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UC Cooperative Extension
Across California, the University of California’s 64 Cooperative Extension offices are local problem-solving centers. We are the bridge between local issues and the power of UC research. Our county-based staff is part of the community – we live and work in the areas we serve.
More than 300 campus-based specialists and county-based farm, home and youth advisors work as teams to bring practical, unbiased, science-based answers to problems across California.
As part of the agricultural community, we help farmers develop more-efficient growing methods, solve pest management problems and develop crops and irrigation methods that use less water.
As stewards of the land, we help develop smart water-use strategies, develop wildfire education and help preserve natural areas and farmland.
As advocates for healthy communities, we promote healthy diets and exercise for better health, help Californians learn to choose the most nutritious foods and help shape the citizens of tomorrow through the 4-H Youth Development Program.
And thousands of volunteers extend the reach of our work through the Master Gardener Program and the California 4-H Youth Development Program.
We work in full partnership with federal, state, county and private resources.
We are stewards, problem-solvers, catalysts, collaborators and educators.
We are UC Cooperative Extension.
4-H Youth Development Advisor Position Vacancy Announcement
AP #13-24
Location Headquarters: San Joaquin County, Stockton, California (50% UCCE San Joaquin County; 50% UCCE Stanislaus County
Closing Date: To assure full consideration, application packets must be received by March 21, 2014 (open until filled).
To view full position vacancy announcement, please go to 2014 4-H Advisor Position Vacancy Announcment 563
EFNEP Program Manager (PRIII)
County Location: San Joaquin County
Date Posted: February 10, 2014
Closing Date: February 24, 2014
Under the general direction of the State EFNEP Coordinator and NFCS Advisor, the Program Manager is responsible for implementation and management of the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program in San Joaquin and Sacramento Counties and possibly additional surrounding counties. EFNEP is a nutrition education program for low-income families with children and youth. The scope of this position includes supervision, teaching, and training; having a working knowledge of personnel management; maintaining subject matter competence; collaborating, providing community leadership, serving on coalitions with agencies providing related services; evaluation; data management; report writing and lesson delivery as appropriate. In addition, prepare and manage work plans and operating budget in consultation with program staff and assisting with applied research and evaluation activities.
For more information and to apply: https://jobs.ucop.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=57041 on Req#20140060. AA/EOE.
UC Blogs
Do Honey Bees Impact the Native Bees?
The European honey bee, also known as the Western honey bee, has been in the United States for s-o-o-o long that we think it's a native. It's not. European colonists brought the honey bee (Apis mellifera) to the Jamestown colony (Virginia) in 1622....
'Teddy Bear' Bees
Along about this time of year, the calls come pouring into the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology and the Bohart Museum of Entomology. "I just saw a golden bumble bee. I think it's a new species! Can I name it?" "I just saw a huge bee...
Monarchs 'n Milkweed
Monarchs and milkweed are in the news again. As well they should be. The declining monarch population, coupled with the decreasing scarcity of their host plant, the milkweed, is disturbing. The larvae of the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) feed...
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Brent A Holtz Ph.D.
San Joaquin County Cooperative Extension
Robert J. Cabral Ag Center
2101 E. Earhart Avenue, Ste 200, Stockton, CA 95206
Phone: (209) 953-6100
Fax: (209) 953-6128
e-mail: cesanjoaquin@ucdavis.edu
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UC Blogs
Aspen grove restoration doesn’t impact local streams
Posted 3/14/2014 -
An aspen grove is an oasis of color and movement in Sierra Nevada forests. Smooth white architecture in the winter gives way to pale green leaves shimmering with the slightest breeze. In the fall, the leaves turn fire gold and flutter to the ground like...
UC team launches 'Voices from the Drought'
Posted 3/12/2014 -
Water sloshes from a fill hole atop the plastic tank and strikes the dirt road in puffs of dust. With weathered hands, short nails and a once green felt cowboy hat, Adam Cline motors the water truck through the anxious herd. Piled on the floor beside him...
New book helps pros manage invasive weeds in California forests
Posted 3/5/2014 -
Beautiful but unwelcome in California wildlands, brooms are shrubs introduced into North America from Europe in the mid-1800s. Common species include Scotch broom (Cytisus scoparius) and Portuguese broom (Cytisus striatus). Brooms were introduced as...
What happens when a wildfire sweeps through your study area?
Posted 2/27/2014 -
On Aug. 10, 2013, a wildfire started in a steep canyon on the Tahoe National Forest. When it was finally declared controlled on Oct. 8, the 'American Fire' as it was named, had burned approximately 27,440 acres, including half (1,100 acres) of the Sierra...
UC to measure energy and greenhouse gas footprints of orchard crops
Posted 2/20/2014 -
What if the trees in an orchard could be considered a savings account for energy and carbon? When determining the value of an orchard, we may account for the fruits it bears, the air it cleans, and the labor it employs. But with California climate...