<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.666666666666666px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I am the project liaison for</span><a href="http://www.scistarter.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12.666666666666666px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:12.666666666666666px;font-family:arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">SciStarter</span></a><span style="font-size:12.666666666666666px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (</span><a href="http://www.scistarter.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12.666666666666666px;font-family:arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://www.scistarter.com/</span></a><span style="font-size:12.666666666666666px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">), a research affiliate of Arizona State University, and an online hot spot for citizen science.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.666666666666666px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">At some point, someone added a description of your project (</span></p>









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</tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.666666666666666px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) to our Project Finder and I am writing to invite you to take ownership of the project page and update the description.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.666666666666666px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Through our</span><a href="http://scistarter.com/finder" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12.666666666666666px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:12.666666666666666px;font-family:arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">searchable, public database</span></a><span style="font-size:12.666666666666666px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (</span><a href="http://scistarter.com/finder" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:13.333333333333332px;font-family:arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://scistarter.com/finder</span></a><span style="font-size:12.666666666666666px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">)<wbr>, we help people find projects like yours. Updated projects are featured on the homepage, on partners' sites (PBS, DiscoverMagazine.com, AstronomyMagazine.com, National Science Teachers Association, and more), in our newsletters and blogs (on Public Library of Science and Discover Magazine)  and social media networks, vastly extending the reach of our 50,000 community members.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.666666666666666px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">To take ownership of and edit your project you'll need to create an user account on</span><a href="http://www.scistarter.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12.666666666666666px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:12.666666666666666px;font-family:arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">SciStarter.</span></a><span style="font-size:12.666666666666666px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Then simply send me your username so I can transfer editing privileges.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.666666666666666px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This all sounds cumbersome but I promise it's not. :-)</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.666666666666666px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If you have any questions or run into any trouble please let me know.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12.666666666666666px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font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