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<span style="font-size:24px"><strong><span style="color:#B22222"><a href="https://environmentaldatainitiative.org/" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline"><img alt="EDI logo" data-file-id="325751" style="width:100px;height:99px;margin:0px 5px 0px 0px;outline:none" width="100" height="99" align="left" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/c258a774cbd4d34290410d1ea/images/2124a201-79c9-46f1-8d7c-93a5d9ab8d87.png"></a></span></strong></span><span style="font-size:20px"><strong><span style="color:#B22222">ENVIRONMENTAL
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<span style="font-size:16px"><span style="color:#B22222"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">EDI Update - January 2022</span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="color:#0066cc"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>How Fair are our Data? Find out in our Feb 15th webinar.</strong></span></span></span><br>
<span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">We introduce criteria for evaluating data and metadata regarding their "FAIRness" and discuss how they may be applied in EDI. The criteria were developed by
<a href="https://www.dataone.org/" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">
<span style="color:#0066cc">DataONE</span></a><span style="color:#0066cc">. </span>
<a href="https://bit.ly/3o3vbw6" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:#0066cc">FAIR - findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable</span></a> is a framework for communicating
quality of metadata. </span></span><br>
<span style="font-size:14px"><a href="https://uwmadison.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEocuupqDgrEtWSsR_sMsPfxYIX08tosAyJ" 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></span></strong></span></a></span><br>
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<strong><span style="color:#0066cc"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">New Data Explorer DeX</span></span></span></strong><br>
<span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">We are excited to announce DeX, a tool for exploring and subsetting tabular data, which is now in beta testing on the
<a href="https://portal-s.edirepository.org/nis" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">
<span style="color:#0066cc">EDI staging Data Porta</span></a><a href="https://portal-s.edirepository.org/nis" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:#0066cc">l</span></a>.
DeX provides views into tabular data found in the EDI Data Repository.</span></span><br>
<span style="font-size:14px"><a href="https://environmentaldatainitiative.org/2022/01/28/a-quick-overview-of-edis-data-explorer-dex/" 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"><strong><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">Updates to EDIutils R package</span></strong></span></span><br>
<span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">EDIutils includes functions to search and access existing data in the EDI data repository, evaluate and upload new data, and assist with related data management
tasks. The package has undergone a major refactor for submission to <a href="https://ropensci.org/" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">
<span style="color:#0066cc">rOpenSci</span></a> and <a href="https://cran.r-project.org/" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">
<span style="color:#0066cc">CRAN</span></a>.</span></span><br>
<span style="font-size:14px"><a href="https://environmentaldatainitiative.org/2022/01/26/ediutils-update/" 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>
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<span style="font-size:16px"><span style="color:#B22222"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:400"><strong>Featured Data Contribution</strong></span></span></span></span></h3>
<span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><img data-file-id="2544633" style="border-image:none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;width:250px;height:187px;margin:5px 15px 5px 0px;border:0;outline:none" width="250" height="187" align="left" src="https://mcusercontent.com/c258a774cbd4d34290410d1ea/images/aa25b9a5-211a-e926-f75e-e9c215c7f5d3.jpg">
<a href="https://environmentaldatainitiative.org/edis-featured-data-contributions/nitrous-oxide-database/" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">
<span style="color:#0066cc">"The Global Nitrous Oxide Database"</span></a>, a project by the
<a href="https://www.nrel.colostate.edu/" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">
<span style="color:#0066cc">Natural Resource Ecology Lab</span></a> (Colorado State University) is a great example of making the content of an open database publicly available through EDI, allowing easy access to the data for researchers. This data base and
data package contain data on N2O emissions as well as covariate data from experimental agricultural site<em>s. P</em></span></span><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><em>hoto: N2O sampling, credit:
Steve Del Grosso, USDA ARS</em></span></span>.<br>
<span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://environmentaldatainitiative.org/edis-featured-data-contributions/nitrous-oxide-database/" 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>
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<span style="font-size:16px"><span style="color:#B22222"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:400"><strong>Most Cited Data Contribution</strong></span></span></span></span></h3>
<span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">Did you know that you can add references for journal articles to a data package if the data package has been cited, or was used as the source data in the article?
Watch this how-to tutorial: <a href="https://youtu.be/XyyrH4EzTNc" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">
<span style="color:#0066cc">https://youtu.be/XyyrH4EzTNc</span></a><span style="color:#0066cc">
</span>for more information. EDI's most cited data </span></span><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif">contribution with 25 references is:</span></span><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:#444444"><img data-file-id="2545353" style="width:250px;height:165px;margin:45px 0px 0px 15px;outline:none" width="250" height="165" align="right" src="https://mcusercontent.com/c258a774cbd4d34290410d1ea/images/e9d65e12-bed7-a34a-daf3-743d20f35f3f.jpg"></span></span></span>
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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"><span style="color:#444444">Interagency Ecological Program: Discrete water quality monitoring in the Sacramento-San Joaquin
Bay-Delta, collected by the Environmental Monitoring Program, 1975-2019. </span>
<a href="https://portal.edirepository.org/nis/mapbrowse?packageid=edi.458.3" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:#0066cc">https://portal.edirepository.org/nis/mapbrowse?packageid=edi.458.3</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"><em>Photo: The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, credit:
<a href="https://water.ca.gov/Water-Basics/The-Delta#" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;color:#007C89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">
<span style="color:#0066cc">California Department of Water Resources 2004</span></a></em>.</span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:16px"><span style="color:#B22222"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:400"><strong>Webinars</strong></span></span></span></span></h3>
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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">Feb. 15, 2022:
<strong>"How FAIR are our data?”</strong> Corinna Gries (EDI). <a href="https://uwmadison.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEocuupqDgrEtWSsR_sMsPfxYIX08tosAyJ" 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">Mar. 8, 2022:
<strong>"Informational webinar on EDI’s 2022 Fellowship Program."</strong> <a href="https://uwmadison.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMpduuspjksGdLqSEt1X55TvJ01z7HqrFMK" 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">Mar. 15, 2022:
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