Announcements

• We need your year 6 outputs (include projected outputs) in order to finish the Impact Book. Pleases submit your citations (use our REACCH citation style guide and the CRISS report categories, attached). Due: November 1.
• There are several students and many PIs that have not given a research seminar. We will be calling to schedule these. Want to capture for our legacy website.
• We are compiling a project-comprehensive partner list. Attached are what was included in past annual reports and our Beyond REACCH "donut" diagram. Please provide a few sentences describing the partnership.
• Leveraging Impact. The last time we compiled this data was in 2013. We need PI’s to send this to us by November 1. Year 2 leveraging pie chart is attached.
• Focus group update: Dianne
• High school curriculum is up! https://www.reacchpna.org/education/secondary-curriculum
• Need new photos
• Handbook update: Chad
• Next meeting November 18

Kudos

• John Abatzoglou recently had his research, Study: Human-Caused Warming Burns More Western Forests, published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and featured on the New York Times.
• Soil scientists Jodi Johnson-Maynard and Chris Baugher were featured in an October 17 Boston Globe column by writer Sy Montgomery about the giant Palouse earthworm

Short Discussion

• Review draft celebration meeting agenda.

Funding opportunities

• NIFA proposal- Jodi
• Ian- NIFA
• Epscor - Erin