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Celebrating Excellence,
Honoring Achievement.
Department of Commerce Awards
Department of Commerce Gold Medal
The Department of Commerce Gold Medal is defined as distinguished performance characterized by extraordinary, notable, or prestigious contributions that impact the mission of the Department or one operating unit and which reflect favorably on the Department. It is the highest honorary award granted by the Secretary of Commerce.
- 2023 for leadership in conceiving, developing, communicating and implementing innovative solutions for equitable resilience to heat's health risks with the Urban Heat Island Project.
- 2023 for scientific and engineering excellence in developing a revolutionary prediction tool that provides short-term probabilistic thunderstorm guidance (Warn on Forecast).
Department of Commerce Silver Medal
The Department of Commerce Silver Medal is defined as exceptional performance
characterized by noteworthy or superlative contributions which have a direct and
lasting impact within the Department. It is the second highest award granted by
the Secretary of Commerce.
- 2023 for the operational value of predictions of wildfire smoke transport and its impact on weather to support air quality alerts and visibility forecasts (HRRR Smoke).
The Department of Commerce Silver Medal is defined as exceptional performance characterized by noteworthy or superlative contributions which have a direct and lasting impact within the Department. It is the second highest award granted by the Secretary of Commerce.
- 2023 for the operational value of predictions of wildfire smoke transport and its impact on weather to support air quality alerts and visibility forecasts (HRRR Smoke).
Department of Commerce Bronze Medal
The Department of Commerce Bronze Medal is the third of three honor awards of
the United States Department of Commerce.
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2022 for the Department's first research to education transition that secured NOAA's ability to deliver data products to a vast network with global reach.
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2021 for improving lake-effect snow and ice forecasts through the rapid transition of an innovative coupling of weather and coastal hydrodynamic models.
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2021 for successful transition and award of $553M HPC Integrator contract three months ahead of schedule with no protests
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2021 GEFS Aerosols for the development of the Global Ensemble Forecast System - Aerosols model to support air quality alerts and visibility forecasts.
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2021 for expeditiously and skillfully coordinating research that leveraged the unique scientific opportunity resulting from the COVID-19 global pandemic.
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2020 for identifying and implementing innovative data center upgrades to increase efficiency and resiliency for Research Supercomputing in NOAA.
The Department of Commerce Bronze Medal is the third of three honor awards of the United States Department of Commerce.
- 2022 for the Department's first research to education transition that secured NOAA's ability to deliver data products to a vast network with global reach.
- 2021 for improving lake-effect snow and ice forecasts through the rapid transition of an innovative coupling of weather and coastal hydrodynamic models.
- 2021 for successful transition and award of $553M HPC Integrator contract three months ahead of schedule with no protests
- 2021 GEFS Aerosols for the development of the Global Ensemble Forecast System - Aerosols model to support air quality alerts and visibility forecasts.
- 2021 for expeditiously and skillfully coordinating research that leveraged the unique scientific opportunity resulting from the COVID-19 global pandemic.
- 2020 for identifying and implementing innovative data center upgrades to increase efficiency and resiliency for Research Supercomputing in NOAA.
NOAA Administrator's Award
The NOAA Administrator's Award recognizes employees who have demonstrated exceptional leadership, skill, and ingenuity in their significant and innovative contributions that bring unusual credit to NOAA, the Department of Commerce, and the Federal Government as a whole.
- 2021 for establishment of groundbreaking IT security practices to allow the use of NOAA sensitive data to maximize the effectiveness of partner high-performance computing systems for the advancement of NOAA science.
- 2021 for completion of the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh weather model project that improves forecasts and warnings for high-impact weather events.
Our Work By The Numbers
Department of Commerce Awards
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Office of Atmospheric Research Awards
International and Other Awards
American Meteorological Society Awards
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere Awards
Excellence is in our DNA
At the Global Systems Laboratory (GSL), we proudly recognize our team's exceptional dedication and achievements, which has garnered over 136 awards from various agencies in the past decade. This achievement underscores GSL's commitment to pioneering environmental research, reflecting our collective strides in advancing in supporting a Weather-Ready and Fire-Ready Nation. Each award is a testament to our team's relentless pursuit of scientific excellence and innovation.
Our Mission
Lead research and directed development through the transition of environmental data, models, products, tools, and services to support commerce, protect life and property, and promote a scientifically literate public.
Research Areas
Organizational Excellence, Earth System Prediction, Advanced Technologies, and Decision Support are the foundation to achieving the GSL Grand Challenge: Deliver actionable global storm-scale prediction and environmental information through advanced technologies to serve society.
Global Systems Laboratory