Extension agent outreach
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I had the chance to go with George Wetzel, the NWS coop manager for the Peachtree City office, on Saturday when he gave a 20-year service award to Jack and Martha Beach, who have been providing daily weather observations at their home in Winterville GA as part of the cooperative observer program. They are also…
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Recent storm events have dropped trees in a number of places across the Southeast, including Georgia. Some trees are snapped by high winds, and others are uprooted when saturated soils weakens the grip that the tree roots have, resulting in trees that are tipped over by those winds. Paul Pugliese, the Georgia ANR agent in…
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NOAA’s Climate Toolkit has a unique new tool that allows emergency managers and public health departments identify people who are vulnerable to loss of electrical power. It links a database of Medicare beneficiaries who use electric adaptive devices to current weather hazards to identify how many people in an affected area would be affected by…
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Roger Gates, Extension ANR agent in Whitfield County, wrote me to ask for help in finding soil moisture data because he was struggling to fill out the soil moisture survey for the weekly Crop Progress and Condition Survey. I asked him if it would be OK to share his question and my answer because a…
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One of my Facebook groups just put together a list of science books that can serve as resources for parents and teachers, and maybe 4-H agents and others interested in reading more about science. It is divided by age group and science subject and includes quite a few resources on earth science. Not too much…
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Bob Kemerait of UGA had a really insightful piece published in the Southeast Farm Press this week on the importance of Extension agents after a devastating event like the freeze that killed most of the blueberries in Georgia last week along with some strawberries, peaches and apples. He points out that “It is a bitter…
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I am doing a Zoom session online on Tuesday morning March 21 at 11 am EDT for Georgia extension agents, but am happy to welcome anyone else who might be interested. I will look back briefly at 2016 and the winter and then talk about the outlook for 2017, including the prospects for an El…