It's a Government boondoggle - to see peak fall color in the Colorado mountains.

It's a double whammy by federal employees to spend public money and emit greenhouse gas emissions by air and rental car travel.

Why not give the money to people suffering from the drought instead?

Listed attendees from the National Weather Service (NWS) are shown below. Other government employees with NOAA, and other employees of
other federal/state agencies not shown below, only NWS.

Daniel Luna
Hydrologist in Charge
North Central River Forecast Center
NOAA National Weather Service
Chanhassen, MN

Douglas Kluck
Climate Services Program Leader
Central Region Headquarters
NOAA National Weather Service
Kansas City, MO

Geoffrey M. Bonnin
Chief, Hydrologic Science and Modeling Branch
Office of Hydrologic Development
NOAA National Weather
Silver Spring, MD

Seann Reed
Hydrologic Science and Modeling Branch
Office of Hydrologic Development
NOAA National Weather Service
Silver Spring, MD

Michael J. Brewer
Climate Services
NOAA National Weather Service
Silver Spring, MD

Douglas M. LeComte
Climate Prediction Center
NOAA National Weather Service NCEP
Camp Springs, MD

Fiona Horsfall
NOAA National Weather Service
Silver Spring, MD
Wendy L. Pearson
Central Region Headquarters
NOAA National Weather Service
Kansas City, MO

Thomas Gurss
Hydrologist in Charge
Missouri Basin River Forecast Center
NOAA National Weather Service
Pleasant Hill, MO

Bill Proenza
Director, Southern Region
NOAA National Weather Service
Fort Worth, TX

Ben Weiger
Chief, Hydrologic Services Branch
NOAA National Weather Service Southern Region
Fort Worth, TX

Victor Murphy
Climate Service Focal Point
NOAA National Weather Service
Southern Region Headquarters
Fort Worth, TX

David G. Brandon
Chief - Hydrology and Climate Services Division
Regional Forecast Office, Western Region
NOAA NWS / Colorado Basin River Forecast Center
Salt Lake City, UT

Andrea Bair
NOAA National Weather Service
S. State St.Salt Lake City, UT

Robert Glancy
Warning Coordination Meteorologist
NOAA National Weather Service
Boulder, CO

Treste Huse
Senior Service Hydrologist
NOAA National Weather Service
Boulder, CO

Presentations do not include climate change or global warming.

www.joss.ucar.edu/joss_psg/meetings/nidis/presentations.html

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"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards out of men."
-Abraham Lincoln