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</head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;" class="">Dear Colleagues,</div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;">We would like to bring to your attention this important message from NSF: </div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 14.5pt;" class=""><a href="http://links.govdelivery.com/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTUxMDI3LjUwNjg4MDMxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE1MTAyNy41MDY4ODAzMSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE3MDQ4Nzc1JmVtYWlsaWQ9YXNjaG1vbHRAbnNmLmdvdiZ1c2VyaWQ9YXNjaG1vbHRAbnNmLmdvdiZmbD0mZXh0cmE9TXVsdGl2YXJpYXRlSWQ9JiYm&&&100&&&http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2016/nsf16005/nsf16005.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click" style="color: purple;" class="">Dear Colleague Letter: Concepts for Future Operation of the Arecibo Observatory</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class="">John Meriwhether, PhD</div><div class="">Program Director, Geospace Facilities</div><div class="">Email: <a href="mailto:JMERIWET@nsf.gov" class="">JMERIWET@nsf.gov</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;">Therese Moretto Jorgensen, PhD</div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;">Head, Geospace Section</div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;">Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences National Science Foundation</div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;">Email: <a href="mailto:tjorgens@nsf.gov" class=""><font color="#0563C1" class=""><u class="">tjorgens@nsf.gov</u></font></a></div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;"> </div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;"> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>