Subject: [ESP] Name of ESP

From: Christopher Kerr <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 16:10:37 -0500

ESP Members:

I was just about to send off the newly created home page for the Earth 
Science Portal and came across the following address for:

"The Earth Sciences Portal"

http://sdcd.gsfc.nasa.gov/ESD/portal/

I need some direction on what we should do with our name either change it or 
leave it the way it is.

Christopher

Dr. Christopher L. Kerr
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From: Cathy Smith <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 15:00:06 -0700 (MST)

> I need some direction on what we should do with our name either change it or

Hi all, It's not entirely a Earth Science portal as I don't believe any
Earth data below the ocean bottom or the land surface is to be included.
Plus we don't plan for it to include a collection of Earth Science science
references (that is to say, "data" is probably needed in the name). What
about Ocean/Atmosphere Data Portal? I googled it and there is a ocean
portal, a climate data portal, and eco-portal and some other miscellaneous
ones but no Ocean/Atmosphere Data Portal.

Cathy Smith

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From: Christopher Kerr <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 17:15:22 -0500

Cathy:

The only problem is that we are planning to serve data for the
atmosphere, ocean, and, ice...

The word data is misleading as we will also allow the models that created the 
data to be downloaded.

Chris

On Wednesday 19 February 2003 05:00 pm, you wrote:
> > I need some direction on what we should do with our name either change it
> > or leave it the way it is.
> >
> > Christopher
>

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Dr. Christopher L. Kerr