President
Bush Spends Earth Day at NOAA Estuarine Reserve
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Bush spent part of Earth Day last month at NOAA’s Wells
National Estuarine Research Reserve in Maine. He was joined
later by his mother, the former First Lady.
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Wearing
a Wells NERR logo jacket, President Bush addressed the
crowd at the reserve on Earth Day last month.
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First Lady Barbara Bush joined the President at Wells,
and signed autographs for the crowd.
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| Rounding
out the family's participation in Earth Day at NOAA,
Florida
Gov. Jeb Bush sported a NOAA cap as he joined the President
during his
visit to NOAA's Rookery Bay NERR, on Florida's Gulf
Coast.
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SCORE
One for the Oysters
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Also
on Earth day, NOAA Deputy Assistant Secretary Tim
Keeney visited oyster reefs restored through
the South Carolina Oyster Restoration and Enhancement (SCORE)
program. The program, supported by the NOAA Community-based
Restoration Program and administered by the South Carolina
Department of Natural Resources, engages volunteers to plant
recycled oyster shell in the intertidal environment to form
new, self-sustaining reefs.
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NOAA’s Tim Keeney talks
with a student volunteer at an Earth Day event in
South Carolina.
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| Employee and Team Member of the Month |
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Employee of Month
Katy
Stewart,
NFA
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Team Member of Month
Clay
Davenport,
NESDIS
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Get
the lowdown on this month’s Employee and Team
Member of the Month, Katy Stewart and Clay Davenport,
in NOAA Report, coming to your mailbox soon! |
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The Earth Day festivities continued down South as NOAA Corps
Captain Sam Debow and NOAA DUS Brig.
Gen. Jack Kelly spent Earth Day
at the Fort Fisher Aquarium, near Wilmington, N.C.
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Done with talking turkey in his
job as NOAA DUS, Brig Gen Jack Kelly gets some tips
on turtles from the staff at North Carolina’s
Fort Fisher Aquarium.
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NOAA’s
Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory celebrated
its 30th anniversary last month at its Ann Arbor, Mich.
facility with a special post mark honoring the lab.
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Postal Service’s Cherie Toth (seated) stamped
the special GLERL 30th anniversary postmark on letters
as NOAA DAS Tim Kenney (center) and Al Beeton (right),
GLERL’s second director, look over her wares.
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special GLERL 30th anniversary postmark.
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