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• Vice Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., U.S.
  Navy (Ret.) NOAA Administrator
• January 23, 2008

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MENU

• Where We Were
• Organizational Structure
• State of the Agency
• Where We Are
• Organizational Structure
• Budget Trends
• Requirements
• Major Accomplishments
• 2007 Nobel Prize

• Where We Are Going
• Leadership Changes
• Congressional Initiatives
• International Polar Year
• 2008 Highlights
• SES Summit
• Words of Wisdom
• Transition Period

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WHERE WE WERE
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NOAA IN 2001STOVEPIPES
NOAA is one of the best-kept secrets in
government. It has remained a collection of
somewhat separate agencies as opposed to a
coherent whole. Andy Rosenberg, former Deputy
Director of NOAA Fisheries, Member of the U.S.
Commission on Ocean Policy
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WHERE WE ARE
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FROM STOVEPIPES TO MATRIX MANAGEMENT
R E G I O N A L C O L L A B O R A T I O N
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ENACTED BUDGETS INCREASEFY01 TO FY07
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IS NOAA BETTER OFF?

• 30 Increase in Budget from FY 01 to FY 07
• New / Revitalized Facilities
• NSOF
• Norman, Oklahoma
• NCEP moving to U Maryland
• 34 Total Since 2001
• Modernized Fleet
• IOOS Program

• Hurricane Forecast Improvements
• Additional Funding for Next Generation of Radar

NSOF Suitland, MD
Phased Array Radar
HENRY B. BIGELOW
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IS NOAA BETTER OFF?
HWRF Hurricane Katrina

• Tsunami Warning System
• HWRF model
• Workforce Size Maintained
• Ocean Buoys added
• Seven day forecasts

39 DART Deployments by March 2008
3,050 Argo Floats deployed
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2007 NOAA ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• California Wildfires
• Green Ships in the Great Lakes
• Ocean Acidification Buoy Launched
• International Whaling Commission
• National Water Level Observation Network (NWLON)
  Upgrade
• Houston-Galveston PORTS

Smoke Plume from California Wildfires
Ocean Acidification Buoy
Humpback Whale
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2007 NWS ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• NWS Issues Storm Based Warnings
• Enhanced Fujita
• New Local Temperature Outlooks
• New Community Hydrologic Prediction System
• NIDIS Drought.gov
• UAS Flies into Hurricane Noel Remnants

drought.gov
UAS Flying into Hurricane (artist depiction)
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2007 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

• NOAA IPCC Members

• Thomas R. Karl
• Dr. David Easterling
• Dr. David Fahey
• Dr. Isaac Held
• Sydney Levitus
• Ron Stouffer
• Dr. Thomas Peterson
• Dr. Venkatachala Ramaswamy
• Dr. Susan Solomon

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WHERE ARE WE GOING?
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NEW NOAA LEADERSHIP

• Mary Glackin now Deputy Under Secretary
• RADM Jonathan W. Bailey now directing the NOAA
  Commissioned Officer Corps and NOAAs Office of
  Marine and Aviation Operations
• RMDL Philip M. Kenul assumed command as Director
  of Marine and Aviation Operations Centers
• Dr. Jack Hayes serving as NWS Assistant
  Administrator
• Vickie Nadolski now Acting NWS Deputy Assistant
  Administrator
• Abby Harper now NESDIS DAA for Systems
• Scott Smullen now Deputy Director of Office of
  Communications
• Bill Hogarth steps down as Assistant
  Administrator for NOAA Fisheries

Mary Glackin
RADM Jon Bailey
RDML Phil Kenul
Dr. Jack Hayes
Vickie Nadolski
Abby Harper
Dr. Bill Hogarth
Scott Smullen
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CONGRESSIONAL NOAA INITIATIVES

• Hurricane Research
• National Climate Service
• Integrated Ocean Observing System
• NOAA Corps Legislation
• NOAA Organic Act
• Aquaculture

• Ocean Exploration and Undersea Research
• Coastal and Estuarine Land Protection ActHarmful
  Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Act
• National Marine Sanctuaries Act

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INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR

• National Ice Center
• Atmospheric Observatories
• Ocean Observatory in Bering and Chuckchi Seas
• Sea Ice
• Climate Change Detection and Analysis
• NOAA IPY Web Site

Ice coring operation. R/V Thompson in background
NOAA IPY Web Site www.ipy.noaa.gov
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2008 HIGHLIGHTS

• National Weather Service
• Next Generation of AWIPS
• Radar Modernization (Super Resolution)
• National Unified Operational Prediction
  Capability (NUOPC) (NOAA, Navy, Air Force
  partnership to improve numerical weather
  prediction capability)
• NESDIS
• Launch of GOES-O (8/08)
• OMAO
• Fleet Modernization
• New Tail Doppler Radar System on Gulfstream-IV

AWIPS workstation
GOES Satellite
Next-Gen SWATH vessel
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2008 HIGHLIGHTS

• OAR
• Unmanned Aircraft Systems
• Climate Services
• NOAA Fisheries
• MSA Implementation
• Marine Aquaculture
• National Ocean Service
• National System of Marine Protected Areas

Manta (UAS)
Aquaculture (Hawaii)
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SES SUMMITCLIMATE

• National Climate Service
• Definition / Vision
• Why do we need a Climate Service?
• Organizational Structure
• Centralized Governance and Execution
• Principles of Operation
• Regular Outputs to Society
• Partnership Model
• Time is short!

Bottom Line there is general scientific
agreement that anthropogenic activities are
increasing atmospheric greenhouse gas
concentrations and driving climate change.
Carbon Tracker
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SES SUMMITWATER

• Water A NOAA Priority
• Water Cuts Across All Parts of NOAA
• Partnership with other Agencies
• Water Cycle Forecasting
• Earth System Framework
• The Future?

The worst drought in over a century has farmers
averting their gaze from a future that looks as
bleak as their fields. July 4, 2007 U.S. News,
NYT
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SES SUMMITREGIONAL COLLABORATION

• Goals of Regional Collaboration
• Improved services for the benefit of NOAAs
  customers
• Increased value and productivity of partnerships
• Improved stakeholder relations and support
• Improved internal communications and efficiency
  across line offices and programs
• A more visible and valued NOAA

2007 Evaluation Teams have demonstrated progress
in each goal Regional activities have informed
NOAA strategy in priority areas both at regional
and national scale Regional Collaboration has
been established and holds potential for
substantial benefits for NOAA 2008 Regional
Collaboration Workshop Regional Teams and
Priority Area Task Teams will meet in Kansas
City, MO Enhance communication and understanding
of regional issues and approaches Enable a
critical review of NOAAs current approach to
Regional Collaboration to recommend future
activities
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SES SUMMITGEOSS
NOAA devotes nearly 40 of our spending to Earth
Observing Systems

• Observations Basic to Science
• GEO Ministerial Summit November 30, 2007, Cape
  Town
• 73 Members 52 International Organizations
• GEO Continuity
• Large Umbrella for Earth Sciences
• NOAA Retain Intergovernmental Leadership
• Global Carbon Monitoring System
• Ecological Observing System

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NOAA PROGRAMS USING OBSERVING SYSTEMS

• Ecosystems
• Aquaculture
• Coastal Marine Resources
• Coral Reef Conservation
• Ecosystem Observation
• Ecosystem Research
• Habitat
• Climate
• Climate Observations and Monitoring
• Modeling and Observing Infrastructure
• IOOS
• Environmental Modeling

• Weather and Water
• Air Quality
• Coasts, Estuaries Oceans
• Hydrology
• Local Forecasts Warnings
• Space Weather
• Tsunami
• Science Technology Infusion
• Commerce and Transportation
• Aviation Weather
• Geodesy
• Marine Transportation Systems
• Marine Weather Surface Weather

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SES SUMMITEDUCATION, OUTREACH EXTENSION

• America COMPETES Act
• New Legislation New Opportunities
• Strategic Approaches
• Internal Understanding
• Coherent and Consistent Message NOAA is
  Indispensible

Science on a Sphere
The Administrator of the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration shall conduct,
develop, support, promote, and coordinate formal
and informal education activities at all levels
to enhance public awareness and understanding of
ocean, coastal, Great Lakes, and atmospheric
science and stewardship by the general public and
other coastal stakeholders, including
underrepresented groups in ocean and atmospheric
science and policy careers. In conducting those
activities, the Administrator shall build upon
the educational programs and activities of the
agency.
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SES SUMMITCOMMUNICATIONS
Priority Issues for the Public

• What is the Message?
• One Band, One Sound
• Elevator Speeches
• Web Site

NBC-WSJ Gallup CBS
Iraq 34 66 26
Healthcare 15 20 25
Economy / Jobs 8 14 11
Immigration 12 14 6
Terrorism 12 4 2
Energy costs 6 7 --
Environment 6 5 2
Education -- 4 3
Budget deficit 4 3 --
Other / unsure 3 30 25
Survey participants were allowed to vote on
more than one priority
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WORDS OF WISDOM
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THE TRANSITION PROCESS

• An Insiders Perspective
• Opportunities
• Programs
• Budgets
• Timing
• Preparation

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MY VISION FOR NOAA

• Attracting and Cultivating Talented People
• Achieving High Level Goals
• Shared Ideals
• Organic Act
• NOAA Organization
• Flexible
• Relevant

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IN CONCLUSION

• It is not the critic who counts not the man who
  points out how the strong man stumbles, or where
  the doer of deeds could have done them better.
  The credit belongs to the man who is actually in
  the arena, whose face in marred by dust and sweat
  and blood who strives valiantly who errs, who
  comes short again and again, because there is no
  effort without error and shortcoming but who
  does actually strive to do the deeds who knows
  great enthusiasms, the great devotions who
  spends himself in a worthy cause who at the best
  knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
  and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails
  while daring greatly, so that his place shall
  never be with those cold and timid souls who
  neither know victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt Citizenship in a
Republic Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April
23, 1910