Though there are many at SIO that are deserving of consideration, Penny Dockry clearly stands out. She is a tremendous source of stability and knowledge in what has been an otherwise chaotic system. She has been able to patiently and consistently navigate around the many overlapping layers of heirarchy within the IGERT program, CMBC center, Marine Biology curricular group, Biology Division, Scripps Institution Department, and UCSD administration. She has been the only source of continuity in the well-healed-but-often-leaderless IGERT program which initially attracted many ecologists and conservationists to Scripps. Her extreme competence in managing the program behind the scenes has kept both IGERT and CMBC afloat. Her encyclopedic familiarity with regulation and policy has helped many a student towards graduation. Her facility in managing many things at once has coallated all the little things that could have become major problems wih less vigilence. She is clearly deserving of an award for her outstanding support of so many Graduate Students at SIO.