ANR Update

Similar to previous years, UC ANR units including, Research and Extension Centers, UCCE county offices, the Second Street Building in Davis and Franklin Building in Oakland will be closed from Dec. 23, 2022, through January 2, 2023, except for essential services.

A magnitude 6.4 earthquake centered near Ferndale shook the area around 2:30 a.m. this morning. Here's what we know so far. Yana Valachovic, UCCE director for Humboldt and Del Norte counties, said she was still trying to reach all ANR staff members who work in those counties.

On Aug. 30, 2022, the Policy on Vaccination Programs With Interim Amendments was issued, with an effective date of Sept. 1, 2022. On Sept. 16, 2022, the University of California Office of the President distributed a draft policy for Systemwide Review with a comment deadline of Dec. 15, 2022.

To help avoid an increase of COVID-19 cases at work after the winter holiday, we are providing every UC ANR employee with a COVID-19 antigen test kit (2 tests) to take home with them to use after the break. Test kits are being shipped to every ANR location during the week of December 12-16.

Congratulations to our colleagues at UC Merced and UC Santa Cruz for joining the Agricultural Experiment Station. We welcome their collaboration. UC President Michael Drake announced during the UC Regents meeting Nov. 16 that UC will soon designate UC Santa Cruz and UC Merced as AES campuses.