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2012, 2020, 2021 CIRA Exceptional Service Award
Recipients by year
2023
Grant Firl

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Please join me in congratulating Grant Firl as the most recent recipient of CIRA’s Exceptional Service Award in recognition of his instrumental planning and execution of the recent three-day Common Community Physics Package (CCPP) Visioning Workshop. Grant will receive a certificate in addition to a cash award.

2023
Grant Firl

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2021
Amanda Back

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Amanda Back for outstanding leadership within the Assimilation and Verification Innovation Division at GSL

2020
Jeff Beck

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Jeff Beck for leadership in the development, testing, and support of regional capabilities of NOAA's Numerical Weather Prediction models.

2012
Chris Macdermaid

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Chris MacDermaid for his efforts as GSD's representative on a number of NOAA and OAR working groups and committees.