<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Hi all</div><div><br></div><div>You probably saw this announcement. Chris is here in DC already and his first full day at NSF is today. He did his coi training yesterday with Diane. Chuck will be leaving NSF at the end of the month so the two of them will run the AOE panel together next week. </div><div><br></div><div>There seems to be some optimism regarding Lisa's replacement at AISS, but no real news. </div><div><br></div><div>I had a good chat with Saran yesterday and we discussed the situation of a new AISS program manager so close to our renewal. We all hope that the chosen candidate will be familiar with LTER, but if they are not, it will be in our collective interests (including Saran's) to orient them quickly. </div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Mike</div><div><br>Typed by clumsy fingers on a small virtual keyboard. Please excuse typos. </div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> US-SCAR ANSWER mailing list <<a href="mailto:answer@usscar.org">answer@usscar.org</a>><br><b>Date:</b> July 15, 2015 at 05:35:30 EDT<br><b>To:</b> "<a href="mailto:answer@usscar.org">answer@usscar.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:answer@usscar.org">answer@usscar.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>[ANSWER from US-SCAR] NSF/PLR: New Antarctic Sciences staff member -- Please post on ANSWER</b><br><b>Reply-To:</b> "<a href="mailto:answer@usscar.org">answer@usscar.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:answer@usscar.org">answer@usscar.org</a>><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Subject: Dr. Christian Fritsen appointed Program Director for Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Colleagues,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Christian Fritsen as Program Director for the Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems Program in the Antarctic Sciences Section of the Division of Polar Programs. Dr. Fritsen is a Research Professor
in the Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences at the Desert Research Institute (DRI). He also served as DRI’s Vice President for Academic and Faculty Affairs, is a member of the graduate faculty in Hydrology and Environmental sciences at the University of
Nevada, Reno, and has served as Director of both the Nevada Space Grant Consortium and Nevada NASA Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Chris earned his Bachelor’s degree from Montana State University in 1990 and Ph.D. in the biological sciences with an emphasis in oceanography from the University of Southern California in 1996. His interest in marine biology and oceanography
dates from his childhood when he spent time fly fishing the rivers of Montana and reading about the oceans and its inhabitants in books, such as
<i>Shark Stories</i>. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dr. Fritsen’s leadership of algal and systems ecology research has spanned more than 15 years. His systems ecology perspective has included studies on organismal survival and growth as well as energy transfer and material cycling processes
in a range of polar habitats (e.g. frozen lakes, glaciers, snow, sea ice, subglacial lakes) as well as habitats in the Great Basin of Nevada.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">His first research in Antarctica entailed work from a floating ice station for several months. Along with U.S. and Russian colleagues, Chris conducted biological, chemical and physical oceanographic studies of the western Weddell Sea. His
broad polar ecosystem interests continued to develop during subsequent research in the McMurdo Dry Valleys and through interdisciplinary research along the western Antarctic Peninsula. These diverse activities led to an interest in serving the polar research
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please join me in welcoming Dr. Fritsen to the Division of Polar Programs and the GEO team. Chris began serving on an intermittent basis on 15 June and so has been coming up to speed. He will begin a full-time appointment as a rotator
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<p class="MsoNormal">Scott Borg</p>
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