<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>*** PLEASE FEEL FREE TO DISTRIBUTE WIDELY ***</div><div><br></div>Dear Oregon coastal and GIS colleagues/students:<div><br></div><div>You are <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">invited to participate at your own convenience in a unique online activity called <b>Voicing Climate Concerns (<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; ">log in to <a href="http://www.climateconcerns.org">http://www.climateconcerns.org</a> ). The site is an innovative online workshop enabling input of concerns about climate change along the Oregon Coast.</span></b></span></div><div><br><div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">This is a new citizen involvement effort could really use your <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span style="font-family: Arial;">help by registering and participating online now, or notifying someone you know who might be most interested in the opportunity (please feel free to forward this announcement via e-mail).</span></span><br></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> <br>About Voicing Climate Concerns: </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Voicing Climate Concerns</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> (<a href="http://www.climateconcerns.org/" target="_blank">www.climateconcerns.org</a>) is an Internet-based tool designed to help people understand each other’s concerns about the impacts of climate change on the Oregon coast. In a series of steps that just started, with Step 1 beginning this week on <b>September 21, 2009</b> and continuing throughout the week, and taking a total of roughly five hours across five weeks, project participants synthesize climate concerns in an online facilitated process that will lead to the collaborative selection of a set of indicators.</span><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Voicing Climate Concerns</span></b> is being conducted as a partnership between researchers at Oregon State University and the University of Washington, in cooperation with the Oregon Coastal Management Program’s Oregon Coastal Atlas. The research project is funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.<span> <b><br><br></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">To Register Online: </span></b>To register, sign in with a <b>user name</b> and <b>password</b> of your choice at:<span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><font size="6"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial;"> <a href="http://www.climateconcerns.org/" target="_blank">www.climateconcerns.org </a></span></b></font><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div> <span style="font-family: Arial;"> <br> IMPORTANT NOTE: </span>You must use the current version of Firefox to access the experiment. You can easily download the latest version of Firefox <b>at <a href="http://bit.ly/CsIXD">http://bit.ly/CsIXD</a></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><font size="2">. </font><font size="2">Do not use Internet Explorer or another browser. </font></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">More information is available online. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Please let us know if we can answer any questions.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br> </span><p><span style="font-family: Arial;">On behalf of the project team at Oregon State University and the University of Washington,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial;">Tim Nyerges, Professor of Geography, Principal Investigator<br> University of Washington, Seattle WA</span></p> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="IT"><font size="2"><b>E-mail:</b> <a href="mailto:nyerges@u.washington.edu" target="_blank">nyerges@u.washington.edu</a></font></span><br><br></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div>-----------</div><div>Dawn Wright | Professor | Department of Geosciences</div><div>Oregon State University | Corvallis, OR 97331-5506</div><div><a href="http://dusk.geo.orst.edu">http://dusk.geo.orst.edu</a> | 541-737-1229 phone | 541-737-1200 fax</div></div><div><br></div></div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></div></body></html>