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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"> Buckley, Ellen P [<a href="mailto:EllenP.Buckley@ARS.USDA.GOV">mailto:EllenP.Buckley@ARS.USDA.GOV</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 01, 2015 6:55 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Walbridge, Mark<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Invitation to USDA-ARS Water Availability and Watershed Management Virtual Customer Workshop<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">May 1, 2015</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">You are invited to participate in the ARS Virtual Customer Workshop on Water Availability and Watershed Management, to be held online on Wednesday, May 20, 2015. The meeting will begin at
11:00 am EDT and conclude at approximately 5:00 pm EDT. Web conference information will follow shortly.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The primary purpose of this workshop is to have you, our stakeholders and customers, tell us about your information and technology needs related to water availability and quality affected by,
and having an effect on agriculture, as we begin planning the next 5-year cycle of the Water Availability and Watershed Management National Program. We value your knowledge, experience, and opinions, and we will take your input at the workshop into careful
consideration as we determine future research directions of these National Programs. If you yourself cannot attend, please consider delegating this invitation to a colleague who can represent your organization’s interests.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">We would also appreciate your input via answers to the attached questionnaire on Water Availability and Watershed Management research issues.
<u>Even if you will not be able to attend the workshop, your responses to this questionnaire will provide input to the future of the research program.</u> If you return your responses to the questionnaire
<b>by</b> <b>May 11, 2014, </b>they will be used to shape the discussion at the workshop.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.ars.usda.gov/research/programs/programs.htm?NP_CODE=211"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#0563C1">Click here for information about the current Water
Availability and Watershed Management National Program</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Early in the day, via webcast, ARS National Program Leaders and administrators will present opening information about our national research programs. After that, there will be presentations
from key stakeholders along with discussions of the priority setting for future program research. In subsequent small group meetings and/or conference calls among the ARS scientists and program leaders, we will integrate all of your input into a cohesive Action
Plan for the next 5 years of this program. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Please let us know if you plan to participate in this workshop by replying to this email at
<a href="mailto:%20ellen.p.buckley@ars.usda.gov"><span style="color:#0563C1">ellen.p.buckley@ars.usda.gov</span></a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I hope you will be able to attend.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Sincerely,</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Mark Walbridge /s/
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