Join me in welcoming Jonathan Long, the new Assistant Agent in Agriculture & Natural Resources & 4-H
Youth Development for the Hualapai Nation/Havasupai Tribe, Mohave County. His appointment is effective May 15.
Congratulations to Jing Jian Xiao (Norton School of Family & Consumer Resources) and her co-author Barbara O’Neill
(Rutgers Cooperative Extension) for their recent article Financial Fitness Quiz Findings: Strengths, Weaknesses,
and Disconnects published in the February 2006 issue of the Journal of Extension. The article reports findings
from an online financial self-assessment tool, the Financial Fitness Quiz, and covered practices in financial management,
saving and investing, insurance and estate planning, credit, and shopping.
More than 80 climatologists from around the world attended the 2006 NOAA Climate Prediction Applications Science
Workshop: Research and Applications on Use and Impacts last week in Tucson. University of Arizona Cooperative
Extension took a lead role in organizing the annual workshop held in Tucson for the first time. The workshop
brought together a diverse group of scientists from climate modelers to anthropologists to share and discuss
developments in research and applications related to the use and impacts of climate predictions on societal
decision-making and resource management. Contact Mike Crimmins if you have any questions
on materials shared at the workshop or check the workshop website: http://cals.arizona.edu/climate/CPASW2006/.
Presentations will be posted on this site in the upcoming month.
The main college homepage has a link to a listing of websites reflecting programs, departments, units, etc. in
the college. However, this listing is getting too cumbersome because of its length for site visitors to quickly
find a particular site. Therefore, ECAT is developing a database so that site visitors can search by words in
the site name or a keyword to find particular sites as well as finding a list of sites in a category, like
water or gardening. They are asking each website contact person to take a few minutes to complete the form
at http://cals.arizona.edu/ecat/web/announce-site.html about their site. The description should further
explain the site's purpose or content, since it will appear in the search results after the site name.
The keywords section is the main item that will be used for searches when site visitors are looking for content
or a particular site. Sites will not be included in this database unless the site owner or a unit contact person
enters information about the site. The link for "Listing of sites" on the CALS homepage should be replaced by
this database within the next few weeks. For more information, contact Linda Ffolliott .
The State Office and CALS Administrative Services would like to remind you again that although the upcoming pay
increase will be reflected in this Friday’s paycheck, you need to remember that it is the third paycheck in March
and will be higher than normal due to some deductions that are not taken out. Your next paycheck (on April 14)
will be the one that will properly reflect the pay increase.
Upcoming Events & Reminders:
Arizona Project WET has several workshops scheduled for the spring and summer months. Two of the first are
scheduled for Wednesday, April 19 (Non-Formal Educators Workshop) in Phoenix and Saturday, April 22 (Arizona
Project WET Workshop) in Tucson at Tucson Water. Check their website for other workshops scheduled around
the state (http://www.ag.arizona.edu/azwater/workshops.html).
We have requested that each Extension agent send the Arizona Cooperative Extension Program Priorities questionnaire
to a minimum of 10 clients or stakeholders. You are responsible for entering the completed questionnaires into the
database. . The URL is: http://cals-cf.calsnet.arizona.edu/exact/stakeholder/. Use cals for username and ua for
password. Contact your county director if you have any questions about the questionnaire or need another copy.
Contact Robert Armstrong if you have questions about the database. The deadline for entering information is April 28, 2006.
Mark your calendars for the 2006 Arizona Pest Management Summit to be held at the Maricopa Agricultural Center on
June 6. The one-day workshop will assemble CALS faculty members involved in pest management related research and
outreach, along with key stakeholders from urban, agricultural and natural resource sectors, in a forum to identify
program needs and priorities and to discuss the role of the Arizona Pest Management Center (APMC) and Extension in
helping to address these challenges. The meeting will include breakout sessions, an opportunity for working groups
to meet, along with clientele representatives, to discuss priority issues in their respective areas. Plenary topics
will include sessions on documenting stakeholder needs, identifying funding resources, and measuring program outcomes.
For more information, contact Al Fournier (520-381-2240 ).