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July 2021</h4>
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<span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:#0066cc"><strong>EDI Summer Fellowship Program has started</strong></span></span></span><br>
<span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">After receiving data publishing training during our virtual data publishing workshop in June, EDI's 16 Summer Fellows are gaining hands-on data publishing experience
working with specific host sites, spanning diverse ecosystems across the country and in Costa Rica.</span><br>
<a href="https://environmentaldatainitiative.org/edi-2021-summer-fellowship-program/" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:#0066cc"><strong><span style="background-color:#FAEBD7">Read
more></span></strong></span></a><br>
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:#0066cc"><strong>EDI Town Hall</strong></span></span></span><br>
<span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">Join us with your questions on everything EDI, next Tuesday, July 20, at 2pm ET!
</span></span><br>
<span style="font-size:14px"><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYscu6sqz4sGdTxhS6qYRJYCjGY0Tojoq2Q" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:#0066cc"><strong><span style="background-color:#FAEBD7">Registration
information></span></strong></span></a><br>
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong><span style="color:#0066cc">Annotation Progress</span></strong></span></span><br>
<span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000">EML 2.2 now supports annotating dataset elements with concepts from external vocabularies, most commonly, ontologies, which will enable
more precise search and better understanding of dataset contents. EDI is examining ways to apply ontologies to datasets, focusing on two aspects: using the
</span><span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/environmentontology/home" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:#0066cc">Environment Ontology</span></a></span><span style="color:#000000"> </span><span style="color:#000000">for
general concepts, and more specific annotations for measurements in data table columns. EDI will be working with data managers soon to apply these tools more broadly.</span><br>
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<span style="color:#0066cc"><span><strong><a href="https://environmentaldatainitiative.org/nutrient-enrichment-grasslands/" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline"><img data-file-id="2376729" style="border-image:none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;width:250px;height:187px;margin:5px 10px 0px 0px;border:0;outline:none" width="250" height="187" align="left" src="https://mcusercontent.com/c258a774cbd4d34290410d1ea/_compresseds/4a2c5007-04c1-042f-4581-90b915c52dd4.jpg"></a>Featured
Data Contribution</strong></span></span></span></span><br>
<span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">The data on
<a href="https://environmentaldatainitiative.org/nutrient-enrichment-grasslands/" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">
<span style="color:#0066cc">"Effects of nutrient enrichment on grassland biomass and plant diversity across the globe"</span></a> were collected by participants of the
<a href="https://nutnet.org/index.php/" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">
<span style="color:#0066cc">Nutrient Network: A Global Research Cooperative</span></a>, a grassroots research effort that conducts globally coordinated grassland experiments.</span></span><br>
<span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://environmentaldatainitiative.org/nutrient-enrichment-grasslands/" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:#0066cc"><strong><span style="background-color:#FAEBD7">Read
more ></span></strong></span></a></span></span><br>
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>From our Partners</h4>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin:10px 0;padding:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">The
<a href="https://www.archbold-station.org/" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">
<span style="color:#0066cc">Archbold Biological Station</span></a> seeks a bright, intellectually curious person, to fill the technical support position of Data Manager (application deadline: July 18, 2021).<br>
<a href="https://www.archbold-station.org/documents/jobads/DataManager_ABS_Posting_2021.pdf" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:#0066cc"><strong><span style="background-color:#FAEBD7">Read
more ></span></strong></span></a></span></span></p>
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Webinars</h4>
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at 2pm Eastern Time (11am Pacific). For connection information, please check our
<a href="https://environmentaldatainitiative.org/webinars-events/" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">
<span style="color:#0066cc">website</span></a> and <a href="https://environmentaldatainitiative.org/calendar/" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">
<span style="color:#0066cc">events calendar</span></a>.</span></span></p>
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<li style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">Jul. 20, 2021:
<strong>EDI Town Hall, </strong><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYscu6sqz4sGdTxhS6qYRJYCjGY0Tojoq2Q" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:#0066cc">connection
information</span></a>.</span></span></li><li style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">Aug. 17, 2021:<strong>
</strong><strong>"CZ Manager: software for sensor and sample based earth observations."</strong> CZ Manager is a graphical user interface (GUI) for Observations Data Model 2 (ODM2).
<strong>Speaker:</strong> Miguel Leon (University of New Hampshire, Luquillo Long-Term Ecological Research),
<a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kcOihpz4sEtNmoviVZ_qCv-8ktc4iNJrQ" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">
<span style="color:#0066cc">connection information</span></a>.</span></span></li></ul>
<span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">Please contact us at
<a href="mailto:info@environmentaldatainitiative.org" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">
<span style="color:#0066cc">info@environmentaldatainitiative.org</span></a> if you:</span></span>
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<a href="https://environmentaldatainitiative.org/data-publishing-workshops/" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">
<span style="color:#0066cc">EDI data publishing workshop</span></a> at your institution.</span></span></li></ul>
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