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Water Strategic Initiative Conference to be held March 14-17 in Ontario

Mark your calendars for the ANR Water Strategic Initiative Conference, which will be held in collaboration with the Sustainable Food Systems (SFS) Strategic Initiative, on March 14-17 in Ontario at the DoubleTree by Hilton Ontario Airport.

The conference will provide an opportunity for colleagues to learn about the projects, programs and research efforts related to water that are happening throughout the Division. Presentations and discussions will include:

• Climate Change
• Salinity: What are Remediation Steps?
• Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA)
• SGMA Town Hall Discussion: The State of Your Water Resources
• Water Conservation Goals Across the State

Time is reserved for workgroups and program teams to meet on the afternoon and evening of Thursday, March 16, and Friday, March 17. To schedule a meeting, the program team leader or workgroup chair should complete the brief form and the Program Support Unit will respond to you as soon as possible.

Registration and travel fund requests will be available in early-mid January. For conference updates, check http://ucanr.edu/sites/SIconferences/2017_Water_Strategic_Initiative_Conference_.

ANR-affiliated academics including UC Cooperative Extension advisors, UC Cooperative Extension specialists, Agricultural Experiment Station faculty, program directors, academic coordinators and programmatic staff are invited to attend. Programmatic staff should obtain approval from their supervisor and statewide program director. 

Contacts for more information: 

Program: Doug Parker, Water Strategic Initiative Leader, or David Doll, Sustainable Food Systems Strategic Initiative Leader.

Logistics: ANR Program Support Unit, Lauren McNees, (530) 750-1257, or Danielle Palermini, (530) 750-1328.

Register for Nov. 16 SNE and EIPD Joint SI Conference

Register for Nov. 16 SNE and EIPD Joint SI Conference

Registration is now open for the Joint Strategic Initiatives Conference for Sustainable and Natural Resources (SNE) and Endemic & Invasive Pests & Diseases (EIPD) on Nov. 16 at UC Davis Conference Center.

The conference will provide an opportunity for colleagues to learn about the projects, programs, and research efforts happening throughout the Division that are at the intersection of pest management and natural resources. Proposed presentations and discussions will include:

• Wildlife management
• Invasive plants in rangelands and forests
• Impacts of pests on fire vulnerability
• Livestock health

To register or to see the agenda, visit the program website at http://ucanr.edu/sites/SIconferences/SNE_and_EIPD_Joint_SI_Conference.

In conjunction with the conference, several workgroups are meeting and trainings are being offered:

Ecological Restoration Workgroup

November 14, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Sacramento Valley Room
UC ANR
2801 Second Street, Davis

Entomology Workgroup

November 15, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
San Joaquin Valley Room
UC ANR
2801 Second Street, Davis

2016 UC ANR Do No Harm Workshop (ANR In-Service Training): Considerations for the use of non-local species in ecological restoration

November 15, 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
UC Davis Conference Center
Separate registration is required. To register, visit http://ucanr.edu/survey/survey.cfm?surveynumber=17908

Spray Technology Workgroup and Spray Calibration In-Service Training

November 15, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Pomology Field Headquarters
Hopkins Rd. UC Davis

Wildlife Workgroup

November 17
8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
San Joaquin Valley Room
UC ANR
2801 Second Street, Davis

California Naturalists Workgroup

November 17
8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Sacramento Valley Room
UC ANR
2801 Second Street, Davis

For more information about the Joint Strategic Initiatives Conference program, contact Cheryl Wilen, EIPD strategic initiative leader, at cawilen@ucanr.edu, or John Harper, SNE strategic initiative leader, at jmharper@ucanr.edu. For more information about logistics, contact ANR Program Support Unit or Sherry Cooper at (530) 750-1256.

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Dates set for 6 program teams to meet

Six program teams are scheduled to meet in 2015. You can register and request travel funds at http://ucanr.edu/sites/programteams for the following meetings:

• February 12-13, Water Resources PT, Davis
• April 8-10, Joint Environmental Horticulture PT and Pest Management PT, Davis

DATES TO SAVE! More information will be made available in early to mid-January for the following meetings:

• March 17-19, Joint Agronomic Crops PT and Dairy Production and Food Safety PT, Davis
• February 10-11, Agriculture Production Systems PT, Davis. A Small Farm Workgroup meeting is planned for Feb. 10, from noon to 5 p.m.

Planning is currently underway for a joint UC ANR Strategic Initiative Conference, tentatively scheduled for early October 2015 in Sacramento. All five Strategic Initiatives will participate in this joint conference. Program teams, workgroups and others will have opportunities to meet during this conference. Details will be sent out when they become available.

Are you interested in holding a program team meeting? The 2015 schedule is filling up fast, so program team leaders who are interested in scheduling a meeting should submit a brief online form or contact Sherry Cooper at slcooper@ucanr.edu or (530) 756-1256 to discuss.

Workgroup chairs who would like to hold meetings should contact their program team leaders to coordinate dates with other workgroups in their program team.

Please allow for time for planning by submitting a meeting request at least 8 weeks prior to the desired meeting date.

A directory listing all of the program teams and workgroups and the leaders and chairs is at http://ucanr.edu/sites/programteams.

 

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Wilen named new EIPD Strategic Initiative leader

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce Cheryl Wilen has agreed to lead the Endemic and Invasive Pests and Diseases (EIPD) Strategic Initiative, effective today (July 1). In this role, Cheryl will provide direction for the initiative, including shepherding the ANR Competitive Grants process, planning and conducting strategic initiative conferences, and identifying and initiating EIPD efforts such as development of policy briefs and other special projects. As the EIPD initiative leader, Cheryl will also serve on the ANR Program Council.

As she has since 1995, Cheryl will continue as the area integrated pest management advisor for Orange, Los Angeles and San Diego counties. She conducts applied research and extends information working with growers and pest control advisors in the turf, ornamental, and nursery industries, and serves as the IPM advisor coordinator to help develop successful IPM programs. In addition, until mid-September, she is serving as acting director for the UC Statewide IPM Program while Director Kassim Al-Khatib is on sabbatical leave. Her educational background includes a Ph.D. in botany from UC Riverside and M.S. and B.S. in horticulture, from the University of Arizona and University of Maryland, respectively.

She succeeds Beth Grafton-Cardwell, who we thank for three years of steadfast leadership. As chair of the EIPD panel of experts, Beth worked to develop the EIPD strategic plan that focuses cutting-edge research and extension in three priority issue areas: exclusion of pests and pathogens, emerging problems with pests and diseases and integrated management.

For more information about the EIPD strategic initiative, visit http://ucanr.edu/sites/StrategicInitiatives/Endemic_and_Invasive_Pests_-_Diseases.

Barbara Allen-Diaz
Vice President

Bill Frost
Associate Vice President

 

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Harper to lead Sustainable Natural Ecosystems Strategic Initiative

I am pleased to announce that John Harper has agreed to lead the Sustainable Natural Ecosystems Strategic Initiative for a two–year appointment. As the SNE initiative leader, John will serve on Program Council.

John has been a UC Cooperative Extension advisor specializing in livestock and natural resources for 23 years in Mendocino and Lake counties. His research covers sheep and goat production, range cattle production, rangeland, watershed, water quality and computer applications. As an advisor, he has worked with fellow UCCE advisors, specialists and Agricultural Experiment Station scientists on several research and education projects. He served as UCCE director for Mendocino County for 13 years, and also oversaw UCCE in Lake County for four of those years.

John has been an integral part of local, statewide and regional projects addressing critical natural resources issues. These efforts have provided him with a good understanding of the breadth of ANR. He has demonstrated a good vision for expanding involvement in the initiative as well as revisiting the initiative's strategic plan.

He succeeds James Bartolome, professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley, who retired.

For more information about the SNE strategic initiative, visit http://ucanr.edu/sites/StrategicInitiatives/Sustainable_Natural_Ecosystems.

Bill Frost
Associate Vice President

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