NCEI Awards Presented to CISESS Scientists

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Eight CISESS Scientists were honored for their work at NCEI as part of its Annual Award Ceremony on January 20. Yongsheng Zhang received an award for his “excellent support of NOAA’s data stewardship activities for satellite oceanographic data.” Yongsheng Zhang, along with his colleague, James Frech work on a variety of ocean satellite products, including:

·         Pathfinder Sea Surface Temperature Climate Data Records (CDRs);

·         NESDIS Satellite Ocean Heat Content Product Database;

·         NOAA/NCEI Blended Seawinds (NBS);

·         Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)-derived Sea Surface Wind Archive;

·         GHRSST Long Term Stewardship and Reanalysis Facility (LTSRF);

·         NCEI Ocean Color Archive; and

·         Jason Satellite Products Archive.

An example of the Ocean Color product generated for the NOAA CoastWatch Website, that is archived in the NCEI Ocean Color Archive, is shown above.

Liqing Jiang, Alex Kozyr and Hyelim Yoo received awards for their “contributions to the  Ocean Carbon and Acidification Data System (OCADS) activities, including international collaborations and products.” OCADS is a data management system specializing in the management of ocean carbon and ocean acidification (OA) data within NOAA.

Above is a graphic from Decadal Trends in the Oceanic Storage of Anthropogenic Carbon from 1994-07-01 to 2014-06-30 (NCEI Accession 0279447) NDP-111, in OCADS and prepared by Alex Kozyr.

Alexey Mishonov was highlighted for his “scientific leadership with the World Ocean Database’s Seasonal Estimates of Ocean Temperature, Salinity, Heat Content, and Steric Sea Level. The World Ocean Database (WOD) is a collection of scientifically quality-controlled ocean profiles and plankton data gathered from 1772 to the present day over the global ocean, which is updated with the newly collected data every three months in order to keep it as contemporary as possible.

This is a map of averaged decades annual salinity objectively analyzed mean at the surface from the World Ocean Atlas (WOA), a companion to the WOD, in which Alexey also played an important role.

Anna Lienesch received an award for being “a highly valued member of the OE (Ocean Exploration) data management team, ensuring that milestones are met and tasks are completed.” NCEI manages and provides access to data gathered during exploration of the deep ocean and sea floor. This year, Anna led the development of Data Access Landing Pages, which provide information about Okeanos Explorer and Competitive Grants expeditions conducted through NOAA Ocean Exploration. These pages enable direct access to corresponding data and products for all publicly available resources. A sample view of the landing page for the Summer 2024 Okeanos Explorer trip to Hawai'i is shown below.

The final honorees from CISESS were Rebecca Wenker and Rasheeda Alexander for “helping execute the priority needs of NOAA's Coral Reef Conservation Program, including a website overhaul for the US Coral Reef Task Force–they are a critical resource to both the Coral Program and NCEI.” Rebecca recently took over as CISESS task leader on the Coral Reef Information System project. This system has been renamed the NOAA Coral Reef Conservations Program’s Digitial Coral Website and has a new website: https://coralreef.noaa.gov/digital-corals/. The new website is shown below.

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