NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Friday, March 20, 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):

Office of Communications - The Service's web team is striving to make NPS.gov mobile-friendly by ensuring it functions well on the wide variety of devices, browsers, and network speeds that are used by visitors to access NPS web content.

Office of Communications - Director Jarvis will hold his next webchat on Tuesday, March 24th, from 2 to 2:30 p.m. NPS Centennial Coordinator Alexa Viets will join in to talk about National Park Week and the launch of 'Find Your Park.'

Operational Leadership - Five years ago, Learning & Development managers began a partnership to assist the fledgling Operational Leadership program. It has been a great success.

Cultural Resources Directorate - Technical Preservation Services has released the Fiscal Year 2014 annual and statistical reports on the Historic Preservation Tax Incentives Program.

Pacific West Region - Christine Lehnertz, currently regional director for Pacific West Region, has been named the new superintendent of Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

Submerged Resources Center - Michael “Pike” Spector, a graduate in marine biology from the University of California at Santa Cruz, has been selected as this year's National Park Service diving intern.

Cape Lookout NS - Bryant “BG” Horvat has been selected as the new chief of interpretation and education for Cape Lookout National Seashore. he is currently a ranger at Carlsbad Caverns National Park.

Upcoming Training Calendar - The following have been added to this week's calendar - a course on facilitation skills for trainers, a new online orientation to integrated pest management, and an opportunity for parks to host international delegates to the upcoming World Ranger Congress for training or shadowing assignments.

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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