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
James Baird PhD
Title: Assistant Cooperative Extension Specialist in Turfgrass Management and Assistant Turfgrass Horticulturist
Specialty: Turfgrass Management
Email: james.baird@ucr.edu
Phone: 951-827-5630; 2137
Ashley R Basinger Ph.D.
Title: Farm Advisor
Specialty: Environmental Horticulture
Email: arbasinger@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (209) 953-6109
Jennifer Baumbach
Title: Master Gardener Program Coordinator
Specialty: plant identification
501 Texas Street, First Floor
Fairfield, 94533-4498
Email: jmbaumbach@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (707) 784-1321
J. Ole Becker
Title: Cooperative Extension Specialist & Nematologist
Specialty: integrated pest management, biological control, interactions between plant-parasitic nematodes and soil-borne pathogens
2250 Spieth Hall
Riverside, 92521-0415
Email: obecker@ucr.edu
Phone: (951) 827-2185
Alison M Berry
Title: Associate Professor Associate Horticulturist-AES
Specialty: Assessment of nitrogen fixing plants, root and root nodule development, management of woody landscape plants, mistletoe control
Email: amberry@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-7683
James A. Bethke
Title: Farm Advisor
Specialty: Nurseries and Floriculture
334 Via Vera Cruz
San Marcos, 92078-2635
Email: jabethke@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (760) 752-4715
Mary L Bianchi
Title: Horticulture Farm Advisor
Specialty: Horticulture, pomology, subtropicals, water management and water quality. Horticulture in San Luis Obispo County and Northern Santa Barbara County.
Email: mlbianchi@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (805) 781-5949
Bethallyn Black
Title: Contra Costa Master Gardener
Specialty: Urban homesteading
1205 Lindell Drive
Walnut Creek, 94596
Email: bethallyn.black@marin.edu
Phone: 415-457-8307
David W Burger
Title: AES Professor Horticulturist
Specialty: Developmental physiology of woody perennials; plant propagation; turfgrass management
One Shields Avenue
Davis, 95616-8587
Email: dwburger@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-0398
Elaine Byrd
Title: Program Coordinator
Specialties: Master Gardener
Affiliation: UCCE Orange County
Email: egbyrd@ucdavis.edu
Lynne Cochran
Title: Administrative Assistant
4106 Batchelor Hall
Riverside, 92521-0124
Email: lynnec@ucr.edu
Phone: (951) 827-4430
Stephen T Cockerham
Title: Superintendent
Specialty: Agricultural operations, field stations, turfgrass research
1060 Martin Luther King Boulevard
Riverside, 92507
Email: stephen.cockerham@ucr.edu
Phone: (951) 827-5906
Laurence R Costello
Title: Environmental Horticulture Advisor
Specialty: Urban forestry and landscape horticulture
Email: lrcostello@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (650) 726-9059 ext 108
Shauna Cozad
Title: Master Gardener
Specialties: Gardening and children
Affiliation: UCCE, Alameda County
Email: skcozad@ucdavis.edu
David W. Cudney Ph.D.
Title: Emeritus CE Weed Scientist
4170 Batchelor Hall
Email: dcudney@citrus.ucr.edu
Phone: (951) 228-8256
W. Bowman Cutter
Title: Assistant Professor of Environmental Economics and Assistant CE Water Resources Management Specialist
Specialty: Public economics, environmental economics, applied econometrics, and undergraduate microeconomics
Email: bowmanc@citrus.ucr.edu
Phone: (951) 827-2088
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
Linda Dodge
Title: Staff Research Associate III
Specialty: Herbicide tolerance and PGR testing for IR4, admin for California Ornamental Research Federation (CORF), Saratoga Endowment and Slosson Endowment
Department of Plant Sciences, Mail Stop 6
Davis, 95616-8587
Email: lldodge@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-8419
A. James Downer
Title: Farm Advisor
Specialty: Pathology of landscape ornamentals , Phytophthora Root Rot, Mulches, Potting soils, Palm horticulture, Arboriculture, Master Gardener Coordinator, Research Advisory Committee Chair for the Hansen Trust
Email: ajdowner@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (805) 645-1458
Steve Dreistadt
Title: Principal Editor
Specialty: IPM, ornamentals, landscape, biological control
One Shields Avenue
Davis, 95616-8620
Email: shdreistadt@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-8876
Clyde L Elmore
Title: CE Weed Scientist
Specialty: Vegetation management in ornamentals, turf, tree fruits and vines, use of resident vegetation and planted cover crops, utilization of soil solarization for control of weeds
Email: clelmore@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-9978
Richard Y Evans
Title: CE Environmental Horticulturist
Specialty: Nursery crop production, ecological restoration
One Shields Avenue
Davis, 95616-8780
Email: ryevans@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-6617
Cindy Fake
Title: Horticulture and Small Farms Advisor
Specialty: Horticulture: fruit, vegetable, specialty and ornamental crops, viticulture, integrated pest management, direct marketing and agritourism
11477 E Avenue
Auburn, 95603
Email: cefake@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 889-7385
Jim Farrar
Email: jfarrar@csufresno.edu
Leslie S. Feathers
Title: Master Gardener Program Coordinator
Email: lsfeathers@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (559) 456-7224
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
Mary Louise Flint
Title: Associate Director, Urban and Community IPM and Extension Entomologist
Specialty: Integrated Pest Management, biological control, landscape and garden IPM, information dissemination and entomology.
One Shields Avenue
Davis, 95616-8620
Email: mlflint@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-7692
Dave Fujino
Title: Director, California Center for Urban Horticulture
Email: dwfujino@ucdavis.edu
Phone: 530-754-7739
Jay Gan
Title: CE Water Quality Specialist and Professor of Environmetnal Chemistry
Specialty: Environmental risks and mitigation practices of pesticides, water and air quality issues related to pesticide uses, IPM practices
Email: jgan@ucr.edu
Phone: (951) 827-2712
Nancy Garrison
Title: Horticultural Advisor
Specialties: Pomology
Affiliation: UCCE, Santa Clara County
Email: nagarrison@ucdavis.edu
Pamela M. Geisel M.S.
Title: Academic Coordinator
Specialty: Statewide Master Gardener Program
Cooperative Extension-Glenn County
Orland, 95963
Email: pmelam@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530)865-1154
Victor A Gibeault P.h.D.
Title: Emeritus CE Environmental Horticulturist
Specialty: The development and evaluation of warm- and cool-season turfgrass species and cultivars for California environments and uses. Cultural work on turfgrass emphasizes water use and irrigation strategies, integrated pest management techniques and wear tolerance
4109 Batchelor Hall
Riverside, 92521
Email: victor.gibeault@ucr.edu
Phone: (951) 827-3575
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
Robert L. Green P.h.D
Title: Specialist Turf Agronomist
4138 Batchelor Hall
Riverside, 92521-0124
Email: robert.green@ucr.edu
Phone: (951) 827-2107
James A Harding
Title: Professor Geneticist-AES
Specialty: Genetics and breeding of flower crops with emphasis on Gerbera
Email: jaharding@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-0349
M. Ali Harivandi Ph.D
Title: Environmental Horticulture Advisor
Specialty: Turfgrass, Soils, and Water
Email: maharivandi@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (510) 639-1271
Janet S Hartin
Title: Environmental Horticulture Advisor
Specialty: Environmental horticulture, sustainable landscapes (irrigation and greenwaste management)
Email: jshartin@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (951)313-2023
Janine K Hasey
Title: Farm Advisor
Specialty: Pomology, Horticulture, Master Gardener Program
Email: jkhasey@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 822-7515
J Michael Henry
Title: Farm Advisor, Emeritus
Specialty: Turf and landscape, Master Gardener Program
Email: mjhenry@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (951) 683-6491 x222
Gary Hickman
Title: Farm Advisor
Specialties: environmental horticulture, greenhouse vegetables
Affiliation: UCCE San Joaquin County
Donald R. Hodel
Title: Environmental Horticulture Advisor
Specialty: Selection & management of palms and other woody ornamentals in the landscape
Notes: Mailing address: PO Box 22255, Los Angeles, CA 90022
4800 E. Cesar E. Chavez Avenue
Los Angeles, 90022
Email: drhodel@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (323) 260-3405
Kathy Ann Hofmann
Title: Master Gardener Coordinator
Specialty: Master Gardener Volunteer Program
Email: kahofmann@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (510) 639-1275
Jodie S Holt
Title: Professor Plant Physiologist Chair
Specialty: Weed science, ecology and physiology of weedy and invasive plants in agroecosystems and wildlands, ecological approaches for management
2133 Batchelor Hall
Riverside, 92521-0124
Email: jodie.holt@ucr.edu
Phone: (951) 827-3801
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
Bryan M Jenkins
Title: Professor
Specialty: Energy systems in agriculture; biomass fuel production, thermal conversion, and environmental impacts; combustion and gasification of biomass fuels; properties of fuels; system models.
One Shields Avenue
Davis, 95616-5294
Email: bmjenkins@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-1422
John N. Kabashima M.B.A., Ph.D.
Title: County Director Environmental Horticulture Advisor
Specialty: Ornamental horticulture, nursery crops, pest management, exotic and invasive pests, water runoff, water quality
Email: jnkabashima@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (714) 708-1606
John F Karlik
Title: Extension Advisor
Specialty: Environmental Horticulture/Environmental Science
Email: jfkarlik@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (661) 868-6220
Susanne Klose
Title: Associate Research Scientist
Specialties: Soil Science, Soil Microbiology & Biochemistry
Affiliation: Department of Plant Sciences, UCD
Email: sklose@ucdavis.edu
Phone: 831-755-2805
Kent Kurtz
Title: Professor
Specialties: Turfgrass science
Affiliation: Cal Poly Pomona
Email: kwkurtz@csupomona.edu
Vincent F. Lazaneo
Title: Home Horticulture Advisor
Specialty: Urban horticulture and pest management education, Master Gardener Volunteer Program
Email: vflazaneo@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (858) 694-2859
Michelle Le Strange
Title: Farm Advisor
Specialty: Vegetable crops, turf & landscape management, weed management (vegetable crops, turf and ornamentals), Master Gardener Program Advisor
4437-B South Laspina St.
Tulare, 93274
Email: mlestrange@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (559) 684-3320
Heiner Leith
Title: Professor & Cooperative Extension Specialist
Specialties: crop ecology, greenhouse environment control systems, floriculture, mathematical crop modeling, ornamental and nursery crop production
Affiliation: Env Hort, UC Davis
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
Adam J Lukaszewski
Title: Geneticist Professor
Specialty: Plant cytogenetics
1137Batchelor Hall
Riverside, 92521-0124
Email: adam.lukaszewski@ucr.edu
Phone: (951) 827-3946
James D. MacDonald Ph.D.
Title: Professor Plant Pathologist AES & Executive Associate Dean
Specialty: Root disease of nursery and perennial crops
Email: jdmacdonald@ucdavis.edu
Phone: 530-752-6730 530-752-6798
Deb Mathews
Title: CE Specialist and Plant Pathologist
Specialties: Virology, diseases of vegetables and ornamentals
Affiliation: UCR Dept Plant Pathology and Microbiology
Email: dmathews@ucr.edu
Phone: 951-827-3864
Joanna McClure
11419 Cabela Place
San Diego, 92127-1212
Email: jmcclur1@san.rr.com
Judy McClure
Title: Landscape Horticulturist Master Gardener Program Coordinator
Specialty: Landscape horticulture in general with an emphasis on water quality education, landscape trees and water efficient landscapes, Master Gardeners volunteer program
Email: jmmcclure@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (916) 875-6913
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
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
Julie P Newman
Title: Environmental Horticulture Farm Advisor
Specialty: Floriculture and nursery production
Email: jpnewman@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (805) 645-1459
Lorence R. Oki
Title: Assoc Specialist in CE, Landscape Horticulture
Specialty: Irrigation and runoff management in urban landscapes and nurseries; effect of water quality (salinity) on plant growth; evaluating California native plants for use in landscape horticulture; introduction of plants for environmental horticulture. Additional unit assignment: Landscape Architecture Program
One Shields Avenue
Davis, 95616-8587
Email: lroki@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 754-4135
Michael P Parrella
Title: Divisional Associate Dean for Agricultural Sciences and Professor of Entomology
Specialty: Development of integrated pest management strategies on ornamental plants with an emphasis on biological control
Email: mpparrella@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-8473
Albert O Paulus
Title: Emeritus CE Plant Pathologist
Specialty: Diseases of vegetables, field crops, strawberries
3224-A Webber Hall
Email: albert.paulus@ucr.edu
Phone: (951) 827-3431
Ed Perry
Title: County Director, Farm Advisor
Specialty: Administration, Environmental Horticulture
Email: ejperry@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (209) 525-6800
Dennis Pittenger
Title: Area Environmental Horticulturist
Specialty: Functional use of ornamental plants in urban landscapes. Landscape irrigation management, urban tree management, species selection, woody plant soil/root interactions.
Batchelor Hall Extension
Riverside, 92521
Email: dennis.pittenger@ucr.edu
Phone: (951) 827-3320
Jeffrey Place
Title: Professor
Specialties: Turfgrass science
Affiliation: College of the Desert
Email: jplace@collegeofthedesert.edu
Antoon Ploeg
Title: Associate Nematologist Associate CE Nematology Specialist
Specialty: Nematode pest management in field and vegetable crops; virus transmission
Riverside, 92521-0415
Email: antoon.ploeg@ucr.edu
Phone: (951) 827-3192
Richard A Redak
Title: Entomologist Professor Vice Chair
Specialty: Integrated management of insect pests on commercial floricultural and ornamental plants, ecology of plant-insect interactions within the urban/natural/agricultural interface, community ecology of insects, conservation biology
University of California
Riverside, 92521
Email: richard.redak@ucr.edu
Phone: (951) 827-7250
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
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
Yvonne Savio
Title: Program Manager/Master Gardener Coordinator
Specialty: Master Gardeners, community gardening, school gardening
4800 E. Cesar E. Chavez Avenue
Los Angeles, 90022
Email: ydsavio@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (323) 260-3407
David A. Shaw
Title: Farm Advisor
Specialty: Turfgrass, Landscape, Arboriculture, Water Management
151 East Carmel Street
San Marcos, 92078
Email: dshaw@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (760) 752-4720
Sharon Stolen
Title: Master Gardener Program Coordinator
Email: srstolen@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (714) 708-1647
Steven Swain
Title: Environmental Horticulture Advisor
Email: svswain@ucdavis.edu
Phone: 415-499-4204
Steven A. Tjosvold
Title: Farm Advisor
Specialty: Environmental horticulture
1432 Freedom Boulevard
Watsonville, 95076-2796
Email: satjosvold@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (831) 763-8013
Colleen Warfield Ph.D.
Title: Nursery Production and Floriculture Advisor
Specialty: Plant Pathology; Ornamental Crops
80 Stone Pine Road #100
Half Moon Bay, 94019
Email: cywarfield@ucdavis.edu
Phone: 650-726-9059 x 105
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
5555 Overland Ave. Bldg 4, Suite 4101
San Diego, 92123
Email: cawilen@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (858) 694-2846
Clyde Wilson
Title: Research Scientist
Specialties: Salt stress, physiology
Affiliation: USDA-ARS, Salinity Lab
Email: cwilson@ussl.ars.usda.gov
Phone: (951) 369-4832
Frank P Wong
Title: Cooperative Extension Specialist
Specialty: Diseases of Turf and Landscape/Urban Plant Pathology
202 Fawcett Lab
Riverside, 92521
Email: frank.wong@ucr.edu
Phone: (951) 827-2936
Lin L Wu
Title: Professor Horticulturist-AES
Specialty: Turfgrass breeding and management, ecological genetics and stress physiology, plant mineral nutrition and environmental stress physiology
Email: llwu@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-7179
Laosheng Wu
Title: Professor CE Water Management Specialist
Specialty: Soil physics, vadose-zone hydrology, water quality, water management
2208 Geology Bldg.
Riverside, 92521
Email: laowu@ucrac1.ucr.edu
Phone: (951) 827-4664