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March
5, 2003
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an online newsletter for and by NOAA employees
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Message
from VADM Conrad C. Lautenbacher... |
| Good News, Shared with the Marine Community Wearing a different hat, I recently returned to the U.S. Naval Observatory to share good news about NOAA with members of the Marine Technology Society. I once lived on the observatory grounds, and it was a pleasure returning there to speak specifically about NOAA. |
| Norwegian
Fisheries Officials Praise U.S. Cooperation |
| Vice Admiral Lautenbacher and other NOAA officials met with Norway's Minister of Fisheries Svein Ludvigsen, the Ambassador of Norway to the U.S. Knut Vollebaek, and other distinguished guests in early February. The Vice Admiral and Minister discussed the two countries' excellent cooperation in the fisheries management, and how their scientific exchange in this area could be increased. “Norway has much to teach the U.S. in the development of aquaculture policies,” Admiral Lautenbacher said. Norway officials remarked that the two countries' goals on fisheries trade were very similar, and noted support of a U.S. proposal to lift tariffs. Also, the Vice Admiral and Minister Ludvigsen compared coastal administration in the two nations. The Minister came to Washington, D.C. to deliver the keynote speech at the seminar Marine Fisheries: Research, Management, Technology, and Trade, Advancing Sustainability in the Ocean Environment, hosted by the Norwegian Embassy's Research and Technology Forum in the United States and Canada. NOAA officials speaking at the seminar included William J. Brennan, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for International Affairs; William Hogarth, NOAA Fisheries director; Rebecca Lent, NOAA Fisheries deputy director; and others from NOAA Fisheries. At the seminar, Hogarth and Minister Ludvigsen signed a declaration praising their agencies' past cooperation and resolving to strengthen and expand those ties in the future.
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| Sec.
Evans Visits Kentucky Office |
| While he was in Paducah, Ky. last January to view the operations of the Vinyl Windows Technology Plant there, Commerce Secretary Don Evans visited the local National Weather Service Office and met with NOAA staffers there. During his brief stay, he introduced himself to each staff member and was given a detailed weather briefing for his Miami destination utilizing the AWIPS workstations. In addition, he showed great interest in the warning and forecast operations that the Paducah office oversees, which span portions of four states and 58 counties.
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| Employee and Team Member of the Month |
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| NOAA
Unit Leads Stennis Center CFC Contributions |
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With an average donation of $337.49 per employee, NOAA’s National Data Buoy Center was the leading small agency contributor to the 2002 Combined Federal Campaign at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. Total federal pledges to the space center’s campaign were more than $312,000. |
| Seattle
Staffer Receives C&GS Society Award |
Citing his “perspective and vision,” Larry Mordock, a 35-year NOAA employee at the Pacific Marine Center in Seattle, has received the Exemplary Service Award for 2002 from the U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey Society. Mordock, the Society’s northwest chapter president, began his career 35 years ago as a commissioned officer aboard the U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey ship Discoverer. Six years later he converted to civilian status and has remained at the Pacific Marine Center as a general engineer in the field of hydrographic data processing, and now as a management analyst.
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