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CSS Employee Owners Receive NOAA Award
NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite and Data Information Service (NESDIS) recognizes the National Centers for Environmental Information Cloud Archive Team with 2026 NESDIS Outstanding Information Technology and Engineering Team Award! This award recognizes the team’s efforts to develop and deploy the Open Information Stewardship System (OISS) and create a large language model (L-OISS) that automates the generation and testing of complex archive workflows. CSS Employee Owners Elchin Julfayev and Leo Mikula are members of this team and recognized for their contributions.
The innovative and comprehensive approach taken with these current technologies will continue to positively influence future generations, who will benefit immensely from the hard work and perseverance of this team and their larger program.
Congratulations to all on this major accomplishment!
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Employees Receive Green Sustainability Award of Excellence
Congratulations to our team supporting the Center for Disease Control (CDC) for receiving the Green Sustainability Award of Excellence. Our team led the charge helping CDC to upgrade their spill cabinets across all campuses (Atlanta, GA; Fort Collins, CO; San Juan, PR), which now include a more sustainable material called Trivorex ®. This highly absorbent…
Emergency Response Support for the Republican National Convention
CSS employee owners on contract with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Portable High-throughput Integrated Laboratory Identification System — a mobile analytical unit known as PHILIS — provided emergency response support for the 2024 Republican National Convention. PHILIS mobile laboratory units are designed to provide onsite analysis of environmental conditions, including air and soil samples, contaminated…
Employee Owners Nominated for NOAA Gold Medal Award
Congratulations to CSS employee owners supporting NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science for their nomination for the NOAA Gold Medal Award! CSS employee owners have been critical members of the team charged with the rapid development of spatial models that aid in offshore wind planning in the Gulf of Mexico. The team has collected…