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Sep 2-6, 2008 |
Chris Barnett will attend and present at the 2008 Annual Council of Geographic Names
Authorities (COGNA) Conference in Oklahoma City, OK. |
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Aug 22, 2008 |
Tony Prato will be making a presentation at the
XVIth International Conference of the Society for Human Ecology
to be held at Western Washington
University in Bellingham,
Washington, September 10-13, 2008. The title of Tony’s presentation is
Evaluating alternative
growth and land policy futures for a rapidly-growing community in northwest Montana. His presentation
is based on research conducted in the project
Assessing Ecological Economic Impacts of Landscape Change in Montana’s Flathead
County (
http://projects.cares.missouri.edu/montana/).
The theme of the conference is Integrative
thinking for complex futures: creating resilience in human-nature systems. |
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Aug 22, 2008 |
Dr. Chris Fulcher will travel to Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya to discuss potential collaborations and to make a presentation about our research activities at CARES from August 25 to Septempber 4. |
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April 7, 2008 |
Angie Stewart has joined CARES as our new Administrative
Associate.
Angie joins us from the School of Health Professions,
Department of Health Psychology. She brings many
skills from her former Administrative Assistant position,
and we are confident she will be a great addition to our
center.
Welcome Angie! |
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Mar 26, 2008 |
We have changed our name! CARES is now CARES! Since
1992, the Center for Agricultural,
Resource and Environmental Systems has worked to
further understanding of our world by using and promoting
the use of information based decisions. Our work has
covered many topics, including agriculture, natural
resources, and the environment, but also health, public
policy, risk management, community issues, archeology,
silviculture, childhood issues, and many more.
Typically, we work in a cooperative effort with others to
provide improved information for analysis or decision
making, applying our skills to better enable others to
address issues.
Based on the true nature of our work over the past 16
years, we have adopted a new name: the
Center for Applied Research and Environmental
Systems. We feel the Applied Research
better describes what we actually do. Applied research
has been defined as "designed to solve practical problems of
the modern world, rather than to acquire knowledge for
knowledge's sake. One might say that the goal of the applied
scientist is to improve the human condition."1
This is very much in line with the work we have been doing
at CARES, and will continue to do in the future.
Best of all, the name fits within our existing acronym,
so you can continue to refer to CARES as CARES! Look
for changes to our web site in the coming weeks!
1.
http://www.lbl.gov/Education/ELSI/Frames/research-applied-defined-f.html |
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| Feb 28, 2008 |
Bryan Mayhan has been promoted to Assistant Director of
CARES.
Bryan's promotion is in recognition to his contributions
to soil science, both in Missouri and nationally. Bryan has
also been very successful in securing support for multiple
staff, and managing all of our soils related projects. This
promotion will, in part, allow Bryan to serve as Principal
Investigator for those projects, a role which he has been
already effectively filling. The promotion is also in
recognition of eleven years of outstanding contributions to
CARES projects and mission.
Aside from the new responsibilities as Principal
Investigator, Bryan's duties will remain largely as they
have been in the recent past. He will continue to head the
CARES Soils Program, representing CARES and the University
of Missouri in various state and national soil committees
and activities, and direct the staff assigned to the soils
projects.
Congratulations Bryan! |
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Feb 21-22, 2008 |
Tony Prato made an invited presentation on Is it possible
to bridge from neoclassical economics to stewardship
economics - what do we have to show/prove?, at a meeting
on nutrient farming economics sponsored by the Center for
Humans and the Environment, Libertyville, IL |
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Feb 6-8, 2008 |
Tony Prato presented on Multiple attribute scoring test
to evaluate ecological and user capacities for national
parks, at a user capacity symposium in Yosemite National
Park, CA. |
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Jan 28, 2008 |
Administrative Associate Tim Morris has accepted a new
position as a Conference Coordinator at MU Conference
Office. Tim joined CARES in July 2005. He has been vital in
running the daily business at CARES and CIRC. All staff have
enjoyed working with him. We wish Tim the best in his new
endeavor! |
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