1991-1995 Gold and Silver Medal Recipients

1991 Gold Medals

Francis J. Balint, NOAA Automation Division, Procurement for Supercomputers at NMC, GFDL, and NIST

Thomas A. Campbell, NOAA General Counsel, Settle Negotiations on EXXON VALDEZ Oil Spill

Dr. Vernon E. Derr, NOAA Associate Director for Science and Data, Atmospheric Physics and Environmental Data Management

1991 Silver Medals

James L. R. Fenix, Lloyd E. Irvin, Daniel S. Starosta, Roderick T. Bell, NWS Telecommunication Gateway Data Link Management Including Support for Air
Weather Service during Desert Storm

Jack A. Koeppen, NESDIS Environmental Satellite Programs

Hugh B. Milburn, OAR Ocean Observation Systems

Richard R. Reynolds, Wendell A. Cook, Vickie L. Nadolski, Thomas G. Newman, Barbara A. Remer, Thomas D. Genovese, NWS Automated Service
Observing System (ASOS)

1992 Gold Medals

Henry R. Beasley, NMFS Led Effort to End Foreign Large-Scale Drift Net Fishing on the High Seas

Dr. William W. Fox, NMFS Assistant Administrator

James R. Lucas, NOS

National Geodetic Survey Photogrammetric Use of GPS

John H. Robinson, William R. Pendergrass, Robert C. Clark, Captain Richard B. Permenter, Dr. Bruce B. Hicks, NOAA Effort to Study Environmental
Effects of Persian Gulf War

Steve E. Short, NWS Modernization ASOS

Dr. Larry L. Stowe, NESDIS Monitoring and Interpretation of Aerosol Spread Following Eruption of Mount Pinatubo

1992 Silver Medals

Akapo K. Akapo, Leloyd M. P. Acosta, Joe M. Fiaui, Laauli T. Ifopo, Emani Lelafu, Tanielu Sonoma, David C. Nardini, NWS Performance during
Passage of Tropical Storm Val over American Samoa

Arthur L. Booth, James T. Bailey, NESDIS SARSAT Operations

Commander Francesca M. Cava, Robert M. Reynolds, NOAA Efforts to Garner Support of International Community for Environmental Studies of Persian Gulf
Following Desert Storm

Gary P. Ellrod, NWS Clear Air Turbulence Model for Use by National Meteorological Center

Henry R. Frey, Gerald F. Appell, Thomas D. Bethem, NOS Coastal and Estuarine Oceanography Branch PORTS

James M. Meehan, NMFS Produced "Our Living Oceans"

NOAA Ship MT. MITCHELL, Cruise to Persian Gulf to Study Environmental Effects of Gulf War

NWS Forecast Office, Norman, Oklahoma, First to Use NEXRAD and Provided Guidance for AWIPS

Robert Pavia, Sharon K. Christopherson, Lawrence Jay Field, Jerry A. Galt, Alan J. Mearns, Debra L. Payton, NOS Hazardous Materials and Response
and Assessment Division

Chester E. Ropelewski, Gerald D. Bell, Anthony G. Barnston, Peggie L. Davis, John D. Kopman, Vernon E. Kousky, OAR ENSO Monitoring and
Prediction

Jack B. Snider, NESDIS Satellite Operations Steerable Microwave Radiometer

Captain William L. Stubblefield, Charles Kearse, Office of NOAA Corps Operations, Fleet Modernization

Dr. Jerald Dan Tarpley, NESDIS Land Sciences Branch Vegetative Index

1993 Gold Medals

Dr. Daniel L. Allbritton, OAR Aeronomy Laboratory, Led Efforts to Negotiate Montreal Protocol Limiting Ozone Depletion

Russell B. Chadwick, Margot H. Ackley, David Edward Small, Donald W. Beran, NWS Wind Profiler Demonstration Network

Dr. Nancy Foster, NMFS Deputy Assistant Administrator

Dr. Arnold Gruber, Program Manager Operational Measurements Element for Climate and Global Change

Dr. Yoshio Kurihara, OAR Dynamics of Tropical Storms

Dr. Alexander E. MacDonald, OAR, Director of Forecast Systems Laboratory

NWS, National Meteorological Center Operations Division and Development Division, Forecast of 1993 Blizzard

NWS Forecast Office, Honolulu, Hawaii, Extraordinary Service during Hurricane Iniki

Lieutenant Commander Steve Stringfellow, Public Health Service, George A. Ringstad, and Lieutenant (j.g.) Timothy Trembley, Office of NOAA
Corps Operations, Pacific Marine Center, for Saving a Diver Trapped under a Vessel in Lake Union, Washington

The National Weather Service, Extraordinary Service to the Nation during Midwest Flooding of 1993

Dr. Usha S. Varanasi, NMFS Environmental Conservation Division, Fate and Effects of Petroleum Hydrocarbons on Marine Fauna

1993 Silver Medals

James C. Dixon, Stephen A. DeKrone, Richard D. James, Bradford S. Wynn, Richard F. Edwing, NOS Global Sea Level Monitoring Station in Antarctic
Environment

Keith W. Dixon, Ronald C. Pacanowski, Anthony J. Rosati, OAR Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Modular Ocean Model

NESDIS Ground Systems Division, Installation of New Data Acquisition and Control Systems

Dr. Lloyd C. Huff, NOS High Speed, High Resolution Sidescan Sonar

Lawrence J. Krudwig, NWS Radio and Communications

Sydney Levitus, NESDIS NODC, Led International Effort to Collect and Analyze Historical Oceanographic Data

Thomas R. Loughlin, Richard L. Merrick, NMFS Protection and Recovery of Steller Sea Lions

Donna Marie Marino, Paul P. Pegnato, Adrienne A. Davis, Darrell G. Mottley, Charlotte B. Logan, ADM Consolidation of NOAA Headquarters at Silver
Spring, Maryland

Dr. Wolfgang Paul Menzel, NESDIS Wind Measurements from Meteosat NMFS Driftnet Research Program

NWS Systems Operations Center, Upgrade and Relocation of Telecommunication Gateway

Dr. David F. Parrish, Dr. John C. Derber, NWS Spectral Statistical Interpolation Method for Forecast Guidance

Carven A. Scott, David M. Henry, Kraig B. Gilkey, Carl F. Dierking, Paul E. Shannon, NWS Computer Network for Processing Meteorological Data

1994 Gold Medals

Lieutenant Mark P. Ablondi, Office of NOAA Corps Operations, Lifesaving and Heroism

Gary K. Davis, NESDIS GOES - 8 Launch and Operations

Lieutenant Commander Warren T. Dewhurst, NOS Geophysical Technology Transfer Initiative

Dr. Christopher G. Fox, OAR PMEL Ocean Monitoring by Navy Undersea Acoustic System

Lieutenant Commander Judeth L. Layne, Public Health Service, Mathew N. Ofthus, Jon M. Knox, Lisa K. Glover, Office of NOAA Corps Operations,
Heroism and Lifesaving

1994 Silver Medals

W. John Hussey, NESDIS GOES and Polar Satellite Contributions as Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator

Herbert W. Kaufman, NMFS Marine Mammal Interim Exemption Program

Dr. Robert A. Maddox, OAR, Director National Severe Storms Laboratory, Advances in Weather Radar Technology Including Commissioning of First NEXRAD
System

Dennis H. McCarthy, NWS, Norman, Oklahoma, Led Use of First NEXRAD System

Susan J. McLean, Carla J. Moore, David M. Anderson, Eric A. Kihn, Marcus O. Ertle, NESDIS NGDC, Led Pioneering Efforts to Make NGDC Data
Available Over the Internet

NESDIS GOES I-M Ground Systems and Science Implementation Team

Selina M. Nauman, NWS Ice Analysis and Forecasting for Chesapeake Bay in Winter 1994

Dr. Ralph A. Petersen, NWS, Implementation of PC-GRIDDS for Analyzing Meteorological Data on a Personal Computer

Dr. Akkihebbal R. Ravishankara, OAR Aeronomy Laboratory, Relationship of Ozone Hole to CFC's

Dr. Hsing Hua Shih, James J. Sprenke, Jerald M. Peterson, Thomas N. Mero, NOS, Development of Portable Digital Water-Level Measurement System

Commander Lawrence F. Simoneaux and Lieutenant Commander James M. Herkelrath, NOAA Corps, Lieutenant Commander Steve C. Stringfellow,
Public Health Service, Lifesaving

Dr. George F. Smith, Donna I. Page, NWS, Development of Interactive Forecast Program

Thomas L. Thompson, Richard H. Winkler, OAR Aeronomy Laboratory, Engineering Role in Airborne Studies of Stratospheric Ozone Depletion over Polar
Regions

Gregory W. Withee, Earl L. Heacock, Bruce H. Needham, Gregory A. Mandt, Robert O. Masters, NOAA Convergence Team Studying Feasibility of
Converging NOAA POES Satellites with DOD DMSP Satellites

1995 Gold Medals

Dr. Lawrence B. Dunn, Graham E. Stork, NWS Lifesaving

Dr. Fred C. Fehsenfeld, OAR Aeronomy Laboratory, Research into Chemistry of the Troposphere and Ozone in the Lower Atmosphere

National Severe Storms Laboratory, OAR, Research Leading to the Implementation of NEXRAD

Thomas N. Pyke, Director Office of High Performance Computing and Communications, Startup of Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment
(GLOBE) Program

Lance R. Simmens, Bruce C. Morehead, Stephen Paul Freese, Paul M. Matyskiela, NMFS and Department of Commerce Team to Help Communities
Affected by Collapse of Regional Fisheries

Dr. Walter H. F. Smith, NESDIS, Development of Method to Integrate Satellite Altimetry Data with Ship Bathymetry to Produce Improved Bathymetric Map of
Southern Ocean

Robert S. Winokur, Bruce H. Needham, Captain David W. Yeager, NESDIS an Integrated Program Office, Established National Polar-orbiting Operational
Environmental Satellite System

1995 Silver Medals

Dr. James K. Angell, OAR Air Resources Laboratory, Research in Global Climate Change

Dr. Chandrakant M. Bhumralkar, OAR, Director National Sea Grant College Program

Dr. Ramon J. Conser, NMFS, Advanced Field of Applied Fishery Stock Assessment

Dr. Jerry A. Galt, NOS, Lifesaving

Dr. Ray E. Habermann, Allen M. Hittelman, NESDIS, NGDC, Access to Environmental Data on CD-ROM

Sydney Levitus, Timothy P. Boyer, Jeffrey P. Burney, Daphne R. Johnson, Dr. Margarita Conkright-Gregg, Dr. Linda Stathoplos, Jennifer Campbell,
NODC, Production of World Ocean Atlas 1994

A. James Miller, Craig S. Long, Richard C. Przywarty, Mary C. Newton, NWS, Development of Ultraviolet Index (UVI)

NOAA Ship FERREL, Office of NOAA Corps Operations, Lifesaving

Captain William T. Turnbull, NESDIS, Director Environmental Information Service, Led Interagency Team that Developed the National Environmental Data Index

Thomas M. Wrublewski, ADM Systems Acquisition Office, Acquisition of a Series of Polar Operational Environmental Satellites.

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