Highlight on Alumni

David Savage completed his last course with the Master of Science program in Environmental Sciences in Summer 2001. He left the program for a period of time following a transfer within his agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to manage a Florida Keys marine sanctuary. The online offerings of the Environmental Sciences program allowed him to complete his degree while in this role, and while flying remote sensing missions for NOAA.

Bruce Ramsay received his Master of Science in Environmental Sciences program at Hopkins in 1995. He is a remote sensing scientist in the Office of Research and Applications, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and has worked at NOAA since 1992. In 1998 Ramsay earned the NOAA Administrator's Award for significant contributions in the creation and implementation of the Operational Significant Events Imagery Service, an environmental satellite remote sensing hazards detection and monitoring program. He was also the project manager for the development and implementation of the Interactive Multisensor Snow and Ice Mapping System used by the National Weather Service to improve the performance of numerical weather prediction models.