Jim Overland
For communicating the significance and limitations of scientific findings to policy makers within NOAA and around the world, the public, fisheries managers, environmental agencies, and biologists and other scientists not in his discipline. From the beginning of his career, he has set a priority of what and how to communicate. He has embraced the PMEL standard of communicating information backed by peer review journal articles, with Dr. Albritton as a role model.