Extension Updates
To assure that all of you are kept up to date on a regular basis, the three regional directors and the state Extension Administration Office provides bi-weekly Extension Updates. This forum is for all Extension announcements, so if you have something to distribute, please forward it to Lori Bates with FOR EXTENSION UPDATE noted.
October 24, 2013
On Behalf of Bill Nobles:
- Peaks & Plains Position Openings
- Peaks & Plains Regional Meeting
- Dates to Remember:
- Awards, Grants and Recognition!
- Western SARE Professional Development Opportunity - Whole Farm Planning Training for Agricultural Educators
- Range Beef Cow Symposium
- Online Animal Agriculture & Climate Change Certification Course
- Specialists’ Introductions
Peaks & Plains Position Openings
- Extension Agent, Small Acreage/Range/Natural Resource Management, Pueblo County - The position has been filled and we are in the process of completing a background check on the candidate.
- Extension Agent, Livestock, Golden Plains Area – In the final stage of offering the position to a candidate.
- Southeast Area Extension Agent, 4-H Youth Development, Crowley and Otero Counties - The committee will be interviewing candidates on November 12 and 13.
- Extension Agent, 4-H and Youth Development/Family and Consumer Science, Chaffee County – The position closes on November 6.
- Southeast Area Extension Agent, Range and Livestock, Crowley and Otero Counties – The position is under review.
Peaks & Plains Regional Meeting
The regional meeting dates are May 5-6, 2014 and if you’re interested in serving on the planning committee, please let me know. We will set a meeting location as soon after the committee is formed.
Dates to Remember:
- CSU Extension Forum on November 4-7, 2013
- DAC meeting on November 4 - talk with your region’s representatives about providing concerns and accolades at the meeting.
- The fall meeting of the Golden Plains Area Fall Ag Advisory Board Meeting will be held December 2. We will begin at 9:30 am at the Yuma County Fairgrounds Concession Building.
- The Annual Advisory Council Meeting for the Arkansas Valley Research Center is on December 10 starting at 9:30 am for refreshments and 10:00 am for the actual meeting.
Awards, Grants and Recognition!
I would like to know if you have received any recognition, grants or awards from your communities or outside the organization this year. These are awards not received through Extension associations. If so, please send me an email back and let me know what you received or what type of recognition you got. If you don't want to boast about yourself and you know of a fellow agent that received an award of some type - please feel free to go behind their back and let me know. I want to recognize all those great achievements this past year.
Western SARE Professional Development Opportunity - Whole Farm Planning Training for Agricultural Educators
Holistic Management International has been teaching whole farm planning for almost 30 years. In this WSARE PDP-funded program you will learn how to facilitate whole farm planning effectively with the producers you serve. This program will provide practical outcome-based education that allows you and your community to use the knowledge, skills, processes and tools effectively with your diverse audiences and unique work settings and conditions.
This program is all distance learning so there is no travel and you can fit in most of the training on your time schedule. We are excited about the next stage of implementation which is to get a robust pool of applicants from which we can select 35 educators. I have included information about this program for you to apply if interested. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
Application for this program is due December 1. To apply for or learn more about this program, email Ann Adams at anna@holisticmanagement.org. To learn more about the program you can also go to: http://mysare.sare.org/MySare/ProjectReport.aspx?do=viewRept&pn=EW13-021&t=2&y=2013
Range Beef Cow Symposium
New Electronic Tools for Cattle Management will be held on December 3, 2013, 7:30-9:00 pm at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center in Rapid City, SD. A brochure was sent in Friday mail to all Extension offices recently but if you need more or did not get one, let me know. Dr. Jack Whittier has a few hard copies and I have attached an electronic version. Feel free to send the brochure to any and all that you think would like to know about it.
Online Animal Agriculture & Climate Change Certification Course
The Animal Agriculture and Climate Change online certification course will provide an in-depth understanding of the relationship between animal agriculture and climate change, both nationally and regionally, right from your office or home. This 12-hour, self-paced course will prepare you to discuss this new topic with your clientele and give you the resources to incorporate it into your existing programming. It also qualifies for continuing education credits from Certified Crop Advisor (CCA) and American Registry of Professional Animal Scientists.
The course officially began being offered on September 3 and will be offered the first of each month thereafter. Please visit http://www.extension.org/pages/66987/online-animal-agriculture-climate-change-certification-course#.UmlhyxAd9nU for more information.
Specialists’ Introductions
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Meet CSU Extension Specialist |
| Title: | Assistant Professor |
| College: | Engineering |
| Department: | Civil & Environmental Engineering |
| % Extension Time: | 33% |
| Years with CSU: | Since Spring of 2009 |
| Extension/Outreach Involvement: | Involved in the Extension Water Resources Team. Collaboration with water conservation districts, crop growers associations and the state in demonstration of crop water use technologies. |
| Research Area: | Irrigation water management, evapotranspiration (ET) estimation, remote sensing of ET, deficit irrigation water use monitoring, and soil moisture sensors and micro-meteorological instrumentation use in crop water management. |
| Teaching Responsibilities: | CIVE 519 Irrigation Water Management, CIVE 512 Irrigation Systems Design, CIVE 549 Drainage and Wetlands Engineering, and part of CIVE 525 Water Resources: International Development. |
| Hobbies/Interests: | Biking, hiking, photography. |
| Contact Information: | B210 Engineering Bldg., 1372 Campus Delivery, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1372, 970-491-6095 jose.chavez@colostate.edu |
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Meet CSU Extension Specialist |
| Title: | Professor |
| College: | Warner College of Natural Resources |
| Department: | Forest, Rangeland and Watershed Stewardship |
| % Extension Time: | 45% |
| Years with CSU: | 14 |
| Extension/Outreach Involvement: | Director, Colorado Forest Restoration Institute (CFRI) since 2008. CFRI's mission is to develop, synthesize, and apply the best available science-based knowledge to achieve forest restoration and wildfire hazard reduction goals. CFRI actively collaborates with research scientists, local outreach and Extension agents, land managers, and interested and affected stakeholders to work on on-the-ground projects and to produce knowledge syntheses and lessons learned in Colorado and across the American West .I also direct the Southern Rockies Fire Science Network, one of 15 fire science and knowledge exchange consortia nationwide sponsored by the Joint Fire Science Program. The purpose of the Network is to link scientific research on wildland fire to landowners and land managers. The Network does this through field-based workshops, science synthesis briefs, links to wildland fire science resources, webinars, and social media. The Southern Rockies region includes Colorado, the Black Hills of South Dakota, eastern Wyoming, and eastern Utah. Interested individuals can sign up for the Network newsletter and access resources on the website at: http://www.frames.gov/partner-sites/srfsn/home/ The Network coordinator is Gloria Edwards – gloria.edwards@colostate.edu Also: The Colorado Forest Restoration Institute website is: http://coloradoforestrestoration.org |
| Research Area: | Collaborative planning and management affecting forest lands |
| Teaching Responsibilities: | NR320 Natural Resource History & Policy, NR479 Case Studies in Ecological Restoration, NR622 Analysis of Environmental Impact |
| Hobbies: | Fly fishing, bicycling, hiking, camping, cooking, watching my kids grow |
| Contact Information: | 133 Forestry, 1472 Campus Delivery, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1472, 970-491-1900 tony.cheng@colostate.edu |
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