[Coral-List] ICRS Travel & Pre-registration

[Mark Eakin - NOAA Federal]

Just wondering if other agencies and universities are running into travel freezes? Our part of NOAA has put an indefinite hold on all international travel and is now only allowing mission-essential domestic travel. Conferences are not mission-essential.

The University of Maryland just issued:
All university-related international travel is not permitted.
All personal international travel is strongly discouraged.
All university-related, non-essential, out-of-state domestic travel is not permitted. 
We strongly urge extreme caution and judgment for your personal domestic mass transit travel. Take into account the possibility of travel delays or the potential need for self-isolation in the future.
Guests traveling from or through countries with a Warning Level 3 travel advisory <https://maestro.listserv.umd.edu/trk/click?ref=zvb24p867_2-1eaex3212ax027012&> for COVID-19 from the CDC should postpone their visits to campus.

With this in mind, we will certainly not be signing up for early-bird registration.

What are others encountering?

Cheers,
Mark

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C. Mark Eakin, Ph.D.
Coordinator, NOAA Coral Reef Watch
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Satellite Oceanography & Climate Division
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