Tuesday, April 29, 2014

New Assignment — by IR-4 Executive Director, Jerry Baron

IR-4 has had an acute problem of overcapacity of facilities and staff to run residue field trials in EPA Data Region 2 for the last several years. We have too many high quality field research directors in the region and not enough work and associated funds to maintain all the sites at full capacity.

To solve this problem, IR-4 HQ, IR-4 Southern Region and North Carolina State University administration are partnering on a unique plan of “sharing” NC Field Research Director, Roger Batts, among the IR-4 units. Since December 2013, Roger has been working about 50% of his time for IR-4 Headquarters. He will be trained to become an off-site Study Director. Roger will also continue to lead the North Carolina’s IR-4 Field Research Center as Director with a much reduced field trial workload (approx. 12 field trials for 2014). Roger will continue to be an employee of NC State University, managing field trials and studies out of his existing IR-4 office on the Raleigh campus.

We hope that the reduced field trials workload in NC will allow other Region 2 Field Research Centers to obtain enough resources to sustain operations. Furthermore, Roger’s new responsibilities will partially backfill the anticipated gap in study directors capacity associated with the recent resignation announcement by Johannes Corley

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