NOAA and U.S. Sen. Cardin to Honor Chesapeake Biological Laboratory for 75 Years...

NOAA and U.S. Sen. Cardin to Honor Chesapeake Biological Laboratory for 75
Years of Weather Watching

Personnel from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences
Chesapeake Biological Laboratory have reported valuable weather information
for more than 75 years as part of NOAA's National Weather Service Cooperative
Observer Program. In recognition of their dedication the National Weather
Service will host a ceremony on July 27 at the laboratory.

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Sen. Benjamin Cardin will present the National Weather Service Honored
Institution Award to Margaret Palmer, Ph.D., director of the Chesapeake
Biological Laboratory. Harold Millsaps, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory
research specialist, will also receive a Department of Commerce Certificate of
Appreciation for maintaining weather records for the Chesapeake Biological
Laboratory.

WHAT: Honored Institution Award Ceremony

WHEN: Monday, July 27, 1:00 p.m.

WHERE: Chesapeake Biological Laboratory
One Williams St.
Solomons Island, Md.

WHO: U.S. Sen. Benjamin Cardin
James E. Lee, meteorologist-in-charge, National Weather Service
Baltimore/Washington Weather Forecast Office
Margaret A. Palmer, Ph.D., director, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory

On the Web:
National Weather Service Cooperative Observer Program:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/coop
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Chesapeake Biological
Laboratory: http://www.cbl.umces.edu

CONTACT: Marcie Katcher (NWS), +1-631-244-0149; or Christopher Conner (UMCES),
+1-443-496-0095

/PRNewswire-USNewswire -- July 22/

SOURCE NOAA