2025 News & Events

CSL's Scott Sandberg receives a NOAA Silver Sherman Award. This award was initiated during Dr. Kathy Sullivan's tenure as NOAA Administrator, to recognize individuals who excel in their work, achieve a milestone that contributes significantly or critically towards a particular program's goal, or demonstrate leadership toward process improvement of a significant magnitude. Dr. Sullivan was particularly invested in reaching down into the organization to recognize those who made extraordinary efforts to keep the mission moving forward.

Scott is recognized "for outstanding engineering support of the 2024 CSL Utah Summer Ozone Study (USOS) field campaign. Scott's efforts were essential in specifying and overseeing the upgrades to the new CSL mobile laboratory van, a key sampling platform of the field campaign. His technical knowledge, attention to detail, and communication skills were key aspects of designing and installing the van power system to accommodate the large sampling instrument suite and air conditioning requirements. His engineering support resulted in an on-time delivery of the van to meet the tight summer deployment schedule."

Scott was recognized by CSL Director David Fahey, and receives his NOAA Silver Sherman award certificate at the lab all hands gathering on 14 February 2025. The pin that accompanies this award "... is dubbed the 'Silver Sherman' because it features Sherman the Shark from Jim Toomey's popular daily comic Sherman's Lagoon. Artist and conservationist Jim Toomey has long been a friend of NOAA. Besides sharing the exploits of the comic strip's namesake shark and his underwater friends, Mr. Toomey uses the cartoon to educate his readers about the environment."