[gradsusr] Views solicited on ease of finding, getting, and using data, models, and computational/visualization tools

[James Kinter]

Dear GrADS Users - While I realize the following email to the GrADS Users Forum is unusual, I felt it is sufficiently germane to a great many GrADS users to warrant using the listserv to get this message out. 


We want you to help guide EarthCube, a bold new initiative by the U.S. National Science Foundation to create an integrated data and knowledge management system for the geosciences.
 
Researchers funded by NSF want to know your views on the needs in data and cyberinfrastructure across the geosciences.   Because data discovery, access, and use is such an integral part of what we all do now, we encourage you to click the following link and take the survey ASAP http://sgiz.mobi/s3/EarthCube-Stakeholder-Consent-PA *
 
We also encourage you to register on the EarthCube website (http://earthcube.ning.com/) and get involved in the conversations that are taking place about EarthCube.   Survey results will be shared with NSF, posted on the EarthCube website, and presented at the EarthCube community meeting this June.
 
*This link takes you to a survey to capture your view on how to best advance data-enabled geoscience.  Your participation is voluntary.  Your identity will be kept separate from your responses and be kept strictly confidential.  Only aggregate findings will be reported.  As for all surveys of this kind, it starts with a voluntary consent form.  Please share your views by clicking on the above link and tell us what you think.


Thanks for helping. Best regards. -- Jim

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Jim Kinter, Director
Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies
4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302
Calverton, MD 20705 USA
Professor, Climate Dynamics
Atmospheric, Oceanic & Earth Sciences Dept. 
College of Science, George Mason Univ.
4400 University Drive
Fairfax, VA 22030 USA
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tel: (301) 595-7000 **** fax: (301) 595-9793
kinter at cola.iges.org *** http://www.iges.org
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