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Staffers Weather Crowds at Air Show
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8,000 people visited the displays and aircraft at the Hawaii
Aviation Show last month, and NWS Pacific Region employees
staffed an exhibit there featuring NOAA Weather Radio and
the StormReady program.
Data
Systems Program Manager David Meek,
Meteorologist/Forecaster Ray Tanabe
and Regional Operational Services Meteorologist Joel
Cline staffed the display and enjoyed talking
story with many general aviation users and users of other
NOAA products.
Sponsored
by the Hawaiian department of transportation, the event was
held to commemorate the 100th anniversary of powered flight
and the 93rd anniversary of powered flight in Hawaii, educate
the public about the state’s aviation resources and
heritage.
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Meteorologist
Joel Cline talks to a contingent of Boy Scouts at the
Hawaii Aviation Show last month.
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Kelly
Holds First 2004 Constituent Meeting
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Deputy
Under Secretary Jack Kelly hosted
NOAA’s first constituent meeting of 2004 last month,
a Stakeholder Forum in Seattle, which coincided with the American
Meteorological Society’s annual meeting there.
At
the meeting, Kelly discussed the new NOAA Strategic Plan,
matrix management, and other issues of interest to NOAA’s
partners, users and stakeholders. This Stakeholder Forum also
featured a panel discussion by five NOAA partners in the Pacific
Northwest representing NOAA’s mission goal areas. Panel
members presented examples of NOAA and its partners working
together on important regional issues
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Deputy Under Secretary Jack Kelly
discussed NOAA’s new strategic plan at a constituent
meeting in Seattle last month.
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NOAA constituents listen to Kelly
at a meeting in Seattle last month.
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| Future
NOAA Leaders Enter Development Program
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| Twenty-eight
NOAA employees from all over the country have been selected
for the fourth class of the 18-month Leadership Competencies
Development Program, a comprehensive succession planning program
designed to build future agency leaders.
These
28 future leaders will begin their development training in
mid-April, when the 26 members of last year’s class
will graduate. Among the program’s goals are to strengthen
communications in and across the organization, to create a
stronger corporate NOAA, and to foster diversity in the workplace.
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| Employee and Team Member of the Month |
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Employee of Month
Rick
Schwabacher
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Team Member of Month
Tom
Beaver
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NOAA
honors Rick Schwabacher and Tom Beaver as the Employee
and Team Member of the Month for February. Check out
their accomplishments in this month’s issue of
NOAA Report. |
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| Fish
Police Can’t Carp About New Ship
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| NOAA
Fisheries employee Leta Etheridge
christened the new patrol vessel PV Challenge II for the NOAA
Fisheries Office for Law Enforcement last month in Portland,
Me.
The
46-foot vessel was purchased with funds provided through a
Joint Enforcement Agreement between the OLE and the Maine
Marine Patrol, and will expand both agency’s offshore
law enforcement capabilities. The live-aboard fishing vessel
was originally built in 1997, but was recently purchased by
the state patrol. The fishing vessel was then to prepare her
for her new duties as a patrol vessel.
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| NOAA
Fisheries employee Leta Etheridge (right) christened
the new patrol vessel PV Challenge II.
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The
NOAA Fisheries lab in Santa Cruz, Calif., has something new
on its walls — a fishery-themed
mural, painted by local artist Ray Troll.
"We
improvised on the spot," said Troll. "The many scientists
at the lab brought us great resource photos to work from and
each day we added many more of our finny friends to the composition."
Troll was aided by fellow artists Roberto Salas and Guillermo
Juaregui. It took about two weeks to cover the 30-foot wide
wall.
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Artist Ray Troll’s fish
mural graces the walls at NOAA Fisheries’ Santa
Cruz lab.
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Ray Troll’s mural took two
weeks to paint.
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| If
you do, and you’re in the Washington metro area, NOAA
has a team for you. The NOAA/HHS Softball League is looking
for some men and women to join 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 27! Contact Ben
Sfanos at benjamin.sfanos@noaa.gov.
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accessNOAA, we’re always looking for interesting stories
about NOAA people just like you. Whether your office has received
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in its class, if it makes a fellow NOAA reader take a second
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and photos to accessnoaa@accessnoaa.noaa.gov, and you may
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