Future meetings and conference calls should also be listed under the Calendar of Events.

2017 ESS/SAES/SAES/ARD Fall Meeting - September 25-27, 2017 - Philadelphia, PA

• Meeting Registration and Information
• Hotel Reservations
  
• Agenda
  

2017 ESCOP meeting - March 6, 2017, Alexandria, VA 

• Meeting Minutes    

2016 ESCOP Executive Committee Meeting - November 14, 2016 - Austin, TX  

• Agenda and Briefs  

2016 Joint ESS-CES Meeting - September 19-22, 2016 - Jackson Hole, WY 

• ESS Business Minutes
• Workshop Agenda w/ linked presentations

2016 ESCOP Meeting - July 19, 2016 - San Antonio, TX 

• Meeting Minutes     

• North Central Region
• Northeast Region
• Southern Region
• Western Region 
• Association of 1890

 Impacts of Agricultural Research  

• Ag is America
• Multistate Research Impacts
• Land Grant Impacts

Other Important Documents and Links

ESS Excellence in Leadership Award

• 2017 Award Announcement and Description
• 2015 Winners:

  • Dr. Alton Thompson - Association of 1890 Research Directors

  • Dr. Fred Cholick - North Central Regional Association

  • Dr. Mike Hoffmann - North East Regional Association

  • Dr. Eric Young - Southern Association of Agricultural Experiment Station Directors
  • Dr. Ron Pardini - Western Association of Agricultural Experiment Station Directors
• 2014 Winners:
  
  • Dr. Carolyn Brooks - Association of 1890 Research Directors
  • Dr. Arlen Leholm - North Central Regional Association
  • Dr. Bruce McPheron - North East Regional Association
  • Dr. Craig Nessler - Southern Association of Agricultural Experiment Station Directors
  • Dr. Colin Kaltenbach - Western Association of Agricultural Experiment Station Director

• 2017 Award Announcement and Nomination Format
• Past Winners:
  • 2016 - S1060 - Fly management in animal agriculture systems and impacts on animal health and food safety
  • 2015 - NC140 - Improving Economic and Environment Sustainability in Tree-Fruit Production Through Changes in Rootstock Use
  • 2014 - W2128 - Microirrigation for substainable water use
  • 2013 - SERA005 - Sweet Potato Collaborators Conference
  • 2012 - NCERA208 - Response to Emerging Threat: Soybean Rust 
  • 2011 - S1032 - Improving the Sustainability of Livestock and Poultry Production in the United States
    
  • 2010 - NE1033 - Biological Improvement of Chestnut through Technologies that Address Management of the Species, its Pathogens and Pests
    
  • 2009 - S1039 - Biology, Impact, and Management of Soybean Insect Pests in Soybean Production Systems
  • 2008 - NC229 - Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Disease: Methods for the integrated control, prevention and elimination of PRRS in United States Swine Herds