<div dir="ltr">Dear USILTER Committee--<div><br></div><div>If you have news to share that may be of interest for an International Newsletter, Amit Batar (the new coordinator for the ILTER International Management Office) is requesting news items for the newly re-launching newsletter.  Please submit them directly to Amit as described below - and feel free to forward to others who may have relevant news.   And also sign up for the newsletter, here: <a href="https://www.ilter.network/?q=contact">https://www.ilter.network/?q=contact</a>, if you haven't already. </div><div><br>Cheers, </div><div>Marty, Bill, Tiffany</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Amit Batar</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:imoilter.nexus@gmail.com">imoilter.nexus@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 9:39 PM<br>Subject: E-Newsletter Information Request - ILTER IMO office<br>To: <br>Cc: Hideaki Shibata <<a href="mailto:shiba@fsc.hokudai.ac.jp">shiba@fsc.hokudai.ac.jp</a>>, Amit Batar <<a href="mailto:imoilter.nexus@gmail.com">imoilter.nexus@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Dear All ILTER CC members, </b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">On the
behalf of ILTER Chair- Hideaki Shibata, I would like to draw your kind
attention regarding our first ILTER E-Newsletter. ILTER International Management
office (IMO) plans to release the E-Newsletter in this month. For this purpose,
we would like to ask you to provide any relevant information for the e-newsletter, such as Research activity updates in the network/site level,
Events, Conferences/Meetings, Workshops/Training courses, Novel publications, Job
opportunities, and others. See more details below.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Wingdings">v<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><b style="font-size:11pt">Deadline for the first E-letter</b><span style="font-size:11pt">: </span><b style="font-size:11pt">2020/03/19.</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;text-indent:16.5pt">The E-Newsletter will be released for certain intervals regularly</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;text-indent:16.5pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;text-indent:16.2pt;font-family:Wingdings">v<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><b style="font-size:11pt;text-indent:16.2pt">How to submit your news?</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">•<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt">Please
prepare a short paragraph to describe your news in word file (should not exceed
one page) with photos/ images and weblink, if available.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">•<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt">Please
submit them to IMO via e-mail (</span><a href="mailto:imoilter.nexus@gmail.com" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">imoilter.nexus@gmail.com</a><span style="font-size:11pt">).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Wingdings">v<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><b style="font-size:11pt">Why we publish the ILTER E-Newsletter?</b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">As
you recognize from the report of action plan priority survey (2019-2020), we
identified the following top 4 plans for the initial ILTER actions for coming
years (We can expand them more, of course). The IMO office has been planning to
release the E-Newsletter to enhance the external and internal value and
visibility of the ILTER (i.e., Actions items 8 and 9). </p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Action 12</b>:
Enhance more information sharing and delivering of ILTER's and related
activities</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Action 9</b>:
Enhance external value and visibility of the ILTER</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Action 1</b>: Foster
scientific initiatives including a bottom-up project from various members</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Action 8</b>:
Enhance internal value and visibility of the ILTER</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Wingdings">v<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><b style="font-size:11pt">Who receive E-newsletter?</b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The E-newsletter will be share to ILTER internal and external members. The selected
information in the E-newsletter will be planning to be put on the ILTER website
too.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Thank you very much for your kind attention </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">ILTER International
Management Office (IMO)</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Amit
Batar, IMO officer</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:imoilter.nexus@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">imoilter.nexus@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><div><br></div><br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:14px;font-family:Optima-Regular"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
</div><br clear="all"><div><br></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"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:small">Marty Downs (she/her/hers)</span><div style="font-size:small">Director, LTER <span style="font-size:12.8px">Network Office</span></div><div style="font-size:small"><br><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1yrok44TDXB6Sp6GbxXmKCdh8gT7Jj9Mj&revid=0B3xT0TaiQmt0RnJRSzB2RS9kYUFIbnhiU0k1SmZwSmt6MFZRPQ" width="200" height="48"><br><br><a href="https://lternet.edu/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://lternet.edu</a><br></div><div style="font-size:small">t: @USLTER</div><div style="font-size:small">f: USLTER</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8px">National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)</span><br></div><div style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.8px">University of California, Santa Barbara</span><br style="font-size:12.8px">Office: 805-893-7549</div><div style="font-size:small">Cell: 617-833-7930</div><div style="font-size:small"><a href="mailto:downs@nceas.ucsb.edu" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">downs@nceas.ucsb.edu</a></div><div><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>