Farming

Thomas Wilson

Thomas
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Wilson
Title: 
Lecturer, Soil, Water and Environmental Science
Additional Titles and Departments: 
Affiliate Faculty, Institute of the Environment
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Education: 
Ph.D., Soil Chemistry, The University of Arizona, 2001.
Phone: 
(520) 621-9308
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My research emphasis has been on the impact of invasive species on ecosystems in the SW United States relative to fire frequency and soil chemistry. My current position emphasizes instruction and curriculum development.

Gene A Giacomelli

Gene
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Giacomelli
Title: 
Professor, Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering Department
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Director, CEAC (Controlled Environment Agriculture Center)
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Education: 
Ph.D., Horticultural Engineering, Rutgers University, 1983.
Phone: 
(520) 626-9566
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Gene Giacomelli's research interests focus on food production systems and include controlled environment plant productions systems [greenhouse and growth chamber] research, design, development, and applications, with emphases on crop production systems, nutrient delivery systems, environmental control, mechanization, and labor productivity. He also teaches controlled environment systems, which is an introduction to the technical aspects of greenhouse design, environmental control, nutrient delivery systems, hydroponic crop production, intensive field production systems, and post-harvest handling and storage of crops.

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Peter Ellsworth

Peter
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Ellsworth
Title: 
IPM Specialist, Professor, Entomology/Maricopa Agricultural Center
Additional Titles and Departments: 
Director, Arizona Pest Management Center
Statewide IPM Coordinator
Statewide Pesticide Coordinator
Education: 
Ph.D., Entomology, North Carolina State University
Phone: 
(520) 381-2225

Peter Ellsworth has broad interests in insect-crop inter-actions and applied insect ecology with particular emphasis on those aspects, which may be exploited for sound ecological and economical pest management. My responsibilities are to develop research and extension IPM programs for cotton. In addition, he is interested in insect phenology, diapause, insect-water relations, predictive modeling, pest biology, sampling, thresholds, and damage dynamics.

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Mark C Siemens

Mark
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Siemens
Title: 
Associate Professor/Specialty Crops Mechanization Specialist, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
Education: 
Ph.D., Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, University of Arizona, 1996.
Phone: 
(928) 782-383
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Responsible for the development and implementation of extension and research programs in the area of specialty crops mechanization. Develops educational materials and works cooperatively with faculty, stakeholder and other U.S. and state agencies. Technologies and systems developed provide applied engineering solutions to problems facing the specialty crop industry.

Steven E Smith

Steven
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Smith
Title: 
Associate Professor, School of Natural Resources and the Environment
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Associate Professor, School of Plant Sciences
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Education: 
Ph.D., Plant Breeding, Cornell University, 1984.
Phone: 
(520) 621-5325
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My research is focused on the evolution of adaptation in plants. I have worked primarily with species found on grassland sites. A goal in my work is to link an understanding of plant growth and development processes with local adaptation and to understand the genetic basis for these processes.

James B Greenberg

James
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Greenberg
Title: 
Research Professor, Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology
Education: 
Ph.D., University of Munich, 1973
Phone: 
(520) 621-6282
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Dr. Greenberg's areas of expertise lie in political ecology, natural resource anthropology, economic anthropology, globalization, law and development, violence, urban anthropology, migration, household livelihoods, peasants, Latin America, and the borderlands. Dr. Greenberg has worked in peasant and fishing communities in Mexico, and has received numerous grants for borderlands research. His current research includes a project on the history of applied anthropology at the University of Arizona. "My research broadly examines the impact of global capital on development and on the well-being of both human populations and the ecosystems that sustain them. Specifically, my research looks both at the level of larger processes on the historical development of capital, and at the local variants of capital it has spawn. In pursuing these interests, I have focused on credit: looking at how it is culturally embedded and used as economic instrument, social relationship, and technology of power. At the level of local processes, my research examines the incorporation of local populations and local ecologies into wider systems, and how their inclusion in them changes their dynamics."

Yves Carriere

Yves
Carriere
Title: 
Professor, Entomology
Additional Titles and Departments: 
Affiliate Faculty, Institute of the Environment
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Education: 
PhD, Entomology, Simon Fraser University, 1992
Phone: 
(520) 626-8329
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Yves Carriere's field of expertise are insect ecology: interactions between insects and transgenic crops; the environmental impact of transgenic crops; spatially-explicit integrated pest management and environmental impact assessment; ecology of invasive whitefly biotypes.

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