Comings and Goings

Mary Meacham has retired from Federal service after working as the NSSL Librarian for 22 years. During her career at NSSL, Mary not only helped locate resources for our research, but she responded to and provided services for thousands of requests received by the lab from the public, school children, lawyers and others.

Daphne Thompson has joined NSSL as our Educational Outreach Coordinator. Daphne previously worked at NSSL for several years, and now coordinates NSSL tours for visitors.

Mike Baldwin joined former NSSL/CIMMS scientist Jeff Trapp at Purdue in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences in a tenure track position.

William Agent has joined the IT group.

Erin McKinney, NSSL receptionist avoided the chaotic move to the NWC and is looking forward to the birth of her second child.

NOAA Research Employee of the Year

Linda Skaggs was recognized as one of five NOAA Research Employees of the Year for her outstanding leadership during the relocation of NSSL to the new NWC facility. The award is granted to an individual or team who has had a significant impact on the promotion of NOAA Research in the last calendar year. The awards were presented in a ceremony in Silver Spring, MD in December. Linda has been NSSL's Adminstrative Officer since November, 2004 and an NSSL employee since 1996.

Other awards and honors

NSSL scientists Rodger Brown and Bim Wood received the Best Poster Paper award at the 22nd Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) Conference held last winter in Atlanta. The paper was, "WSR-88D monitoring of shallow lake-effect snowstorms over and around Lake Ontario: Simulations of improvements using lower elevation angles." Brown and Wood co-authored the winning paper with Tom Niziol from the NWS Forecast Office in Buffalo, NY, and Norman Donaldson and Paul Joe from the Meteorological Service of Canada.