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Thomas Chastain Department Head |
541-737-5730 Contact person by email |
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Sam Angima Associate Dean of Extension |
541-737-3742 Contact person by email |
Extension Small Farms Program |
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Josephine Antwi Assistant Professor, Irrigated Crop Entomology Specialist |
541-567-6337 Contact person by email |
Lygus bugs and other secondary insect pests transmitting potato pathogens in potatoes |
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Stephen Baluch Assistant Professor (Sr Res) |
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Judit Barroso Associate Professor |
541-215-8967 Contact person by email |
My responsibilities include to develop and lead research and outreach programs that integrate chemical, cultural, and mechanical weed control measures using new or novel approaches for weed management in the wheat-based production systems of eastern Oregon. They will focus on weed management... |
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Pete Berry Assistant Professor |
541-737-5754 Contact person by email |
Weed Science |
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Carlos Bonilla Director-HAREC |
541-567-6337 Contact person by email |
Soil physics and hydrology |
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Francisco Calderon Director-CBARC |
541-215-8987 Contact person by email |
soil organic matter and soil fertility in dryland wheat production fields |
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Burl Carpenter Instructor |
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James Cassidy Senior Instructor II |
541-737-6810 Contact person by email |
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Brian A. Charlton Senior Instructor I |
541-883-4590 Contact person by email |
Potato Variety Development and Other Row Crops
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Thomas Chastain Department Head |
541-737-5730 Contact person by email |
Welcome to the Department of Crop and Soil Science The Department of Crop and Soil Science (CSS) consists of more than 100 on-campus faculty and staff, and off-campus faculty located at branch experiment stations and county extension offices throughout the state. ... |
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Alyssa Duval Instructor |
541-737-1131 Contact person by email |
As a farmer, I appreciate the deep connection between agricultural and natural systems. I enjoy sharing these perspectives and lessons learned over the years (from my involvement in production agriculture as well as research findings) with students here in Oregon and across the globe. ... |
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Sabry Elias Professor (Sr Res) |
541-737-4799 Contact person by email |
Seed Science and Technology Seed quality evaluation in relation to the physiology of seed germination, vigor, dormancy, storability, post-harvest technologies, and the relationship to field performance. Accepts only self-funded graduate students. |
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Joel Felix Associate Professor |
541-889-2174 Contact person by email |
My research program focuses on development and support of weed management tactics that address grower economic growth while enhancing environmental stewardship for a viable and sustainable agriculture. I believe that understanding weed biology and ecology is a key to effective weed management in... |
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Melissa Fery Associate Professor (Practice) |
541-730-3538 Contact person by email |
Small Farms, Agricultural Tourism |
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Shayan Ghajar Assistant Professor (Practice) |
541-737-6131 Contact person by email |
Organic, transitioning, and low-input sustainable pasture and forage management for producers in Oregon. |
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Ryan Graebner Assistant Professor (Practice) |
541-359-7151 Contact person by email |
Extension Cereal Variety Program |
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Jillian Gregg Senior Instructor I |
541-829-0456 |
Climate Change science and solutions
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Lauren Gwin Associate Professor |
541-737-1569 Contact person by email |
Community Food Systems |
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Mary Halbleib Professor (Practice) |
541-737-2683 Contact person by email |
Mary creates professional development opportunities for Extension faculty and staff in the College of Agricultural Sciences, providing evidence-based approaches to outcome-based adult education, curriculum design, and train-the-trainer programs. She aims to empower Extension... |
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David Hannaway Professor |
541-737-5863 Contact person by email |
Forage Program Director with research, teaching, extension, and international activities focused on matching forage species to locations based on climate, soils, intended use, and management and alfalfa crop simulation modeling. Undergraduate and graduate teaching and student advising. State,... |
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Kimberly Japhet Senior Instructor I |
541-609-0939 Contact person by email |
Online Course Development and Delivery, facilitating professors building courses and students taking online offerings.
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Valtcho Jeliazkov Associate Professor |
541-737-5877 Contact person by email |
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Gordon Jones Associate Professor (Practice) |
541-447-6228 Contact person by email |
Agronomy Extension in Central Oregon |
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Navneet Kaur Assistant Professor |
541-737-5884 Contact person by email |
Applied research and extension programming for IPM development and implementation in Oregon diverse cropping systems. |
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Jordan Kersey Instructor |
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Markus Kleber Professor |
541-737-5718 Contact person by email |
The processes at the interface between organic matter and mineral surfaces, including mineral surface properties, organic matter properties, bonding mechanisms, adsorption processes, mineral-microbial interactions, and organic matter turnover dynamics. Projects:... |
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Margaret Krause Assistant Professor | Warren Kronstad Wheat Research Chair |
541-737-6709 Contact person by email |
Wheat and barley breeding and genetics |
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Kate Lajtha Professor |
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Nutrient cycling in natural and human-disturbed ecosystems, including the attenuation of increased nitrogen inputs to terrestrial ecosystems by soils and vegetation, detrital controls on soil organic matter formation. I am not accepting new graduate students at this time. |
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Alicia Leytem Instructor |
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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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Larry Lutcher Professor |
541-676-9642 Contact person by email |
Dryland Cereal Production |
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Stephen Machado Professor |
541-215-8916 Contact person by email |
Stephen Machado leads the OSU's long-term research activities at CBARC Pendleton, CBARC Moro, and in Heppner in eastern Oregon. He is the Dryland Cropping Systems Agronomist for the semiarid Northcentral and Northeast Oregon. His responsibilities include establishing research priorities,... |
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Jordan Maley Instructor |
541-442-2271 Contact person by email |
Agricultural watershed monitoring & alternative dryland crops |
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Michelle Markesteyn Associate Professor (Practice) |
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Rory Mc Donnell Associate Professor |
541-737-6146 Contact person by email |
1) understanding the ecology of invasive slugs and snails in agriculture, horticulture, urban areas, the natural environment and at the interface of these systems, and 2) developing and implementing novel strategies for the management of these pests |
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Brigid Meints Assistant Professor (Sr Res) |
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Megan Mobley Senior Instructor II |
541-737-5751 Contact person by email |
I develop and teach Soils courses in the Crop and Soil Science Department, both on the Corvallis campus and via Ecampus. |
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Amber Moore Associate Professor, Extension Soil Fertility Specialist |
541 737-7870 Contact person by email |
The focus of my position is to conduct applied research and to develop nutrient and lime recommendations that improve nutrient use efficiency by large acreage crops grown in Oregon. The crops of primary focus are on grass grown for seed, cereals, and potatoes, with a secondary focus on minor... |
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Leon Nguyen Instructor |
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Julie Pett-Ridge Professor |
541-737-1236 Contact person by email |
Geochemical, hydrologic, and biogeochemical processes in the critical zone |
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Jacob Powell Assistant Professor (Practice) |
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Yan Ping Qian Associate Professor Senior Research |
5417609250 Contact person by email |
My general research activities are chemistry, composition, and quality of post-harvest crops, with a focus on aroma and flavor compounds identification, chemical characterization, and analysis; and soil chemistry.
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Ruijun Qin Associate Professor |
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Nutrient & water management, crop production, cropping system, cover crops, organic amendment, environmental quality, soil health, soil fumigation, roots, & tillage systems |
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Stuart Reitz Director |
541-889-2174 Contact person by email |
Responsible for research and extension programming related to cropping systems in Malheur County IPM Ecology and management of insect vectors of plant pathogens |
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Ron Reuter Associate Professor |
541-737-5703 Contact person by email |
Ron's Webpage: http://people.oregonstate.edu/~reuterr/ |
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Lorien Reynolds Senior Instructor I |
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Victor Hugo Vidal Ribeiro Assistant Professor |
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My applied research and extension program focuses on developing practical, science-based solutions to weed management challenges in Oregon field crops. My research interests include herbicide resistance, herbicide fate in the environment and non-target impacts, integrated weed management, and... |
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Silvia Rondon Director - OIPMC |
Contact person by email | Integrated Pest Management; Insects-Plant Interactions; Biological Control; Insect Ecology-Insect Movement; Chemical Control |
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Richard Roseberg |
541-883-4590 Contact person by email |
Research interests include crop water use, irrigation, water and chemical movement through soil, macropore flow, water quality, and alternative crop evaluation and management in a semi-arid climate. |
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Andrew Ross Professor |
541-737-9149 Contact person by email |
Fundamental and applied research of cereal grain components, wheat-based foods (focused on food barley, noodles, and artisan breads), and bio-products from cereal grain fractions. Located in the OSU Cereal Breeding & Cereal Genetics Program. |
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Vidyasager Sagar Sathuvalli | 541-567-6337 | Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics |
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Stefan Seiter Senior Instructor II |
541-737-6372 Contact person by email |
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Udayakumar Sekaran Assistant Professor |
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Clare Sullivan Academic Wage-Salaried |
541-967-3871 Contact person by email |
Small Farms and General Agronomy |
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Christy Tanner Assistant Professor (Practice) |
Contact person by email | Field crop production in the South Willamette Valley |
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Abigail Tomasek Assistant Professor |
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Shaun Townsend Associate Professor (Sr Res) |
541-737-5099 Contact person by email |
The Aroma Hop Breeding Program is tasked with developing new hop cultivars, adapted for Oregon growing conditions, with a focus on essential oil quality. This program interacts closely with Dr. Tom Shellhammer's program in the Food Science & Technology Department to characterize the... |
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Kimberly Townsend Senior Instructor I |
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Elizabeth Verhoeven Instructor |
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field crop production in the mid-Willamette Valley; grass seed, oilseeds, mint, hops, small grains, wheat |
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Darrin Walenta Associate Professor |
541-963-1010 Contact person by email |
Extension Agronomist with field crop responsibilities in Union, Baker, and Wallowa Co. |
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Tracy Wilson AC-FCH Agri Literacy Coord |
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Agricultural Literacy |
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Donald Wysocki Associate Professor (Practice) |
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Focused on dryland cropping systems, soil, water and nutrient management, soil erosion, soil quality, and rotational crops. Research projects are concerned with improving management of soils under dryland farming systems in relation to soil and water conservation, crop rotation, nutrient... |
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Yakun Zhang Assistant Professor |
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My lab focuses on integrating field observations, proximal and remote sensing, and modeling to study soil and landscape relationship and critical zone properties and processes across scales. Through these activities, we aim to 1) improve assessment and monitoring capacity of soil properties... |
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Jing Zhou Assistant Professor |
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I work on diverse research areas in Precision Agriculture by developing and applying apply technologies in remote sensing, machine learning, computer vision, and robotics |
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Daniel Curry Dir-Seed Services |
541-737-5094 Contact person by email Crop Science Building
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Rebecca Thistle... Director, NMPAN |
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David Zarling NMPAN Program Manager |
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Nicole Anderson Associate Professor Faculty |
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The primary focus of my program is to conduct applied research and Extension outreach in grass and legume seed crops in Oregon. |
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Caio Augusto De... Courtesy Appointment Faculty |
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Colin Curwen McAdams Courtesy Appointment |
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David D Amore Courtesy Appointment |
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Biswanath Dari Courtesy Appointment Courtesy Faculty |
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Seth Dorman Courtesy Appointment Courtesy Faculty |
541.738.4157 Contact person by email |
The broad focus of our research group is to understand the ecology and population dynamics of critical arthropod pests and beneficial... |
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David Gent Courtesy Appointment Courtesy Faculty |
541-738-4167 Contact person by email |
Plant Pathology, Disease Ecology, Disease Epidemiology
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John Henning Courtesy Appointment |
541-738-4145 Contact person by email |
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Dustin Herb Courtesy Appointment |
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Mark G. Johnson Courtesy Appointment |
541-754-4696 Contact person by email |
Soil Scientist US-EPA |
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Jennifer Kling Courtesy Appointment |
541-737-8277 Contact person by email |
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Leon Liegel Courtesy Appointment Courtesy Faculty |
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Research/Career Interests NOTE: Current position does not allow grant fund solicitation and support of graduate students. - Teach Ecampus SOIL 511: knowledge of soil biological, chemical, and physical properties + societal... |
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Rebecca Lybrand Courtesy Appointment |
541-737-1039 Contact person by email |
Pedology |
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David Olszyk Courtesy Appointment |
541-754-4397 Contact person by email |
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Jennifer Parke Courtesy Appointment Faculty |
541-737-8170 Contact person by email |
Google Scholar Citations: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=cqxRnLgAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao Areas of expertise:
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Susanna Pearlstein Courtesy Appointment |
(541) 754-4534 Contact person by email |
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Claire Phillips Courtesy Appointment |
541-737-3425 Contact person by email |
Teaching in environmental science, global change biology, forest and soil science, and sustainability. Research in global change and landuse impacts on forests and soils, natural and anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, carbon storage and sequestration. |
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Daniela Resende... Courtesy Appointment |
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John Selker Univ Distinguished Professor Faculty |
541-737-6304 Contact person by email |
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Anne Taylor Courtesy Appointment Faculty |
541-737-4136 Contact person by email |
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