505%2F277-2649" value="+15052772649" target="_blank">505/277-2649</a>
Fax: <a href="tel:505%2F277-2541" value="+15052772541" target="_blank">505/277-2541</a>
ResearcherID: F-5304-2010 </pre>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Sarah Stankavich<br>LUQ-LTER Coordinator<br></div>El Verde Field Station<br>787-222-7756<br></div></div></div></div>
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