Department of Horticulture

Primary responsibilities include:

• Research on biological aspects of Drosophila suzukii;
• Examination of biological control agents that may impact Drosophila suzukii populations;
• Investigation of cultural controls against Drosophila...

Her PhD will focus on dispersal patterns and nontarget effects of the samurai wasp, Trissolcus japonicus, a biological control agent of the brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys, in specialty crop areas in Oregon.

A native of Lincoln, NE, Claire received her BS in Fish & Wildlife Biology with a concentration in Conservation Biology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She then received her MS in Entomology at Montana State University in Bozeman, where she studied mortality dynamics of...

Biology and ecology of the Flathead borer

Recurrent selection to improve fruit and landscape qualitities of evergreen huckleberry.

Interploidy and intersubgeneric hybridization in Cotoneaster.