2004 Distinguished Career Award

Raymond Assel, OAR
For a career of distinguished research leading to improved understanding and prediction of Great Lakes ice cover.

Linda Brown, NESDIS
For outstanding achievement in managing budget and administrative initiatives over thirty years of service to the NESDIS Office of Satellite Operations.

Larry Carr, NESDIS
For continued efforts in improving logistical, property, supply, and procurement support throughout twenty-five years of dedicated service to NOAA.

Bruce Collette, NMFS
For excellence in research and service in the fields of fish taxonomy, systematics, and marine biodiversity throughout a forty-four-year Federal career.

Alfred Corea, Civil Rights
For continued excellence in managing NOAA's EEO services including creating the pilot for Commerce’s Alternative Dispute Resolution program and revamping the Faculty and Student Intern Program.

Walton Dickhoff, NMFS
For scientific contributions to salmonid physiology and endocrinology and its application to management issues throughout eighteen years of NOAA service.

Thomas Grayson, NWS
For achievements in modernizing and restructuring the National Weather Service, focusing operations around a national network of Doppler radars—NEXRAD and AWIPS.

John Irwin, OAR
For leadership in boundary-layer dynamics, transport and diffusion, and model evaluation, and for merging sound science and regulatory policy.

Warren Keenan, OAR
For cost-efficient and productive improvements in NOAA’s Engineering and Information Technology environment.

Patricia Kurkul, NMFS
For conservation of the Nation’s natural resources including leadership in the reduction of overfishing and diplomacy that has fomented support from fishermen on complex and controversial conservation measures.

Rosalind Ledford, NESDIS
For twenty-six years of improving the administrative areas of NESDIS, including developing cost-saving solutions for training and furniture acquisition and devising best-practices methods in performance feedback.

Melvin McLaughlin, NWS
For improving the quality of weather services to the American public ranging from pioneering the NWS severe weather outreach and preparedness program to monitoring the Southern Region’s progress in achieving performance goals.

Bruce Morehead, NMFS
For achievements in balancing the competing interests of NOAA stakeholders and for contributions in fisheries development, marketing, disaster assistance, and fisheries management.

Richard Parrish, NMFS
For innovative research directed at understanding how environmental variability impacts fish stocks and at improving the science in resource management.

Edith (Aida) Pettegrue, NOS
For furthering the National Marine Sanctuary Program’s mission of marine conservation and environmental stewardship through human resources, Sanctuary Advisory Council, and Freedom of Information Act support.

Gordon W. Thayer, NOS
For improving the understanding of seagrass and coastal wetland ecosystems, restoration ecology, and linkages between habitats and fishery resources.

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