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Thanks for your participation in our US LTER international committee meeting on August 28.</div>
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Please find a few notes below and ppt attached we reviewed during the meeting. </div>
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<b>Key areas of work:</b></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: var(--white);"><u>Proposals/new research activities</u> - Accelnet (with focus on "team science"); opportunities for early career learning exchange;
and identifying and encouraging "simple" distributed projects (e.g., Tea Bag) or focused networks (e.g., nature-based solutions in urban envts)<br>
</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: var(--white);"><u>Stimulating international exchange in between Open Science Meetings</u> (OSM) - webinars (NATURA will be one opportunity
to highlight ILTER), what others are out there --> let's organize and invite speakers on topics we are interested in, focusing on early career<br>
</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: var(--white);"><u>Activate an Americas regional network</u></span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: var(--white);"><u>ALSO LTER EB</u> - we didn't get a chance to cover this, but please consider and bring to our next meeting a focused question
or 2 that we can use to prompt discussion at the next EB.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: var(--white);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: medium; text-align: start; display: inline !important"></span></span></li></ul>
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<b>Action Items:</b></div>
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<li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: var(--white);">Please be thinking about what proposals/research activities youd like to help foster and let's discuss at next meeting, including <span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">a
focused question or 2 that we can use to prompt discussion at the next EB.</span></span></li></ul>
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<li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: var(--white);">Please let us know if you'd like to help work on stimulating exchange between OSM<br>
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<li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: var(--white);">Please let us know if you'd like to be involved with work to help reactivate Americas and Africa regional networks -- Nancy
and Mark has a number of ideas for contacts. Bill offered to foster Americas work. Also let us know if you may have a colleague who may be interested in contributing.</span></li></ul>
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<li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: var(--white);">Tiffany and Nancy will request IT support from NCO for webinar series<br>
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: var(--white);"> </span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: var(--white);">Please fill the gotomeeting poll to schedule our next meeting. </span><br>
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