Congratulations to all the award winners at the CALS 2002 Faculty
Conference. The Extension Faculty of the Year Award -Timothy Dennehy.
Epsilon Sigma Phi awards: Early Career Achievement - Lucy Bradley;
Mid-Career Achievement - Janice Shelton; Distinguished Service Award -
Shirley O'Brien. AAEA: Distinguished Service Award Winners: 2001 - Tom
DeGomez, 2002 - Mary Olsen; Achievement Award Winners: 2001 - Kai Umeda,
2002 - Jim Sprinkle. More awards were presented and we will print their
names as we receive them.
CALL FOR PAPERS A consortium of federal agencies and national groups (ARS,
USGS, USFS, BLM, NSF, EPA and CUAHSI) is sponsoring the First Interagency
Conference on Research in the Watersheds. The conference will emphasize
research in instrumented, experimental watersheds and a primary conference
focus is to engage stakeholders. Abstracts are due by 1 December 2002 and
can be submitted through the conference web site at
http://www.tucson.ars.ag.gov/unit/ICRW.htm.
Take some time to view the webcast presentations for Assistant/Associate
Area Agent, Natural Resources, Tucson (Pima County) this position will
have statewide responsibilities. Candidate Alix Rogstad's webcast will be
Wednesday, September 25, 2002 from 2:15-3:00pm. and Mary Stuever's webcast
will be Friday, September 27, 2002 from 1:15-2:00pm. The title of the
webcast is "Using Educational Outreach to Address Wildfire Issues in
Arizona." To view their presentations, go to
http://cals.arizona.edu/extension/whatsnew/webcasts.html.
ECAT would like to hear your priorities on possible class topics and
methods of delivering these classes/demonstrations. Delivery methods are
sessions on campus, sessions given through a web conferencing system
(allowing you to stay in your office, but you would have to pay for your
connection cost), web-delivered classes, or materials on a CD. Comments to
this survey will be used to decide classes offered this fall and spring.
Any CALS employee, student, or volunteer may fill out the form at
http://cals.arizona.edu/ecat/classes/classpriorities.html. If you want to
provide input, please respond by September 18, 2002.
The Annual meeting of the Pecan Growers Association will meet Friday,
September 20, 2002, at the Palo Verde Holiday Inn. Registration begins at
8:00am and the program will start at 8:45. Cost for the meeting is $40.00
for members and $60.00 for non-members. For more information please
contact Professor Emeritus, Mike Kilby at mkilby@cals.arizona.edu.
Vegetable IPM Seminar, Tuesday, September 24, 2002 at 8:00am. 820 E.
Cottonwood Lane, Bldg. A, Casa Grande. Topics will include, "Review of
Vegetable Crop Herbicide Weed Control", "Impact of GMO's on Non-Target
Organisms," "Dealing with Africanized Honeybee Swarms and Hives in Farm
Equipment," "Citrus Pest Management Strategies," Review of Current and
Potential Management Tools for Powdery Mildew on Cole Crops," and "Ten
Years of Admire Use in the Desert."
Mark your calendar for Safford Field Day, October 3, 2002 more information
to come.
Arizona Cotton Field Day, Wednesday October 9, 2002. Maricopa Agricultural
Center. Registration begins at 8:00am. Contact Ed Martin at (520)
568-2273 or at edmartin@cals.arizona.edu.