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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">Good morning,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">At the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://2020esipwintermeeting.sched.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#00004D">Winter
Meeting</span></a>, Christa Hasenkopf and Mike Little convened a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://sched.co/XrhH" target="_blank"><span style="color:#00004D">session</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to discuss
rebooting the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>ESIP Air Quality Cluster</b>. The objective of the cluster would be to further strengthen the Air Quality community and create more collaborations between scientists and technologists. There was sufficient
interest that ESIP has authorized a reboot of the Air Quality </span><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard">Cluster.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>The cluster co-chairs will be Mike Little, NASA, and Beth Huffer, Lingua Logica/NASA Atmospheric
Science Data Center.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span> We would like to urge scientists
<span style="color:black">and technologists, and anyone else who is interested in the topic of air quality research and technology support for air quality research to participate in this cluster. Typical Cluster activity involves a 1-hr monthly telecon, which
will feature guest speakers on science and technology topics, planning for Cluster activities, discussions about trends and technologies and other relevant topics.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">Participation in the cluster will also provide opportunities for cluster members interested in presenting their own work, either at cluster telecons, or at poster and in-person sessions
at the biannual ESIP Summer and ESIP Winter Meetings.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">Some initial ideas for what this cluster might work on include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:-webkit-standard">Construction of a catalog of data, analytic tools and models relevant to AQ</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:-webkit-standard">Outreach to other communities of practice to form collaborations for advancing our understanding of this important science domain</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:-webkit-standard">Development of self-help documentation in making data and other resources more usable to scientists and engineers</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">If you are interested in participating in the Air Quality Cluster, please go to this website and subscribe to the ESIP-AQcluster</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><a href="https://lists.esipfed.org/mailman/listinfo/esip-aqcluster" target="_blank"><span style="color:#00004D">https://lists.esipfed.org/mailman/listinfo/esip-aqcluster</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">Please feel free to share this with other members of your team.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">Michael Little <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><a href="mailto:m.m.little@nasa.gov">m.m.little@nasa.gov</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black">Beth Huffer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><a href="mailto:beth@lingualogica.net">beth@lingualogica.net</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:black"><a href="mailto:elisabeth.b.huffer@nasa.gov">elisabeth.b.huffer@nasa.gov</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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