NSSL's Kevin Kelleher receives NOAA awards

Kevin Kelleher, Deputy Director of NSSL, has been honored with three NOAA awards. Most recently he was recognized as one of eleven 2002 NOAA Research Employees of the Year. Kevin was honored for his leadership in developing the NSSL fire recovery plan, for significant improvements created with the Joint Institute Agreement between CIMMS/NSSL, and for facilitating the Internet2 connections for the NOAA Norman Weather Partners.

He also received NOAA's highest honorary award, the Bronze Medal. Kevin was recognized for his outstanding work over the past several years in obtaining grant funding and leading the high performance networking enhancements for the NOAA Weather Partners in Norman. He also worked to foster a strong collaboration between OU, the NOAA Weather Partners, and the NOAA Advanced Research Network.

Kevin was given an award for the Best Use of High Performance Networking at the NOAATECH 2002 Workshop. This award was given for his work to make the NWS's WSR-88D radar data available over the Internet in real-time for research and archival use by the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). The radar data project is a collaboration between the NWS, OU CAPS, OU School of Computer Science, and NCDC.