TopicsAugust 15, 2023
- Message from the Associate Vice-President and Director of Extension
- Congrats to the 2023 Heart of Extension Award Recipients
- Nominate Someone for ALVSCE Administrator of the Year
- Last Chance to Take Climate Change Survey
- Making Professional Websites with Quarto & RStudio
- Application for GALS Camp Now Open
- 19th Annual RISE Symposium
- Cowman's Reproduction Workshop
- Yumas Fall Vegetable IPM Workshop
- Irrigation Efficiency Workshop
- SNRE Seminar Announcements
- SARE Grant Writing Workshop
- New Publication
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Message from the Associate Vice-President and Director of Extension
For almost a year now, Dr. Ethan Orr and a group of Extension Specialists, Agents, and staff have been engaged in helping Arizona keep water behind the dam and in Lake Mead.
The team oversees a $30 million grant from the State of Arizona to assist growers in switching to higher-efficiency irrigation systems. Although the program is a four-year program, after just one year, all of the funds directed to help growers install new systems, $23 million, has been encumbered, and new systems are now being installed. In addition to the $23 million from the grant, growers themselves have added an additional $17 million of their own money for system improvements. Estimated water savings is over 36,000 acre-feet per year, about 12 Tempe Town Lakes or 92 feet of water on the UA Tucson Campus, and that’s per year!
This year, the program received an additional $16 million from the State to continue keeping the water behind the dam — congratulations to Ethan and his team: Dr. Randy Norton, Dr. Diaa Elshikha, Robert Mason, Dr. Jeremy Weiss, Dr. Jean McLain, Dr. Debankur Sanyal, Dr. Charlie Sanchez, Belinda Oden, Stephanie Brennan, Dr. Jay Subramani and Hector Munoz.
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Debbie Curley with Ed Martin, state Director of Extension
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Heart of Extension AwardsEight Extension teammates from across the state earned Heart of Extension Awards in 2023. Each received a plaque August 4 at the Annual Conference in Tucson. In the coming weeks, TEN will feature the presentation speeches from the conference. Congratulations, Debbie Curley!
Debbie Curley, Area Associate Agent
Family, Community and Health Sciences , Pima County
Debbie Curley continuously strives to ensure that Extension programming is assessable to all community members, including historically underrepresented populations. She does this by fostering and promoting a diverse, equitable and inclusive work environment and ensuring that everyone feels valued, respected, and included.
Debbie is a sought-after collaborator within UArizona and the external community. Debbie collaborates with 4-H, Tucson Village Farm, Master Gardeners, other extension counties and departments on campus, as well as agencies outside of the university, including the Pima County Parenting Coalition, Arizona Department of Corrections, and Gospel Rescue Mission, to name just a few.
The Pima County Family Engagement Program team genuinely admires her drive and will to do all of her jobs and daily obligations with her very best effort which encourages her staff and co-workers to do the same. Debbie enhances each of their strengths and allows them to succeed in the areas that they are most passionate about.
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| Nominate Someone for ALVSCE Administrator of the Year
The Division of Agriculture, Life and Veterinary Sciences, and Cooperative Extension (ALVSCE) Administrator of the Year Award was created to recognize and honor outstanding achievements and contributions by an administrator in ALVSCE.
This annual award consists of a plaque and a monetary award of $1,000 to be made to the winner’s administrative unit in honor of the recipient. Nominations of candidates for this award may be made by faculty, staff, alumni, students or other administrators in ALVSCE. Nominations for administrators who are not selected will be retained for future consideration by the committee for a total of three years. If you have submitted a nomination in the recent past and would like to add to or edit it, please contact Jean McLain at mclainj@arizona.edu.
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Last Chance to Take Climate Change Survey
The Cooperative Extension Climate Science Working Group wants to know about the current level of interest and involvement in climate change-related training, programming, and collaboration within Extension. Your responses will be used to guide climate change program development and better integration of climate change information across Extension programs. Even if you feel that your role within Extension is not a “climate” role, we encourage you to submit a response.
The information will also help the UArizona Extension Climate Science Working Group leverage resources and opportunities to better serve Extension and Arizona stakeholders.
The survey's introduction page contains more information about confidentiality, how your responses will be used and stored, and your rights. The survey ends August 16.
What: There are 27 quick, simple questions that should take 10 – 15 minutes to complete.
Who: You must work within Arizona Cooperative Extension, be 18 or older, and read English.
Click here to complete the survey. Please contact Dawn Gouge at dhgouge@arizona.edu or 602-418-5202 with questions or complaints about the study.
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Making Professional Websites with Quarto & RStudio
Professional websites are a useful way to connect and share your work with others. While there are a lot of tools available to create websites, we will show you how to create yours with Quarto. Quarto is a free scientific and technical publishing system for creating documents, presentations, and websites. This platform evolved from R Markdown (though don’t worry if you haven’t heard of either Quarto or R Markdown).
In this workshop, we’ll include the basics of Quarto, and use it to create and customize a website. You will leave this workshop with a published website. This can be used as a personal website, research projects or other endeavors.
Make sure to have all the pre-requisites on the workshop page ready by the workshop! Click here to register.
What: Quarto and RStudio website workshop
When: 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesday, August 23
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Application for GALS Camp Now Open
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19th Annual Symposium
The 19th annual Research Insights in Semiarid Ecosystems (RISE) Symposium will be October 21 on the University of Arizona campus.
The objectives of the symposium are to share recent results of research at the USDA-ARS Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed and the University of Arizona Santa Rita Experimental Range, to encourage future research activities at the WGEW and the SRER, and to promote the WGEW and the SRER as outdoor scientific laboratories.
The Symposium will feature invited speakers presenting recent or ongoing research on the WGEW, the SRER or other outdoor laboratories in the region. There is also a student poster competition with monetary awards. Speakers will include Nico Franz describing the NEON Biorepository, Michael Kututwa Johnson describing what we can learn from indigenous ingenuity, Joel Biederman describing early results of a precipitation manipulation experiment, and Betsy Arnold describing the diversity soil microbes and mushrooms.
When: 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m., Saturday, October 21 8:30 AM to 3:00 PM, Saturday, 21 October 2023, 8:30 AM to 3:00 PM
Where: Tucson, Arizona, University of Arizona Marley Building Auditorium (Room 230)
Click here to view the RISE program, register for the symposium, submit poster abstracts or enter the student poster contest, or view talks and posters from past years.
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This year's workshop will revisit Artificial Insemination (AI). The workshop will begin with registration at 8:30 a.m., Tuesday, September 5 (Utah time) at Town Hall, 10 S. 100 W Street, Alton, Utah.
Everyone is welcome to this free workshop with breaks, lunch, and door prizes. Please share the information!
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| Yuma Fall Vegetable IPM Workshop
Join us Wednesday, August 23 to learn about University and industry updates on the latest Integrated Pest Management products and practices. 4.0 AZ ,CA, and CCA CEU credits requested.
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Irrigation Efficiency Workshop
Learn how university researchers and commercial agriculture has responded to the challenge of growing more crop for the drop.
When: 8 a.m.-1 p.m., August 21
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| SNRE Seminar Announcements
Dr. Ryan Limb, candidate for Rangeland Management Extension Specialist Position - Plant-Herbivore Interactions and Targeted Grazing and Rangeland Management Extension Specialist Position - Public Land Grazing.
When: 1:30-2:30 p.m., August 21
Where: ENR2, room N595
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Dr. Flavie Audoin, candidate for Rangeland Management Extension Specialist Position - Plant-Herbivore Interactions & Targeted Grazing
When: 1:30-2:30 p.m., August 23
Where: ENR2, room N595
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| Grant Writing Workshop
Western Sustainable Agriculture and Research Education (WSARE) will be hosting a grant writing workshop for all SARE grant opportunities.
This cost-free workshop will be hosted at the University of Arizona Maricopa Agricultural Center, 37860 W. Smith Enke Road, Maricopa, Arizona on September 14. The workshop will begin at 10 a.m. and conclude with a Q&A dinner that will end by 6:30 p.m. Both lunch and dinner will be provided and sponsored by the Western SARE Arizona State Implementation program.
Workshop leaders will include Jenna Meeks, WSARE-PDP Coordinator, and Miranda Kersten, WSARE Farmer/Rancher Program Manager. Join us and learn more about WSARE grant opportunities and how to navigate the process of applying for them. Pre-registration is required and can be completed at this link. For more information regarding this workshop, follow this link.
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New Publication
Lead Author: Shujuan (Lucy) Li
Federal, state, and university resources that you may access to learn more about food safety, produce safety rules, and good agricultural practices. We also include resources that are specifically for tribal communities.
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