Sigmund R. Petersen
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Rear Admiral Sigmund Rorgard Petersen was a career officer who served in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps, its successor, the Environmental Science Services Administration Corps, and
Under Petersen's command, NOAAS Miller Freeman (R 223) approaches a disabled vessel in heavy seas in the Bering Sea.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps is one of eight federal uniformed services of the United States, and operates under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Sigmund R. Petersen
…and Geodetic Survey Corps, its successor, the Environmental Science Services Administration Corps (ESSA Corps), and the ESSA Corps's successor, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps (NOAA Corps). He served as the fourth Director of the NOAA Corps. Petersen was born in Haugesund, Norway, on 22 November 1936. He and his family lived…
The seal of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, in which the NOAA Corps originated as the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps in 1917
The seal of the ESSA Corps, a predecessor of the NOAA Corps that existed from 1965 to 1970
An ODU uniform ball cap, with lieutenant commander rank insignia
NOAA Corps officers wearing service dress blues