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Suggestion for Menu name changed in Campaign section

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Marcy Seavey, modified 11 Years ago.
Jedi Knight Posts: 69 Join Date: 3/30/12 Recent Posts
Currently the menu options for the Field Campaigns section of the website are:

Current Theme
Other On-going Field Campaigns
Earth System Science Projects
Upcoming Field Campaigns
Research Campaign Archive

I would like to suggest some changes to increase consistency in naming (all of the campaigns are research campaigns...so to use the word in only the archive menu item is confusing and unnessessary).

Suggestion is to change the titles to:

1. Primary Field Campaigns (SCRC, GGIC, CLC, PC, FLTR; this area is for what is being currently pushed)
2. Ongoing Field Campaigns (O4L, SCUBA, GaN, STFC; this area is for long term reoccurring projects)
3. Upcoming Field Campaigns (SMAPM - move to 1 or 2 when begins; programs that have not started but need
buzz')
4. Earth System Science Projects (CC, CS, S&B, WD; ESSPs are these all campaigns? - could they belong inside some of the other categories?)
5. Archived Research Campaigns (IPY, G1, I think there is a soil one missing; no longer active but data and resources are available)

"Other" in "Other On-Going Field Campaigns" is an unnecessary word with negative connotations, at least in the midwest US, 'other' means "not as important, don't bother with this"

Current Theme...is also a bit misleading because at any given time some of the on-going campaigns could be going on and thus current.
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Sarah Silverberg Sallade, modified 11 Years ago.
Youngling Posts: 5 Join Date: 7/18/12 Recent Posts
I like these suggestions, they are more clear and make it even more obvious that the ESSPs do not really belong in this section because they are not field campaigns in and of themselves. (Although there have been field campaigns associated with a few of them in the past and may also have some in the future.)

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