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Dear Colleagues,
NSF seeks to facilitate the conduct of geosciences research by
supporting community-based cyberinfrastructure in an effort called
EarthCube. The EarthCube website, http://earthcube.ning.com, is a forum
to enable broad participation from across the community and to solicit
comments and white paper submissions to the EarthCube process. This
dialog is critical to preparing the community for the focusing
activities of the EarthCube Design Charrette, November 1-4, 2011.
This is an unprecedented opportunity for the geosciences to come
together and share ideas on geosciences requirements, innovative
technology solutions, and vision and design approaches for an integrated
knowledge management system. Further information on the EarthCube and
Charrette process, as it becomes available, will be posted at this
website. We invite you to register to participate in the EarthCube
forums and groups. We also recommend that you encourage colleagues,
postdocs and students to participate.
NSF also recognizes that user requirements are required to build a
knowledge management system that is useful to and used by geoscientists.
Thus, we encourage you to participate in an effort to gather geosciences
requirements(available at
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GeoSciRequirements). The survey is
intended to query geoscientists about their scientific and related
cyberinfrastructure needs, so that common issues and goals across the
geosciences can be found and discussed in the EarthCube forums and
Charrette. Answering any of these questions in voluntary, and responses
may be made available in the EarthCube forums. However, we encourage you
to answer as many of these questions as you can on or before October 15.
The feedback you provide here will be integral to shaping EarthCube in
both the short and long term.
Thank you for your time and consideration. We hope you find these tools
useful for discussing and developing this community-based
cyberinfrastructure for the geosciences.
EarthCube Forums: http://earthcube.ning.com
Geosciences Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GeoSciRequirements
EarthCube Team: earthcube@xxxxxxx <mailto:earthcube@xxxxxxx>
The EarthCube Team
National Science Foundation
4201 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22230
earthcube@xxxxxxx <mailto:earthcube@xxxxxxx>
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