News Briefs

NOAA Awards

Bronze Medals
Bronze medals were awarded to two NSSL groups during a ceremony in Washington, D.C., in October, 2003.

Don Burgess, Greg Stumpf (CIMMS) and Travis Smith (CIMMS) were honored "for innovative actions in collecting, archiving, and analyzing weather radar data to assist the shuttle Columbia accident investigation."

Ken Howard, Ami Arthur, Gina Cox and Nathan Kuhnert were honored "for the development and operational implementation of the Flash Flood Monitoring and Prediction System."

The Bronze Medal is the highest award given by NOAA and is granted for a significant contribution to NOAA or the Department of Commerce.

NOAA TECH 2004 Award
The NOAATECH 2004 Award for Best Presentation in the category of Techology Transfer to Operations was awarded to a NSSL/NWS team for "Real-time Dissemination of WSR-88D Radar Data over Internet2." The award was given for the real time demonstration of two technologies developed at NSSL that make use of the real time radar data feed, QPESUMS and WDSS-II. NSSL team members included Kevin Kelleher, Kurt Hondl, Greg Stumpf, Karen Cooper, Travis Smith, J.J. Gourley, Beth Clarke and Wen Wu Xia.

National Weather Center

The ground floor of the six-story National Weather Center (NWC) is now in place. Construction on the NWC began last summer and is expected to be completed in Spring 2006. The building will be occupied by both NOAA and University of Oklahoma weather groups to strengthen the governmentuniversity science partnership.

NSSL represented at annual AMS conference in Seattle

NSSL co-hosted a booth with NOAA at the 84th AMS Annual Meeting in January, 2004. NSSL/CIMMS scientists were lead authors on 13 papers presented at the conference, and several REU students presented posters.