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NSSL News Briefs AMS's Meisinger Award goes to NSSL scientist The American Meteorological Society's Meisinger Award was given to Dave Stensrud, NSSL Meteorologist, during a ceremony at the AMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix, AZ. Dave was recognized for his innovative research into the structure, dynamics, and predictability of mesoscale convective systems and their impact on larger scale weather patterns. NSSL's VORTEX webpage voted best in OAR At the NOAA Webshop at Environmental Research Lab headquarters in Silver Spring MD, NSSL was awarded first place for having the Best Webpage in Oceanic and Atmospheric Research. This webpage is a prototype developed by Ann McCarthy and Joan O'Bannon to become part of the recently revised NOAA Homepage. It is the first in a series of "NOAA stories" that will be developed by various ad hoc groups to tell some of the interesting stories within NOAA as part of an accelerated outreach effort. In this case, "VORTEX, Unraveling the Secrets" tells the "true" story about tornado intercept using the Verifications of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment project as an example. NSSL scientist receives Presidential Award Erik Rasmussen, a Research Meteorologist with NSSL and the Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorology Studies (CIMMS), has received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. This is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. Government upon outstanding scientists and engineers at the beginning of their careers. Erik is one of 60 chosen for the award, which gives him $10,000 a year for the next five years to conduct independent research of his choosing. Erik was honored for his work to plan and direct VORTEX, a field experiment designed to improve tornado predictions and warnings by studying them at close range. He is currently a member of SRAD at NSSL facilities in Boulder, Colorado. SRAD team receives DOC Bronze Medal OAR has awarded the Department of Commerce's Bronze Medal to J.T. Johnson, DeWayne Mitchell, Phillip Spencer, Arthur Witt, Greg Stumpf and Pam MacKeen for their work in developing and transferring severe weather detection algorithms to the WSR-88D. J.T. Johnson, in addition to the team award, also received a Bronze Medal for his work with the Olympic Weather Support Office at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games. The Bronze Medal is granted to employees and offices that have made contributions of exceptional value in support of overall Departmental goals that serve the nation. AUITI (Acronyms Used In This Issue) NLDN - National Lightning
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