I ran across a couple of items that I thought you might find interesting concerning NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, parent agency to the National Weather Service. NOAA and the NWS have been tasked in recent weeks with many facilities and employees affected by the storms. These items are just a couple of thousands of efforts by the folks who staff these agencies.
NOAA's National Hurricane Center (NHC) Director, Max Mayfield, was named ABC’s person of the week this past week! Max and his team have clearly done an exemplary job and they are very deserving of this recognition. Max and NHC Deputy Director Ed Rappaport hosted Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff at NHC this week and provided a briefing on hurricanes and tropical storm prediction. David L. Johnson, Director of the NWS, also briefed Secretary Chertoff on NOAA’s response and recovery efforts for Katrina and Rita.
People were not the only ones stranded by recent hurricanes! On Monday a wild bottlenose dolphin was found swimming in a ditch in Cameron, LA. The dolphin had apparently washed ashore in the storm surge from Rita. NOAA Fisheries Service organized a rescue team from the Texas marine mammal stranding network, which was able to successfully reach the dolphin on Wednesday, and release it into the Gulf of Mexico. With help from the Coast Guard the dolphin was hoisted into a stretcher and moved to a nearby beach, where it was released into the Gulf. NOAA Fisheries Service marine mammal biologists reported the dolphin appeared healthy and alert, and the capture and release operation went very well.
-Brian-
NOAA's National Hurricane Center (NHC) Director, Max Mayfield, was named ABC’s person of the week this past week! Max and his team have clearly done an exemplary job and they are very deserving of this recognition. Max and NHC Deputy Director Ed Rappaport hosted Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff at NHC this week and provided a briefing on hurricanes and tropical storm prediction. David L. Johnson, Director of the NWS, also briefed Secretary Chertoff on NOAA’s response and recovery efforts for Katrina and Rita.
People were not the only ones stranded by recent hurricanes! On Monday a wild bottlenose dolphin was found swimming in a ditch in Cameron, LA. The dolphin had apparently washed ashore in the storm surge from Rita. NOAA Fisheries Service organized a rescue team from the Texas marine mammal stranding network, which was able to successfully reach the dolphin on Wednesday, and release it into the Gulf of Mexico. With help from the Coast Guard the dolphin was hoisted into a stretcher and moved to a nearby beach, where it was released into the Gulf. NOAA Fisheries Service marine mammal biologists reported the dolphin appeared healthy and alert, and the capture and release operation went very well.
-Brian-