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In Memoriam, Bob Wheeler

Long time member Robert Aaron Wheeler, 57, passed away June 29, 2009, at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital after a short battle with cancer.  Bob was the chair of the local arrangements committee for the 2010 ANREP conference.  Bob came to Fairbanks, Alaska in 1997 and worked as a forestry extension specialist for the University of Alaska Cooperative Extension Service.  He was active in ANREP since its inception in the late 1990’s.  He attended every ANREP annual conference.

Bob’s ideas and enthusiasm were contagious.  One of Bob’s ideas was to host an ANREP conference in Fairbanks.  He first approached the individual board members during the 2006 ANREP meeting in Utah.  He persisted and submitted a proposal just after the 2008 meeting in Madison.  Bob was thrilled that ANREP will be holding its meeting in Alaska.  His vision, leadership and direction has given us a path to follow for the 2010 meeting.

Bob had a broad range of work related interests which included but were not limited to working with Alaska native peoples, horticulture, cold climate housing, climate change and traditional forestry.  He loved to fish and produced an annual calendar of fishing.  He also was an active runner.  Earlier this year, as a kidney transplant survivor he participated in a marathon.

Bob is survived by his wife, Beverly; his father; his sister; two brothers; and their families.

In lieu of flowers, the family has requested that donations be sent in Bob’s name to the Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation, 9221 Ward Parkway Suite 400 Kansas City Missouri or http://www.pkdcure.org

For more information about Bob and to share your stories visit www.bobwheelermemoriam.blogspot.com  This information will be used to recognize Bob’s contributions to sustainability, natural resources and Extension.

If you would like to contact Beverly I have contact information.

2009 Awards Program

The ANREP Awards Committee is pleased to announce the 2009 Annual Awards Program. These awards are designed to honor individual faculty and teams who have made significant contributions to educating target audiences on effective sustainable natural resource management.

Click here for more information and to start your online nomination application.

Webinars

ANREP has been active in recording selected presentations and is making these available to ANREP members. Please click on the tab to webinars to see a list of recorded presentations. The most recent recordings are from the JCEP Regional Meetings held in February of 2009, Dr. Albert Pierce on Ethics and Dr Coreil on Goals and Strategic Opportunities for Extension. For more information, click here

Webinars from ANREP’s 2008 Conference

Several Presenters took the time to create webinars of their presentation. If you missed the meeting or wanted to refresh what you learned, click here

ANREP will be in Fairbanks, Alaska

7th Natural Resource Extension Professionals Conference

The 7th Biennial ANREP National Conference at the University of Alaska Fairbanks offers a forum for sharing methods, tools, and programming to help us address the challenges we are facing in providing research-based community outreach in a changing environment.  The conference will emphasize creating effective multistate and multi-agency collaborations to meet these challenges with the greatest impact and efficiency.

Call for Abstracts

General sessions will highlight energy and climate change issues and how Alaska is preparing for and creating opportunities resulting from these changes. Accepted abstracts may focus on broader, natural-resource-based issues and opportunities for Extension in a changing environment at local, state and national levels. Click here for more information

Visit an information presentation for the ANREP Conference 2010 for more information.

2008 ANREP Membership Survey Results

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