Gayanilo elected co-chair of DataONE User's Group                  Felimon Gayanilo.  Felimon Gayanilo, Systems Architect with Harte Research Institute, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi was recently nominated and eventually elected to co-chair the DataONE User’s Group (DUG) with Plato Smith of the University of New Mexico during the last DUG Meeting in Asilomar, CA (July 12-13, 2015). The NSF-funded Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE) will ensure the preservation, access, use and reuse of multi-scale, multi-discipline, and multi-national Earth observational science data via cyberinfrastucture elements and a broad education and outreach program. One way for DataONE to engage its community of partners is through working groups and DataONE User’s Group (DUG). The DUG is the worldwide community of Earth observation data authors, users and stakeholders that makeup the DataONE partnership communities. It represents the needs and interest of the community and provide guidance that facilitates DataONE in achieving its goals. Mr. Gayanilo and Dr. Smith will serve for two years (2015-2017) before new co-chairs are selected from the growing number of members where major data centers that may include, among others, the National Centers for Environmental Information of NOAA. The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Information and Data Cooperative (GRIIDC) of Harte Research Institute, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi is working towards becoming a member node of this network.