Strategic Initiatives

Strategic Initiatives

See how our researchers and their work are connected to our Strategic Initiatives

Ensure Healthy Watersheds and the Chesapeake Bay

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

Ashley Bachtel-Bodkins : Senior Agent Associate, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sea Grant, Maryland Master Gardeners, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: 
Horticulture, Gardening, Nutrient Management, Dairy Farming

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

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

William Bowerman : Professor & Chair, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Research uses 54 years of bald eagle productivity and contaminant data to determine localized, watershed-level, as well as population level, effects caused by organochlorines and heavy metals   

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

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

Mark Carroll : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Policy Program and Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Turfgrass, Water Quality, Nutrients, Pesticides, Runoff, Organic Lawn Care

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

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

Jennifer Dindinger : Senior Agent, Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Watershed Planning and Restoration, Facilitation, Stormwater

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

Candice Duncan : Assistant Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Environmental Science, Environmental Chemistry, Remediation, Contaminant Transport

Christopher Ellis : Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Planning and design for sustainable land development, Landscape ecology & environmental perception, Information technology for landscape planning and design, Geographic modeling and analysis of built and natural systems

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

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

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

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

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

Thomas Hutson : Principal Agent, 4-H Youth Development Educators, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: 4-H Youth Development, Scientific Literacy, Environmental Education, Agricultural Education

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

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

Byoung-Suk Kweon : Associate Professor Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus:
Environmental Behavior, Environment and Health, School and Children’s Environment, Landscape Performance, Environmental Justice

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

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

Andrew Lazur : Water Quality Specialist – Principal Agent, Sea Grant and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Drinking Water Quality, Wells, Septic Systems, Pond Management

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

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

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

Lori Lynch : Professor & Chair, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus:
Land Policy, Environmental and Agricultural Policy

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, and Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension 
Areas of Focus: Wildlife Resources

Kate McClure : Agent Associate, Sea Grant Extension  
Areas of Focus:
Climate Change, Coastal Resilience, Sea Level Rise, Sea Grant

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

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

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

Maile Neel : Professor, Entomology and Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Biological diversity, conservation biology

Masoud Negahban-Azar : Assistant Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Watershed Hydrological Modeling, Water Reuse and Nontraditional Water Sources, Diagnostic Decision Support Systems

David Newburn : Associate Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Environmental and Resource Economics, Land Economics, Water Resource Economics, Spatial Modeling

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

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

Matt Parker : Principal Agent Associate, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sea Grant, University of Maryland 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

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

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

Martin Rabenhorst : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Genesis, morphology, and classification of hydromorphic soils

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

Amanda Rockler : Senior Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Watershed Planning and Restoration, Stormwater, Outreach and Engagement, Climate Change

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

Naomi Sachs : Assistant Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Restorative and therapeutic landscapes, Mental and behavioral health, Garden evaluation

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


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

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

Adel Shirmohammadi : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Watershed scale modeling. Relationship between incidences of human cancer and drinking water quality, Storm water management in urban and suburban ecosystems, Sustainable management of agro-ecosystems, Creating Diagnostic Decision Support Systems (DDSS) for sustainable management of landscape using community empowerment

Puneet Srivastava : Professor & Associate Dean for Research and Associate Director of MAES
Areas of Focus: Climate variability and change impact on water resources and agriculture; surface and groundwater quantity and quality; monitoring and modeling of hydrologic and nonpoint pollutant (nutrients and sediment) transport and transformation processes from point to regional scales; and application of artificial intelligence for water resources management

Jack Sullivan : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Sustainable Urban Landscapes, Healing Landscapes, Landscape and Garden History in England and Italy, Campus Design, Design for residential and institutional landscapes

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

Dennis vanEngelsdorp : Associate Professor, Entomology and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Honey bees, pollinator health

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

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

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

Melissa Welsh : Assistant Clinical Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: 
Agricultural & Extension Education, Agricultural Literacy, Experiential Learning

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

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

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

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

Establish a Healthy Food System and Ensure Global Food and Nutritional Security

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

Ashley Bachtel-Bodkins : Senior Agent Associate, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sea Grant, Maryland Master Gardeners, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Horticulture, Gardening, Nutrient Management, Dairy Farming

Erich Battistin : Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Applied micro-econometrics and causality, Economics of education, Measurement of welfare and social inequalities, Design and evaluation of public interventions

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

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

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

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

Bob Chambers : Professor, Agricultural and Resources Economics
Areas of Focus: Production Theory, Public Economics, Financial Economics, Trade, Microeconomic Theory

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: Understanding 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

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

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

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

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

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 

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

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

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

Jose-Luis Izursa : Senior Lecturer, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Energy and nutrient fluxes in integrated food production systems; water dynamics in sustainable food production; hydroponics, and aquaponics

Beverly Jackey : Agent, Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Chronic Disease Management, Food Preservation, Food Safety, Healthy living environments, Nutrition

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

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

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

Jinhee Kim : Associate Dean and Director, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Financial Literacy, Family relations and health, Financial education and counseling

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: Renewable energy, Water quality, Waste treatment, and Human health

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

Ken Leonard : Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Development Economics, Health Economics, Choice under Uncertainty, Social Learning, Rural Africa

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

Catherine Liu : Senior Agent, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sea Grant, University of Maryland Eastern Shore Extension
Areas of Focus: Seafood Safety and Processing

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, and Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension 
Areas of Focus: Wildlife Resources

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

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

Masoud Negahban-Azar : Assistant Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Watershed Hydrological Modeling, Water Reuse and Nontraditional Water Sources, Diagnostic Decision Support Systems

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

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

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

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

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

Leslie Pick : Professor & Chair, Entomology
Areas of Focus: Study the regulatory genes and pathways that control embryonic development, Evolution of the Hox gene, which has undergone changes in both its expression pattern and protein sequence to switch its function from an ancestral homeotic gene to a segmentation gene in Drosophila, Modeling diseases of insulin-signaling pathways in Drosophila

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

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

Louis Preonas : Assistant Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Energy Economics, Environmental Economics, Development Economics

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

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

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 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

Nadine Sahyoun : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science and Family Science, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Nutrition Epidemiology

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

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

Ann Sherrard : Principal Agent, 4-H Youth Development Educators, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: 4-H Youth Development, STEM, Robotics

Heejung Song : Associate Professor, Nutrition & Food Science and Family & Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Diet-related chronic disease prevention and 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

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

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

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

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

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

Margaret Udahogora : Lecturer, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Dietetics

Dennis vanEngelsdorp : Associate Professor, Entomology and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Honey bees, pollinator health

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

Melissa Welsh : Assistant Clinical Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: 
Agricultural & Extension Education, Agricultural Literacy, Experiential Learning

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

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

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

One Health: Improve Human, Animal, and Environmental Health

Troy Anderson : Agent, University of Maryland Extension

Barbara Barga : Agent Associate, 4-H Youth Development Educators, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: 4H

Erich Battistin : Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Applied micro-econometrics and causality, Economics of education, Measurement of welfare and social inequalities, Design and evaluation of public interventions

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


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

Ryan Blaustein : Assistant Professor, Nutrition & Food Science

William Bowerman : Professor & Chair, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Research uses 54 years of bald eagle productivity and contaminant data to determine localized, watershed-level, as well as population level, effects caused by organochlorines and heavy metals   

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

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

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

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

Alexander Chan : Agent, Family & Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension : Agent, Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Family relations and health, Mental Health, Youth Development, Healthy Dating,
Identity development

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

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

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

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

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 

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

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

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

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

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

Thomas Hutson : Principal Agent, 4-H Youth Development Educators, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: 4-H Youth Development, Scientific Literacy, Environmental Education, Agricultural Education

Beverly Jackey : Agent, Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Chronic Disease Management, Food Preservation, Food Safety, Healthy living environments, 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

Younggeon Jin : Assistant Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: Gastrointestinal Health and Physiology, Intestinal Stem Cells, Intestinal Mesenchymal Stromal Cells

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

Jesse Ketterman : Senior Agent, Family & Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Financial Literacy, Health Insurance Literacy

Byung-Eun Kim : Associate Professor, Animal & Avian Sciences
Areas of Focus: To elucidate the molecules and the mechanisms required for copper homeostasis in cellular, organismal, and behavioral level

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

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

Andrew Lazur : Water Quality Specialist – Principal Agent, Sea Grant and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Drinking Water Quality, Wells, Septic Systems, Pond Management

Seong-Ho Lee : Associate Professor, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Nutritional Physiology, Toxicology, Cancer Prevention, Phytochemicals and Functional Foods, Metabolism and Obesity

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

Paul Leisnham : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Socio-Ecological Systems, Mosquitoes, Vector-borne disease, Community Ecology, Invasion Biology

Ken Leonard : Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Development Economics, Health Economics, Choice under Uncertainty, Social Learning, Rural Africa

Catherine Liu : Senior Agent, Environment, Natural Resources, and Sea Grant, University of Maryland Eastern Shore Extension
Areas of Focus: Seafood Safety and Processing

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

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

Kate McClure : Agent Associate, Sea Grant Extension  
Areas of Focus:
Climate Change, Coastal Resilience, Sea Level Rise, Sea Grant

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

Maile Neel : Professor, Entomology and Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Biological diversity, conservation biology

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

Dorothy Nuckols : Agent, Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Personal Finance, Financial Wellness, Family and Consumer Sciences, Financial Capability, Wellness

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

Navonne Owen : Agent, 4-H Youth Development Educators, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: 4H

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

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

Leslie Pick : Professor & Chair, Entomology
Areas of Focus: Study the regulatory genes and pathways that control embryonic development, Evolution of the Hox gene, which has undergone changes in both its expression pattern and protein sequence to switch its function from an ancestral homeotic gene to a segmentation gene in Drosophila, Modeling diseases of insulin-signaling pathways in Drosophila

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

Louis Preonas : Assistant Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Energy Economics, Environmental Economics, Development Economics

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

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

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

Sean Riley : Assistant Professor, Veterinary Medicine
Areas of Focus:
Spotted Fever Rickettsia

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

Naomi Sachs : Assistant Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Restorative and therapeutic landscapes, Mental and behavioral health, Garden evaluation

Nadine Sahyoun : Professor, Nutrition & Food Science and Family Science, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Nutrition Epidemiology

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

Maria Salvato : Adjunct Professor, Veterinary Medicine

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

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

Fereshteh Shahoveisi : Assistant Professor, Plant Science
Areas of Focus: Turfgrass Pathology

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

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

Heejung Song : Associate Professor, Nutrition & Food Science and Family & Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Diet-related chronic disease prevention and 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

Catherine Sorenson : Agent, Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension 
Areas of Focus: Financial Wellness, Physical Activity, Wellness, Health Insurance Literacy

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

Crystal Terhune : Agent, Family & Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Financial Capability, Financial Wellness

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

Margaret Udahogora : Lecturer, Nutrition & Food Science
Areas of Focus: Dietetics

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

Dennis vanEngelsdorp : Associate Professor, Entomology and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Honey bees, pollinator health

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

Melissa Welsh : Assistant Clinical Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: 
Agricultural & Extension Education, Agricultural Literacy, Experiential Learning

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

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

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

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

Yanjin Zhang : Associate Professor, Veterinary Medicine
Areas of Focus: Molecular virology, Virus-cell interactions, Innate immunity, antiviral signaling, Vaccine 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

Advance Innovative, Profitable, and Sustainable Agricultural Production Systems

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

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

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

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

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

Bob Chambers : Professor, Agricultural and Resources Economics
Areas of Focus: Production Theory, Public Economics, Financial Economics, Trade, Microeconomic Theory

Alexander Chan : Agent, Family & Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Family relations and health, Mental Health, Youth Development, Healthy Dating, Identity development

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: Understanding 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

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

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

Candice Duncan : Assistant Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Environmental Science, Environmental Chemistry, Remediation, Contaminant Transport

Micheal Elonge : Senior Agent, Family & Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Financial Wellness, Food Safety, Health Literacy

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

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

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

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

Amro Hassanein : Assistant Research Scientist, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus:
Waste to energy

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

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

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

Jose-Luis Izursa : Senior Lecturer, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Energy and nutrient fluxes in integrated food production systems; water dynamics in sustainable food production; hydroponics, and aquaponics

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

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

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

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

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

Lori Lynch : Professor & Chair, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus:
Land Policy, Environmental and Agricultural Policy

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, and Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension 
Areas of Focus: Wildlife Resources

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

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

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

Masoud Negahban-Azar : Assistant Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Watershed Hydrological Modeling, Water Reuse and Nontraditional Water Sources, Diagnostic Decision Support Systems

David Newburn : Associate Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Environmental and Resource Economics, Land Economics, Water Resource Economics, Spatial Modeling

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Louis Preonas : Assistant Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Areas of Focus: Energy Economics, Environmental Economics, Development Economics

Martin Rabenhorst : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Genesis, morphology, and classification of hydromorphic soils

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

Fereshteh Shahoveisi : Assistant Professor, Plant Science
Areas of Focus: Turfgrass Pathology

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

Adel Shirmohammadi : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Watershed scale modeling. Relationship between incidences of human cancer and drinking water quality, Storm water management in urban and suburban ecosystems, Sustainable management of agro-ecosystems, Creating Diagnostic Decision Support Systems (DDSS) for sustainable management of landscape using community empowerment

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

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

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

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

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

Dennis vanEngelsdorp : Associate Professor, Entomology and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Honey bees, pollinator health

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

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

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

Melissa Welsh : Assistant Clinical Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: 
Agricultural & Extension Education, Agricultural Literacy, Experiential Learning

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

Optimize Urban Environments Through Design, Green Technology, and Community Engagement

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

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

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

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

Jennifer Dindinger : Senior Agent, Sea Grant, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Watershed Planning and Restoration, Facilitation, Stormwater

Christopher Ellis : Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Planning and design for sustainable land development, Landscape ecology & environmental perception, Information technology for landscape planning and design, Geographic modeling and analysis of built and natural systems

Micheal Elonge : Senior Agent, Family & Consumer Sciences, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Financial Wellness, Food Safety, Health Literacy

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

Amro Hassanein : Assistant Research Scientist, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus:
Waste to energy

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

Jose-Luis Izursa : Senior Lecturer, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Energy and nutrient fluxes in integrated food production systems; water dynamics in sustainable food production; hydroponics, and aquaponics

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

Byoung-Suk Kweon : Associate Professor Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus:
Environmental Behavior, Environment and Health, School and Children’s Environment, Landscape Performance, Environmental Justice

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

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

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

Vernelle Mitchell-Hawkins : 4H Educator 
Areas of Focus: 4- H Youth Development, Agriscience & STEM Initiatives, Leadership and Citizenship

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

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

Masoud Negahban-Azar : Assistant Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Watershed Hydrological Modeling, Water Reuse and Nontraditional Water Sources, Diagnostic Decision Support Systems

David Newburn : Associate Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Environmental and Resource Economics, Land Economics, Water Resource Economics, Spatial Modeling

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

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

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

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

Amanda Rockler : Senior Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Watershed Planning and Restoration, Stormwater, Outreach and Engagement, Climate Change

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

Naomi Sachs : Assistant Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Restorative and therapeutic landscapes, Mental and behavioral health, Garden evaluation

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

Adel Shirmohammadi : Professor, Environmental Science & Technology
Areas of Focus: Watershed scale modeling. Relationship between incidences of human cancer and drinking water quality, Storm water management in urban and suburban ecosystems, Sustainable management of agro-ecosystems, Creating Diagnostic Decision Support Systems (DDSS) for sustainable management of landscape using community empowerment

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

Jack Sullivan : Associate Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: Sustainable Urban Landscapes, Healing Landscapes, Landscape and Garden History in England and Italy, Campus Design, Design for residential and institutional landscapes

David Tilley : Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Technology

Areas of Focus: Environmental Entrepreneurship, Ecological Innovation, Design & Engineering, Green Infrastructure and Living Architecture

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

Dennis vanEngelsdorp : Associate Professor, Entomology and University of Maryland Extension
Areas of Focus: Honey bees, pollinator health

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

Melissa Welsh : Assistant Clinical Professor, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture
Areas of Focus: 
Agricultural & Extension Education, Agricultural Literacy, Experiential Learning

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

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