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<p class="paragraph" style="margin:0in;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:black">Hello ESIP-ers!!
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin:0in;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin:0in;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:black">[apologies for cross-posting]
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin:0in;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin:0in;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:black">I'm writing to invite you to participate in an upcoming conversation to explore the idea of forming
an</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:black"> </span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:black;background:yellow">Earth,
space, and environmental sciences Community of Practice through the RDA</span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:black"> </span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:black">(Research
Data Alliance).</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:black"> </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:black"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span class="eop"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:black"> </span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin:0in;vertical-align:baseline;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;-webkit-user-select: text;-webkit-user-drag: none;overflow-wrap: break-word;white-space:pre-wrap;-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important;word-spacing:0px">
<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:black">This Community of Practice builds upon the existing ESIP/RDA
</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:black"><a href="https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/esiprda-earth-space-and-environmental-sciences-ig" target="_blank" title="https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/esiprda-earth-space-and-environmental-sciences-ig"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="color:blue">Earth,
space, and environmental science interest group</span></span></a><span class="normaltextrun">, with the goal of working together to build domain-specific leading practices for making our science more FAIR and as open as possible.</span><span class="eop"> </span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="eop"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:black"> </span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin:0in;vertical-align:baseline;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;-webkit-user-select: text;-webkit-user-drag: none;overflow-wrap: break-word;white-space:pre-wrap;-webkit-nbsp-mode: normal !important;word-spacing:0px">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:black"><a href="https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/creating-and-managing-rda-groups/creating-or-joining-community-practice" target="_blank" title="https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/creating-and-managing-rda-groups/creating-or-joining-community-practice"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="color:blue">Communities
of practice</span></span></a><span class="normaltextrun"> are a relatively new group-type for the RDA; they are designed to build discipline- or domain-specific communities, to provide a place to discuss and provide knowledge and skills within a research domain.
They are composed of experts and stakeholders to coordinate across the RDA community to advance data and software sharing, FAIR practices, and open science within a discipline. </span><span class="eop"> </span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="eop"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:black"> </span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:black">We’ll be discussing the ways forming such a Community of Practice might help coordinate within the disciplines of Earth, space, and environmental sciences and
potential opportunities for outputs from such a Community of Practice at this interest meeting and would welcome your participation, feedback, and suggestions.
<span style="background:yellow">We are planning two hour-long meeting times on Monday,
<b>February 6th</b></span> to accommodate different schedules (and will record both): </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:black"> </span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span class="normaltextrun"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:black">Europe/US</span></b></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:black">:
<u>10:30 AM UTC -5</u> (7:30 AM UTC-8, 3:30 PM UTC, 4:30 PM UTC +1, and 11:30 PM UTC +8 )
</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:black"><a href="https://agu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAldOCsqTouE9c4a5Lzl4uVEeSqai1omTSj" target="_blank" title="https://agu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAldOCsqTouE9c4a5Lzl4uVEeSqai1omTSj"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="color:blue">Register
for Europe/US friendly time</span></span></a><span class="eop"> </span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span class="normaltextrun"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:black">Australia/Japan/US</span></b></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:black">:
<u>5:00 PM UTC -5</u> (2:00 PM UTC -8, 6:00 AM UTC +8, and 9:00 AM UTC +11) </span>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:black"><a href="https://agu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArcuqopjgpGNN8kYiuPzfU2Cp-uo8t4i1i" target="_blank" title="https://agu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArcuqopjgpGNN8kYiuPzfU2Cp-uo8t4i1i"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="color:blue">Register
for Australia/Japan/US friendly time</span></span></a><span class="eop"> </span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="eop"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:black"> </span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:black">Once you register you will receive a zoom invitation. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact us!</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin:0in;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin:0in;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:black">If you are not able to attend, but have an interest – please register for one of the sessions and we’ll
send out the recordings and any information following the meeting. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin:0in;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin:0in;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:black">Best regards<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin:0in;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:black">Shelley Stall along with the other ESIP/RDA ESES IG co-chairs: Danie Kinkade, Lesley Wyborn, Pedro Corrêa,
and Helen Glaves; and our ESIP friends represented through Susan Shingledecker</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Libre Franklin";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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