<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dear All,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Given your expertise and interests, I believe that the feedback from this group to the data quality survey put together by the GeoKur project
team will be valuable. Please reach out to the team directly if you have any questions –
see the survey announcement below.</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Best regards,</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">--- Peng</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">SURVEY ON DATA QUALITY IN EARTH SYSTEM
SCIENCES</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Dear Sir
or Madam,</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Data
management has become an integral part of Earth System Sciences (ESS) research
projects, fostering efficient, collaborative, long-term data-driven research.
Ensuring access to quality assured data and metadata is of paramount importance
in the data life cycle as quality information is a fundamental characteristic
of </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(53,54,63)">data and provides the basis to determine
fitness for use. It plays a major role in ESS, because earth observations, e.g.
physical or chemical processes, are measured once, and the measured data is
reused multiple times. For this reason a meaningful description of
data quality is essential.</span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(53,54,63)"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">With
this survey we aim to better understand the relevance, availability, and needs
of quality information on several levels of details from both a data
consumer and producer perspective.</span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Community
feedback is important in helping us improve our concepts. Please feel free to
contact us, if you have any questions or concerns or if you are interested in
joint activities.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Thank
you for your participation by the end of July.</span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Lukas
Egli, Julia Fischer, and Christin Henzen</span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"><a href="mailto:lukas.egli@ufz.de" target="_blank">lukas.egli@ufz.de</a> , <a href="mailto:j.fischer@ufz.de" target="_blank">j.fischer@ufz.de</a> , <a href="mailto:christin.henzen@tu-dresden.de" target="_blank">christin.henzen@tu-dresden.de</a> </span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">On
behalf of the GeoKur project team (<a href="https://geokur.geo.tu-dresden.de/" target="_blank">https://geokur.geo.tu-dresden.de/</a>)</span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,32,96);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Ge Peng, PhD</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,32,96);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Sr. Principal Research Scientist</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,32,96)">Earth System Science Center/</span><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">NASA MSFC IMPACT</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,32,96)">The University of Alabama in Huntsville</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><a href="mailto:Ge.Peng@uah.edu" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Ge.Peng@uah.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,32,96)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,32,96)">ORCID: http://</span><a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1986-9115" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">orcid.org/0000-0002-1986-9115</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,32,96)"></span></p></div></div></div>