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New
2002
Employee and
Team Member
Award Schedule
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If you’re in the Washington, DC area join
Vice Admiral
and
Mrs.
Lautenbacher
and NOAA’s Race for the Cure team on Saturday,
June 1.
It’s not too late to join in the fight against breast cancer!
Christine Alex, NWS, and Mary Glackin, NESDIS, are co-chairs.
Visit the
NOAA Race for the Cure Web Site!
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Breaking news from Capitol Hill, plus…
Complete coverage of NOAA hearings and markups, downloadable testimony,
NOAA legislation, and much more. Stay in touch with e-mail alerts.
Check out The Informer
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Look for information and Federal Register notices about the FY 2002
NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Grant Program at NOAA’s
Coral Reef Website.
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May Employee of Month
Creates Sound Support For NOAA Grants
Sinh Nguyen is being honored as May Employee of the Month for
making a remarkable difference in the way NOAA conducts business.
Sinh has been a computer specialist in NOAA’s Office of Finance and
Administration for four years.
For the past two years he has worked closely on the grants conversion
to CAMS, the Commerce Administrative Management System which will
become NOAA’s financial system of record in FY 2003. CAMS will replace
the two-decades-old Finance Management System and Sinh has worked
hard to help smooth the transition, in particular creating a sound
information technology support structure for NOAA grants. Sinh’s technical
savvy and excellent problem-solving skills have been hallmarks of
this process.
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Team Member of Month -- Keeps Customers Satisfied
As
contractor to the National Weather Service, Bruno Vercillo is on call
virtually around the clock. His responsibility is to help ensure the
efficient operation of AWIPS, the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing
System that gives weather forecasters the ability to analyze data
from many sources, rapidly develop weather forecasts and warnings,
and almost instantly get information out to the public. Bruno's been
filling this critical role for nearly nine years.
AWIPS' users -- National Weather Service forecasters, scientists,
and systems analysts -- depend on Bruno's exceptional technical, organizational,
and people skills at 159 sites across the nation and within its territories.
For dedicated application of these skills in support of public safety
and America's economy, Bruno is being honored as NOAA's Team Member
of the Month.
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AQUARIUS
Opens 2002 Mission With All-Female Crew
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Sports
fans marked the arrival of spring with baseball’s first pitch, but
for many marine biologists the first signs of spring included the
start of undersea missions aboard NOAA’s Aquarius, an underwater
ocean lab where scientists live and work on the seafloor.
The lab’s opening mission ran from April 15-24 and featured an all-female
science team. Aquarius, the nation’s only “innerspace” station
is operated by the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. It
is located in NOAA’s Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. During
their 10 days beneath the sea, the scientists measured the size and
condition of corals. They also collected tiny coral samples for DNA
profiling (similar to DNA fingerprinting) which will help determine
how coral populations grow and sustain themselves, providing information
for management and preservation of fragile coral reefs in Florida.
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Scott
Gudes (center), deputy under secretary for oceans and atmosphere,
presented a 2002 Environmental Hero Award to Rex Ward (right), president
of Texas' Clear Creek Environmental Foundation, as Texas Congressman
Nick Lampsin and Deborah Sparks, an alumna of NOAA Fisheries Galveston
Labs, looked on.
Rex was among 25 recipients of this year's Environmental Hero Awards.
Rex transformed his commitment to removing old tires and other trash
in his spare time into a well-recognized non-profit that conducts
research, provides public education and inspires community volunteers
to help conserve over 20 miles of 47-mile-long Clear Creek, the single
source of storm water drainage for a 260-square-mile area. With two
grants from NOAA's Community-based Restoration Program, the foundation
is also working to restore fishery habitat and over five miles of
severely eroded shoreline.
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Managing
and Protecting America's Marine Resources
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At the Galveston, Texas Laboratory of NOAA’s Southeast Fisheries Science
Center, two offshore observer programs are helping to manage and protect
the nation’s marine resources. One program monitors and assesses catch
of target and non-target organisms in the Gulf of Mexico shrimp trawl
fishery. The other examines offshore oil/gas platform removal activities
to prevent harm to the area’s sea turtles and marine mammals.
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Do you know where most lightning
deaths and injuries occur… that most people are not struck in the
rain… that lightning can strike more than 10 miles from a thunderstorm?
The National Weather Service’s 2nd Annual Lightning Safety Awareness
Week (April 28 – May 4) was designed to educate millions of Americans
about lightning’s serious facts.
Test your own knowledge. It
could be a lifesaver! Lightning is the second deadliest weather-related
killer in the U.S.
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15 Expand Life-Saving
NOAA Weather Radio Coverage
"NOAA Weather Radio has been the difference
between life and death," said Vice Adm. Lautenbacher at a recent
ceremony honoring those who have been key to expanding and improving
NOAA Weather Radio coverage across the nation. Fifteen individuals
and groups received Mark Trail Awards at the Capitol Hill event.
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NOAA Crew Celebrates National Volunteer Week By Protecting
Maryland Marshland
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NOAA management and staff and Maryland Congressional members and
state legislators recently donned boots to plant marsh grass during
National Volunteer Week. The aim is to help protect a wetland area
on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
Timothy R.E. Keeney, deputy assistant secretary of commerce for
oceans and atmosphere, and Bill Hogarth, director of NOAA’s National
Marine Fisheries Service, led a 15-member NOAA crew and several
dozen other volunteers from national and local area organizations.
The group helped plant a total of 65,000 cordgrass plants to thwart
erosion in a four-acre tidal wetland on the Eastern Neck National
Wildlife Refuge.
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The application process for the Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship
Program began on April 17 and will end May 17.
Please share the Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship Program web
site address with students who would be interested in applying.
http://www.fosterscholars.noaa.gov
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