Regional Experts
These individuals are willing to respond to specific questions in their area of expertise, or to provide referral to others in the pest management field. Please respect their schedules and limited ability to respond. Consider visiting their web-sites before contacting them directly.
One important source of information is your local Cooperative Extension Service office. Each U.S. state and territory has a state office at its land-grant university and a network of local or regional offices. See http://www.csrees.usda. gov/Extension/ for a listing of all offices.
Northeast Region
Mary Barbercheck
Department of Entomology
516 ASI Building
Penn State University
University Park, PA 16802
(814) 863-2982
(814) 865-3048 – fax
meb34@psu.edu
http://www.ento.psu.edu/Personnel/Faculty/barbercheck.htm
Soil quality and arthropod diversity as it relates to management of insect pests.
Biology and ecology of entomopathogenic (insect-parasitic) nematodes for man-
agement of soil-dwelling insect pests.
Brian Caldwell
NOFA-NY Farm Education Coordinator
Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York
education@nofany.org
www.nofany.org
Organic pest management for vegetables and fruit.
Ruth V. Hazzard
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Extension Agriculture and Landscape Program, Vegetable Team
rhazzard@umext.umass.edu
www.umassvegetable.org
IPM, ecological and organic pest management in vegetables.
Fred Magdoff
Department of Plant and Soil Sciences
University of Vermont
frederick.magdoff@uvm.edu
Soil quality, soil testing, ecological soil management.
Ron Prokopy
Department of Entomology
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
prokopy@ent.umass.edu
Ecological management of tree fruit pests
Abby Seaman
New York State Integrated Pest Management Program
Cornell Cooperative Extension
ajs32@cornell.edu
www.nysipm.cornell.edu
Integrating biological controls into vegetable IPM systems
Kimberly Stoner
The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
Kimberly.Stoner@po.state.ct.us
http://www.caes.state.ct.us/
Alternatives to insecticides for managing vegetable insects
John R. Teasdale
USDA-ARS
Beltsville, MD
teasdale@ba.ars.usda.gov
http://www.barc.usda.gov/anri/sasl/sasl.html
Integrated weed management, cover crop management
North Central Region
Dale R. Mutch
Michigan State University
Mutchd@msue.msu.edu
www.kbs.msu.edu/extension
Pest management in farming systems utilizing cover crops
Southern Region
W. Joe Lewis
Research Entomologist
USDA - ARS
Tifton, Georgia
wjl@tifton.usda.gov
http://sacs.cpes.peachnet.edu/lewis/
Sustainable pest management, understanding and enhancing the parasitic and
predacious insects that attack plant feeding insects.
David B. Orr
Dept. of Entomology
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-7613
david_orr@ncsu.edu
http://cipm.ncsu.edu/ent/biocontrol/
Biological control of insects in field crops and organic production systems
Sharad C. Phatak, Ph.D.
Professor of Horticulture
100 Horticulture Building
4604 Research Way
University of Georgia
Tifton, GA 31793
(229) 386-3901
(229) 386-3356 – fax
phatak@.uga.edu
Sustainable farming systems, cropping systems, cover crops, conservation tillage
and pest management, soil quality and pest management, non-chemical weed
management.
Debbie Roos
Agricultural Extension Agent
North Carolina State University
Post Office Box 279 Pittsboro, NC 27312
debbie_roos@ncsu.edu
(919) 542-8202
(919) 542-8246 – fax
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/chatham/ag/SustAg/index.html
Organic and sustainable agriculture and pest management
Glynn Tillman
USDA-ARS, Tifton, Georgia
pgt@tifton.usda.gov
Biological control of insect pests in cotton
Western Region
Miguel Altieri, Ph.D.
Professor of Agroecology
Division of Insect Biology
University of California, Berkeley
agroeco3@nature.berkeley.edu
www.agroeco.org
Agroecosystem design, biodiversity, ecological pest management
Robert L. Bugg, Ph.D.
Senior Analyst, Agricultural Ecology
U.C. Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program
University of California
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616-8716
(530) 754-8549
(530) 754-8550 – fax
rlbugg@ucdavis.edu
http://www.sarep.ucdavis.edu
Biological control, on-farm restoration ecology, earthworms, pollinators,
California native plants, cover crops, hedgerows.
Clara I. Nicholls, Ph.D.
Research Fellow
Divison of Insect Biology
University of California, Berkeley
nicholls@berkeley.edu
www.agroeco.org
Habitat management, biological control