Compass Wins Technical Communications Awards
Asheville, NC
-- The Carolina chapter of the Society for Technical Communication, an international organization dedicated to advancing the arts and sciences of technical communication, recently awarded the Southern Research Station magazine Compass two Awards of Excellence and an Award of Merit. The magazine and the cover of Issue 8 designed by Rodney Kindlund, art director for the SRS Science Delivery Group, received Awards of Excellence. Kindlund's design for the packaging for the Oakus mini-CD included in Issue 9 received an Award of Merit.
Compass, published quarterly by the SRS Science Delivery Group is designed to inform a wide range of audiences about SRS research on focused topics. Now in its third year, the magazine has covered subjects ranging from the possibilities and challenges of biomass-based energy to the interaction of forests with global climate change. Current and past issues can be accessed online at
www.srs.fs.usda.gov/compass/ or ordered as hard copies through
pubrequest@fs.fed.us.
