hosted a NOAA information table at the Port of Baltimore National Maritime Day Expo on Sunday, May 20. They were among the 52 port companies and 19 vessels who participated. The
, the first nuclear-powered merchant ship, was docked at the port for self-guided tours. The Savannah was used as a demonstration project for the potential of nuclear energy first proposed by President Dwight Eisenhower for his "Atoms for Peace" initiative, a joint project of the Department of Commerce and other federal agencies in the 1950's. Coast Survey engaged with the general public, demonstrating our website including pages such as the
. For more information contact
NOAA Ships, Navigation Response Teams and Contractor Operations
Weekly Hydro Ship Activity Report - May 6 - May 12, 2018
NRT 1 - Team is surveying Lake Champlain, Vermont, with the unmanned surface boat per request from the Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab (GLERL). NRT1's boat is in Texas supporting NRT4.
NRT 2 - Team is surveying the Intracoastal Waterway (ICW) around Miami, Florida, to junction with NGS Remote Sensing Division's surveys. Boat is survey and response ready.
NRT 3 - Team will be fully staffed once hiring and officer rotation is complete. Boat was cross decked and is now survey and response ready.
NRT 4 - Team is surveying with NRT1's boat to investigate a possible shoal area in the San Jacinto River to assist a USCG accident investigation. NRT4's boat is undergoing repairs to the inertial measurement unit and will be response ready when completed.
NRT 5 - Team is surveying Lake Champlain, Vermont, with the unmanned surface boat per request from the GLERL. Boat is survey and response ready.
Bay Hydro II -
Bay Hydro II is surveying Worton Point, Maryland, per request from the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Pilots to verify the position and least depth on obstruction.
Poster symposium marks milestone for inaugural class of the NOAA certification program in nautical cartography
NOAA’s Christie Ence (left), Megan Bartlett (third from left),
and Noel Dyer (right) explain their posters to attendees of the
poster symposium at the University of Maryland.
The inaugural class of NOAA’s certification program in nautical cartography completed their final projects and presented them during a poster symposium at the University of Maryland’s Department of Geographical Sciences. At the event, NOAA students explained their capstone projects and described how their research benefits nautical charting at NOAA. The 51-week program includes six classes, hands-on chart production experience, work details to various branches within NOAA Coast Survey, and field trips to working hydrographic survey vessels. The inaugural class will complete an internship as part of the program over the summer and receive their certificates in September 2018. Read more in our recent
blog story. For more information contact
Shachak.Peeri@noaa.gov.
Awards
Capt. Rick Brennan, Mark Jackson (NWS), William Forwood
(NWS), Grant Froelich, Russell Callender (NOS AA), Megan
Bartlett, Julia Powell, Peter Stone (CO-OPS).
On May 22, at the NOAA Bronze Medal and Distinguished Career Award Ceremony, the precision navigation team—
Capt. Richard Brennan,
Julia Powell,
Jeff Ferguson,
Grant Froelich,
Megan Bartlett,
Annemieke Raymond, Micah Wengren (IOOS), Jenifer Rhoades (IOOS), Peter Stone (CO-OPS), Mark Jackson (NWS), William Forwood (NWS)—accepted their Bronze Medal award for strategically making harmonized, high quality, operational, environmental data available to support precision navigation in the Port of Long Beach. The Bronze Medal is the highest honor award granted by the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and recognizes superior performance by federal employees.
Teresa Fleisher, Maureen Kenny, and Katie Ries at the NOAA
Bronze Medal and Distinguished Career Awards Ceremony
reception.
At the same ceremony,
Maureen Kenny accepted her Distinguished Career Award for sustained excellence as a selfless leader, transforming processes and resource management to empower NOAA colleagues in science and management. NOAA’s Distinguished Career Award honors cumulative career achievement of sustained excellence. This award recognizes significant accomplishments across all NOAA program areas and functions that have resulted in long-term benefits to our mission and strategic goals.
Matt Forrest on NOAA Ship Thomas Jefferson.
At the Coast Survey All Hands meeting on May 23,
Lt. Matthew Forrest received a NOAA Corps Achievement Medal for displaying outstanding technical acumen and leadership as field operations officer aboard NOAA Ship
Thomas Jefferson. Lt. Forrest successfully led the acquisition, processing, and submission of six survey sheets in four locations covering over 420 square nautical miles of seafloor. He also led a benthic fisheries survey in the Gulf of Maine, providing critical information on deep coral habitat and receiving high praise from the NE Fisheries Science Center. Lt. Forrest oversaw the integration and fleet certification of small autonomous surface vessels with new side scan sonar systems, resulting in a novel asset for Coast Survey mobile extreme shallow water surveys.