The Deadline for submitting Abstracts and Topics for Technical Sessions is approaching fast!!! PLEASE NOTE: Deadline: November 1, 2011 Refer to the announcement below and the attachment for more information on the conference, preliminary agenda, and Call for Papers. Thank you, Molly Molly Middlebrook Amos Environmental Analyst Leader CSC 6101 Stevenson Avenue, Alexandria, Virginia 22304 Science and Engineering Mission Support | p: 703.496.7167 | f: 703.461.8056 | mmiddlebrook at csc.com | www.csc.com This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE: Regardless of content, this e-mail shall not operate to bind CSC to any order or other contract unless pursuant to explicit written agreement or government initiative expressly permitting the use of e-mail for such purpose. ----- Forwarded by Molly D Middlebrook/USA/CSC on 10/27/2011 09:06 PM ----- From: Pranckevicius.Pranas at epamail.epa.gov To: glin-announce at great-lakes.net Date: 10/04/2011 03:12 PM Subject: GLIN==> Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Quality Technical Conference December 6 - 8, 2011 Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Quality Technical Conference 2011 Conference Announcement & Preliminary Agenda “I encourage each of you to have more meetings like this where we can get together with national decision makers and indigenous people of this land. In Red Cliff, we sit down and talk to the elders and do more of this...Do we have all the answers? No. But, we need to come together.” – Marvin Defoe, Vice Chairman of Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa In the spirit of this eloquent speech by a participant from last year’s conference, we are pleased to announce that the 2011 Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) Quality Technical Conference will be held in Chicago, Illinois on December 6 through 8, 2011. The primary purpose of this year’s conference is to facilitate implementation of quality practices for projects being conducted under the GLRI by providing training, tools, resources, and a forum for communication among GLRI collaborators as they implement their projects. Last year, Mr. Defoe encouraged meetings that promote collaboration and communication among the multitude of experts addressing the numerous environmental challenges facing the Great Lakes. The 2011 GLRI Quality Technical Conference will provide an opportunity to work together to improve quality practices for GLRI projects and ultimately, the environment. The first conference day will include the meeting welcome, and plenary and technical sessions. Day two will offer a choice of two concurrent sessions: Session I will include training sessions and Session II will include a series of technical sessions on implementation of quality. Refer to the attached “Call for Papers” for more information. The morning of conference day three will be dedicated to presentations by GLRI collaborators. The Quality Program Lead for each GLRI collaborator will present that status of quality implementation for their GLRI projects. Conference At A Glance ------------------------------ Dates December 6-8, 2011 Location Metcalfe Federal Building 77 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604 Registration Free conference registration. Contact Elizabeth Benjamin of CSC at ebenjamin at csc.com and provide: • Attendee’s name, e-mail, organization, and role • Does person plan to attend in-person or on-line for the conference (if on-line, webinar registration information will be provided) Logistics Travel and accommodation information, including dining options, are provided in the 2011 GLRI Quality Technical Conference Meeting Logistics Fact Sheet ------------------------------ (See attached file: GLRI_QTC_announce.pdf) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.great-lakes.net/lists/glin-announce/attachments/20111028/fa92c898/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Draft_GLRI_QTC_Announce_Agenda_Call for Papers_102811.pdf Type: application/octet-stream Size: 61452 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.great-lakes.net/lists/glin-announce/attachments/20111028/fa92c898/attachment.obj