I am very sorry to share this sad news.  Arlene Boda died on Tuesday.  Please share any stories or memories you have.  Arlene was very active in CERA, and I personally remember Arlene as an ever ebullient, happy person, always looking for any way to help.

Welcome to the CERA Survey to Improve the Website results and analysis.  Please weigh in with your thoughts.

Introduction
We asked the committee chairs to distribute the survey announcement to their committees.  The announcement was also posted on CERA’s pages on Facebook and LinkedIn.  We had 24 respondents and almost everyone answered every question.

The Survey to Improve the CERA Website is now closed.  Many thanks to the 24 respondents.  We continue to welcome your ideas on improving the website and CERA's on-line presence.

I am currently compiling the survey results and will post them with my commentary by the end of the week.

Thanks again!

Mistah Prez

Please help us improve the CERA on-line experience by completing the survey here:

http://tiny.cc/oTnTJ

Any and all comments and suggestions are welcome.

Today's 2009 CERA Annual Meeting was a terrific success.  Thanks to all who came and participated.  We missed those of you who could not attend.  Below are notes on what you missed, and links to several items discussed at the meeting.

Kennedy/Jenks Presentation
Susanne Zechiel and Bob Chrobak presented on Winery & Vineyard Water Management.  The presentation cannot be attached here as it exceeds our storage limits.  Please contact me if you would like me to email you the pdf file, which is 1.1 MB.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/pge_wastewater

Our speakers for the annual meeting need our help with this survey on energy use in wastewater treatment.  Please click on the link above to take part.  More details are below:

Post-doctoral researcher Mark Krasnow requests CERA's help with a crop-thinning trial.  The trial compares thinning at veraison with leaving the vines untouched.  Whether or not you thin in your vineyards, you can thin/not-thin 20 vines selected at random, can't you?

Hey CERA,

Let's put the "R" back in CERA! UC-Davis professor Linda Bisson has asked for our help with a research project on native fermentations.  If you think you can participate, please let me know.  This project has relevance for all the committees, so let's get as much participation as we can.

I'll talk about this further at the annual meeting on July 10, too.  Feel free to ask any questions here, via email vp@cerawine.com or at the Annual Meeting.

Project details: