'Everyday is Father's Day'
For Idaho Forecasters
Mike Huston says it's purely by chance
that, just as his dad, he's now a forecaster with
NOAA's National Weather Service in Idaho. Then he backs up a bit and
provides a
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glimpse
of how this father/son team came to perform similar work functions but
with diverse slants.
Mike typically develops "public products," the ones that broadcast meteorologists
use to tell their audiences that "highs will be in the 80s," or that
it will be "mostly cloudy with
a chance of showers." His dad, Darrell, typically prepares "aviation
products" that indicate cloud heights, visibility and other critical
factors for commercial airlines to use in flight planning. And they
don't work in the same office. Mike works in southeast Idaho in Pocatello.
Darrell works in Boise, 225 miles away.
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Both talk about being great friends, weather observer buffs (both are
certified), and the benefits of understanding each other's field experiences,
despite the fact that these experiences are viewed from somewhat different
perspectives. Mike calls his dad a mentor.
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NOS Names Kevin Sellner
Employee of the Month
Dr.
Kevin Sellner is NOAA's June Employee of the Month. By actively
moving scientific research results into public monitoring and rapid
response operations, his work is helping communities to curtail threats
to public health, coastal resources and coastal economies.
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Thanks William Morehouse,
NOAA Team Member of Month
With
a penchant for exceeding deadlines, and an avid commitment to advancing
NOAA's needs, William Morehouse has captured June's Team Member of
the Month honors. As a systems installer, he has been a consultant
to the Office of Finance Administration's Faculty Acquisition and Management
Division.
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Stories from the Field
LT Joel Michalski
NOAA Station Chief
American Samoa
I'd
like to report on the completion of a large 6 kW solar photovoltaic
array which we rehabilitated and began using at the Climate Monitoring
& Diagnostics Laboratory Baseline Observatory in American Samoa. Since
May, the solar-generated electricity has provided up to 30 percent of
the daytime power required at our observatory.
The native name for the site where our observatory is located is Matatula
Point. This is translated as "where the wind blows" which is very fitting
given that we measure atmospheric constituents and our most accurate
results are when the wind blows from a specific clean air sector. In
other words, we take our best measurements when the wind blows.
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Healthy Acropora coral in Australia's Great Barrier Reef
Credit: Ray Berkelmans/Great Barrier Reef
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NOAA Buoy Eyes Coral Reefs
With
the world’s coral reefs in crisis, a 15-foot buoy is now bobbing in
warm Caribbean waters, providing a critical link in an early warning
system developed by NOAA scientists to alert them of coral reef bleaching.
Already about 27 percent of the world's coral reefs are gone. The single
largest cause is massive climate-related bleaching that, in just nine
months in 1998, destroyed about 16 percent of the world's reefs.
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When Rick
Villarreal visited an after-school high school Spanish class in Seattle
early in May, he explained how studies in math and science could pave
way for a NOAA career, described how National Image, Inc. raises college
scholarship funds for Hispanic youth, and then introduced students
to "mariachi" music, a blend of guitar, violins and trumpets, and
"tejaro" music, traditionally played with a button accordion. Rich
brought out his own 3-row accordion to deliver his musical message.
Rick's a budget analyst and program manager with the Office of Marine
and Aviation Operations' Marine Operations Center in Seattle.
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