I want to thank each of you for the opportunity to meet with you as I
conducted all my County and campus reviews. Such reviews provide the
impetus to read all the APR's submitted through our APROL. I am impressed
with the quality, breadth, collaboration, and the impact of your programs,
and how they touch the lives of many citizens in Arizona.
Congratulations to the following recipients of this year's Enhancement
Awards: Agriculture and Environmental Education Program Assessment, Monica
Pastor; Arizona 4-H Road Trip, Bryan Chadd & Jerry Olson; Arizona Community
Training - Grassroots Leadership Development, Juanita O'Campo Waits;
Arizona Farm Safety Day 2003, Steve Poe; Development of Educational
Displays to Address the Proper Pruning Initiative, Barry Bequette & Rob
Grumbles; Early Brain Development Outreach Education Project, Darcy Dixon;
Evaluation of Alternative Crops for Biomass Energy Production, Randy Norton
& Lee Clark; Junior Master Gardener Statewide Training for Cooperative
Extension Volunteer and Paid Staff, Lucy Bradley; On-Site Compost and
Maturity Testing, Mohammed Zerkoune, Barry Bequette, & Rick Gibson; Risk
Management Education for Crop and Livestock Producers, Dan Osgood; San
Carlos Apache Natural Resource Career Camp, Victoria Wesley.
* Deadline to turn in the Climate study is May 17, 2002. The CALS Climate
Survey has been sent out to all CALS employees with a .50 FTE or more. We
are hoping for 100% compliance. We value you and your opinion is
important-so important that the first three budgeted units that can verify
100% participation will receive $1,000 in discretionary funds. To verify
full unit completion, show your completed survey to your unit head's
assistant who will maintain and complete the verification list for your
unit, then mail your survey in the envelope provided.
* A $70,222.00 grant was awarded to Kitt Farrell-Poe to develop, organize,
and conduct a student design competition for decentralized wastewater
treatment for two consecutive years. The overall objective of the project
is to provide a forum for bringing young professionals into the field of
decentralized wastewater treatment in an effort to overcome the "Lack of
Knowledge and Public Misperception" barrier noted in the U.S. EPA Response
to Congress on Use of Decentralized Wastewater Treatment Systems. The
competition is being designed to promote multi-disciplinary teamwork,
enhance student's awareness of aspects of community and small-scale
wastewater treatment in a watershed context, and embrace engineering, soil
science, hydrology, watershed science, communications, and public policy
issues. The University of Arizona is the lead university of this project
under the Consortium of Institutes for Decentralized Wastewater.
University of Arkansas and Michigan State University are also the project
team.