DAYTONA BEACH, Florida, Aug. 13 -- The Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials International issued the following news: The next second vice president of APCO International is Jason E. Kern, CPE, RPL of Illinois. Kern won a contested election against Kimberly Burdick, RPL, CPE, of Montana. The vote was 644 to 505. APCO President Holly E. Wayt announced the result during the second general business session of APCO 2019. During the same meeting the rest of APCO's executive committe  more

BELLINGHAM, Washington, Aug. 15 -- The Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers issued the following news release: BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA and CARDIFF, UK - Yesterday evening, at the Awards Banquet at SPIE Optics + Photonics in San Diego, SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, honored Joseph Shaw with its G.G. Stokes Award in Optical Polarization. Shaw was recognized for contributions made to the understanding of the distribution of optical polarization in the n  more

MISSOULA, Montana, Aug. 16 -- The National Forest Foundation issued the following news: The National Forest Foundation (NFF) is pleased to announce recent growth of the Gunnison County Stewardship Fund. Gunnison Energy has joined a number of local businesses in contributing to the Fund to support healthy public lands in Gunnison County, as well as local nonprofits who contribute meaningful capacity to implement recreation and ecological health-focused projects. For Gunnison Energy, the Fund rep  more