I want to thank all the county faculty and staff for the informative and
enjoyable visits to each county over the past three months. We have good
people, good programs, and significant impact.
Thanks for the great job provided by our faculty and staff in putting on the
13th Annual Desert Horticulture Conference held last Friday.
The following Cooperative Extension faculty received funding from TRIF for
new projects in 2004-2005: Enhancing Water Supply Reliability through
Improved Predictive Capacity and Response - $73,750 (Kathy Jacobs, Dept. of
Soil, Water and Environmental Science; Dr. Bonnie Colby, Dept. of
Agricultural and Resource Economics; Dr. David Meko, Laboratory of Tree-Ring
Research; Dr. Bart Nijssen, Hydrology and Water Resources/Civil Engineering
and Engineering Mechanics; Effects of Water Quality on "Rapid Blight"
Disease of Turf grass - $43,065 (Dr. Mary Olsen, Dr. David Kopec, Dr.
Mohammad Pessarakli, Ms. Donna Bigelow, Mr. Jeffrey Gilbert, Dept. of Plant
Sciences; Spanish-Language Landscape Water Conservation Program for the
Green Industry - $8,777 (Vicki S. Richards, Pima County Cooperative
Extension/Low 4 Program. Early Irrigation Termination of Cotton as a Drought
Mitigation Strategy - $32,842 (Dr. Russell Tronstad, Dept. of Agricultural &
Resource Economics; Jeffrey C. Silvertooth, Dept. of Soil, Water and
Environmental Science).
The Karsten Field Day was held on May 12. 104 attended the seminars at the
CAC auditorium while 85 people toured the research plots at the Karsten
center and greenhouse. Many distinguished guests were in attendance. Paul
Brown, Jim Walworth, Mohammed Pessarakli, Donna Bigelow, and Dave Kopec gave
presentations.
CORRECTION: Congratulations should also be extended to Michele Lytle,
coordinator for Kinship Kare of Northern Arizona (KKONA), who received a
community action grant and support from Western Regional Development Center
to conduct a simulation workshop in December of 2005.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Aug.31 - Sept. 2 - Annual Conference will be held at Loews Ventana Canyon
Resort in Tucson. Registrations and request for presentations and poster
sessions will be available within the next few weeks.