[LTER-diversity] LTER Lead PI/DEI Meeting scheduled

[Marty Downs]

*Lead PI Joint meeting with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee*
is scheduled for:

Thursday, December 17
11:30 am - 1 pm Pacific Time (12:30 MT/1:30 CT / 2:30 ET)

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On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 10:13 AM Marty Downs <downs at nceas.ucsb.edu> wrote:

> Dear LTER Lead PIs,
>
> 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. Palmer has been placed on probation, but concerns seem
> addressable and the outlook seems good. All the other sites that had
> reviews this year (AND, JRN, FCE, KNZ, NTL) received positive reports.
>
> However, 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. We'd like to schedule the first of these meetings jointly
> with the re-energized Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee and focus
> it 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, LTER Executive Board Chair
> Marty, LTER Network Office Director
>
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