<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;" class="">Dear postdocs and grad students at NCAR, </span><br class=""><div><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class="">Please join us on Tues., Sept. 25th at 2:00 PM for this seminar on proposal writing and evaluating. Tea will follow at 3:00 PM. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class=""><b class="">Proposal Writing Seminar & </b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class=""><b class="">Mock Review Panel Project Launch</b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><i class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class=""><span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"><span class="gmail-aQJ" style="top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Tuesday, Sept 25 2:00pm</span></span><span class=""> </span>in the MMM Conference Room</font></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></i></div></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class="">2:00 PM: </font><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" class="">We are lucky to have scientist Jordan Powers in the MMM lab at NCAR join us for the first half hour of this seminar to share some strategies and tips on proposal writing, including on some of the nuts and bolts. He will also answer questions.</span></div><div class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class=""><b class=""><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class="">2:30 PM: </font><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class="">In an effort to give postdocs an opportunity to see "the other side" of this process, a</span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> </span><b class="" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mock Review Panel Project</b><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class="">is being initiated.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="" class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="" class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class="">Postdocs and grad students will be invited to write and submit a full proposal, and to serve on a mock review panel. The review panel will consist of the proposal writers and a senior scientist that will serve as the review panel moderator. </font></span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class="">We aim to introduce the tentative details of this project and identify an appropriate timeline that will be informed by the number of interested postdocs and proposal deadlines. </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="" class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="" class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class="">3:00 PM: Stick around for some tea & snacks afterwards in a nearby spot.</font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="" class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class=""><span style="" class="">Join us to learn more! </span><br class=""></font></div><span style="" class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class=""><div class=""><span style="" class=""><br class=""></span></div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Val Sloan</span></font></span></div><div class=""><span style="" class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" size="1" class=""><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * </font><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1" class="">Valerie Sloan, Ph.D.</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1" class="">Director of the GEO REU Network &</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1" class="">Senior Higher Education Specialist</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1" class="">NCAR Education & Outreach</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1" class="">NCAR|UCAR</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1" class="">P.O. Box 3000</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1" class="">Boulder, CO 80307-3000</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style="" size="1" class=""><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" class="">Email: </span><a href="mailto:vsloan@ucar.edu" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" class="">vsloan@ucar.edu</a></font></div></span></div></div></div><br class=""></body></html>