| I am pleased to present the latest issue in our newsletter series and to
mention a few changes that have occurred at CDIAC.
First, the newsletter, CDIAC Communications, is now being co-edited by Sonja Jones and Karen Gibson. We thank our outgoing newsletter editor, Fred O'Hara, who set a standard for excellence that will be a challenge to maintain. CDIAC Communications received many awards from the Society for Technical Communications/East Tennessee Chapter (STC/ETC) and the online version of issue numbers 22 and 23 (edited by Fred and designed and marked up for the World Wide Web by Karen) won an achievement award in the STC Atlanta Online Competition. This current issue is the first issue that has been designed primarily for online distribution and secondarily for traditional printing and mailing. Second, Tim Stamm is no longer with our User Services group. Tim was responsible for maintaining our inventory of printed documents and for seeing that user requests for them were promptly filled. Tim will be continuing as a staff member of the University of Tennessee's Energy and Environment Resource Center. He will be missed at CDIAC. Dana Griffith, CDIAC's capable secretary, has taken maternity leave. We all wish her and her newly enlarged family the best and hope she returns soon. But CDIAC also grew over this past year: We welcomed aboard environmental chemist Les Hook and atmospheric scientist Meng-Dawn Cheng to launch the Quality Systems Science Center, operated by CDIAC, on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy, for the North American Research Strategy for Tropospheric Ozone(NARSTO) an initiative of government agencies, industry, and the academic research community of the a United States, Canada, and Mexico. The purpose of NARSTO is to improve our understanding of the formation and transport of tropospheric ozone, a serious air pollutant. The QSSC provides the communications, critical oversight, and constructive assistance necessary for maintaining consistency and quality of all NARSTO products. For a retrospective of Fiscal Year (FY) 1997 at CDIAC and a description of what we hope to accomplish in FY 1998, I refer you to our latest annual report (http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/epubs/cdiac/annintro.htm; printed copies are available on request).
Bob Cushman |
kng 05/98
