Congratulations to Gary Lin and Regina Oglesby for being selected for GSFC's Code 614 Peer Award! Below are details supporting the nominations for their categories

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INNOVIM is a member of a winning team on a 5-year renewable National Science Foundation (NSF) award of an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC).

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NPP, a risk reduction mission for NPOESS, will be the first major element of the next generation U.S. Earth observation system. NPP science instruments will provide essential climate measurements to bridge the data gap between the end of the current NASA’s Earth Observation System and the future operational NPOESS system planned for launch in 2013. NPOESS is the U.S. Government’s weather and environmental satellite system, which will combine missions currently performed separately by three agencies (NASA, DOD and NOAA).

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INNOVIM has received the Peer-Recognition Software Reuse Award in the Utilization category by NASA Earth Science Data Systems (ESDS) Software Reuse Working Group for their reuse of heritage software on the NPP SDS Team. Congratulations to Mary Hunter, and her teammates: Sue Gao, Ryan Gerard, Mimi Hailu, Gary Lin, Ali Rezaiyan, Shahin Samadi, Richard Sikorski, and Paul Sweatman. The announcement was made at the annual ESDS Joint-Working Group Meeting, held October 20-22 in Wilmington, DE.

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Through the implementation of six joint projects beginning in 2001, NASA’s Applied Science Program and Innovim have been assisting the USGS in fulfilling one of its missions to provide advanced decision support capabilities for managing invasive plant species in the United States. The USGS has the responsibility to make available these latest technologies to a host of federal agencies whose charters entail taking preemptive actions in defense of our ecosystem. Placing significant importance on this initiative, NASA has identified the Invasive Species Forecasting System as an application of national priority.

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