A Southern Region Conference on Technology Transfer and Extension in Natural Resources

The natural resources of the Southern United States are immeasurable in value. The appropriate management and use of these natural resources depends on a continuous research and education effort to develop technologies and respond to social, economic and ecological issues. Research is conducted by colleges and universities, state and federal agencies, environmental organizations, private companies, and others. This research is largely ineffective unless it is implemented across the landscape. Extension workers, natural resources specialists, teachers and professors, technology transfer specialists, and many others work tirelessly to put new science and technology to work to better manage our natural resources. This conference is designed to review these efforts so that we can better understand and improve our efforts in technology transfer, Extension, and science delivery and application. What are we doing now, what traditional programs are still relevant and working, and what opportunities has the age of information technology provided, are just a few of the questions we plan to answer at this conference. The program provides for four types of contributions: Syntheses of the art and science of getting knowledge to users including research on technology transfer, as presentations with submitted papers; Experience-based knowledge, as presentations by technology transfer and Extension specialists; Case studies showing the application of various Extension and technology transfer approaches, as presentations with submitted papers; and Other topics related to technology transfer/science delivery and Extension, given as posters

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