- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
Dustin Blakey and Dani Lee showed off their photography skills by winning the ANR photo contest.
Photos were solicited for five categories based on UC ANR's Strategic Initiatives:
- Endemic and invasive pests and diseases (EIPD)
- Healthy families and communities (HFC)
- Sustainable food systems (SFS)
- Sustainable natural ecosystems (SNE)
- Water quality, quantity and security (WATER)
Blakey, UCCE director and farm advisor in Inyo and Mono counties, won in the EIPD, HFD and WATER categories. Lee, Nutrition Policy Institute policy analyst, won in the SFS and SNE categories. See the winning photos below.
All photos submitted to the contest will be stored on UC ANR's WebDam at https://ucop.webdamdb.com and made available for UC ANR presentations, websites, social media, etc., with credit to the photographers.
- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
In 1959, Ernest Lowe joined the staff of Pacifica radio station KPFA and almost immediately began documenting the lives of migrant farmworkers. Last year, UC Merced hosted an exhibition of some of those photographs, and now has acquired the complete collection - which the university has made available for free to the public online at https://calisphere.org/collections/27647. Nearly 3,000 photos are in the collection.
Mario Sifuentez, director of the UC Merced's Center for the Humanities and associate professor of history, as well as Emily Lin, head of digital curation and scholarship, were interviewed by KVPR about the photographs. Listen at https://www.kvpr.org/post/uc-merced-acquires-photo-collection-documenting-farmworkers-1960s#stream/0
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Providing a new opportunity to engage with colleagues, UC ANR is launching a photography contest and calling all staff and academics to submit their best shots.
“We have so many talented people in ANR, we want to highlight their skills and abilities,” said Mark Bell, vice provost of Strategic Initiatives and Statewide Programs. “These days, people aren't getting around to see California. The contest will give us all a chance to see scenes from different parts of our beautiful state.”
Photos may be submitted in five categories based on UC ANR's Strategic Initiatives:
- Endemic and invasive pests and diseases
- Healthy families and communities
- Sustainable food systems
- Sustainable natural ecosystems
- Water quality, quantity and security
A $50 gift card will be awarded to the first place winner and all staff and academics who submit photos will be eligible for a $25 gift card drawing. In addition, the winning photos will be featured at a UC ANR Town Hall.
All photos submitted to the contest will be stored on UC ANR's WebDam and made available for UC ANR presentations, websites, social media, etc., with credit to the photographers.
Click this link to begin submitting your photo(s). If there are recognizable people in the photo, please ask them to sign a release agreement and upload in the submission survey. The submission deadline for the 2020 photo contest is Nov. 30.
- Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey
The two-day fair, downsized from years past, is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, June 30 and Sunday, July 1. Admission is free; parking is $5 per vehicle. (See schedule.)
At McCormack Hall, youth and adult exhibitors are displaying such projects as an insect-themed afghan, photographs of insects; a photograph of a "spider girl"; and a wall hanging of a dragonfly crafted from fan blades and furniture legs.
McCormack Hall superintendent Gloria Gonzalez, a community leader of the Sherwood Forest 4-H Club, Vallejo, marveled at a bumble bee and other patterns on a Minnesota sampler crocheted afghan, the work of Debra Holter of San Pablo.
The wall hanging of the dragonfly, the work of Tina Saravia of Suisun City, is also drawing interest. Using her imagination and recyclables, Saravia crafted it primarily with fan blades and furniture legs. It's entered in the adult recycling class,
Gary Cullen of Vallejo entered a photo that he titled "Spider Girl," of a smiling girl with a spiderish facial costume.
Ryan Anenson of the Tremont 4-H Club, Dixon, who is enrolled in a beekeeping project, submitted a close-up image of a honey bee. Maya Prunty of Sacramento 4-H submitted an image of a moth.
Those are just a few of the arthropod-related exhibits at the fair. Some of the items are available for purchase in the fair's Competitive Exhibits Program. The highest bidder in the silent auction takes home the exhibit.
That will include the honey bee image by teenage beekeeper Ryan Anenson.
- Author: Ben Faber
I recently came across a library of all kinds of images of pests, diseases and crops. It has lots of entries, such as “Bees of the United States”:
https://www.ipmimages.org/browse/projectsubject.cfm?proj=1154
Alkali bee
And images of citrus pests and diseases and even different cultivars of citrus, under “Citrus ID”:
https://www.ipmimages.org/browse/projectsubject.cfm?proj=108
'Xie Shan" citrus cultivar
And even a few avocado images:
https://www.ipmimages.org/browse/Areathumb.cfm?area=277
But there's a heck of a lot more.
Clicking on the different links and their volumes of images will take some time because of the shear number. The images have been collected as a public data base for not only academics, but also for the general public. At present, it's not too easy to search, but it's worth a look.
Here's a list of the different categories that can be perused:
Commodity Groups
Grain Sorghum and Small Grains
Grain Sorghum and Small Grains
Plant Pathogen and Microbe Culture Images
Forestry, Wildlife and Natural Resources
Taxonomy
Biological Controls
Damage Types
Insects
Bark Beetles and Phloem Feeders
Seed, Cone, Flower, Bud and Fruit Damaging Insects
Diseases
Parasitic and Epiphytic Plants
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