Administrator’s
Awards Highlight Top Accomplishments
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than 175 NOAA employees and team members were honored last
month at the NOAA Administrator’s Awards ceremony in
Silver Spring, Md. Awardees came from all line offices and
many staff offices, and celebrated diverse accomplishments,
including promoting stewardship of Alaska’s living marine
resources, oversight of the renovation of the seventh and
eighth floors of the World Weather Building in Camp Springs,
Md., and designation of the San Francisco Bay National Estuarine
research reserve.
Also
honored with the Administrator’s Special Recognition
award was Dr. Berrien Moore, director of the University of
New Hampshire's Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans,
and Space. NOAA Administrator Lautenbacher praised Dr. Moore
for his "extraordinary leadership as chair of the NOAA
Research Review Team and his lifelong contributions to the
improved understanding of Earth, oceans, and space.”
The NOAA Research Review Team is part of the agency's Science
Advisory Board.
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| Reyna
Sabina, Yeun-Ho Daneshzadeh, and Claudia Schmid (left
to right) flanked by NOAA Administrator Lautenbacher
and NOAA Research director Richard Rosen, were honored
for pioneering the development of a system to deliver
quality controlled, global ocean data in real time to
international operational and research oceanographic
communities.
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| Dr.
Berrien Moore (center), chair of the NOAA Research Review
Team, was honored with the Administrator’s Special
Recognition award by NOAA Administrator Lautenbacher
(left) and the ceremony’s host, the nattily attired
Zane Schauer, Human Resources Management director (right).
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Louisiana
Wetlands Projects Feted
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On May 21, 2004,
NOAA Deputy Assistant Secretary Timothy Keeney,
and Office of Habitat Conservation Director, Rolland
Schmitten joined U.S. Senator John Breaux at
Fort Jackson in Louisiana to celebrate six habitat restoration
projects completed under the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection,
and Restoration Act, also known as the Breaux Act. NOAA Fisheries
led three of the six projects providing more than $8.5 million
to help stabilize coastal Louisiana wetlands and provide critical
habitat for commercially valuable fish and wildlife.
The
dedication event also provided an opportunity for Keeney to
present Jack Caldwell, former Secretary of Louisiana Department
of Natural Resources, with a 2004 Environmental Hero Award
for his unwavering commitment to coastal restoration and his
significant contribution to environmental stewardship.
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U.S.
Senator John Breaux and NOAA Deputy Assistant Secretary
Timothy Keeney.
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Nebraska
National Weather Service Staffers Laud 4th Graders
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Tables
were turned at a Nebraska school as local fourth grade students
autographed copies of their new book, Dizzy Disasters:
Nebraska & Beyond, for NWS staffers of the weather
forecast office in Hastings. The book, written by the Heartland
Public School’s fourth grade class, is a collection
of stories about Nebraska area severe weather events.
Michael
Lewis, NWS Hastings Meteorologist in Charge,
Steven Kisner, Warning Coordination
Meteorologist, and Todd Holsten,
Lead Meteorologist attended the book signing. Lewis congratulated
the students on a job well done and saluted the teachers
for an excellent project. Todd was an additional highlight
for the class as he recounted a couple of his own weather
stories of chasing severe thunderstorms. After the event,
Todd was sought by the students for him to autograph their
copy of the book.
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meteorologist Todd Holsten autographs a book for a
Nebraska student.
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| Employee and Team Member of the Month |
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Employee of Month
Linda
Baldwin,
NMAO
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Team Member of Month
Laura
Letson,
NOS
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June’s
Employee and Team Member of the Month are NMAO’s
Linda Baldwin and NOS’s Laura Letson. Read about
their accomplishments in this month’s issue of
NOAA Report. |
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Communicators
Win Blue Pencil Awards
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NOAA
communicators received top honors in the annual National
Association of Government Communicators (NAGC) 2004 Blue
Pencil Awards. The agency won a total of eight awards including
First Place for the article Room with a View? Dunes
Vs. View in New Jersey, written by the NOAA Coastal
Services Center, and the NOAA Research brochure: NOAA
Research: Where Science Comes to Life. The NOAA Coastal
Services Center also took separate Second Place honors for
a lobby display illustrating their vision and mission, Coastal
Zone ‘03 conference materials and Coastal Remote
Sensing, a soft cover book.
Award
of Excellence winners from NOAA included Coastal Services
Magazine; Ocean Treasure: Commercial Fishing in Alaska,
produced by the NOAA Alaska Sea Grant Program; and the Corps
of Discovery II brochure produced by NOAA's National Ocean
Service National Geodetic Survey. NAGC is a national not-for-profit
professional network of Federal, state and local government
employees who disseminate information within and outside
government.
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Blue Pencil award winners included (left to right)
Lauren Batte, NOAA Office of Legislative Affairs;
Caren Madsen, NOAA Office of Public, Constituent &
Intergovernmental Affairs; Alison Smith, NOAA Coastal
Services Center; and Kurt Byers from NOAA Alaska Sea
Grant.
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