FOCI Bronze Medal CeremonyDecember 18, 2002

Jim Traynor Conference RoomNOAA - 7600 Sand Point Way NESeattle, Washington 98115-6349

On October 22, 2002, at the Inn and Conference Center of the University of Maryland University College, Vice Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, awarded the U.S. Department of Commerce Bronze Medal to the NOAA FOCI Program. FOCI was cited "for scientific achievements that have advanced fisheries oceanography and marine ecology and have contributed to building sustainable fisheries in the North Pacific." The award was accepted by Dr. Eddie Bernard, representing the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory and Dr. Jeff Napp, representing the Alaska Fisheries Science Center. Each organization received a wall plaque with a bronze medal and inscription.

A local ceremony was conducted on December 18, 2002, in Seattle, Washington, to honor FOCI and its members. This is a record of that occasion.

Fisheries-Oceanography Coordinated Investigations (FOCI) awarded DOC Bronze Medal

Agenda• Welcome & brief history of FOCI - Allen Macklin, FOCI Coordinator

• Birth of the program - Bill Aron, AFSC Director (retired) & Eddie Bernard, PMEL Director

• A strong program - Art Kendall, AFSC FOCI Director (retired) & Jim Schumacher, PMEL FOCI Director (retired)

• Perspective - Gary Stauffer, AFSC RACE Director

• Award of Bronze Medals to PMEL and AFSC Eddie Bernard (representing NOAA OAR) awarding to

Jim Schumacher & Phyllis Stabeno, PMEL FOCI Director

Gary Stauffer (representing NOAA Fisheries)awarding to Art Kendall & Jeff Napp, AFSC FOCI Director

• Acceptances - Phyllis Stabeno & Jeff Napp

• Award of FOCI Bronze Medal certificates to honored guests - Phyllis Stabeno & Jeff Napp

• Lunch

• Remarks - Ron Reed, PMEL FOCI Senior Scientist

• A FOCI biological timeline - Ann Matarese, AFSC FOCI Scientist

• Cutting of the cake - Jeff Napp & Phyllis Stabeno

• Congratulations from afar - read by Allen Macklin

• Recognition from Steve Hammond, PMEL OERD Leader - read by Ned Cokelet, PMEL Scientist

• Musings - Ned Cokelet

• Comments - Guests

(l to r) Kathy Mier, Liz Dobbins, Jeff Napp, Kevin Bailey, Chrissy Keliyanides, Colleen Harpold, Jennifer Lanksbury

(l to r) Gary Stauffer, Peter Proctor, Jim Schumacher, Colleen Harpold, Tony Jenkins, Jennifer Lanksbury, Cathy Ferrar, Tiffany Vance, ?, Dylan Righi, Annette Brown, ?

(l to r) Kimberly Bahl, Jay Clark, Mark Koehn, Annette Brown, Morgan Busby, Andre Buchheister (standing), Debbie Blood (striped sweater), Chris Baier, Susan Picquelle, Peter Proctor, Ann Matarese.

(l to r) Miriam Doyle, Debbie Blood (back to camera), Peter Proctor, Ann Matarese, Ron Reed

A bit of socializing before the ceremony…

Allen Macklin, FOCI Coordinator, explains some of the "numbers of FOCI" accrued since the start of the program in 1984:

52 = number of associate personnel

133 = number of FOCI personnel

179 = number of cruises

226 = number of FOCI seminars

447 = number of FOCI publications

Bill Aron (left), retired director of the Alaska Fisheries Science Center, and Eddie Bernard (right), director of the Pacific Marine Environmental

Laboratory, are the creators and "grandfathers" of FOCI.

Amused participants (left to right) Jeff Napp, Phyllis Stabeno, Eddie Bernard, Joyce Gearhart, Sarah Hinckley, Cathy Ferrar, and Colleen Harpold enjoy Bill Aron's anecdotes.

Art Kendall (left) and Jim Schumacher (right) are the retired directors ("fathers") of the AFSC and PMEL FOCI components, respectively.

Gary Stauffer, AFSC RACE Director, has provided consistent support that has stabilized FOCI.

Presentation of the Bronze Medal

Eddie Bernard (center left) and Gary Stauffer (center right) present the DOC Bronze Medal to Jim Schumacher and Phyllis Stabeno (left) and Art Kendall and Jeff Napp (right), the respective retired and current FOCI directors of PMEL and AFSC.

Phyllis Stabeno and Jeff Napp awarded individual certificates of recognition (below right) to 125 vested members of the FOCI program. Below left, Jim Schumacher receives his certificate from Jeff Napp.

Participants sampled foodstuffs from various trophic levels of the ecosystem!

An assortment of gourmet submarine sandwiches

Varietal chips

Assorted beverages

And …

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Chocolate-vanilla Bronze Medal cake with butter cream frosting

l to r: Eddie Bernard, Jim Schumacher, Phyllis Stabeno, Jeff Napp, Art Kendall, Bill Aron

l to r: Eddie Bernard, Jim Schumacher, Phyllis Stabeno, Allen Macklin, Jeff Napp, Gary Stauffer, Art Kendall, Bill Aron

The Future of FOCI Physics: (l to r) Dylan Righi, Carol Ladd, Peggy Sullivan

*Alexander, Vera*Alvarez-Flores, CarlosAnderson, Jim (photo)Aron, Bill*Ault, JerryBahl, KimberlyBaier, ChrisBailey, Kevin*Balsiger, JimBernard, EddieBlood, Debbie*Boeing, WiebkeBond, Nick*Brodeur, RicBrown, AnnetteBuchheister, Andre*Bunn, JamesBusby, Morgan*Canino, Michael*Cartwright, Rachael*Ciannelli, LorenzoClancy, TimClark, Jay*Coe, JimCokelet, Ned*Dagg, Mike*Dark, Tom

Deliyanides, Christina*DeMaster, DougDeWitt, CarolDobbins, LizDougherty, Dan*Dowgiallo, MikeDoyle, MiriamDuffy-Anderson, Janet*Dunn, Jean*Eaton, BartErickson, RonFerrar, Cathy*Floering, Bill*Fornalski, Jeff*Gallagher, MikeGearhart, Joyce*Gray, JudyHadden, Carrie*Hammond, StephenHarpold, ColleenHermann, AlHester, Richard*Hickey, BarbaraHinckley, Sarah*Hofmann, Eileen*Houde, EdJenkins, Antonio

*Johnson, David*Jorgenson, ElainaKachel, DavidKachel, NancyKendall, Art*Klawitter, DanKoehn, Mark Ladd, CarolLanksbury, JenniferLind, Angela*MacDonald, ErinMacklin, AllenMatarese, AnnMccauley, KittyMegrey, BernMerati, NazilaMier, Kathy*Mueter, FranzNapp, JeffNelson, Russ*Olla, BoriOverland, Jim*Paakkonen, JariPanidis, Justin (photo)*Parker, Bill*Pautzke, ClarencePicquelle, Susan

Invitees

Proctor, PeterPorter, SteveReed, RonRighi, DylanRodionov, Sergei*Roskie, Earl*Royer, Tom*Rugen, Bill*Rugen, Lisa*Salo, Sigrid*Scavia, DonSchumacher, JimSites, BillSpillane, MickStabeno, PhyllisStauffer, GarySullivan, PeggyTheilacker, Gail*Turner, Beth*Tyler, AlVance, Tiffany*Vinter, BevWang, MuyinWilson, MattWood, Kevin*Wooster, Warren

* unable to attend