Awards

Awarded in 2008:

• ASSOCIATION OF COMMISSIONED OFFICERS' ENGINEERING AWARD
  LT(jg) Brent J. Pounds
  An individual decoration recognizing a NOAA Corps officer making an outstanding engineering contribution to NOAA's mission. Awarded for development and testing work done on the Deep Ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis (DART) Easy To Deploy (ETD) buoy system

Awarded in 2007:

• U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE BRONZE MEDAL
  Chris Meinig
  For personal and professional excellence as the Nation's experts and spokespersons on tsunamis following the December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami

Awarded in 2006:

• NOAA RESEARCH EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR 2006
  Dennis E Holzer- Technical Support
  For outstanding engineering support of PMEL's scientific programs

Awarded in 2005:

	•	U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medal in 2005 - for research and development leading to the creation of a tsunami forecasting capability Eddie Bernard, Marie Eble, Frank Gonzalez, Christian Meinig, Hugh Milburn, Harold Mofjeld Scott Stalin
		Note: The Gold Medal is granted for distinguished contributions and is the highest honorary recognition bestowed by the Department of Commerce. Because so many people contributed to this success, the Gold Medal is presented as an organizational award.

Awarded in 2004:

	•	U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medal in 2004 - for the creation and use of a new moored buoy system to provide accurate and timely warning information on tsunamis PMEL / NDBC
		Note: The Gold Medal is granted for distinguished contributions and is the highest honorary recognition bestowed by the Department of Commerce. Because so many people contributed to this success, the Gold Medal is presented as an organizational award.

• NOAA ASSOCIATION OF COMMISSIONED OFFICERS "ENGINEER OF THE YEAR"
  LT(jg) Noah Lawrence-Slavas

Awarded in 2003:

• NOAA ADMINISTRATOR'S AWARD
  Christian Meinig
  In recognition of leadership and engineering development accomplishments as exemplified by the successful deployment of the New Millennium Observatory Network interactive seafloor sampling system

Awarded in 2002:

• NOAA RESEARCH EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR
  Patrick McLain
  For his pioneering design and implementation of electronic hardware with imbedded software systems for NOAA programs in climate and hydrothermal vents.

Awarded in 1991:

• SILVER MEDAL
  Hugh Milburn
  For major contributions to the field of observational oceanography