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I will turn it over to Jan Kucklick to get us started.
Jan.
Thanks Shannon and good morning.
Good afternoon to all of you and welcome.
My name is Jan Kucklick on with NOAA’s Office for Coastal Management.
My pronouns are she and her and we're really excited that you've
joined us today to hear about a new fellowship program
that we are offering to CRRC grant recipients.
This webinar is a part of a series of webinars that we have designed
for applicants that were invited to submit full proposals for the competition.
Recordings from the webinars that have already been offered
are available on the CRRC Technical Assistance website.
So as I just mentioned today, we're going to hear a bit more
about a new fellowship program that we are offering awardees.
We will hold all questions until the end, but feel free
to type your questions as they come to you throughout the presentations.
Put them in a chat as Shannan just mentioned we will focus on questions
specific to the fellowship program and we'll get to them at the end.
And if we're not able to get to your question,
you can always reach out to the NOAA experts via our email
at ResilienceChallenge@noaa.gov.
So with that, I want to introduce Margaret Allen.
Margaret is with NOAA’s Office for Coastal Management
and is our Fellowship Coordinator.
So to you, Margaret.
Thanks so much. Jan, can you hear me okay?
Yes, you sound great.
Thanks.
Thanks, Jan and hi, Happy New Year to everyone.
Like Jan said, I'm Margaret Allen.
I am located down in South Carolina at OCM’s Charleston office,
and one of my roles here is overseeing the portfolio of fellowship programs
that we currently offer at OCM and along with the team, we’ll
be working to implement the New Climate Resilience Regional Challenge
Fellowship program that we are offering to awardees of the competition.
So I'm really happy to be here today to provide you with some information
on this exciting new program and how you can participate if you are interested.
And we'll get started.
So how did we come up with a fellowship program
and kind of what were our goals when we thought about this?
So you guys know we're providing technical assistance
in a variety of ways to the awardees of the grant
and some of the reasons we thought a fellowship
program would also be a valuable resource is that it
provides direct support to the awardees on their projects.
So we really hope that it will provide the opportunity
for us to have a staff member that is fully focused
on the competition project for the two years that they’re a fellow
and their skills that they bring with them can really help with your project.
We thought a fellowship program could allow you to focus your budget
on other high priority needs versus hiring someone
to do what a fellow might be able to help you do.
We also thought a cohort based approach, which is what we're hoping to do
with this group of fellows
across the country in different regions working on these projects.
We'll really form a cohort so that they can facilitate
cross-pollination across the projects and regions
and hope that in the end it'll strengthen all of the projects.
So we envision fellows sharing with each other,
bringing back approaches, practices and ideas to their own
project teams that they may have talked about with other fellows.
We also think that the professional development we’ll provide to the fellows.
Will provide them with skills and
other
advantages that they can bring back to your project team also,
and then to bring a fresh new mind and new
perspective to the project team.
So that's sort of how we envision it directly supporting the awardees.
We also feel like a fellowship program like this will really advance
the challenges, priorities of equity and enduring capacity by directly
supporting, marginalized, underserved and underrepresented communities.
So we really want to help meet that
enduring capacity
goal of the CRRC
by helping develop this highly skilled future workforce.
And we'd love for them to be helping work in these marginalized,
underserved communities that you guys will be working in for your projects.
And then finally, our third goal is to provide on the job education and
training to develop the next generation of coastal climate resilience leaders.
So we really want to help build a pool of highly qualified
resilience professionals to help us into the future.
With these challenging issues.
We plan to provide additional training to the fellows
with professional development, career development and skill building.
We also plan to provide mentoring
both from the host organization and from NOAA
and then also feel like they can really
have an advantage of having a cohort among the fellows.
So that'll help them have other contacts in the field,
increase their network in the field while they’re a fellow helps them
learn from each other during the duration of the fellowship program
and then we hope they'll make connections for future job opportunities
so that the coastal climate resilient field has these trained, experienced
future leaders.
And so what is this thing?
What are the basics of the program?
So it will be a two year program where Fellows are placed
for two years to work on these projects.
We envision it for early career professionals,
although we don't put a term limit on how long since
they've completed education or other types of requirements.
We also don't plan to put any minimum education or experience requirements
on the applicants other than a minimum of a high school degree.
So we can increase accessibility to the program
to all levels, and so we can better meet the needs of the awardees.
So we know you all have
unique needs for your projects
and may have someone, you could end up hiring
someone from a high school education, to Masters level, to Ph.D.
and can consider all of those folks based
on what skills you're looking for.
This also helps us include veterans in the pool of applicants who might have
a less formal education, but more on the job training and education.
And it allows you to consider possibly someone with ties to your community
who might not have that formal education but has really significant local
or indigenous knowledge that is helpful to your project.
So a two-year program for early career professionals to work directly
on a grantees project to gain educational and on the job training
and to grow the next generation of coastal resilience professionals.
So that is what we envision.
So here's sort of a layout of
how we think the process will work and a timeline of sort of step by step.
And I'll go through this now, but each one of these I break down
into further information throughout the presentation.
So the basic outline
is starts with the CRRC proposal.
So what we're going to ask you is to include a couple sentences
or a paragraph expressing your interest in your proposal.
I'm sure you have this date in your calendar, but applications are due
February 13th, and so that's when we will we will ask you to incorporate
some information on the fellowship and I'll go into more detail on that.
During the negotiation phase, and just to remind you,
if you're not sure what that is, it’s a time, after the awards are made,
we'll work with NOAA on details regarding technical assistance we can provide.
Look at budgets, other topics you'd like to discuss, including hosting a fellow.
So we’ll further discuss it in the negotiation phase,
and ask you for some more information on your needs
and confirm that you're still interested in hosting a fellow.
And then these next four are sort of if you decide to host
a fellow, here are the steps we'll go through.
So we'll have advertising the opportunities, collecting candidate
applications, candidate interviews and selection, and then fellows
starting at the host organization in the summer of 2025.
So we'll go through each of these in a little bit more detail.
So what do you aim to do?
What do you mean we need to see in the CRRC proposals?
So if you're interested in hosting a fellow,
include a paragraph or a couple of sentences in your proposal
where you're requesting the NOAA technical assistance.
So you may remember in our first webinar we talked a little bit about
including requests for NOAA technical assistance in your greater proposal.
It's in the PDF 2 section, the project narrative section.
If you're not sure what that's referring to, check out the application
guidance that's linked off the CRRC website.
It's got really helpful information about what to include in each section.
And so the project narrative is where we talk about
including information on what kind of technical assistance you might want
from NOAA and technical assistance, including
if you might want to have a fellow.
So just as a reminder,
we won't be scoring this at all as part of the evaluation criteria.
And even though you'll see the project narrative that has a 25 page limit
this and your others TA requests will not count towards your page limit.
So these are things you can put into
that part of your proposal.
So what we would like to see
in this paragraph, so
we'd like to see remember, it's
not totally required, but would help us get an idea of the demand for fellows
so we can better prepare financially and logistically for the program.
So kind of at a minimum, we'd like to know if you'd like to host a fellow.
So mention that in that section, if you think that this would be
something, after hearing about it through this presentation, that you'd like to do.
Like I said, having this information
can just help us prepare as we establish the program.
And if you’ve thought more about your needs and have been kind of
tossing around things within your project team,
we'd love to see also initial ideas on the general role
a fellow would play and qualifications you might be looking for.
So just a couple tips.
When you're thinking about whether to request a fellow,
there are a couple of things I might suggest you think about.
So what would you want the fellow to do?
So the intention of our program is not just to place an intern
kind of doing menial tasks or just pick up random tasks here and there.
We'd really like that fellow to have a leadership opportunity
on the project so they can develop skills
or even products they can take to the next step of their career.
We really want to help build that future workforce and set them
up for success in the future.
A second thing to think
about what qualifications might you be looking for?
Are you looking for a graduate degree or Ph.D.
level, or are you looking for an undergrad?
Does it not matter?
Are you looking more for nontraditional education?
And knowledge?
So someone who maybe already has knowledge of or ties to the communities
you'd be working with or someone who has valuable indigenous knowledge?
Are you looking for an actual scientist, a communicator, or a social scientist?
We all know all these skills are really needed in the climate resilience field
and would be appropriate for a background for a fellow.
So a third thing to think about how would you mentor
the fellow during the fellowship, during the fellows time with you?
So we really are putting an emphasis on the host committing to
have a mentor
for the fellow while they are at their fellowship.
Just think about things like, do you have the staffing,
the time, the ability and desire to mentor a fellow?
We want to make sure not only this fellow is helping you out with your projects,
but also gets a really good experience as they move
into their careers and as we move through the process.
Well ask for a specific person to be named the fellow’s mentor.
And then the last thing is just kind of looking at the fellowship timeline
as we have it laid out and can compare it to your project timeline
to start to just make sure the timing matches up for your needs.
The fellows won't start right as soon as the projects are funded, so
if you have a shorter project timeline, it might it might not make sense for them.
Okay.
So the second phase I kind of have talked about here is the negotiation phase.
So what are we looking for?
What will we be doing in that phase?
So if you're interested in hosting a fellow,
it's not too late if you didn't mention it in your proposal.
But we really like to know as soon as possible.
So if you receive a grant and didn't mention it yet, we can still
accommodate your request after your award is made,
but the sooner we know, the better so that we can plan for financially
and just logistically running the program.
So during the negotiation phase, we'll ask you for a longer
description of the opportunity, the need, and what you're looking for.
Our goal is to do the best that we can to accommodate all the requests
from folks who are interested in hosting a fellow.
So that will be we'd like to get as close to that goal as we can.
And the sooner we know about folks’ interest, the better.
So NOAA will provide, and we don't have this yet,
so this is not a requirement until after your award is made.
We'll have a template with
sections to get a little more detailed information
on things like the project description and what the fellow will be working on.
Milestones and outcomes for the fellow desired qualifications and skills
you might want your fellow to have, and then how the fellow will be mentored.
So remember, there is no there is no template yet for that.
But as we move forward in the process,
this will be something we'll be asking you for.
Okay.
And then in the winter of 2024 is when we would start
advertising these opportunities.
So you have decided you're going to host a fellow.
We've come up with the sort of job description through that template,
so we will start advertising together these projects.
And so I'm going to start on the NOAA side of this slide, but
NOAA will take the lead on the advertising,
so we'll develop all the materials and the messaging for the program.
We will work
with existing partners and networks to share the opportunity.
So we currently manage for other programs, fellowship programs, here at OCM,
so we have robust existing networks and contacts
we can reach out to for types of things like this.
But, having said that, we will ask for your help
in sharing the opportunity locally and regionally.
So since we are really interested in helping build capacity
in the communities that you're working with, we'll look to you to share
with your more local networks to reach folks that may already live in
or be invested in the community or region where you're working
and what will we ask them to submit?
So in candidate application packets, we’ll be looking
for a resumé of the candidate, a statement of interest.
And so some of the types of things we'll ask them to put in there
are what they hope to gain from the experience,
what they think they can contribute to the fellowship,
and then highlight any ties or special interests
they have in the region, highlight any indigenous or local knowledge
that they have on the project or communities they're working in
and then highlight other life experiences that are relevant,
including
particularly if they don't have a lot of formal education
or as much formal education, they have
that local skills and knowledge
that they can really contribute to the team.
We’ll ask for unofficial transcripts
or for veterans, their joint services transcripts.
Those are not even as much to look at grades,
but to look at the breadth of coursework that they've taken and the different kind
of coursework that they've had in their past.
And then for a professional or academic reference,
Okay.
And then
into the late winter into 2025,
we'll be collecting candidate applications.
And so we'll start on the NOAA side again.
So NOAA, on the right side of the slide,
NOAA is going to develop a system of collecting applications.
So we envision that the candidates
will apply for specific projects with specific hosts.
And so
we'll help gather those and then screen them
based on the qualifications you included in your write up.
And then assist host with the interview and selection process.
So we'll be involved throughout the process to help and assist as needed.
And now I'm using the word hosts a lot.
And so when I'm saying host is just to make it clear,
I'm referring to the awardees of the grant.
So the people that will eventually host the fellows, so host is referring
to, that group, that project team.
So we'll ask the host to set up the interviews with their top candidates.
NOAA doesn't, won't need to sit in on these necessarily,
but we’ll like to know who you're interviewing with.
Develop some interview questions that are specific to your project needs
and then inform NOAA when you have your top candidate or candidates.
So probably best to select a group of candidates that are your top.
So in case the top choice doesn't work out for some reason,
but we will help you all the way through that process
And then
getting into the spring we will work closer
to candidate interviews and selection and as we're interviewing them.
We'll want to provide them
with more information on what they'll receive as a fellow.
So I'll give you guys some more information on that too.
So Fellows will receive a two year position
to work on a cutting edge project with you guys.
$42,000 a year will be their salary
with a locality pay based on the fellowship location.
So the bigger cities and the places with higher cost of living
will be adjusted based on federal pay scales.
They will also receive full health
insurance, paid holidays and leave.
They will get travel funds from NOAA, so there'll be a certain portion
allocated towards project related travel for your projects.
There'll be a certain portion allocated to attend
the peer to peer sharing events that NOAA is going to
sponsor throughout the awards cycle.
So you may remember we mentioned these in one of our first webinars
and we’ll be of course bringing more information about those,
but it's to get the awardees together to share information
and we would want the fellows to attend this also for sharing, for networking
and we plan to provide funding for them to attend.
And then our third pot of travel funds,
or professional development funds, will be used for the fellow to use
or at their discretion for trainings, conferences, meetings or other events
they identify that will help them in their
professional growth
will also provide relocation funds if they have to relocate.
Mentoring from NOAA and the hosts
and then networking opportunities from the host.
And then the NOAA will provide to these fellows.
Additional professional development training.
So we will provide training to the fellows and mentors on mentoring.
So we'll have the mentors participate in that and that will help us explain
what we mean by mentoring in the program and set expectations.
And then we'll also provide other training and professional development
opportunities to the fellow
to the fellow cohort.
We'll provide networking opportunities for the fellow
and overall support for the fellows throughout the two years.
And then finally, in the summer of 2025,
we envision the fellows starting at the host’s organization.
So once your fellows starts with you, what will they do
and how will that happen?
So the fellows will
complete their two year project, So that's going to be their main
goal, is completing their two years with you and working on the project
goal to meet the goals of your project.
But then we'll also expect them to attend the peer to peer sharing event
that I just mentioned, attend any other required
trainings by NOAA and participate in professional development
opportunities throughout their fellowship.
And so via a contract with a third party administrator,
NOAA will hire the fellows, pay the fellows, track
administrative details like timesheets, leave, holidays and benefits,
reimburse the fellows for travel expenses, and provide overall support to fellows.
So we hope by doing this it’ll really
lessen the administrative and logistical challenges that some of you
might encounter of going through the steps of hiring someone.
Because the details like time off and timesheets and paychecks
won't have to be managed and tracked by someone at your organization.
Those will be work that will be NOAA working with a third party administrator.
Okay.
And then what will the mentors and the host organizations provide
once the fellows start?
So the mentors are agreeing to provide mentoring to the fellow in addition
to supervising their project work so there can be a designated mentor
and a different supervisor if that works better for your project team.
But if one person is taking both of those roles as supervisor and mentor,
we just ask that they sometimes take off their supervisor hat and have mentoring
specific meetings with the fellow to talk about their future,
to talk about their goals and how to help them reach those.
Also, the mentors will participate in the NOAA a mentor training, so we'll
gather the mentors to talk
about mentoring this program, expectations for mentors, and then a separate meeting
with the fellows to talk about what it is to be
a mentee, what we expect of them, and the mentor mentee relationship
and how they can make it successful.
And then the mentors will also be the main point of contact
with NOAA regarding any fellowship business.
So host organizations, which is sort of the bigger
picture organization, your project team,
provides that specific to your project plan,
which a fellow can play a leadership role in.
Provide a mentor to the fellow,
provide office space and necessary equipment to the fellows
like a computer software they might need.
There is definitely flexibility
if you are in a remote work environment or a hybrid environment,
those are definitely
things we’re flexible with, on how your fellow will work.
Those will just be things you’ll want to talk about and be prepared
to talk to the fellow applicants about when you interview them, because
I think they'll probably want to know, will I be working in an office every day?
Will I be working fully remote?
Will I be working on some sort of hybrid schedule?
And then the host organization will work
to integrate the fellow into the project team.
That is the gist of our presentation.
Again, here is the overall process and timeline.
I know I saw a lot of questions come in, so I'm going to
make sure to answer some of those.
With Jan. She's going to go through some of them.
I know
a few of them came up at the beginning that I think I may have answered later,
but I want to make sure I get them all answered.
If you have questions that we aren't able to get to today,
my email is now on the screen.
You can always, if you can't remember this one
and you can always go through the ResilienceChallenge@NOAA.gov email.
But I'm happy to have you contact me directly to you with questions.
And with that I'll handed
over to Jan for questions.
Thanks, Margaret.
Yes, so you have a number of questions here.
I and I think some you did touch on, but I think it's
probably good to touch on again
and I think some maybe things we haven't actually thought about
as we talk about this program.
So I think it's probably okay for you to say, we'll get back to you
maybe on a few of these, because there are some great questions.
All right.
So the first question is and actually a couple of people seconded this one.
Is it possible to get more than one fellow?
The question is more than one fellow
could provide more than one opportunity for us to invest in the next generation
and just because of the scope of their project?
Yeah, thanks, so.
At this point we are limiting one fellow per awardee.
We do not have a good idea or a good handle on the demand though, yet. So
once we figure that out,
We'd love to provide what we are able to
but wouldn't want to go that route until so we make sure
everyone has at least one fellow and I'm not sure funding
will get us to the ability to offer more than one fellow at this time.
So at this time,
I don't think that that would be possible.
But we are still formulating things based on
assumptions and we'd love to, like we say, get a little more information
on who's interested in when the proposals come in.
All right.
Thank you. Okay.
A couple of questions around I'm seeing here around the timing,
the and so I'm going to kind of share both of these.
Margaret, the first question is,
do the two years of the fellows need to start in 2025
or can they start in 26 or later?
Okay.
So we are, because this
is a program and we're really working on a cohort basis and thinking based
on our experience, the fellowship programs and just research that has been done.
It's really beneficial for the fellows
to be in a cohort and be,
at the same time in a fellowship program.
And so at this time we anticipate all the fellows starting in
generally the same time and finishing up at generally the same time.
All right, thanks.
And then another one related to timing is
why only two years for fellowships, since these projects go for five years.
Is it possible to get a fellow to support for more than two years?
Yeah, good question and great to know there's interest in that.
Right now, a lot of our fellowship programs
have been really successful with a two year timing.
It gives the fellows enough time to
get on board and get their
feet under them, and knowing what's going on
and then really make an impact before they leave.
A lot of times two years, they're ready to go on and do something different.
And that's not just, that's not a fellowship,
it's more of a permanent position.
And so we
don't anticipate it being any longer than that right now.
I mean, there are funding limitations also, and so that is part of it.
But we also think there may be
folks
that are really anxious to move on and to jump into their career
in a different way after two years and think maybe, you know, the salary
that we have allocated for
this is really for new
professionals in the field.
And so we anticipate folks will be looking
to get a raise and kind of move on after the two year period.
But we can we can definitely talk very negotiation about needs
and what that what the specific needs are to your organization.
All right.
Thank you.
All right. Yeah, we got lots of questions coming in.
And so I'm trying to monitor that.
Let's see.
So there was a question around the definition of early career professionals.
Margaret So you explain no education requirement other than high school.
But a need may be there for a host to have more of a college level graduates.
That would be up to that match, that would happen.
But the question around that definition of early career is early career defined
as early in their climate oriented career
or early, including all work experience.
That's great.
Great question.
Yes. So it's more early in their climate related work.
So if they were, you know, had a different degree
or a different career in a former life and they decide to switch to do something
new, that that would that would be an early career professional.
And it's not something we're holding hard and fast to, we just hope that it's folks
that are kind of getting their feet wet in the climate resilience field
so that we can, so that they really can take advantage
of some of the other opportunities we offer.
But yes, it's more early career in their climate resilience career.
Okay, perfect.
Let's see.
So just clarification on
where they need to put this so they need
they put it within their technical assistance
and under the PDF 2 it does not count towards page limit.
It does not it will not get reviewed.
You know, it's not part of any kind of criteria.
That's correct. Right. Margaret?
That is correct. Okay.
And that's all they have to do at this point.
They don't need to notify you as well.
That's notifying us by putting in their proposal.
Right. Exactly. That is fine.
I am happy, if you'd like to reach out and let me know that you're interested
and run ideas by me,
I'm happy to chat any time about something like that.
But yes, formally, the only really thing we need
is a sentence or two in your proposal
in that project narrative section.
Okay, great.
And question just came in kind of as a follow up.
So it says while the paragraph for the fellow will not be part of the page
limit, can we refer to what the fellow may specialize in throughout the narrative?
And the answer would be yes for that, correct?
Yeah, that would be wonderful. Okay, great.
So someone missed
the three things to include in that paragraph was activities
the fellows would conduct, desired qualifications.
And what was your third one? Yeah, for that slide back there.
I'll go right back to that real quick.
Yes. One more.
Oops.
That was the next one.
Okay. Yeah.
So that you're interested in hosting a fellow general ideas on the role
the fellow will play and any qualifications you might be seeking.
Hey, thank you.
All right, so some questions on
whether they have to be postgraduate or could be a graduate student.
So given that this is a two year fellowship, could it go to support
graduate students who may want to pursue a project
that would help them get to their advanced degree,
as well as contribute to the funded project?
So like a current student
that's currently in school, yes, we hadn't really thought that through.
So we can talk with you about your ideas and what would work for you.
We envision this being more of a sort of full time opportune to be
where they're working 40 hours a week kind of thing with your project team.
But we haven't completely ruled out if a current student
would be more advantageous or some something
you'd be interested in doing.
We'd love to hear your ideas and talk a little bit more about that.
But as of now, our vision is that it would be someone
who doesn't have other responsibilities like coursework
and working towards a degree or another position, full time position.
This would be sort of their full time thing.
Okay.
So some questions around
the money and the budget.
So are there any are we providing
any stipends for housing?
There is not a stipend for housing.
That is something we considered
as we were coming up with the salary
and we will, like I mentioned, provide
some relocation for them to move if they're not already in the area.
But as of now, there is no stipend for housing.
I think the next question was answered
Will NOAA pay the fellows directly, will host the expected?
So NOAA is going to be using a third party to do all the pay
and benefits as Margaret described.
So that will not fall to the host.
Let's see.
So if we request a fellow,
does this mean that we'll definitely be able to participate in the program.
So in other words, if we request one, does that guarantee that we'll get one?
Yeah.
So we can't make any guarantees until we see what the demand is for fellows.
But our goal is to provide a fellow to everyone who's interested.
So we are going to work as hard as we can to reach that goal,
but of course are really,
really interested to see what demand is and how many folks are interested.
Okay, so this is a follow up to this.
And again, this might be one that that we might have to get back
through our FAQs on the website to answer this one.
But then how do folks handle that in their budget?
So if they get a fellow, they won't have to hire someone,
but if they don't, they will.
They will need to hire someone.
And so how would it make sense to include that in the budget?
Yeah, I think that
if you request a fellow, yeah, we might have to get back to you on this one.
This one is something that we can definitely
address in the negotiation phase.
So if you aren't able to get a fellow and need to add
into your budget another person, I think that's where we would do it.
We sort of do that swap out and negotiation and that's
what the negotiation period is for, for sort of those trade offs of what
we can provide here from NOAA and what we won't be able to.
So I would not put it,
I'll have to ask the competition managers what they prefer about that.
My gut is telling me not to include a person in your budget at this point,
but to say you want a fellow and that that would be the person
that would do some of the things that you need.
And then we can negotiate that during negotiation.
If we’re for some reason not able to provide a fellow.
Okay, thank you.
So that will be one that we'll follow up with and clarify.
So let's fee.
So should we include budget items in our application for, things
like laptops, cell phone, office space for the fellow?
And the answer to that is yes, that NOAA is not providing
a laptop to the fellow or any kind of equipment.
That would be the responsibility of the host.
So if you have to include that in your budget, you can. Yep.
And then the question about locality pay determined
and someone commented that $42,000 in D.C.
is tough and that is correct and DC would be one that would be adjusted.
It's based on the GSA schedule for locality pay.
That's right. Yes.
So, you know, big cities like San Francisco, Boston, the D.C.
area, all would have a
higher pay than 42,000.
And then I also see
as are some something that would keep us from supplementing the fellows salary.
You know, I really don't think that there we don't have anything in place.
If you thought that you would like to, if you're able to supplement the salary
or you're able to provide housing with a partnership at a university
or a partnership with someplace that has lodging available,
I think that would be great, great ways to
supplement what's being offered to the fellows.
Thanks. Yep.
That going to be my next one. I was going to point out. So you got it, Margaret.
All right.
I think actually we got through all the questions,
so I'm going to pause and see if
anybody has any additional questions for them and the chat.
And if you think of ones as you kind of digest
this information, please feel free to reach out to me.
And if you don't remember my
email, you can certainly reach out to the Resilience Challenge email
and they will forward it on to me so that I can do my best
to answer based on what the information we have so far,
or at least talk with you about your ideas.
Thanks.
And, and in terms of yeah, so I was just asking
about that budget question that we're not sure about.
We'll be incorporating these questions
and responses into the FAQ on the website.
And so I encourage you and we do that fairly, fairly quickly.
So by next week this should be on there.
So please just check on that.
And if you don't see it and you need that answer
and it's not there yet or you have more questions,
just reach out to the website the ResilienceChallenge@NOAA.gov
and then that will go to the appropriate people.
So always know that that's your best bet if you're not getting
clarification that you need.
We want to be
as timely as we can to go to that website and we will get back to you.
All right.
So we do have a couple quick polls for you.
So if you would go to the Triangle Circle Square at the bottom right of your
Google meet, and there's two questions there.
The first one is, are you considering requesting a fellow for your project?
Because this really gives us an opportunity to sense the interest
and demand that’s with this, we're not quite sure.
And then the second question
is just trying to get a sense of was this webinar useful for.
So if you wouldn't mind answering those two questions, we would appreciate it.
And then finally, as we are wrapping up again,
keep putting those questions in there because we can grab them and respond.
But if you don't have any more questions, we will
this will be is our second to last webinar that we're going to be hosting
to grant recipient or grant applicant application, whatever.
People who are applying for full proposals and know what to call you anyway.
So one more next week is going to be on the 18th
at 3:00 Eastern and it's around monitoring and measuring performance.
So make sure you tune in.
That one will also be recorded as all the other ones have,
so you can always view it afterwards if you can't make this one.
And that will be our last one in our series.
And then thank you, folks have been posting in the chat
all the links to all the relevant websites and email addresses,
so please feel free to grab those.
Take a look at those.
And again, remember that we do have that one on one
technical assistance available still for you for a few more weeks.
And so there's that link to that request form as well.
So with that, I want to thank everybody
for your great questions and attention.
And Margaret, for all the exciting information.
Thank you.
And thanks everyone for joining us.