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than 100 NOAA staff joined personnel from the U.S. Navy and
St. Mary’s College last month to restore a portion of
the Chesapeake Bay shoreline during the second annual NOAA
Restoration Day event at the Navy’s Webster Field Annex,
in St. Mary’s County, Md. Participants planted 54 trays
of underwater grasses previously grown in NOAA offices in
Silver Spring. They also installed 5,400 wetlands plants,
distributed 100 bags of native oysters, and removed invasive
species from the water’s edge. All together these projects
will help restore more than 1,000 feet of highly eroding shoreline.
The effort supplements an existing restoration project at
the Navy site supported by NOAA’s Community-based Restoration
program. NOAA Deputy Assistant Secretary Tim Keeney,
represented NOAA leadership.
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Knee-deep
in the Chesapeake, NOAA’s Tim Keeney is interviewed
by a crew from Washington’s Channel 9 news about
the benefits of habitat restoration in the bay. |
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NOAA
employees load bags of oyster shell, covered by baby
oyster spat, into a boat. The shell was then planted
by hand just off shore.
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| Employees
from NOAA’s Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory
in Boulder, Colo., raised more than $3,200 in the American
Cancer Society’s Relay for Life last month. The ten
members of “Team CMDL” won the award for most
money raised by a new team, as well as the American Cancer
Societies Bronze Award for raising more than $3,000. Team
members walked an average of 15 miles in the relay, and were
joined at the relay by four of the lab’s cancer survivors.
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Among
the CMDL employees, retirees, and spouses participating
in the lab’s Relay for Life team were (left
to right) were Allison McComiskey, Connie Craig, Gloria
Carbaugh, Brenda Seader, James Salzman, team captain
Brooke Walsh, Tonisha Seader, Erin Siegel, Vicky Thompson,
Mike Rosson, Rita Rosson, John Ogren, and Jan Ogren.
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| Employee and Team Member of the Month |
| Employee of the Month
Natalie
Smith
Office of the Chief Information Officer
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Team Member of the Month
Robert
Taddei
NOAA Satellite and Information Service
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This
month’s Employee and Team Member of the Month
are Natalie Smith from the Office of the Chief Information
Officer, and Robert Taddei, from the NOAA Satellite
and Information Service. You can read about their accomplishments
in the upcoming issue of NOAA Report. |
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Deaf
Staffer Appointed to State Communications Aid Board
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| Betty
Jean Dodds, was appointed last month to the
Maryland Governor's Advisory Board for Telecommunications
Relay by Governor Robert Ehrlich. As a late deafened person
with severe nerve damage from a back injury, she is intimately
and personally aware of communications and mobility issues.
Betty
has chaired the disability issues subcommittee of NOAA’s
EEO Council for four years. She is a founding board member
of Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Government and recently served
as the chair of the technical evaluation committee for the
GSA’s Federal Relay Service contract. She is a member
of the NOAA Weather Radio team, performing outreach and education
at national and international deaf and hard of hearing organization
conferences.
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Betty
Jean Dodds being sworn in as a member of the Governor’s
Advisory Board for Telecommunications Relay by Juana
Menese of the Clerk of Courts Office at the Circuit
Court in Rockville, Md. last month.
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