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| Seafood
a la King |
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fourth annual Great American Seafood Cook-Off, sponsored by NOAA
Fisheries Service, showcased chefs from coast to coast, the
value of domestic seafood, and the simplicity of cooking seafood
at home. The August event took place at the Ernest N. Morial Convention
Center in New Orleans.
William
T. Hogarth, NOAA Fisheries Service director, crowned
Georgia chef James “Tim” Thomas the “King of American
Seafood” at the two-day competition. Thomas said simplicity
is critical to his cooking, and he frequently cooks with the home
chef in mind. He competes often — he took third place at the
2006 Great American Seafood Cook-Off.
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Georgia
chef James “Tim” Thomas was named “King
of American Seafood” at the 2007 Great American Seafood
Cook-Off. He was presented with his crown and a trophy by
William T. Hogarth, NOAA Fisheries Service director (right).
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| Robot
Brings NOAA Message to Iowa |
| NOS's
Communications and Education division teamed up with the Des Moines
National Weather Service office to bring ocean and weather to the
heartland at the Iowa State Fair. "Terri the Robot," topped
with a NOAA cap, explained to many of the one million attendees
the importance of the oceans and coasts, and of course, NOAA weather
radio, so important here where tornadoes are a regular occurrence.
The response to NOAA and Terri has been outstanding, with stories
about NOAA featuring on Iowa public television and radio, and local
TV news affiliates. At least four presidential candidates stopped
by to learn about NOAA and, perhaps, solicit Terri’s support.
Terri, however, was mum about any preferences.
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NOAA's
Terri the Robot explains the scientific interaction of the
oceans upon hot Iowa weather to (left to right) NWS's Craig
Cogil, Lynn Maximuk, and NOS's Thomas Cox. |
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NOAA Employee and Team Member of the Month
for August |
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Employee of the Month
Laurie
Golden
NOAA Ocean Service |
Team Member of the Month
Saroja
Trollinger
NOAA Management & Administration
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NOAA’s
Employee and Team Member of the Month for August are Laurie
Golden, NOAA’s Ocean Service and Saroja
Trollinger, NOAA Management & Administration.
Laura
Golden serves as the Grants Coordinator for the NOS national
centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS), as well as Grants
Team Leader for the NCCOS Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean
Research. Facing the challenges of a year of unusual funding
appropriations and NOAA's use of a new Broad Area Announcement
for funding financial assistance proposals, Laura led the
NCCOS grants team, numerous program managers and NCCOS management
through a demanding set of processes and met NOAA grant
submission deadlines with only one third the time normally
allotted, even though these processes were more complicated
than normal due to fiscal constraints. Due to her expert
knowledge and experience, she was able to coordinate the
successful submission of numerous multi-institutional applications
in the federal Grants
On Line system, serving as an exemplary representative
of NOAA's commitment to servicing the needs of its external
partners.
Saroja
Trollinger is an exceptional sign language interpreter at
the NOAA Silver Spring campus. She performs her duties in
an excellent manner and is well respected by NOAA’s
deaf and hearing impaired community and the co-workers with
whom they interact. She has facilitated communications between
hearing and deaf/hard of hearing employees at Silver Spring
for more than 10 years. Saroja effectively provides interpreting
services and makes recommendations to resolve communication
problems facing deaf and hard of hearing employees and applicants
for employment. Her services are used by individual deaf
and hard of hearing employees and applicants during interviews,
career counseling sessions, performance evaluations, EEO
counseling appointments, and all types of meetings.
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| Agency
Shines at Outdoor Show |
| NOAA’s
Colorado Basin River Forecast
Center, Northwest River
Forecast Center, and Southeast
River Forecast Center worked together to promote NWS hydrologic
services at the Outdoor Retailers show in Salt Lake City August
9-12. This annual event, the largest of its kind in the country,
brings in thousands of climbing, kayaking, canoeing, rafting, and
backpacking gear retailers from across the country. The three centers
collaborated to design and staff a booth at this show to reach out
to the recreation community and heighten awareness of NOAA’s
products and services, such as daily river forecasts and precipitation
analysis, which are of great use to recreation enthusiasts in and
along rivers.
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Three
of NOAA’s river forecast centers collaborated on a
booth (pictured) at the Outdoor Retailers show in Salt Lake
City in August.
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Orioles
Finally Win One for NOAA |
Finally,
in the 10th year of the annual NOAA @ Camden Yards trip, NOAA was
treated to a rare Orioles 2-0 win against the Chicago White Sox
on Friday, July 13. More than 58 appropriately NOAA-logoed employees
took the stands in support of the Baltimore team (with one hardy
White Sox fan in the bunch). It was a treat to have VADM
and Mrs. Lautenbacher with us again (the VADM has
only missed one game in the last six years, while his wife has been
with us all six years!) NOAA leadership also included Jack
Dunnigan, Craig McLean,
John Oliver and Sam De Bow.
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Legendary
Orioles slugger Boog Powell (center) joins (left to right)
RADM De Bow; Jennifer Koss , Stephanie Hunt, and deputy
director John Oliver of NOAA Fisheries Service; and NOS’s
Cheryl Oliver at Camden Yards before the game.
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NOAA’s
200th celebration is well supported by the crowd.
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