Department of Commerce
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
National Marine Fisheries Service
- Office of Law Enforcement
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 24, 2007
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Mark Oswell
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NOAA FISHERIES OFFICE OF LAW ENFORCEMENT
SPECIAL AGENT ROSS LANE RECEIVES BRONZE MEDAL AWARD
Special Agent Ross Lane has been awarded the prestigious bronze
medal from the Department of Commerce. Retired Navy Vice Admiral
Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Ph.D., under secretary of commerce for
oceans and atmosphere and NOAA administrator, presented Coker with
the award at a ceremony held at the Daughters of the American Revolution
Hall in Washington, D.C., on May 11, 2007.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Office of
Law Enforcement (OLE) special agent was honored for his contributions
to relief operations in Slidell, La., following Hurricanes Rita
and Katrina. Lane helped provide the necessary security and supplies
required to continue weather and flood reporting from the area's
Weather Forecast Office. Lane is one of six OLE agents who made
significant contributions toward the protection of National Weather
Service employees and their families in Slidell.
When asked his feelings about receiving the bronze award, Lane
stated that he felt "Very satisfied being able to help those
folks in need at the time."
Lane received his degree in natural resource management from the
University of Vermont. The Ellsworth, Maine, native has been employed
with NOAA working as a special agent since 1992 and currently works
out of the OLE's field office in Ellsworth, Maine.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, an agency
of the U.S. Commerce Department, is celebrating 200 years of science
and service to the nation. From the establishment of the Survey
of the Coast in 1807 by Thomas Jefferson to the formation of the
Weather Bureau and the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries in the 1870s,
much of America's scientific heritage is rooted in NOAA.
NOAA is dedicated to enhancing economic security and national
safety through the prediction and research of weather and climate-related
events and information service delivery for transportation, and
by providing environmental stewardship of our nation's coastal
and marine resources. Through the emerging Global Earth Observation
System of Systems (GEOSS), NOAA is working with its federal partners,
more than 60 countries and the European Commission to develop a
global monitoring network that is as integrated as the planet it
observes, predicts and protects.
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