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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:white" class="ContentPasted0">National Conference on Ecosystem Restoration (NCER)
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext" class="ContentPasted0">Date/location: April 14-19, 2024;</span><span style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext" class="ContentPasted0">
</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext" class="ContentPasted0">Albuquerque, NM</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext" class="ContentPasted0">The National Conference on Ecosystem Restoration is coming to Albuquerque in April 2024! In addition
to bringing NCER to the Southwest for the first time in 15 years, I am very happy to share that we are prioritizing an almost entirely new suite of session topics (listed here).</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext" class="ContentPasted0">For those who have not attended NCER previously, it is important to note that the oral program
will be primarily built from contributed session proposals. Now is the time to get organizing; they're due May 19th!</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext" class="ContentPasted0">NCER looks to the science and restoration community to assist with developing a conference agenda
that shares practices, successful methods, and solutions to challenges facing restoration throughout the U.S. and beyond.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext" class="ContentPasted0">We invite those actively working in ecosystem restoration to propose a session you think is a
timely topic that would be beneficial and of keen interest to your fellow restoration researchers and practitioners.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext" class="ContentPasted0">Details: https://conference.ifas.ufl.edu/ncer/call-session-proposals.php</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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