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Michael Anderson to join ANR Program Council

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce Dr. Michael Anderson will be joining the ANR Program Council, beginning with the September meeting. Anderson is the Divisional Dean for Agriculture and Natural Resources in the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (CNAS) at UC Riverside. He is an Agricultural Experiment Station faculty member and Chair of the Department of Environmental Sciences. He represents CNAS on Program Council, filling the seat recently vacated by Jodie Holt who has retired. Anderson will bring the CNAS perspective and provide environmental chemistry expertise to the discussions. The ANR Program Council advises the Vice President on Division-wide planning and delivery of programs and develops recommendations for allocation of Division resources.

Anderson's research focuses on soil and water sciences.He specializes in applied limnology and lake/reservoir management, surface water quality and modeling, and the fate of contaminants in soils, sediments and waters. He holds a Ph.D. in environmental chemistry from Virginia Tech. He teaches the following courses: Water Resources, Surface Water Quality Modeling, Surface Chemistry of Soils and Limnology.

For more information about Michael Anderson, see http://envisci.ucr.edu/faculty/anderson.html. The Program Council roster is posted at http://ucanr.edu/sites/anrstaff/Divisionwide_Programs/Program_Council.

Bill Frost
Associate Vice President
Program Council Chair

 

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Carl Winter to join Program Council

We are pleased to announce Carl Winter will be joining ANR Program Council, beginning with the June meeting. Winter is a Cooperative Extension specialist located in the Department of Food Science and Technology at UC Davis. He is filling one of the two at-large seats, succeeding Steve Wright, CE advisor in Tulare and Kings County. Winter will bring a CE specialist perspective and provide food-safety expertise to the discussions. The ANR Program Council advises the Vice President on Divisionwide planning and delivery of programs and develops recommendations for allocation of Division resources.

Winter is a food toxicologist located at the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science on the UC Davis campus. He is the director of the FoodSafe Program and is a member of the Food Safety Workgroup. Prior to coming to UC Davis in 1991, he was a Cooperative Extension toxicologist at UC Riverside from 1987 to 1991 and science writer for the Richmond-Times Dispatch newspaper in 1985.  He holds a Ph.D. in agricultural and environmental chemistry and a B.S. in environmental toxicology, both from UC Davis.  His research and outreach work focus on pesticide residues and naturally occurring toxins in foods, food chemical and microbiological risk assessment, and food-safety education using music. We look forward to his many talents:  he is known as the “Elvis of E. coli” and the “Sinatra of Salmonella,” and has been providing entertaining, educational and humorous presentations for a wide variety of clients over the past two decades (http://foodsafe.ucdavis.edu).

For more information about Carl Winter, see http://carlwinter.com. To see the Program Council roster, visit http://ucanr.edu/sites/anrstaff/Divisionwide_Programs/Program_Council.

Bill Frost
Associate Vice President
Program Council Chair

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ANR seeks leader for Sustainable Natural Ecosystems Strategic Initiative

ANR is seeking a leader for the Sustainable Natural Ecosystems Strategic Initiative. In this role, the individual will provide leadership for the initiative including:

• working with the initiative panel members in revisiting and revising the Sustainable Natural Ecosystems (SNE) Initiative’s strategic plan
• shepherding the ANR Competitive Grants process
• planning and conducting Strategic Initiative Conferences
• identifying and initiating SNE projects such as development of policy briefs, special projects, etc.

All of these efforts are done in concert with the other strategic initiative leaders and with support from ANR units such as Program Planning and Evaluation and the Program Support Unit.

In addition to these efforts, the strategic initiative leader participates as a member of ANR’s Program Council. Program Council advises the ANR Vice President on Divisionwide planning and delivery of programs and develops recommendations for the allocation of Division resources. Program Council is also the forum for discussion and development of recommendations on a wide array of policy and procedures as requested by the Vice President. Important efforts in the coming year are completion of the ANR Competitive Grants review and the prioritization of new CE positions. In both processes, Program Council makes the final recommendations to the Vice President.

The initiative leader is provided a travel budget sufficient for the leader and the panel members and an administrative stipend. For more information about the SNE strategic initiative, visit http://ucanr.edu/sites/StrategicInitiatives/Sustainable_Natural_Ecosystems. If you are interested in providing leadership in this role, please send a short statement of your interest and qualifications to Joan Warren at jtwarren@ucanr.edu by Dec. 18.    

 

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ANR seeks county representative for Program Council

ANR is soliciting nominations for a member of the ANR Program Council who can provide the perspective of county-based Cooperative Extension to inform Program Council discussions and recommendations. 

The ANR Program Council advises the Vice President on Division-wide planning and delivery of programs and develops recommendations for allocation of ANR resources. The council is comprised of the Associate Director, Cooperative Extension & Agricultural Experiment Station; Executive Associate Deans from the colleges within ANR at UCD, UCB and UCR; ANR Strategic Initiative Leaders; and two representatives from county-based UC Cooperative Extension. The term for one county-based Cooperative Extension representative, Steve Orloff, will be expiring at the end of the year.

Candidates must have an understanding of multiple program areas, be able to view issues from a statewide perspective, and be open to new and innovative approaches. Scheduled meetings of Program Council have been set through May beginning the afternoon of the first Tuesday of the month, ending the afternoon of the next day.  

Self-nominations or nominations of colleagues should be sent to Bill Frost, associate director of CE & AES, at wefrost@ucanr.edu by Nov. 15. 

 

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County-based members appointed to Program Council

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce that we have appointed two new members to serve on Program Council: Rose Hayden-Smith and Steve Orloff.  The Program Council coordinates divisionwide planning and delivery of programs and provides recommendations for allocation of resources.  The new members will continue providing a county-based perspective to Program Council once the Regional Directors end their duties on June 30.  Orloff and Hayden-Smith will join Program Council in July 2010 on two- and three-year staggered terms respectively, to ensure continuity of county-based input.

Using an online survey tool, we solicited nominations of county-based Cooperative Extension academics from specialists and county-based personnel.  Program Council evaluated the nominations and made recommendations to the Executive Working Group.

Rose Hayden-Smith is Ventura County Director and a Kellogg Food and Society Policy Fellow. Hayden-Smith develops programs for youth and adult extenders in agricultural literacy, garden-based learning, and youth and community gardening.  Her national advocacy work focuses on encouraging national efforts to promote school, home and community efforts; and public policy related to food systems, gardening, education and urban agriculture.

Steve Orloff is Siskiyou County Director and a Farm Advisor.  Orloff conducts research and educational programs on alfalfa, small grains, irrigated pasture and non-crop weed control; with emphasis on variety adaptation, pest management, irrigation and general production practices.

I want to thank those of you who provided such thoughtful recommendations; your feedback is always an essential part of our Division's work.

Sincerely,

Daniel M. Dooley,
Vice President

 

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