CDIAC recently received two awards of Merit (printed copy and online version) for CDIAC Communications (http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/newsletr/ccindex.html), submitted by Sonja B. Jones and Karen N. Gibson in the East Tennessee Society for Technical Communication (STC) Chapter's 1999 Technical Publications and Art Competition.
Alex Kozyr presented the poster Data Management Provided by the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center for the U.S. Department of Energy CO2 Ocean Survey During WOCE/JGOFS Cruises (co-authored with Tom Boden) at the International Symposium on Carbon Cycle in the North Pacific (Nagoya, Japan). The poster, which describes CDIAC's efforts to quality-assure, document, and distribute ocean carbon data, received the symposium's "Most Important Poster" award.
The ORNL Environmental Sciences Division presented Karen Gibson with the 1999 Distinguished Technical Achievement Award for her outstanding technical support to CDIAC.
The ORNL Computing, Information and Networking Division named Jim Simmons as the winner of the Outstanding Customer Service Award for Networking and Workstation Services "for systems administration support to the CDIAC."
Dale Kaiser was elected President of the Smoky Mountain Chapter of the American Meteorological Society.
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