Óskar Jakob Sigurðsson Vitavörður á Stórhöfða er Hetja Bandarísku Veðurstofuna árið 2007

Third-generation lighthouse keeper, academic, are Environmental Heroes

This story entered on 6th Apr, 2007 11:13:55 AM PST

Oskar Sigurdsson and Dr. Jill Wright are among the 10 NOAA Environmental Heroes for 2007. They are invited to lunch with VADM Lautenbacher on April 20 and will also receive a letter of congratulations and a plaque to commemorate their nomination.

Like his father and grandfather before him, Sigurdsson is the keeper of the Storhofdi Lighthouse in southwest Iceland’s Vestman Islands. This is the last manned lighthouse in Iceland. Since 1992, Sigurdsson has been collecting air samples for the Global Monitoring Division’s Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases Group in Boulder, Colo He was nominated by the Earth System Research Laboratory’s Global Monitoring Division

Sigurdsson has sent almost 600 samples back to Boulder, of which 98 percent have met the lab’s strict quality standards. The measurements of relatively clean air are essential to provide background levels of critically important gases before the air travels across the European continent.

Wright was nominated by the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory in Miami, Fla. for her efforts and support of the NOAA Ocean Observing System for climate and weather forecasts. Wright created collaborative opportunities to deploy surface drifters and profiling floats from the craft M/V Explorer used by the Semester at Sea program. While the drifters and floats provide critical data from under sampled areas of the oceans, they also provide a variety of educational opportunities for the hundreds of students who participate in the Semester at Sea program.

Because of her efforts, there is permanent oceanographic equipment to investigate carbon dioxide in the ocean as well as support future NOAA and NASA satellite-ocean missions

This year, a new award was added to the NOAA Environmental Heroes program. This Long-Time Achievement Award, to be given periodically, honors and individual or organization for a decade or longer of effort in helping NOAA achieve its mission.

The first recipient is Jack H. Elrod, Jr. for his use of the Mark Trail comic strip to educate and inform his readers about a variety of NOAA topics, from the dangers of tsunamis, to the wonders of the oceans, and to the mysteries still to be solved about the world in which we live

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