Hello,
Can you please share this announcement for the NOAA Hydrographic Services Review Panel (HSRP) Federal Advisory Committee solicitation for nominations of new members for 2018 with local, regional and national partners, your members, newsletters, blogs, stakeholders, colleagues and other interested parties? The nominations are due May 30, 2017. Below please find the links to the HSRP Federal Register Notice and the press release with the process and other information.

You can review the requirements, criteria and questions on how to submit your nomination to the Federal Register Notice, HSRP Membership Solicitation for 2018 (FRN) at:
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/03/24/2017-05639/membership-solicitation-for-hydrographic-services-review-panel.

Additional information on the HSRP nominations process is at:
https://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/ocs/hsrp/call-application.htm

Press release “NOAA seeks new members f or hydrographic advisory panel”
http://www.noaa.gov/media-release/noaa-seeks-new-members-for-hydrographic-advisory-panel

Recent issue papers and recommendations are at:
https://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/ocs/hsrp/recommendations.htm

The HSRP is a federal advisory committee that provides NOAA with independent advice on improving the quality, efficiency, and usefulness of NOAA’s navigation-related products, data, and services. The HSRP advises the NOAA Administrator about its navigation (i.e. nautical charts and ENCs), physical oceanographic (i.e. tides & water levels), geospatial, positioning, and shoreline programs, products, and services. There are two public meetings each year in different port regions at which we seek public comments from stakeholders and partners.

Also, the HSRP will have the next public meeting in Seattle, WA, April 18-20, 2017, focusing in part on the Pacific Northwest and is seeking public comments on the value of NOS products, and to offer recommendations to improve NOAA’s navigation data, services, and products. Comments related to navigation services are encouraged and welcome in person, in advance in writing, or via the webinar in writing. In advance you can send comments to hydroservices.panel@noaa.gov or Lynne.Mersfelder@noaa.gov with the subject line “HSRP Seattle public comments”. Additional information on the meeting including updates to the agenda, how to sign up for the webinar, background materials, and the presentations will be posted at:
https://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/ocs/hsrp/meetings_seattle2017.htm.

Sincerely, Lynne

Lynne Mersfelder-Lewis
Program Manager, Hydrographic Services Review Panel, Federal Advisory Committee
Office of Coast Survey, National Ocean Service, NOAA, USDOC
Cell: 240-691-6106 Work 301-713-2750 x166 Lynne.Mersfelder@noaa.gov

HSRP public meetings http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/ocs/hsrp/meetings.htm
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