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Hannah Carter: Need for leaders in Florida agriculture and natural resources
Dr. Hannah Carter grew up surrounded by the potato fields of Aroostook County, Maine. She graduated 1995 with a B.S. degree in Environmental Science from the University of Maine at Presque Isle. Upon graduation, she began her career with the University of Maine...
Heather McPherson: PIE Center writes the next chapter in food safety
Heather McPherson is the Food Editor, restaurant reviewer and a multimedia journalist for the Orlando Sentinel. She is a past president of the Association of Food Journalists and serves on the AFJ conference planning committee. The author of two cookbooks, she has...
Laura Warner: Need to pursue all solutions to conserving water
Dr. Laura Warner is an assistant professor of extension education in the Department of Agricultural Education and Communication at the University of Florida. She focuses on program evaluation, behavior change, and social marketing. Her appointment supports the Center...
Sonia Tighe: ‘Great opportunity’ to educate consumers about Florida blueberries
Sonia Tighe is the director of membership for FFVA and manages FFVA’s Florida Specialty Crop Foundation. Tighe partners with UF/IFAS and USDA on research grants and administers a scholarship program for children of migrant workers. Prior to joining FFVA, Tighe worked...
Preston Haskell: Consequences of aquifer pumping
Preston Haskell is founder and chairman of The Haskell Company, the nation’s leading integrated design-build firm, headquartered in Jacksonville. He graduated with honors from Princeton University with a degree in civil engineering, received a Master of Business...
Eric Hellgren: Conflict and conservation of black bears in Florida
After receiving his Ph.D. in 1988 from Virginia Tech University, Eric Hellgren held research and academic appointments at the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute at Texas A&M University-Kingsville and at Oklahoma State University before moving to Southern...
Bo Beaulieu: PIE Center provides voice for agricultural and natural resource issues
Before joining Purdue University in April 2013, Bo Beaulieu served as director of the Southern Rural Development Center and professor of rural sociology at Mississippi State University for nearly 16 years. He previously served as faculty at the University of...
Noel Perkins: Promising insights revealed in public perceptions of agricultural water use
By Noel Perkins Vice president of communications Florida Dairy Farmers It’s long been said that farmers were the world’s first environmentalists. And dairy farmers are among those in agriculture leading the way for environmental stewardship and sustainability. Sound...
Jenny Adler: Survey shows disconnect between water research, public
By Jenny Adler Water is one of the quintessential characteristics of Florida – visitors flock to the Sunshine State to visit its beaches, rivers, lakes, and springs. In Florida, we live on top of our main water supply: beneath our feet, the water winds its way through...
Colleen K. Porter: Surveys discover how people think, feel
Survey research is based on the idea that the only way to find out about real people is to talk to real people. Surveys collect data about how folks live and what they think across a wide range of issues, including election polling, market research, evaluation of...
W. Timothy Coombs: Easy-to-overlook points in crisis planning
Most managers have no trouble covering the basics for crisis planning. Managers are competent at creating the basic crisis management plans and crisis teams However, there are a few finer points managers often overlook when creating their crisis management plans and...
Daniel Hahn: Expand the web of emergency management
How do you view emergency management? Are you the kind that thinks if it is not written in a FEMA document then it is not worthy of being emergency management? Do you think that emergency management has boundaries it should not cross for political reasons? Do you...
