<div dir="ltr"><table cellpadding="0" style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:medium;border-spacing:0px;padding:0px;border-collapse:collapse;width:963px;display:block;color:rgb(32,33,36)"><tbody><tr><td style="vertical-align:top;padding:0px;width:0px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="border:none;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;width:151px;height:90px"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/pi39m280pPRVeccpQogn_FE8o7l7KgbuYQOewtZL7vH8qKrIwISOgvRdU7vI9GGdSlXRzQgkHpTks2AkEaT3RNhespOoJFvE8UCScvxLL7qqs1pndajNg7PnmZ56aVV6DIODdWU" width="151" height="90" class="gmail-CToWUd" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(69,69,69);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Earth Science Information Partners (</span><a href="http://esipfed.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ESIP</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(69,69,69);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) present the 2020 webinar series:</span></font></p><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Putting Data to Work</font></span></p><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small"><br></font><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small"><br></font><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><u><b>How Usability Techniques Can Support Your Scientific Communities (*TODAY* Wed. 6/24 at 2 pm ET/11 am PT)<br></b></u></font>At the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), it is critical that our scientific research and products are provided in a useful way to our communities. The USGS Community for Data Integration (CDI) Usability Collaboration Area focuses on bringing the USGS community together to 1) discuss usability challenges when serving scientific data, and 2) identify strategies that can help improve data’s usability from an end-user perspective. As the current lead for the USGS CDI Usability Collaboration Area, Sophie will provide an overview of how the Usability Collaboration Area is providing usability resources to the USGS community. Sophie will also discuss a few use cases for how she is applying the usability resources to USGS projects. Finally, as a former co-chair of ESIP’s Usability Cluster, Sophie will share her lessons learned for how to collaborate with our communities to optimize the usability of our scientific data.<br><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></p><b>About the Presenter:<br></b>Sophie Hou is a Data & Usability Analyst at Apogee Engineering – Contractor to the USGS. She is also the lead for the USGS Community for Data Integration (CDI) Usability Collaboration Area and former co-chair of ESIP's Usability Cluster.<br><br><b>Join:</b> See connection details <a href="https://www.esipfed.org/get-involved/telecon-calendar" target="_blank">here</a>.</td><td style="vertical-align:top;padding:0px;width:0px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br></div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Learn more about ESIP's 2020 webinar series <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1glfznxyUu1l-TDtiC78ZzzBmKK0wXOPfIrJoUoAyJb8/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">here</a>.</font><br></div>