Selection of Program Officer, Southeastern Region

To: "E  - All WRD Employees"<distribution@usgs.gov>
cc: "Connie L Smith, Human Resources Spec, Norcross, GA" <clsmith>
Subject: Selection of Program Officer, Southeastern Region
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 1997 14:50:41 -0500
From: "Connie L Smith, Human Resources Spec, Norcross, GA" <clsmith>


We are pleased to announce that Timothy W. Hale, currently the District
Chief in Georgia, will be reassigned as the Southeastern Region's Program
Officer effective November 17.

Tim began his career with the U.S. Geological Survey in the Georgia
District as a Student Trainee in 1966 while completing his Bachelors 
Degree in Civil Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. After
graduating, he worked in the Georgia District, specializing in the area
of surface water.  From 1976 to 1979, Tim served in the Kentucky District 
as a project chief and then as the Chief of the Louisville Subdistrict.  
In 1979 he returned to Georgia and was assigned as the Chief of the 
Hydrologic Data Unit; then as Assistant District Chief, Hydrologic 
Analysis and Computer Applications Section; and finally as District 
Chief in 1991. Tim has made substantial contributions to the Division 
in many areas through a host of team and committee assignments including 
the Bureau's Strategic Planning Benchmark Team and the WRD's Strategic 
Planning effort.  

Tim brings to the Program Officer position successful experience in 
program planning and development in a large, complex district and 
years of experience in the Division's hydrologic data program.

Please join us in welcoming Tim to his new position.