Extension Specialists
Kent M. Daane
Cooperative Extension Specialist
Email: daane@uckac.edu
Office: 212 Wellman Hall
Phone: 559-646-6522
Lab Phone: 510-643-4019
Fax: 559-646-6593
Website(s): Research and Extension Website
Research Group(s): Daane Group
Office Hours: By appointment
Research Interests
Control of insect pests in agricultural crops
Research Description
My research focuses on the development of ecologically-based insect pest management systems. Research studies include classical biological control, augmentation programs, insect-plant interactions, use of least-disruptive insecticides and the biology of natural enemies.
Most of my research…[read more]
Matteo Garbelotto
Associate Cooperative Extension Specialist, Adjunct Associate Professor
Email: matteo@nature.berkeley.edu
Office: 338 Hilgard Hall
Phone: 510-643-6412
Fax: 510-643-5436
Website(s): Forest Pathology and Mycology Laboratory
Research Group(s): Garbelotto Group
Office Hours: By Appointment
Research Interests
Forest pathology, forest mycology, forest and tree management
Research Description
EXOTIC FOREST DISEASES: we are interested in uncovering the mechanisms behind invasions by exotic forest pathogens, and we use molecular tools to understand their biology, ecology, and epidemiology. We are currently working on Sudden Oak…[read more]
Christy M. Getz
Associate Cooperative Extension Specialist
Email: cgetz@berkeley.edu
Office: 130A Giannini Hall
Phone: 510-642-8681
Website(s): Research and Outreach Program
Office Hours: By Appointment
Research Interests
Ethics, history, politics, rural development
Research Description
As a Cooperative Extension Specialist in the Division of Society and Environment, I conduct research and extension that link natural resource-dependent people, activities, enterprises and organizations in California with teaching and research programs in ESPM….[read more]
Maggi Kelly
Cooperative Extension Specialist and Professor in Residence
Email: maggi@berkeley.edu
Office: 121 Mulford Hall
Phone: 510-642-7272
Website(s): Kelly Research and Outreach Lab
Research Group(s): Kelly Group
Office Hours: Wed, 2:30-3:30, or by appointment, Updated: 2012/01/17
Research Interests
GIS and remote sensing
Research Description
I am a Professor and Cooperative Extension Specialist in the Environmental Science, Policy and Management department at UC Berkeley. I study the drivers, patterns and consequences of environmental change across California’s spatially complex, socially…[read more]
Vernard Lewis
Cooperative Extension Specialist
Email: urbanpests@berkeley.edu
Office: Richmond Field Station
Phone: 510-665-6724
Fax: 510-665-3427
Website(s): UC Berkeley Urban Pest Management Center Structural Pest Research & Outreach Fund
Office Hours: By Appointment
Research Interests
Biology and management of structural and household pests.
Research Description
I am a Cooperative Extension Specialist with statewide responsibilities. The duties of my job include conducting applied research and outreach. My research focuses on household and structural insect pests, particularly, termites and bed bugs. I…[read more]
Doug McCreary
Cooperative Extension Specialist - Emeritus
Email: ddmccreary@ucdavis.edu
Office: UC Sierra Foothill Research and Extension
Phone: 530-639-8807
Fax: 530-639-5438
Research Interests
Artificial regeneration of native California oaks
Research Description
- Artificial regeneration of native California oaks
- Effects of augering and fertilization on blue oaks
- Effects of weed control and treeshelters on blue oak field performance
- Effect different sizes of treeshelters on growth and survival of blue oaks
- How radicle…[read more]
Adina Merenlender
Cooperative Extension Specialist, Adjunct Professor
Email: adinam@berkeley.edu
Office: Hopland Research and Extension Center
Phone: 707-744-1270
Fax: (707) 744-1040
Website(s): Merenlender Lab
Research Group(s): Merenlender Group
Office Hours: By Appointment
Research Interests
Conservation biology
Research Description
My primary focus is in the field of conservation biology. In particular, I am interested in the forces that influence loss of biodiversity at all hierarchical levels from genes to ecosystems. My experience spans from…[read more]
Max A. Moritz
Associate Cooperative Extension Specialist
Email: mmoritz@berkeley.edu
Office: 325 Mulford
Phone: 510-642-7329
Website(s): Moritz Lab
Research Group(s): Moritz Group
Office Hours: By Appointment
Research Interests
Fire Ecology and Management
Research Description
A fire regime is a complex phenomenon, driven by a variety of biotic and abiotic factors at several spatio-temporal scales. Fire is also one of the clearest examples of the linkage between “pattern and process”…[read more]
Gary Nakamura
Cooperative Extension Specialist - Emeritus
Email: nakamura@berkeley.edu
Research Interests
Forestry and silviculture
Research Description
The Cooperative Extension Forestry program provides an array of education and applied research programs for family forest landowners, professional foresters and resource managers, forest practitioners, school teachers and students, and citizens interested in forest conservation…[read more]
Thomas A. Scott
Cooperative Extension Specialist
Email: thomas.scott@ucr.edu
Office: 151 Hilgard Hall
Phone: 951-827-5115
Fax: 510-643-5438
Office Hours: By Appointment
Research Interests
Wildlife conservation, human impacts on wildlife, wildlife/urban interface
Research Description
Wildlife conservation in fragmented and altered landscapes, including studies of wildlife movement, habitat use, and population biology in oak woodland, sage scrub, and riparian habitats; behavioral changes and adjustments in habitat use of woodland bird…[read more]
Richard B. Standiford
Cooperative Extension Forest Management Specialist
Email: standifo@berkeley.edu
Office: 162 Mulford Hall
Phone: 510-643-5428
Fax: 510-643-3490
Website(s): Richard Standiford Website
Office Hours: By Appointment
Research Interests
Forest Management
Research Description
Cultural Research Areas
Resource economics; natural resource management and decision-making; silviculture; bioeconomic modeling; hardwood management
Extension Areas
Education of nonindustrial private forest landowners; education of hardwood range owners; monitoring hardwood rangelands; continuing education of professional foresters; growth and…[read more]
William Stewart
Cooperative Extension Specialist
Email: billstewart@berkeley.edu
Office: 211 Mulford Hall
Phone: 510-643-3130
Fax: 510-643-5438
Office Hours: By Appointment
Research Interests
Watershed management, forest management, resource economics
Research Description
My areas of interest for both research and extension center around improving the positive financial linkages between working forests and rangelands on one hand and our urban residents on the other. In addition to the…[read more]
William D. Tietje
Cooperative Extension Specialist
Email: tietje@berkeley.edu
Office: San Luis Obispo, CA
Phone: 805-781-5938
Fax: 805-781-5438
Office Hours: By Appointment
Research Interests
Oak woodland ecology, human impacts on wildlife
Research Description
Response of wildlife to land management in California oak woodland
- Habitat associations and demography of small mammals in relation to prescribed burning and shrub understory in oak woodland
- Shrub understory, wildlife diversity, and ranch economics on oak…[read more]
Robert Van Steenwyk
Cooperative Extension Specialist
Email: bobvanst@berkeley.edu
Office: 140 Oxford Tract
Phone: 510-643-5159
Fax: 510-642-4879
Office Hours: By Appointment
Research Interests
Pest management of deciduous fruit, nut, and vine crops.
Research Description
My research interest is in integrated insect pest management of deciduous fruit, nut and vine crops. I also have an interest in various insect-marking techniques as a means to measure insect dispersal and other biological…[read more]
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