<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi All,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is just a friendly reminder to <b class="">p</b><b class="">lease fill out </b><a href="http://whenisgood.net/j2rqwif" class=""><b class="">this availability poll</b></a><b class=""> for the first US LTER International Committee (IC) meeting of 2022 <font color="#ff2600" class="">as soon as possible</font></b>. Potential dates start as early as the week of January 24th. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tessa Martinez</div><div class=""><i class="">On behalf of co-chairs Nancy Grimm and David Iwaniec</i><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 13, 2022, at 6:05 PM, ASU Tessa <<a href="mailto:tmmart12@asu.edu" class="">tmmart12@asu.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi All,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Please fill out </b><a href="http://whenisgood.net/j2rqwif" class=""><b class="">this availability poll</b></a><b class=""> for the first US LTER International Committee (IC) meeting of 2022 <font color="#ff2600" class="">as soon as possible</font></b>. Potential dates start as early as the week of January 24th. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here is a brief history provided by Kristin Vanderbilt on when members of the current IC joined:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><i class="">I have been on and off the International Committee (IC) since 2003 when it was established (see attached Charter for the US International Committee for IC history). Alan Schroeder, partner of Sonja Ortega (NSF), was the international liaison with LNO then, and he invited me to join because I had an NSF International Postdoctoral fellowship at an LTER site in Hungary 2000-2002. Kate Lajtha joined the IC about that time also, since the DIRT project was the only project that involved a collaboration between US LTER and an international network that anyone was aware of. <br class=""></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class=""><i class="">Steve Hamburg at Brown U. took over running the committee from Bob Waide in 2004, I believe. There was no US IC activity during the period 2005-2006, when Patrick Bourgeron and Steve were busy working with ILTER partners to write the first strategic plan (adopted 2006). I was the ILTER information management committee's first chair from 2006-2010. My activities with that group are detailed in the annual reports, but the US International Committee itself didn't meet that I recall. Patrick Bourgeron was the Chair of the ILTER Science Committee, and the US IC annual reports describe his initiatives.<br class=""></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class=""><i class="">In 2010, the LTER Executive Committee decided to re-establish the IC. I became acting co-chair of the IC (later I was elected chair by IC members) with Patrick Bourgeron. We reconstituted the committee, reaching out to the network for interested individuals. Chuck Redman, Jim Tang, Rinkhu Roy Chowdhury, Sieglinde Snapp, Tiffany Troxler, and Bill McDowell were added at that time. The process we went through is documented in the 2010 and 2011 IC annual reports. We asked Dave Hartnett and Kate to join again since they had experience with the original IC from the Bob Waide era. I have the spreadsheet documenting the selection process if you would like to see it. <br class=""></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class=""><i class="">Bill became co-chair toward the end of 2011. I rotated out of the co-chair role at the end of 2014 and Tiffany replaced me. The next time I heard anything about the IC was in 2019, when Marty contacted Corinna to ask for an IM to join the IC. Corinna suggested me. My current involvement with the IC therefore dates from 2019. There are gaps in the history of the IC when it was moribund. There do not appear to be US International Committee annual reports for 2015-2018 on the IC webpage, for example, so it would appear the committee wasn't functioning through that period. <br class=""></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><i class="">Cheers,</i><div class=""><i class="">Kristin</i></div></div><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Let me know if you have any questions regarding this meeting! </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tessa Martinez</div><div class=""><i class="">On behalf of co-chairs Nancy Grimm and David Iwaniec</i></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>