the type of news, event or opportunity items in which money or honor (acknowledgement) is bestowed for work done or for pursuing professional development or educational endeavors (includes honorarium and stipends) items that include call for papers, call for input, testing, feedback, formative evaluations or collaborations information about working, studying or participating in the geoscience community meetings of broad appeal that may include general audiences or specific Earth science communities and tend to be sponsored events items in which funding is proposed, requested, called for or granted through a formal process in order to accomplish or establish a product, service or project any employment position for which participants receive remuneration (pay for work done but not a stipend or honorarium) including positions like postdocs, internships, fellowships, assistantships or research associates opportunities in which individual learning or research is the primary focus such as field projects, courses, mentoring, tutoring, exchanges or college credit opportunities general information or announcements that are of interest and which may not fit other categories short-term meetings or interactions that tend to have well-defined outcomes like training opportunities, professional development or skills development Choose at least one announcement type term. Select the term Calendar to have an item appear on the DLESE web calendar. Select the term News if no announcement type seems to fit. If a site contains general information about a particular announcement type, select the announcement type and select news. For example, a grant writing center has announcement types of both Grant or proposal and News. Do not choose more than 2 or 3 terms. Most items are adequately described with 2-3 terms. required 1 unbounded string controlled vocabulary Conference