Meet January 2009 Employee and Team Member of the Month
Sue Mullinix
NOAA’s Workforce Management Office
Employee of the Month
January, 2009
Sue Mullinix represents an unmatched commitment to customer service which truly benefits current and prospective NOAA employees. Sue is the WFMO Web master and is responsible for supporting all changes made to the WFMO Web site and all interlinking pages. The WFMO Web site has a great deal of information for our customers, including a wealth of information critical for our current employees regarding pay, leave, and benefits, and to prospective employees, through the NOAA Careers page, which provides the public with a dearth of information regarding our mission, history and opportunities to join our organization. Under Sue’s capable direction, NOAA has benefited from her administration of a steady stream of updates, new programs, initiatives, and changing technologies to ensure an informative state-of-the-art Web site.
NOAA Satellites and Information Service
Team Member of the Month
January, 2008
Peter Romanov has provided the scientific talent behind NOAA's automated global snow mapping over the past several years. He has developed operational algorithms for fully automated snow and ice cover maps, based upon optical data from a variety of NOAA and NASA satellites, and microwave data from a Department of Defense satellite. The various products are also blended into high quality and accurate single daily snow maps and multi-sensor products. He has also developed and implemented algorithms to estimate snow cover fraction and snow depth from geostationary satellite imagery. A major milestone in Romanov’s product development activities occurred in February 2008 when his automated product for the Southern Hemisphere was transitioned to full operation. The four kilometer spatial resolution of this new product is eight to 12 times higher that the resolution of existing microwave-based global products over the Southern Hemisphere.