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A part-time magician, NOAA Research's Jason Goldberg (left) plies some magic tricks to OMAO Public Affairs officer Jeanne Kouhestani, DAS Tim Keeney, and NOS External Affairs director Tim Tomastik at November’s CFC Fair at Commerce Department headquarters in Washington. The fund raising drive is scheduled to end December 15, but may be extended.

NOAA Research's Jason Goldberg wowed the crowd with magic at the CFC Fair.

Over 100 local, state, and federal participants joined staff from NOAA’s Office of Habitat Conservation in late September to celebrate restored tidal flow to the new Dingley Island causeway bridge in Harpswell, Maine, a critical fisheries habitat in Casco Bay. Maine’s Governor John E. Baldacci praised NOAA for its role in this community-based restoration project recognizing the strong partnerships necessary for project success.

Dedication attendees included (left to right): John Catena, NOAA Restoration Center, NE Region; Alison Ward Maksym, NOAA Restoration Center, Chesapeake Bay Office; Elsa Martz, Project Manager; The Honorable John E. Baldacci, Maine Governor; Rollie Schmitten, Director of NOAA’s Office of Habitat Conservation; Eric Hutchins, NOAA Restoration Center NE Region; Sean McDermott, NMFS, Habitat Conservation Division, NE Region.

Aerial view of project site.

Commerce Secretary Don Evans along with NOAA Administrator Conrad Lautenbacher and NOAA Fisheries Assistant Administrator Bill Hogarth addressed constituents at a meeting in the Commerce building last month. The audience consisted of many fishery managers and industry players from across the country who were in Washington for the upcoming Managing Our Nation’s Fisheries conference, the first meeting of all eight Fishery Management Councils at one time.

Virginia Senator George Allen and several staff members made a special visit to the Wakefield, Va. National Weather Service Forecast office in September to thank the staff for their excellent performance and dedication during and after Hurricane Isabel.

“You threaded the needle with the forecast,” said the senator, son of the late Washington football coach.

He also made it clear that his thanks extended to the entire NWS for their efforts, and noted how well forecast the storm was. Sen. Allen told the staff he had talked to many local Virginia citizens, and everyone had praise for the job that weather service did.

Sen. Allen with the staff of the Wakefield, Va., WFO.

In July 2003, Dr. Bradley Stevens, a Research Fisheries Biologist with NOAA’s Kodiak Laboratory, led a team of volunteer divers to discover the wreckage of the Russian sailing ship Kad’yak, which sank in Alaskan waters in 1860. Working on his own time, Dr. Stevens used translations of old Russian documents to help him estimate the ship’s position. Using a magnetometer, the divers located the wreckage in two days, roughly 100 meters from its estimated position.

The Kad’yak is historically significant because it is the only shipwreck from the Russian colonial period ever discovered in Alaska, and also the oldest known shipwreck in Alaska.

Part of the wreckage of the Russian sailing ship Kad’yak.

A contingent of NOAA staffers marched through the streets of Silver Spring, Md., last week in the town’s Thanksgiving Parade. This marked the first time NOAA has participated in the community event, which featured about 75 local organizations, members of Congress and Montgomery County officials and “Capt. Fish,” a NOAA mascot who looks to be a refugee from the British Royal Navy.

Rep. Chris Van Hollen (third from left), who represents NOAA’s Silver Spring campus, poses with (left to right, from center) NOAA parade marshal Capt. Richard Behn, NOAA Fisheries Deputy Assistant Administrator John Oliver, NOAA Corps officer Capt. Scott Kuester, and (far left) NOAA Fisheries CFO Gary Reisner. Oh, and that’s the rather dour looking Capt. Fish in the middle, along with NOAA Research’s Jason Goldberg in the hammerhead shark outfit.

NOAA Corps officers and other agency staff carry the banner and flags at the annual Silver Spring Thanksgiving Parade.