We appreciate the efforts of our research team (in the photos below) associated with the following:  MaqTec Company,  Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecuaria (INTA), and Centro Regional de Investigaciones La Rioja (CRILAR), in addition to  Orlando Colombo of Nucete Olive Processing Company.  We thank the Schwenek family of Finca La Bella for their generosity and hospitality, and gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Jose Mourelle of Maqtec, who coordinated all the parties in Argentina to make this possible, and the support of the COC.

The research team: Louise Ferguson, University of California; Edvardo Galvon, Finca La Bella Ranch Manager; Guillermo Manguel, Finca La Bella Ranch General Manager; Peter Searles, Centro Regional de Investigaciones La Rioja (CRILAR); Martin Aguero, Fabricio Fernandez and Jose Ladux, Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecuaria (INTA), Centro Regional Catamarca - La Rioja; Bill Krueger, University of California; Guillermo Correa, CRILAR (not in photo: Martin Bonadeo, Maqtec; Paul Vossen, University of California)

Team members at work:

Peter and Cecilia Serles at  Finca La Bella	Martin Bonadeo, Maqtec engineer and developer of the Collossus	Fabricio, Jose and Bill review procedures for the pull test

Paul takes a turn at driving the Collossus	Bill enters contact information into his cell phone	Louise keeps the data record current

Curriculum Vitae of team members:
CV Jose Ladux 2008
CV Peter Searles 2008
CV Cecilia Rousseaux 2008
CV Martin Bonadeo 2008