| Oceanography
for Sixth Graders
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| Dan
Logan, Research and Enhancement Permits Coordinator
at the NOAA Fisheries Santa Rosa, Calif., field office, developed
a two-week oceanography class for sixth grade students at
St. Luke School in Santa Rosa. His course included lecture
materials, demonstration activities, homework and lab activities,
and examinations. Fishery biologist Maura Moody, NOAA Corps
officer Kurt Dreflak, and enforcement
agent Charles McDevitt contributed
to the course development.
The students covered all of the topics included in the state's
oceanography curriculum for middle school students, including
the geographic, geologic, physical, chemical, and biological
aspects of oceanography. Students and parents, teachers, and
school administrators were enthusiastic about the effort,
and have requested that the class be taught again next year.
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Two students dissect a fish at the NMFS Santa Rosa,
Calif., field office. The office developed a two-week
course for sixth graders in oceanography.
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NMFS permit coordinator Dan Logan helps a sixth grade
student during the course.
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Lightning
Safety Team Honored
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| NOAA's
Weather service Lightning Safety Awareness Week Team has been
awarded the National Lightning Safety Institute's 2003 Annual
Lightning Safety Recognition Award. The award is give to groups
and individuals who provide leadership for lightning safety
issues and who serve as role models for others.
The award was specifically presented “for three years’
initiative in developing the Lightning Safety Awareness Week,
which has achieved heightened awareness about lightning safety
throughout the USA.”
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Soccer star Siri Mullinix, goalie
for the Washington Freedom, knows when to call a game
because of lightning.
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| Agreement
with Russian Academy for Future Joint Research
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| NOAA
Administrator Lautenbacher signed
a memo of understanding with the vice-president of the Russian
Academy of Sciences this month, which will enable a closer
partnership between the two organizations and help support
future scientific endeavors between the United States and
Russia in ocean and polar research.
“Both
Russia and the United States are Arctic countries,”
Lautenbacher said, “and the
future of our mutual environmental interests depends on our
understanding of the extent, rates and future impacts of change
in the Earth’s ocean, especially in the polar region.”
One of the first projects under the new agreement
is slated to be a joint cruise to the Bering and Chukchi seas,
tentatively scheduled to take place in late summer 2004.
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At
the signing of the agreement were (left to right) Rene
Eppi, NOAA Research’s director of International
Affairs; NOAA Administrator Lautenbacher; Dr. Nikolay
Laverov, Vice-President, Russian Academy of Sciences;
and Dr. Yuriy Shiyan, Assistant to the Vice-President,
and Chief, Coordination of International Scientific
Programs and Projects, Russian Academy of Sciences.
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| Employee and Team Member of the Month |
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Employee of Month
Ed
Plumb
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Team Member of Month
Nelson
Beideman
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This
month’s Employee and Team Member of the Month
work behind a desk and on a ship. Read about how Ed
Plumb and Nelson Beideman excel in their organizations
in the next issue of NOAA Report. |
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| Corps
Officers Fired Up After Refresher
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| A group
of eight NOAA Commissioned Corps Officers recently completed
the NOAA Marine and Aviation Operations 55th refresher training
course in preparation for returning to sea duty aboard one
of NOAA's 16 oceangoing research vessels. The officers spent
three weeks at the Global Maritime and Transportation School,
the continuing education department of the United States Merchant
Marine Academy, in King's Point, NY. The officers received
instruction and re-certification in a host of navigational,
safety, and emergency skills including radar, bridge team
management, ship handling, fire fighting, first aid, and open
water survival skills. The course is mandatory for all officers
returning to sea duty and is part of the ongoing training
system designed to ensure that all NOAA vessels are operated
with the highest regard for safety.
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Under
the watchful eye of their instructor, Corps officers
fight a fire aboard a ship simulator during their recent
training.
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Corps officers — (left to right) LTJG Marc Moser,
LCDR Michael Devany, LT Sarah Scherer, LT G. Mark Miller,
LT Todd Bridgeman, CDR Timothy Wright, LCDR Jeffrey
Brown, LT Mark Wetzler — completed three weeks
of safety refresher training.
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| Lautenbacher
Meets Italian Media
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| NOAA
Administrator Lautenbacher was sought out
by the media at the COP-9 Climate Change Convention in Milan,
Italy earlier this month. About a dozen media came to his
news conference, including BBC World Service radio, Reuters,
Bloomberg, and two Italian national television crews, RAI-1
and RAI-2.
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NOAA
Administrator Lautenbacher was interviewed by RAI-1
Italian television in front of the U.S. Climate Change
Science Program exhibit at the COP9 Climate Change Convention
in Milan this month.
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