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| A
Poster Child for Sea Turtles
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| Judy
Gocke, a NOAA Fisheries team member in Galveston,
Tex., received first place in the Archie Carr Student Poster
Award at the 24th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Conservation
and Biology in Costa Rica last month. Her poster depicted
findings from her Master's thesis, “Visual spectral
sensitivity of loggerhead and leatherback hatchlings —
A comparative study.” Judy received $500, a certificate,
and a year's subscription to a sea turtle journal. She came
to Galveston last year to enter shrimp trawl bycatch data
as a contract employee with Johnson Controls.
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Karlson
Named Junior Officer of Year
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NOAA
Corps officer Lt. Daniel Karlson
has been named 2003 Junior Officer of the Year. Karlson serves
as operations support officer for NOAA’s Search and
Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking (SARSAT) Program and the U.S.
Mission Control Center in Suitland, Md. Karlson was commended
for his outstanding work in leading the NOAA effort to implement
a new SARSAT Personal Locator Beacon service in the United
States that will help save the lives of hikers, skiers, hunters,
and other outdoor users in distress. Karlson also has been
instrumental in increasing public awareness nationally and
internationally of PLBs and SARSAT.
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Junior
Officer of the Year Lt. Daniel Karlson (second from
left) along with (left to right) VADM Lautenbacher,
NOAA Corps Capt. Sam Debow and SARSAT Program Manager
Ajay Mehta.
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| New
Weather Chief Meets Governors
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| Retired
Brig. Gen. David L. Johnson, newly
appointed director of NOAA National Weather Service, and NOAA
chief of Staff Scott Rayder met
in late February with Nebraska Governor Mike Johanns and staff
from the Western Governors' Association. The discussion included
an update from the association on the status of the National
Integrated Drought Information System, a collaborative effort
with NOAA that will be presented as a report to Western governors
at their annual conference in June.
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(Left
to right) NOAA chief of staff Scott Rayder, Nebraska
Gov. Mike Johanns, and New weather service chief Brig.
Gen. David Johnson.
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| Employee and Team Member of the Month |
| Employee of Month
Wanda
Cain
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Team Member of Month
Curley
Winbrenner
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NOAA
Fisheries’ Wanda Cain and NMAO’s Curley
Winebrenner are this month’s Employee and Team
Member of the Month. You can read about their accomplishments
in the March edition of NOAA Report, coming to your
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| NOAA
Ocean Service’s Charles Challstrom
presented New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson with a replica
of the Jefferson Peace medal, a memento that explorers Lewis
and Clark presented to Native American leaders as they traveled
west, in front of the NOAA National Geodetic Survey exhibit
at the Western Governors Association meeting in Washington
last month.
In
January 2003, when the Corps of Discovery II Expedition began
retracing the steps of Lewis and Clark, NGS placed a marker
at Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson in Charlottesville,
Va., and symbolic starting point of the expedition. Jefferson
initiated the first Corps of Discovery Expedition with a letter
to Congress in 1803. The design of NGS’s marker is based
on the Jefferson Peace medal. The commemorative expedition
will continue through 2006.
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| New
Mexico Gov. Richardson at the NGS exhibit with NOAA’s
Charles Callstrom.
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NGS’ Lewis and Clark marker is based on the Jefferson
Peace Medal.
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