[seek-logistics] --- UPDATE --- SEEK meeting logistics, San Diego, May 10-16

[Bertram Ludaescher]

Dear all: 

When making your hotel reservations with the Residence Inn, please
mention 
	SEEK / SDSC
to avoid double booking!

Also let me use this opportunity to welcome a new member of the SEEK
family: Shawn Bowers (shawn at cse.ogi.edu) from OGI is currently
finishing his PhD in the area of data model interoperability, and will
be joining us officially from July. He will already attend part of the 
SEEK Technical meeting, in particular the SMS and KR parts.

Welcome on board Shawn!!


Bertram

>>>>> "BL" == Bertram Ludaescher <ludaesch at sdsc.edu> writes:
BL> 
BL> Dear SEEK contributors:
BL> 
BL> The SEEK Technical meeting May 10-16th in San Diego is around the
BL> corner. Here is what you need to know to make travel arrangements etc.
BL> 
BL> ----------------------
BL> 1. TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS
BL> ----------------------
BL> 
BL> Participants may either... 
BL> 
BL> 1.1 Contact *Tracey*, *Rita* or *Delores* at
BL> 		   --------------------------------
BL> 			  Rio Grande Travel
BL> 			phone: 1-505-768-7979
BL> 		      toll-free: 1-800-283-5219
BL> 		   --------------------------------
BL> to make travel (flight) arrangements and have them billed directly to
BL> the LTER Network office, or ...
BL> 
BL> 1.2 Alternatively, participants may make their own arrangements and
BL> request reimbursement from UNM after the meeting.
BL> 
BL> If travel is not by air, reimbursement for expenses incurred may not
BL> exceed the cost the traveler would have otherwise incurred if the
BL> traveler had flown. Use of a personal automobile will be reimbursed at
BL> the standard mileage rate authorized by the New Mexico State Per Diem
BL> and Mileage Act.  The rate is currently twenty-five cents ($.25) per
BL> mile for each mile traveled.
BL> 
BL> --------------------
BL> 2. HOTEL RESERVATION
BL> --------------------
BL> A block of rooms (at $119 UCSD rate each, plus tax) has been reserved
BL> at the	
BL> 	            -----------------------------
BL> 			Residence Inn La Jolla
BL> 			  8901 Gilman Drive
BL> 			  La Jolla, CA 92037
BL> 			Phone: 1 858-587-1770
BL> 			 Fax: 1 858-552-0387
BL> 		      Toll Free: 1 800-876-1778
BL> 		    -----------------------------
BL> 
BL> Participants need to **CALL THE HOTEL DIRECTLY** and confirm their
BL> reservation! When you call, ask for *AARON*, extension 458, and
BL> mention the SEEK (SDSC) reservation.
BL> 
BL> Please do this at your earliest convenience, and no later than 
BL> April 30th (the cut-off date set by the hotel).
BL> 
BL> For further details on the hotel, see:
BL>     http://www.marriott.com/dpp/PropertyPage.asp?MarshaCode=LAJCA
BL> 
BL> -----------------------
BL> 3. LOCAL TRANSPORTATION
BL> -----------------------
BL> HOTEL <-> MEETING:
BL> If you plan to rent a car and would like to offer car-pooling between
BL> the hotel and SDSC, please send me email with the number of
BL> participants you could take and for what dates you could offer those
BL> rides. 
BL> (If all else fails, there is also the environmentally friendly way,
BL> i.e. walking between the hotel and the meeting rooms on UCSD
BL> campus--should be ca. 35 min).
BL> 
BL> AIRPORT <-> HOTEL: Cloud-9 shuttle should be ca. $10 between San Diego
BL> airport and the Residence Inn.
BL> 
BL> -----------------
BL> 4. MEETING AGENDA
BL> -----------------
BL> 
BL> Please check (and keep re-checking) the meeting web page
BL>        http://seek.ecoinformatics.org/meetings/dev-20030510/
BL> for details on the meeting agenda as it evolves.
BL> 
BL> --------------------
BL> 5. FURTHER QUESTIONS 
BL> --------------------
BL> If you have further questions, please send email to
BL> 
BL>     Bertram Ludaescher <ludaesch at sdsc.edu>,
BL>     Nancy Jensen <jensenn at sdsc.edu> 
BL> 
BL> and we will answer you asap.
BL> 
BL> Cheers, and see you soon in San Diego!
BL> 
BL> Bertram