This month’s Employee and Team Member of the Month have made significant positive impacts on their Line Offices, providing outstanding results for NOAA and the public we serve.
Each month, NOAA celebrates one NOAA employee of the month and one NOAA associate team member of the month, highlighting the passion and dedication that our employees and associates have for NOAA’s mission. This month’s Employee and Team Member of the Month have made significant positive impacts on their Line Offices, providing outstanding results for NOAA and the public we serve. For more on NOAA’s employee of the month and one NOAA’s associate team member of the month click here.
Meteorologist Richard “Rich” Fulton is the Weather Testbed and Air Quality Portfolio Manager for the OAR Office of Weather and Air Quality (OWAQ). In this role, Rich executes the peer-review and funding award processes for 10+ grant programs, and manages the diverse U.S. Weather Research Program portfolio of 80+ project grants. Notably, during FY15-17 Rich coordinated closely with NOAA’s National Severe Storms Laboratory to plan and execute the $2M VORTEX-SE grant program. More recently, Rich led the charge for OWAQ’s first ever issuance of a consolidated Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO). Rich assisted in streamlining the NOFO application process, and his hard work ensured that the NOFO was executed prior to a deadline at the end of the fiscal year. Through Rich’s vast contributions to OWAQ, NOAA is at the forefront of weather and air quality research.
