Dear Colleagues,

We are following up on the discussion of the Hubbard brook REU site program at the July COS meeting. We decided not to submit the proposal and instead prepare ourselves for a stronger submission next August. There are a number of ideas that we are developing, including a broader geographic scope (upscaling from the Hubbard Brook valley), formalizing a mechanism for partnering with neighboring groups like the White Mountain National Forest and the Appalachian Mountain Club, shoring up our research mentoring teams and topics, developing new partners to aid in student recruitment from underrepresented groups and revisiting the partnership with the Hubbard Brook Research Foundation and mechanisms to administer the program and supervise housing. The Hubbard Brook REU program will continue next year with LTER and project-based students, and we hope to expand that with a newly funded site REU in 2018.  If you have a current NSF-funded grant and would like to host an REU student at the site next summer we would be happy to work with you on logistics for supporting those students.

We will be reaching out to many of you in the coming weeks and months about the proposal. Please feel free to contact one of us if you have any questions or ideas.

Thanks,

Mark Green

Scott Bailey

Anthea Lavallee

Peter Martin

Geoff Wilson