View of Lake Michigan and Chicago skyline from Oak Street Beach
View of Lake Michigan and Chicago skyline from Oak Street Beach. (Photo Ihor Hulovatyy)

Deadline: October 15, 2019

The Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program will be reviewed Oct. 22-24, 2019, by a team convened by the National Sea Grant College Program. The review will be conducted at the Illini Center in Chicago, Illinois, and will consider all aspects of Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant’s programs, including management and organization, performance, research, stakeholder engagement and collaborative activities, including those with various offices of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

This notice invites you to participate in our review by emailing your comments about Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant to oar.sg-feedback@noaa.gov. Kindly send your comments at your earliest convenience and note that the comment period will end on Oct. 15, 2019, one week before the site review visit. Please include “Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant site review” in the subject line.

Thank you for assisting us by letting the review team hear from you.

Sincerely,

Tomas Höök
Director, Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant

 


Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant is a part of University of Illinois Extension and Purdue Extension.

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