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James Bartolome
Professor of the Graduate School
Email: jwbart@berkeley.edu
Office: 321 Hilgard Hall
Phone: 510-642-7945
Lab Phone: 510-642-7945
Fax: 510-642-5438
Research Group(s): Bartolome Group
Office Hours: By Appointment
Research Interests
Rangeland ecology and management
Research Description
Rangeland ecosystems form extensive wildland landscapes visually dominated by grassland, shrubland, and savanna vegetation. Two important natural processes that control the structure and function of these ecosystems are herbivory and fire. Successful restoration, conservation, and…[read more]
Frank Beall
Research Description
Although my research has been very broad in nondestructive evaluation (NDE) of wood and wood-based materials, the main concentration is now on durability improvement and disaster mitigation of structures. The key areas are studies on…[read more]
John Casida
Professor of the Graduate School
Email: ectl@berkeley.edu
Office: 114 Wellman Hall
Phone: 510-642-5424
Fax: 510-642-6497
Research Interests
Pesticide chemistry and toxicology
Research Description
Research in the Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology Laboratory emphasizes pesticide mode of action and metabolism. This information is important to optimize pesticide use, improve their selectivity and environmental characteristics, and minimize the hazards of exposure…[read more]
Howell V. Daly
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests
Biosystematics of bees; traditional and modern taxonomic procedures, including use of computers in classification and data analysis and management
Harvey Doner
Professor Emeritus
Email: hedoner@berkeley.edu
Research Interests
Chemistry of trace elements in soils, mineral-organic compound interactions, and chemistry of carbonates and more soluble minerals in soils
Sally K. Fairfax
Professor Emerita
Email: fairfax@berkeley.edu
Research Interests
Conservation policy/public land administration
Research Description
My research has always focused on public resources, principally those managed by the United States Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management. Within that broad topic, my interests include legal aspects of resource administration,…[read more]
Paul L. Gersper
Professor Emeritus
Email: plgersper@berkeley.edu
Research Interests
Soil/plant relationships, land use
Research Description
Fall 2012 Update
It doesn’t seem possible that I have been retired for over 10 years. When I retired in 2002, Freda and I lived in the nearby Rossmoor community of Walnut Creek We then moved…[read more]
Andrew Gutierrez
Professor Emeritus
Email: casas.global@berkeley.edu
Office: 203A Mulford Hall
Phone: 510-642-9186
Lab Phone: 510-642-9186
Fax: 510-643-5438
Website(s): Casas Global
Research Interests
Systems ecology biological control
Research Description
My research group investigates plant – herbivore-natural enemy interactions as driven by edaphic and weather factors using physiologically based tritrophic models. The models are based on extensive field and laboratory data. The models are used…[read more]
Richard R. Harris
Cooperative Extension Specialist - Emeritus
Email: rrharris@berkeley.edu
Office: 201 Mulford Hall
Fax: 510-642-5438
Research Interests
Forestry, resource management, riparian ecology
Research Description
My current research interests are focused on ecological restoration and monitoring, evaluating the effectiveness of best management practices aimed at protecting water quality and improving the management of non-industrial forest properties. My past areas of…[read more]
John A. Helms
Research Description
John A. Helms served as Professor of Silviculture and Head of the Department of Forestry and Resource Management. He is the author of 115 technical papers including the 1979 text Principles of Silviculture, chapters in…[read more]
Robert S. Lane
Professor of the Graduate School
Email: blane@berkeley.edu
Office: 411 Wellman Hall
Phone: 510-642-4385
Fax: 510-642-7428
Research Interests
Medical entomology, parasitology, tick-borne diseases
Research Description
We have been studying the ecology, epidemiology and prevention of tick-borne diseases, particularly the spirochete (bacterium) that causes Lyme disease (LD). LD currently is the most commonly reported vector-borne infection United States, and in other…[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]
Dale McCullough
Emeritus Professor of Wildlife Biology, and Research Conservationist, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
Email: mcculla@berkeley.edu
Research Interests
Wildlife biology and management
Research Description
I retired in 2004, but continue to live in Kensington and come into the university frequently when in town. My wife and I travel alot. We also have a second home in the Donner Lake…[read more]
William McKillop
Professor Emeritus
Email: mckillop@ca.astound.net
Research Interests
Forest economics
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]
Jerry Powell
Professor of the Graduate School
Email: powellj@berkeley.edu
Office: 214 Wellman Hall
Phone: (510) 642-3207
Website(s): Essig Museum of Entomology Powell Page
Research Interests
Systematic entomology
Research Description
The principal theme of my research has been to discover and correlate biological features with traditional morphological evidence in the development of biosystematic relationships of microlepidoptera (small moths). My approach can be categorized along four…[read more]
Alexander H. Purcell III
Professor Emeritus
Email: ahpurcell@berkeley.edu
Research Interests
Insect vectors of plant pathogens
Research Description
Insects and plant disease Pierce’s disease of grape, Xylella fastidiosa, almond leaf scorch disease, citrus variegated chlorosis, coffee decline, coffee leaf scorch leafhopper vectors of bacterial pathogens
bacterial symbiosis of leafhoppers, aphids and other sap-feeding insects
…[read more]
Robert D. Raabe
Professor Emeritus
Email: braabe@berkeley.edu
Research Interests
Ornamental pathology
Jeffrey M. Romm
Professor of the Graduate School
Email: jeffromm@berkeley.edu
Office: 130C Giannini Hall
Phone: 510-642-6499
Fax: 510-643-5438
Research Group(s): Romm Group
Office Hours: By Appointment
Research Interests
Natural resource and environmental policy
Research Description
The research and educational interests of our group can be placed roughly in four categories. In the first and most developed, we explore relations between social distributions of power and wealth, economic growth, and natural…[read more]
Milton Schroth
Professor Emeritus
Email: mschroth@berkeley.edu
Research Interests
Ecology, pathogen physiology, biocontrol
Philip Spieth
Professor Emeritus
Email: ptspieth@berkeley.edu
Research Interests
Population Genetics and Evolution
Robert Van Steenwyk
Cooperative Extension Specialist - Emeritus
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]
David Wood
Professor of the Graduate School
Email: bigwood@berkeley.edu
Office: 137 Hilgard Hall
Phone: 510-642-5538
Fax: 510-643-5438
Website(s): Wood and Tree Insects
Research Interests
Forest entomology and chemical ecology
Research Description
Biology of bark beetles (Scolytidae) and subterranean termites (Reticulitermes spp.), insect host selection behavior, insect pheromones, use of behavior-modifying chemicals in forest pest management, forest entomology, pathogen/tree/bark beetle interactions.
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