Travel funds still available for CE specialists to collaborate with CE advisors

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News for UC Agriculture & Natural Resources employees.

Author: Pamela Kan-Rice

Published on: February 28, 2014

In ANR leaders' discussions with Cooperative Extension specialists around the state, it became clear that there was a need for additional travel support to enable specialists to increase their collaborations with CE advisors. In response, ANR has created a pool of funds for CE specialists to apply for to support these collaborations. With the level of funds available, each specialist may apply for up to $2,000 for this fiscal year (funds must be expended by June 30, 2014). Completing a short online survey is the only step in accessing these funds.

To keep the process simple, a brief survey form will be accessible from your ANR Portal. The survey will ask

Name and title of specialist requesting support
Project/Program name
Brief project description (one paragraph)
Collaborating advisors

While there is no deadline for applications for these travel funds, they must be expended in the current fiscal year. We are pleased that we are able to take this step to assist in meeting an identified need.

Specialists may apply for funds directly at http://ucce.ucdavis.edu/survey/survey.cfm?surveynumber=11865.

Bill Frost
Associate vice president

Tags: advisors (2), Bill Frost (8), grants (21), specialists (3), travel expenses (9)

Comments: 1

Comments:

by Themis J. Michailides

on March 10, 2014 at 10:17 AM

Although I got a previous grant of $2,000, it did not go very far with all these extra talks that I had to present in January, February, and March 2014 at the various Walnut Days. I agreed and presented up to 10 different talks on the Botryosphaeria canker and blight of California walnuts to help the growers prepare and act appropriately for this invasive, new disease in 2014. Five of these talks were organized by farm advisors and the rest by PCAs who work with walnuts. There is one more talk for the Walnut Institute organized by Bill Coates on March 13, and 2 field days by Janine Hasey on April 2. Of course, there will be more talks this year as we see symptoms of the disease in the field and I am sure some farm advisors will ask me to participate in their field days to make sure that their growers become aware about this devastating and yield-reducing disease.
Therefore, I respectfully request an additional $2,000 to support all these extra activities that they were not budgeted in my proposal request to the Calif. walnut industry. I will appreciate this tremendously and it will help me a lot in my efforts to also help the farm advisors, PCAs and certainly the walnut growers in California. Thank you.

Respectfully,

Themis J. Michailides