Membership
(Send e-mail to the committee: escop-scitech@macc.wisc.edu.)

Member	Assignment	Representing
George Ham (KS)	Chair	.
Randy Woodson (IN)	Chair-Designate	.
Prem Paul (IA)	Delegate	SAES North Central Region
Randy Woodson (IN)	Delegate	SAES North Central Region
Paul Backman (PA)	Delegate	SAES Northeastern Region
Gloria Wyche-Moore (DC)	Delegate	SAES Northeastern Region
Nancy Cox (MS)	Delegate	SAES Southern Region
William Brown (LA)	Delegate	SAES Southern Region
Ron Pardini (NV)	Delegate	SAES Western Region
Richard Heimsch (ID)	Delegate	SAES Western Region
Arthur Allen (MD-ES)	Delegate	ARD delegate
Conrad Bonsi (Tuskegee)	Delegate	ARD
Tom Helms (Sou. Region)	Executive Vice-Chair	Executive Directors
Ralph Otto	Representative	CSREES
William Wagner	Representative	CSREES
Richard Dunkle (IL)	Representative	ARS
Eldon Ortman (IN)	Representative	CROPS 99
Nancy Cox (MS)	Representative	FAIR 2002
(TBA)	Representative	ACOP
Christine Waddill (FL)	Representative	ECOP
Edwin Price (TX)	Representative	ICOP
Cliff Gabriel	Representative	OSTP
Lou Swanson	Representative	Rural Sociology
Dan Rossi	Representative	Agricultural Economics
Patsy Brannon	Representative	Human Ecology
(TBA)	Representative	Other federal agencies as appropriate (e.g., NASA, EPA, DOE)

Existing or Proposed Sub-Committees
(To be developed)

Proposed Assignment of Target Areas from Strategic Plan

Strategic Target 2. Improve the effectiveness of agricultural research management.

• Action Item: Share research management approaches and successful leadership experiences through professional development programs, seminars, workshops, and in other ways.
• Action Item: Develop improved performance and accountability measures to better assure scientific quality and research relevance.
• Action Item: Develop, maintain, and share methods for documenting the impacts of research.
• Action Item: Maintain an inventory of SAES System's capacity (human, fiscal, and physical resources) to better plan and direct activities for solving relevant problems.
• Action Item: Verify the quality of scientific research, utilizing peer review where appropriate, to ensure that research investments are effectively allocated.

• Action Item: Give the SAES System's diversity of disciplines a voice in the creation of a consensus ordering the research portfolio's programs.
• Action Item: Reorganize the Experiment Station Committee on Organization and Policy's (ESCOP) Technical Committees for greater cost efficiency and effectiveness.
• Action Item: Partner with the professional society activities (e.g., FAIR 2002, CROPS 99) for planning national program activities.
• Action Item: Act as liaison with commodity groups to establish agreed programmatic priorities, for mutual support.
• Action Item: Charge the identified program areas with responsibility for monitoring and projecting needed capacity, planning research activities, and reporting accomplishments.

• Minutes - Meeting in Washington, DC: May 12, 1999
• Memo regarding FY 2001 Interagency Research and Development Priorities
• Minutes - Conference call: February 5, 1999
• CSREES Goals and Objectives - Linkage to CRIS RPAs and Assignments to Proposed ESCOP Program Areas (Committee Draft: 2/8/99)