NOAA’s
Not Kidding About Kids
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NOAA
always does a great job with Take Our Children to Work Day.
This year NOAA sites around the country invited children in
to explain what we do, how we do it, and to have a little fun
in the process, too.
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In
Pascagoula, Miss., kids learned about sharks at the
NOAA Fisheries Service laboratory, and made key chains
and necklaces using shark vertebrae and beads. At left
is Amelia Driggers, daughter of Dr.Trey Driggers, a
shark research biologist; middle is Lisa Jones, also
a shark research biologist; and right is Mitchell Cantrell,
grandson of Diane Cantrell, Secretary to the Laboratory
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In
Silver Spring, kids congregated in the NOAA Science
Center for presentations and some hands-on activities.
NOAA leadership lent a hand, too, as NOAA Chief Financial
Officer Maureen Wylie doled out ice cream. |
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| As
part of NOAA’s Earth Week Fair in Seattle, the public
got a special opportunity to explore the many kinds of science
that NOAA researchers are conducting every day around the
world and in the community. Co-sponsored with Seattle Parks
and Recreation and held at the Magnuson Park Community Center,
a neighbor of NOAA’s Western Regional Center, the fair
offered many hands-on science activities and informational
booths staffed by NOAA employees. At the NOAA Fisheries Service
booths, children were given a chance to experience being biologists
by estimating fish populations using beans to represent fish
sampled in a catch. The National Weather Service’s Seattle/Tacoma
Forecasting Office educated fair-goers about weather forecasting,
and let a weather balloon go with help of several participants.
Meanwhile,
in Tampa, NOAA Deputy Assistant Secretary Tim
Keeney joined volunteers to restore oyster habitat
near an eroding mangrove island.
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Two
NOAA Earth Week Fair participants try on immersion
suits.
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NOAA
Deputy Assistant Secretary Tim Keeney helps out at
Tampa Bay.
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| Employee and Team Member of the Month |
| Employee of the Month
Allyson
Ouzts
NOAA
Fisheries Service
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Team Member of the Month
Ed
Hastings
NOAA Fisheries Service
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This
month’s Employee and Team Member of the Month
are Allyson Ouzts and Ed Hastings, both from the NOAA
Fisheries Service. You can read about their accomplishments
in the upcoming issue of NOAA Report. |
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Guiding
Young Women into Science
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| The weather
forecast office in Aberdeen, S.D., joined their colleagues
in Rapid City and Sioux Falls to co-host a series of Women
in Science conferences in the state recently. These conferences
provided a forum for young women and girls to learn about
the endless opportunities available in math- and science-related
career fields and to create personal connections with professional
women scientists. South Dakota’s Women In Science program
is supported by local and state agencies, schools, businesses
and service organizations.
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| Meteorologist
Aaron Dorn shows a Star Tortoise to girls attending
the Women in Science conference co-hosted by NOAA’s
National Weather Service Forecast Office in Aberdeen.
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Field
Trip Covers Resources Issues
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Hines and Daniel Logan,
fisheries biologists at the NOAA Fisheries Santa Rosa, Calif.,
field office, organized and led a field trip for Sonoma State
University biology students to view an active gravel mining
operation and to discuss resource management issues related
to Endangered Species Act-listed salmon. The mining operator,
Homer Canelis, met with the students and discussed his personal
family history in the community, his perspective of working
with NOAA Fisheries and other agencies during regulatory review,
and various mining practices. David worked with Homer to effectively
promote stewardship of the public’s resources by modifying
mining operations to improve fishery habitat, while allowing
Homer to continue to extract mineral resources from the site.
Because this event was so well received by the professor and
students, Daniel has been in discussion with the Sonoma State
University professor to create a college seminar course on
conflicts in natural resource management.
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NOAA
Fisheries biologist David Hines (left) and mining operator
Homer Canelis (right) share perspectives on the Endangered
Species Act consultation process with students from
Sonoma State University.
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