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Former Commerce Secretary Don Evans was presented with the NOAA Aircraft Operations Center “Native Hurricane Rovers Protective Exalted Order of Eyeball Penetrators” award last month for his fearless foray into Hurricane Ivan on September 13 aboard a NOAA P-3 Hurricane Hunter. Secretary Evans is the first Commerce Secretary — and the first Cabinet member — to fly into a hurricane aboard a NOAA aircraft.

Former Commerce Secretary Don Evans, flanked by Vice Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher Jr. and Rear Admiral Samuel De Bow Jr., director of NOAA Marine and Aviation Operations, was honored as the first Commerce Secretary to fly into a hurricane.

NOAA Marine and Aviation Operations hosted Shepherd Elementary School’s annual James D. Martin Science Fair at the NOAA Science Center in Silver Spring last month. The fair, for the Washington, D.C., school’s four through six grade students, honors NMAO employee Jim Martin, who was a victim of the D.C. snipers in October 2002. Jim worked actively with Shepherd and secured 10 surplus NOAA computers for the school shortly before his death. NMAO’s Jennifer Hammond worked with Shepherd teacher Steven King on the science fair, providing five NOAA mentors to assist students with their projects, 40 NOAA volunteer judges for the fair, and the Science Center.

Retired NOAA Corps Cmdr. Gregory Bass helps out at the Shepherd Elementary School Science Fair, held at the NOAA Science Center in Silver Spring.

Three of the Twin Cities’ weather service offices joined 25 other federal agencies at this year’s Government on Display expo at the Mall of America last month, giving upwards of 300,000 people the chance to see what NOAA and the weather service do every day. Along with the three co-located offices — the North Central River Forecast Center, the National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center, and the Weather Forecast Office — were the NOAA Corps of Officers, NEXRAD Radar Operations Center in Norman, Okla., and the weather service’s Central Region Headquarters.

Exhibits included an All Hazards NOAA Weather Radio display, a 25 foot tall model of the National Weather Service’s WSR-88D Doppler Radar, a video loop of severe weather, full color breakouts of remote sensing operations, an online bank of computers hosting NOAA’s water and weather forecasting web pages, a computer where people could try out river modeling software, a tornado simulator, a weather balloon display, and a wind sensor display.

NOAA’s National Weather Service was well represented at the Mall of America’s Government on Display expo in Minnesota last month.

If you do, and work in the Washington area, NOAA has a team for you. The NOAA/HHS/FAA Softball League is looking for men and women to join new or existing teams in the league. Doubleheaders included, there will be about 15 games this season, starting in mid-April and going through the post season tournament after July 4. Games will be at 6 pm weeknights close to downtown Silver Spring. Let us know by February 28!