Images Cover: Top Entrance sign to the WSU Puyallup Center; Center Kalkus Hall, the main laboratory and office facility; Bottom left Native vegetation at the Center; Bottom right State-of-the-art greenhouses. Inside front cover: A Washington State ferry crosses the Puget Sound. Photo by snowflake5 (www.sxc.hu). Page 1: Bottom left The WSU Puyallup Experiment Station first established in 1894; Right Urban development in Tacoma, WA, four miles from the Center. Page 2: Puyallup Center Director Jon Newkirk conducts a monthly Center meeting. Page 3: Bottom left Andy Bary, Senior Scientific Assistant, works with compost professionals at the annual Compost Facility Operator’s Training Class; right New homes built on farmlands. Page 4: Incoming Director John Stark, Professor, gives county Extension faculty a tour of the Salmon Ecotoxicology Laboratory. Page 5: Fonda Gutierrez, Microbiologist, in the Avian Health and Food Safety Laboratory. Page 6: Faculty and staff meet to discuss the upcoming CSREES review. (From left) Vernene Scheurer, Information Systems Manager; Cindy Armstrong, CSANR Assistant Director, Budget and Finance; Katie Coats, Research Scientist; Catherine Daniels, Pesticide Coordinator/Extension Specialist and Professional Services Center Manager. Page 7: Bottom left Barri Herman, Weyerhaeuser Senior Program Manager of Short Rotation Plantations and WSU Puyallup Research Scientist Jon Johnson in the free-standing greenhouses at the Center; right Droughtresistant trees for urban streets in research plots. Page 8: (From left) Juana Royster, WSU King County Extension community health specialist, and Sue Butkus, WSU Puyallup Extension Specialist and Professor of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology, talk with clients about managing diabetes, part of a diabetes education pilot study.
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Page 10: Gary Chastagner, Professor of Plant Pathology, and research assistants inspect wood samples for Phytophthora ramorum (Sudden Oak Death). Page 11: Equipment in the new molecular research lab. Page 12: Craig Cogger, Soil Scientist (right) and Jenny Elizalde (left)use a chlorophyll meter to assess nitrogen availability in sweet corn from cover crops. Page 13: Bottom left Conference class attendees enjoy a sunny day on the lawn outside the Allmendinger Conference Center; Right Low impact Development (LID) landscape design surrounds a Puget Sound building. Page 14: LID stormwater management techniques at work in a Puget Sound neighborhood. Page 15: Student members of the Operations Military Kids program participate in outside activities. Page 16: Workgroup meets to discuss new $1 million Department of Ecology stormwater retrofit construction and research project at the Center. (From left) Members shown include: Peg Staehli, principal, SvR Design; Kathy Gwilym, Engineer, SvR Design; Dory Clausnitzer, WSU Puyallup Facilities Operations Manger; Curtis Hinman, Pierce County WSU Extension Faculty and Low Impact Development Specialist; Nate Cormier, SvR Senior Landscape Architect. Page 17: Stormwater drain receiving oils and other runoff that travels directly into Puget Sound. Stormwater is a leading source of pollution to the Puget Sound. Page 18: The WSU Puyallup Planning Map is the basis for the WSU Puyallup Long-Range Strategic and Capital Investment Plan currently under development. Proceeds from the land designated “Proposed for Sale” will be invested at the Puyallup Center. Inside back cover: “World Class, Face to Face” took on a new meaning when world-renowned chefs from five Seattle restaurants joined other food professionals and writers for tasting sessions at the WSU Puyallup R.L. Goss Farm. Pat Moore, Professor, organized the event and showed new berry cultivars to the interested food professionals.