8/27/2007
IMSG helps sponsor the Responding to Climate Change workshop for coral reef managers, August 27-30 in Pago Pago, American Samoa. More than thirty experts in coral reef management from American Samoa, Guam, Hawai’i, Fiji, and Western Samoa met to share strategies for mitigating the future impacts of climate change on coral reefs. Activities helped participants predict where coral bleaching will occur, measure coral reef resilience, and assess the socioeconomic impacts. IMSG provided staff and meeting support to help make this event possible, and sponsored a welcome reception on August 27, 2007, to kick off the workshop. IMSG has enabled this workshop to be a carbon-neutral event by contributing funding to fully offset carbon emissions from printing workshop materials and from participants’ and instructors’ air travel.

2/27/2007
IMSG helps sponsor the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force reception celebrating their accomplishments.
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10/15/2006
IMSG helps sponsor the 2005 Carribbean Bleaching Event: Response Assessment workshop designed for MPA managers, enforcement officers, field biologists, and other interested parties regarding the coral bleaching incident in the Carribbean during 2005. Held in Cozumel, Mexico October 15, 2006, IMSG provided staff and meeting support to help make this event possible.
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10/4/2006
Air Force Knowledge Now (AFKN), the award winning collaboration tool used within the Air Force for Knowledge Management, reached a record high for pages viewed. On October 3rd, 234,951 pages were viewed. Air Force Knowledge Now also supports over one terabyte of information and over 5,000 communities of practice.

We are also starting to use this tool in new and exciting ways. One example, from just over a year ago, is the use of AFKN for sharing aerial photographs with emergency responders after Hurricane Katrina. We are proud of the number of groups that we are supporting, helping them work more efficiently and effectively.

Summer 2006
Mr. Vance Hum, the IMSG president and CEO along with other IMSG and NESDIS scientists, including our proposed Project Manager, traveled to China to participate in the conference and were invited by Chinese Meteorological Administration / National Satellite Meteorology Center to give a speech and seminar introducing our Science and Technical support programs. Our proposed Project Manager (Dr. Le Jiang, also currently IMSG's Chief Scientist) were invited to give seminars at Civil Aviation Administration (CAAC) / Meteoroligical Division, and at Beijing Meteorological Center of CAAC. Long term relationships between NOAA and these Chinese agencies are anticipated to foster from these interactions.
Read CEO Hum's Speech