<div dir="ltr"><div>Colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>I have attached a draft 1-page Letter of Intent to submit a Full, 5-year AccelNet proposal to NSF in February 2019. The draft incorporates inputs from our ILTER colleagues in Europe (Michael Mirtl, Ika Djukic) and Japan (Hideaki Shibata) and feedback from Peter Groffman, Bill McDowell and Marty Downs.</div><div><br></div><div>Please send me your additional comments and suggestions by 12/17 and I will do my best to incorporate them. The LoI must be uploaded to NSF by December 21.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks and best regards,</div><div>FD<br></div><div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" 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><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><pre cols="72"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Frank W. Davis<br>Professor, <a href="http://www.bren.ucsb.edu" target="_blank">Bren School of Environmental Science and Management</a><br>Executive Director, <a href="https://nco.lternet.edu/" target="_blank">LTER Network Communications Office</a></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>Director, <a href="http://sedgwick.nrs.ucsb.edu/research/la-kretz-center" target="_blank">La Kretz Research Center at Sedgwick Reserve</a><br>University of California, Santa Barbara
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