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Current Members
The current members were instated at the Northern Plains Area office on October 29, 2008. Individual names will link you to their respective biographies.
A list server was created to facilitate communications with the NPA Council members. You may communicate directly to all members by emailing them at NPACOP.
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Diona Austill
Web Master
NACOP Representative |
Livestock and Range Research Laboratory
Miles City, MT |
diona.austill@
ars.usda.gov
Phone: 406-874-8219
Fax: 406-874-8289 |
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Louise Dalton
Technical Advisor |
Northern Plains Area Office
Fort Collins, CO |
louise.dalton@
ars.usda.gov
Phone: 970-492-7058
Fax: 970-492-7065 |
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Olga Lee
Ex-Officio Member |
Northern Plains Area Office
Fort Collins, CO |
olga.lee@ars.usda.gov
Phone: 970-492-7057
Fax: 970-492-7065 |
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Marianne McCaulay
New Secretary Coordinator |
Agricultural Systems Research Unit, Fort Collins, CO |
marianne.mccaulay@
ars.usda.gov
Ph: 970-492-7312
Fax: 970-492-7310 |
Nikki Mullin
Recorder |
Agricultural Systems Research Unit, Sidney, MT |
nikki.mullin@ars.usda.gov
Phone: 406-433-9401
Fax: 406-433-5038 |
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Linda Parnell
Chair |
U.S. Meat Animal Research Ctr
Reproduction Research Unit
Clay Center, NE |
linda.parnell@
ars.usda.gov
Phone: (402)762-4191
Fax: (402)762-4382 |
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Kim Swanson
Media/PR |
Red River Agriculture Research Center, Fargo, ND |
kimberly.swanson@ars.usda.gov
Phone: 701-239-1370
Fax: 701-239-1202 | |
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Biographies
Diona Austill
Program Support Assistant
Fort Keogh Livestock and Range Research Laboratory
Miles City, Montana
Federal Service: 18 yrs ARS Service: 18 yrs
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Diona Austill began her career with the USDA, ARS, Fort Keogh Livestock and Range Research Laboratory, on May 2, 1988, as a Word Processor for the Montana Agricultural Experiment Station. In October 1989, her position was converted to a federal Clerk/Typist. On July 28, 1991, Diona was promoted to RL Secretary. On December 11, 2005, she was promoted to a Program Support Assistant. Diona currently serves as the Program Support Assistant to the Research Leader for the Fort Keogh Livestock and Range Research Laboratory in Miles City, Montana.
Currently Diona serves on the Northern Plains Area Diversity Task Force as the Chair for the 2009 calendar year. She also serves on the Northern Plains Area Council of Office Professionals as the |
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Webmaster and the representative to the NACOP where she is Jr-CoChair.
Diona attended Miles Community College where she received an Associate of Science Degree in Secretarial Science, and then attended the University of Phoenix Online, and in 2005, received a Bachelors of Science in Information Technology. |
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Louise Dalton
Secretary to the Associate Area Director & Assistant Area Director
Northern Plains Area
Fort Collins, Colorado
Federal Service: 40 yrs ARS Service: 38 yrs
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Louise’s career with ARS began in 1967 when she transferred from the Draft Board to a clerk-typist position in the Administrative Office, Weslaco, TX. She then served as secretary to Research Leaders for Entomology, and Soil and Water also in Weslaco. In 1984 she transferred to Ft. Collins, CO, as secretary to the Research Leader for Irrigation and Drainage and joined the Area Office as Secretary to the Area Administrative Officer in 1987. She served as secretary to the Assistant Area Director from 1998 to 1999 and is now secretary to the Associate Area Director and Assistant Area Director. She is a charter member of the NPA Secretarial Advisory Council, serving as Chair beginning October 1996 until November 2000. Louise was appointed NPASAC Technical Advisor beginning May 2002 until November 2005. |
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Olga Lee
Secretary to the Area Director
Northern Plains Area
Fort Collins, Colorado
Federal Service: 18 yrs ARS Service: 18 yrs
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Olga’s career with ARS began in 1989 as Secretary to the Sugarbeet Research Unit. In 1991, she was selected as Secretary to the Center Director of the Natural Resources Research Center. When the Center was dissolved in 1995, Olga joined the Area Office staff as Secretary to the Assistant Area Director. In 1997, Olga was appointed to her current position as Secretary to the Area Director of the NPA. She served as the Technical Advisor for the NPA Secretarial Advisory Council from July 1997 through September 2000. Currently she serves as Ex-Officio Member of the NPACOP in her capacity as Secretary to the Area Director. She also serves as the Chair to the Colorado-Wyoming Secretarial Group. |
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Marianne McCaulay
Program Support Assistant
Agricultural Systems Research Unit
Fort Collins, Colorado
Federal Service: 1.5 yrs ARS Service: 1.5 yrs
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Marianne began her USDA-ARS career in May 2006 as Program Support Assistant to the Research Leader of the Agricultural Systems Research Unit in Fort Collins. She brings with her years of prior experience in private industry. Many were spent as a member of the Medical and Health Claim Division management teams of a large insurance corporation headquartered in New Jersey. More recently she served as Executive Secretary to the V.P., Operations of a medical device manufacturing company in Boulder, CO. Marianne began her term in NPACOP in October of 2007 and presently serves as Recorder for the Council. |
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Nikki Mullin
Secretary to the Research Leader
Agricultural Systems Research Unit
Sidney, MT
Federal Service: 3 years ARS Service: 3years
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Nikki began her career working at the lab as a student during high school. After college, she returned to the lab as the Secretary to the Research Leader of the Agricultural Systems Research Unit. |
Linda Parnell
Secretary to the Research Leader
Reproduction Research Unit
U.S. Meat Animal Research Center, SPUR 18D
Clay Center, Nebraska
Federal Service: 24 yrs ARS Service: 24 yrs
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Linda Parnell began her career at the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center (USMARC) in June of 1980 as a Staff Secretary II employed by the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. In September 1982, she became an ARS employee as Secretary to the Research Leader, Reproduction Research Unit, at USMARC. In January 2007, Linda accepted the invitation to complete the term of Jackie Byrkit on the NPA Secretarial Advisory Council. She assumed responsibility for the "Welcome Package," a collection of resources that is sent to secretaries new to the NPA for 2007. In 2008 she became the NPACOP Chair. |
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Kim Swanson
Secretary to the Center Director
Red River Agricultural Research Center
Biosciences Research Laboratory
1605 Albrecht Blvd.
Fargo, ND 58105-5674
Federal Service: 2 yrs ARS Service: 2 yrs
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Kim began her USDA-ARS career in November 2006 as Secretary to the Cereal Crops Research Unit. In January 2008, she was selected to her current position as Secretary to the Center Director of the Red River Valley Agricultural Research Center. Prior to USDA-ARS, she worked as an administrative assistant with the North Dakota Office of Attorney General and private law firms in the Fargo-Moorhead area. Kim began her term with NPACOP in October 2008. |
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