Jose L Aguiar
Title: Farm Advisor
Specialty: Vegetable crops and small farms
81-077 Indio Blvd.
Indio, 92201-2552
Email: jlaguiar@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (760) 342-2467
Miguel A Altieri
Title: Entomologist Professor
Specialty: Agroecology, development of alternative agricultural systems and technology, biological pest control. Mail to: 129 Giannini Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-3112.
129 Giannini Hall
Email: agroeco3@nature.berkeley.edu
Phone: (510) 642-9802
Aziz Baameur
Title: Farm Advisor
Specialty: Small Farms, cultivar evaluation, nutrient management, irrigation, specialty crops, cucurbits, oriental vegetables
Email: azbaameur@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (408) 282-3127
Gary S. Bender Ph.D.
Title: Farm Advisor
Specialty: Subtropical horticulture, deciduous fruit trees, irrigation, water quality, pest management, root rot and pathology of avocados and citrus, avocado canopy management
334 Via Vera Cruz
San Marcos, 92078-2635
Email: gsbender@ucdavis.edu
Phone: 760-752-4711
Mark Bolda
Title: Farm Advisor Strawberries & Caneberries
1432 Freedom Boulevard
Watsonville, 95076-2796
Email: mpbolda@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (831) 763-8040
Kent Brittan
Title: Yolo County Director & Farm Advisor for Field Crops
Specialty: Small grains, corn and biofuel crops
70 Cottonwood ST
Woodland, 95695
Email: klbrittan@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 666-8733
Michael D Cahn
Title: Farm Advisor
Specialty: Irrigation & Water Resources
Email: mdcahn@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (831) 759-7377
Mick Canevari
Title: Farm Advisor County Director
Specialty: Agronomy, Weed Control
Email: wmcanevari@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (209) 953-6100
Marita Cantwell
Title: CE Vegetable Specialist
Specialty: Postharvest physiology, handling, and storage of vegetables, including specialty and fresh cut vegetables.
Dept. Plant Sciences MS#3, UC Davis
Davis CA, 95616-8746
Email: micantwell@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-7305 (530) 754-6127 (lab)
Janet Caprile
Title: Farm Advisor
Specialty: Commercial fruit, nut, vine, vegetable, field, specialty crops
Notes: Office Hours: Mondays 1:30-4:30 pm
Diablo Valley Farm Center,
Delta Rd & 2nd St., Knightsen
(925)427-8532
Email: jlcaprile@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (925) 646-6129
William W Coates
Title: Farm Advisor - Pomology (San Benito, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, Monterey Counties), Acting County Director (San Benito County only)
Specialty: Pomology - Tree Fruit and Nut Crops
Notes: UPS - Fed-Ex only to street address above.
Email: bwwcoates@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (831) 637-5346
Fred S Conte
Title: CE Specialist
Specialty: Fresh water and marine aquaculture production and related government regulatory issues. Finfish nutrition; oyster larval remote setting and growout.
Email: fsconte@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-7689
Roberta L Cook Ph.D.
Title: Specialist in Cooperative Extension
Specialty: Food distribution, Fruit and Vegetable Marketing, International Competition and Trade, Mexican Horticultural Industry, Food safety
Email: rlcook@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-1531
Maria de la Fuente Ph. D.
Title: Farm Advisor San Benito and Santa Clara Counties
Specialty: Mushrooms, compost, specialty vegetables, plant pathology and soil microbiology.
Email: medelafuente@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (831) 637-5346 SBC (408) 282-3131 SCC
Daniel J Drake
Title: Farm Advisor
Specialty: Conducts research and educational programs in the areas of livestock, range and pasturing with emphasis on beef cattle, computer application, animal nutrition, particularly trace minerals and general agricultural marketing economics as key areas
Email: djdrake@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 842-2711
Rachel B. Elkins
Title: Pomology Farm Advisor in Lake and Mendocino Counties and Master Gardener Advisor in Lake County
Email: rbelkins@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (707) 263-6838
Ralph A Ernst
Title: CE Specialist Emeritus
Specialty: Environmental physiology and nutrition of commercial poultry.
Email: raernst@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-3513
Ben Faber Ph.D.
Title: Farm Advisor
Specialty: Soils and water, avocados and minor subtropicals
Email: bafaber@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (805) 645-1462
Ann Filmer
Title: Communications,
Specialties: greenhouse and nursery management, floriculture and flower production, postharvest physiology, ornamental pest management
Affiliation: UCD Dean's Office
Email: aiking@ucdavis.edu
Karen Firestein
Title: Outreach
Specialties: Agricultural cooperatives
Affiliation: USDA
Email: karen.firestein@ca.usda.gov
Isao Fujimoto
Title: Emeritus Senior Lecturer SOE
Specialty: Strategies for community empowerment, rural revitalization, celebrations and symbols for building community solidarity, sustainable agriculture and appropriate technology, San Joaquin Valley, Third World, Pacific Rim, Japan
Email: ifujimoto@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 754-4386
Mark Gaskell Ph.D.
Title: Farm Advisor
Specialty: Specialty crops, small fruit crops, vegetables, sustainable agriculture, small farms
Email: mlgaskell@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (805) 934-6242
Holly A George
Title: Livestock & Natural Resource Advisor, County Director
Specialty: Youth, Livestock, Multiple Use of Natural Resources
Quincy, 95971
Email: hageorge@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 283-6262
Deborah D Giraud
Title: Farm and Community / Economic Development Advisor
Specialty: Plant sciences, fruit trees, vegetables, community development, ornamentals
Email: ddgiraud@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (707) 445-7351
Refugio A. Gonzalez
Title: Emeritus Regional Director
Email: ragonzalez@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (951) 827-3321
Shermain D. Hardesty Ph.D.
Title: Specialist in Cooperative Extension
Specialty: Cooperative Theory, Management and Finance, and Food Marketing Systems
Email: shermain@primal.ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-0467
John M Harper
Title: Mendocino County Director and Livestock & Natural Resources Advisor
Specialty: Sheep production, range cattle production, rangeland, watershed, water quality, computer applications.
Email: jmharper@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (707) 463-4495
Janet S Hartin
Title: Environmental Horticulture Advisor
Specialty: Environmental horticulture, sustainable landscapes (irrigation and greenwaste management)
Email: jshartin@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (951)313-2023
Lonnie Hendricks
Title: Farm Advisor
Specialties: Pomology
Affiliation: UCCE, Merced County
Chuck A. Ingels
Title: Farm Advisor
Specialty: Tree crops, grapes and strawberries, environmental horticulture, and Master Gardeners/urban horticulture. Areas of research and extension focus include IPM, evaluation of sustainable products and practices, water conservation and deficit irrigation, home orchards and vineyards, and tree training, pruning, and grafting.
4145 Branch Center Rd.
Sacramento, CA, 95827-3823
Email: caingels@ucdavis.edu
Phone: Main: (916) 875-6913; Direct: (916) 875-6527
Roger S Ingram
Title: Placer-Nevada County Director and Farm Advisor
Specialty: Grazing management, fencing, nutrition, economics, livestock, range, land use, low-stress livestock handling, California Grazing Academy
11477 E Avenue
Auburn, 95603
Email: rsingram@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 889-7385
Louise E Jackson
Title: Professor CE Specialist Plant Physiologist
Specialty: Plant and soil nitrogen dynamics; organic and conventional vegetable production; grassland restoration ecology; agrobiodiversity
One Shields Ave., University of California at Davis
Davis, CA, 95616-8746
Email: lejackson@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 754-9116
L Jimenez
Title: Human Resources Director
Affiliation: Sierra Gold Nurseries
Manuel J Jimenez
Title: Farm Advisor
Specialty: Small farms, vegetable crops, integrated pest management
4437 S. Laspina St.
Email: mjjimenez@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (559) 684-3316
Desmond A. Jolly Ph.D.
Title: Former director Specialist in Cooperative Extension Small Farm Program
Specialty: Marketing, agricultural sustainability, economics of food safety, consumption economics and public policy, international agricultural development; Director of Small Farm Program
Email: djolly@primal.ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-7774
Karen M Klonsky Ph.D.
Title: Specialist in Cooperative Extension
Specialty: Farm Management and Production, Sustainable Agriculture and Organic Agriculture
One Shields Avenue
Davis, 95616
Email: klonsky@primal.ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-3563
Monique Kristofors
Title: Outreach Officer
Specialties: Ethnic & Minority Outreach
Affiliation: USDA/FSA
Don L Lancaster
Title: County Director
Specialty: Range and forage crops and natural resources
Email: dllancaster@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 233-6400
W Thomas Lanini
Title: CE Weed Ecologist
Specialty: Ecology, weed crop competition, weed biology and low-input agriculture
One Shields Avenue
Davis, 95616
Email: wtlanini@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-4476
James Leap
Title: Farm Manager
Specialties: Small Scale Organic farming systems, weed control, cover crops
Affiliation: UCSC/CASFS
Email: jimleap@cats-po-1.ucsc.edu
Darlene Liesch
Title: County Director
Specialty: Youth development
Email: dgliesch@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (661) 868-6212
Ramiro E. Lobo
Title: Small Farms & Agricultural Economics Advisor
Specialty: Farm management, marketing, agricultural economics, agricultural tourism, small farms, new/specialty crops
Email: relobo@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (760) 752-4716
Daniel B Marcum
Title: Farm Advisor
Specialty: Irrigation, plant nutrition, salinity, entomology, sustainable agriculture, agronomy, vegetable crops, engineering, plant pathology, integrated pest management, systems management, economics, weed control, nematology, strawberry nursery production, garlic, wild rice, alfalfa, timothy, sugarbeet, pasture, range, biodiversity, peppermint, viticulture
P.O. Box 9
Email: dbmarcum@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 336-5784
Peggy Mauk
Title: Regional Director - Central Coast and South Region
Specialty: Leadership, personnel & fiscal administration, outreach, UC & DANR policies, member of DANR Program Council. Academic programs - - Citrus, avocados, & dates
Email: pamauk@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (951) 827-3321
Milton E McGiffen Jr
Title: CE Specialist and Plant Physiologist
Specialty: Vegetable Crops, Invasive Species, Weed Science, Sustainable Agriculture, and Alternatives to Methyl Bromide
4101 Batchelor Hall
Riverside, 92521-0124
Email: milt@ucr.edu
Phone: (909) 560-0839 (951) 827-5989
Glenn McGourty
Title: Viticulture & Plant Science Advisor
Specialty: Plant science--all horticultural crops including wine grapes, vegetables; viticulture; nursery and floriculture (ornamentals); landscape; also sustainable agriculture and weed science
Email: gtmcgourty@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (707) 463-4495
Donald Joseph Merhaut P.h.D.
Title: Extension Specialist for Nursery and Floriculture Crops
Specialty: Plant Nutrition, Woody Ornamentals, Floriculture, Blueberry Production
Email: donald.merhaut@ucr.edu
Phone: (951) 827-7003
Jan Mickler Ph.D.
Title: Farm Advisor
Specialty: Vegetable Crops
Email: cjmickler@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (209) 525-6800
Gene Miyao
Title: Farm Advisor, Vegetable Crops
Specialty: Processing tomato production.
Email: emmiyao@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 666-8732
Richard H. Molinar M.S.
Title: Farm Advisor
Specialty: Small farms, vegetable crops, organic farming, insect/weed management, specialty crops, sugar peas, strawberries, eggplant, squash, Asian vegetables such as basil, lemongrass, green beans, long beans, gailon, bittermelons, refugee farmers, Hmong, Lao, fluent in Spanish
Email: rhmolinar@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (559) 456-7555
Mario Moratorio
Title: Small Farm Urban Horticulture Advisor
Specialty: Small farms, grapes, urban horticulture and Master Gardener programs in Solano and Yolo.
Email: msmoratorio@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (707) 784-1325
Mike Murray
Title: County Director
Specialty: Vegetable crops, community development
Notes: County Director in both Colusa .35 FTE) and Sutter/Yuba (.40 FTE) offices.
Vegetable Crops/Community Development Advisor (.25 FTE) in both units.
Email: mmurray@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 701 8481
Eric C Mussen
Title: CE Apiculturist
Specialty: Apiculture, managing honey bees and wild bees for maximum field production, while minimizing pesticide damage to pollinator population
Email: ecmussen@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-0472
Glenn A Nader
Title: Farm Advisor Livestock and Natural Resources
Specialty: Livestock, forage crops, range and natural resources
Email: ganader@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 822-7515
Stuart Pettygrove Ph.D.
Title: CE Soils Specialist
Specialty: Soil fertility; land application of wastes and wastewater; dairy manure; winegrape nutrition; precision agriculture.
University of California, One Shields Ave
Davis, 95616
Email: gspettygrove@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-2533
Michael S Reid
Title: Cooperative Extension Specialist
Specialty: Postharvest biology and technology of ornamentals, cut flowers, flowering plants, foliage plants. Physiology of flowering and flowering control, chilling injury, mode of action of ethylene and inhibition of ethylene responses.
One Shields Avenue
Davis, 95616-8587
Email: msreid@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 867-3684
Ellie Rilla
Title: Community Development Advisor
Specialty: Public policy education, natural resource issues
Email: erilla@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (415) 499-4204
Karen L. Robb Ph.D.
Title: Farm Advisor County Director
Specialty: Horticulture, Entomology and Integrated Pest Management, Ag/Urban Issues
Email: klrobb@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (209) 966-2417
Bruce Roberts
Title: Professor, CA State University Fresno
Specialties: agronomy / fertility mgmt / precision agriculture
Affiliation: CA State University Fresno
Email: baroberts@csufresno.edu
Phone: 559-278-1758
Howard R Rosenberg
Title: CE Specialist
Specialty: Management of human resources in agriculture and related policy issues, with particular attention to employment laws and regulations, labor market conditions, first-line supervisory development, and workplace safety.
320 Giannini Hall
Berkeley, 94720
Email: rosenberg@berkeley.edu
Phone: (510) 642-7103
Jerry L Schmierer
Title: Agronomy Farm Advisor
Specialty: Plant science, alfalfa, wheat,dry beans, corn, barley, and oil seed crops with speciality in precision agriculture and weed management.
Email: jlschmierer@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 458-0575
Richard Smith
Title: Farm Advisor
Specialty: Vegetable Crop Production & Weed Science
Email: rifsmith@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (831) 759-7357
Scott Stoddard
Title: Farm Advisor Vegetable Crops and Limited Resource Farms
Specialty: Soil fertility and conservation, tomatoes, peppers, sweetpotatoes, weed management
Email: csstoddard@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (209) 385-7403
Trevor V Suslow
Specialty: Postharvest pathology, Microbial food safety, postharvest transportation
Mann Laboratory Mail Stop 3
Davis, 95616-8780
Email: tvsuslow@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 754-8313
Etaferahu Takele
Title: County Director/Area Advisor Farm Management/Agricultural Economics
Specialty: Area Advisor - Farm Management /Agricultural Economics - Production economics, decision-making at the farm level, integrated input management, risk managementSubtropical Fruit Crops (Citrus, Avocados) Vegetable crops, Field CropsRiverside, San Diego, San Bernardino, Imperial, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Los Angles, Orange and Ventura.
Email: ettakele@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (951) 683-6491 x243
Steven R Temple
Title: WOS CE Specialist III & Lecturer
Specialty: Agronomy and host plant resistance breeding of grain legumes, legume cover crops, sustainable farming systems; fluent in Spanish.
Email: srtemple@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-8216
James F Thompson
Title: Specialist in Cooperative Extension
Specialty: Postharvest operations including drying and refrigeration of fruits, vegetables, cut flowers, tree nuts, and grains; transportation of agricultural commodities; energy management and alternative energy systems.
One Shields Avenue
Davis, 95616-5294
Email: jfthompson@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-6167
Laura Tourte
Title: County Director and Farm Advisor
Specialty: Farm Management and Small Farms
1432 Freedom Boulevard
Watsonville, 95076
Email: ljtourte@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (831) 763-8040
Linda Vieira
Title: Business Office Manager
Specialty: Office manager, budget, personnel
Email: lmvieira@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-7717
Paul M Vossen
Title: Farm Advisor Sonoma & Marin Counties Fruits Vegetables Marketing
Specialty: Tree fruits and nuts, vegetable crops, small farm specialty crops; marketing, Master Gardener Program, organic - sustainable production, olive oil, chestnuts, apples
Notes: First Press Newsletter available at:
http://cesonoma.ucdavis.edu/hortic/research_pubs.html
Email: pmvossen@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (707) 565-2621
Becky B Westerdahl
Title: CE Specialist Professor
Specialty: Applied nematology, integrated pest management
One Shields Avenue
Davis, 95616
Email: bbwesterdahl@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-1405
Cheryl A. Wilen
Title: Area Integrated Pest Management Advisor
Specialty: Integrated Pest Management for ornamental plant production and maintenance including nurseries, greenhouses, field production, floriculture, turf and landscape. Projects related to pesticide reduction and alternatives in urban (non-Ag) areas. Research specialty in weed management.Other key words: Urban Pest Management, Environmental Horticulture
Notes: cell: 949-338-1842