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NOAA Nobel Laureates Meet President at White House
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NOAA's Susan Solomon and other Nobel Award laureates met with President Bush at the White House in November. Solomon is co-chair of Working Group 1 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Solomon was in Oslo for the Dec. 10 Nobel award ceremonies.
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President George W. Bush meets with the 2007 Nobel Award recipients in the Oval Office on Nov. 26. They are, from left: Harlan Watson, co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize; Oliver Smithies and Mario Capecchi, Nobel Prize for medicine; former Vice President Al Gore, Nobel Peace Prize; Eric Maskin, economics; Susan Solomon, Nobel Peace Prize; Roger Myerson, economics; and Sharon Hays, Nobel Peace Prize.
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U.S. Nobel laureates were also honored at a reception in the Indian Treaty room of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building that day. Pictured from left to right are Ron Stouffer (GFDL), Ko Barett (OAR), Robin Webb (ESRL), Commerce Secretary Gutierrez, Randy Dole (OAR), Susan Solomon (ESRL) and Daniel Walker (NOS).
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Sanctuary Sam Gives Campaign Seal of Approval |
Sanctuary Sam, a California sea lion will be “spokes-sea lion” of a new NOAA national ocean literacy, education, and public awareness campaign. With a Web page and blog already live on MySpace.com, Sanctuary Sam’s likeness and messages will also appear in the National Marine Sanctuaries Program and OceansLive Web sites, and in school materials, such as lesson plans, posters, bookmarks, and DVDs. Also in production are two more public service announcements for television and the Internet, featuring Sanctuary Sam and friends. The Sanctuary Sam campaign will use Sam’s image in photos, videos and cartoon drawings. A number of sea lions around the country will portray Sanctuary Sam at live events taking place at their home aquaria.
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Sanctuary Sam (left), the NOAA spokes-sea lion, was joined by sanctuary program director Dan Basta at the announcement of the new NOAA national ocean literacy, education, and public awareness campaign.
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NOAA Employee and Team Member of the Month
for December |
Employee of the Month
Kate Wunderlich
Office of Marine and Aviation Operations
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Team Member of the Month
Dr. Lyon Lanerolle
NOAA Ocean Service |
NOAA’s Employee and Team Member of the Month for December are Kate Wunderlich, Office of Marine and Aviation Operations, and Dr. Lyon Lanerolle, NOAA Ocean Service.
Although Kate Wunderlich joined OMAO a little more than two years ago, her
outstanding drive and initiative, accomplishments, and desire to improve her skills have proved her to be a go-to person at OMAO HQ. She became a leader in driving
OMAO to more quantitative analysis techniques to make our business justifications on
a variety of OMAO fleet issues. Her accomplishments are particularly impressive, considering she does not have a nautical or aviation background but nothing
intimidated or discouraged her from rolling up her sleeves and digging into things.
Some examples of her many accomplishments include her work on the Autonomous
Underwater Vehicle Economic Analysis, which identified potential benefit and cost
savings by supplementing current hydrographic vessel operations with side scan sonar AUVs, and updating and verifying information on Ships of the NOAA Fleet, NOAA's
observational architecture inventory.
Dr. Lyon Lanerolle's unique background in numerical ocean, particle trajectory, and
turbulence modeling has proven to be invaluable to the development of NOS
coastal and estuarine operational forecast systems. One project he has been
working on involves testing and implementing a coupled Gulf of Mexico larger
basin-scale model with a finer resolution west Florida shelf model. This model is
important to the examination of the initiation and transport of harmful algal
blooms, or red tides, along the west Florida shelf, and to the enhancement and
improvement of harmful algal bloom guidance. This work, along with his great
willingness to take on new challenges and openly share the results with his
colleagues, has led him to international partnerships with a variety of experts, which
increases the reputation of the whole organization.
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NW Fisheries Donates Computers to School District |
NOAA Fisheries' Northwest Region got into the holiday spirit by providing excess computer equipment to the Sultan School District, a mostly rural area northeast of Seattle. The region gave 70 desktop computers to the school district on Nov. 19 under the federal Computers for Learning program. The program’s goal is to transfer computers to schools and educational nonprofits to extend the useful life of computers, help schools in need, and contribute to a cleaner, greener environment. Schools register for the program and federal agencies match their excess equipment with school needs.
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David Hockenson of the Sultan School District signs for excess computers from NOAA's Kathy Cunningham, while staffers Jerry Sutton, Marianne Tomita and Nicolle Hill watch.
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200th Celebration Featured in Silver Spring Thanksgiving Parade |
Silver Spring, Md., held its annual Thanksgiving parade on Nov. 17 just off the NOAA campus, and agency staffers marched as part of it. NOAA's 200th celebration was a major feature of the festivities, as was NOAA's Captain Fish, always a foam-rubber favorite.
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NOAA staffers march down Georgia Avenue in Silver Spring during the town's Thanksgiving parade in November.
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NOAA's Captain Fish proves he's no chicken of the sea by wading into the crowd during the parade.
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