NOAA
Honors Employees at Awards Ceremony
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than 100 NOAA employees from across the country were honored
for individual and group achievements last month at the NOAA
Awards ceremony, held in Silver Spring. Recipients were cited
for excellence in such diverse areas as NOAA’s Matrix
Air Quality Program, the NOS Discovery Center, and the Break
the Grip of the Rip current outreach program. Among the honors
were the NOAA Diversity Spectrum Award, given to employees
and managers for their contributions and activities which
promote NOAA's goals in managing diversity, and the NOAA Technology
Transfer Award, which recognizes scientific and engineering
achievements which have direct applications to the private
sector, and focuses on the tangible benefits NOAA scientists
and engineers bring to the market place. The ceremony was
hosted by NOAA Workforce Management director Eddie
Ribas.
For
a complete list of award honorees, click here.
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Ali
Senauer, flanked by NOAA Administrator Conrad Lautenbacher
NOAA Fisheries director William Hogarth, was honored
for “building a dynamic outreach program that
dramatically improved the content, image and visibility
of NOAA Fisheries Service science in the Pacific Northwest.” |
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Nadia
D. Sbeih, Thomas A. Cox, and Colleen P. Labbe, joined
by NOAA Administrator Lautenbacher and NOAA Oceans
& Coasts deputy director Jack Hayes, were honored
“for exemplary efforts in public service and
public affairs coordinating NOAA’s participation
in the 2004 Smithsonian Folklife Festival.”
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| The NOAA
Fisheries Service Mississippi Laboratories in Pascagoula had
another successful year as "Team NOAA" raising funds
for the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life. NOAA employees,
contractors, and employees of the Lab's local credit union
raised over $3,000 and sold nearly $2,000 worth of lights
that are lit Relay night in honor of a cancer survivor or
in memory of a cancer victim.
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Among
the members of Team NOAA in the Relay for Life were
(front row) Lee Saxon, team captain Andre Debose,
Gilmore "Butch" Pellegrin, (back row) Diane
Cantrell, Nathaniel Sanders Jr., Susan Linn, Claudette
Bush, Carolyn Burks, and Carrie Horton.
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| Employee and Team Member of the Month |
| Employee of the Month
Nancy
Griffin
NOAA Research
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Team Member of the Month
Ronald
Guenther
NOAA National Weather Service
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This
month’s Employee and Team Member of the Month
are Nancy Griffin from NOAA Research, and Ronald Guenther
from the NOAA National Weather Service. You can read
about their accomplishments in the upcoming issue of
NOAA Report. |
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| NOAA
sponsored Marine Science Day, a major public outreach event
that attracted 1,500 people at the Virginia Institute of Marine
Science last month. NOAA programs included a children's booth,
hands-on beach seining, and various boat activities.
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Kyle
Stoecker, 4½, demonstrating his version of the
Chesapeake
Bay ecosystem at NOAA’s Marine Science Day in
Virginia.
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Oceanexplorer
Web Site Wins Award
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| Oceanexplorer.noaa.gov
took first place for Web sites, produced primarily in house,
in the National Association of Government Communicators' (NAGC)
2004 Blue Pencil/Gold Screen Awards competition. More than
600 entries were judged with winners announced last month
in Austin, Texas.
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(left
to right) David Matusik, president of NAGC, presents
the Blue Pencil/Gold Screen Award to Web manager Mike
Shelby and Web developer Kyle Carothers, representing
the entire Web team under the direction of Tom Lapointe.
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