Faculty and Staff

Director

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Carlos Bonilla Carlos Bonilla
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Faculty

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Carlos Bonilla Carlos Bonilla
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Sandra DeBano
Associate Professor
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My research focuses on how human activities affect terrestrial invertebrate communities and the ecosystem services they provide, with a special interest in riparian and grassland ecology, food webs, native bees, and invertebrate predators.

Current projects involve examining the...

Kenneth Frost
Associate Professor
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Ecology and epidemiology, agricultural systems, insect vectored plant pathogens, agricultural microbiome, disease diagnostics and management

Ruijun Qin
Assistant Professor
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Oilseed and Fiber Crops

Vidyasager Sagar Sathuvalli 541-567-6337

My research focuses on Potato Breeding and Germplasm Improvement using traditional, molecular, and genomic tools. My program will aim at developing new potato cultivars with increased biotic and abiotic stress tolerance, nutrient efficiency and processing quality.

David Wooster
Associate Professor
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My research interests would be stream ecology, aquatic invertebrate biology, restoration effectiveness monitoring, stream food webs, stream and riparian linkages.

Research Support

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Zoey Gilbert Contact person by email

Shengwei Hu Contact person by email

Jose Marquez
Bio Science Research Tech 2
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Oluwafemi Omilani Contact person by email

Senthilkumar Sh...
Postdoctoral Scholar

Victoria Skillman
Faculty Research Assistant
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Pathology

Support Staff

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Childs, Daniel
Bio Science Research Tech 3
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Farm operations mechanic and tractor field operator. Dan maintains and rebuilds the station equipment along with field work.

Funke, Cassandra
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Hines, Michelle
Administrative Assistant
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Thompson, Daniel
Bio Science Research Tech 3
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My responsibility is to assist the irrigated ag entomology program on Rondon's research on biological control, insect biology and ecology, and population dynamics; basic and applied field and greenhouse production.

Weinke, Timothy
Center Operations Coord
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Tim oversees all central farm operations. He coordinates with his staff for integrating crop rotations to weed and insect management, reducing tillage and implementing no-till operations to irrigated systems, implementing...