Dear Colleague, Drought-Net (www.drought-net.org) is a US National Science Foundation- funded Research Coordination Network aimed at assessing terrestrial ecosystem sensitivity to drought. A key activity of Drought-Net – Enhancing Existing Experiments (EEE) – is focused on designing and coordinating new research based on existing (ongoing) precipitation manipulation and drought experiments across the globe, thereby leveraging infrastructure already in place to provide new insights beyond the individual site or experiment. We are inviting you to participate in EEE, which will allow you to coordinate your ongoing precipitation manipulation/drought experiment with others in the network and to take advantage of this emerging global platform to conduct new research and syntheses. If you are interested in joining, please register your experiment using the EEE registration form on the Drought- Net website (http://wp.natsci.colostate.edu/droughtnet/registration- forms/). Future planned EEE activities will focus on designing innovative network-level studies using EEE - with an emphasis on standardized sampling to maximize comparability. The first EEE meeting will be held in early May, 2016 to envision the first set of EEE studies. Please email me if you interested in participating.
Best, Melinda Smith Melinda D. Smith Professor Director of the Semi-arid Grassland Research Center (SGRC) Colorado State University Department of Biology Fort Collins, CO 80523 Office: +1 970-491-7155 Cell: +1 203-415-1220 Email: [email protected] Physical address: 1878 Campus Delivery Room E427
