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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