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font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">We have received many requests for sample collection through you from your colleagues. I know we didn't have time to go through this procedure in detail
on the meeting. So - in order to streamline everything, and give the possibility to more people to apply we decided to do following. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">If approached by a PI outside of EXPORTS, please take some time to fill up following questionnaire (you, not the colleague that approached you):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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out to some of you for discussion. We will turn around these within 10 days, so by April 24th we will reach out back towards you. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">This might sound a bit obsessive, but we want to make sure that collection of the additional samples doesn't jeopardize the science that all of you were funded to do or compete with it (especially student projects). </span></p>
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font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Hope this makes sense. Please reach out to me and Susanne C. if it doesn't. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<div class="PlainText">Ivona Cetinic, Ph.D.<br>
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/USRA<br>
Ocean Ecology Laboratory<br>
Code 616<br>
Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA<br>
Phone: +1-301-286-1514<br>
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"You can observe a lot just by watchin'." Yogi Berra</div>
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