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 Julia Collins, NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center
Ms. Collins has had a long standing commitment to addressing issues for the larger CIRES employee base by serving on various committees that address the well being of the organization as well as the well being of her peers. Ms. Collins has served on the CIRES Members' Council, the CIRES Members' Council Re-Chartering Committee and the Climate Diagnostics Center's Workplace Advisory Committee. She has served as a PRA representative on the Members' Council since its inception in 1997 and has served as a Members' representative to the CIRES Fellows Council and Executive Committee. Additionally, Ms. Collins has served on the CIRES Computing Advisory Committee, the CIRES Equities Committee and the CDC Awards Committee. These efforts were clearly above and beyond her normal job responsibilities as Webmaster within CDC but Ms. Collins enthusiastically undertook the challenge. Ms. Collins was instrumental in the creation and persistence of the Climate Diagnostics Center Workplace Advisory Committee, for which she served as committee chair for the first year of its operation. In this role Ms. Collins has been able to identify key morale, employee regulation and technical issues within CIRES and NOAA, and has advocated solutions to the CIRES Members' Council, CIRES Equities Committee and the CIRES Administration.
 Daniel Cziczo, NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory
Dr. Cziczo, a research scientist, has demonstrated a willingness to seek out new challenges by mentoring students, participating on a thesis committee and co-teaching Mass Spectrometry and Chromatography, a University of Colorado graduate course. This work was self initiated and unpaid. His teaching skills obviously made substantial impact on the students since they awarded him a student course rating of A-. These activities are extraordinary to his normal research duties and reflect his desire to not only serve the research community, but to pass his knowledge to students. Despite the time commitments of this extraordinary work, he continues to participate in and organize field experiments and publish his work, which includes a publication as first author in "Science". Dr. Cziczo's work and advice is greatly respected by his colleagues, and students that have worked with him.
 Patrick Disterhoft, NOAA Air Resources Laboratory
Mr. Disterhoft demonstrated resourcefulness by "cost-effectively" having a T1 line installed at the Table Mountain Test Facility (TMTF). The TMTF is the home of the Central UV Calibration Facility suite of instruments, a Surface Radiation and Research Branch SURFRAD site, a USDA NREL site and an EPA UV monitoring site. His initiative made it possible to quickly transfer the increasing amounts of radiation, aerosol and cloud data to the NOAA building. The T1 line is more reliable for data transfer than the existing telephone line that was prone to disconnect. After hitting many dead ends trying to go through "normal" channels to get the T1 line installed, Mr. Disterhoft negotiated with the U.S. Army Reserves to dig the trenches that would carry the T1 line to several points on the mesa. This was done as a training mission and at no cost to the lab. The T1 line streamlines the 2003 North American UV Radiometer Intercomparison. Additionally, Mr. Disterhoft's talents as the Central UV Calibration Facility Manager are often sought after worldwide and he is involved in establishing calibration standards. Mr. Disterhoft is also active with the Council of Optical Radiation Measurements (CORM), U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) sub-panel on U.V. and Rocky Mountain Optical Society of America (RMOSA).
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