May 18, 2010 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Anderson Hall Room 22
CALL TO ORDER
Call to order by Tom Hinckley, Interim Director.
10:30
ANNOUNCEMENTS 10:30-10:40
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The annual School of Forest Resources Recognition Event will be held on May 26, 2010 from 2:30-4:30 p.m. in the Forest Club Room. A reception that includes the silent auction supporting the Scholarship Fund will follow.
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School of Forest Resources Commencement is on Friday June 11, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. in Kane Hall. Janet
Wainwright will be the speaker. UW graduation is next day.
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Bioresources faculty candidate Gregg Beckham will present a seminar on Thursday May 20, 2010 at 3:30 p.m. in Anderson 22, a reception will follow. Another candidate, Lars Grabow, presented a seminar yesterday.
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Denman Forestry Issues Series will present a program on “Forests and Health of Puget Sound” this afternoon, May 18, 2010, from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. in NHS Hall at CUH, UWBG.
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There will be a “Bioblitz” at the Washington Park Arboretum starting at 3 p.m. Friday, May 21, through
Saturday afternoon, May 22, 2010. This is Seattle’s first ever bioblitz. The activities coincide with the
International Day of Biodiversity, May 22, as declared by the United Nations. Sarah Riechard is coordinating this event.
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Name change that was approved is School of Environmental and Forest Sciences. Doug Sprugel has agreed to help with document that needs to be created for Administration approval. The College of Built
Environments document is being used as a model.
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The announcement of the new Dean is expected on Monday.
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We received news that the budget cut for School of Forest Resources for the coming fiscal year is $229,000 or 4% of non tenured faculty state supported budgets. We will receive an addition allotment of temporary money from Provost office which is the same as last year, $143,000, we expect this is the last time we’ll see this money, and we received our first ABB allocation which is $113,000. In the future we’ll be a paying tech fee and additional monies for electricity in the form of a “tax”. We now pay for phones, but the new paradigm means we will be paying per FTE at $60/per month. The College has said it will pay the difference from what we paid before to what we will pay in future.
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We have been told that at this time we will get full ICR returned, but will pay a series of “taxes” on it. 0%
IDC rate is subsidized by other grants. The estimated break-even point is 15%. SFR’s average IDC is among the lowest in CoEnv. SFR is 14%, ESS is 33%, Atmosphere is 37%. It is no longer an advantage to have the off-campus rate.
PRESENTATIONS
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No presentations are scheduled.
DISCUSSION
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Internship opportunities. When Gary Machlis was here for the Distinguished Alumni Series. He challenged the School and said if we nominate someone for an internship and can give them money he will give them an incredible experience in Washington, DC. Asking for more direct support and creating business plans may be a way to have donors and other constituencies support our programs rather in addition to creating endowments. There are internships available at Pack Forest, Friday is the deadline for submitting applications, currently there is no response.
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How do we create metrics to determine the value of our outreach activities? We hope the new Dean will know and acknowledge these activities. Currently, they do not. The Burke Museum and Washington Sea
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Grant Program are excellent models. We will need to keep vastly better track of these contacts than we have historically.
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One of the elements of the September Strategic Planning Retreat is to talk about these things. And, in light of the ABB budget model, we anticipate that PMT criteria will be revised to be in alignment with what will bring us more funding.
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Marzluff is asking for McIntyre Stennis funding proposals. The projects are to start this summer. New
Research Committee is reviewing the proposals. $130,000 will be awarded. Each project will be limited to no more than $35,000 per project.
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We will need to review the faculty position strategic plan, especially regarding Research Faculty jobs. NSF has a postdoc mentoring plan that has to be in place for NSF funding.
FACULTY ACTIONS 11:00-11:05
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Proposed Research Associate Appointment
Peter Schiess moved and Bob Edmonds seconded the motion that the faculty approve Van Kane, Ph.D. for
Research Associate. This appointment is sponsored by Jerry Franklin. Dr. Kane received his Ph.D. in 2010 from University of Washington, in Ecosystem Analysis. He works in remote sensing and LIDAR. The initial appointment will be for two years with the opportunity to renew to a total of six years post Ph.D.
UPCOMING EVENTS 11:25
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The next Faculty Meeting will be on Tuesday, June 1, 2010 from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. in Anderson Hall
Room 22.
ADJOURNMENT
11:18 a.m.
Attachments:
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Van Kane’s Appointment Package
11:30
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