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The first week of May is always very special to our team at NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries. This week, we celebrate #PublicServiceRecognitionWeek, which honors the contributions of federal, state, county, and local government employees throughout the United States. 

NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries serves as the trustee for a network of underwater parks encompassing more than 600,000 square miles of marine and Great Lakes waters. The network includes a system of 15 national marine sanctuaries and Papahānaumokuākea and Rose Atoll marine national monuments. 

Here in NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, we are proud to create and manage underwater parks in the most important waters of the country and to support the communities that depend on them. For many of us, public service is a choice we make early in our careers and stay with for all our working years.

Some famous names spent part of or even their entire careers at NOAA and other federal science and conservation agencies. To celebrate Public Service Recognition Week, here are just a few of the historic folks that we can say, “we knew you when.”