Created for the 200th anniversary of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, the original heritage agency of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Explains NOAA's origins, mission, and services and identifies NOAA's history-making employees and activities.

Created for the 200th anniversary of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, the original heritage agency of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Explains NOAA's origins, mission, and services and identifies NOAA's history-making employees and activities.

Created for the 200th anniversary of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, the original heritage agency of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Explains NOAA's origins, mission, and services and identifies NOAA's history-making employees and activities.

This publication is a preliminary report for 2006 on commercial and a final report for recreational fisheries of the United States with landings from the U.S. territorial seas, the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), and on the high seas. This annual report provides timely answers to frequently asked questions.

In an era filled with mistrust for big government and big business, Charles Goodsell goes against this grain to draw attention to public agencies admired for what they do and how well they do it. In his groundbreaking new book, Goodsell places renewed focus on organizational mission and its potential to be a strong energizing force in government—one that animates a workforce internally and attracts admiration and talent externally. He offers a normative template for the mystique that underlies this phenomenon and highlights—in six rich case studies—a driving sense of purpose, a cultural and motivational richness, and a capacity for tolerating dissent while still innovating and learning. Analyzing what works best (and what doesn’t), Goodsell provides a metric through which agency mystique can be evaluated and modeled. Goodsell’s fresh take on public agencies not only defines good public administration in terms of ethical conduct, constitutional accountability, and performance effectiveness, but argues that the field must add the crucial standard of institutional vitality.