<div dir="ltr">As a reminder, by tomorrow, fill out the spreadsheet listing which of your travelers would like to attend the AMS Annual Meeting. Please complete all columns for each traveler at: <div><div><div><a href="http://goog_1444369433/" target="_blank"><br></a></div><div><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17B1-Z7GZst0aLAXs1rZ09L-txS6Ql3viPyNT1OJEQkI/edit#gid=1218058266" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/spread<wbr>sheets/d/17B1-Z7GZst0aLAXs1rZ0<wbr>9L-txS6Ql3viPyNT1OJEQkI/edit#<wbr>gid=1218058266</a><br></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Genene<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 9:45 AM, Genene Fisher - NOAA Federal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:genene.fisher@noaa.gov" target="_blank">genene.fisher@noaa.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>All,<div><br></div><div>NWSHQ has sent out quotas for AMS. NCEP has 25 slots. Similar to last year, OD will determine who fills those 25 slots and then the remaining will be placed on the waitlist. As you recall last year, everyone on the waitlist was able to go to the AMS meeting, although we do not know how that waitlist will be handled this year--it will depend on how many unused slots there will be. </div><div><br></div><div>As a reminder, please fill out the following spreadsheet by <b>Wed, Aug 23</b> with your travelers who plan to attend. Please complete all columns for each traveler at:<br></div><div><a href="http://goog_1444369433/" target="_blank"><br></a></div><div><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17B1-Z7GZst0aLAXs1rZ09L-txS6Ql3viPyNT1OJEQkI/edit#gid=1218058266" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/spread<wbr>sheets/d/17B1-Z7GZst0aLAXs1rZ0<wbr>9L-txS6Ql3viPyNT1OJEQkI/edit#<wbr>gid=1218058266</a><br></div></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Genene</div><div><br></div>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Carla Wallace - NOAA Federal</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:carla.wallace@noaa.gov" target="_blank">carla.wallace@noaa.<wbr>gov</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 5:25 PM<br>Subject: NWS Slots for AMS 98th Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, January 7-11, 2018<br>To: NWS Group Travel Conference - NOAA Service Account <<a href="mailto:nws.group.travel.conference@noaa.gov" target="_blank">nws.group.travel.conference@<wbr>noaa.gov</a>>, _NWS Group Travel POCs <<a href="mailto:nws.group.travel.pocs@noaa.gov" target="_blank">nws.group.travel.pocs@noaa.<wbr>gov</a>>, _NWS XOs <<a href="mailto:nws.xos@noaa.gov" target="_blank">nws.xos@noaa.gov</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px">NWS Group Travel POCs,</span><br></div><div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="font-size:small;display:inline">As with recent years, w</div>e need<div style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div>to set NWS <div style="font-size:small;display:inline">quotas </div><div style="font-size:small;display:inline">for AMS. Below are the numbers for AMS 2018:</div></span><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Field 1<div style="font-size:small;display:inline">45</div>:</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">AR: <div style="font-size:small;display:inline">5</div></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">PR: <div style="font-size:small;display:inline">3</div></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">ER: <div style="font-size:small;display:inline">21</div></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">WR: 2<div style="font-size:small;display:inline">5</div></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">CR: 3<div style="font-size:small;display:inline">2</div></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">SR: <div style="font-size:small;display:inline">30</div></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">NWC: <div style="font-size:small;display:inline">3</div></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">NCEP: 2<div style="font-size:small;display:inline">5</div></span></li></ul><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">HQ <div style="font-size:small;display:inline">63</div><div style="font-size:small;display:inline"></div><div style="font-size:small;display:inline"></div>:</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">FAC: 1</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">OAA: 1<div style="font-size:small;display:inline">4</div> (<b>Comms and CLO</b> included here, <div style="font-size:small;display:inline">CLO, OOE, IA, and COMMS </div>please let me know how many <span class="gmail-m_4689203095049269309gmail-m_-4547187199247770867m_5259460206548287565gmail-m_3660946555133681777m_-9000402393011293627gmail-m_722106052949933984gmail-il">you </span>wish to send <span class="gmail-m_4689203095049269309gmail-m_-4547187199247770867m_5259460206548287565gmail-m_3660946555133681777m_-9000402393011293627gmail-m_722106052949933984gmail-il">before</span> filling <span class="gmail-m_4689203095049269309gmail-m_-4547187199247770867m_5259460206548287565gmail-m_3660946555133681777m_-9000402393011293627gmail-m_722106052949933984gmail-il">out</span> the <span class="gmail-m_4689203095049269309gmail-m_-4547187199247770867m_5259460206548287565gmail-m_3660946555133681777m_-9000402393011293627gmail-m_722106052949933984gmail-il">sp<wbr>readsheet</span>)</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">OPPSD and COO (combined): <div style="font-size:small;display:inline">4</div></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Dissemination and Central Processing (combined): 7</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">STI: 15</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">AFS: 12</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">OBS: 10</span></li></ul></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><b><u>GUIDANCE TO <span class="gmail-m_4689203095049269309gmail-m_-4547187199247770867m_5259460206548287565gmail-m_3660946555133681777m_-9000402393011293627gmail-m_722106052949933984gmail-il">FILL</span> <span class="gmail-m_4689203095049269309gmail-m_-4547187199247770867m_5259460206548287565gmail-m_3660946555133681777m_-9000402393011293627gmail-m_722106052949933984gmail-il">OUT</span> <span class="gmail-m_4689203095049269309gmail-m_-4547187199247770867m_5259460206548287565gmail-m_3660946555133681777m_-9000402393011293627gmail-m_722106052949933984gmail-il">SPREADSHEET</span>:</u></b></span></font></div><div><ul style="font-size:12.8px"><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div style="font-size:small;display:inline">First...please do not promise anyone on the <span class="gmail-m_4689203095049269309gmail-m_-4547187199247770867m_5259460206548287565gmail-m_3660946555133681777m_-9000402393011293627gmail-m_722106052949933984gmail-il">spreadsheet</span> that they are definitely going. </div></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div style="display:inline">Alternately, please do not tell anyone "<span class="gmail-m_4689203095049269309gmail-m_-4547187199247770867m_5259460206548287565gmail-m_3660946555133681777m_-9000402393011293627gmail-m_722106052949933984gmail-il">you</span> are not going" if they are not on the first draft of the list, because like with years past, there were a lot of unused <span class="gmail-m_4689203095049269309gmail-m_-4547187199247770867m_5259460206548287565gmail-m_3660946555133681777m_-9000402393011293627gmail-m_722106052949933984gmail-il">slots</span> returned and we were able to accommodate everyone on every wait list.</div><br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="gmail-m_4689203095049269309gmail-m_-4547187199247770867m_5259460206548287565gmail-m_3660946555133681777m_-9000402393011293627gmail-m_722106052949933984gmail-il">Fill</span> <span class="gmail-m_4689203095049269309gmail-m_-4547187199247770867m_5259460206548287565gmail-m_3660946555133681777m_-9000402393011293627gmail-m_722106052949933984gmail-il">out</span> every column.<div style="font-size:small;display:inline"> </div></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div style="font-size:small;display:inline">Remember to include an abstract fee under column N.</div></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div style="font-size:small;display:inline">LOCAL travelers should be included. By local, that means they will not have travel orders prepared, only cost would be registration fee and abstract fee (if applicable)</div></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Make sure <span class="gmail-m_4689203095049269309gmail-m_-4547187199247770867m_5259460206548287565gmail-m_3660946555133681777m_-9000402393011293627gmail-m_722106052949933984gmail-il">you</span> list the role for each participant as shown in column F.</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Estimate all costs to the best of <span class="gmail-m_4689203095049269309gmail-m_-4547187199247770867m_5259460206548287565gmail-m_3660946555133681777m_-9000402393011293627gmail-m_722106052949933984gmail-il">you</span><div style="font-size:small;display:inline">r</div> abilities. This will ensure quicker clearance through NOAA<div style="font-size:small;display:inline"> and DOC.</div></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div style="font-size:small;display:inline"><blockquote type="cite" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>The 2018 GSA per diem rate is now available. Please use the 2018 rate to calculate your lodging ($165) and M&E ($59) for the 98th Annual AMS Meeting, January 7-11, 2018 held in Austin, Texas. </div><div><br></div><div>Also, deduct the $26 from the M&IE if you plan to attend the Awards Banquet on Wednesday.</div><div><br></div><div>Texas is a tax exempt state.</div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></div></font></li></ul><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><u>QUOTA BY <span class="gmail-m_4689203095049269309gmail-m_-4547187199247770867m_5259460206548287565gmail-m_3660946555133681777m_-9000402393011293627gmail-m_722106052949933984gmail-il">OFFICE</span>:</u></b></font></div><ul style="font-size:12.8px"><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>If <span class="gmail-m_4689203095049269309gmail-m_-4547187199247770867m_5259460206548287565gmail-m_3660946555133681777m_-9000402393011293627gmail-m_722106052949933984gmail-il">you</span> use all your <span class="gmail-m_4689203095049269309gmail-m_-4547187199247770867m_5259460206548287565gmail-m_3660946555133681777m_-9000402393011293627gmail-m_722106052949933984gmail-il">slots</span></b> on the <span class="gmail-m_4689203095049269309gmail-m_-4547187199247770867m_5259460206548287565gmail-m_3660946555133681777m_-9000402393011293627gmail-m_722106052949933984gmail-il">spreadsheet</span> - make sure <span class="gmail-m_4689203095049269309gmail-m_-4547187199247770867m_5259460206548287565gmail-m_3660946555133681777m_-9000402393011293627gmail-m_722106052949933984gmail-il">you</span> keep a list of wait list travelers (NOTE: There is a separate tab in the sheet for <span class="gmail-m_4689203095049269309gmail-m_-4547187199247770867m_5259460206548287565gmail-m_3660946555133681777m_-9000402393011293627gmail-m_722106052949933984gmail-il">you</span> to add your wait listed travelers). </span><br></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>If <span class="gmail-m_4689203095049269309gmail-m_-4547187199247770867m_5259460206548287565gmail-m_3660946555133681777m_-9000402393011293627gmail-m_722106052949933984gmail-il">you</span> DO NOT use all your <span class="gmail-m_4689203095049269309gmail-m_-4547187199247770867m_5259460206548287565gmail-m_3660946555133681777m_-9000402393011293627gmail-m_722106052949933984gmail-il">slots</span></b> assigned above - a</font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:12.8px">ll unused <span class="gmail-m_4689203095049269309gmail-m_-4547187199247770867m_5259460206548287565gmail-m_3660946555133681777m_-9000402393011293627gmail-m_722106052949933984gmail-il">slots</span> <div style="font-size:small;display:inline">will be </div></font><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">redistributed <div style="font-size:small;display:inline">with coordination through John Murphy and Kevin Cooley.</div></span></li></ul></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Genene Fisher - NOAA Federal</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:genene.fisher@noaa.gov" target="_blank">genene.fisher@noaa.gov</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 5:37 PM<br>Subject: ACTION DUE AUG 23: AMS 98th Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, January 7-11, 2018<br>To: "_NCEP.List.centerdirectors" <<a href="mailto:ncep.list.centerdirectors@noaa.gov" target="_blank">ncep.list.centerdirectors@<wbr>noaa.gov</a>>, "_NCEP.List.grouptravel" <<a href="mailto:ncep.list.grouptravel@noaa.gov" target="_blank">ncep.list.grouptravel@noaa.<wbr>gov</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr">All,<div><br></div><div>The AMS group travel call has just been announced. At this time, NWSHQ has not issued any limits on slots, but we expect that could happen. For now, please fill out the following spreadsheet by <b>Wed, Aug 23</b> with your travelers who plan to attend. Please complete all columns for each traveler at:</div><div><a href="http://goog_1444369433" target="_blank"><br></a></div><div><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17B1-Z7GZst0aLAXs1rZ09L-txS6Ql3viPyNT1OJEQkI/edit#gid=1218058266" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/spread<wbr>sheets/d/17B1-Z7GZst0aLAXs1rZ0<wbr>9L-txS6Ql3viPyNT1OJEQkI/edit#<wbr>gid=1218058266</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000"><b>NOTE: </b></font></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">Travelers can only take 75% of the M&IE for the first and last day of travel. </font></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">The Annual Banquet is included in the registration fee. Please reduce the meal from the M&IE.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Individuals will be notified via email once Group Travel is approved and may register for the conference using their Government issued travel card.</div><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><span class="gmail-m_4689203095049269309gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div><br></div></div></font></span></font></span></div></div><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><span class="gmail-m_4689203095049269309gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Genene<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail-m_4689203095049269309gmail-m_8828646091682404912gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Genene Fisher, PhD</div><div>Executive Officer</div><div>National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)</div><div>NOAA/NWS </div><div><a href="tel:(301)%20683-1323" value="+13016831323" target="_blank">301-683-1323</a> office</div><div><a href="tel:(301)%20452-7366" value="+13014527366" target="_blank">301-452-7366</a> cell</div>
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