Can
you sing? Are you fearless holding a high C in front of 300
people, including the person who gives you your annual review?
NOAA's
next award ceremony is May 25 in Silver Spring, and folks,
we need someone to sing the National Anthem.
The
American National Anthem. That’s right, The Star
Spangled Banner. One of the most difficult songs to sing
ever written.
There's
no compensation (aside from a photo and two tickets to the
event), you have to work in the Washington metro area (no
travel funds spent), and your supervisor has to give you the
time off to attend a rehearsal in the Silver Spring auditorium
on May 24 and the ceremony on the morning of the 25th.
If
you're a NOAA employee or team member who has legitimately
sung in public, isn't afraid of singing one of the
most difficult songs in a standard, respectful style without
accompaniment, a capella, in front of your friends,
your family, your co-workers, your supervisor, their
supervisor, your supervisor’s supervisor, and NOAA leadership
(but not the American Idol judges), hand
deliver your cassette tapes or CDs, with your name,
work address, phone, and e-mail to...
In
Silver Spring
Jennifer Heyob, HRMO, SSMC4 / 12518
In
Washington
Jerry Slaff, Public Affairs, HCHB / 6217
(If
you’re not in either of those duty stations, but are
in the Washington metro area, send it by interoffice mail
and send an e-mail to accessnoaa@accessnoaa.noaa.gov
telling us it’s coming.)
Deadline
is 4:00 pm, May 14, no exceptions. Decision of the
judges is absolutely final. The winner will be informed by
Friday, May 21.
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| NWS
Leads Minn. Habitat For Humanity Effort
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a sunny yet unseasonably cool April morning, with NOAA’s
National Weather Service in the lead, Federal workers in the
Twin Cities metropolitan area broke ground on a Habitat for
Humanity project that began construction on a single family
home in St. Paul, Minn., after many months of planning and
organizing. NWS’s Craig Edwards,
meteorologist-in-charge at the Chanhassen Forecast Office,
pioneered efforts to involve the Federal sector. The forecast
office, the North Central River Forecast Center, and the National
Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center also raised $1,000
to feed and outfit the construction force.
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At
the construction site are (left to right) Dan Luna,
North Central River Forecast Center; Steven Seidel,
Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity; Andy Miller, Chanhassen
Weather Forecast Office.
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NOAA
Administrator Lautenbacher spoke
at the State of the Planet symposium at New York’s Columbia
University in March, on Earth EKG: Expanding Knowledge of
the Globe.
"A
healthy economy and a healthy environment are tied together
now and into the future,” he said. “[Expanding]
our knowledge to the point where we begin to step up to new
knowledge in understanding the coupling of Earth systems,
understanding what it means to have them all together, what
it means in the future for making sound policy decisions based
on sound sciences.”
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NOAA
Administrator Lautenbacher at the State of the Planet
symposium at Columbia University in March.
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Staff
from the Santa Rosa, Calif. fisheries field office joined with
community members to clean up a section of Santa Rosa Creek
in celebration of Earth Day earlier this month. The office’s
eight representatives were a significant proportion of the entire
volunteer crew, and made a major difference in that part of
the watershed.
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| Charleen
Gavette and Kurt Dreflak were among the eight NOAA staffers
cleaning up Santa Rosa Creek for Earth Day.
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| Employee and Team Member of the Month |
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Employee of Month
Tracey
McCray,
NOAA
Research
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Team Member of Month
Richard
Ice,
NOAA National Weather Service
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Read
about this month’s Employee and Team Member of
the Month, McCray and Ice, in the April issue of NOAA
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| Dr.
Laura Kong, director of NOAA's International Tsunami
Information Center, and Ken Gilert, disaster preparedness
and mitigation officer, Oahu Civil Defense Agency, greet
visitors at E Malama I Ke Kai, an ocean fair held at
the Bishop Museum in Honolulu in April. Visitors received
tsunami safety information, watched a tsunami education
video, and participated in learning activities. The
keiki (children) are decorating tags for their bookbags;
one side of the tag features a colorful tsunami wave
and a Web site. More than 1,000 people attended the
family day event which featured entertainment, arts
and crafts, and education booths.
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NOAA
National Marine Sanctuaries Vessel Transferred to
Elizabeth
City (N.C.) State University
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| A
ceremony was held on April 14, 2003, in Elizabeth City, N.C.
to mark the North Carolina’s Elizabeth City State University
received a former NOAA research vessel, the Hawk,
in a ceremony in April.
The 29-foot vessel, formerly operated by NOAA's Stellwagen
Bank National Marine Sanctuary, will be used by the university
to conduct coastal and estuarine habitat mapping, monitoring
and restoration research in northeastern North Carolina and
southeastern Virginia. NOAA has partnered with ECSU through
the Educational Partnership Program with Minority Serving
Institutions.
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NOAA Deputy Assistant Secretary
Tim Keeney delivered the keynote address and presented
to a plaque ECSU Vice Chancellor Dr. Carolyn Mahoney
commemorating the transfer of the R/V Hawk.
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At
accessNOAA, we’re always looking for interesting stories
about NOAA people just like you. Whether your office has received
an award, or your collection of Elvis memorabilia is tops
in its class, if it makes a fellow NOAA reader take a second
look, it’s right for accessNOAA. E-mail your stories
and photos to accessnoaa@accessnoaa.noaa.gov,
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