CE Specialists

Name	Area of Expertise
Butler, Leslie J 530 752 3681 ljbutler@ucdavis.edu	Dairy production, marketing and policy, agricultural and natural resource policy, biotechnology, technological change, public policy issues
Cook, Roberta L 530 752 1531 cook@primal.ucdavis.edu	Fruit and Vegetable Marketing, Food Distribution, International Competition and Trade, Mexican Horticultural Industry, Food safety
Hardesty, Shermain Deus 530 752 0467 shermain@primal.ucdavis.edu	Cooperative Theory, Management and Finance, and Food Marketing and Policy
Klonsky, Karen M 530 752 3563 klonsky@primal.ucdavis.edu	Farm management and Production, Sustainable Agriculture and Organic Agriculture

Name	Area of Expertise
Conte, Fred S 530 752 7689 fsconte@ucdavis.edu	Research interests: Software simulation for shellfish sanitation, information transfer and commercial sturgeon production.
Meyer, Deanne 530 752 9391 dmeyer@ucdavis.edu	Animal waste management.
Mitloehner, Frank M. 530 752 3936 FMMitloehner@ucdavis.edu	Air quality research related to livestock production, especially quantification of ammonia, dust, and odor emissions in dairies, beef feedlots, and poultry operations; environmental physiology research, focusing on effects of air emissions on animal health and welfare.
Oltjen, James W 530 752 5650 jwoltjen@ucdavis.edu	On-farm animal management systems; on-farm implementation of strategies to reduce the environmental impact of cows.
Robinson, Peter H 530 754 7565 phrobinson@ucdavis.edu	On-farm animal management systems; on-farm implementation of strategies to reduce the environmental impact of cows.
Van Eenennaam, Alison 530 752 7942 alvaneenennaam@ucdavis.edu	Animal genomics, biotechnology.

Name	Area of Expertise
Flint, Mary L 530 752 7692 mlflint@ucdavis.edu	Integrated pest management of landscape, agricultural and garden pests; biological control of arthropod pests; alternatives to pesticides; adoption of alternative practices by practitioners; innovative delivery of pest management information.
Godfrey, Larry D 530 752 0473 ldgodfrey@ucdavis.edu	Integrated pest management of insects and mites in field and vegetable crops; plant (physiological and yield) response to insect injury, refinement of economic thresholds, IPM of field and vegetable crops.
Mussen, Eric C 530 752 0472 ecmussen@ucdavis.edu	Managing honey bees and wild bees for maximum field production, while minimizing pesticide damage to pollinator populations.
Zalom, Frank G 530 752 0275 fgzalom@ucdavis.edu	Integrated Pest Management (IPM), Tree Crops, Small Fruits, and Vegetable Crops Entomology, Water Quality, Invasive Species
Westerdahl, Becky 530 752 1405 bbwesterdahl@ucdavis.edu	Applied nematology, integrated pest management; nematology extension

Name	Area of Expertise
Grosholz, Edwin D 530 752 9151 tedgrosholz@ucdavis.edu	Population dynamics and community ecology, invasion biology, conservation biology and biodiversity of marine and estuarine systems, applications of ecological theory to coastal management problems.

Name	Area of Expertise
Barrett, Diane M. 530 752 4800 dmbarrett@ucdavis.edu	Effects of raw material characteristics (cultivar, maturity, organic/conventional production etc.) and processing (aseptic, canning, drying, freezing, high pressure, etc.) on color, texture, flavor and nutritional quality of fruit and vegetable products.
Bruhn, Christine M 530 752 2774 cmbruhn@ucdavis.edu	Consumer Issues in food safety and quality and new technolgies such as food irradiation and biotechnology.
Harris, Linda J. 530 754 9485 ljharris@ucdavis.edu	Microbial food safety with emphasis on fruits, vegetables and tree nuts, applied microbiology
Rosenberg, Moshe 530 752 4682 mrosenberg@ucdavis.edu	Food engineering, food technology, dairy chemistry, dairy technology, dairy products, food microstructure, microencapsulation.
Winter, Carl K 530 752 5448 ckwinter@ucdavis.edu	Food toxicology, risk assessment, risk communication.

Name

Area of Expertise

Campbell, David C
530 754 4328
dave.c.campbell@ucdavis.edu

Intersection between public policy and community development processes at the local levelÑfocusing on governance, civic engagement, citizenship, and economic development.

Ontai-Grzebik, Lenna L
530 752 6410
lontaigrz@ucdavis.edu

Research focuses on understanding early socialization processes between parents and young children. This research program aims to understand factors that affect parents' socialization efforts such as income and cultural background. She is active in translating and disseminating current research findings in the areas of parenting, early social development and child care to programs for families with young children.

Name	Area of Expertise
Grattan, Stephen R 530 752 4618 srgrattan@ucdavis.edu	Salinity effects on plants at the plant and field scale; agricultural drainage water reuse and management; salinity-trace element interactions in plants; evapotranspiration.
Harter, Thomas 530 752 6998 thharter@ucdavis.edu	Flow and transport processes in groundwater and in the vadose zone; non-point source pollution of groundwater; groundwater remediation; groundwater resources management; geostatistics; stochastic analysis; numerical modeling.
Jackson, Louise E 530 754 9116 lejackson@uckac.edu	Soil microbial carbon and nitrogen cycling; Mycorrhizae; Plant water relations and nutrient uptake; Organic and conventional vegetable production; Reduced tillage systems; Grassland restoration ecology.
O'Geen, Anthony T. 530 752 2155 atogeen@ucdavis.edu	Soil-landscape relationships, hydropedology, application of digital soil databases, soil survey; pedologic and hydrologic characterization of deep regolith; management of soil physical properties; macro- and mesofauna in soil.
Pettygrove, G. Stuart 530 752 2533 gspettygrove@ucdavis.edu	Soil fertility, nitrate and phosphate pollution of water, dairy manure management, precision agriculture and site-specific farming, land application of wastes and wastewaters.
Schwankl, Lawrence J 559 646 6500 ljschwankl@uckac.edu	Drip, sprinkler, and flood irrigation systems with emphasis on irrigation of trees and vines. Irrigation system maintenance and chemigation. Irrigation scheduling using soil moisture monitoring and evapotranspiration techniques.
Snyder, Richard L 530 752 4628 rlsnyder@ucdavis.edu	Irrigation scheduling; freeze/frost protection; evapotranspiration modeling

Name	Area of Expertise
Kaiser, Lucia L. 530 754 9063 llkaiser@ucdavis.edu	Examining the impact of acculturation and food security on the child-parent feeding relationship among Latinos, developing tools to evaluate nutrition education, and evaluating lifeskills education on transition from welfare to work.
Townsend, Marilyn S. 530 754 9222 mstownsend@ucdavis.edu	Evaluation studies of intervention programs and integrates theories and methodologies from cognitive psychology with dietary behavior change strategies. Nutrition education (research and programs) with an emphasis on children and adolescents. She is involved in theory-driven program development and implementation, nutrition educational methodologies and program evaluation. Her work also involves health behavior change strategies.
Zidenberg-Cherr, Sheri A 530 752 3817 sazidenbergcherr@ucdavis.edu	A major focus is the study of the nutritional status of populations considered at risk of nutritional deficiencies and exposure to environmental and physiological stresses. Another aspect involves the development and testing of new approaches to educate the public such as through the education of primary targets for consumer questions, i.e. physicians.

Name	Area of Expertise
Davis, Richard M 530 752 0303 rmdavis@ucdavis.edu	Diseases of vegetable and field crops, mushroom production.
Golino, Deborah A 530 754 8102 dagolino@ucdavis.edu	Fruit crop clean stock programs; Viral diseases of grapevines and fruit trees; Vector plant pathology; Phytosanitary regulations and law.
Gubler, Walter D 530 752 0304 wdgubler@ucdavis.edu	Research interests include biology, epidemiology and control of foliar pathogens of fruit crops with emphasis on grapevine and strawberry diseases.
Subbarao, Krishnamurthy V 408 755 2890 kvsubbarao@ucdavis.edu	Epidemiology and integrated control of fungal diseases of vegetables, cool-season vegetables, verticillium of strawberries, lettuce and other crops, methyl bromide alternatives.

Name	Area of Expertise
Ajwa, Husein A. 831 755 2823 haajwa@ucdavis.edu	Soil and water management, methyl bromide alternatives, cool-season vegetables. Crop and Ecosystem Sciences Section
Cantwell, Marita 530 752 7305 micantwell@ucdavis.edu	Postharvest physiology, handling, and storage of vegetables, including specialty and fresh cut vegetables. Horticulture Section
Crisosto, Carlos 559 646 6596 chcrisosto@uckac.edu	Postharvest handling systems to maintain quality and safety of stone fruit and kiwifruit. Horticulture Section
Dejong, Theodore M 530 752 1843 tmdejong@ucdavis.edu	Environmental plant physiology; photosynthetic efficiency of tree crops relative to the utilization of nitrogen, water, and solar radiation. Horticulture Section
Ditomaso, Joseph M. 530 754 8715 jmditomaso@ucdavis.edu	Taxonomy, ecology, physiology, and control of rangeland, forestry and wetland weeds; poisonous plants. Crop and Ecosystem Sciences Section
Evans, Richard Y 530 752 6617 ryevans@ucdavis.edu	Management of commercial flower and nursery crops; nutrition of ornamental plants; container soil-plant interactions; propagation, production, and field establishment of plants for ecological restoration. Section: Primary - Horticulture; Secondary - Crop and Ecosystem Sciences
Fennimore, Steven A. 831 755 2896 safennimore@ucdavis.edu	Weed management in vegetable crops and small fruits as well as weed seed physiology and seed bank ecology. Crop and Ecosystem Sciences Section
Ferguson, Louise 559 737 3061 lferguson@uckac.edu	Pistachios, olives, figs, citrus, persimmons. Horticulture Section
Hartz, Timothy K 530 752 1738 tkhartz@ucdavis.edu	Culture and management of warm season vegetables; soil and plant fertility; crop stand establishment. Horticulture Section
Hill, James E 530 752 3458 jehill@ucdavis.edu	Conducts research and education programs on rice based cropping systems with focus on production technologies such as direct seeding; weed control; nutrition; residue management; and the relationship of these factors to environmental quality. Crop and Ecosystem Sciences Section
Hutmacher, Robert B 661 746 8020 rbhutmacher@ucdavis.edu	Conducts research and extension education programs in cotton production systems and irrigation management and plant water stress. In cotton, research efforts include varietal evaluations, irrigation and nutrient management, use of plant growth regulators, and cultural controls and host plant resistance to deal with specific fungal diseases. Crop and Ecosystem Sciences Section
Johnson, R. Scott 559 646 6547 sjohnson@uckac.edu	Freestone peaches, nectarines, plums, kiwifruit, apples. Horticulture Section
Kaffka, Stephen R 530 752 8108 srkaffka@ucdavis.edu	Investigates ways to improve crop production efficiency and environmental quality relative to crop prodution. Works at the commodity and farming systems levels. Crop and Ecosystem Sciences Section
Lampinen, Bruce Douglas 530 752 2588 bdlampinen@ucdavis.edu	Coordination of extension teaching and research activities for almonds and walnuts on a statewide basis. Horticulture Section
Lanini, Wayne T 530 752 4476 wtlanini@ucdavis.edu	Low input weed control in vegetables and agronomic crops. Crop and Ecosystem Sciences Section
Larson, Kirk 949 857 0136 kdlarson@ucdavis.edu	Strawberry biology and production management, and development of improved strawberry cultivars. Horticulture Section
Lieth, J H 530 752 7198 jhlieth@ucdavis.edu	Crop ecology of greenhouse and nursery crops; greenhouse environment control automation; modeling of ornamental crops; automated irrigation. Section: Primary - Horticulture; Secondary - Crop and Ecosystem Sciences
Mitcham, Elizabeth J 530 752 7512 ejmitcham@ucdavis.edu	Alternatives to postharvest chemicals for control of insects, decay and physiological disorders; fruit responses to postharvest handling systems. Apple, pear, cherry, blueberry, strawberry, table grapes, walnut, almond, pistachio, tropical fruit. Horticulture Section
Mitchell, Jeffrey P 559 646 6565 jpmitchell@uckac.edu	Conservation farming systems. Conservation tillage production alternatives. Air, soil and water quality in reduced till systems. Cropping diversity, rotations, and intensification in no-till production. Crop and Ecosystem Sciences Section
Oki, Lorence R 530 754 4135 lroki@ucdavis.edu	Irrigation managment in urban horticulture; water quality effects on plant growth; Evaluation and introduction of California native plants for use in landscape horticulture. Section: Primary - Horticulture; Secondary - Crop and Ecosystem Sciences
Putnam, Daniel H 530 752 8982 dhputnam@ucdavis.edu	Alfalfa and forage crops systems, alternative field crops, crop ecology. Crop and Ecosystem Sciences Section
Suslow, Trevor V. 530 754 8313 tvsuslow@ucdavis.edu	Integrated technologies for posthavest quality; postharvest pathology and biocontrol; food safety; postharvest quality and safety issues; refrigerated transportation. Horticulture Section
Tate, Kenneth W. 530 754 8988 kwtate@ucdavis.edu	Rangeland hydrology, water quality, nonpoint source pollution, grazing management. Crop and Ecosystem Sciences Section

Name	Area of Expertise
Fidelibus, Matthew W 559 646 6510 mwf@uckac.edu	Applied and basic research on grapes for raisin, table, and wine.
Wolpert, James A 530 754 6245 jawolpert@ucdavis.edu	Improvement of cultural practices for winegrapes.

Name	Area of Expertise
Thompson, Lisa C 530 754 5732 lcthompson@ucdavis.edu	Adaptive management of anadromous and inland fish populations; population dynamics modeling; impacts of dams and other water diversions on aquatic ecosystems; lake fertilization; food webs in rivers, lakes and reservoirs; terrestrial-aquatic linkages in watersheds.

Name

Area of Expertise

Joy, Amy B
530 752 7959
abjoy@ucdavis.edu

Community nutrition, with an emphasis on improving the nutritional status of high risk audiences. Current areas of research are: (a) development and testing of nutrition education methodologies; (b) identification of dietary intake patterns and nutrition-related practices of high-risk audiences; (c) development of new ways to measure nutritional status; and (d) nutrition education interventions for improving nutritional status in high-risk audiences

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