NWS Southern Region Staffers to Receive
NOAA Administrator Awards
John Duxbury,
Chief, Observations and Facilities Branch |
Mike Asmus, Program Manager,
Cooperative Observer/Surface Observation |
Six National Weather Service (NWS) Southern Region Headquarters (SRH) staff members have been selected to receive 2005 NOAA Administrator's Awards. This year's awards ceremony will be held at NOAA Headquarters in Silver Spring, Md. on May 13.
Included in the list of honorees are Southern Region Observation and Facilities Branch Chief
John Duxbury and Cooperative Observer/Surface Observation Program Manager
Mike Asmus. Duxbury and Asmus are being recognized for their work in developing and implementing the Interactive Voice-Remote Observation Collection System (IV-ROCS). A marked improvement over earlier weather data reporting systems, IV-ROCS is a simplified, telephone-dial-in approach that allows cooperative observers to report daily minimum, maximum and observation-time temperature and precipitation readings. The new system simply requires keypad responses to voice prompts -- to report the data.
Four SRH staffers were also named as part of a group of IT and web site specialists cited for outstanding efforts in deploying creative IT solutions during the 2004 Hurricane Season.
(L to R) Systems Analyst Susan Beckwith, Meteorologist Dennis Cain, Dissemination Enhancement Team Chief Paul Kirkwood and Systems Analyst Bruce Marshak |
Southern Region members include
Paul Kirkwood, chief, Dissemination Enhancement Team; Systems Analysts
Susan Beckwith and
Bruce Marshak; and, Meteorologist
Dennis Cain.
It was a deadly, devastating and unprecedented season for the state of Florida. Between August 9 and September 28, Floridians suffered under the onslaught of four land falling hurricanes: Charley, Ivan, Frances and Jeanne. It was only the second time in the history of NWS record keeping that one state was struck by four hurricanes in a single season. During that period, the public's need for up-to-the-minute information created record-breaking web page demands.
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