This collection features oral histories with NOAA staff who researched our oceans, atmosphere, climate, and weather.
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In 1973, there were no hyperbaric chambers anywhere in South Florida for treating recreational divers with decompression sickness, so Dick Rutkowski set out along with a local dive club to find one - and, they got it.
Jerome “Nick” Heffter, a meteorologist and modeler with NOAA’s Air Resources Laboratory, was a pioneer in modeling the dispersion of nuclear radiation and other atmospheric pollutants during the Cold War era.
When Dr. Pam Heinselman first joined NOAA as a summer intern with the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Oklahoma, she was interested in analyzing weather radar data. Instead, she found herself out in the field.