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Groundbreaking
Achievement
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| NOAA
and the Mariners' Museum broke ground in Newport News, Va.
last month for the USS Monitor Center, a $30 million state-
of-the-art exhibition and conservation facility focused on
the famed Civil War ironclad. The new center will be a national
authority and repository for the recovered artifacts, and
for other materials, research and programming related to the
history of the famous USS Monitor that revolutionized
naval warfare.
"When completed, the USS Monitor Center will be an exciting
and informative destination that will bring the story of this
Civil War icon to life, while honoring the memory and dedicated
service of the Monitor's officers and crew," said NOAA
administrator Conrad C. Lautenbacher.
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before the groundbreaking ceremony for the new USS Monitor
Center in Newport News, Va., were (left to right) Dr.
John Broadwater, manager, Monitor National Marine Sanctuary;
Daniel Basta, director, NOAA National Marine Sanctuary
Program; Mita Vail, vice president for development and
government relations, The Mariners' Museum; John Hightower,
president and CEO, The Mariners' Museum; John L. Nau,
III, chair, Advisory Council on Historic Preservation.
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Cutting
the Ribbon in Kobe
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Administrator Lautenbacher gives
the white glove treatment as he and other attendees from around
the world mark the formal opening of the Oceans ’04
conference in Kobe, Japan earlier this month. The theme for
the conference, organized by the Marine Technology Society
and The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
/ Oceanic Engineering Society, was “Bridges Across the
Oceans.” Lautenbacher spoke on global observing systems
in his speech, “Towards Bridging the Gaps in our Global
Observational Capacity.”
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NOAA
Administrator Lautenbacher, along with other attendees
from around the world, cuts the ribbon to open the Oceans
’04 conference in Kobe, Japan earlier this month.
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| Employee and Team Member of the Month |
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Employee of Month
Neal
Dorst
NOAA Research
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Team Member of Month
Danny
Hampton
NOAA National Weather Service
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Read
all about the accomplishments of this month’s
Employee of the Month, Neal Dorst, and the Team Member
of the Month, Danny Hampton, in the next issue of NOAA
Report. |
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Surplus
Computers Benefit Urban School
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| Students
at the Albert Monroe Magnet Middle School in Inglewood, Calif.,
are using computers for the first time at their school thanks
to some enterprising Southwest Fisheries employees.
More
than two dozen surplus government computers were donated to
the inner-city Los Angeles school in by NOAA Fisheries’
Southwest regional office as part of a streamlined governmental
process to survey surplus computer systems to non-profit schools.
The Inglewood Unified School District serves a diverse urban
population of students — 58 percent Hispanic, 41 percent
African American.
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| NOAA’s
Norm Mendez (left) with Albert Monroe Magnet Middle
School principal Ronald K. Otsuji.
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New
Dates for Saving Springer
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The
next airings of the NOAA documentary Saving Springer are on:
- KOZK-TV
(channel 21), Springfield, Mo., and sister station KOZJ-TV
(channel 26), Joplin, Mo./ Pittsburg, Kan., on November
21 at 6:30 pm,
- KCPT-TV
(channel 19), Kansas City, Mo., on November 24 at 9:30 pm,
- WUSF-TV
(channel 16), Tampa / St. Petersburg / Sarasota, Fla., on
Nov. 25 at 1:30 pm, with repeat showings on Nov. 28 at 2:30
pm and Nov. 30 at 4:30 am
- KIXE-TV
(channel 9), Chico / Redding, Calif., on Nov, 26 at 4:00
pm
- WNPI-TV
(channel 18) and WPBS-TV (channel 16), Watertown, NY, on
Nov. 28 at 7:00 am
Saving
Springer is a remarkable and inspirational story about the
work that NOAA, here through the NOAA Fisheries Office of
Protected Resources, does on a daily basis. Springer, a young
and abandoned killer whale, could have been left to make her
way as best she could. Instead, the work and dedication of
NOAA professionals helped Springer return to her family.
This
documentary will be airing on 90 public television stations
around the Nation over the next several months. As we learn
of scheduled air times, we'll publish that information here
so you might get a close look at some of the work being done
by your NOAA co-workers.
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NOAA
kicked off its 2004 Combined
Federal Campaign this October and is enthusiastic about
reaching its goal this year. NOAA and other federal employees
have consistently demonstrated generosity and caring in
support of the CFC. In 2003, federal employees across the
country raised more than $249 million for charitable causes.
If you give to the CFC every year, thank you! If you haven't
participated in the past, please consider it this year.
It is an easy and efficient way to contribute, there are
over 3,000 CFC/OPM approved charities to donate to, and
the CFC was designed and is managed by federal employees
— just like you! Remember that the strength of the
CFC is in the great number of people who make contributions,
large or small — so ever dollar makes a difference.
The CFC ends in mid-December, so make your contribution
now so that you can help those that are less fortunate and/or
have special needs before the start of the holiday season!
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