2003 Gold and Silver Medal Recipients

Gold Medals

John D. Cunningham, NESDIS

Douglas L. Namian, NESDIS

James M. Schaeffer, NESDIS

Paul L. Wofsy, NESDIS

David R. Furlong, NESDIS

Peter A. Wilczynski, NESDIS

Hal J. Bloom, NESDIS

Albert B. Spencer, Jr., NESDIS

Joseph E. Mulligan, NESDIS

Miguel A. Rosario Felix, NESDIS

For leadership in developing innovative systems acquisition and contractor teaming methods to build the next generation of environmental satellites.

David B. MacFarland, NOS

For leaderhip in promoting safe navigation and making the Office of Coast Survey a flexible, customer‑and quality‑based organization.

Timothy Crawford, OAR

For bold scientific and engineering contributions in establishing the small environmental research aircraft concept for the study of airborne geosciences.

Ernest G. Hildner, OAR

Patricia L. Bornmann, OAR

Patricia J. Mulligan, NESDIS

Daniel C. Wilkinson, NESDIS

Steven M. Hill, OAR

Richard N. Grubb, OAR

Ronald J. Hooker, NESDIS

Victor J. Pizzo, OAR

Richard G. Reynolds, NESDIS

Eric G. Chipman, NESDIS

For advancing the Nation's space weather services through the conception, funding, and development of the first‑ever operational Solar X‑ray Imager (SXI).

Michael L. Black, OAR

James L. Franklin, NWS

For development and novel use of GPS dropwindsondes to improve accuracy of NOAA hurricane analyses and advance the science of hurricane forecasting.

Mitchell D. Goldberg, NESDIS

Eugene D. Legg, NESDIS

For advancing by four years the use of data from a new generation of satellite instruments to improve weather predictions and environmental monitoring.

Weather Event Simulator Development Team, NWS

For contributions to improved warning performance as a result of concept, design and development of a warning event simulator.

Charles M. Baker, NWS

Eric A. Helgeson, NWS

Andrew J. Bailey, NWS

For support which directly saved the lives of fire fighters on the Daley Fire in northeast Wyoming, June 29, 2002.

Weather Forecast Office Northern Indiana, NWS

For timely and accurate tornado warnings during the devastating November 10, 2002 Van Wert, Ohio tornado outbreak saving countless lives.

Ruthford, Julia, NWS

For rescuing three young men December 27, 2002, in Puget Sound, Washington, after strong winds capsized the men's catamaran.

Silver Medals

John S. Ramsdell, NOS

For designing a novel organizational structure that responds rapidly to coastal managers' needs during marine mortality events.

F. James Holitza, OAR

For leading an effort to procure one of the world's fastest supercomputers, resulting in benefits to U.S. trade and to weather prediction.

Shawn P. Bennett, NWS

For leadership in NWS international activities to advance aviation safety and weather forecasting in Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas.

Richard G. Reynolds, NESDIS

Charles S. Bryant, NESDIS

Katy M. Vincent, NESDIS

Timothy J. Walsh, NESDIS

Eric G. Chipman, NESDIS

Thomas M. Renkevens, NESDIS

John J. Pereira, NESDIS

Robert O. Masters, NWS

Glenn E. Tallia, USEC

For successful negotiation of an agreement providing Japan with emergency Western Pacific geostationary satellite back‑up.

Stephen B. Reilly, NMFS

Paul R. Wade, NMFS

Andrew E. Dizon, NMFS

Lisa T. Ballance, NMFS

Susan J. Chivers, NMFS

Karin A. Forney, NMFS

Meghan A. Donahue, NMFS

Elizabeth F. Edwards, NMFS

Paul C. Fiedler, NMFS

Timothy Gerrodette, NMFS

For developing and implementing a complex research program to determine impacts of purse‑seine fishing on depleted dolphins in the eastern Pacific.

Dennis G. Milbert, NOS

Kurt W. Hess, NOS

Bruce B. Parker, NOS

Robert J. Wilson, NOS

For development of a vertical datum transformation tool and demonstration of its critical importance to NOAA operations and national applications.

Norman D. Smith, NOS

Carl X. Fefe, NOS

Barbara E. Gray, NOS

Thomas J. Loeper, NOS

For development and operational implementation of the Flash Flood Monitoring and Prediction System.

Vernon E. Kousky, NWS

Raymond W. Higgins, NWS

For the successful prediction of the 2002-2003 El Niño event six months in advance, and the evolution, strength, and timing of each phase of the event.

Teresa K. Rowles, NMFS

Janet E. Whaley, NMFS

Kenneth R. Hollingshead, NMFS

Ruth Y. Ewing, NMFS

Roger L. Gentry, NMFS

For scientific achievement and customer service in response to a mass stranding of beaked whales in the Bahamas.

Craig N. McLean, OAR

Stephen R. Hammond, OAR

Joseph G. Wargo, OAR

E. Michael Kelly, OAR

Paula Keener-Chavis, OAR

Margot L. Bohan, OAR

Joanne Flanders, OAR

Stephanie D. Balian, OAR

John J. McDonough, OAR

James B. Johnson, NOS

For creation of a national program dedicated to ocean exploration and a new method of scientific operations and programming.

Robert H. Kidwell, CIO

Monica M. P. Matthews, NFA

Hilda S. Gohrband, NESDIS

Beverly A. Smith, NFA

Lillian L. Barnes, NFA

For initiative and dedication in developing the E‑Learning@NOAA System.

Weather Forecast Office Medford, Oregon

For providing critical services in support of fire suppression during the summer of 2002.

Weather Forecast Office Austin/San Antonio, Texas

For providing life saving flood warnings during unprecedented flooding in South Central Texas from June 30 through July 6, 2002.

Weather Forecast Office Birmingham, Alabama

Weather Forecast Office Jackson, Mississippi

Weather Forecast Office Morristown, Tennessee

For providing warnings and using innovative warning dissemination techniques to save lives during a major severe weather outbreak in November 2002.

Weather Forecast Office Indianapolis, Indiana

For life-saving warning Service to central Indiana during the September 20, 2002 tornado outbreak.

April J. Wolstencroft, NMFS

Randolph A. Wilkins, NMFS

Karen L. Salvini, NMFS

For significant contributions to customer service and agency efficiency in developing the NOAA Fisheries Public Consultation Tracking System.

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