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The meeting will be held in room 507 in the Clark Building on the Quissett Campus of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution starting at 9:00 am on July 16 and ending at noon on July 20.

U.S. JGOFS will pay your expenses if you are funded by NSF or NASA. Please contact Mary Zawoysky (mzawoysky@whoi.edu) if you have any questions.
 

LODGING
Lodging will be in 3hotels:

Ramada Inn at Falmouth Square, ~3 miles from the meeting site
Nautilus Motor Inn, Woods Hole, ~2 miles from the meeting site
Sands of Time Motor Inn, Woods Hole, ~ 2 miles from the meeting site.

The bus from the airport has stops close to each of the hotels.

Mary Zawoysky will keep the "lodging list" so please make your room reservation with her by e-mail (mzawoysky@whoi.edu) or phone (508-289-2834) by June 15. We will pay for your hotel directly, other than incidental expenses.
 

AIR TRAVEL

Boston's Logan Airport is the closest airport with the most flights. Providence Airport is also convenient although with less bus service to Woods Hole. Flying into Hyannis Airport is also a possibility. Please use Preferred Travel at 1-888-woods-14 or 1-888-966-3714 if you would like your ticket to be prepaid by our office. U.S. flag carriers must be used. Please make your air reservation by June 18 and copy Mary Zawoysky on your itinerary. We will reimburse your other travel expenses via a travel expense voucher that we will give out at the meeting.
 

GROUND TRAVEL

Rental cars:  We will be able to fund a limited number of rental cars on a first come-first serve basis with the provision that you would be willing to transport others to and from the hotel/meeting site. Preferred Travel can arrange car rentals. Please also let me know if you would like to rent one so I can track the number of cars and get you a parking permit.

Bus service:  We have a good bus service from Logan Airport to Falmouth and Woods Hole. See the schedule for the Bonanza Bus Servicehttp://www.bonanzabus.com/logboswh.htm .  Also, a shuttle circulates around the WHOI buildings. The schedule is at http://www.whoi.edu . Click on General Information, then Visitor Information, then Local Information, then Shuttle Schedule.

Mileage will be reimbursed at the rate of 34.5 cents per mile.
 

BICYCLE RENTAL
Art's Bike Shop is a local shop for bike rentals. Art's current rate is $80 per week, and he may give us a further discount if we get 20 people renting that week. Let me know if you are interested.
 

FOOD
Continental style breakfasts, buffet lunches, one hors d'oeuvres reception on Monday evening and one supper on Wednesday evening will be provided. Anyone who has special dietary requirements, e.g., vegetarians, should let me know. For other meals the per diem rates are:

Breakfast- $8
Lunch- $12
Dinner- $25