[LTER-diversity] Scheduling LTER PI/DEI Meeting

[Marty Downs]

Dear LTER DEI Committee,
If you haven't yet had a chance to fill out this scheduling poll, please do
so by *noon Pacific time on Thursday, November 5*.
https://www.when2meet.com/?10209715-JDyyu

Thanks, Marty

On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 10:16 AM Marty Downs <downs at nceas.ucsb.edu> wrote:

> Dear LTER Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee,
>
> We hope you all are surviving fires, hurricanes, plagues and one of the
> most difficult fall terms in memory. In the midst of it all, research goes
> on -- masked and distanced -- and so do mid-term reviews and proposals. At
> each of the recent mid-term reviews, there have been hard questions about
> what LTER sites are doing to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion in
> ecology. LTER is privileged with a few assets that many other programs do
> not have and so NSF has high expectations for what we can accomplish.
>
> Following on the success of the Spring COVID-related PI meetings, the
> Executive Board is proposing that we plan on ~4 PI meetings per year,
> focused on site management topics that will benefit from additional
> coordination. For the first of these meetings, we are proposing a joint
> meeting with the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, focused on
> identifying LTER strategic strengths in this area and actions we can take
> -- as sites and as a network -- in the short, medium, and longer term.
>
> Please visit this when2meet poll THIS WEEK and enter your availability for
> a 90-minute meeting in early December. *https://www.when2meet.com/?10209715-JDyyu
> <https://www.when2meet.com/?10209715-JDyyu>*
>
>
> Thanks,
> Diane McKnight, LTER Executive Board Chair
> Marty Downs, LTER Network Office Director
>
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