Conrad C. Lautenbacher
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Under Secretary Conrad
Lautenbacher
Conrad Charles Lautenbacher,
Jr. (born June 26, 1942) is a retired Navy Vice Admiral, was the Under
Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere within the United States Department of
Commerce and the eighth administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
He was appointed to the position on December 19, 2001[1] and resigned effective
October 31, 2008 in anticipation of a new White House administration. He was
born in Philadelphia.[2]
Contents
1 Education and career
2 Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans
and Atmosphere
2.1 Administration
2.2 Meetings and summits
3 References
Education and career
Before joining the
Department of Commerce, Lautenbacher formed his own management consultant business,
and worked principally for Technology, Strategies & Alliances Inc. He was
also president and CEO of the Consortium for Oceanographic Research and
Education, which is a non-profit organization with the goal of increasing basic
knowledge and public support across the spectrum of ocean sciences. He
possesses a Master of Science degree and a Ph.D in applied mathematics from
Harvard University.[1]
He graduated from the U.S.
Naval Academy in 1964 and is a retired Navy Vice Admiral with 40 years of
service. His Navy experience includes tours as Commanding Officer of the USS
Hewitt (DD-966), Commander of Naval Station Norfolk; and Commander of
Cruiser-Destroyer Group Five. He had additional duties as Commander of U.S.
Naval Forces Central Command at Riyadh during Operations Desert Shield and
Desert Storm.[1]
During his final tour of
duty, he served as Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Resources, Warfare
Requirements and Assessments) in charge of Navy programs and budget. He had
also served as Assistant for Strategy with the Chief of Naval Operations
Executive Panel, and as Program Planning Branch Head in the Navy Program
Planning Directorate.[1]
Under Secretary of Commerce
for Oceans and Atmosphere Administration
with Shūichirō Yamanouchi,
President of the National Space Development Agency of Japan (2002)
After an investigation into
Bill Proenza's management of the National Hurricane Center, Lautenbacher
removed him as Director on July 9, 2007. In September 2007, he was returned to
his old job at the southern region of the National Weather Service. Proenza had
drawn criticism from colleagues for calling the eight-year-old QuickSCAT system
outdated.[3][4] After the unauthorized killing of a gray whale by members of
the Makah Indian tribe in September 2007, Lautenbacher met with tribal leaders
to discuss the issue.[5] He collaborated with other federal agencies on a new
program to track volcanic ash and report the risks to the aviation
community.[6]
During Lautenbacher's
tenure, the Open Rivers Initiative was started to provide funding and technical
expertise for the community-driven removal of obsolete small dam and river
barriers. According to the NOAA, over 3,500 large dams in the U.S. were
considered unsafe in 2007.[7] On the subject of the Bush administration's plan
to expand the tsunami warning and detection system, Lautenbacher has said that
the need for more buoys is critical, because their sensors measure passing
tsunamis, whereas tide gauges measure changing water levels close to the
coast.[8]
Lautenbacher has rejected
scientific claims that climate change is the greatest challenge facing
humankind this century. In a November 2002 interview for the Australian
television show Lateline, he said that evidence gathered so far fails to
convince the US that extreme weather being felt around the globe is a direct
result of climate change.[9] In December 2004, he called the decline in health
among coral reefs a global issue, essential to life on Earth.[10]
Meetings and summits
Lautenbacher spearheaded the
first Earth Observation Summit, which hosted ministerial-level representation
from several dozen of the world's nations in July 2003. Through subsequent
international summits and working groups, he worked to encourage world
scientific and policy leaders to work toward a common goal of building a
sustained Global Earth Observation System of Systems that would collect and
disseminate data, information, and models to stakeholders and decision makers
for the benefit of individual nations and the world community. The effort
culminated in an agreement for a 10-year implementation plan for GEOSS reached
by the 55 member countries of the Group on Earth Observations at the Third
Observation Summit held in Brussels in February 2005.[1]
He also has headed numerous
delegations at international governmental summits and conferences around the
world. This includes the U.S. delegation to the first and second Asia-Pacific
Economic Cooperation Ocean Ministerial Meetings in Korea in 2002 and Indonesia
in 2005, and the annual meetings of the World Meteorological Organization,
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, and the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change. He also led the Commerce delegation to the 2002
World Summit on Sustainable Development in South Africa.[1]
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Conrad C.
Lautenbacher.
"NOAA Home Page - Vice
Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., U.S. Navy (Ret.) Undersecretary of
Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and NOAA Administrator". Retrieved
September 27, 2007.
[1]
"Web site for the
Democratic Caucus, Committee on Science, U.S. House of Representatives ::
Hearing :: Tracking the Storm at the National Hurricane Center". Retrieved
September 27, 2007.
"Ousted hurricane center
chief to return to previous post". Retrieved September 27, 2007.
Associated Press.
"Tribe condemns killing of whale". Latimes.com. Retrieved September
27, 2007.[dead link]
"Federal Agencies Team
To Protect Aircraft From Volcanic Ash". Aviationweek.com. Retrieved
September 27, 2007.
"NOAA Helps Small Towns
Remove Obsolete Dams". Ens-newswire.com. Retrieved September 27, 2007.
Eilperin, Juliet
(2005-01-15). "Tsunami Detection To Expand". The Washington Post.
"Bush's science man
sceptical about global warming weather link". Abc.net.au. Retrieved
September 27, 2007.
Heilprin, John; The
Associated Press (2004-12-07). "Coral-reef health continues to plummet,
study says". The Seattle Times.
NOAA Administrator Announces Resignation
September 23, 2008
Vice Admiral Conrad C.
Lautenbacher, JR., U.S. Navy (Ret.), NOAA Administrator
Retired Navy Vice Admiral
Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., Ph.D., under secretary of commerce for oceans and
atmosphere and NOAA administrator, today announced his resignation, effective
Oct. 31. Lautenbacher served as NOAA’s eighth Administrator for nearly seven
years.
Under Lautenbacher’s
leadership, NOAA was instrumental in the creation of the Papahanaumokuakea
Marine National Monument, the second largest area in the world dedicated to
marine preservation. Lautenbacher contributed to the President’s landmark Ocean
Initiative and worked with Congress to pass the Magnuson-Stevens Act
reauthorization, which requires overfishing end by 2011.
In the international arena,
Lautenbacher has led U.S. efforts to create a Global Earth Observation System
of Systems (GEOSS), an effort that has been joined by more than 70 countries
and 50 international organizations. Following the disastrous Indian Ocean
tsunami in 2004, Lautenbacher led the development of a tsunami warning system
in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and pushed for better warning
capabilities in the Indian Ocean.
“I am most grateful for your
leadership and offer my heartfelt thanks and appreciation to you and as well to
NOAA’s dedicated career force that has made all of these and many more
achievements possible,” Lautenbacher said in a letter to President Bush. “While
I have both enjoyed my tenure and been proud to serve, it is time to make room
for those who will follow and build on the legacy of NOAA created by this
Administration.”
Other significant
accomplishments during Lautenbacher’s tenure include:
Development of the National Integrated
Drought Information System
Creation of NOAA’s Aquaculture Program
Advancements in climate science including
creating the Climate Change Science Program, CarbonTracker and Air Quality
Ozone Forecasts
Introducing “storm-based” warnings for
tornadoes, severe thunderstorms and flash floods
Implementation of a new hurricane weather
research and forecast system
Initiating NOAA’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems
program
Commenced new investments in new Multifunction
Phased Array Radar
Installation of numerous Physical
Oceanographic Real-Time Systems (PORTS®) around the country
Launched three satellites and managed the
development of next generation of satellite systems.
Commissioned eight new ships into the NOAA
fleet,including four acoustically quiet fisheries survey vessels and the
Okeanos Explorer, the first U.S. ship dedicated to exploration
Establishment of the Integrated Ocean
Observing System
NOAA understands and
predicts changes in the Earth's environment, from the depths of the ocean to
the surface of the sun, and conserves and manages our coastal and marine
resources.
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