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Great Lakes Regional Collaboration Team Meeting in Muskegon, MI: Robert Aune (STAR/ASPB) attended a meeting of the Great Lakes Regional Collaboration Team, a component of the Office of Program Planning and Integration's Regional Collaboration initiative, held on July 8-10, 2014 at the Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab's (GLERL) Lake Michigan Field Station, Muskegon MI. Aune is the NESDIS representative on the Team. The purpose of the meeting was to increase team interaction and build relationships between team members from various NOAA line offices, learn about the mission of the GLERL Lake Michigan Field Station and develop team projects and activities for FY2015. The Team is responsible for monitoring the status of on-going grants and awarding new FY2015 grants to NOAA scientists and NOAA partners servicing the Great Lakes region. (R. Aune, E/RA2, 608-262-1071). 

CIMSS Board of Directors Meeting: The Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) held a Board of Directors meeting on July 11, 2014. The Board advises the CIMSS Director by reviewing the policies, research themes, and priorities of CIMSS, including budget and scientific activities. It is comprised of administrators from NOAA, NASA, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Participants in this meeting were Martin Cadwallader (Board Chair, Dean of the Graduate School), Steven Ackerman (CIMSS Director), Grant Petty (Chair, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences), Alfred Powell (Director, Center for Satellite Applications and Research, NOAA/NESDIS), Ingrid Guch (Chief, Cooperative Research Program, NESDIS/STAR), Jeff Key (Chief, Advanced Satellite Products Branch, NOAA/NESDIS), Jack Kaye (Associate Director for Research, NASA), David Young (Director, Science Directorate, NASA Langley Research Center), Wayne Feltz (Executive Director – Science, CIMSS/SSEC), Jenny Hackel (Executive Director – Administration, SSEC), and Leanne Avila (CIMSS). (S. Ackerman, CIMSS, 608-263-3647; J. Key, E/RA2, 608-263-2605, jkey@ssec.wisc.edu) 

Operational Assimilation of Direct Broadcast VIIRS Winds at FNMOC: On July 8, 2014, the Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceangraphy Center (FNMOC) began operational use of the Fairbanks direct broadcast Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) polar winds in their numerical weather prediction system. The winds are generated with data from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks receiving system but are processed at the NESDIS Fairbanks Command and Data Acquisition Station (FCDAS, aka Gilmore Creek). FNMOC reports a similar per-observation positive impact of the VIIRS winds as for other polar winds products. (J. Key, E/RA2, 608-263-2605, jeff.key@noaa.gov; S. Wanzong, CIMSS; D. Santek, CIMSS) 

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