SAES-422 Multistate Research Activity Accomplishments Report
Sections
Status: Approved
Basic Information
- Project No. and Title: OLD_SCC76 : Economics and Management of Risk in Agriculture and Natural Resources
- Period Covered: 10/01/2015 to 09/30/2016
- Date of Report: 02/28/2017
- Annual Meeting Dates: 03/17/2016 to 03/19/2016
Participants
Yuanfeng Zhao Joshua D. Woodard, PhD Xiaoxue Du 'Jimmy' Liang Lu Bruce Sherrick Calum Turvey Apurba Shee Rod Rejesus Bretford Griffin Valentina Hartarska Joe Connor Lee Ziegler Jaclyn Kropp Brian Wright Todd Kuethe Richard Joe Atwood Zhengfei Guan Max Bucher Clayton Michaud Thomas Sproul Shadayen Pervez Theo Skevas feng wu Jennifer E. Ifft Todd Hubbs Eric Belasco Tom Zacharias Octavio Ramirez Frank Schnapp Marin Bozic Scott Fausti Reuben Moore Ekaterina Vorotnikova Harun Bulut
Minutes from the Business Meeting, SCC-76 Spring 2016 Annual Meeting
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The business meeting was held on Saturday, March 19, 2016, at the conclusion of the sessions.
A vote was held to elect the accommodations chair and the program chair for 2017.
- Program chair: Todd Kuethe, University of Illinois
- Accommodations chair: Tom Sproul, University of Rhode Island
A vote was held about registration policies. The group agreed that registration fees will be non-refundable, and that we will continue to offer "early-bird" and "late" registration fees to incentivize early registration. We will also continue our program of registration fee waivers for (retired) emeritus members that no longer have institutional sponsorship.
The incoming accommodations chair, Dr. Sproul, proposed to the group that we evaluate other cities for our next annual meeting. The group voted to pursue this, with a procedure of collecting information about costs in various candidate cities and then returning to the group for a vote.
Post-meeting follow-up on the location search
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The list of cities was quickly pared down to Pensacola, New Orleans and Las Vegas, because other cities had either higher travel costs or substantial lack of interest in the group. The group members voted by email (by a narrow margin) to move the meeting to Las Vegas, but this could not happen in time for the 2017 meeting because of substantially higher registration costs.
So, the 2017 meeting will be held in Pensacola. For the 2017 business meeting, Dr. Sproul will prepare quotes including room rates, airfare estimates and registration fees for each of the three cities for 2018. The group can then vote explicitly on the tradeoffs.