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GSL wins Department of Commerce Medals!
GSL has received three distinguished medals from the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Since 1949, the Department has granted honor awards in the form of Gold, Silver, and Bronze Medals. The Gold and Silver Medals are the highest and second highest honor granted by the Secretary of Commerce for distinguished and exceptional performance.
GSL’s visualization expert Eric Hackathorn won a team Gold Medal for leadership in conceiving, developing, communicating and implementing innovative solutions for equitable resilience to heat’s health risks with the Urban Heat Island Project
GSL's Assimilation and Verification Innovation Division (AVID) won a Gold Medal for scientific and engineering excellence in developing a revolutionary prediction tool that provides short-term probabilistic thunderstorm guidance (Warn on Forecast).
Ravan Ahmadov, Eric James, Sam Trahan - CIRES, Brian Jamison- CIRA, Kayee Wong- CIRA, Georg Grell, Ming Hu, Jebb Stewart, Curtis Alexander won a Silver medal 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).