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        Roman"">Dear CEDAR Community
        members,</span></p>
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        Roman"">We would like to
        remind the CEDAR community of the upcoming deadline for
        nominations for the <b>2018
          CEDAR Prize lecture and Distinguished lecture</b>, both of
        which are due by 28
        February.  The text of the original call for the two nominations
        is below.</span></p>
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        Roman"">Lynn Harvey & Ludger
        Scherliess <br>
      </span></p>
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        style="font-size:10.0pt;
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        Roman"">=======Distinguished
        Lecture=======</span></p>
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        Roman"">The <b>CEDAR
          Distinguished Lecture</b> was instituted in 2009 to recognize
        individuals
        within the CEDAR community that have made sustained professional
        contributions
        to CEDAR. This distinguished award refers to a long-term,
        sustained body of
        work over a period greater than 10 years, that has helped shape
        the CEDAR
        program through research and service. The recipient of the award
        presents an
        invited plenary lecture at the annual CEDAR workshop in June on
        a topic of
        their choice.</span></p>
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        style="font-size:10.0pt;
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        Roman"">The CEDAR
        Distinguished Lecture is open to non-U.S. citizens as well as
        U.S. citizens,
        provided a strong connection to the CEDAR community can be
        demonstrated. The
        nomination should be based on significant research and service
        to the CEDAR
        community sustained over a period of at least ten years prior to
        the June CEDAR
        workshop.</span></p>
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      </span></p>
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        style="font-size:10.0pt;
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        Roman"">A nomination consists
        of two items:</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
        New Roman"">1. 
        Name of nominee; and</span></p>
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        New Roman"">2. 
        A maximum 2-page statement detailing the sustained research and
        service to the
        CEDAR community justifying the nomination.</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
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        style="font-size:10.0pt;
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    <p class="MsoNormal"
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        style="font-size:10.0pt;
        font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
        Roman"">Nominations for the
        2018 CEDAR Distinguished Lecture should be emailed to <u>Lynn
          Harvey</u> (<u><a href="mailto:lynn.harvey@lasp.colorado.edu">lynn.harvey@lasp.colorado.edu</a></u>)
        and Ludger Scherliess (<a
          href="mailto:ludger.scherliess@usu.edu">ludger.scherliess@usu.edu</a>).
        Nominations will be considered by the full CEDAR Science
        Steering Committee and
        are due 28 February 2018.</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
        New Roman";
        mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""><br
          clear="all">
      </span><span
        style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:
        "Times New Roman"">=======Prize
        Lecture===================================</span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
        New Roman";
        mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
      text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
        style="font-size:10.0pt;
        font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
        Roman"">The <b>CEDAR Prize lecture</b>
        was instituted in 1989 and honors a recent outstanding science
        contribution of
        importance to the CEDAR community. The recipient of the award
        presents an
        invited plenary lecture at the annual CEDAR workshop in June on
        the research
        contribution for which they were nominated. <br>
      </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
      text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
        style="font-size:10.0pt;
        font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
        Roman""><br>
      </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
      text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
        style="font-size:10.0pt;
        font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
        Roman"">The CEDAR Prize
        Lecture is open to non-U.S. citizens as well as U.S. citizens,
        provided a
        strong connection to the CEDAR community can be demonstrated.
        The nomination
        should be based on significant research reported in a
        peer-reviewed
        publication(s) within the four years prior to the June CEDAR
        workshop.</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
      text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
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      style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
      text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
        style="font-size:10.0pt;
        font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
        Roman"">A nomination consists
        of three items:</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
      margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
        New Roman"">1. 
        Name of nominee;</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
      margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
        New Roman"">2. 
        Paper citation(s); and</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
      margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
        New Roman"">3. 
        A maximum 1-page statement of why the research is important and
        relevant to the
        CEDAR community by, for example, relating the contribution to
        the Strategic
        Thrusts detailed in the <a
href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__cedarweb.vsp.ucar.edu_wiki_index.php_Community-3ACEDAR-5FStrategic-5FPlan&d=DwMDaQ&c=OCIEmEwdEq_aNlsP4fF3gFqSN-E3mlr2t9JcDdfOZag&r=TkB-m5Qo329TNpc8uaCwVQ&m=pj1901A_wTQnRQ7KDt1OnRE_47NqxUhW-eu0X7tybyk&s=TPMtnSjg6wFX-xlDWRi8HeuThFAoNo3U_ewT7eVXQTw&e="><span
            style="color:windowtext">CEDAR: The New Dimension, Strategic
            Vision</span></a>
        document.</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
      text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
        style="font-size:10.0pt;
        font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
        Roman""><br>
      </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
      text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
        style="font-size:10.0pt;
        font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
        Roman"">Nominations for the
        2018 CEDAR Prize Lecture should be emailed to <u>Lynn Harvey</u> (<u><a
            href="mailto:lynn.harvey@lasp.colorado.edu">lynn.harvey@lasp.colorado.edu</a></u>)
        and Ludger Scherliess (<a
          href="mailto:ludger.scherliess@usu.edu">ludger.scherliess@usu.edu</a>).
        Nominations will be considered by the full CEDAR Science
        Steering Committee and
        are due 28 February 2018.</span></p>
    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-
V. Lynn Harvey
Research Scientist
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
3665 Discovery Drive
Boulder, CO  80303
tel: 303-492-2920
fax: 303-735-3737
email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:lynn.harvey@lasp.colorado.edu">lynn.harvey@lasp.colorado.edu</a></pre>
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