New
NMAO Leadership Assumes Command
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formal Assumption of Command ceremony for Rear Admirals Samuel
P. De Bow Jr. and Richard R. Behn
was held last month in the Department of Commerce auditorium.
Deputy Secretary of Commerce Ted Kassinger
and NOAA Administrator Lautenbacher were
the ranking officials attending. Naval traditions were observed
throughout the ceremony, from the official party walking through
two rows of NOAA Corps “sideboys” to the ringing
of bells and the piping of a Navy boatswain.
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| Newly
minted Rear Admirals Samuel De Bow (middle) and Richard
Behn (right) along with NOAA Administrator Lautenbacher
(left) at the Assumption of Command ceremony at Commerce
headquarters in Washington.
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President
Briefed on Hurricane Jeanne at NHC
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| President
Bush gets the lowdown on the path of Hurricane Jeanne last
month from NOAA National Hurricane Center director Max
Mayfield. The President came to the hurricane
weary state to observe recovery efforts from the storm.
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Coast
Cleanup in California
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NOAA
Fisheries staff from the Santa Rosa, Calif., field office
joined volunteers from around the world and all 50 states
in cleaning up local beaches and waterways as part of last
month’s 20th annual Coast Clean Up. NOAA Fisheries
Enforcement (Rick Hawkins) provided
free NOAA goodies and NOAA information to hand out, and
the squeeze-able seals were a big hit. Maura
and John Moody, Dan and Valentine Logan, Brian Cluer and
Lauren Hammack, and Lisa Querin spent Saturday
morning organizing volunteers and picking up trash and debris.
About 50 bags of trash, debris, and recyclables were removed
from the shoreline. Cigarette butts were the most frequent
item encountered, and Valentine found a snakeskin —
which was not removed.
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| NOAA
Fisheries volunteers, Valentine and Dan Logan among
them, picked up about 50 bags of trash and other debris
from the California coast as part of last month’s
Coast Clean Up.
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| NOAA
Fisheries volunteer Maura Moody (in straw hat) helping
volunteers during the clean up.
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| Employee and Team Member of the Month |
| Employee of Month
Marcia
Hobbs
NOAA Fisheries
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Team Member of Month
Todd
Irby
NOAA Marine & Aviation Operations
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Read
all about the accomplishments of this month’s
Employee of the Month, Marcia Hobbs, and the Team Member
of the Month, Todd Irby, in the next issue of NOAA Report. |
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All the famous
sharks aren’t in the movies these days. A 14 foot,
1,700-pound great white shark was found swimming in a protected
harbor of a small island just off Woods Hole, Mass., and
the rare sighting put NOAA Fisheries personnel in the spotlight.
Boston television and newspaper outlets used the NOAA Northeast
Fisheries Science Center’s Woods Hole laboratory as
a base for covering the shark, which received national attention.
The shark, which swam for open waters this
week, seems in excellent health and is behaving normally…for
a shark, that is.
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| NOAA
Fisheries’ Nancy Kohler (in the yellow vest
on the stern)
and Lisa Natansen (on the bow in the yellow hat) observing
the rare great white shark, which wandered into Massachusetts
waters last month.
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