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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences (AGS) in the Directorate for Geosciences (GEO) is calling for conference proposals through a Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) focused on identifying
 critical needs for innovations in open science for data infrastructure that can serve a research community at a national-needs level, and have the potential to significantly advance research in atmospheric and geospace sciences, ensuring their research outputs,
 broadly defined, in compliance with the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reproducible) principles.  The conference proposals provide the AGS community an opportunity to come together to discuss needs, best practices, and resources necessary to
 build a data infrastructure through which open and equitable research can be achieved. 
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Please see the recent publication, NSF 23-141,
</span><a href="https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2023/nsf23141/nsf23141.jsp"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0070C0">Dear Colleague Letter: Innovations in Open Science (IOS) Planning Workshops (nsf23141) | NSF - National Science Foundation</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">,
 for more information.  PIs are encouraged to reach out to one of the Points of Contact in the DCL for questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060;mso-ligatures:none">Tai-Yin Huang, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060;mso-ligatures:none">Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060;mso-ligatures:none">National Science Foundation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#002060;mso-ligatures:none">(703) 292-4943 |
<a href="mailto:thuang@nsf.gov"><span style="color:#002060">thuang@nsf.gov</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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