NOS Assistant Administrator Weekly Archive

• April 25, 2024 - Foundational Leadership Development Program; South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Task Force meeting; NOS All Hands Meeting; Blood Drive
• April 18, 2024 - Guest post for National Volunteer Month; Our Ocean Conference; Earth Day; Teek and Tom premiere
• April 11, 2024 - Guest post for National Stress Awareness Month; U.N. Ocean Decade Conference; Teek and Tom premiere
• April 4, 2024 - Citizen Science Month; Coastal Management in Action photo contest; Teek and Tom premiere
• March 28, 2024 - NOS Education; National Science Teaching Association; Deepwater Horizon update
• March 21, 2024 - NOS town hall; American Association of Port Authorities Legislative Summit; port resilience
• March 14, 2024 - Women’s History Month; the President’s budget; NOAA Corps guest post
• March 7, 2024 - NGS guest post; International Women’s Day; Hydrographic Services Review Panel
• February 29, 2024 - OR&R 25th anniversary; Executive Leadership Team retreat
• February 22, 2024 - National African American History Month; NOS Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Program guest post; Voyage to Justice
• February 15, 2024 - Whale Conservation; Voyage to Justice; NERRS wildlife inventory
• February 8, 2024 - Gravity for the Redefinition of the American Vertical Datum (GRAV-D); anniversary of the Survey of the Coast; DOC 75th annual awards ceremony
• February 1, 2024 - Estuary Love Campaign; 2023 Marine Debris Program Accomplishments; NOS career profiles
• January 25, 2024 - OR&R pollution settlements; AAPA POWERS Summit; ONMS Memorial Garden; Wavelengths announcement; All Hands video
• January 18, 2024 - All Hands; 2023 Year in Review; National Mentoring Month; NOAA Leadership Competencies Development Program; NOAA Mentoring Program
• January 11, 2024 - Fifth National Climate Assessment; NOS Employee Recognition Ceremony and All Hands Meeting

• December 14, 2023 - NCCOS guest post; All Hands update
• December 7, 2023 - Corals Week; National Coral Reef Monitoring Program; NCRMP Data Visualization Tool
• November 30, 2023 - Atlantic hurricane season; Capitol Hill meetings
• November 16, 2023 - UNESCO International Oceanographic Commission; Geography Awareness Week; National GIS Day; Thanksgiving Day message
• November 9, 2023 - Veterans Day; Presidential Rank Awards; One-NOAA Sponsorship and Outreach Team; All Hands
• November 2, 2023 - Guest post for American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month; World Tsunami Awareness Day; NOS Strategic Plan; Employee Recognition Ceremony and All Hands
• October 26, 2023 - NOS Strategic Plan; DAA Guest Post; U.S. Coral Reef Task Force
• October 19, 2023 - Marine Mammal Protection Act; National Marine Sanctuaries Act; Coastal Zone Management Act; Endangered Species Act; Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
• October 12, 2023 - National Disability Employment Awareness Month; Marine Debris Program Art Contest
• October 5, 2023 - U.S. Committee on the Marine Transportation System Coordinating Board; National Hispanic Heritage Month
• September 28, 2023 - HSRP; World Maritime Day; International Coastal Cleanup; NOAA anniversary
• September 21, 2023 - New York City Climate Week; Ocean Climate Action Plan; Marine Technology Society’s OCEANS 2023
• September 14, 2023 - NOAA Ocean Exploration; Marine Debris Week; National Estuaries Week; Battle of Midway event
• September 7, 2023 - Congressional budget update; Guest post from IOOS; Inflation Reduction Act
• August 31, 2023 - Hurricane Idalia, National Preparedness Month, FEMA, Disaster Preparedness Program
• August 24, 2023 - Monthly High Tide Flooding Outlook; 2023 Annual High Tide Flooding Outlook; Guest post from CO-OPS
• August 17, 2023 - National Ocean Service education materials; NOAA One Health
• August 10, 2023 - Gulf of Mexico dead zone; Get Into Your Sanctuary; Guest post from ONMS
• August 3, 2023 - Margaret A. Davidson Award for Excellence in Climate Change Adaptation
• July 27, 2023 - High-resolution coastal land cover data; Guest post from DAA-OCM Paul Scholz
• July 20, 2023 - Latino Conservation Week; Maritime Autonomy Innovation Hub; Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve; Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary
• June 29, 2023 - Clean Beaches Week; Independence Day; Summer break
• June 22, 2023 - Juneteenth Independence Day; World Hydrography Day; IntergovernmentalOceanographic Commission Assembly; 2022 NOAA Science Report
• June 15, 2023 - Pride Month; Guest post from the NOAA Pride Employee Resource Group
• June 8, 2023 - World Ocean Day; Capitol Hill Ocean Week; Blood Drive
• June 1, 2023 - National Ocean Month; Teek and Tom; Apalachicola and Rookery Bay National Estuarine Reserves; South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Task Force meeting
• May 25, 2023 - Guest post from DAA NOP Rachael Dempsey; Memorial Day; Summer safety; All Hands recording
• May 18, 2023 - Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month; Guest post from the NOAA Asian American Pacific Islander Employee Resource Group; NOS All Hands meeting; Spring 2023 Wavelengths; NOS Trivia answer
• May 11, 2023 - Public Service Recognition Week; National Travel and Tourism Week; NOS All Hands meeting; NOS Trivia Competition
• May 4, 2023 - National Hurricane Preparedness Week; NOS All Hands meeting; Guest post from the Disaster Preparedness Program
• April 27, 2023 - House Oceans Caucus staff briefing; Science Advisory Board spring meeting; NOS Trivia answer
• April 20, 2023 - Earth Day; Beaufort, N.C., visit; NOS Trivia Competition
• April 13, 2023 - Guest post for National Stress Awareness Month
• April 6, 2023 - Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
• March 30, 2023 - NOS Zero Waste Team updates; OCS Navigation Managers annual meeting
• March 23, 2023 - Guest post for National Surveyors Week; Transformational Coastal Management Meeting; Coastal Celebration
• March 16, 2023 - US Hydro 2023 Conference
• March 9, 2023 - Women’s History Month; March Madness; Guest post from OCM
• March 2, 2023 - Our Ocean 2023 Conference
• February 23, 2023 - #EstuaryLove; Hydrographic Services Review Panel spring meeting; Guest post from OCM; 2022 Get Into Your Sanctuary photo contest winners
• February 16, 2023 - Oceanology International Americas Conference
• February 9, 2023 - International Day of Women and Girls in Science; Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship Program; National Coral Reef Management Fellowship
• February 2, 2023 - National African American History Month; Guest posts from NOAA’s Blacks in Government Chapter and African American Employee Resources Group; Coastal Roundtable Workshop
• January 26, 2023 - California regional visit; Budget updates; NOS Career Profiles
• January 19, 2023 - Martin Luther King Jr. Day; Fiscal Year 2022 Year in Review; Winter 2023 Wavelengths
• January 12, 2023 - New Year; Earth Systems Integration Board

• December 15, 2022 - U.S. Representative to the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission; All Hands recording; Holiday message
• December 8, 2022 - Corals Week; Guest post from CRCP; All Hands and Employee Recognition Ceremony
• December 1, 2022 - Measuring What Matters Summit; All Hands and Employee Recognition Ceremony
• November 17, 2022 - National Native American Heritage Month; Blue Tech Week
• November 10, 2022 - Veterans Day; NOAA Environmental Leadership Seminar; All Hands and Employee Recognition Ceremony
• November 3, 2022 - GEO Week; Green Shipping Challenge; Ocean Decade
• October 27, 2022 - 10 years since Hurricane Sandy
• October 20, 2022 - South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Task Force; Wavelengths fall edition
• October 13, 2022 - Cybersecurity Awareness Month
• October 6, 2022 - Hurricane Ian; National Disability Employment Awareness Month
• September 29, 2022 - U.S. Committee on the Marine Transportation System; Bipartisan Infrastructure Law; Thank you to the budget teams
• September 22, 2022 - Discover Global Markets conference; Estuaries Week
• September 15, 2022 - Inflation Reduction Act; International Coastal Cleanup; Marine Debris Conference
• September 8, 2022 - National Preparedness Month; U.S. Center of Population
• September 1, 2022 - U.S. Coral Reef Task Force meeting; Climate equity pilot project
• August 25, 2022 - Back to school resources
• August 18, 2022 - NOAA Leadership Seminar; Joint Hydrographic Center Annual Review
• August 11, 2022 - Guest post from NCCOS; environmental justice
• August 4, 2022 - Get Into Your Sanctuary; 50 years of ocean and coastal conservation
• July 28, 2022 - Blood drive; Wavelengths; Guest post from CO-OPS
• July 21, 2022 - Latino Conservation Week; FEVS
• June 30, 2022 - UN Ocean Conference; UN Ocean Decade
• June 23, 2022 - World Hydrography Day; Guest post from OCS
• June 16, 2022 - Guest post for Pride Month
• June 9, 2022 - World Ocean Day; Capitol Hill Ocean Week
• June 2, 2022 - National Ocean Month; Hurricane season
• May 26, 2022 - Guest post from IOOS; Reinsurance Association of America Conference; Climate Leadership Conference
• May 19, 2022 - Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month; NHPI ERG; All Hands recording
• May 12, 2022 - Briefing on NOAA-BOEM tools; Ocean Policy Committee meeting; All Hands meeting
• May 5, 2022 - Congressional and constituent briefings; Return to the office; Guest post from DAA Paul Scholz
• April 27, 2022 - Budget updates; Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
• April 21, 2022 - Earth Day; National Volunteer Week
• April 14, 2022 - Citizen Science Month
• April 7, 2022 - Hydrographic surveys; Great Lakes; Mariana Islands
• March 31, 2022 - Zero Waste Team updates
• March 24, 2022 - Guest post for National Surveyors Week
• March 17, 2022 - Women’s History Month; Guest post from DAA Paul Scholz
• March 10, 2022 - March Madness; IOOS Association Spring Meeting; HSRP Meeting
• March 3, 2022 - GOES-T satellite launch; Satellite imagery
• February 24, 2022 - Flood Resilience Interagency Working Group; Digital Coast tools
• February 17, 2022 - Guest post from William Sweet; Sea level rise technical report
• February 10, 2022 - National African-American History Month; International Day of Women and Girls in Science; Diversity and Inclusion
• February 3, 2022 - NOS-OAR Bilateral Leadership Summit
• January 27, 2022 - American Meteorological Society annual meeting; NOAA Ambassadors Program; Winter 2022 issue of Wavelengths
• January 20, 2022 - Guest post and video message on natural resource settlements; Taylor Energy consent decree; Connecticut NERR
• January 13, 2022 - Fiscal Year 21 Year in Review; Martin Luther King Jr. Day
• January 6, 2022 - New Year; Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act

• December 16, 2021 - OCS Change of Command Ceremony; American Geophysical Union Town Hall
• December 9, 2021 - Science Board Situational Mentoring program; NOAA Environmental Leadership Panel Discussion
• December 2, 2021 - Corals Week; U.S. Committee on the Marine Transportation System Coordinating Board meeting
• November 18, 2021 - Guest post for Geography Awareness Week; Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act; All Hands and Employee Recognition Ceremony
• November 10, 2021 - Guest post for Veterans Day; Proposed Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary; Alaska Mapping Executive Committee meeting; All Hands and Employee Recognition Ceremony
• November 4, 2021 - Guest post: National Native American Heritage Month; White House National Science Technology Council’s Subcommittee on Ocean Science and Technology Environmental Justice Workshop; NOS All Hands and Employee Recognition Ceremony
• October 28, 2021 - NOAA 2021 Administrator’s Awards; December 2021 All Hands and Recognition Ceremony; 50th anniversary of the Marine Sanctuaries Act; Oceans of Knowledge 2021
• October 21, 2021 - Cybersecurity guest post from NOS CIO Lem Thomas; NERACOOS and CIOOS Atlantic webinar; NOS Photo Contest winners; Fall 2021 issue of Wavelengths
• October 14, 2021 - Coastal States Organization Fall Member Meeting; Gulf of Mexico Climate & Equity Roundtable on Louisiana Inundation; NOAA Environmental Leadership Seminar Series Panel Discussion; The Great Shakeout
• October 7, 2021 - National Disability Employment Awareness Month
• September 30, 2021 - U.S. Committee on the Marine Transportation System Coordinating Board meeting
• September 23, 2021 - Guest post from Mark Osler: Coastal Resilience; NOS Photo Contest; Bronze and Distinguished Career award winners
• September 16, 2021 - National Hispanic Heritage Month; National Estuaries Week; NOS photo contest; International Coastal Cleanup; Proposed Connecticut National Estuarine Research Reserve
• September 9, 2021 - NOS grants
• September 2, 2021 - Hurricane Ida; National Preparedness Month; Fall Hydrographic Services Review Panel; Labor Day
• August 26, 2021 - Back-to-School Guest Post from DPP Chief Kate Wheelock; Hurricane Season; Disaster Preparedness Program
• August 19, 2021 - America the Beautiful Interagency Working Group; Mindfulness
• August 12, 2021 - Change of Command Ceremony for NOAA Ship Thomas Jefferson
• August 5, 2021 - NOS For Employees Intranet Site; Guest post from ONMS Maritime Archaeologist and Great Lakes Regional Coordinator Russ Green.
• July 29, 2021 - We Are NOAA Week; Celebrating 30 Years of PORTS®
• July 22, 2021 - July 2021 edition of Wavelengths; We Are NOAA Week; All-interested Briefing and Press Release on the 2021 State of High Tide Flooding and Annual Outlook; CTMS Coordinating Board Meeting
• July 1, 2021 - Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement; International Partnership on MPAs, Biodiversity and Climate Change meeting; Independence Day; Summer Break; Wavelengths summer edition
• June 24, 2021 - World Hydrography Day; Wisconsin Sanctuary Designation; New For Employees Intranet
• June 17, 2021 - Pride Month; NOAA Pride Employee Resource Group
• June 10, 2021 - Capitol Hill Ocean Week; World Ocean Day
• June 3, 2021 - National Ocean Month; UN Ocean Decade; 30 Days of Ocean
• May 27, 2021 - Safe Boating Week; Memorial Day; P4G Seoul Summit
• May 20, 2021 - Guest post from ONMS; Remembering Admiral Rick Brennan; Zero waste challenge
• May 13, 2021 - International Oil Spill Conference; State Floodplain Managers Conference
• May 6, 2021 - Asian Employee Resource Group; Public Service Recognition Week
• April 29, 2021 - OHCS employee resources; All Hands meeting
• April 22, 2021 - Earth Day video message; Climate hearing recording; All Hands registration
• April 15, 2021 - Guest post on NOS Evaluation Framework; OCS Change of Command; NOS All Hands Meeting
• April 8, 2021 - Zero Waste Team update; Spring edition of Wavelengths
• April 1, 2021 - Guest post from acting DAA Paul Scholz; West Coast Coastal Solutions Workshop
• March 25, 2021 - Guest post for National Surveyors Week; Regional Collaboration Network annual meeting; Listening sessions on resilient fisheries and protected resources
• March 18, 2021 - Reflections on one year of maximum telework
• March 11, 2021 - Guest post on Women’s History Month; CZM/NERR Program Manager’s Meeting
• March 4, 2021 - Guest post from OMAO’s Admiral Nancy Hann; NOAA Open House; March Madness
• February 25, 2021 - Artificial Intelligence; Invasive Species Week
• February 18, 2021 - Guest post from IOOS Deputy Director Krisa Arzayus; Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council Meeting
• February 11, 2021 - United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development
• February 4, 2021 - National African American History Month and NOAA Blacks In Government
• January 28, 2021 - Mentoring Month reflection from Nicole.
• January 21, 2021 - 10 years of NOAA Integrated Ecosystem Assessments
• January 14, 2021 - Guest author: African American Employee Resource Group and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day; Fiscal Year 2021 Budget; Combined Federal Campaign.
• January 7, 2021 - Fiscal Year 2020 NOS Year in Review; Digital Coast Act; Winter 2021 edition of Wavelengths; Combined Federal Campaign

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