DeMint
Visits Nancy Foster
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| Sen.
Jim DeMint (R-SC) and three members of his staff visited the
NOAA Ship Nancy Foster in Charleston last month to
talk to local media about his position as Chairman of the
newly formed Commerce Subcommittee on Disaster Prediction
and Prevention, which has jurisdiction over the National Weather
Service. Sen. DeMint was greeted by the ship's crew and a
scientific party from the University of South Carolina, including
five Einstein Fellows aboard through a partnership with NOAA’s
Teacher at Sea program. RADM Rich Behn, director of Marine
and Aircraft Operations Centers, and CDR Fred Rossmann, commanding
officer of the Nancy Foster, gave the Senator a tour
of the ship with a discussion about the ship’s mission,
and talked about various ways NOAA supports his new role.
Upon departing the ship, Sen. DeMint commented that “he
learned a lot about NOAA today.”
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| RADM
Rich Behn follows Sen. DeMint as he boards the NOAA
Ship Nancy Foster.
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| RADM
Rich Behn (left) and CDR Fred Rossmann (right) give
Sen. Demint a tour of the Nancy Foster.
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General
Counsel Fetes Excellence
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| NOAA
General Counsel held its annual Performance Awards Ceremony
last month, recognizing the excellent work of many NOAA attorneys
and support staff, as well as representatives of many Line Offices,
the Departments of Commerce, Justice, Navy and EPA who assisted
the office in fulfilling its mission. Both individual and team
awards were presented at the Silver Spring ceremony.
The General
Counsel Senior Leader Award, recognizing a NOAA senior leader
who displayed notable assistance to NOAA General Counsel in
fulfilling its mission went to NOAA Oceans & Coasts Service
director Rick Spinrad for his help in improving, among other
things, the Coastal Zone Management Amendment appeals procedures
and the ability to pursue natural resource damage actions.
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| NOAA
General Counsel James Walpole (third from left) and
the award winners (left to right): Nona Carter (Seattle
office) Paralegal of the Year; Edith McHenry (Juneau
office) Administrator of the Year; Evangeline Davis
(Silver Spring office) Secretary of the Year; Glenn
Tallia (Silver Spring office) Manager of the Year; and
Stephanie Fluke (St. Petersburg office) Attorney of
the Year.
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| Employee and Team Member of the Month |
| Employee of the Month
Kristen
Crossett
NOAA
Oceans and Coasts Service
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Team Member of the Month
Ron
Redmon
NOAA Management & Administration
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This
month’s Employee and Team Member of the Month
are NOAA Oceans & Coasts Service’s Kristen
Crossett and NOAA Management & Administration’s
Ron Redmon. Read about their accomplishments in the
upcoming issue of NOAA Report. |
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Dream
Comes True, With Help from Okla. Employee
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| While most
people spend their weekends pursuing hobbies or relaxing at
home with their families, Kevin Kelleher, deputy director
of the NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Okla.,
has used his free time during the past three months to help
a local man with cancer realize his dream. Tom Blevins, who
had been struggling with brain cancer for more than six months,
had just been told it was terminal and he only had months
to live. For the past nine years, Blevins had been single-handedly
building a dream retirement home for his family.
The family desperately needed help to complete
the construction. Kelleher organized volunteers and more than
35 people showed up to help on the first weekend. As the project
received attention from local media, more volunteers showed
up each weekend to continue the work, from sheetrock to painting,
and some skilled laborers even donated their time.
In
eight weeks, over 300 volunteers put in nearly 2,500 hours
of work. Earlier this month, Blevins arrived by ambulance,
and toured his completed home on a stretcher surrounded by
family, friends and volunteers.
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| Volunteers
work on the Blevins’ retirement house.
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| High school
student Cailey Stevens shows NOAA spirit during ComFish, Alaska's
biggest fishery trade show in Kodiak, in the Aleutian Islands.
NOAA Fisheries Service had three booths at the show, plus
three workshops on various fisheries issues. Cailey is the
daughter of Dr. Brad Stevens, a research fishery biologist
at the Kodiak branch of the Alaska Fishery Science Center.
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Alaska’s
Cailey Stevens gets in your…er, our face at Kodiak’s
ComFish trade show. But where’s the trademark
symbol?
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