I would like to thank all the faculty who made the Pecan Growers meeting a
success (Bill McCloskey, Paul Brown, Barron Orr and Colin Kaltenbach). I
would specifically like to praise and thank Rick Gibson, Jim Walworth, and
Rob Call for picking up the slack in the vacant fruit and nuts position in
Plant Sciences. Mike Kilby is still playing a major role in supporting and
leading ongoing activities from his emeritus faculty position. With the 3
million dollars in state funds pulled out of the CALS budget (that's equal
to 30+ faculty positions) for the 2002-2003 budget year and with the
inability to hire this year, we appreciate the faculty stepping up to meet
our commitment to agriculture.
Congratulations to Sheila Merrigan for the recent publication of the
chapter "Grey Literature and Extension Resources" in the book "Using the
Agricultural, Environmental, and Food Literature," (Barbara S. Hutchinson
and Antoinette Paris Greider, eds.), Marcel Dekker, Inc. The chapter was
co-authored by Tim McKimmie of NMSU.
Over 40 people from Maricopa, Pinal and Gila counties joined together to experience
training on affirmative action and penalty mail in the Maricopa County office,
Friday, September 20. Affirmative action presenters were Shirley O'Brien and
Lisa Elliott (from Pinal County) and Steven Crofts presented the rules and regulations
of penalty mail usage. If you would like to see the PowerPoint presentations
used, you can view them at http://cals.arizona.edu/extension/employee/civilrights_files/v3_document.html
(for the affirmative action overview) and http://cals.arizona.edu/extension/employee/penaltymail_files/v3_document.html
(for the penalty mail overview).
On behalf of the 2002 CALS Faculty Conference Chairs, we would appreciate if
ALL faculty would complete the survey on the website: http://cals.arizona.edu/employees/evaluation.html.
We invite those who didn't attend the conference to fill out the questionnaire
as the survey would like to use this data for future assessment on the faculty
conference. Thank you for your assistance.
2002 Safford Agricultural Center, Cotton Field Day, October 3, 2002.
Registration begins at 9:00 am, Experiment Station Tour begins at 9:30, and
tour information will be presented by: Randall Norton, Lee Clark, Bill
McCloskey and Richard Percy. Update on Farm Bill information will begin at
10:30 am, Ruth Veit - Graham County FSA Office Director, Russ Tronstad - UA
Extension Agricultural Economist. Lunch will be provided at 12:00 noon and
is sponsored by Bank One. For more information, please call (928) 428-2611.
The University of Arizona Cooperative Extension is now a member of EDEN. The
Extension Disaster Education Network (EDEN) links Extension educators from across
the U.S. and various disciplines so they can use and share resources to reduce
the impact of disasters. From food safety to field safety, from the physical
to the psychological, and from governmental process to community development,
EDEN has resources you can use. See http://www.agctr.lsu.edu/eden/.
All CALS employees, as well as University neighbors, students and the
general public, are cordially invited to attend the Celebration of the UA
CAMPUS ARBORETUM on September 28, 2002. The festivities begin at 9:00 am on
the west side of Old Main. We will honor past botanists and those who've
made the UA campus what it is today. We'll have refreshments, awards,
dedications, tours, and plants for sale. We'll plant a tree or two, and
we'll give everyone an opportunity to share in future stewardship of the
University of Arizona campus! Please join us as we celebrate the oldest
continually-maintained green space in the State of Arizona.
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 to be held in Benson, AZ, October 28-30, 2003.
The purpose of this conference is to highlight current research which is relevant
and applicable to the watershed scale. The conference will emphasize research
in instrumented, experimental watersheds and a primary conference focus is to
engage stakeholders. Abstracts are due by December 1, 2002 and can be submitted
through the conference web site at http://www.tucson.ars.ag.gov/unit/ICRW.htm.