6 STAR Scientists Honored with Dept. of Commerce 2009 Bronze Medal Honor Awards
Lidia Cucurull, NESDIS DAA Charlie Baker, Pablo Clemente-Colón, and Thomas M. Smith
27 April 2010 - On Tuesday, 27 April, at the NOAA Honor Awards Ceremony in Silver Spring, MD,
6 STAR scientists received Bronze Medals honoring their work on 5 different
projects. Dr. Jane Lubchenco, NOAA's new administrator, addressed the assembly, and praised the
work of the award winners. Five different NESDIS projects were honored; STAR scientists participated
in four of these projects.
STAR scientists honored with Bronze Medals included: Larry Flynn,
Lidia Cucurull, Pablo Clemente-Colón, Thomas M. Smith, Mark DeMaria,
and John Knaff.
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Larry Flynn, second from right
NESDIS
- Donna McNamara
- Lawrence Flynn
- Renee Smith Dearring
- Dong Han
For exemplary engineering support and outstanding
efforts in recovering the NOAA-18 SBUV instrument.
Lidia Cucurull, second from right
NESDIS
- Larry Ledlow Jr.
- Richard Fulton
- Kirk Liang
- Lawrence James
- Lidia Cucurull
- Margarida Yuan
- Lance Seman
- Gregg Frostrom
- Gregory Johnson
- Linda J. Williams
For transitioning the COSMIC ground system
from research to operations, enabling a revolution in weather
and climate measurements.
Thomas M. Smith, fourth from left
NESDIS
- Huai-Min Zhang
- Richard W. Reynolds
- Rick Lumpkin
- Thomas M. Smith
- Michael Johnson
- Krisa Arzayus
For developing the successful research-to-operations
transition of Climate Sea Surface Temperature Observing
System Design, Implementation and Performance Monitoring
Pablo Clemente-Colón first on the left
NESDIS
- Albert E. Theberge
- Robert W. Embley
- Dwayne Meadows
- Joseph Uravitch
- Lt. Patrick L. Murphy
- Rick Lumpkin
- Michael Johnson
- Hugh D. Cobb III
- Pablo Clemente-Colón
- Teresa A. McTigue
For exceptional service and editors and authors
of the NOAA / Smithsonian Sant Ocean Hall companion
publication, "Hidden Depths: Atlas of the Oceans
