NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
MORNING REPORT
Friday, March 22, 2013
INCIDENTS
No incident reports received.
OTHER NEWS
The following stories are among those in today's edition of InsideNPS. To see the full text, including images, NPS employees should go to the InsideNPS home page ( HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index" http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index). Non-NPS employees can see most of them on the NPS Digest page ( HYPERLINK "http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/" http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/):
Water Resources Division - The National Park Service today joins organizations around the Earth in celebrating World Water Day, an international initiative of the United Nations created to focus attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources.
Biscayne NP - On February 27th and 28th, Biscayne National Park's Division of Resource Management and the South Florida and Caribbean Inventory and Monitoring Network hosted a free two-day science symposium, the first ever of its kind.
Dinosaur NM - Staff at Dinosaur recently hosted a river science symposium to bring researchers together to share information. The deep river canyons of the Green and Yampa present a perfect laboratory to examine how dams and other elements affect rivers.
Office of Communications - Ranger Shelton Johnson received the Stewart L. Udall Award at the Western National Parks Association's 75th anniversary celebration in Tucson, Arizona, on March 9th.
Training Calendar - A compilation of online training courses and webinars available to National Park Service employees. Listings of courses requiring travel have been temporarily suspended due to current travel restrictions.
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The Morning Report is a publication of the Division of Law Enforcement, Security and Emergency Services, Washington Office, produced by the Office of Communications with the support of the Office of the Associate Director for Information Resources. Edited by Bill Halainen ( HYPERLINK "mailto:Bill_Halainen@contractor.nps.gov" Bill_Halainen@contractor.nps.gov).
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