| When
NOAA Research budget analyst Debby Kay goes
home, her attention changes from labs to Labs. The researcher
and breeder has recently published the results of over 30
years of her work with Labrador retrievers, The Labrador
Breeders Handbook. Kay started breeding dogs in 1969
with a goal of producing top rate Labradors for service dog
work — seeing eye dogs, as well as dogs who help the
hearing impaired and people with physical impairments.
She
is also world renown for her pioneering work with detector
dogs of all types, training hundreds of explosive detection
dogs that now serve police and military organizations around
the world, including dogs that have protected presidents,
diplomats, the Pope, four Olympic games, and several nuclear
facilities.
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| Debby
Kay has worked with Labrador retrievers for more than
30 years.
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| Debby’s
dogs are in demand as helping dogs, and for protection.
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La
Jolla Laboratory Hosts Scripps Students
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Fifteen
high school students who were taking a class called “Marine
Scientist for a Week” at the Scripps Institution of
Oceanography Birch Aquarium visited the La Jolla Laboratory
on July 31. Cindy Taylor, an Scripps graduate student, spoke
to the students about her rockfish genetics research at the
lab, and Rosemary Troian, Outreach Coordinator
for the La Jolla Laboratory, spoke about Fish and Other Creatures
of the Deep. In addition to the presentations, students had
the opportunity to view fish samples, gray whale baleen, and
shark teeth.
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| Rosemary
Troian, Outreach Coordinator for the La Jolla laboratory
(rear) shows students fish samples.
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| Employee and Team Member of the Month |
| Employee of Month
Jason
McConachy
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Team Member of Month
Diane
Deitz
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| One
helped NOAA get its budget together in record time,
and the other is whip-smart with AWIPS. Meet Jason
McConachy and Diane Deitz,
NOAA’s Employee and Team Member for September
in the upcoming issue of NOAA Report. |
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| NOAA
Lawmen Gain National OK
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| NOAA’s
Office for Law Enforcement received national reaccreditation
this summer, a voluntary process for law enforcement agencies
to demonstrate their compliance with national law enforcement
standards. After an on-site assessment in April by the Commission
on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA), a private
group, NOAA’s law enforcement arm became the first federal
law enforcement agency in the country to be re-accredited
by CALEA, said Paula Stuart, NOAA law enforcement’s
accreditation manager. The office mostly works with NOAA Fisheries,
but has been called on for other tasks. Some members aided
in the aftermath of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks.
The
accreditation standards cover the office’s management,
organization, administration, communications, property and
evidence control, and relationships with other agencies. NOAA’s
Office for Law Enforcement was initially accredited in 2000.
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| Assessors
from CALEA join NOAA Law Enforcement Chief Dale J. Jones
(far left), Accreditation Manager Paula Stuart (center),
and Deputy Chief Mark Spurrier (far right).
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