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IGIS Drone Pilot and Data Analyst Jacob Flanagan speaks to the local media at the 2019 World Ag Expo
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IGIS 2019 Year-in-Review Part I. Impacts on UC ANR's Strategic Goals

January 17, 2020
By Andrew J Lyons, Robert Johnson, Maggi Kelly, Sean D Hogan, Shane T Feirer
Welcome to the final IGIS year-in-review of the decade! 2019 was another productive and satisfying year, full of innovation, outreach, and collaboration. Our work this year has been guided by ANR Strategic Goals and contributed to the Public Value Statements.
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Shane Feirer helps a participant at Forest GIS workshop in Santa Rosa, March 2019
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IGIS 2019 Year-in-Review Part II. Impact on UC ANR's Public Value Statements

January 16, 2020
By Shane T Feirer, Sean D Hogan, Andrew J Lyons, Maggi Kelly, Robert Johnson
This is the second of a two part series on IGIS impacts in 2019. See also: IGIS 2019 Year in Review Part I. Impact on UCANR's Strategic Goals Framework Training and professional development continue to be two of the pillars of our mission.
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JOB ANNOUNCEMENT :: Vegetation Ecologist

January 6, 2020
Vegetation Ecologist II Salary: $6,878.62 - $7,668.37 Monthly Location: Oakland, CA Job Type: Full-time (37.5 hrs) Division: Acquisition, Stewardship, & Development Job Number: 20-LC-01 Closing: 1/24/2020 5:00 PM Pacific For more information, visit https://www.governmentjobs.
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UC ANR training improves food safety practices among Alameda County seniors

December 17, 2019
By Mary L Blackburn
Seniors with diminished learning and retention capacity, physical impairments, on multiple medicines, and with weakened immune systems are less able to fight foodborne pathogens. Adults over 60 years are more likely to have complications, be hospitalized, and die because of foodborne infections.
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Karmjot Randhawa
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Names in the News

October 31, 2019
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
Randhawa to oversee UCCE in Fresno, Madera, Kings and Tulare counties Karmjot Randhawa joined ANR on Sept. 6, 2019, as the UC Cooperative Extension director for Fresno, Madera, Kings and Tulare counties.
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Top row, left to right, Kamyar Aram, Marisa Coyne, Amer Fayad and Joy Hollingsworth. Bottom row, left to right, Susana Matias, Joji Muramoto, Mohamed Nouri and Kosana Suvocarev.
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New advisors and specialists join UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

September 20, 2019
Eight academics joined the ranks of UC Cooperative Extension advisors, specialists and an academic coordinator over the last few months. The new academics are: Kamyar Aram UCCE specialty crops advisor Contra Costa County Kamyar Aram joined UC ANR in August 2019 as UCCE advisor in specialty crops.
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Great Australian Bight, from above
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Return to work brain

August 6, 2019
I said good-bye, for now' to the Great Australian Bight. It wasn't easy but it was time to get back to work. Travel turned out to be a bit hectic but everything worked out in the end.
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Joji Muramoto
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Names in the News

July 1, 2019
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
Muramoto hired as first UCCE organic ag specialist Joji Muramoto joined ANR on May 29 as an assistant Cooperative Extension organic production specialist.
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