Interior Department honors SLA member.

SLA member Bonnie Carroll, president of Information International Associates, has won the Department of the Interior's Conservation Service Award for 2004.

At the awards ceremony in Washington, D.C., Interior Secretary Gale Norton recognized Carroll for "outstanding contributions" to developing the national biological information infrastructure (NBII) and other biological informatics efforts.

Norton cited Carroll's "strategic vision" both with NBII and with the Office of Science and Technology Policy's Biodiversity Informatics Working Group. She also commended Carroll's "tireless efforts" as co-chair of the NBII Coalition to raise NBII visibility to trade and professional associations, NGOs, and others.

The award underscores Carroll's "innovative leadership." Norton pointed specifically to Carroll's success as both the executive director of CENDI, the Federal STI Managers Group, and with NBII.

Carroll is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She represents the National Academies as the U.S. National Delegate to CODATA, a committee of the International Council for Science that serves 22 nations. She has consulted for such organizations as the International Atomic Energy Agency; the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization; and the International Council for Scientific Information.

Carroll, of Oak Ridge, Tenn., has been a member of SLA since 1992. She is a member of the Southern Appalachian Chapter and the Science and Technology Division.