<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Dear NSA, </font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Thanks to everyone who participated in our first town hall on Monday. I found the conversation both stimulating and productive. </font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif">As a reminder, there is another opportunity for conversation next <span style="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 (please register for Zoom link </span><a href="https://ucar-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcqdO2trTstGNUTXDLkJSoz6WdFjUEzYbU1" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="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="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></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Feel free to suggest items for discussion on Slido: </span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="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></font><a href="https://app.sli.do/event/yhp8grrw" target="_blank">https://app.sli.do/event/yhp8grrw</a></div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://internal-ncar.ucar.edu/nsa/nsa-executive-committee" target="_blank">NSA-EC</a><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div></div></div></div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><font face="arial, sans-serif">On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 10:49 AM Matthew Long <<a href="mailto:mclong@ucar.edu">mclong@ucar.edu</a>> wrote:<br></font></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_-8960242205575043775gmail-docs-internal-guid-5e118be6-7fff-eafd-b388-c11e34059165"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Dear NSA,</font></span></p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">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:</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="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="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="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></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="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="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="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></font></p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">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. </font></span></p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="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="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="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></font></p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">These meetings will be on Zoom. Please register for one of the events:</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="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="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="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></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="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="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="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></font></p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.</font></span></p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">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.</font></span></p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">We hope you can participate in at least one of the above events.</font></span></p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Best regards,</font></span></p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><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"><font face="arial, sans-serif">NSA-EC</font></a><br></p></span><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div>
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