<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hi Hilary / Brian,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Congratulations!! Welcome to the EXPORTS team! We are very excited to have you join us. Ivona Cetinic (EXPORTS Project Scientist) and Susanne Craig (EXPORTS data manager) will reach out to you shortly to introduce you to our plans for the field program, logistics, team communication procedures, data management, etc. As you surmised, there are no berths available (I don’t even get to go…). I see that you have already reached out to folks who will be collecting samples for you. We all will need to move quickly as our sail date (Aug 10) is rapidly approaching… </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I should be available tomorrow or most of next week to talk about overall science planning for the program. Let me know when works for you and we’ll go from there. For a start, I’ve attached a ppt of the NE Pac experimental plan of the moment. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Again, I’m very excited to welcome you all to the team. Let me or Ivona know what we can do to help make this a success for you and your science.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best, Dave </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""></div></div></body></html>