[LTER-usiltercom] Fwd: Draft ILTER letter to U.S. sites

[Marty Downs]

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From: Marty Downs <downs at nceas.ucsb.edu>
Date: Fri, Jun 7, 2019, 11:26 AM
Subject: Re: Draft ILTER letter to U.S. sites
To: Mark Ohman <mohman at ucsd.edu>
Cc: <usiltercom at lists.lternet.edu>, Bill McDowell ILTER USA <
bill.mcdowell at unh.edu>


Hi Mark,
I think your letter is fine as is and am not really embarrassed that we
don't have a record of a negative. (That is, that we don't know for sure
that there are no currently active agreements, which is what I think is the
case.)

Cheers, Marty

On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 10:17 AM Mark Ohman <mohman at ucsd.edu> wrote:

> Bill and Tiffany-
> During our last conference call I volunteered to draft a letter for our
> committee to send to US sites (site exec?) inquiring about existing
> formal agreements between the U.S. Network and international partners.
> In the draft below I added an inquiry about site-level agreements.
>
> But having drafted this, I find it somewhat embarrassing to admit that
> we don't have corporate memory of existing network-level agreements.  I
> believe Marty said she did due diligence in seeking information on this
> subject and didn't get a full response from Bob Waide.  Also, the MOU
> with the CNRS expired in either late 2017 or early 2018, so, to my
> knowledge, even that one is not currently in effect.  This leads to the
> question:  would it be better to seek information only on the individual
> site-level formal agreements?
>
> Sincerely,
> Mark O.
>
>
>                                                         -------- DRAFT
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>
> Dear Site Exec,
>
> The International LTER Committee (of the U.S. LTER Network) would like
> to ask for your help.   We seek to identify existing MOUs (Memoranda of
> Understanding) or other formal agreements between the U.S. LTER network
> and partner programs abroad.  We are aware of the MOU signed with the
> French CNRS in 2012 (thanks to the extensive work of Patrick Bourgeron,
> and the leadership of Scott Collins).  We don't know if there are others.
>
> In addition, it would be useful for us to know of other formal
> agreements (MOUs, or Cooperative Agreements) that your specific LTER
> site may have with other sites internationally.  This information would
> help us direct our efforts in ways that will be most beneficial to the
> U.S. Network.  It would also afford us an opportunity to highlight for
> the ILTER community ongoing international engagements at your site, most
> immediately at the ILTER meeting in Leipzig this September.
>
> Please note that individual scientist-to-scientist collaborations (of
> which there are many) are not the subject here, rather we are asking
> about more formal site-level and network-level sustained cooperation.
>
> Thank you for informing us,
>                                                       --------  DRAFT
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>


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