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Managing a Highly Viewed YouTube Channel

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For more than 20 years we have supported the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), which is part of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Our staff manage the NCBI section of the National Library of Medicine YouTube channel, which has over 73,000 subscribers.

One video tutorial our staff developed was to help users understand the results of the National Center for Biotechnology Information Basic Local Alignment Search Tool. This tutorial received 22,000 views! 

In addition, our staff provide outreach support, develop and teach workshops, and respond to emails from researchers around the world.

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Developing and Managing Lidar Data  

For over five years CSS employee owners have supported NOAA’s Digital Coast data development and management, training development and delivery, and tool development and management through our subcontract with Lynker Technologies supporting NOAA’s Office for Coastal Management. As part of this effort, CSS employee owners process lidar data from many sources to make it available…

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Team Recognized for Critical Roles and Exceptional Work

Congratulations to CSS employee owners supporting The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) National Toxicology Program Quality Assurance. The team is recognized for precision in identifying inconsistencies and safeguarding data integrity across large-scale toxicology studies. This team’s work directly supports regulatory agencies in protecting human health and the environment through rigorous toxicological data review. 

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Providing Ground Support Equipment for NASA

CSS employee owners supporting NASA recently completed an upgrade of a new cold plate for Solidification Using a Baffle in Sealed Ampoules (SUBSA) ground unit. The Cold Plate is a piece of ground support equipment (GSE) that helps control the temperature of the SUBSA furnace for ground testing, similar to the Cold Plate in the…