1 / 10

Candice Gardner North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station Ames, IA February 3, 2010

Genebank Operations and Financial Status – Needs, Hopes and Realities. Candice Gardner North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station Ames, IA February 3, 2010.

waylon
Download Presentation

Candice Gardner North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station Ames, IA February 3, 2010

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Genebank Operations and Financial Status – Needs, Hopes and Realities Candice Gardner North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station Ames, IA February 3, 2010

  2. If I am to speak for ten minutes,I need a week for preparation;if fifteen minutes, three days;if half an hour, two days;if an hour, I am ready now.” • — Woodrow Wilson, 28th U. S. President

  3. Presentation Objectives • Summarize situation by reviewing document collated for 2009 PGOC • Each RL now has as official responsibilities for growing Unit funding . How to accomplish this? • Responses to requests for information on operational, research, or other needs, what information is needed? (Determining the target) • Stakeholder identification – ‘growing’ interested stakeholders • Solicit ideas to contribute to successful effort • Discuss research vs. core funding opportunities, options and consequences • ID any additional info or info analysis needs?

  4. From PGOC 2009 Information – Percentage of CRIS funds supporting permanent staff • Corvallis – > 85% • Ames – > 78% • Geneva – > 80% • Griffin – > 77% • Maize Genetics Stock Center – > 92% • NGRL - >54% • OPGC - >93% • Sturgeon Bay - >87% • Pullman - >79%

  5. Ames Personnel Resource Allocations • 61% of Hatch funds and 45% of all ARS personnel expenditures are directly on curatorial personnel (curators and their techs) • 44% of all ARS funds are devoted to a combination of viability testing, seed storage, order processing, entomology and plant pathology • 39% of Hatch funds, and 12% of ARS funds are devoted to administration and facilities management

  6. More and More Pickles are Needed to Satisfy Demand • Demand for germplasm escalates annually • Desire for more and better quality phenotypic and molecular information • Desire for easier means of retrieving, compiling, and utilizing information in a way that supports stakeholder and clientele’s objectives • Additional time and effort devoted to compliance in many areas

  7. How Dealing with it? • Position reductions • Early career hires • Reducing (sometimes eliminating) temp labor • Seeking outside funding • Research support grants • SBIR grants for special projects • Growing Stakeholders and Stakeholder Involvement

  8. Identifying Stakeholders and ‘Growing’ Their Involvement • Classify entities and their interests • Provide information on what we do and how we think it serves them • Ask how we can serve them better • Define and describe what would be needed to support these services. • When asked, provide this information to stakeholders for them to act upon. • What information does your leadership need that they might not have?

  9. Back to GRIN-Global

  10. GRIN-Global Testing Plan • First week of March – First Release Candidate (RC1) Deployed • Site Testing – Imperative to begin before personnel are consumed with field activities • Site feedback essential to ensure smooth transition ; all feedback will go to a single designated person who will circulate it through the Dev Team • Do not despair if you did not receive an immediate response • Over the next few months, a plan for future implementation in the NPGS will be developed and provided by the DBMU. Two systems cannot run concurrently, and how well the transition serves your needs will depend on your involvement in the process.

More Related