August 6,
2004
Topics in Today’s Extension Update:
ADAMS AND BAUMGARTNER TO ASSUME PARTIAL DUTIES
IN ASSOCIATE DEAN’S
OFFICE
Effective September 1, 2004, Dr. Linda Kirk Fox will be the
Interim Dean and Director, Washington State University (WSU) Extension.
As
you may know, Dr. Michael J. Tate accepted the position of Interim
Vice President for Equity and Diversity, also effective September
1. Linda will be assisted in the administrative duties by two WSU
Extension faculty. Dr. Ed Adams will be the Interim Associate Dean
and Associate Director, and continue his role as Program Director,
Agriculture. He will continue to work from WSU Spokane. In a partial
administrative assignment, Dr. David Baumgartner will be the Interim
Program Director, Natural Resources. David is an Extension Forester
and Professor at WSU Pullman.
The updated organizational
chart for WSU Extension can be found
on the Web site.
At this time we would request you add to your email address book
the NEW email for the WSU Extension Dean and Director’s office:
extension@wsu.edu. I would remind you after September 1st the email
you send to mtate@wsu.edu will be going directly to Mike and Noele
Cooper in the office of Equity and Diversity. Extension email should
be sent to extension@wsu.edu, or if more appropriate
directly to
Linda, Ed,
or Dave.
Here is how we’ve initially divided the work of the Dean and
Director’s office over the next year:
Linda will continue to be the personnel appointing authority and
serve as affirmative action/personnel officer, and provide oversight
for state, federal, and county budget allocation and expenditures.
She will continue to produce the major communication pieces, the
Extension Update each Friday and the semi-annual Extension Focus,
assisted by Ed and Dave. As she had done in the past two years, she
will be attending the President’s Cabinet and Council of Deans
meetings and retreats and informing you of the business of the university.
The routine meetings and interactions with CAHNRS administration
will continue as usual. The telebridge conference calls the first
week of the month with county faculty will continue; occasionally
canceling if schedules conflict. District Directors appreciate your
agenda item submission. And, lastly, Ed, Dave, and Linda will meet
weekly via WECN as much as possible for well coordinated and communicated
program leadership.
Ed will assume the duties for the federal annual report of accomplishments,
the plan of work, the WSU strategic plan implementation and benchmarking
activities. Ed will be the main contact with the CAHNRS department
chairs, in cooperation with the other program directors. Ed will
establish agendas and keep the A-Team meetings on our regular schedule.
Ed’s role as program director for agriculture programs will
continue.
Dave will join the Extension A-Team and attend the meetings, providing
program leadership for natural resources including forestry, environmental,
water, wildlife, and natural resources volunteer programs including
Master Gardeners, Beach Watchers, Water Watchers, etc. Dave and Ed
will determine their preferred method of working with specialists
and departments in areas which overlap or require coordination. They
will be supported in their administrative assignments by the staff
in the Extension Dean and Director’s office.
STATEWIDE COUNTY DIRECTORS MEETING IN SPOKANE
All county directors
should be planning to attend the conference October 5-8, 2004, Spokane
Red Lion. This meeting is in conjunction
with the annual conference of Washington State Association of Counties
(WSAC)/Washington Association of County Officials (WACO).
Ray Faini, on behalf of the planning committee, Doug Stienbarger,
Katherine Baril, Margaret Viebrock, Wayne Madson and Kelsey Gray,
has emailed to all county directors a survey for input on topics
of importance for the Extension portion of the meeting. Be sure
to respond to Ray by August 10th. EMM+PS
CONFERENCES OF INTEREST
The Extension Meeting Management and Program
Support (EMM+PS) unit in
the Information Department is facilitating several conferences
which may be of interest to you. Mark on your calendar and go to
the Web sites for each to register.
Honoring the Heritage of the Plateau People: Past, Present, and
Future
Pullman, WA - September 29-30, 2004
International Conference on Pesticide Application for Drift Management
Waikoloa, Hawaii – September 27-29, 2004
Mixed Severity Fire Regimes: Ecology and Management
Spokane, WA – November 17-19, 2004
24th Annual NW Food Safety and Sanitation Workshop
Portland, Oregon – November 26-27, 2004
EXTENSION STAFF SUPPORT TRAINING (ESST)
FOR FALL
In spring 2004
we launched videostream support staff trainings. Dates are set for
four (4) more trainings this fall. Be sure to mark
your calendar, and share this information with your staff!
Thursday, September 30: 9 am to noon, “Service Center Training,” Brad
Bailey, Administrative Planning Specialist, Business Services/Controller
and Mary Hoffman, Assistant Director, Business and Finance Office
(BFO).
Thursday, October 28th: 9 am to noon, “Travel Training,” Patti
Collins, Fiscal Technician Supervisor, Business Services/Controller
and Michelle Ely, Fiscal Technician, BFO.
Tuesday, November 30: 9 am to noon, “Invoicing On- and Off-campus
Customers,” presenters to be announced.
Thursday, December 16: 9 am to noon, No topic yet.
View these
presentations via videostream.
Past presentations are archived at the same URL above:
May 19: “Workshop Accounts for Extension Educators - Fiscal
and Administrative Management”
June 9: “Extension Support Staff Training, Cash Handling and
IRI Processing”
MT VERNON R&E Unit NAME CHANGE
Provost Bates recently
approved the name change from Washington State University Mount Vernon
Research and Extension Unit to Washington
State University Mount Vernon Northwestern Washington Research and
Extension Center. Please update your address books accordingly.
FARM-BASED COOKING SCHOOL A TASTY WAY TO CONNECT FIELD - TABLE
Extension and other agricultural professionals are invited to apply
for free five-day retreat in Colville, WA. For three summers, the
Quillisascut Farm School of the Domestic Arts has been helping
chefs-in-training understand how food gets from the field to the
table. The culinary students pay $600 and travel 350 miles from
Seattle and Portland for a chance to harvest farm products and
prepare breads, pizzas, desserts, French-style cheese, salads and
hot dishes under the direction of farmer Lora Lea Misterly and
a professional chef.
This fall, Misterly is working with WSU Stevens County
Extension to offer a free cooking retreat for university extension
and other
agricultural professionals from Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana.
A dozen people will be chosen to spend five days at the farm, thanks
to a grant from the Western Region Sustainable Agriculture Research
and Education Program. The program will include presentations by
local farmers and ranchers, Extension faculty, farm direct marketers
and a nutrition educator. The retreat is set for October 11-15
and applications are due by August 15. More info is available through
the Web site of WSU's
Small Farms Team, a project co-sponsor.
Contact: Al Kowitz, Director, WSU Stevens County Extension (509)
684-2588.
EXTENSIÓN EN ESPAÑOL'S THREE NEWEST
Please join me
in welcoming the three newest contributors to the Extensión en Español
publications collection.
Jean McGuire (Iowa State University Extension Communications) is
leading ISUs participation in EeE. The first installment of the seven-part
Mystery Club series—On
Track with Tractor Safety—has just been translated and
is available under the Health and Safety section of EeE. Look for
more titles
in this series soon!
Thanks to Wendy Cradduck (South Dakota State University AgBio Communications),
Extensión en Español users now have access to the three-part
Nita
the Mosquito series
in Spanish for teaching youth about mosquitoes and West Nile virus.
This coloring/activity series is targeted to preschoolers, 8- to
10-, and 10- to 12-year-olds. SDSU Extension is also making Spanish-language
dairy science materials available to EeEs users. Titles include:
Contagious
vs. Environmental Mastitis ,
Ensiling
Wet Distillers Grains with Other Feeds and
Use
of By-Products in Growing Dairy Heifer Diets.
Frida Bonaparte (Mississippi State University Extension Communications)
is heading up MSUs participation and has recently made Tree
Planting is Easy available
for national distribution in Spanish. This two page publication outlines
why, where and how to plant seedlings for reforestation projects.
It includes information on what kind of seedlings to plant and proper
handling and watering of tree seedlings.
WEST NILE VIRUS UPDATE ONLINE
The archive from last week's West
Nile Virus (WNV) update entitled Insect control for horses, livestock,
and dairy is now available.
This is a streamed slide show with audio. Presenter was Dr. Nancy
Hinkle, Extension Veterinary Entomologist at the University of Georgia.
Dr. Hinkle's presentation is appropriate for WSU employees, volunteers,
and students. View the archive with Internet Explorer. Go to this
page to navigate to the page describing Dr. Hinkle's presentation,
and then follow the link under Streamed slide show with audio. See
the
bottom of the description page for an excellent set of reference
material.
iSNAP WORKSHOPS
iSNAP (Integrated Soil Nutrient and Pest) Education
ProjectT has announced a 2004-2005 workshop series on Integrated
Pest and Nutrient
Management Options: Practices and Tools to Protect Water Quality.
The workshop dates are: November 9-10, 2004 in Corvallis, OR focusing
on western Oregon and Washington; February 1-2, 2005 in Boise, ID
focusing on Idaho and eastern Oregon (proposed video conference to
Twin Falls); and February 15-16, 2005 in Pasco, WA focusing on the
Columbia Basin. This program will assist agricultural professionals
to protect water resources through the integration of both pest and
nutrient management practices at the field and farm levels. Participants
will learn how to implement the latest research in integrated pest
management (IPM) systems and nutrient management systems. Workshop
participants will learn about strategies for implementing site-specific
practices that meet environmental, economic, and agronomic goals.
This project is a collaborative effort of specialists at Oregon State
University, Washington State University, University of Idaho, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency and USDA Natural Resources Conservation
Service. Fee for the two-day workshop is $135 and includes a course
notebook, break refreshments and lunches. Registration brochures
will be available in early August at http://cropandsoil.oregonstate.edu/nm/iSNAP.htm.
Please contact Mary
Staben (541-737-2683)
for more information.
NASA SEEKS EARTH SCIENCE PROPOSALS
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) is soliciting proposals to participate in outreach
strategies, products and services
for earth science research, development and applications activities.
Proposals should address innovative solutions for engaging the public
in shaping and sharing the experience of exploration and discovery
about Earth. This is an unrestricted solicitation. Notice of intent
is due August 16, 2004; proposals are due October 14, 2004. More
information is available on the Federal
Grants Web site.
INTERNATIONAL OUTREACH: ASSISTING PERSIMMONS FARMERS IN THE FORMER
SOVIET REPUBLIC OF GEORGIA
Southwest Washington’s horticulture
faculty advisor, Charles Brun, has returned from a two-week June
assignment in Georgia where
he spent time on a VOCA-sponsored consulting trip helping persimmon
farmers develop a modern orchard industry. While formerly a communist-run
state, Georgia is now struggling to rebuild an infrastructure with
dependable water, power, transportation, health care, and a stabile
government. On average, each farm consists of only one hectare of
ground (2.2 acres). Charles reported to us that he worked with an
interpreter to give a PowerPoint presentation with a small Chinese
generator to run his laptop computer. None of the 50 farmers he met
knew English and some of their children had never seen a Westerner.
Under a grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development,
ACDI/VOCA serves to promote
broad-based economic growth and development of civil societies in
emerging democracies
and developing countries.
WSU faculty with agricultural and business skills who would like
to travel to the non-tourist destinations in the world should consider
one of VOCA’s diverse humanitarian, short-term assignments.
OBESITY PREVENTION NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN OCTOBER: REGISTER NOW
The USDA National Obesity Prevention Conference
scheduled for October is open to the public, on a space-available basis
(limited to 400
participants). Registration
is now open.
The conference will focus on research needs for preventing obesity.
As the Federal Agency that is most concerned with the production
of food and the management of the Federal food assistance programs,
the USDA (together with its partners) occupies a position of importance
in addressing this important public health concern. The objective
is to learn from past and current research what steps we can take
to prevent further increase in the prevalence and severity of obesity,
and to lead to behavioral changes for a healthier U.S. The premise
of the conference is that we must learn the social, economic, and
behavioral causes of poor dietary choices before we can design effective
prevention measures. We will draw on the expertise of the scientific
community for guidance on research themes, both short-term and long-term,
and for possible solutions to the problem. The conference will emphasize
the roles of different disciplines in examining obesity (from cause
to prevention). The conference will be science-based, but will have
a definite practical orientation to help us develop practical strategies
to prevent obesity.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact Steve
Crutchfield,
Special Assistant to the Undersecretary for Research, Education,
and Economics, 212 W Whitten Building, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
MORE INFORMATION ON ENTERPRISE RENTAL CAR STATE CONTRACT
Last
week’s
Extension Update reported
changes in car rental contract from Budget to Enterprise.
The Enterprise contract number that everyone will need to use in
order to get the WSU contracted rate and insurances is 45WA000.
JON NEWKIRK TO HEAD WSU PUYALLUP RESEARCH & EXTENSION
CENTER
Jon
Newkirk will become director of the Washington State University Puyallup
Research and Extension Center on October 4. His appointment
was announced July 26 by R. James Cook, interim dean of WSU's College
of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences. (See
News Release) Jon has been a member of the WSU Extension faculty
for 14 years serving as chair of WSU's Spokane County Extension office
from
1990
to 1995
and chair of WSU's Adams County Extension office from 1995 to 2001.
PERSONNEL
New hires:
Sue Remillard, Principal Assistant, Grays Harbor County
Funding: 100% Extension
Status: Administrative Professional
Effective Date: August 23, 2004
Zena Edwards, MS, Temporary County Extension Educator, Thurston
County
Funding: 100% Extension
Status: Faculty
Effective Date: July 16, 2004
Cary Swanson, Scientific Assistant, Biological Systems Engineering
Funding: 100% Research (Grant Funds)
Status: Administrative Professional
Effective Date: July 1, 2004
Vickie Papenfuss, Extension Coordinator, Franklin County
Funding: 100% Extension (Grant Funds)
Status: Administrative Professional
Effective Date: May 17, 2004
Resignation:
Carolyn Blake, Extension Coordinator, Ferry County
Funding: 100% Extension
Status: Administrative Professional
Effective Date: June 30, 2004
SCHEDULE
Next week Mike will be in Pullman Tuesday
through Thursday. Linda will be in Pullman Monday and Wednesday through
Friday. On Tuesday
she will be in Lewis County attending the SW District Faculty meeting.
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Linda Kirk Fox, PhD
Associate Dean and Associate Director
Washington State University Extension
PO Box 646230
Pullman WA 99164-6230
(509) 335-2933 Office
(509) 335-9223 Desk/Voicemail
FAX (509) 335-2926
lkfox@wsu.edu
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