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Bill Braunworth Department Head |
541-737-1317 Contact person by email |
In December 2013, Bill Braunworth was named Head of the Department of Horticulture at Oregon State University. He holds the BS in general agronomy (1975) and the MS in Crop Science (1977) from Colorado State University, and the PhD in horticulture (1986) from Oregon State University.
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Nicholas Andrews Metro Small Farms Extension Agent |
503-678-1264 Contact person by email |
Metro Area Small Farms Extension Agent serving Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas Counties, specializing in Horticulture with a focus on vegetable production and organic methods.
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Neil Bell Professor (Practice), Community Horticulturalist |
503-373-3765 Contact person by email |
I oversee the Master Gardener program in Marion County and Polk County and work with my volunteers to assist homeowners with their garden problems. My research interests involve evaluating evergreen shrubs for un-irrigated landscape applications in western Oregon. Since 2001, I have... |
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Cassie Bouska Assistant Professor (Practice) |
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Charles Bubl Associate Professor, Staff Chair and Extension Horticulturalist in Agriculture |
503-397-3462 Contact person by email |
Consults on organic or conventional horticultural crops and livestock. |
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Kristine Buckland Assitant Professor, Extension Specialist—Vegetable & Specialty Seed Crops |
503-678-1264 Contact person by email |
North Willamette Research and Extension Center (NWREC) |
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Steven Castagnoli Associate Professor/Director, MAREC, Tree Fruits Research and Extension Horticulturalist |
541-386-2030 Contact person by email |
As Extension Horticulturist for Hood River County, my main focus is supporting the Hood River area tree fruit industry with relevant educational programs through implementation projects, workshops, field days, informational meetings, and newsletters. |
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Erica Chernoh Assistant Professor (Practice), Berry Initiative Faculty Research Assistant |
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Ryan Contreras Associate Professor, Ornamental Plant Breeding |
541-737-5462 Contact person by email |
Program OverviewMy teaching and research focuses on woody nursery and landscape plants. I teach spring and fall woody plant identification courses, growth and development of horticultural crops, and plant propagation. Research in my lab is closely aligned with the nursery industry... |
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Leonard Coop Assistant Professor (Practice), Associate Director of the Integrated Plant Protection Center |
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I support agriculture in general by developing and placing online, weather and climate driven models for numerous areas including IPM/pest models, plant disease risk models, crop models, horticultural models, beneficial species models, climate suitability models, and others. I am Assoc.... |
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Signe Danler Instructor |
541-737-5441 Contact person by email |
I support the OSU Extension Master Gardener Program by teaching and managing the online Extension MG training course. I use my experience and training in home horticulture, ecological landscaping and urban forestry to create and teach modules on many subjects for home gardeners. I also design... |
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Laurent Deluc Associate Professor, Grape Genomics and Genetic Engineering |
541-737-4356 Contact person by email |
Our group conduct research on functional genomics with a strong emphasis on specialty and cereal crops. We study different aspects of plant biology in the context of a developmental program and in response to abiotic and biotic stresses. Our plant models grapevine, a major fruit crop in U.S.... |
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Amy Jo Detweiler Professor, Community/Commercial Horticulture, Extension Central Oregon |
541-548-6088 Contact person by email |
I supervise and provide training for the local master gardener program. I work with volunteers to provide community education in home gardening and landscaping. I also provide education to the commercial green industry. My main areas of research include educating the community about... |
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Emily Dixon Instructor |
541-737-2796 Contact person by email |
Blueberry research. |
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Kelly Donegan Senior Instructor I and Head Advisor |
541-737-5448 Contact person by email |
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Brooke Edmunds Assistant Professor (Practice), Community Horticulture Extension |
541-730-3470 Contact person by email |
My focus is on meeting the community horticulture needs in Linn and Benton counties. In this role, I oversee the Master Gardener programs in each county. I also coordinate research-based educational programs in community food systems and IPM. |
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Alice Formiga Assistant Professor (Practice), eOrganic Director |
541-737-3483 Contact person by email |
Alice Formiga leads the eOrganic Community of Practice at extension.org. |
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Amy Garrett Assistant Professor (Practice), Small Farms Program |
541-766-3551 Contact person by email |
Instructor for the OSU Extension Service Small Farms Program serving Benton, Linn, and Polk counties. |
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Louisa Hooven Assistant Professor (Senior Research) |
541-231-5568 Contact person by email |
Entomology |
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Clive Kaiser Professor, Tree Fruits Specialist, Umatilla County Extension |
541-938-5597 Contact person by email |
Temperate fruit, wine grape and vegetable research & Extension in Umatilla County, eastern Oregon. Prevention of Sweet Cherry Fruit Cracking using SureSeal, an Organic Biofilm Due to high labor costs in the Pacific Northwest, when rain-induced fruit... |
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Alec Kowalewski Associate Professor, Turf Specialist (Giustina Endowed) |
541-737-5449 Contact person by email |
The primary goal of my extension and outreach program, which is funded by the Giustina Turf Endowment, is improving the environmental and economic sustainability of turfgrass management. Topics of interest related to this include, utilization of sustainable turfgrass varieties and cultivars,... |
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John Lambrinos Associate Professor |
541-737-3484 Contact person by email |
We are beginning to understand that interactions between landscape elements underlie many of the important issues we face as a human society. I am fascinated by the ecological processes that tie landscapes together.
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Gail Langellotto Professor, Urban and Community Horticulture Extension, Statewide Master Gardener Program Coordinator |
541-737-5175 Contact person by email |
The ecology of urban and suburban landscapes remains relatively unexplored - although such habitats have great potential to positively contribute to the conservation of pollinators, parasitoids and the ecosystem services that they confer. Working with the OSU Extension Master... |
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Alexander Levin Assistant Professor, Southern Oregon Research and Extension Center (SOREC) |
541-772-5165 ext. 223 Contact person by email |
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Scott Lukas Assistant Professor |
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The OSU Horticulture Integrated Cropping Systems Program focuses on providing research based solutions to high value irrigated crops, with an emphasis on optimizing production system outputs while reducing negative environmental impacts. Hermiston Agricultural Research and Extension... |
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Maud Macrory Powell Associate Professor (Practice) |
541-776-7371 Contact person by email |
Extension Small Farms |
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Shawn Mehlenbacher Professor, Hazelnut Breeding and Genetics |
541-737-5467 Contact person by email |
The OSU Hazelnut Breeding program develops new cultivars for Oregon's hazelnut industry, with an emphasis on resistance to eastern filbert blight (EFB) and suitability for the kernel market. Plant Breeding: Develop new cultivars for Oregon's hazelnut industry, with emphasis on... |
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Andony Melathopoulos Assistant Professor - Pollinator Health Extension |
541-737-3139 Contact person by email |
I lead OSU Extension's efforts to design, develop, implement and evaluate a state-wide pollinator health program. The focus of this program is not restricted to Oregon's four managed pollinator species (honey bees, alfalfa leafcutter bees, orchard mason bees and alkali bees) but also to the... |
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Weston Miller Associate Professor (Practice) |
503-650-3124 Contact person by email |
Consumer Horticulture
Clackamas County Extension |
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Betsey Miller Instructor, Ecampus and Research Assistant, IPM (Walton Lab) |
541-737-3913 Contact person by email |
I teach an undergraduate course in entomology. My goal in teaching entomology to non-entomologists is to provide insight into a group of organisms that is largely ignored. The vast and varied world of insects impacts human society more than we think. My IPM research work... |
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Andrew Millison Senior Instructor I, Permaculture |
541-737-5441 Contact person by email |
Permaculture for climate change resilience, water management for broad scale farm planning, Permaculture housing developments, and water law for obtaining water rights in Oregon. |
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Marcelo Moretti Assistant Professor |
541-737-5454 Contact person by email |
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James Myers Professor, Vegetable Breeding and Genetics |
541-737-3083 Contact person by email |
We develop improved vegetable varieties with the main focus being to support gardeners, growers and processors in the Pacific Northwest (PNW). This region of the United States has a unique growing environment, and varieties developed elsewhere may not necessarily be optimally adapted to the... |
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Lloyd Nackley Assistant Professor, Nursery Crops Research Faculty |
971-801-0385 Contact person by email |
My research and teaching program investigates how light, nutrients, water, potting media and container-type, affect plant growth, development, and aesthetics. |
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Mykl Nelson II Instructor |
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Hiroyuki Nonogaki Associate Professor, Seed Biology |
541-737-8885 Contact person by email |
The current research in the Integrative Seed Biology Program at Oregon State University focuses on the fundamental question: how do plant seeds germinate? We try to elucidate the mechanism of seed germination using biochemical and... |
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Ed Peachey Associate Professor (Practice) |
541-737-3152 Contact person by email |
Ed works in the Horticulture Department at OSU in research and extension. His focus is vegetable crop production including processed, fresh market and seed crops, with an emphasis on weed and pest management in all of these crops. Projects managed by his team include an initiative to improve... |
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Stephen Renquist Associate Professor, Extension Agent |
541-672-4461 Contact person by email |
1134 S.E. Douglas Ave... |
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Robin Rosetta Nursery Integrated Pest Management Extension Agent |
503-678-1264 Contact person by email |
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Sara Runkel Assistant Professor (Practice) |
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Ramesh Sagili Associate Professor-Apiculture |
541-737-5460 Contact person by email |
To promote sustainable apiculture and pollination, our research program focuses on three prime areas: (1) honey bee health (2) honey bee nutrition and (3) honey bee pollination. Our research program addresses both basic and applied questions to improve honey bee health and... |
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Nicole Sanchez Assistant Professor (Practice) |
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Home and Small-scale Commercial Horticultural Production and Management Issues |
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Lane Selman Assistant Professor (Practice) |
541-737-3695 Contact person by email |
Lane Selman grew up on a citrus farm on Florida's space coast where her Sicilian great-grandparents settled in the 1920s. She has a Bachelors degree in Agronomy and a Masters in Entomology, both from the University of Florida. She moved to Oregon in 2001 and since 2005 has been an... |
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Alan Shay Senior Instructor I |
541-737-2503 Contact person by email |
My area of focus within the Horticulture Department is sustainable horticultural solutions for the residential and commercial landscape. I currently teach Landscape Design, (Hort 380), Landscape Maintenance, Conservation and Restoration, (Hort 315), Sustainable Landscape Construction... |
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Patricia Skinkis Professor, Viticulture Extension Specialist |
541-737-1411 Contact person by email |
Viticulture Dr. Skinkis' research program focuses on whole plant physiology studies that are designed to understand the causes and management of vine vigor, physiology of vine balance and their impacts on fruit composition and wine quality. Her research also includes work on bud... |
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Toni Stephan Instructor |
541-548-6088 Contact person by email |
Deschutes Co Office |
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Tim Stock Senior Instructor I |
541-737-6279 Contact person by email |
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Alexandra Stone Associate Professor, Ext Vegetable Crop Specialist |
541-737-5461 Contact person by email |
I have been investigating the use of the biological control agent commercially available as Contans (Coniothyrium minitans) as a control for white mold of vegetables, especially snap beans grown by processed vegetable growers. This project has been supported by grants from Western... |
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Heather Stoven Assistant Professor (Practice) |
503-434-8910 Contact person by email |
As the Community and Small Farms Horticulturalist for Yamhill County, I oversee the Master Gardener program and provide support to the community's gardening and small farm needs. I have experience in the nursery industry, working in propagation, pest management, media preparation, fertility... |
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Bernadine Strik Professor, NWREC Berry Crops Research Leader |
541-737-5434 Contact person by email |
Oregon has a diverse, economically important berry crop industry with about 24,000 acres harvested for a farm gate value of over $200 million. Berry crops, including blueberry, blackberry, raspberry, strawberry, cranberry, and kiwi fruit, are grown on over 1000 family farms in Oregon.... |
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Ashley Thompson | 541-296-5494 |
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Kelly Vining Assistant Professor |
541-737-0018 Contact person by email |
My research integrates the powerful tools of genomics and bioinformatics with plant breeding. I work mainly with minor or specialty crops grown in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Mints are important specialty crops in Oregon and Washington. They are grown for their... |
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Sugae Wada Assistant Professor (Senior Research) |
541-737-4410 Contact person by email |
Expertise research areas in Plant Science ********************************** Horticulture, Botany & Plant Pathology, Plant Anatomy & Systematics, Seed Biology &Technology, Weed Science Plant Tissue Culture & Cryopreservation: In vitro Plant germplasm... |
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Vaughn Walton Professor, Horticultural Entomologist |
541-740-4149 Contact person by email |
I work on economically important pests, with the aim to provide environmentally sustainable and minimal impact pest management... |
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Timothy Warren |
541-737-5290 Contact person by email |
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Nik Wiman Assistant Professor, Extension Specialist—Orchard Crops |
541-737-2534 Contact person by email |
Nik earned a BS (biology) and MS (entomology) from Montana State University where he worked on biological control of weeds in... |
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Wei Yang Associate Professor, Blueberry Extension Agent |
503-678-1264 Contact person by email |
My responsibility is to provide leadership for the blueberry education program in the North Willamette District where the most of the state’s blueberry industry is concentrated. I also conduct applied research in blueberry production systems to support my extension activities. ... |
