Please find attached the agenda for the upcoming July 13, 2018 COS meeting. The overall theme of the meeting is "Ecosystem Ecology of the Shoulder Seasons." The meeting follows the Hubbard Brook Annual Meeting. We will meet in the conference room at the USFS Pierce Laboratory.

The schedule includes a series of brief talks followed by a discussion of next steps. In the afternoon, we have invited colleagues from the White Mountain National Forest to discuss management issues and applied research questions relevant to the National Forest. We finish with an important COS business meeting where we will discuss several critical issues (see below).