7th Annual Cooperative Institutes
Directors' Meeting and Administrators' Workshop

June 17-19, 2008
Cooperative Institute for Climate Studies
University of Maryland, College Park, MD

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A meeting of the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) Cooperative Institutes (CI's) directors and administrators was held at the Cooperative Institute for Climate Studies (CICS), College Park, MD, to discuss topics of mutual interest to the CIs and NOAA. Representatives from each of the NESDIS CIs and the Cooperative Remote Sensing Science & Technology (CREST) center were in attendance, in addition to staff from NOAA/NESDIS and the NOAA Grants Management Division. The meeting consisted of briefing the attendees on guidance and policy updates that directly impact the research and administrative process of each of the CIs. The attendees also participated in an excellent tour of the new Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) building located at M Square. The meeting concluded with a list of action items from both NOAA and the CI's, which will be posted on the NESDIS web site. The action items list will be updated periodically to record the responses.

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