Greetings, Members of the Unidata Community:
The Unidata Users Committee invites you to submit nominations for the 
Russell L. DeSouza Award for Outstanding Community Service. This 
Community Service Award honors individuals whose energy, expertise, and 
active involvement enable the Unidata Program to better serve the 
geosciences.  See:
<http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/community/aboutRLDaward.html>
Honorees personify Unidata's ideal of a community that shares data, 
software, and ideas through computing and networking technologies. 
Previous award recipients include:
-- Harry J. Edmon (University of Washington)
-- Douglas Yarger (Iowa State)
-- Tom Whittaker (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
-- Dan Vietor (Unisys)
-- Mary DesJardins (NCEP)
-- Rich Clark (Millersville University)
-- Jim Moore (Saint LouisUniversity)
-- Mark Laufersweiler (University of Oklahoma)
Nominations should be sent to <nominations@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.  Please 
provide a brief perspective/description of the nominee's contributions 
to the Unidata community. The deadline for receiving nominations is 15 
February 2008. The awardee will be selected from the list of nominees by 
the Unidata Users Committee, and will be invited to Boulder to receive 
the award at the spring Users Committee Meeting taking place on 6-7 
April 2008.  The recipient will be invited to give a presentation on use 
of Unidata data and tools.
Thank you for your interest and participation,
Gary Lackmann, Chair, Unidata Users Committee
Associate Professor, Dept. of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences
North Carolina State University