<div dir="ltr">Dear NSA, <div>Here are some links where you can add and up-vote discussion topics for the upcoming NSA town hall meetings.</div><div><br></div><div><div>Nov 9: <a href="https://app.sli.do/event/tml6ue0h" target="_blank">https://app.sli.do/event/tml6ue0h</a></div><div>Nov 16: <a href="https://app.sli.do/event/yhp8grrw" target="_blank">https://app.sli.do/event/yhp8grrw</a></div><div><br></div><div><span id="gmail-m_5454615824865648196gmail-docs-internal-guid-5e118be6-7fff-eafd-b388-c11e34059165"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Best regards,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://internal-ncar.ucar.edu/nsa/nsa-executive-committee" target="_blank">NSA-EC</a><br></p></span><div class="gmail-yj6qo"></div><div class="gmail-adL"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">-------------------------------------------</font></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Matthew Long</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Schedule a meeting with me: <a href="http://calendly.com/matt-long" target="_blank">calendly.com/matt-long</a></font></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="1">Scientist II, <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Oceanography Section</span><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="1">Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory</font></span></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="1"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">National Center for Atmospheric Research</span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span title="Call with Google Voice"><span title="Call with Google Voice">303.497.1311</span></span> (W)</span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span title="Call with Google Voice"><span title="Call with Google Voice">650.575.7784</span></span> (M)</span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font></div></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><a href="http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/staff/mclong" target="_blank">http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/staff/mclong</a></font><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 10:49 AM Matthew Long <<a href="mailto:mclong@ucar.edu">mclong@ucar.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-m_5454615824865648196gmail-docs-internal-guid-5e118be6-7fff-eafd-b388-c11e34059165"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear NSA,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The NSA Executive Committee invites you to join us at a town hall meeting in November. We are holding two duplicate events in hopes that people can attend at least one:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Monday, 9 Nov 2:30-4p MT (register </span><a href="https://ucar-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEqcOmoqDsqG90aMh2kU04nCiedeyV3LNiY" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">here</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Monday 16 Nov 9-10:30a (register </span><a href="https://ucar-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcqdO2trTstGNUTXDLkJSoz6WdFjUEzYbU1" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">here</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">)</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The primary objective for these meetings is to discuss a vision for the NSA and its role in making NCAR more effective and an excellent place to work. We encourage you to consider how we can collectively make the NSA better. We will introduce the NSA Executive Committee and hold an open discussion. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The NSA is the NCAR Scientist Assembly and all scientific staff are members. The NSA Executive Committee (NSA-EC) comprises scientists from all NCAR labs and various career levels; its primary function is to coordinate NSA activities and interface with NCAR and UCAR leadership. You can read more about the NSA here: </span><a href="https://internal-ncar.ucar.edu/nsa" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://internal-ncar.ucar.edu/nsa</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">These meetings will be on Zoom. Please register for one of the events:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Monday, 9 Nov 2:30-4p MT (register </span><a href="https://ucar-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEqcOmoqDsqG90aMh2kU04nCiedeyV3LNiY" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">here</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Monday 16 Nov 9-10:30a (register </span><a href="https://ucar-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcqdO2trTstGNUTXDLkJSoz6WdFjUEzYbU1" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">here</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">)</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">While our hope is to have as free an exchange as possible, we recognize inherent limitations of Zoom. To help facilitate discussion, we will share Slido links for question submission prior to the events; please consider adding questions or topics for discussion there and up-voting those you favor.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We hope you can participate in at least one of the above events.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Best regards,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://internal-ncar.ucar.edu/nsa/nsa-executive-committee" target="_blank">NSA-EC</a><br></p></span><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div>
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