<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Collaboration
and Cooperation in Protecting Resources and Ecosystems</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Webinar
date/time: Mar 15; 2 sessions: 8am ET & 2pm ET<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">*These
are two different webinars.*<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Duration:
AM Session 4 hours; PM session 3.5 hours<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">What
will you learn?<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">This
webinar features presentations from Cooperative
Ecosystem Study Unit (CESU) leaders and
Federal funding partners specific to the five southeastern region CESUs: Chesapeake
Bay, Gulf Coast, Piedmont-South Atlantic, Southern Appalachian Mountains, and
South Florida Caribbean. <span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The
CESUs located in the Southeast U.S. present this virtual rally as a forum to
bring together resource managers and research scientists to discuss findings
and management needs associated with the waters, lands, resources, climate and
cultures of the southeastern United States. The theme of the Rally,
Collaboration and Cooperation in Protecting Resources and Ecosystems, refers to
the additive and synergistic nature of the partnerships that the CESU National
Network seeks to foster.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The
goal of the 2018 Southeast Regional CESU Virtual Rally is to disseminate and
facilitate collaborative and interdisciplinary applied projects in the general
area of conservation science and management. Thematic areas include
Conservation Science and Management of Natural and Cultural Resources; Regional
research; and Education. The morning and afternoon sessions (two different
webinars) will include presentations by federal CESU partners who will describe
their agency vision for research partnerships, highlight research needs, and
funding opportunities. Additional speakers will highlight projects of each
participating CESUs: Chesapeake Bay, Gulf Coast, Piedmont-South Atlantic,
Southern Appalachian Mountains, and South Florida Caribbean.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Presenter</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">s</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">AM
SESSION<span></span></span></p>
<ul><li>Thomas Fish, National Coordinator of the Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units Network<br></li><li>Carol Daniels, NPS coordinator for the South Florida Caribbean CESU<br></li><li>Giselle Mora-Bourgeois, NPS coordinator for the Gulf Coast CESU<br></li><li>Ray Albright, NPS coordinator for the Piedmont South Atlantic Coast and Southern Appalachian CESUs<br></li><li>Thomas Doyle, Deputy Director – Ecologist (Research), USGS Wetland and Aquatic Research Center<br></li><li>John Tirpak, Gulf of Mexico Science Coordinator, U.S. FWS (to be confirmed)<br></li><li>Doris Washington, Director National Water Management Center (to be confirmed)<br></li><li>Sunny Snider, Chief of Staff, Southeast Fisheries Science Center<br></li><li>Alfred Cofrancesco, Technical Director, Civil Engineering Programs U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center<br></li><li>Sherry Whitaker, CESU Grants Officer Technical Representative<br></li><li>Additional Federal Partner presentations are being scheduled including: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, U.S. Forest Service<br></li></ul><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="square">
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">PM
SESSION<span></span></span></p>
<ul><li>2:00 PM – 4:30 PM Technical Presentations from selected research abstracts submitted (details will be added soon)<br></li><li>4:45 PM – 5:30 PM Rapid Fire Research Presentations - up to 10 five-minute abstract presenters (details to be added soon)<br></li></ul><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="square">
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt">No pre-registration
required. </span><br></p>
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This webinar will be recorded and on the Webinar Portal for on-demand viewing
within a week.<span></span></span></p>
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you have not participated in one of our Blackboard Collaborate webinar sessions
before, see website below for assistance connecting to or setting up
Collaborate.<span></span></span></p>
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join the session 15 minutes prior to
the start of the webinar. ***<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Details:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt">*MORNING
SESSION: </span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.forestrywebinars.net/webinars/collaboration-and-cooperation-in-protecting-resources-and-ecosystems-morning-session?sr=wp~mkt-whenPub">http://www.forestrywebinars.net/webinars/collaboration-and-cooperation-in-protecting-resources-and-ecosystems-morning-session?sr=wp~mkt-whenPub</a><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">*AFTERNOON
SESSION: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.forestrywebinars.net/webinars/collaboration-and-cooperation-in-protecting-resources-and-ecosystems-afternoon-session?sr=wp~mkt-whenPub">http://www.forestrywebinars.net/webinars/collaboration-and-cooperation-in-protecting-resources-and-ecosystems-afternoon-session?sr=wp~mkt-whenPub</a><span></span></span></p>
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presented by NC State University, College of Natural Resources<span></span></span></p><div><div>
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