NSSL and SPC Employees Association

The NSSL and SPC Employees Association (NSEA) is a U.S. "non-profit organization which provides social interaction for employees from the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL), the Storm Prediction Center (SPC), and the Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies (CIMMS), and their families and friends, and provides a better working environment for employees at NSSL, SPC, and CIMMS". It is not affiliated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

National Weather Center, opened during summer of 2006

It operates an on-site member-operated convenience store which sells snacks, drinks, and other food. This, and other "concessions stands" such as a clothing and a weather photography stores which sell to the public, fund the organization. In serving in its members, it sponsors annual events such as a Winter Holiday dinner, a Halloween party, the NSEA Chili Cookoff, a July summer picnic, and an October golf tournament; as well as sends flowers to hospitalized employees and members of their immediate families, donates money to charitable organizations or plants for funeral services in memory of passing NSSL/SPC/CIMMS employees and members of their immediate families, as well as members of the Norman meteorological community, purchases framed pictures for the hallways and appliances for the use of all employees, and constructed a memorial in front of the NSSL/SPC building to honor the federal workers killed in the Murrah Building bombing in Oklahoma City. NSEA also recycles various paper and metal products produced as waste from our lab, and uses the money to plant trees around the building (NSSL, SPC, and CIMMS moved with several other meteorological organizations to the National Weather Center on the campus of the University of Oklahoma in September 2006).

See also

• National Weather Service Employees Organization (NWSEO)

External links

• NSEA photography/clothing concession stands