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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear ESIP IQC members,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m glad to share with you two free upcoming webinars on September 14<sup>th</sup>/15th , organized by the Citizen Science Association, on data quality assurance (QA) for citizen science projects.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">The first is designed for staff in government agencies and the second is for groups that manage citizen science projects.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Working Together to Improve Citizen Science Data Quality: A Webinar for Government Agencies (September 14th, 1-2pm ET)</b>. Check out the webinar
<a href="https://www.aphl.org/Materials/Webinar%20Flyers/Citizen-Science-Data-Quality.pdf">
flyer</a> for more information. You can register her: <a href="https://aphl.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_51X9LvqWQIGwfIEHH2fXnQ">
Register</a><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<b><span style="background:white">Make Your Citizen Science Project Count: Strategies to Produce Quality Data (on September 15<sup>th</sup>, 1-2pm ET).<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="background:white"> Below is information
about the second webinar is for organizations that design and manage citizen science projects. You can register here: <a href="https://citizenscience-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BTYIZLESTxK9TCHdSyGRIA">Register</a></span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<span style="color:black;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">Both webinars encourage preparation of a data quality assurance project plan, based on<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.epa.gov/citizen-science/quality-assurance-handbook-and-guidance-documents-citizen-science-projects">the
EPA QA handbook for citizen science</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>released in 2019.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:#232333;background:white">T</span><span style="color:black;background:white">he webinars
are sponsored by EPA, the</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#232333;background:white"> </span></span><span style="color:#232333;background:white">Association of Public Health Laboratories,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:black;background:white">and
the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:#232333;background:white">Citizen Science Association</span><span style="color:black;background:white">. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">Please share this information with your agency colleagues and other interested people and organizations. The webinars are open to the public.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">Yaxing</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ESIP Information Quality Cluster<o:p></o:p></p>
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