NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
MORNING REPORT
Thursday, January 8, 2015
INCIDENTS
No reports received.
OTHER NEWS
The following stories are among those in today's webpage editions of InsideNPS (available to NPS employees only) and the Morning Report (available to all readers):
Centennial Office - The National Park Service is partnering with the National Endowment for the Arts on a new arts grant initiative that jointly celebrates the 50th anniversary of the NEA in 2015 and the centennial anniversary of the NPS in 2016.
Today's Almanac - Arctic air is settling southward from Canada into the central and eastern U.S. This will cause dangerously cold temperatures to be felt by a large portion of country for the next few days.
Salem Maritime NHS - Nine NPS staff, four teachers and six community partners involved in the Park for Every Classroom (PEC) program gathered at the park last month for a three-day workshop.
Natural Resource Stewardship and Science - A new issue of Park Science was recently published that examines the topic of biological diversity - discovery, science, and management.
Office of Communications - Roberta D'Amico has been selected to head the National Park Service's Office of Communications. She assumes her new duties on January 12th.
Southeast Region - Pedro Ramos, currently superintendent of Big Cypress National Preserve, has been selected as the superintendent of Everglades and Dry Tortugas National Parks in Florida.
Northeast Region - Dr. Ray Albright will begin serving as Northeast Region's acting natural resources chief on January 12th. He is currently a cooperative ecosystem studies unit senior scientist with the NPS.
Natural Resource Stewardship and Science - Lorin "Butch" Street, a management analyst with the NPS Social Science Program's Public Use Statistics Office, will retire on January 10th.
Kennesaw Mountain NBP - Harold Rogers, maintenance employee at Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, retired on January 2nd after 39 years with the National Park Service.
Denver Service Center - After 30 years of government service, Steve Paul will retire on January 31st. He is a branch chief in Denver Service Center's Contracting Services Division.
To see the full text of these stories, readers should go to one or the other of the following sites:
NPS employees - HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index" http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index
Non-NPS employees - HYPERLINK "http://www.nps.gov/morningreport/" http://www.nps.gov/morningreport/
The Morning Report is 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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