| NOAA
was represented at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the
National Mall in Washington last month by a number of exhibits,
including NOAA’s Chesapeake Bay Office Bay Walkway exhibit,
educating visitors about the nation's largest estuary.
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| NOAA
Administrator Lautenbacher at the NOAA Chesapeake Bay
walkway exhibit of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival
last month.
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New
Key West Office Resists Hurricanes
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| In
a ceremony last month, NOAA and other public officials broke
ground for a new weather service forecast office in Key West,
Fla., which will be built to withstand hurricane force winds
and flooding. Keynote speaker Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, joined
retired Brig. Gen. David L. Johnson,
director of the National Weather Service, Bill
Proenza, NWS Southern Region director, and Matt
Strahan, Key West meteorologist-in-charge on
the two-acre site in central Key West.
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Digging up the dirt on Key West
was (left to right) Craig Fugate, Director, Florida
Division of Emergency Management; Billy Wagner, Senior
Director, Monroe County Emergency Management; Bill
Proenza, Director, NWS Southern Region; Sonny McCoy,
District 3 Commissioner, Monroe County; retired Brig.
Gen. David L. Johnson, Director, National Weather
Service; Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen; Jimmy Weekley,
Key West Mayor; Capt. James K. Scholl, Commanding
Officer, Naval Air Station Key West; Thaddeus Cohen,
Secretary, Florida Department of Community Affairs;
and Matt Strahan, meteorologist-in-charge, Key West
forecast office.
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| Employee and Team Member of the Month |
| Employee of Month
Chip
Guard,
NWS
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Team Member of Month
Jamie
King,
NMFS
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This
month’s Employee and Team Member of the Month
are Chip Guard of the NOAA National Weather Service
and Dr. Jamie King of the NOAA Ocean Service. Read about
their accomplishments in the upcoming issue of NOAA
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Alaska
Gov. Tours Rainier
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| Alaska
governor Frank Murkowski visited the NOAA ship Rainier
as it stopped at Petersburg, Alaska, for the town’s
Little Norway Festival last month. More than 100 people toured
the ship during the weekend festival.
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Showing
Alaska Gov. Murkowski (left) around the Rainier was
LT(jg) Stephanie Koes.
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An
Xtremely Fair Forecast
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More
than three thousand people joined one hundred exhibitors
to discover new service, internet product links, and to
participate in family and children activities at the Xtreme
Weather Fair, held at Stennis International Airport in Hancock
County, Mississippi, earlier this spring. The fair’s
primary goal is show how the public and private sectors
work together prior to, during, and after an extreme weather
event. NOAA was represented with exhibits from the weather
service, NESDIS, and NOAA Marine and Aviation, as well as
tours of the NOAA research aircraft “Miss Piggy.”
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| Children
made and decorated their own kites at the NOAA Kite
exhibit.
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| The
weather fair captured media attention.
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The
recently approved NOAA
Media Policy establishes NOAA’s policy on the
conduct and aspects of the agency’s media and public
relations activities. The chief goal of those activities
is to increase public understanding of NOAA, its mission
and programs. Please read the policy, formally known as
NOAA Administrative Order 219-6, and implement its direction
whenever and wherever possible. A link to the policy can
also be found on the public
affairs section of the NOAA home page.
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