Administration and Academic Advisors
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Bill Braunworth Emeritus Appointment |
541-737-1317 Contact person by email |
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Ryan Contreras Professor |
541-737-5462 Contact person by email |
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Sarah McDonald Academic Advisor |
541-737-3546 Contact person by email |
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Anne Gearhart Head Advisor and Instructor |
541-737-5448 Contact person by email |
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John Lambrinos Associate Professor |
541-737-3484 Contact person by email |
Faculty
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Christopher Adams Assistant Professor |
Contact person by email | Tree Fruit Entomology |
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Nick Andrews Professor (Practice) |
Contact person by email | Organic Vegetable Extension |
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Marisha Auerbach Lecturer |
541-737-3695 Contact person by email |
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Brittany Barker Assistant Professor (Senior Research) |
541-737-9108 Contact person by email |
Pest risk mapping, population dynamics, ecological genetics, and biological invasions |
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Aaron Becerra-Alvarez Assistant Professor |
Contact person by email | Weed Science in vegetables and specialty seed crops |
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Neil Bertrando Instructor |
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William Blanchard Instructor, Curator of Living Plant Collections for OSU Campus Arboretum |
541-737-9259 Contact person by email |
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Devon Bonady Instructor |
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Cassie Bouska Associate Professor (Practice) |
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Bill Braunworth Emeritus Appointment |
541-737-1317 Contact person by email |
In August 2012, 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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Charles Bubl Associate Professor |
503-397-3462 Contact person by email |
Consults on organic or conventional horticultural crops and livestock. |
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Kristine Buckland Associate Professor |
Contact person by email | Sustainable agriculture, Soil health, Nutrient cycling, and Agricultural systems analysis |
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Erica Chernoh Assistant Professor (Practice) |
Contact person by email | Berries and Fruit; Fruit Trees; Organic Agriculture |
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Ryan Contreras Professor |
541-737-5462 Contact person by email |
Landscape Plant Breeding |
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Leonard Coop Associate Professor (Practice) |
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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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Cody Copp Assistant Professor (Practice) |
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Extension educational programming and applied research for commercial horticulture producers (wine grapes, tree fruit, vegetables) in Umatilla County |
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Wanda Crannell Instructor |
541-737-2999 Contact person by email |
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Signe Danler Senior Instructor I |
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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Surendra Dara Professor |
971-801-0384 Contact person by email |
Integrated pest management, microbial control, and biologicals |
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Laurent Deluc Associate Professor |
541-737-4356 Contact person by email |
Genomics and genetic engineering in crops |
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Amy Jo Detweiler Professor |
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 |
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I develop and support online berry classes, including the Pruning and Training of Berries, Kiwifruit, and Grapes series; Blueberry Physiology, Production Systems, and Management; and HORT 456/556: Physiology and Production of Berry Crops. I also produce extension outreach publications for ... |
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Brooke Edmunds Associate Professor (Practice) |
503-588-5301 Contact person by email |
My focus is on meeting the community horticulture needs in Marion, Polk, Linn, and Benton counties. In this role, I oversee the Master Gardener volunteer programs in each county. I also coordinate research-based educational programs in community food systems and Integrated Pest Management. |
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Alice Formiga Assistant Professor (Practice) |
541-737-3483 Contact person by email |
Alice Formiga leads the eOrganic Community of Practice at http://eorganic.org |
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Kelsey Galimba Assistant Professor |
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Dr. Galimba's research program encompasses all aspects of both pear (Pyrus communis) and sweet cherry (Prunus avium) orchard production systems, with specific emphasis on optimizing yield and fruit quality in these two crops. Current projects include the development of a... |
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Louisa Hooven Assistant Professor (Sr Res) |
541-737-5827 Contact person by email |
Entomology |
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Alec Kowalewski Professor |
541-737-5449 Contact person by email |
Turf Program OverviewThe 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... |
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Gail Langellotto Professor |
541-737-5175 Contact person by email |
Urban Insect Ecology: garden pollinators, native plants, urban agriculture |
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Alexander Levin SOREC Director and Viticulturist |
541-930-8411 Contact person by email |
Viticulture, plant water relations, woody perennial physiology, fruit ripening biochemistry |
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Dani Lightle Assistant Professor (Practice) |
503-694-9790 Contact person by email |
Pesticide product efficacy, degradation and registration issues |
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Deanna Lloyd Senior Instructor I |
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I teach classes for the Sustainability Double-Degree Program and the Department of Horticulture - both on the Corvallis campus and through Ecampus. My instructional duties also include coordination of service-learning projects for large undergraduate courses (SOIL 205, SUS 350, and SUS 304... |
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Scott Lukas Northwest Berry Production and Management Professor |
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Dr. Scott Lukas is an Associate Professor holding the Endowed Professorship for Northwest Berry Production and Management. This position is responsible for the design, development, implementation and evaluation of statewide research, Extension, and teaching programs focused on physiology and... |
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Maud Macrory Powell Associate Professor (Practice) |
541-776-7371 Contact person by email |
Small Farms |
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Leslie Madsen Statewide Master Gardener Prog Mgr |
541-737-0671 Contact person by email |
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Shawn Mehlenbacher Oregon Hazelnut Ind. Professor |
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. |
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Andony Melathopoulos Associate Professor |
541-452-3038 Contact person by email |
Pollinator Health |
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Betsey Miller Senior Instructor I |
541-737-3913 Contact person by email |
Ecampus Instructor (ENT 300); Small Fruit IPM; Hazelnut IPM |
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Andrew Millison Senior Instructor II |
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 Associate Professor |
Contact person by email | Weed Science |
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James Myers Professor-Endowed |
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... |
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Lloyd Nackley Associate Professor |
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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Tao Orion Instructor |
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Ed Peachey Courtesy Appointment |
Contact person by email | Weed and pest management in commercial vegetable production |
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Beth Rowan Courtesy Appointment |
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Ramesh Sagili Professor |
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 Associate 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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Govinda Shrestha Assistant Professor (Practice) |
Contact person by email | Integrated Pest Management; Insect Ecology-Movement |
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Patricia Skinkis Professor |
541-737-1411 Contact person by email |
I conduct applied viticulture research with focus on canopy and yield management, rootstocks, vine nutrition, soil x plant interactions, vineyard sustainability, and grower adoption of viticulture practices. |
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Cara Still Instructor and Faculty Research Assistant |
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Tim Stock Senior Instructor II |
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Currently leading the OSU School IPM Program, which works with... |
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Alexandra Stone Academic Wage Appt - Salaried |
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 Associate Professor (Practice) |
503-434-8910 Contact person by email |
Small Farms, Community Horticulture |
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Ashley Thompson Assistant Professor |
541-296-5494 |
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Kelly Vining Associate Professor |
Contact person by email | Genomics approaches to crop improvement |
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Vaughn Walton Professor |
5417404149 Contact person by email |
I work on economically important pests, with the aim to provide... |
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Timothy Warren Assistant Professor |
541-737-7557 Contact person by email |
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Nik Wiman Associate Professor |
Contact person by email | biological control; population biology; orchard ecology; insect behavior; integrated pest management |
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Wei Yang Professor |
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. ... |
