DeMaria, Molenar, Fryer, Grasso, Phillips

• The annual CIRA/RAMM infrastructure staff reviews have been completed.

• A progress report of activities and accomplishments of the Team that were associated with the work statement in NOAA's GOES I-M Product Assurance Plan (GIMPAP) proposal were documented for inclusion in the next quarterly report. The quarterly report has been forwarded to P. Menzel who is the technical coordinator for GIMPAP (week of March 26).

• M. DeMaria attended the Office of Research and Applications Team Leaders Meeting, March 17-19.

• The Office of  Naval Research may provide funding for a study of hurricane structure change using the RAMMT IR imagery archive and numerical modeling studies.  M. DeMaria has begun a dialogue with the Marine Meteorology Division of ONR to investigate this possibility.

• B. Byrne and S. Smith from the Mountain Administrative Support Center (MASC) visited NESDIS/CIRA on Thursday, February 25. A brief meeting was held with all of the NOAA employees. Afterwards, a training session on the Demonstration Project and associated rating system was provided to M. DeMaria and K. Fryer.

• The Department of Commerce request (week of February 5) for any and all information relating to Secretary Brown's overseas trips in the 1993 to 1995 time frame was met. Each RAMM Team member filled out a search checklist regarding the information requested.  No relevant documents were uncovered.

• PowerPoint  slides  were developed for presentation at the February NOAA Management Program Review.  These slide presentations were intended to highlight the RAMM Team's current and near-term work activities.