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Hey y'all,</div>
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We had a great virtual meeting at the ESIP January meeting last week! We'll be following up on it at our normally scheduled meeting this Thursday at 2pm ET. The agenda is:</div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Introductions for new people</span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Updates from other clusters</span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Review ESIP January meeting session for those who couldn’t attend</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Discuss feedback, especially big items:</span></li><ol style="margin-block: 0px; list-style-type: lower-alpha;">
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">adding introductions</span></li><li style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">inclusion of other standards</span></li><li style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">soliciting examples</span></li><li style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">describing the ‘who’</span></li></ol>
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<div><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Discuss plans and timeline leading up to ESIP July meeting.</span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri Light, Helvetica Light, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The meeting info can be found on our wiki:
</span></font><a href="https://wiki.esipfed.org/Biological_Data_Standards_Cluster" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">https://wiki.esipfed.org/Biological_Data_Standards_Cluster</a><br>
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<font color="#000000" face="Calibri Light, Helvetica Light, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">But</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> here is a direct link too:</span></font></div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Meeting ID: 873 9272 9191 Passcode: 708422 </span></div>
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Cheers,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Steve Formel, PhD</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Science Analytics and Synthesis (SAS)<br>
<a href="https://www.usgs.gov/ocean-biodiversity-information-system-usa" title="https://www.usgs.gov/ocean-biodiversity-information-system-usa">OBIS-USA</a> and
<a href="https://www.gbif.us/" title="https://www.gbif.us/">GBIF-US</a></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Core Science Systems | U.S. Geological Survey</span>
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<i>Trying to find some time to meet? You can <a href="https://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/90272f9d31924d2192ec0effab47d581@usgs.gov/4e30f1c14ea4498f80d0b94e67ae31f713199902614861341135/calendar.html" title="https://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/90272f9d31924d2192ec0effab47d581@usgs.gov/4e30f1c14ea4498f80d0b94e67ae31f713199902614861341135/calendar.html">
see my calendar in CT here</a>.</i></span></div>
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