Meet the scientists who advise The Organic Center on a wide variety of organic issues and read about their research interests.
Dr. Asa Bradman is an environmental health scientist and expert in exposure assessment and epidemiology focusing on occupational and environmental exposures to...
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Dr. Daley is Professor at the College of Agriculture, California State University, Chico. She is involved in a number of research activities to enhance and...
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Joji Muramoto joined ANR as an assistant Cooperative Extension organic production specialist. The first UCCE specialist hired to focus on organic agriculture,...
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Dr. Danielle Treadwell received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Horticultural Sciences from North Carolina State University where she conducted her graduate research in...
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Dr. Nguyen Hue is a professor of Environmental Soil Chemistry at the University of Hawaii. His areas of expertise include soil chemistry with particular...
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Kathleen’s current position as Professor at Iowa State University is a joint position between the departments of Horticulture and Agronomy, where she is...
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Dr. Mark Williams is Professor and Chair of the Department of Horticulture at the University of Kentucky. He is the Director of the Sustainable Agriculture...
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Dr. Gallandt is Professor of Weed Ecology and Management at the University of Maine, where he has worked since 2000. He teaches in the Sustainable Agriculture...
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Dr. Catherine Badgley is Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the current Director of the Residential College at the University...
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Dr. Bradley J. Heins is Associate Professor of Organic Dairy Management at the West Central Research and Outreach Center in Morris, Minnesota.. Dr. Heins...
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Marla Spivak is a MacArthur Fellow and McKnight Distinguished Professor in Entomology at the University of Minnesota. Her research efforts focus on protecting...
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Dr. Girish K. Panicker is an Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Conservation Research at Alcorn State University, Mississippi. His research has...
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Dr. Patrick Carr is Superintendent and Associate Professor at Montana State University’s Central Agricultural Research Center. His research program focuses on...
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Dr. Bruce Maxwell is Professor of Applied Plant Ecology in the Department of Land Resources and Environmental Science at Montana State University in Bozeman,...
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Dr. Brito is Associate Professor in the department of Agriculture, Nutrition, & Food System at the University of New Hampshire. His research focuses on...
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Dr. Carolyn Dimitri is an applied economist with expertise in food systems and food policy. She is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Nutrition...
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Dr. Chris Reberg-Horton is Associate Professor of Organic Cropping Systems at North Carolina State University. As an agronomist with both research and...
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Dr. Myers holds the Baggett-Frazier Endowed Chair of Vegetable Breeding and Genetics in the Department of Horticulture at Oregon State University. He works on...
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John is an Assiociate Professor of Biology at Furman University in South Carolina. His research emphasizes concerns related to biodiversity conservation and...
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Jane Dever is Professor and Cotton Breeder at Texas A&M and Project Leader for the Cotton Improvement Program since September 2008. Her research focuses on...
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Dr. Alex Racelis is Assistant Professor of Environmental Science in the Department of Biology at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. His research...
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Dr. Molly Jahn is a plant breeder and plant geneticist who has contributed many widely used vegetable varieties to organic agriculture through her work...
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Dr. Porter is a professor in the department of Zoology has been studying low-level contaminant/pesticide mixtures at environmentally relevant concentrations...
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Dr. Silva is a professor in the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her research includes projects involving organic no-till...
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Dr. Andy Hammermeister is the Director of the Organic Agriculture Centre of Canada (OACC) and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Agriculture at Dalhousie...
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Carlo Leifert is the Director of the Centre for Organics Research at Southern Cross University in Australia. The Centre for Organics Research is a joint...
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Timothy Griffin is an Associate Professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University. At the Friedman School, he is Division...
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Michel Cavigelli is a Soil Scientist at USDA-ARS in Beltsville, Maryland. He is Lead Scientist of the Farming Systems Project, a long-term cropping systems...
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Dr. Zhou is an Associate Professor of Plant Pathology at Texas A & M University, specializing in disease management in conventional and organic rice. He...
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Michael O’Donnell is the Organic and Diversified Agriculture Extension Educator for Purdue Extension. In this role, Michael coordinates an extension and...
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Dr. Kate Tully is an Assistant Professor of Agroecology at the University of Maryland and directs the AgroEcoLab. She earned a bachelor's degree in English,...
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Dr. James N. Galloway earned his BA from Whittier College in 1966 with a double major in Chemistry and Biology. He was awarded his PhD from the University of...
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Alda Pires, DVM, MPVM, PhD, DACVPM, is currently an Assistant Specialist in Cooperative Extension /Assistant Epidemiologist in AES for Urban Agriculture and...
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Ankita Raturi is an assistant professor at Purdue University, where she runs the Agricultural Informatics Lab, focused on human-centered design, information...
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Dr. David Gonthier is an assistant professor in the Department of Entomology at the University of Kentucky. His research aims to evaluate the viability of...
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