A S FullTEMhead
2017 Black Engineer of the Year AWARD WINNERS
Top Black Officers in the U.S. Military
JOB: Chief Engineer, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Weather Service
CAREER ACHIEVEMENTS: Albert Spencer is the recipient of Department of Commerce Gold and Silver Medals, the highest and second highest honor awards granted by the Secretary of Commerce for distinguished and exceptional performance. Throughout his 38-year career with NOAA, Spencer has been active in efforts that motivate and inspire next-generation scientists and engineers from underrepre- sented communities. Recently he delivered the keynote at the 40th anniversary celebration of Jackson State Univer- sity’s Department of Meteorology. He’s also working with Howard University’s NOAA Center for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) to develop internship and hiring opportunities for NCAS graduates.
“WEATHER READY NATION”: Spencer played a big part in NOAA’s launch of the Earth-observing weather satellite, GOES-R, short for Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R-Series. This next-generation satellite will provide improved hurricane track forecasts, increased thunderstorm and tornado warning lead time, and better data for long- term climate variability studies. NOAA’s National Weather Service forecasters will not only detect weather, water, cli- mate, and environmental threats to American communities and businesses for the first time ever but they will detect and monitor all the lightning in a storm almost instanta- neously across half the globe.
Albert B. Spencer, Jr. Career Achievement – Government
WHAT HE DOES: As chief engineer for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Weather Service (NWS), Albert Spencer is responsible for overseeing systems engineering as well as testing, observ- ing, information processing, display, and communication systems. He leads a team of 21 engineers and support staff.
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CONFERENCE ISSUE 2017
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