 STAR Scientists Honored with Dept. of Commerce Bronze Medals
23 January 2014 - On Thursday, January 23, Acting
Under Secretary Dr. Kathy Sullivan announced the names of this year's
Bronze Medal and Distinguished Career awards. The Department of
Commerce Bronze Medal is the highest honor award that the Under
Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere may bestow. 18 STAR
scientists were honored with Bronze Medals and a Distinguished Career
Award. The award recipients will be honored at a ceremony on Tuesday,
May 20, 2014, at the NOAA Auditorium in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Top row: Shobha Kondragunta, Huan Meng, Michael Chalfant, Ivan Csiszar,
Mark Eakin;
Second row: Fred Wu, Jerry Zhan, Andy Heidinger, Mark DeMaria, Jeff Key;
Third row: Marco Vargas, Bob Yu, Tony Reale, Menghua Wang, Larry Flynn.
Fourth row: Don Hillger, Sasha Ignatov. Not pictured: Istvan Laszlo
STAR's 2013 Bronze Medal Honorees
Xiangqian (Fred) Wu, SMCD / SCDAB
Michael Chalfant, SMCD / OPDB
Honored for permanently recovering GOES satellite observations
previously canceled during eclipse seasons due to contamination by
stray sunlight.
Other honorees include:
- Hyre Bysal
- Kevin Ludlum
- Sam Ming San Chen
- Alva Barnette
Mark Eakin, SOCD / MECB / CoralReefWatch
Honored for an unprecedented, multidisciplinary assessment that
supports science-based decisions on listing 82 coral species under the
Endangered Species Act.
Other honorees from the National Marine Fisheries Service include:
- Jennifer A. Moore
- Cheryl Scannell
- Margaret W. Miller
- Lance W. Smith
- Elena J. Onaga
- Russell E. Brainard
- Gregory A. Piniak
- J. Paul McElhany
- Marta F. Nammack
Huan Meng, CoRP / SCSB
Honored for the development and implementation of NOAA's first satellite-based operational snowfall rate product.
Other honorees include:
- Limin Zhao
- Banghua Yan
- Sheldon Kusselson
STAR Suomi NPP EDR Product team members:
- Ivan Csiszar, SMCD / EMB
- Andrew Heidinger, CoRP / ASPB
- Jeff Key, CoRP / ASPB
- Shobha Kondragunta SMCD / SCDAB
- Istvan Laszlo, SMCD / EMB
- Larry Flynn, SMCD / SPB
- Sasha Ignatov, SOCD / SOSB
- Tony Reale, SMCD / OPDB
- Marco Vargas, SMCD / EMB
- Menghua Wang, SOCD / MECB
- Yunyue (Bob) Yu, SMCD / EMB
- Xiwu (Jerry) Zhan, JCSDA
- Don Hillger, CoRP / RAMMB
Honored for the timely creation and leadership of the team to
increase the scientific value of the Suomi satellite environmental
data products to meet NOAA users' needs.
Distinguished Career Award
Mark DeMaria
(recently moved to the National Hurricane Center from CoRP / RAMMB)
Honored for research that has led to increased understanding,
observational utilization and improved hurricane forecast capabilities.
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