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EDI Update - November 2021</h4>
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<span style="color:#0066cc"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>2022 EDI Summer Fellowship Program</strong></span></span></span><br>
<span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">We are now accepting applications from research projects and field stations interested in hosting an EDI Fellow next Summer.
<a href="https://forms.gle/44V9bTFD83Xk72SW8" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">
<span style="color:#0066cc">Application Form</span></a> - The deadline is Dec. 31. This will be the 5th year of our Fellowship Program!</span><br>
<a href="https://environmentaldatainitiative.org/edi-dm-fellowship-program/" 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="color:#0066cc"><strong><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">EDI at the AGU Fall Meeting (Dec 13-17, 2021)</span></strong></span></span><br>
<span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">We will present on a variety of great topics such as "FAIR-TRUST-CARE Principles for Environmental Data Repositories", "How Rich Science Metadata is Key to a Successful
Data Repository" and </span></span><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">Is a Distributed Graduate Seminar a Successful Way to Share Information Management Expertise with Students?"</span></span><br>
<span style="font-size:14px"><a href="https://environmentaldatainitiative.org/webinars-events/edi-agu-2021/" 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">EDI's
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<span style="color:#0066cc"><strong><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">Updates to User-contributed Journal Citation Interface on the EDI Data Portal</span></strong></span></span><br>
<span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">Our Data Portal interface now includes more granular information regarding the type of citation being submitted.</span><br>
<a href="https://environmentaldatainitiative.org/2021/11/02/updates-journal-citation-data-portal/" 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><br>
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<span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:#0066cc"><strong><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">Normalization of Creator Names in EDI's Data Portal</span></strong></span><br>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">The Advanced Search feature of EDI’s Data Portal lets you select a dataset Creator name from a drop-down list of all dataset creators in our repository. We are now using the normalized Creator
names.</span><br>
<a href="https://environmentaldatainitiative.org/2021/11/02/normalization-creator-names-edi/" 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="color:#0066cc"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><span><strong>Featured Data Contribution</strong></span></span></span><br>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><img data-file-id="2394813" style="border-image:none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;width:250px;height:187px;margin:5px 10px 5px 0px;border:0;outline:none" width="250" height="187" align="left" src="https://mcusercontent.com/c258a774cbd4d34290410d1ea/images/55eb23ba-fe01-846d-a698-1e69b76e7739.jpg">
<a href="https://environmentaldatainitiative.org/edis-featured-data-contributions/jn-hummingbird-monarch/" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">
<span style="color:#0066cc">"Journey North Hummingbird and Monarch Butterfly observations by volunteer community scientists across Central and North America"</span></a> are a great example of citizen science data published and hosted in EDI.
<a href="https://journeynorth.org/" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">
<span style="color:#0066cc">Journey North</span></a> is a crowdsourced community science program that encourages people in tracking wildlife migration.
<em>Photo: Monarch butterfly (credit: <a href="https://journeynorth.org/monarchs/news/fall-2021/09012021-migration-gaining-momentum" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">
<span style="color:#0066cc">Journey North</span></a>). </em></span></span><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://environmentaldatainitiative.org/edis-featured-data-contributions/jn-hummingbird-monarch/" 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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<span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:#B22222"><strong>Webinars</strong></span></span></span>
<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">We host<span style="color:#000000"> our webinars</span> on the 3rd Tuesday of each month
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">Nov. 16, 2021:
<strong>"Keep Your Science Up to Date with EDI Repository Event Notifications.”</strong> Colin Smith (EDI).
<a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqcuivrD4pG9AwHKz5qm3nb-mEgROLxYZx" 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">Jan. 19, 2021:
<strong>"EDI Town Hall."</strong></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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<li dir="ltr" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">have requests for a webinar topic.</span></span></li><li dir="ltr" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">would consider an
<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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