News & Events: Past Events for 2009

January 7

GLERL New Building Dedication Events - 9:30 am

All-hands Meeting for staff - 2:30 pm
Rick Spinrad and Sandy McDonald

February 7

NOSB Great Lakes Bowl at UM School of Natural Resources and Environment

March 11-13

Great Lakes Marine Forecasters' Meeting at GLERL

March 17-18

IJC Council of Great Lakes Research Managers Meeting at GLERL

April 6

Great Lakes Observing Systems Annual Meeting (UofM)

April 7

Safety Training

April 8

Seminar: Dr. Louis Uccellini - "National Centers for Environmental Prediction and the Great Lakes" - 10 am, Lake Superior Room

EEO/Diversity Training for federal employees
8:30-noon; 1-4:30

April 9

Multiple Stressors in Saginaw Bay Workshop at GLERL
(agenda here)

April 14

Interagency Beach Health Team Meeting at GLERL (NOAA, EPA, USGS)

April 18

Huron River Clean-up, 10am - 2pm
contact Dave Fanslow for details

May 2

GLERL/CILER Family & Friends day

May 4

Summer Fellows orientation, 9am, Michigan-Huron Room

May 5-7

Great Lakes Regional Collaboration Team Meeting
(GLERL and UM SNRE)

May 12 10:30 am

Seminar: "Estimation of overlake precipitation and basin runoff uncertainty in the Great Lakes"
Speakers: Qiang Dai,Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Mary E. Mello,Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystem Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Dr. Carlo DeMarchi,Department of Geological Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio

May 18 3-5:30pm

NOAA Public Forum on Future of the Great Lakes at University of Toledo
+ more info Contact: jennifer.day@noaa.gov

May 18-22

52nd Annual Conference on Great Lakes Research (IAGLR)
University of Toledo, OH

June 8

Summer Fellows orientation

June 17

GLOFS Meeting (GL Operational Forecast System) at GLERL
GLERL, NOS, NWS, NOAA CO-OPS

June 23

OAR Management Conference at GLERL

8:15 - Mark Brown, OAR CFO - Opening Remarks
8:30 - Dr. Rick Spinrad, OAR AA - Keynote
9:15 - Dr. Marie Colton, GLERL Director (acting) - GLERL Overview
10:00 - GLERL Tour, Program Highlights

June 24-25

OAR Management Conference, Ann Arbor (offsite)

July 22 -10:30 am - Michigan-Huron Room

August 10 - 12:00-1:30pm - Michigan-Huron Room

Brown bag lunch: "NOAA in the Great Lakes: Guest speakers from NWS and NOS"
Guest speakers: Pedro Restrepo, NWS Senior Scientist for Special Projects;
Don Cline, NWS Office of Climate, Water and Weather Service;
Rich Edwing, Deputy Director of NOS Center for Operational and Oceanographic Products and Services;
David Kennedy, Director, NOS Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management

August 18 - 1:00pm - Michigan-Huron Room

Seminar: Presentation by Hong Kong University scientists on the WATERMAN project, a coastal forecasting system for Hong Kong harbor.
Guest Speakers: Prof. Joseph H.W. Lee
Prof. Wenping Wang
Dr. Bin Chan
Mr. Thoe Wai
Mr. Adrian Lai

August 25 - 1:30pm - Michigan-Huron Room

Seminar: Media Assessment and Prioritization for Enhanced Visual Communications
Guest Speaker: Michael Hanrahan -The Ocean Channel

August 25-28

OAR Media Audit at GLERL