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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">2019 EarthCube Annual Meeting -- Call for Abstracts -- Extended to April 19, 2019</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><img width="448" height="109" style="width:4.6666in;height:1.1354in" id="_x0000_i1025" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/fmrLFndK8uOw0VOaxho1HbO4O8rPxJm5mDQ1KL-ktPGJ1KMs2xkEny2SOZ_fCyeh7NgrHu8cMrw_9gdSotufaFWWSK3NcLrQ87g2v8fpkqFiXK5w4bxGqn4TTCr8juLDEc-5QFZm" alt="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/fmrLFndK8uOw0VOaxho1HbO4O8rPxJm5mDQ1KL-ktPGJ1KMs2xkEny2SOZ_fCyeh7NgrHu8cMrw_9gdSotufaFWWSK3NcLrQ87g2v8fpkqFiXK5w4bxGqn4TTCr8juLDEc-5QFZm"></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The National Science Foundation is supporting the development of EarthCube to
<span style="background:white">transform research in the academic geosciences community through the creation of a well-connected and facile environment to share data and knowledge in an open, transparent, and inclusive manner, thus accelerating our ability
to understand and predict the Earth system. EarthCube is a unique community driven by collaboration between geoscience and computer science domains.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The EarthCube community extends a special invitation to the geoscience community to participate in the
</span><a href="https://www.earthcube.org/ECAM2019"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">2019 EarthCube Annual Meeting</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> in Denver, CO, June 12-14,
2019. The deadline to submit abstracts has been extended to <b>Friday, April 19th, 2019</b> to increase and broaden participation in the meeting.
<b><a href="https://www.earthcube.org/ECAM2019/Posters">Submit Abstracts Here</a></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">EarthCube welcomes presentation of research enabled by the use of advanced cyberinfrastructure, and presentation of new computational capabilities that
enable and support geoscience. We are particularly interested in contributions from scientists not previously involved with EarthCube who can share results and ideas that exemplify the transformative research enabled by collaboration across computer and geoscience
disciplines and the integration of information from multiple sources to advance knowledge and understanding.
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Why attend?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Connect and network with like minded researchers in birds of a feather, poster, breakout and demo sessions</span><o:p></o:p></li><li style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Be inspired by the keynote speakers, Jess Phoenix (Accessibility of science advocate and co-founder and executive director of Blueprint Earth) and Shaowen Wang (Director of the CyberGIS Center for
Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies at </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">the
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">University of Illinois)
</span><o:p></o:p></li><li style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">See presentations on current EarthCube research</span><o:p></o:p></li><li style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Learn about, and participate in discussions on the future of EarthCube, and future funding opportunities
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Early career scientists are particularly encourage to attend. Funding is available through
</span><a href="https://www.earthcube.org/info/early-career-travel-grant"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">Early Career Travel Grants</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> that provide
reimbursement funds to individuals ($500) or underrepresented minorities ($1000) to present or discuss their EarthCube-related work. Apply for an Early Career Travel Grant to attend the 2019 EarthCube Annual Meeting by
<b>Friday, April 19th 2019</b>. <b><a href="https://www.earthcube.org/info/get-involved/early-career-travel-grant">Submit applications HERE</a></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We look forward to your participation at the
<a href="https://www.earthcube.org/ECAM2019"><span style="color:#1155CC">2019 EarthCube Annual Meeting</span></a> in Denver, CO, June 12-14, 2019.</span><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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