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CIRES Director Konrad Steffen presents an Outstanding Performance Award to a team from the ESRL Chemical Sciences Division for their support of NOAA
P-3 science flights over the Gulf of Mexico to study air-quality risks caused by the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.
Individual Performance Awards
The CIRES Awards Committee, comprised of CIRES
Members’ Council representatives, annually reviews
nominations and recommends awards for outstanding
professional achievement. Three Outstanding Performance
Awards are given for science and engineering and two for
service. Each award is for $2,000, and each recipient also
receives a desktop trophy. Winners of the CIRES Outstanding
Performance Awards for Science and Engineering in
2010 were Dave Carter, Dave Costa and Paul Johnson of
ESRL Physical Sciences Division for their work to design,
prototype, build and deploy a new network of snow-level
radars for California; Paul Loto’aniu and Juan Rodriguez of
the Space Weather Prediction Center for their investigation
of the failure of the Galaxy-15 geostationary communications
satellite; and a team consisting of Ken Aikin, Roya
Bahreini, John Holloway, Gerhard Hübler, Dan Lack, Justin
Langridge, Andy Neuman, John Nowak, Jeff Peischl, Anne
Perring, Ilana Pollack, Harald Stark and Carsten Warneke
of the ESRL Chemical Sciences Division for their support
of the NOAA P-3 science flights in June 2010 over the Gulf
of Mexico to assess the potential air-quality risks posed
by the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill crisis to workers/
citizens in the Gulf and surrounding areas. Awards for
Outstanding Performance for Service went to Craig Tierney
of ESRL Global Systems Division for his work as a leader of
the High Performance Computing (HPC) team that has led
to significant improvements that have served CIRES and
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Three CIRES Outstanding Performance Awards are given annually for
science and engineering and two are given for service.
other NOAA centers and the HPC community as a whole;
and Katherine Leitzell of the National Snow and Ice Data
Center for her leadership and initiative as science writer
and editor for NSIDC’s hugely visible Arctic Sea Ice News
and Analysis (ASINA) product, which provides a monthly
scientific sea-ice analysis that is picked up by news media
worldwide, and for her work for the Antarctic Glaciological
Data Center. Leslie Hartten (Physical Sciences Division-
PSD) received the 2011 Director’s Award for Diversity.