Office of the Chief Information Officer
Tom Pyke
William Turnbull, HPCC
Russell Richards, OAR
Kevin Kelleher, OAR
Jerry Janssen, OAR
Bruce Webster, NWS
For developing and implementing the NOAA Advanced Research network,
providing a foundation for improved collaboration among universities
and NOAA
Richard Beeler, OAR
William Bradley, NMFS
Donald Holtzer, OFA
Robert Kidwell, OFA
Charles Mac Farland, NESDIS
Thomas Murphy, OFA
Joseph Smith, III, OFA
Fred Walton, OFA
Linda Weaver. NWS
Mary Foran, OMAO
For developing and implementing the NOAA Enterprise Messaging System,
resulting in a major consolidation of NOAA email system.
Office of Finance and Administration
Sonya Stewart
NOAA Office of Budget
Jolene Lauria Sullens
For creating positive impacts that strengthened the clarity and understanding
of the NOAA Budget and increased customer and stakeholder satisfaction
Office of General Counsel
Leila Afzal
Jane S. Hannuksela
Kathryn Jeanne Conant, NMFS
Brett Richard Joseph
For developing the Mandatory Conditions Review Process Policy, increasing
the efficiency of hydropower licensing process and effectiveness of
fishway conditions
Office of Marine and Aviation
Operations
RADM Evelyn Fields
Central Administrative Support Center Financial Management Division
Central Administrative Support Center Human Resources Division
Central Administrative Support Center Acquisition Management Division
Marilyn DeJarnatt
Gwen Revels
William Becker
For customer service in financial management, human resources and
acquisitions enabling the Aircraft Operations Center to strengthen its
financial position, dramatically improve long standing morale issues,
and resolve unusual and emergency acquisition actions
NOAA Diving Program
National Undersea Research Program
Al Kalvaitis - accepting
For writing, editing and publishing the 4th edition of the NOAA Diving
Manual; a comprehensive resource for all divers and all diving operations
National Marine Fisheries Service
Rebecca Lent
Trevor Spradlin
For leadership and professional excellence in developing a nation-wide
public education campaign and policy to protect marine mammals from
harassment
Franklin B. Schwing
For innovative research incorporating environmental variability into
the field of fisheries science and development of important new climate
indices
Susan-Marie Stedman
For personal and professional excellence in developing fair and ecologically
sound guidance for a new method of habitat management
Miles M. Croom
For early recovery actions accomplished as a result of the partnership
between NMFS and California's coastal counties
John C. Bortniak
For developing and implementing a strategic planning information
system that contributes significantly to effective budgeting in NMFS
David C. Hamm
For his efforts as manager of the Honolulu Laboratory's Western Pacific
Fishery Information Network
Linda I. Despres
John K. Galbraith
David Hiltz
William P. Kramer
Holly M. McBride
Nancy J. McHugh
Victor A. Nordahl
Douglas A. Perry
For developing, testing and implementing a new automated data acquisition
system for NMFS fishery research vessels
JoAnna Grable
Kevin Ford
Peter Jones
Barbara Fosburg
Susan Olsen
Cynthia Pierce
Ellie Roche
James Morgan
For vast improvements in national oversight and coordination of NMFS
grants management program
Scott McEntire
Kenneth Weinberg
For development of the bottom contact sensor for use on survey trawls
and its application to scientific research on fishing gear performance
National Ocean Service
Jamie Hawkins
Margo E. Jackson
Peter M. Maxey
Ila R. Best
Anthony Furnia - OFA
Russell W. Craig - DOC/GC
Susan Burnett - DOC/GC
Martin M. Freeman
Thomas J. McCaughey - DOC/OIG
For recovering $1.4 million in past due payments from a Coastal Energy
Impact Program loan to the City of St. Paul, AK and restructuring the
loan
Richard A. Schmalz
For scientific and technical achievement in developing and implementing
an experimental oceanographic nowcast/forecast model system for Galveston
Bay
NOAA Ship RAINIER
David Herlihy - accepting
For leadership, professional excellence, technical achievement and
customer service promoting safe navigational and environmental stewardship
Fannie Powers
Edwin L. Martin
Gregory B. Norris
David L. Poltilove
Lynn Preston
Ralph B. Ross
Joseph W. Sherman
Paul L. Spence
Joseph C. Whitney
Gerald F. Koehl
For personal and professional excellence and distinguished contributions
to NOAA's nautical charting program that led to safe, efficient navigation
National Ocean Service
Office of Marine and Aviation Operations
CAPT Nicholas Perugini - accepting
James Verlaque - accepting
For leadership of the OpSail 2000 and International Naval Review
events
Douglas Helton
Linda Burlington
For improving NOAA's relationship with the international shipping
community in a landmark cooperative oil spill agreement
William Lehr
Mary Evans
Robert Jones
Jeffrey Lankford
Debra Simecek Beatty
David Wesley
For creating an oil spill weathering model that provides for efficient
and environmentally protective oil spill response action
Peter Gibson
For dramatic improvements in the organization and management of NOAA's
nautical charting program
David Enabnit
Leonard Arkenau
Daniel Black
Hollis Church
Kirby Gean, II
Alexandra Heliotis
Marc Higgins
Stephen Hill
Barbara Loretz
Jason Shadid
For developing and implementing the revolutionary weekly Update Service
for NOAA raster nautical charts
Vernon Leeworthy
Peter Wiley
For leadership and innovation in developing the Coastal and Ocean
Resource Economics (CORE) Program
National Ocean Service
National Marine Fisheries Service
NOAA Headquarters
Joseph Uravitch - accepting
Rafael Lopez - accepting
Roger Griffis - accepting
For vision, leadership, and innovation in establishing a national
initiative on marine protected areas
National Environmental Satellite,
Data, and Information Service
Greg Withee
Lawrence Flynn
For essential scientific contributions to the procurement, operation,
and utilization of NOAA's polar-orbiting satellite ozone-sensing instruments
Pamela Hughes
For leadership in developing and implementing a cost effective, flexible
Support Services Contract for the National Climatic Data Center
Alan Basist
Thomas Peterson
Claude Williams
Norman Grody
For innovative research which led to the production of a unique blended
(satellite and ground based) global surface temperature data set
Michael Ford
Edward Herbrechtsmeier
Steven Rutz
Robert VanWie
George Sinclair
For development of an innovative data archiving system providing
users with automated entry and tracking of data in NODC archives
Wendy Gross
For developing a new software tool, WebMapper, that revolutionizes
the ability of our users to browse, access and visualize NOAA data on
past climates
Eric Ogata
For engineering accomplishments in digital safeguard technologies,
cryptographic tools and auto-recovery system development
David Easterling
For providing quality contributions to the U.S. National Assessment:
The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change on the
United States
Richard Borneman
Sheldon Kusselson
Charles Kadin
Thomas Baldwin
John Simko
John Paquette
Roderick Scofield
For personal and professional excellence resulting in successful
operational implementation of the Automated Satellite-Derived Rainfall
Estimator
Richard Reynolds
For professional excellence and vision in planning and providing
the ground segment of the Nation's operational environmental satellites
Arnold Gruber
For leadership of the international Global Precipitation Climatology
Project which uses satellite data for global precipitation estimates
Marc Plantico
Lynn A. Goss
For the conception, design, development and production of the innovative
U.S. Climate Atlas
Michael Chalfant
Anthony Reale
Michael Fitzmaurice, Jr.
Dong Han
Steven Schaffer
For rescuing and extending the useful life of NOAA's polar orbiting
satellites through unparalleled scientific and engineering achievement
Charles Woodridge
Timothy Stryker
Michael Beckman
Douglas Brauer
Rick Shimon, OGC
Glenn Tallia, OGC
Karen Dacres, OGC
For strengthening the economic and technological competitiveness
of the U.S. commercial remote sensing satellite industry
August Shumbera, Jr.
Stephen Delgreco
Charles Towels
Alan Hall
For modernizing the National Climatic Data Center's ingest and archive
system for the National Weather Service's Next Generation Radar Data
Tsan Mo
Mitchell Goldberg
David Crosby
Joseph Green, OFA
For developing and applying an improved calibration of the Microwave
Sounding Unit to monitor temperature trends in the Earth's atmosphere
Janet Ward, HPCC
Albert Theberge, Jr.
Carla Wallace
For innovative leadership and technical contributions in creating
a national model digital image library
Wolfgang Menzel
For scientific leadership, both nationally and internationally, in
the area of operational space-based remote sensing
Richard Barazotto, NOS
For his leadership in establishing the National Coastal Data Development
Center at the Stennis Space Center for improved coastal constituency
services
National Weather Service
John Jones
Mary C. Erickson
Rebecca L. Allen
Mark A. Shirey
Kevin L. Carroll
Kathryn K. Hughes
For leadership in implementing modernized systems providing objective
weather guidance to National Weather Service forecasters
Anton F. Kapela
For spearheading revision, renewal, and innovation in local, regional,
and national weather preparedness programs
Eric J. Holweg
For researching and authoring the Mariner's Guide for Hurricane Awareness
in the North Atlantic Basin
David A. Zaff
For developing innovative new web page capabilities, improving NWS
public web services, and for leadership in guiding Western Region webmaster
activities and national teams
John Quinlan
For dedication in verifying the accuracy of the WSR-88D snow accumulation
algorithm, therefore improving winter weather predictions
Todd Heitkamp
For long-term effort and dedication in fostering disaster preparedness,
public awareness to life-threatening weather events, and creation of
public/private outreach activities geared toward public safety
Peter Manousos
For educating forecasters in the use and interpretation of NOAA/NWS
weather prediction models thus improving forecasts to the public
Salim Leyva
Vivian Jorge
Frank C. Lepore
Edward N. Rappaport
David B. Caldwell
For designing and implementing a cutting-edge presentation facility
at the Tropical Prediction Center
Charles Lyon
Houston Kendrick
Mark Tomah
For mission critical contributions as a national maintenance test
site for radar, upper air, and Automated Surface Observing Systems
Peter L. Wolf
Richard H. Grumm
Stephen J. Flood
Dan A. Baumgardt
Michael L. Schichtel
For personal initiative, selfless dedication and professional excellence
in developing and conducting distance training of field forecasters
in the areas of medium range, severe thunderstorm, and winter weather
forecasting
Thomas W. Econopouly
Timothy D. Buckelew
Mark R. Love
Michael F. Winchell
Robert C. Shedd
Ronald C. Martin
Edward J. Capone
For using scientific ingenuity to develop water level forecasts for
Lake Champlain
National Weather Service Forecast Office, Eureka, CA
Nancy A. Dean - accepting
For initiative to seek marine customer input, the development of
new forecast elements, and the continuous verification to access accuracy
National Weather Service Forecast Office, Melbourne, FL
David Sharp - accepting
For providing vital technical support and outstanding customer service
to weather forecast operations in support of the nation's space program
National Weather Service Forecast Ofice, North Platte, NE
David A. Wert - accepting
For provision of severe weather forecasting service to the residents
of western and north-central
Nebraska National Weather Service Forecast Office, Lubbock, TX
Jody James - accepting
For accurate and timely forecast and warning service to the South
Plains of West Texas during the winter of 2000-2001
National Weather Service Forecast Office, Miami, FL
James Lushine - accepting
For a pioneering rip current forecast program which has resulted
in a decrease in loss of life attributed to rip currents on Southeast
Florida beaches
Hydrometeorological Prediction Center
Dave Reynolds - accepting
For contributions that improve forecasts to the American people while
under strict time constraints and with no additional resources
Quantitative Precipitation Forecast Process Assessment Team
Quantitative Precipitation Forecast Implementation Team
Gary Carter - accepting
Thomas Graziano - accepting
For streamlining and enhancing the Quantitative Precipitation Forecast
process
Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric
Research
Mary Langlais
Monica MP Matthews, OFA
Julie Scanlon
Mary Anne Whitcomb
Kristin Kniskern, NESDIS
For establishing, implementing, and managing the Leadership Competencies
Development Program
Bradley D. Hall
For developing standards that are used by national and international
organizations for the measurement of environmentally important trace
gases
Jorgeann Hiebert
For contributions to educational outreach activities within the NOAA
Research Environmental Technology Laboratory
