Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture

Center's research summaries now available on-line only

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By MARY ADAMS, Policy and Outreach Coordinator

Since 1992, the Leopold Center has published its Center Progress Report, a publication containing summaries of research projects completed during the previous year. Readers learned about the wide variety of studies and demonstrations that the Center had funded and helped guide to completion.

Earlier this year the decision was made to cease publication of the Center Progress Report, for both financial and environmental reasons. The Center will continue to share its latest research results with the public, but these summaries will be provided in a different format. Instead of appearing in a paperbound volume, these 2009 research summaries will be available only on the Center’s Web site for reading or reprinting.

“This change in delivery method will save money for the Center and also will allow us to provide the very newest results from our three research initiatives to the larger public much more quickly. Most of our readers are used to receiving information on-line and we hope the transition will be an easy one for them,” notes Center director Jerry DeWitt. “While we regret the loss of the paper version of the Center Progress Report, posting the summaries on-line is an environmentally responsible decision that positions the Center squarely within the directives of the ISU campus sustainability mandate.”

The Center will offer new one-page project synopses of the research results at the on-line site, as well as the usual longer summaries for every completed project. Rather than issuing only one volume of reports per year, new summaries will be added to the page quarterly as investigators submit their findings to the Center.

Copies of the remaining paper volumes of the Center Progress Report from 2001 through 2008 are available by writing to the Leopold Center at 209 Curtiss Hall, ISU, Ames, IA 50011, or by calling (515) 294-3711.

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