what are the political implications of this? to summarize...23 people have signed a memo that say they want this director guy GONE- this guy works for the department of commerce

7/5/2007 7:42:15 PM

Oh, that guy...

7/5/2007 7:45:48 PM

who?

7/5/2007 9:46:47 PM

Stay the fuck out of soap box you idiot. Just fucking stop. You know you don't belong here, we know you don't belong here, stop fucking trolling.

7/5/2007 10:35:02 PM

lol god how are you not suspended

7/5/2007 10:38:48 PM

lol how are you not down syndromed

7/5/2007 10:47:58 PM

wait a sec... are you talking about that media event from Sept. 2005? or is this something more recent? i work in the oceanographic industry, i'd like to think i'd have at leastt heard of something significant like this... too bad you dont give us any details to go on.

its no wonder people give you so much shit here. seriously dude... fill out your threads with a bit of background context... maybe some names or, for god's sake, perhaps a link or two





[Edited on July 6, 2007 at 1:28 AM. Reason : ]

7/6/2007 1:20:17 AM

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-flbproenza0705nbjul05,0,5751454.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/state/epaper/2007/07/05/0705proenza.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=0

7/6/2007 8:51:44 AM

Quote :

"wait a sec... are you talking about that media event from Sept. 2005? or is this something more recent? i work in the oceanographic industry, i'd like to think i'd have at leastt heard of something significant like this... too bad you dont give us any details to go on."

do you not watch the news at all? do u live in a box?

^thanks

7/6/2007 8:55:07 AM

i am rather removed from Miami's National Hurricane Center news. here in Seattle WA, we dont really get much in the way of Hurricanes. my interaction with NOAA is in only the realm of deep sea oceanography, not weather forecasting.

also, your thread title is a bit misleading. it sounded like youre talking about the NOAA director. Proenza is the director of the National Hurricane Center, which is just a very small division of NOAA.

It does sound important though, and something I should pay attention to. But still, my point remains:

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"fill out your threads with a bit of background context... maybe some names or, for god's sake, perhaps a link or two"

[Edited on July 6, 2007 at 5:32 PM. Reason : ]

7/6/2007 5:25:12 PM

well now that thats over with...are there any policy changes that will come of this?

7/6/2007 5:49:34 PM

policy changes? NHC only policy is to categorize, track, and predict hurricanes.

the current director of NHC, Bill Proenza, has only been on the job for 7 months. i dont know if he's a political appointee: he is a prior regional director of the National Weather Service, and a career meteorologist with over 40 years experience

it does sound like he has made himself very unpopular regarding budget issues. his critics say he has way overplayed the importance of NASA's aging QwikSCAT satellite, and is using it as a publicity stunt with the media to scare the public into thinking that NHC forecasting accuracy will be compromised if/when this one particular satellite fails.

i've read one report from a former colleague who says Proenza is a very aggressive and disagreeable person. I dont know if this is true. i can imagine it might be, and the rest of the NHC staff is determined to run him out before he fucks up their work environment.

the more you read into it, the more it sounds like a family squabble.

7/6/2007 8:22:29 PM

Quote :

"i am rather removed from Miami's National Hurricane Center news. here in Seattle WA, we dont really get much in the way of Hurricanes. my interaction with NOAA is in only the realm of deep sea oceanography, not weather forecasting. also, your thread title is a bit misleading. it sounded like youre talking about the NOAA director. Proenza is the director of the National Hurricane Center, which is just a very small division of NOAA. It does sound important though, and something I should pay attention to. But still, my point remains: "

Doing what kind of deep sea oceanography work?

I work with NOAA some, but in fisheries assessment- mostly with ICCAT and highly migratory species. I'm in grad school at Miami.

7/7/2007 4:53:43 AM

instrumentation design.

actually, we are expanding into estuary type work, one project is on anti-fouling technology. barnacles and all the other squigglys are a real PITA. get one inside a conductivity cell (for measuring salinity) and the whole instrument goes to hell.

i like the days i get to go to the marina and check on the instruments





[Edited on July 7, 2007 at 5:51 AM. Reason : ]

7/7/2007 5:48:40 AM

foxnews just reported the director has resigned

7/9/2007 3:45:51 PM