October 26, 2007 Release

Events for the upcoming Week: Oct 26-Nov 4
(Seminars, Symposiums, Conferences, Events, Field Trips, etc.)

Homecoming

We look forward to seeing our many friends and family members at one or more of the following Homecoming events. If you have any questions, contact Warnell School Alumni Director Bridget Harden at 706/542-0713.

Friday, November 2

Golf Tournament

UGA Golf Course 8:30 Shotgun Start

We will be back at the newly reconstructed UGA Golf Course. The renovations have increased the green fee to $60 which covers prizes, greens fees, cart, tax and refreshments. Players will be grouped into foursomes so please let us know who you would like to play with. If you don’t have a foursome, we will match you up with someone.

We must have names of foursomes and registration fee by Wednesday, October 24th!

Golf Tournament Lunch - following tournament

Five Points box lunch ($10). Prizes awarded.

This year the Young Alumni Committee will raise sponsorships and any proceeds from this effort will go toward the Young Alumni Endowment for Leadership and Training. For more information about sponsorships email Brian Stone.

Sporting Clays Shoot

Trap and additional opportunities in Whitehall Forest beginning at 9:30 am -  For more information contact Tom Harris.    

12 Station Sporting Clays  $40.00
Carts  $15.00
5-stand also available @ 10/$25

Alumni School Tour

Front steps of Warnell 2:00 pm

Guided tour of facilities and grounds. Tour will end at Archie’s Chapel.

Dedication of "Archie’s Chapel"

Warnell Building 1 Room 307 3:00 pm

The "horseshoe" room in Building One will officially be dedicated in honor of Archie Patterson’s many contributions to Warnell. We invite all alumni and friends to join family, friends, faculty, staff and students to the event.

Whitehall Mansion Open House

Visit the School’s historic gothic Victorian home at the entrance to Whitehall Forest. 5:00 pm

Alumni Dinner

Flinchum’s Phoenix: 6:00 pm cocktails, 7:00 pm dinner

Join fellow alumni, friends, faculty and staff for a buffet dinner and alumni awards program. Presentation will feature Distinguished Alumnus and Distinguished Young Alumnus Awards, Warnell Staff Awards. Pending visits from special guests including UGA’s Dancing Dawgs, Hairy Dawg, and Spike.

$10 if registered before 10/29 - $15 at the door

Saturday, November 3

1:00 pm kick-off

Annual Alumni Association Meeting

Flinchum’s Phoenix basement 8:30 am

Meeting includes updates about programs and issues in the School and University. Coffee and biscuits.

Game Day Bar-B-Q

Flinchum’s Phoenix 10:00 am

Cheer on the Dawgs with family, friends, & a classic tailgating meal. Traditional BBQ & all the fixin’s.

$15.00 Early Registration at rsvp@warnell.uga.edu
$20.00 Walk-up
Children under 12 are FREE

Free to Faculty and Staff & their spouses - Compliments of Dean Clutter - However, you must pre-register to rsvp@warnell.uga.edu

Shuttle Bus

Take the hassle out of driving & parking. Purchase tickets ($5) for bus shuttle from Flinchum’s to game and return.

UGA vs. Troy State

1:00 pm

For ticket information please call the UGA Athletic Association Ticket Office at (706) 542-1231.

 

The UGA Fisheries Society will hold their next meeting Tuesday, Nov. 6 from 5:00 – 7:00pm. Location and discussion topic TBD.

 

The next meting of the UGA chapter of The Wildlife Society will be held Wednesday, Nov. 7 from 6:45 – 8:00pm in 1-304. Discussion topic TBD.

A PLT/WILD workshop will be held Sunday, Nov. 11 from 8:30am to 4:00 pm at Flinchum’s for anyone interested in enhancing their environmental education credentials. The cost is $40, which includes lunch, a PLT guide, People and Places Guide, WILD curriculum and Aquatic Wild curriculum. For more information, contact workshop coordinator Heather Fleming.

The Georgia Forestry Association is holding its fall workshop, “Forest Certification: Navigating the Landscape and Discovering the Opportunities of This Evolving Forestry Marketing Tool,"  Thursday, November 15, 2007 at the Association headquarters in Forsyth, GA.This workshop will offer 5 continuing education credits for attendees.

Register today by emailing GFA to reserve one of the limited openings for this workshop. Additional information can be obtained by calling the Association office at 478-992-8110.

 

Achievements from the Previous Week: Oct 22-26

“In the News”

Drought stories running nationally in the Boston Globe and Philadelphia Inquirer quote UGA’s Todd Rasmussen.
Boston Globe
Philidelphia Inquirer

Todd Rasmussen is also quoted in the Gainesville Times on the advantages of septic tanks during the drought.
Read More Here

Task force seeks input about drought
Todd Rasmussen is member of task force, and quoted in article
Read More Here

Listen for Dr. Rasmussen to be featured on NPR over the weekend and next week discussing the southeastern drought and water issues

Rhett Jackson, professor of hydrology at UGA, is quoted in a U.S. News and World Report story on how man is making the drought worse and Georgia , Florida , and Alabama continue to struggle with one another for more water.
Read More Here

New Lilly Teaching Fellows attend fall retreat
Dr. Rebecca Moore, natural resource economics, is recognized as a Lilly Teaching Fellow – 2^nd item (COLUMNS)
Read More Here

Sites can help plant seeds of knowledge
Warnell School’s David Moorhead and his CAES associates at Bugwood network mentioned.
Read More Here

“Awards/Appointments”

American Association for the Advancement of Science names four UGA researchers AAAS Fellows
(Dr. Sarah Covert, associate professor forest biotechnology, recognized)
UGA News Release

Dr. J. Michael Meyers was recently selected by the board of The Roger Tory Peterson Institute(RTPI) of Natural History, Jamestown, New York, to be an Institute Research Associate. The purpose of the RTPI Associate program is to broaden its scholarly base by recruiting scholars and graduate students as associate members of the Institute. The mission of RTPI is expanding in the areas of natural history education and art, and recognizes that teachers have opportunities to help young people develop a relationship with nature.  Dr. Meyers is currently planning research on breeding birds related to global climate change and citizen science with others associates of the Institute. For more information, visit the RTPI website.

“Research Findings/Outreach Service/Publications”

Dr. Jeff Dean, professor of forest biotechnology, was an invited speaker to present a plenary lecture to the Forest Genomics session at REDBIO 2007 (The Triennial Meeting on Latin American and Caribbean Agricultural Biotechnology) being held at Vina del Mar in Valparaiso, Chile. His presentation was titled "The conifer genome sequence: A snapshot and a prospectus." Additional information can be found on the conference website.

 

The Warnell School Student Ambassadors hosted their quarterly clean-up effort of Whitehall Road (from Jot em Down to the Whitehall Mansion)on Saturday, October 20. They wish to thank all faculty, staff and students who took time out of their Saturday morning to assist in this public service program.

 

 

The Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources at The University of Georgia provides UGA students with five degree path programs in forestry and natural resource science and management, include the forestry, fisheries and aquaculture, natural resources recreation and tourism, water and soil resources, and wildlife management and ecology majors. With more than fifty faculty and 23,000 acres of teaching lands, the Warnell School is the southeast’s oldest, and one of the most respected forestry and natural resource education providers in the United States. The school also houses one of the largest study abroad programs in the nation covering all seven continents to provide global learning opportunities for its students. For more information visit the Warnell School website at www.warnell.uga.edu.