Commodities

Commodities

AGNR research goes beyond our labs, offering expertise from field work for the following agricultural commodities.  

Alternative Forest Enterprises

Andrew Baldwin : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology 
Areas of Focus: Ecology of tidal and inland wetlands, Wetland restoration, Botany and plant ecology

Ben Beale : Principal Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus:
Agronomic Crop Production, Fruits & Vegetables Crops, Beginning Farmer, Herbicide Resistant Weed Management

Frank Coale : Professor & Acting Assistant Dean, Environmental Science & Technology   
Areas of Focus:
Soil Science, Environmental Science

Gary Coleman : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: U
nderstanding the biology of nitrogen cycling and homeostasis in trees and the impacts of these processes on growth and development by integrating molecular biology, genetic, genomic, proteomic and physiological approaches

John Erwin : Professor & Chair, Plant Science and Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Environmental control of plant growth in greenhouses and controlled environment agriculture, Identifying ways to maximize flowering, photosynthesis and yield using different lighting and temperature strategies, Manipulating the environment in controlled environment systems to maximize edible crop nutritional value

Bill Hubbard : Assistant Director and State Program Leader, Environment, Natural Resources & Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus:
Forest Management, Finance and Economics, Climate Change in Natural Resource Systems

Amy Lang : Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus:
4-H, Environmental Education, Nature Deficit Disorder

David Myers : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Landscape Architecture

Aquaculture and Fisheries Management

Shannon Browne : Senior Lecturer, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Wildlife, Urban, Ecology, Biology

Robert Buchanan : Professor Emeritus, Nutrition & Food Science and Center for Food Safety and Security Systems
Areas of Focus: Predictive microbiology, quantitative microbial risk assessment, microbial physiology, mycotoxicology, and HACCP systems

Frank Coale : Professor & Acting Assistant Dean, Environmental Science & Technology   
Areas of Focus:
Soil Science, Environmental Science

John Erwin : Professor & Chair, Plant Science and Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Environmental control of plant growth in greenhouses and controlled environment agriculture, Identifying ways to maximize flowering, photosynthesis and yield using different lighting and temperature strategies, Manipulating the environment in controlled environment systems to maximize edible crop nutritional value

Reginal Harrell : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology and Northeastern Regional Aquaculture Center
Areas of Focus: Fisheries, Wildlife Science, Ecological and Natural Resource Ethics

Jorge Holzer : Associate Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Economics of Uncertainty, Marine Resource Economics

Amy Lang : Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus:
4-H, Environmental Education, Nature Deficit Disorder

David Lei : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Nutrient control of gene expression

Neith Little : Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension  
Areas of Focus: Urban Agriculture, Soil Science, Small and beginning farms

Brian Needelman : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Pedology, Wetlands, Water quality, and Geospatial analysis

Matt Parker : Principal Agent Associate, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sea Grant, Extension
Areas of Focus: Aquaculture Business & Production


Debasmita Patra : Program Director, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Social issues associated with stormwater management across urban ecosystems

Allen Pattillo : Faculty Specialist, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Shellfish Aquaculture

Abani Pradhan : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Food safety and risk assessment

Thanicha Ruangmas : First-Year Innovation & Research Experience (FIRE) Program, Agricultural & Resource Economics

Mohamed Salem : Associate Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Aquaculture Genomics, Muscle biology

Don Webster : Principal Agent, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Marine Science, Commercial Aquaculture, Commercial Fisheries, Seafood Handling and Processing, Aquaculture Policy

Cheng-I Wei : Professor & Acting Chair, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Food microbiology and safety, toxicology, and immunotoxicology

Lance Yonkos : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Laboratory and field studies of contaminant abundance, transport, fate and toxicological effect in fresh and estuarine surface waters and sediments

Beef and Cattle

Robert Buchanan : Professor Emeritus, Nutrition & Food Science and Center for Food Safety and Security Systems
Areas of Focus: Predictive microbiology, quantitative microbial risk assessment, microbial physiology, mycotoxicology, and HACCP systems

Frank Coale : Professor & Acting Assistant Dean, Environmental Science & Technology   
Areas of Focus:
Soil Science, Environmental Science

Seth Dickey : Assistant Professor, Veterinary Medicine   
Areas of Focus: Employs bacterial genetics, molecular biology, membrane and protein biochemistry techniques to understand the physiology, virulence, and antibiotic resistance of pathogenic bacteria as well as the mechanisms of new antimicrobials

Barbara Dobbins : Program Management Specialist, 4-H Youth Development Educators, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: 4H

Megan Fritz : Assistant Professor, College of Computer Mathematical and Natural Sciences
Areas of Focus: Insect evolution and genomic variants, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Genomics, and the Molecular and Cellular Biology 

Paul Goeringer : Senior Faculty Specialist, Agricultural & Resource Economics and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agriculture Law, Risk Management education, Crop Insurance

Amanda Grev : Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus:
Forages, Pasture & Hay Production, Pasture Management, Rotational Grazing, Livestock, Beef Cattle, Dairy Cattle, Small ruminants, Equine

Carol Keefer : Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Embryology, Animal Biotechnology

Andrew Kness : Senior Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agronomy, Plant Pathology, Pasture Management, Diseases of Field Crops, Soils

Stephanie Lansing : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: R
enewable energy, Water quality, Waste treatment, and Human health

Li Ma : Associate Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Statistical Genetics, Population Genetics, GWAS, Genomic Selection, Dairy Cattle

James MacDonald : Research Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agricultural Economics, Industrial Organization

Luke Macaulay : Wildlife Management Specialist - Agent, Environment, Natural Resources & Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Wildlife Resources

Utpal Pal : Professor, Veterinary Medicine and Entomology 
Areas of Focus:
Lyme disease, Leptospirosis and Vector Biology

Sarah Potts : Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Dairy Cattle Nutrition and Metabolism, Dairy and Livestock Management, Calf Management, Beef Nutrition and Management

Abani Pradhan : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Food safety and Risk assessment

Eduardo Rico : Assistant Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences 
Areas of Focus: Nutrition and Metabolism, Dairy Cattle, Metabolic disorders of the peripartum, Health-promoting bioactives of milk

Charles Sasscer : Agent Associate, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Livestock, Beef Cattle, Pasture Management

Meiqing Shi : Assistant Professor, Veterinary Medicine
Areas of Focus: Host immune responses to fungal infection and parasite infection

Paul Shipley : Faculty Extension Assistant, Environmental Science & Technology, Agricultural Nutrient Management
Area of Focus: Nutrient Management


Jiuzhou Song: Professor, Animal Science
Areas of Focus: Elucidating the genetic basis and epigenetic mechanism of genome to phenome, especially on complex diseases and quantitative traits of livestock animals and humans

Gurpal Toor : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Nutrient Management, Water Quality, Biogeochemistry, Soil Chemistry, Soil Fertility

Ashley Travis : Agent, 4-H Youth Development Educators, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus:
4-H Youth Development, 4-H Animal Science, Youth Agricultural Literacy, Youth Animal Science, Youth Leadership Development

Zhengguo Xiao : Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences 
Areas of Focus: Generation of functional memory CTLs during vaccination, CTL activation and Exosomes, Mucosal immune response to pathogens in cattle

Xiaoping Zhu : Professor & Chair, Veterinary Medicine
Areas of Focus:
Identification of new mechanisms of immune regulation on mucosal infections and inflammations at molecular and cellular immunology level, how the mucosal immune system distinguishes pathogenic from non-pathogenic microbes and how pathogens evade innate and adaptive immunity, harnessing innate and adaptive immunity for mucosal vaccine development and immunotherapy

Beer, Wine, and Spirits

Robert Buchanan : Professor Emeritus, Nutrition & Food Science and Center for Food Safety and Security Systems
Areas of Focus: Predictive microbiology, quantitative microbial risk assessment, microbial physiology, mycotoxicology, and HACCP systems

Frank Coale : Professor & Acting Assistant Dean, Environmental Science & Technology   
Areas of Focus:
Soil Science, Environmental Science

Diana Cochran : Assistant Clinical Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Commercial crop production, Crop diversification, Relationship between plants and environmental variables, Sustainable in-season crop management practices

Paul Goeringer : Senior Faculty Specialist, Agricultural & Resource Economics and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agriculture Law, Risk Management education, Crop Insurance

Angus Murphy : Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Auxin Transport, ABC Transporter, Phototropism, Membrane nano domains, Hormone/Herbicide crosstalk

Ronald David Myers : Principal Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension, Institute of Applied Agriculture
Areas of Focus: Fruits & Vegetables Crops, Agronomy Field Crops, Weed Science, Pesticide Use & Safety, No-Tillage Technology, Pasture & Hay Production

Abani Pradhan : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Food safety and risk assessment

Dairy

Naresh Amradi : Post-Doctoral Associate, Environmental Science & Technology

Ryan Blaustein : Assistant Professor, Nutrition & Food Science

Robert Buchanan : Professor Emeritus, Nutrition & Food Science and Center for Food Safety and Security Systems
Areas of Focus: Predictive microbiology, quantitative microbial risk assessment, microbial physiology, mycotoxicology, and HACCP systems

Cheryl Bush : Agent Associate, Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Chronic Disease, Healthy Living, Nutrition, Food Safety

Frank Coale : Professor & Acting Assistant Dean, Environmental Science & Technology   
Areas of Focus: Soil Science, Environmental Science

Seth Dickey : Assistant Professor, Veterinary Medicine   
Areas of Focus: Employs bacterial genetics, molecular biology, membrane and protein biochemistry techniques to understand the physiology, virulence, and antibiotic resistance of pathogenic bacteria as well as the mechanisms of new antimicrobials

Barbara Dobbins : Program Management Specialist, 4-H Youth Development Educators, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: 4H

Paul Goeringer : Senior Faculty Specialist, Agricultural & Resource Economics and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agriculture Law, Risk Management education, Crop Insurance

Amanda Grev : Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus:
Forages, Pasture & Hay Production, Pasture Management, Rotational Grazing, Livestock, Beef Cattle, Dairy Cattle, Small ruminants, Equine

Shauna Henley : Senior Agent; Nutrition & Food Science and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus:
Food Preservation, Food Safety, Nutrition

Darren Jarboe : Principal Agent & Assistant Director, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus:
Agribusiness Management, Agricultural Production, Biorenewables, Entrepreneurship, Technology Commercialization

Stephanie Lansing : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: R
enewable energy, Water quality, Waste treatment, and Human health

Li Ma : Associate Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Statistical Genetics, Population Genetics, GWAS, Genomic Selection, Dairy Cattle

James MacDonald : Research Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agricultural Economics, Industrial Organization

Daniel Nelson : Professor, Veterinary Medicine and Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research
Areas of Focus: Development of antimicrobial alternatives to antibiotics

Kelly Nichols : Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agronomy, Commercial Horticulture, Nutrient Management, Pesticide Education, Soil Fertility, Weed Management

Sarah Potts : Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Dairy Cattle Nutrition and Metabolism, Dairy and Livestock Management, Calf Management, Beef Nutrition and Management

Abani Pradhan : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Food safety and Risk assessment

Eduardo Rico : Assistant Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences 
Areas of Focus: Nutrition and Metabolism, Dairy Cattle, Metabolic disorders of the peripartum, Health-promoting bioactives of milk

Andrew Schiffmacher : Assistant Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Embryonic Tissue Lineage Development, Stem Cell Biology, Cadherin Biology, Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition

Jeff Semler : Principal Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Small ruminants, Forage Systems Management, Beef Cattle, Dairy Cattle, Pasture & Hay Production, Pasture Management, Agronomy Field Crops, Rotational Grazing

Meiqing Shi : Assistant Professor, Veterinary Medicine
Areas of Focus: Host immune responses to fungal infection and parasite infection

Paul Shipley : Faculty Extension Assistant, Environmental Science & Technology, Agricultural Nutrient Management 
Area of Focus: Nutrient Management


Jiuzhou Song: Professor, Animal Science
Areas of Focus: Elucidating the genetic basis and epigenetic mechanism of genome to phenome, especially on complex diseases and quantitative traits of livestock animals and humans

Gurpal Toor : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Nutrient Management, Water Quality, Biogeochemistry, Soil Chemistry, Soil Fertility

Ashley Travis : Agent, 4-H Youth Development Educators, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus:
4-H Youth Development, 4-H Animal Science, Youth Agricultural Literacy, Youth Animal Science, Youth Leadership Development

Qin Wang : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Food polymers biophysics, Food nanotechnology, Food chemistry

Ray Weil : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Soil Science, Agronomy, soil health, sustainable agriculture, International Development, Cover Crops, Soil Fertility, soil organic matter, soil carbon, soil compaction, Soil Conservation, Nitrogen cycling, Phosphorus, Sulfur

Liangli Yu : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Nutraceuticals and functional foods for reducing the risk of obesity and related diabetes, and coronary heart disease; Interactions between food factors and gut microbiota, and the impacts on host health, Food safety and integrity chemistry

Xiaoping Zhu : Professor & Chair, Veterinary Medicine
Areas of Focus:
Identification of new mechanisms of immune regulation on mucosal infections and inflammations at molecular and cellular immunology level, how the mucosal immune system distinguishes pathogenic from non-pathogenic microbes and how pathogens evade innate and adaptive immunity, harnessing innate and adaptive immunity for mucosal vaccine development and immunotherapy

Equine

Amy Burk : Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Equine Science & Nutrition, Pasture Management, Rotational Grazing

Frank Coale : Professor & Acting Assistant Dean, Environmental Science & Technology   
Areas of Focus:
Soil Science, Environmental Science

Shannon Dill : Principal Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agriculture Business, Farm Management, Crop Budgets

Barbara Dobbins : Program Management Specialist, 4-H Youth Development Educators, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: 4H

Megan Fritz : Assistant Professor, College of Computer Mathematical and Natural Sciences
Areas of Focus: Insect evolution and genomic variants, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Genomics, and the Molecular and Cellular Biology 

Amanda Grev : Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus:
Forages, Pasture & Hay Production, Pasture Management, Rotational Grazing, Livestock, Beef Cattle, Dairy Cattle, Small ruminants, Equine

Andrew Kness : Senior Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agronomy, Plant Pathology, Pasture Management, Diseases of Field Crops, Soils

Neith Little : Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension  
Areas of Focus: Urban Agriculture, Soil Science, Small and beginning farms

Daniel Nelson : Professor, Veterinary Medicine and Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research
Areas of Focus: Development of antimicrobial alternatives to antibiotics

Utpal Pal : Professor, Veterinary Medicine and Entomology 
Areas of Focus:
Lyme disease, Leptospirosis and Vector Biology

Paul Shipley : Faculty Extension Assistant, Environmental Science & Technology, Agricultural Nutrient Management 
Area of Focus: Nutrient Management

Ashley Travis : Agent, 4-H Youth Development Educators, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus:
4-H Youth Development, 4-H Animal Science, Youth Agricultural Literacy, Youth Animal Science, Youth Leadership Development

Xiaoping Zhu : Professor & Chair, Veterinary Medicine
Areas of Focus:
Identification of new mechanisms of immune regulation on mucosal infections and inflammations at molecular and cellular immunology level, how the mucosal immune system distinguishes pathogenic from non-pathogenic microbes and how pathogens evade innate and adaptive immunity, harnessing innate and adaptive immunity for mucosal vaccine development and immunotherapy

Forest Products (including biomass production)

Ben Beale : Principal Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agronomic Crop Production, Fruits & Vegetables Crops, Beginning Farmer, Herbicide Resistant Weed Management

Karin Burghardt : Assistant Professor, Entomology
Areas of Focus: how plant defenses shape communities and ecosystems

Frank Coale : Professor & Acting Assistant Dean, Environmental Science & Technology   
Areas of Focus:
Soil Science, Environmental Science

Gary Coleman : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: U
nderstanding the biology of nitrogen cycling and homeostasis in trees and the impacts of these processes on growth and development by integrating molecular biology, genetic, genomic, proteomic and physiological approaches

Rebecca Epanchin-Niell : Associate Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics and UMD Extension
Areas of Focus:
Natural Resource Economics, Invasive Species Management, Species and Ecosystem Conservation, Spatial Resource Management

Daniel Gruner : Associate Professor, Entomology
Areas of Focus: Entomology, Ecology, Biodiversity

Bill Hubbard : Assistant Director and State Program Leader, Environment, Natural Resources & Sea Grant
Areas of Focus:
Forest Management, Finance and Economics, Climate Change in Natural Resource Systems

Amy Lang : Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus:
4-H, Environmental Education, Nature Deficit Disorder

Erik Lichtenberg : Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus:
Natural Resources, Land Use, Agriculture and Environment

Luke Macaulay : Wildlife Management Specialist - Agent, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension 
Areas of Focus: Wildlife Resources

Lars Olson : Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Economics of Invasive Species, Growth Theory and Economic Dynamics, Economics of Uncertainty

Micheal Raupp : Professor Emeritus and Research Scientist, Entomology
Areas of Focus: Mechanisms of host plant resistance, the ecology and behavior of herbivores and their predators, parasitoids, and pathogens, and the impact of landscape design on pest and natural enemy population dynamics

Game Wildlife Management

Shannon Browne : Senior Lecturer, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Wildlife, Urban, Ecology, Biology

Rebecca Epanchin-Niell : Associate Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics, and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus:
Natural Resource Economics, Invasive Species Management, Species and Ecosystem Conservation, Spatial Resource Management

Megan Fritz : Assistant Professor, College of Computer Mathematical and Natural Sciences
Areas of Focus: Insect evolution and genomic variants, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Genomics, and the Molecular and Cellular Biology 

Reginal Harrell : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology and Northeastern Regional Aquaculture Center
Areas of Focus: Fisheries, Wildlife Science, Ecological and Natural Resource Ethics

Bill Hubbard : Assistant Director and State Program Leader, Environment, Natural Resources & Sea Grant
Areas of Focus:
Forest Management, Finance and Economics, Climate Change in Natural Resource Systems

Jim Lewis : Principal Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus:
Agronomy

Luke Macaulay : Wildlife Management Specialist - Agent, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension 
Areas of Focus: Wildlife Resources

Jennifer Mullinax : Assistant Professor, Environmental Science & Technology and Environmental Science & Policy Program
Areas of Focus:
Wildlife Ecology, Habitat Modeling, Environmental Science

Brian Needelman : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Pedology, Wetlands, Water quality, and Geospatial analysis

Utpal Pal : Professor, Veterinary Medicine and Entomology 
Areas of Focus:
Lyme disease, Leptospirosis and Vector Biology

Hay and Silage

Ben Beale : Principal Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus:
Agronomic Crop Production, Fruits & Vegetables Crops, Beginning Farmer, Herbicide Resistant Weed Management

Frank Coale : Professor & Acting Assistant Dean, Environmental Science & Technology   
Areas of Focus:
Soil Science, Environmental Science

Paul Goeringer : Senior Faculty Specialist, Agricultural & Resource Economics and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agriculture Law, Risk Management education, Crop Insurance

Amanda Grev : Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus:
Forages, Pasture & Hay Production, Pasture Management, Rotational Grazing, Livestock, Beef Cattle, Dairy Cattle, Small ruminants, Equine

Andrew Kness : Senior Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agronomy, Plant Pathology, Pasture Management, Diseases of Field Crops, Soils

William Lamp : Professor, Entomology
Areas of Focus:
Ecology of insects in the human environment, and my projects align within three broad fields: integrated pest management (IPM) of forage crops, understanding ecology of emerging insect pests, and implications of IPM and land use on invertebrates in streams and wetlands

Alan Leslie : Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Integrated Pest Management, Entomology, Nutrient Management

Jim Lewis : Principal Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus:
Agronomy

Emileigh Lucas : Faculty Specialist, Agricultural Nutrient Management Program
Areas of Focus: Nutrient Management

Luke Macaulay : Wildlife Management Specialist - Agent, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension 
Areas of Focus: Wildlife Resources

Ronald David Myers : Principal Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension, Institute of Applied Agriculture
Areas of Focus: Fruits & Vegetables Crops, Agronomy Field Crops, Weed Science, Pesticide Use & Safety, No-Tillage Technology, Pasture & Hay Production

Kelly Nichols : Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agronomy, Commercial Horticulture, Nutrient Management, Pesticide Education, Soil Fertility, Weed Management

Wendy Peer : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology and Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Use biochemistry, genetics, live cell imaging, phenology, and physiology to address hypothesis-driven research in plant growth and development

Sarah Potts : Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Dairy Cattle Nutrition and Metabolism, Dairy and Livestock Management, Calf Management, Beef Nutrition and Management

Charles Sasscer : Agent Associate, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Livestock, Beef Cattle, Pasture Management

Drew Schiavone : Agent, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Energy Conservation, Technology, Solar Energy Options

Paul Shipley : Faculty Extension Assistant, Environmental Science & Technology, Agricultural Nutrient Management 
Area of Focus: Nutrient Management

Ray Weil : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Soil Science, Agronomy, soil health, sustainable agriculture, International Development, Cover Crops, Soil Fertility, soil organic matter, soil carbon, soil compaction, Soil Conservation, Nitrogen cycling, Phosphorus, Sulfur

Industrial Hemp

Frank Coale : Professor & Acting Assistant Dean, Environmental Science & Technology   
Areas of Focus:
Soil Science, Environmental Science

Shannon Dill : Principal Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agriculture Business, Farm Management, Crop Budgets

Nicole Fiorellino : Assistant Professor & Extension Specialist, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agronomic Crop Production, Agriculture Extension

Paul Goeringer : Senior Faculty Specialist, Agricultural & Resource Economics and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agriculture Law, Risk Management education, Crop Insurance

Alan Leslie : Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Integrated Pest Management, Entomology, Nutrient Management

Angus Murphy : Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Auxin Transport, ABC Transporter, Phototropism, Membrane nano domains, Hormone/Herbicide crosstalk

Andrew Ristvey : Principal Agent & Extension Specialist for Commercial Horticulture, Agriculture & Food Systems, Extension
Areas of Focus: Commercial Horticulture, Alternative Specialty Crops, Green Roof, Aronia

Paul Shipley : Faculty Extension Assistant, Environmental Science & Technology, Agricultural Nutrient Management 

Area of Focus: Nutrient Management

Shunyuan Xiao : Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture and Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research
Areas of Focus: Broad spectrum disease resistance, Plant-fungal interaction, Powdery mildew pathogenesis

Liangli Yu : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Nutraceuticals and functional foods for reducing the risk of obesity and related diabetes, and coronary heart disease; Interactions between food factors and gut microbiota, and the impacts on host health, Food safety and integrity chemistry

Legume-Soybean

Craig Beyrouty: Dean and Director, College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
Areas of Focus: Soil Science

Ben Beale : Principal Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus:
Agronomic Crop Production, Fruits & Vegetables Crops, Beginning Farmer, Herbicide Resistant Weed Management

Cheryl Bush : Agent Associate, Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Chronic Disease, Healthy Living, Nutrition, Food Safety

Frank Coale : Professor & Acting Assistant Dean, Environmental Science & Technology   
Areas of Focus:
Soil Science, Environmental Science

Shannon Dill : Principal Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agriculture Business, Farm Management, Crop Budgets

Rebecca Epanchin-Niell : Associate Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics, and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus:
Natural Resource Economics, Invasive Species Management, Species and Ecosystem Conservation, Spatial Resource Management

Nicole Fiorellino : Assistant Professor & Extension Specialist, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture and University of Maryland Extension 
Areas of Focus: Agronomic Crop Production, Agriculture Extension

Paul Goeringer : Senior Faculty Specialist, Agricultural & Resource Economics and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agriculture Law, Risk Management education, Crop Insurance

Darren Jarboe : Principal Agent & Assistant Director, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus:
Agribusiness Management, Agricultural Production, Biorenewables, Entrepreneurship, Technology Commercialization

William Lamp : Professor, Entomology
Areas of Focus:
Ecology of insects in the human environment, and my projects align within three broad fields: integrated pest management (IPM) of forage crops, understanding ecology of emerging insect pests, and implications of IPM and land use on invertebrates in streams and wetlands

Alan Leslie : Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Integrated Pest Management, Entomology, Nutrient Management

Jim Lewis : Principal Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus:
Agronomy

Emileigh Lucas : Faculty Specialist, Agricultural Nutrient Management Program
Areas of Focus: Nutrient Management

Luke Macaulay : Wildlife Management Specialist - Agent, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension 
Areas of Focus: Wildlife Resources

Brian Needelman : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Pedology, Wetlands, Water quality, and Geospatial analysis

Kelly Nichols : Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agronomy, Commercial Horticulture, Nutrient Management, Pesticide Education, Soil Fertility, Weed Management

Diana Obanda : Assistant Professor, Nutrition & Food Science

Lars Olson : Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Economics of Invasive Species, Growth Theory and Economic Dynamics, Economics of Uncertainty

Wendy Peer : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology and Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Use biochemistry, genetics, live cell imaging, phenology, and physiology to address hypothesis-driven research in plant growth and development

Paul Shipley : Faculty Extension Assistant, Environmental Science & Technology, Agricultural Nutrient Management Program
Area of Focus: Nutrient Management

Gurpal Toor : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Nutrient Management, Water Quality, Biogeochemistry, Soil Chemistry, Soil Fertility

Kate Tully : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Sustainability of food production systems, farm management strategies that balance food production and environmental health, sustainable agriculture strategies in developing countries, saltwater intrusion, how cover crops can promote efficient on-farm nutrient cycling, sequester carbon, and improve water quality


Sara Via : Professor, Entomology
Areas of Focus: Climate change outreach and extension

Kurt Vollmer : Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Weed management

Qin Wang : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Food polymers biophysics, Food nanotechnology, Food chemistry

Ray Weil : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Soil Science, Agronomy, soil health, sustainable agriculture, International Development, Cover Crops, Soil Fertility, soil organic matter, soil carbon, soil compaction, Soil Conservation, Nitrogen cycling, Phosphorus, Sulfur

Stephanie Yarwood : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Microbial interactions and functioning in soils from many different ecosystems, with the overall goal of understanding environmental factors that affect microbial community composition and how microbial community structure in turn affects ecosystem function

Liangli Yu : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Nutraceuticals and functional foods for reducing the risk of obesity and related diabetes, and coronary heart disease; Interactions between food factors and gut microbiota, and the impacts on host health, Food safety and integrity chemistry

Organically Grown Crops and Animal Products

Jerry Brust : Vegetable Specialist University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus:
Vegetables, Organic vegetable production, Endophytes, Tomato production

Robert Buchanan : Professor Emeritus, Nutrition & Food Science and Center for Food Safety and Security Systems
Areas of Focus: Predictive microbiology, quantitative microbial risk assessment, microbial physiology, mycotoxicology, and HACCP systems

Frank Coale : Professor & Acting Assistant Dean, Environmental Science & Technology   
Areas of Focus:
Soil Science, Environmental Science

Galen Dively : Advisor Consultant, Entomology
Areas of Focus:
Integrated Pest Management

John Erwin : Professor & Chair, Plant Science and Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Environmental control of plant growth in greenhouses and controlled environment agriculture, Identifying ways to maximize flowering, photosynthesis and yield using different lighting and temperature strategies, Manipulating the environment in controlled environment systems to maximize edible crop nutritional value

Anahi Espindola : Assistant Professor, Entomology and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: P
lant-pollinator interactions, inter-species interactions, Phylogeography, Phylogeny, Evolutionary Ecology

Amanda Grev : Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus:
Forages, Pasture & Hay Production, Pasture Management, Rotational Grazing, Livestock, Beef Cattle, Dairy Cattle, Small ruminants, Equine

Kelly Hamby : Assistant Professor, Entomology and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus:
Understanding insect interactions with free-living microorganisms to improve pest management, Invasive and emerging insect pest issues, evaluating and optimizing pest management programs, and development of sustainable alternative management tactics, Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in small fruit and grain crops

Darren Jarboe : Principal Agent & Assistant Director, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus:
Agribusiness Management, Agricultural Production, Biorenewables, Entrepreneurship, Technology Commercialization

Alan Leslie : Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Integrated Pest Management, Entomology, Nutrient Management

Neith Little : Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension  
Areas of Focus: Urban Agriculture, Soil Science, Small and beginning farms

Emileigh Lucas : Faculty Specialist, Agricultural Nutrient Management Program
Areas of Focus: Nutrient Management

Luke Macaulay : Wildlife Management Specialist - Agent, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension 
Areas of Focus: Wildlife Resources

Abani Pradhan : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Food safety and Risk assessment

Andrew Ristvey : Principal Agent & Extension Specialist for Commercial Horticulture, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Commercial Horticulture, Alternative Specialty Crops, Green Roof, Aronia

Paul Shipley : Faculty Extension Assistant, Environmental Science & Technology, Agricultural Nutrient Management
Area of Focus: Nutrient Management

Kate Tully : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Sustainability of food production systems, farm management strategies that balance food production and environmental health, sustainable agriculture strategies in developing countries, saltwater intrusion, how cover crops can promote efficient on-farm nutrient cycling, sequester carbon, and improve water quality

Sara Via : Professor, Entomology
Areas of Focus: Climate change outreach and extension

Kurt Vollmer : Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Weed management

Ray Weil : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Soil Science, Agronomy, soil health, sustainable agriculture, International Development, Cover Crops, Soil Fertility, soil organic matter, soil carbon, soil compaction, Soil Conservation, Nitrogen cycling, Phosphorus, Sulfur

Stephanie Yarwood : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Microbial interactions and functioning in soils from many different ecosystems, with the overall goal of understanding environmental factors that affect microbial community composition and how microbial community structure in turn affects ecosystem function

Liangli Yu : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Nutraceuticals and functional foods for reducing the risk of obesity and related diabetes, and coronary heart disease; Interactions between food factors and gut microbiota, and the impacts on host health, Food safety and integrity chemistry

Ornamental Horticulture (trees, shrubs, flowers, herbaceous plants)

Karin Burghardt : Assistant Professor, Entomology
Areas of Focus: How plant defenses shape communities and ecosystems

David Clement : Principal Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, Home & Garden Information Center, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Plant Pathology, Ornamental IPM, Ornamental Diseases, Ornamental Disease Management, Home Gardening

Frank Coale : Professor & Acting Assistant Dean, Environmental Science & Technology   
Areas of Focus:
Soil Science, Environmental Science

Diana Cochran : Assistant Clinical Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Commercial crop production, Crop diversification, Relationship between plants and environmental variables, Sustainable in-season crop management practices

Gary Coleman : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: U
nderstanding the biology of nitrogen cycling and homeostasis in trees and the impacts of these processes on growth and development by integrating molecular biology, genetic, genomic, proteomic and physiological approaches

Rebecca Epanchin-Niell : Associate Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus:
Natural Resource Economics, Invasive Species Management, Species and Ecosystem Conservation, Spatial Resource Management

John Erwin : Professor & Chair, Plant Science and Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Environmental control of plant growth in greenhouses and controlled environment agriculture, Identifying ways to maximize flowering, photosynthesis and yield using different lighting and temperature strategies, Manipulating the environment in controlled environment systems to maximize edible crop nutritional value

Anahi Espindola : Assistant Professor, Entomology and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: P
lant-pollinator interactions, inter-species interactions, Phylogeography, Phylogeny, Evolutionary Ecology

Bill Hubbard : Assistant Director and State Program Leader, Environment, Natural Resources & Sea Grant
Areas of Focus:
Forest Management, Finance and Economics, Climate Change in Natural Resource Systems

John Lea-Cox : Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus:
Nursery Research, Water and Nutrient Management, Wireless Sensor Networks, Nutritional Physiology, Web-based Distance Learning

Alan Leslie : Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Integrated Pest Management, Entomology, Nutrient Management

Erik Lichtenberg : Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus:
Natural Resources, Land Use, Agriculture and Environment

Angus Murphy : Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Auxin Transport, ABC Transporter, Phototropism, Membrane nano domains, Hormone/Herbicide crosstalk

Lars Olson : Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Economics of Invasive Species, Growth Theory and Economic Dynamics, Economics of Uncertainty


Micheal Raupp : Professor Emeritus and Research Scientist, Entomology
Areas of Focus: Mechanisms of host plant resistance, the ecology and behavior of herbivores and their predators, parasitoids, and pathogens, and the impact of landscape design on pest and natural enemy population dynamics

Rachel Rhodes : Senior Agent Associate, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus:
Horticulture

Andrew Ristvey : Principal Agent & Extension Specialist for Commercial Horticulture, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Commercial Horticulture, Alternative Specialty Crops, Green Roof, Aronia

Ginny Rosenkranz : Principal Agent Associate, Agriculture & Food Systems, Master Gardeners, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Commercial Horticulture, Ornamental IPM, Turfgrass IPM

Paul Shipley : Faculty Extension Assistant, Environmental Science & Technology, Agricultural Nutrient Management
Area of Focus: Nutrient Management

Paula Shrewsbury : Associate Professor, Entomology and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Ornamental IPM, Sustainable Agriculture, Invasive Species Management

Ray Weil : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Soil Science, Agronomy, soil health, sustainable agriculture, International Development, Cover Crops, Soil Fertility, soil organic matter, soil carbon, soil compaction, Soil Conservation, Nitrogen cycling, Phosphorus, Sulfur

Shunyuan Xiao : Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture and Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research
Areas of Focus: Broad spectrum disease resistance, Plant-fungal interaction, Powdery mildew pathogenesis

Jianhua Zhu : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Molecular mechanisms of plant abiotic stress responses, Gene regulation, Functional genomics, Epigenetics

Poultry

Naresh Amradi : Post-Doctoral Associate, Environmental Science & Technology

Roselina Angel : Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Poultry, Maximizing nutrient availability from diets with the goal of reducing environmental impact as well as improving production efficiency and costs of production, Minimizing the impact of poultry production on the environment, primarily as related to phosphorus and nitrogen

George Belov : Associate Professor, Veterinary Medicine
Areas of Focus: Understanding molecular mechanisms of membrane remodeling in cells infected with positive strand RNA viruses

Andrew Broadbent : Assistant Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Advance our understanding of the replication and pathogenesis of avian viruses, to better prevent and control diseases of significance to the poultry industry, and to public health

Robert Buchanan : Professor Emeritus, Nutrition & Food Science and Center for Food Safety and Security Systems
Areas of Focus: Predictive microbiology, quantitative microbial risk assessment, microbial physiology, mycotoxicology, and HACCP systems

Amy Burk : Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Equine Science & Nutrition, Pasture Management, Rotational Grazing

Cheryl Bush : Agent Associate, Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Chronic Disease, Healthy Living, Nutrition, Food Safety

Frank Coale : Professor & Acting Assistant Dean, Environmental Science & Technology   
Areas of Focus:
Soil Science, Environmental Science

Shannon Dill : Principal Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agriculture Business, Farm Management, Crop Budgets

Barbara Dobbins : Program Management Specialist, 4-H Youth Development Educators, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: 4H

Mostafa Ghanem : Assistant Professor, Veterinary Medicine and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Harness the use and application of advanced molecular diagnostic and genotyping techniques in surveillance, prevention, and control of infectious diseases to improve the health and wellbeing of animals and humans

Paul Goeringer : Senior Faculty Specialist, Agricultural & Resource Economics and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agriculture Law, Risk Management education, Crop Insurance

Darren Jarboe : Principal Agent & Assistant Director Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension 
Areas of Focus:
Agribusiness Management, Agricultural Production, Biorenewables, Entrepreneurship, Technology Commercialization

Stephanie Lansing : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: R
enewable energy, Water quality, Waste treatment, and Human health

Neith Little : Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension  
Areas of Focus: Urban Agriculture, Soil Science, Small and beginning farms

Li Ma : Associate Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Statistical Genetics, Population Genetics, GWAS, Genomic Selection, Dairy Cattle

James MacDonald : Research Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agricultural Economics, Industrial Organization

Jonathan Moyle : Senior Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Poultry

Tom Porter : Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Neuroendocrine regulation of growth and reproduction, Cellular differentiation of the anterior pituitary gland during embryonic development, Global analysis of gene expression in the neuroendocrine system

Abani Pradhan : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Food safety and Risk assessment

Paul Shipley : Faculty Extension Assistant, Environmental Science & Technology, Agricultural Nutrient Management
Area of Focus: Nutrient Management


Jiuzhou Song: Professor, Animal Science
Areas of Focus: Elucidating the genetic basis and epigenetic mechanism of genome to phenome, especially on complex diseases and quantitative traits of livestock animals and humans

Chad Stahl : Professor & Chair, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Improving swine growth via nutritional programming of Stem Cell Populations, Developmental nutrition, Tissue-specific stem cells, Alternatives to conventional antibiotics

Nishanth Sunny : Assistant Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Liver metabolism, Mitochondrial function, Insulin resistance, Fatty liver disease

Nathaniel Tablante : Professor, Veterinary Medicine and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus:
Poultry Health

Lisa Taneyhill : Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Early embryonic patterning, Intercellular interactions and communication, Neural crest cells, Placode cells

Rohan Tikekar : Associate Professor and Extension Specialist, Nutrition & Food Science and Family & Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Food science, Food Preservation, Foodborne Pathogens, Food systems

Gurpal Toor : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Nutrient Management, Water Quality, Biogeochemistry, Soil Chemistry, Soil Fertility

Ashley Travis : Agent, 4-H Youth Development Educators, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus:
4-H Youth Development, 4-H Animal Science, Youth Agricultural Literacy, Youth Animal Science, Youth Leadership Development

Cheng-I Wei : Professor & Acting Chair, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Food microbiology and safety, toxicology, and immunotoxicology

Xiaoping Zhu : Professor & Chair, Veterinary Medicine
Areas of Focus:
Identification of new mechanisms of immune regulation on mucosal infections and inflammations at molecular and cellular immunology level, how the mucosal immune system distinguishes pathogenic from non-pathogenic microbes and how pathogens evade innate and adaptive immunity, harnessing innate and adaptive immunity for mucosal vaccine development and immunotherapy

Sheep and Goats

Frank Coale : Professor & Acting Assistant Dean, Environmental Science & Technology   
Areas of Focus:
Soil Science, Environmental Science

Barbara Dobbins : Program Management Specialist, 4-H Youth Development Educators, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: 4H

Megan Fritz : Assistant Professor, College of Computer Mathematical and Natural Sciences
Areas of Focus: Insect evolution and genomic variants, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Genomics, and the Molecular and Cellular Biology 

Paul Goeringer : Senior Faculty Specialist, Agricultural & Resource Economics and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agriculture Law, Risk Management education, Crop Insurance

Amanda Grev : Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus:
Forages, Pasture & Hay Production, Pasture Management, Rotational Grazing, Livestock, Beef Cattle, Dairy Cattle, Small ruminants, Equine

Andrew Kness : Senior Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agronomy, Plant Pathology, Pasture Management, Diseases of Field Crops, Soils

Neith Little : Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension  
Areas of Focus: Urban Agriculture, Soil Science, Small and beginning farms

Li Ma : Associate Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Statistical Genetics, Population Genetics, GWAS, Genomic Selection, Dairy Cattle

Abani Pradhan : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Food safety and Risk assessment

Charles Sasscer : Agent Associate, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Livestock, Beef Cattle, Pasture Management

Andrew Schiffmacher : Assistant Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Embryonic Tissue Lineage Development, Stem Cell Biology, Cadherin Biology, Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition

Meiqing Shi : Assistant Professor, Veterinary Medicine
Areas of Focus: Host immune responses to fungal infection and parasite infection

Paul Shipley : Faculty Extension Assistant, Environmental Science & Technology, Agricultural Nutrient Management
Area of Focus: Nutrient Management

Ashley Travis : Agent, 4-H Youth Development Educators, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus:
4-H Youth Development, 4-H Animal Science, Youth Agricultural Literacy, Youth Animal Science, Youth Leadership Development

Xiaoping Zhu : Professor & Chair, Veterinary Medicine
Areas of Focus:
Identification of new mechanisms of immune regulation on mucosal infections and inflammations at molecular and cellular immunology level, how the mucosal immune system distinguishes pathogenic from non-pathogenic microbes and how pathogens evade innate and adaptive immunity, harnessing innate and adaptive immunity for mucosal vaccine development and immunotherapy

Small Fruits (Grapes, Berries)

Ben Beale : Principal Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus:
Agronomic Crop Production, Fruits & Vegetables Crops, Beginning Farmer, Herbicide Resistant Weed Management

Robert Buchanan : Professor Emeritus, Nutrition & Food Science and Center for Food Safety and Security Systems
Areas of Focus: Predictive microbiology, quantitative microbial risk assessment, microbial physiology, mycotoxicology, and HACCP systems

Cheryl Bush : Agent Associate, Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Chronic Disease, Healthy Living, Nutrition, Food Safety

Frank Coale : Professor & Acting Assistant Dean, Environmental Science & Technology   
Areas of Focus:
Soil Science, Environmental Science

Diana Cochran : Assistant Clinical Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Commercial crop production, Crop diversification, Relationship between plants and environmental variables, Sustainable in-season crop management practices


John Erwin : Professor & Chair, Plant Science and Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Environmental control of plant growth in greenhouses and controlled environment agriculture, Identifying ways to maximize flowering, photosynthesis and yield using different lighting and temperature strategies, Manipulating the environment in controlled environment systems to maximize edible crop nutritional value

Kelly Hamby : Assistant Professor, Entomology and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus:
Understanding insect interactions with free-living microorganisms to improve pest management, Invasive and emerging insect pest issues, evaluating and optimizing pest management programs, and development of sustainable alternative management tactics, Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in small fruit and grain crops

David Hawthorne : Associate Professor, Entomology
Areas of Focus: Uses population genetics to understand how insects become pests, how they evolve to counter control efforts, and how to use evolutionary thinking to manage them

Mengjun Hu : Assistant Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Plant Pathology, Small Fruit Disease Management, Fungicide Resistance and its Mechanism, Fungal Epidemiology

John Lea-Cox : Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus:
Nursery Research, Water and Nutrient Management, Wireless Sensor Networks, Nutritional Physiology, Web-based Distance Learning

Alan Leslie : Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Integrated Pest Management, Entomology, Nutrient Management

Erik Lichtenberg : Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus:
Natural Resources, Land Use, Agriculture and Environment

Neith Little : Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension  
Areas of Focus: Urban Agriculture, Soil Science, Small and beginning farms

Ronald David Myers : Principal Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension, Extension
Areas of Focus: Fruits & Vegetables Crops, Agronomy Field Crops, Weed Science, Pesticide Use & Safety, No-Tillage Technology, Pasture & Hay Production

Diana Obanda : Assistant Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Nutritional biochemistry: function of nutrients at the cellular/molecular level and physiological mechanisms of action of various nutrition-related processes

Lars Olson : Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Economics of Invasive Species, Growth Theory and Economic Dynamics, Economics of Uncertainty

Abani Pradhan : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Food safety and Risk assessment

Andrew Ristvey : Principal Agent & Extension Specialist for Commercial Horticulture, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Commercial Horticulture, Alternative Specialty Crops, Green Roof, Aronia

Drew Schiavone : Agent, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Energy Conservation, Technology, Solar Energy Options

Paul Shipley : Faculty Extension Assistant, Environmental Science & Technology, Agricultural Nutrient Management
Area of Focus: Nutrient Management

Rohan Tikekar : Associate Professor and Extension Specialist, Nutrition & Food Science and Family & Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Food science, Food Preservation, Foodborne Pathogens, Food systems

Shunyuan Xiao : Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture and Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research
Areas of Focus: Broad spectrum disease resistance, Plant-fungal interaction, Powdery mildew pathogenesis

Liangli Yu : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Nutraceuticals and functional foods for reducing the risk of obesity and related diabetes, and coronary heart disease; Interactions between food factors and gut microbiota, and the impacts on host health, Food safety and integrity chemistry

Staple Crops (Rice, Corn, Wheat, Barley, Potato, Rye)

Craig Beyrouty: Dean and Director, College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
Areas of Focus: Soil Science

Robert Buchanan : Professor Emeritus, Nutrition & Food Science and Center for Food Safety and Security Systems
Areas of Focus: Predictive microbiology, quantitative microbial risk assessment, microbial physiology, mycotoxicology, and HACCP systems

Jing Cai : Associate Professor, Agricultural and Resources Economics
Areas of Focus: Development Economics, Household Finance

Frank Coale : Professor & Acting Assistant Dean, Environmental Science & Technology   
Areas of Focus:
Soil Science, Environmental Science

Rebecca Epanchin-Niell : Associate Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics, and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus:
Natural Resource Economics, Invasive Species Management, Species and Ecosystem Conservation, Spatial Resource Management

Nicole Fiorellino : Assistant Professor & Extension Specialist, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agronomic Crop Production, Agriculture Extension

Paul Goeringer : Senior Faculty Specialist, Agricultural & Resource Economics and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agriculture Law, Risk Management education, Crop Insurance

Jim Lewis : Principal Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus:
Agronomy

Emileigh Lucas : Faculty Specialist, Agricultural Nutrient Management Program
Areas of Focus: Nutrient Management 

James MacDonald : Research Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agricultural Economics, Industrial Organization

Angus Murphy : Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Auxin Transport, ABC Transporter, Phototropism, Membrane nano domains, Hormone/Herbicide crosstalk

Brian Needelman : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Pedology, Wetlands, Water quality, and Geospatial analysis

Lars Olson : Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Economics of Invasive Species, Growth Theory and Economic Dynamics, Economics of Uncertainty

Wendy Peer : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology and Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Use biochemistry, genetics, live cell imaging, phenology, and physiology to address hypothesis-driven research in plant growth and development

Abani Pradhan : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Food safety and Risk assessment

Azbina Rahman : Post-Doctoral Associate, Environmental Science & Technology

Nidhi Rawat : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Gene discovery for resistance to fungal pathogens, Susceptibility mechanisms of plants to pathogen infection, Mechanistic investigation of molecular interaction between plants and fungal pathogens, Developing solutions to fungal diseases of small grain crops including wheat and barley

Paul Shipley : Faculty Extension Assistant, Environmental Science & Technology, Agricultural Nutrient Management
Area of Focus: Nutrient Management

Vijay Tiwari : Assistant Professor, Plant Science
Areas of Focus: Genetics and genomics of small grain crops

Gurpal Toor : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Nutrient Management, Water Quality, Biogeochemistry, Soil Chemistry, Soil Fertility

Kate Tully : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Sustainability of food production systems, farm management strategies that balance food production and environmental health, sustainable agriculture strategies in developing countries, saltwater intrusion, how cover crops can promote efficient on-farm nutrient cycling, sequester carbon, and improve water quality

Sara Via : Professor, Entomology
Areas of Focus: Climate change outreach and extension

Neslihan Uler : Assistant Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Public Economics, Experimental Economics, Behavioral Economics, Environmental Economics

Ray Weil : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Soil Science, Agronomy, soil health, sustainable agriculture, International Development, Cover Crops, Soil Fertility, soil organic matter, soil carbon, soil compaction, Soil Conservation, Nitrogen cycling, Phosphorus, Sulfur

Jared Wilmoth : Assistant Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Environmental soil systems

Shunyuan Xiao : Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture and Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research
Areas of Focus: Broad spectrum disease resistance, Plant-fungal interaction, Powdery mildew pathogenesis

Stephanie Yarwood : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Microbial interactions and functioning in soils from many different ecosystems, with the overall goal of understanding environmental factors that affect microbial community composition and how microbial community structure in turn affects ecosystem function

Liangli Yu : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Nutraceuticals and functional foods for reducing the risk of obesity and related diabetes, and coronary heart disease; Interactions between food factors and gut microbiota, and the impacts on host health, Food safety and integrity chemistry

Jianhua Zhu : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Molecular mechanisms of plant abiotic stress responses, Gene regulation, Functional genomics, Epigenetics

Tree Fruits (Apples, Citrus, Banana)

Ryan Blaustein : Assistant Professor, Nutrition & Food Science

Robert Buchanan : Professor Emeritus, Nutrition & Food Science and Center for Food Safety and Security Systems
Areas of Focus: Predictive microbiology, quantitative microbial risk assessment, microbial physiology, mycotoxicology, and HACCP systems

Cheryl Bush : Agent Associate, Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Chronic Disease, Healthy Living, Nutrition, Food Safety

Frank Coale : Professor & Acting Assistant Dean, Environmental Science & Technology   
Areas of Focus:
Soil Science, Environmental Science

Diana Cochran : Assistant Clinical Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Commercial crop production, Crop diversification, Relationship between plants and environmental variables, Sustainable in-season crop management practices


John Erwin : Professor & Chair, Plant Science and Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Environmental control of plant growth in greenhouses and controlled environment agriculture, Identifying ways to maximize flowering, photosynthesis and yield using different lighting and temperature strategies, Manipulating the environment in controlled environment systems to maximize edible crop nutritional value

Macarena Farcuh : Assistant Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Fruit quality, Fruit ripening, Postharvest physiology, Fruit biochemistry and molecular biology, Fruit safety, Fruit hormonal balance

David Hawthorne : Associate Professor, Entomology
Areas of Focus: Uses population genetics to understand how insects become pests, how they evolve to counter control efforts, and how to use evolutionary thinking to manage them

Shauna Henley : Senior Agent; Nutrition & Food Science and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Food Preservation, Food Safety, Nutrition

Erik Lichtenberg : Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus:
Natural Resources, Land Use, Agriculture and Environment

Neith Little : Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension  
Areas of Focus: Urban Agriculture, Soil Science, Small and beginning farms

Angus Murphy : Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Auxin Transport, ABC Transporter, Phototropism, Membrane nano domains, Hormone/Herbicide crosstalk

Ronald David Myers : Principal Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension, Institute of Applied Agriculture
Areas of Focus: Fruits & Vegetables Crops, Agronomy Field Crops, Weed Science, Pesticide Use & Safety, No-Tillage Technology, Pasture & Hay Production

Lars Olson : Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Economics of Invasive Species, Growth Theory and Economic Dynamics, Economics of Uncertainty

Abani Pradhan : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Food safety and Risk assessment

Shaik Rahaman : Associate Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Cell signaling, Atherosclerosis, Fibrosis, Macrophages and fibroblast biology, Immunology

Thanicha Ruangmas : First-Year Innovation & Research Experience (FIRE) Program, Agricultural & Resource Economics

Drew Schiavone : Agent, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Energy Conservation, Technology, Solar Energy Options

Paul Shipley : Faculty Extension Assistant, Environmental Science & Technology, Agricultural Nutrient Management
Area of Focus: Nutrient Management

Rohan Tikekar : Associate Professor and Extension Specialist, Nutrition & Food Science and Family & Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Food science, Food Preservation, Foodborne Pathogens, Food systems

Shunyuan Xiao : Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture and Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research
Areas of Focus: Broad spectrum disease resistance, Plant-fungal interaction, Powdery mildew pathogenesis

Liangli Yu : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Nutraceuticals and functional foods for reducing the risk of obesity and related diabetes, and coronary heart disease; Interactions between food factors and gut microbiota, and the impacts on host health, Food safety and integrity chemistry

Vegetables

Ben Beale : Principal Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus:
Agronomic Crop Production, Fruits & Vegetables Crops, Beginning Farmer, Herbicide Resistant Weed Management

Ryan Blaustein : Assistant Professor, Nutrition & Food Science

Jerry Brust : Vegetable Specialist University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus:
Vegetables, Organic vegetable production, Endophytes, Tomato production

Robert Buchanan : Professor Emeritus, Nutrition & Food Science and Center for Food Safety and Security Systems
Areas of Focus: Predictive microbiology, quantitative microbial risk assessment, microbial physiology, mycotoxicology, and HACCP systems

Cheryl Bush : Agent Associate, Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Chronic Disease, Healthy Living, Nutrition, Food Safety

Frank Coale : Professor & Acting Assistant Dean, Environmental Science & Technology   
Areas of Focus:
Soil Science, Environmental Science

Jennifer Dixon Cravens : Agent Associate, Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Family & Consumer Sciences, Healthy Living, Nutrition, Wellness, Chronic Disease Management, Household Consumption and Food Insecurity

Shannon Dill : Principal Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agriculture Business, Farm Management, Crop Budgets

Galen Dively : Advisor Consultant, Entomology
Areas of Focus:
Integrated Pest Management

John Erwin : Professor & Chair, Plant Science and Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Environmental control of plant growth in greenhouses and controlled environment agriculture, Identifying ways to maximize flowering, photosynthesis and yield using different lighting and temperature strategies, Manipulating the environment in controlled environment systems to maximize edible crop nutritional value

Anahi Espindola : Assistant Professor, Entomology and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: P
lant-pollinator interactions, inter-species interactions, Phylogeography, Phylogeny, Evolutionary Ecology

Paul Goeringer : Senior Faculty Specialist, Agricultural & Resource Economics and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agriculture Law, Risk Management education, Crop Insurance

Kelly Hamby : Assistant Professor, Entomology and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus:
Understanding insect interactions with free-living microorganisms to improve pest management, Invasive and emerging insect pest issues, evaluating and optimizing pest management programs, and development of sustainable alternative management tactics, Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in small fruit and grain crops

David Hawthorne : Associate Professor, Entomology
Areas of Focus: Uses population genetics to understand how insects become pests, how they evolve to counter control efforts, and how to use evolutionary thinking to manage them

Shauna Henley : Senior Agent; Nutrition & Food Science and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Food Preservation, Food Safety, Nutrition

David Lei : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Nutrient control of gene expression

Alan Leslie : Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Integrated Pest Management, Entomology, Nutrient Management

Jim Lewis : Principal Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus:
Agronomy

Erik Lichtenberg : Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus:
Natural Resources, Land Use, Agriculture and Environment

Neith Little : Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Urban Agriculture, Soil Science, Small and beginning farms 

Emileigh Lucas : Faculty Specialist, Agricultural Nutrient Management Program
Area of Focus: Nutrient Management

Luke Macaulay : Wildlife Management Specialist - Agent, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension 
Areas of Focus: Wildlife Resources

Angus Murphy : Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Auxin Transport, ABC Transporter, Phototropism, Membrane nano domains, Hormone/Herbicide crosstalk

Ronald David Myers : Principal Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension, Institute of Applied Agriculture
Areas of Focus: Fruits & Vegetables Crops, Agronomy Field Crops, Weed Science, Pesticide Use & Safety, No-Tillage Technology, Pasture & Hay Production

Kelly Nichols : Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Agronomy, Commercial Horticulture, Nutrient Management, Pesticide Education, Soil Fertility, Weed Management

Diana Obanda : Assistant Professor, Nutrition & Food Science

Lars Olson : Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Economics of Invasive Species, Growth Theory and Economic Dynamics, Economics of Uncertainty

Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Ecosystem services, Urban Ecology, Forest ecology, Stormwater, Socio-ecological systems, Green infrastructure, Resilience

Abani Pradhan : Associate Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Food safety and Risk assessment

Drew Schiavone : Agent, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Energy Conservation, Technology, Solar Energy Options


Paul Shipley : Faculty Extension Assistant, Environmental Science & Technology, Agricultural Nutrient Management 
Area of Focus: Nutrient Management

Rohan Tikekar : Associate Professor and Extension Specialist, Nutrition & Food Science and Family & Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Food science, Food Preservation, Foodborne Pathogens, Food systems

Kurt Vollmer : Agent, Agriculture & Food Systems, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Weed management

Qin Wang : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Food polymers biophysics, Food nanotechnology, Food chemistry

Cheng-I Wei : Professor & Acting Chair, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Food microbiology and safety, toxicology, and immunotoxicology

Ray Weil : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Soil Science, Agronomy, soil health, sustainable agriculture, International Development, Cover Crops, Soil Fertility, soil organic matter, soil carbon, soil compaction, Soil Conservation, Nitrogen cycling, Phosphorus, Sulfur

Shunyuan Xiao : Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture and Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research
Areas of Focus: Broad spectrum disease resistance, Plant-fungal interaction, Powdery mildew pathogenesis

Liangli Yu : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Nutraceuticals and functional foods for reducing the risk of obesity and related diabetes, and coronary heart disease; Interactions between food factors and gut microbiota, and the impacts on host health, Food safety and integrity chemistry

Jianhua Zhu : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Molecular mechanisms of plant abiotic stress responses, Gene regulation, Functional genomics, Epigenetics