<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Dear All,</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Please join us for an NCEAS <span class="il" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Roundtable</span> on Wednesday, February 27th at 12:15pm:</div>
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Pat Comer</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Chief Ecologist</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
NatureServe</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
will present a seminar on: </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
"NatureServe: a network connecting science with conservation – some history, current projects, and future directions."</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Everyone is welcome to attend.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Here is a summary of Pat's experience and career track from the NatureServe website:</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Chief Ecologist/Conservation Planner: Pat Comer (NatureServe Western Regional Office, Boulder, CO, USA)</div>
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Pat directs the Terrestrial Ecology Department of NatureServe’s Science Division. He completed undergraduate and graduate work in Natural Resources and Forest Ecology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Pat worked in agroforestry as Peace Corps volunteer in Costa Rica. Over the past 20 years, Pat has engaged in natural resource and biodiversity conservation planning; first in Costa Rica, then with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and Michigan Department of Natural Resources, where he supported the integration of biodiversity information into environmental review procedures, statewide conservation strategy development, and state/national forest planning. Pat also developed core methodology used by TNC for Ecoregional Assessments and Conservation Action Plans, and advised numerous ecoregional project teams from the Great Lakes, to Alaska, across the intermountain West U.S., across Latin America, and in China. Pat has served as a science advisor for the development of NatureServe Vista and has implemented Vista with other planning tools in the United States, Puerto Rico, Peru, Colombia, and elsewhere.</div>
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The NCEAS <span class="il" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Roundtable</span> blog contains information about past meetings and a calendar of future events.</div>