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June 07, 2002
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NOAA Research Honors Kevin Kelleher
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Kevin with son, Shane, 13, at awards ceremony.
Kevin Kelleher, deputy director of NOAA Research's National Severe Storms Laboratory, was honored for "outstanding and dynamic leadership" in developing a recovery plan for the disastrous 2001 fire that destroyed the lab's field observation equipment. As an Employee of the Year, Kevin also received tribute for the significant improvements he helped implement in the lab's Joint Institute Agreement and for his work in upgrading the laboratory's high-end networking infrastructure.

While in Washington, DC for the award ceremony, Kevin participated in the Department of Commerce's Broadband Expo, designed to showcase innovative uses of broadband technology. Kevin showed how high resolution National Weather Service Doppler radar data can be transmitted over the Internet and used to produce high resolution rainfall estimates. These estimates provide critical input to models that predict runoff and flash floods.


NESDIS' Gerald Dittberner Inducted Into Engineering Hall of Fame

Picture of Gerald DittbernerGerald J. Dittberner, chief of the Advanced Systems Planning Division of NOAA's National Environmental, Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), has just been inducted into the Alumni Hall of Fame of Theta Tau Engineering Fraternity -- known as the engineering profession's Hall of Fame. Gerald began his career as a weather officer in the U.S. Air Force. Among many initiatives prior to joining NOAA in 1995, he studied the effects of nuclear explosions on infrared sensors and led a Department of Transportation study analyzing parameters for re-entry of commercial spacecraft returning to Earth.




Worklife Center logoNOAA Employee Worklife Center Cited
The video produced by NOAA's Employee Worklife Center just captured a prestigious Videographer Award of Distinction. You can see why at http://www.ofa.noaa.gov/~Diversity/employeeworklifecenter/whatsnew.html.

Questions posed: How can you find more time for yourself? How do you communicate with your family when you're at sea? What do you do when you need to take your elderly parent to the doctor but can't find shift coverage? Do you feel out of the loop in a remote place? How do you cope??


National Space Club Recognizes NOAA/NASA Success

Michael Mignogno, of NESDIS, NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, accepted the highly regarded Nelson P. Jackson Aerospace Award earlier this year on behalf of his NOAA team. The award was given by the National Space Club for outstanding contributions to the field of space. The honor was shared by NASA. Recipients of the annual award are selected for contributions to the astronautics, aircraft and missile industries. The NOAA/NASA team was recognized for four decades of extraordinary success with the polar-orbiting spacecraft known as TIROS. Since 1960, polar-orbiting satellites have collected environmental data from space in support of weather forecasts. NOAA's polar-orbiting environmental satellites provide daily global observations of weather patterns and environmental measurements of the Earth's atmosphere, surface, cloud cover and space environment. The satellites also monitor global sea surface temperature.
     

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