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THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL
SCIENCES
CSREES ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS REVIEW
SELF-ASSESSMENT REPORT
NOVEMBER, 2007
Submitted on behalf of the Report Preparation Committee by:
Raymond Noblet, Chair
Professor and Head - Entomology
413 Biological Sciences
CAMPUS
Telephone: 706-542-1238
Fax:
706-542-2279
E-Mail: [email protected]
www.ent.uga.edu
Preface to The CAES Environmental Review Document
Objective of the Program Review:
To assess the scope, relevance, and overall quality of CAES
Environmental Research, Extension and Instructional programs in the
Land Grant context, and to determine if they are meeting the needs of
citizens and appropriately contributing to scholarship in environmental
sciences/engineering/policy.
Working definition - Scope of Review:
Research, teaching, and extension/outreach scholarship that contributes
to the restoration, conservation, or enhancement of air, water and soil,
and environmentally responsible production of food, fiber, feed, biofuels
and other natural resources.
Organization and content of sections within the document:
Introduction: The introduction provides a broad general overview of
Environmental Programs in the College and the demographic changes
currently ongoing in Georgia. In addition, this section discusses the most
significant environmental challenges facing Georgia and the region and
programs in the College designed to address these challenges.
Academic Departments: To provide an understanding of the breadth and
overall quality of academic Departments were asked to provide: 1) a
narrative overview of environmental programs within the Department, 2) a
summary of the faculty EFT devoted to environmental programs and their
program activities to include extramural funding, and 3) trainees of
environmental program faculty.
Office of Environmental Sciences: This section contains the general
mission of the office and its relationships to UGA Environmental programs.
This office maintains the Office of Environmental Sciences web site and
provided comprehensive compilations of research, teaching and extension
program grant activities within the different major environmental program
areas by CAES faculty. Data presented in this section shows
environmental grants from governmental and industry sources, academic
collaborative grants.
Cooperative Extension - County: Almost all academic department
extension faculty members are tenure track and their program activities
are covered within their respective departments’ section. Data in this
section are taken from the electronic reporting system “GA Counts” and
provide a typical twelve month snapshot of county environmental
programming.
Academic Programs: This section provides an overview of the academic
programs of the College and identifies specifically the undergraduate
degree programs and certificate programs falling within the “Bachelor of
Science in Environmental Sciences” (BSES). These are: Entomology,
Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Economics and Management,
Environmental Resources Sciences (Griffin), and Water and Soil
Resources. Certificate programs with a strong environmental orientation
include: Water Resources, Integrated Pest Management, and Organic
Agriculture.
Research Programs: This section contains data from the Office of
Environmental programs consisting of a comprehensive listing of research
grants in environmental research, and broken into different program
categories, climate/air quality, environmental health, energy, IPM, land
resources management, waste management, and water issues.
APPENDED: Five issues of the CAES “Environmental Report”. This
report is published by the CAES Office of Environmental Programs, Dr.
Robert N. Shulstad , Director and Susan Varlamoff Program Coordinator
and Editor.
CD: The CD enclosed in the notebook contains CV’s of faculty who
identified themselves as Environmental Program Faculty.
INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
Georgia’s natural resource base
Georgia is ecologically rich due to its geography and climate. The state stretches from the
Appalachian Mountains in the north to the protected barrier islands in the southeast. Twenty four
million acres or 65 percent of the land is forested. (U.S. Forest Service)
The state can be divided into six eco-regions: Piedmont, Southeastern Plains, Blue Ridge, Ridge
and Valley, Southwestern Appalachians and Southern Coastal Plain. Together, they represent
many of the richest, rarest, and most biologically diverse habitats on earth. (U. S. Environmental
Protection Agency)
In terms of natural diversity, Georgia ranks fifth in the nation. It is home to 975 species of
vertebrates, making it second among states in total number of vertebrate species. Nationally, it
ranks fourth in flower and plant diversity and number one in carnivorous plants. (Georgia
Department of Natural Resources)
The state receives on average 52 inches of rain per year and has a long growing season. In North
Georgia it begins April 15 to October 15 and in south Georgia, crops can be cultivated
throughout the entire year.
There are 14 major river basins in Georgia containing 70,150 miles of rivers and streams. With
76 native fish species, Georgia’s Etowah watershed is one of the richest river systems in the
world. The state’s wetlands occupy more that 7.7 million acres and Okefenokee Swamp is one of
the largest freshwater wetlands in the United States. The coastline is 2,344 miles long. Together,
South Carolina and Georgia support forty percent of the salt marshes on the eastern seaboard.
(U.S. Geological Survey)
The Georgia Protected Species list includes 103 plants identified as endangered, threatened,
unusual or rare. The Etowah Watershed is a biodiversity hotspot but has lost 15 fish species since
biological inventories were done in the late 1800s.
Environmental protection - the early years
The University of Georgia has a long history of supporting agriculture by transferring scientific
agricultural practices to farmers to increase production while protecting the natural resource base
of their operations. Agriculture has been the number one industry in Georgia since the founding
of the colony in 1732. Today it is valued at $57 billion of the state’s GDP.
Scientific support for agriculture began in 1854 when the University of Georgia (UGA)
established an endowed professorship to provide “practical agriculture” to the farmers. UGA was
named a land grant institute in 1862 and early scientific research focused on restoring the proper
nutrient balance to the soil and preventing erosion of topsoil. In 1888, the first experiment station
was established in Griffin, located 70 miles east of UGA’s main Athens campus and in middle
Georgia. The Tifton Experiment Station, located in south Georgia, was established in 1918.
Conservation practices promoted to farmers from all three locations at the turn of the early
twentieth century included:
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Soil analysis and enrichment
Crop rotation to reduce soil pathogens
Diversified farming to prevent insect infestations
Contour farming to decrease erosion
Georgia is the largest state east of the Mississippi and extending scientific research to its 159
counties across 37 million acres of land became a challenge in the late 1800s. In 1911, university
scientists along with farm animals and politicians boarded a train to take “revolutionary
agricultural practices” to the people on a 46-day state tour. This event marked the beginning of
the Cooperative Extension Service.
Farming as an industry thrived in the state during the 1800s and by 1920, 310,731 farmers
cultivated row crops on 25.5 million acres or nearly 70 percent of the state’s land. King Cotton
along with tobacco, peanuts and corn grew on farms that averaged 82 acres.
With the advent of fertilizers and pesticides after World War II, yield per acre increased 16 fold.
However it became evident that improper use of fertilizer and pesticides could have adverse
effects on the environment. With the Federal ban of DDT, research funding was directed to
finding ways to reduce pesticide use. Agricultural scientists developed Integrated Pest
Management and precision agricultural techniques for Georgia conditions. The Cotton IPM
Program reduced pesticide applications from 16 in 1986 to 1.9 today. Through extensive
research on precision agriculture, nutrients and water are applied to soils only where and when
needed.
State demographic changes
Today, Georgia is the fastest growing state east of the Mississippi. The population of the state
grew quickly with the advent of air conditioning in the 1970s. From 1990 to 2000, the population
of the state increased by 26 percent to 8.2 million people - the population of Atlanta doubled
from 2 to 4 million people.
During the later part of the twentieth century, there was a dramatic shift of population from rural
areas in the south part of the state to cities, particularly Atlanta in north Georgia. At the dawn of
the twenty-first century, approximately 72 percent of the people live in urban areas straining its
natural resource base that provides safe drinking water, a reliable food supply, waste assimilation
and recreational opportunities.
1. Georgia’s Demographic Changes
Year
Population (millions)
Rural/urban (%)
Number of farmers
Average size of farm (acres)
Land in agriculture (acres)
Land irrigated (acres)
1920
2.9
75/25
310,731
82
25.5 million
N/A
2006
8.4
28/72
50,000
220
11 million
1.4 million
Sources
: U.S.
Census
Bureau,
U.S.
Depart
ment of
Agricul
ture
The face of agriculture has changed also during the later half of the twentieth century. Whereas
310,731 farmers each cultivated an average of 82 acres in 1920, in 2005, the National
Agricultural Statistics Service reported that 49,000 farmers cultivated an average of 214 acres.
Currently, thirty percent of the state’s land or 10.5 million acres is in agriculture. The average
size farm has increased due to many factors including increased foreign competition. They have
become highly managed production units that are typically irrigated. Row crops no longer
dominate the landscape. Instead broilers are the top commodity produced and account for
approximately 34 percent of Georgia’s agricultural production. The state ranks number one
nationally in production of peanuts, pecans, broilers and chicken eggs; number two in peaches
and number three in cotton. Fruits, vegetables, turf, nursery and pine trees also rank high.
To remain relevant today, the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental
Sciences has adjusted its teaching, research and extension programs to support both rural and
urban agriculture and to assist with the many environmental challenges facing the state. In 1991,
Environmental Sciences was added to the college title to emphasize the importance of
environmental protection in the mission of the College.
“Fastest growing settlement on earth”
Time Magazine (3/22/99) declared Atlanta “as the fastest spreading human settlement in
history.” According to estimates by state government officials, Georgia’s population is expected
to reach 17 million people by 2030. The U. S. Census Bureau estimates Atlanta gained nearly 1
million residents from April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2006. Fifty percent of the state’s population
currently lives in metro Atlanta.
The increased population has increased environmental problems throughout the state. According
to a UGA GIS study, 106 acres of Georgia land is paved over. Metro Atlanta alone adds 55 acres
of concrete, asphalt and rooftops. As a result of the decrease in vegetation and increase in black
paved surfaces, metro Atlanta is 3 – 10 degrees warmer than the surrounding area due to the heat
island effect. According to the state climatologist, who resides within CAES, the hot weather
over Atlanta has changed local weather patterns by reducing rain in some areas and increasing
the intensity of thunderstorms down wind of the city.
In addition, the average Atlantan drives more than 115 miles per day spewing carbon dioxide,
nitrogen oxides and particulate matter into the atmosphere from gasoline-powered vehicles.
These compounds combined with heat and sunlight produce ground level ozone. The U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency declared the 13 Atlanta metropolitan counties as a “serious”
ozone nonattainment area. On high ozone days, there is an increase in the number of emergency
room visits for children with asthma and others with compromised immune systems.
Water quantity and water quality concerns also loom large in the state. A recent survey of
Georgia citizens reported water as the number one environmental concern. As of September 28,
2007, about thirty percent of the state is in a severe drought including Metro Atlanta, Athens and
Griffin. Outdoor watering is banned in these areas seriously jeopardizing the state’s “green
industry.” Metro Atlanta’s reservoir, Lake Lanier, which supplies drinking water for half the
state’s residents is at historic lows.
Even with a high annual rainfall of 52 inches, recent droughts have caused critical water
shortages in some areas of the state. Seventy percent of the consumptive water in the state is used
by agriculture to irrigate crops. During the drought of 2000-2004, the Flint River - used for
irrigating cropland - slowed to a trickle causing the Georgia Department of Natural Resources to
declare a moratorium on new wells in the river basin.
Regarding water quality, more than 6,400 miles of streams and rivers in Georgia are either
partially or totally unable to support designated uses. In urban areas, particularly metro Atlanta
where development appears unbridled, sediment from land disturbing activities is the number
one surface water pollutant. Fertilizers and pesticides running off urban landscapes and
stormwater carrying a variety of additional pollutants from impervious surfaces have diminished
the water quality in 1,000 miles of streams and rivers in the Atlanta metro area. Ninety-eight
percent of Atlanta’s drinking water comes from surface water.
The issue of water in Georgia is contentious with the long-standing tri-state “Water Wars”
between Georgia, Alabama and Florida in which each state is fighting for enough water in the
streams to meet the needs of their industries and people.
Responding to the state’s environmental needs
The current mission of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences is:
To promote economic viability and global competitiveness of Georgia agriculture, foster
environmental stewardship and wise management of natural resources, and ensure the
production and distribution of safe food, feed and fiber.
The people of Georgia are served through three main UGA campuses located in Athens, Griffin and
Tifton where the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences offers academic programs,
maintains research facilities and conducts outreach/ educational programs. In addition, the College has
research and education centers at Attapulgus, Camilla, Eatonton, Savannah, Blairsville, Calhoun, and
Plains, Georgia. The 4-H environmental program has five facilities located throughout the state in
Hampton, Jekyll Island, Eatonton, Tybee Island, and Dahlonega to give students an opportunity to
experience a variety of ecosystems such as found in the North Georgia mountains, along the coast, metro
Atlanta, and middle Georgia.
Office of Environmental Sciences - In 2000, the Office of Environmental Sciences (OES) was
created to coordinate and promote the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences’
environmental research, extension and teaching programs to a variety of entities. With
environmental issues at the forefront of the state’s concerns, there is a strong need for scientific
expertise to establish policy and solve environmental problems. As a result of OES initiatives,
CAES faculty work closely with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources serving on boards
and task forces to offer technical expertise on water, energy and air/climate, and land use policy.
Research results are extended to the citizens of the state, region and in some cases foreign
countries through the Cooperative Extension. Partnerships have been established with many
other Federal, State, and local government organizations, environmental nonprofits, industry and
other universities to provide comprehensive environmental expertise.
The Office of Environmental Sciences http://environmentalsciences.caes.uga.edu/ maintains a
web site where grants and programs are classified according to environmental issue such as
water, energy, land use etc. A person looking for expertise in a particular area can quickly
determine if this expertise exists within the College and who they can contact. The OES also
publishes a yearly Environmental Report, posted on the web site, highlighting current
environmental initiatives.
Georgia Cooperative Extension is the second largest in the country (only Texas has more
agents). More than 300 Extension agents are located in 157 county offices to cover the state.
The College has the largest outdoor environmental education program in the nation in terms of
facilities and number of students participating.
The College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences has ten departments, a variety of
centers and laboratories and initiatives listed below that contain environmental elements. These
will be discussed in detail in the report.
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Agricultural and Applied Economics
Animal and Dairy Science
Biological and Agricultural Engineering
Crop and Soil Sciences
Entomology
Food Science and Technology
Horticulture
Plant Pathology
Poultry Science
In 2006-2007, the College has 583 faculty and 835 support staff and 1,339 undergraduate
students and 372 graduate students.
Centers
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Food Safety
Soybean Improvement
Urban Agriculture
Laboratories and Initiatives
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Agricultural and Environmental Services
Atmospheric Physics
Bio-conversion Research and Education
Food Innovation and Commercialization
Fruit and Vegetable Processing and Product Development
National Environmentally Sound Production Agriculture
The University of Georgia established an Academy of the Environment for all UGA faculty
who teach, conduct research and outreach on environmental issues. The Academy provides a
mechanism for faculty from the various colleges, schools, and institutes to work together on
interdisciplinary environmental research projects. Approximately half the membership is from
the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences.
In addition, there is an interdisciplinary UGA Water Resources Certificate and nearly 50 percent
of the courses are taught by faculty from the College of Agricultural and Environmental
Sciences.
FY06 Financial Summary
$165.9 million (52% from State of Georgia)
Instruction
State
11.1*
Federal
County
Sales
Sponsored
0.5
Other
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Research
38.8
4.5
3.9
23.3
1.6
Extension
31.8
11.0
18.4
9.7
3.2
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*in millions of dollars
Current Environmental grants total $37,639,344
Overview of the College’s Environmental Programs
The University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences has extensive
research, education, and outreach programs to address water quantity and quality, air pollution
and energy, global warming, and land use as they apply to both rural and urban agriculture.
Water Quantity
More than 100 faculty conduct research on water quantity and water quality issues for rural and
urban agriculture. Approximately 100 Extension agents provide technical assistance, outreach
and education on some aspect of water issues affecting communities and farms. Highlights of the
research and extension efforts are listed below.
Precision agriculture - developed to apply water only where and when needed on crops as a
response to reoccurring droughts and the tri-state water wars. It involves retrofitting center-pivot
irrigation systems with variable-rate nozzles and pressure gauges, the use of global positioning
systems and soil moisture meters. With precision agriculture, farmers have the flexibility to
determine how to irrigate their fields. Precision irrigation can reduce water use in a dry summer
by 77 percent. The C.M. Stripling Irrigation Research Park was established in Camilla, Georgia
as a research and demonstration facility for irrigation efficiency of row crops and vegetables.
The technology is being demonstrated on farms throughout the southeast.
Conservation tillage is another technique for reducing water use on crops, controlling weeds and
reducing herbicide use, preventing soil erosion and maintaining soil fertility. Thirty percent of
Georgia’s 2.3 million acres of cotton, corn and peanut production use conservation tillage saving
4.4 billion gallons for water annually.
Drought tolerant crops – Plant breeders also develop crops such as cotton and corn that are
drought tolerant and pest resistant to further conserve water and reduce the potential for
pesticides running into nearby rivers and streams.
Urban water use - In summer, urban water bills can rise as much as 50 percent from watering
the landscape. The Center for Urban Agriculture coordinates urban programs, including water
conservation on commercial and residential landscapes. Xeriscape, developed for Georgia
landscapes, can reduce water use by as much as 50 percent. Xeriscape principles are marketed
through the media – print, gardening TV show, radio - Master Gardener Program, workshops,
and demonstration sites across the state. In addition, Best Management Practices have been
established for golf courses and commercial landscapes and promoted through the industry
associations. The following are specific examples of how the College is working to reduce urban
water use.
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Engineers collaborate with the Georgia Irrigation Association to promote irrigation
design that reduces water use.
Horticulturists work with the green industry to train growers in water conservation and
water quality issues.
Crop and soil scientists work with the Golf Course Superintendents Association of
America to train golf course managers in water conservation techniques including
scheduling, and use of soil moistures sensors, reuse water and drought tolerant grasses.
The first training was attended by students from 26 states and 10 countries.
Turf breeders developed Seashore paspalum, a turfgrass that uses 50% less water than
hybrid bermudagrass and can thrive on salt water. The grass carpets golf courses from
Australia to China to Peru.
Horticulturists breed drought tolerant plants to withstand the urban heat island effect and
restrictions on watering.
Water Quality
Agricultural Pollution Prevention – In collaboration with the Georgia Pollution Prevention
Assistance Division, CAES scientists and Extension personnel are working to reduce
contaminants from row crop agriculture and animal feeding operations. The Animal Waste
Management Team developed best management practices for nutrient management. Manure
tours of the state have provided training and education to 3,400 livestock and poultry producers.
Programs have been established to train professionals in Farm*A*Syst to reduce nonpoint source
pollution from farms. To date, 1,500 farmers have voluntarily conducted assessments of their
operations.
Nutrient management on north Georgia farms is critical because there is more poultry litter than
land on which to apply it. Litter is being transported to south Georgia to supply the soil with
needed nutrients and is also being made into fuel pellets to generate electricity.
Bacterial Source Detection – An innovative method to determine the source of fecal coliform in
surface water was pioneered by a CAES crop and soil scientist. The Georgia Department of
Natural Resources frequently requests assistance when beaches are closed due to fecal
contamination. This technique is also used in local communities on nonpoint source pollution
issues.
Water Recycling - To reduce water use and prevent water contamination of surface and
groundwater, research has been conducted and promoted to recycle water on dairy farms, food
processing plants particularly poultry, and greenhouses.
Watershed Agent - The first watershed agent was hired to provide technical assistance on water
issues to local governments in the Upper Oconee River Basin. His activities include water
sampling, stream monitoring, providing erosion and control training and drawing up documents
to delist streams. Plans are underway to locate agents in northeast and southeast Georgia also.
State Comprehensive Water Management Plan – The State of Georgia under the direction of the
Georgia Environmental Protection Division is preparing a Comprehensive Water Management
Plan. College faculty participate on the State-wide Advisory Committee, Technical Advisory
Committees, and Basin Advisory Committees to provide expertise to government officials on the
future management of water in Georgia.
Integrated Pest Management – Due to Georgia’s hot humid climate and long growing season,
insects, weeds and plant pathogens are prolific. Growing crops for food, fiber and energy; or
growing trees, shrubs and plants in a landscape, nursery or forest requires the management of
pests. Extensive research continually explores ways to reduce pesticide applications in both rural
and urban agriculture to reduce costs, to avoid runoff of pesticides into nearby surface and
groundwater, and to prevent health effects. The following are examples of programs that advance
Integrated Pest Management in Georgia.
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Cotton IPM Program – farmers conserve natural enemies of the boll weevil leading to a
50 percent reduction in pesticide use allowing Georgia to remain competitive in a global
market.
Transgenic Cotton – developed with a gene that releases Bt protein known to effectively
control pests. Introduced in 1996.
IPM in Public Health – scientists developed laboratory and field bioassay systems to use
Bti instead of chemical pesticides to control black flies and mosquitoes in third world
countries. Black flies and mosquitoes are vectors of disease and breed in water, often the
drinking water supply of a village.
Pesticide Applicator Training – Professionals who apply pesticides in Georgia must be
certified through a training administered by CAES Extension agents that includes
Integrated Pest Management.
Digital Diagnostics through Digital Imaging – Extension agents send digital images of
insects, diseases, plants etc. via the internet to the appropriate expert for rapid
identification. Early diagnosis reduces pesticide use. Crops and landscapes can be often be
saved before an infestation occurs. In addition, the system can be used for biosecurity. It is
hosted by UGA and linked to states throughout the southeastern U.S. In addition it is
being used by specialists at South American ports to prevent pests from entering the
country on produce etc.
Bugwood Network - hosts 15 internet sites that contains thousands of images of insects,
diseases and invasive plants to assist in identifying pests. The site is used by many state
and Federal Agencies to prevent pests from entering the country.
Clean Days – sponsored with the Georgia Department of Agriculture to collect outdated
pesticides that are potential pollutants to surface and groundwater. To date, 1.8 million
pounds of pesticides have been removed from farms including 45,000 pounds of DDT
from an abandoned building.
Biofuels – The hot humid climate in Georgia produces massive quantities of biomass. Often
referred to as the Saudi Arabia of biomass, Georgia has the potential to be the nation’s leader in
biofuel research and production. Forests cover 24 million acres or 65 percent of the state.
Another 11 million acres are planted in row crops. The state leads the nation in poultry
production that generates large amounts of fats and grease and chicken litter. Georgia is also a
leader in vegetable oil production (peanuts, cottonseed and soybeans). The state’s thriving
restaurant and food service industry employs large amounts of vegetable oils. In addition, waste
from food industries such as Coca Cola and bakeries provide more biomass.
Recognizing the opportunity and importance of generating home grown fuel after the oil
shortage in the early 1980s, engineers in the Department of Biological and Agricultural
Engineering spent three decades researching economically viable alternatives to petroleum oil in
the biomass of Georgia.
UGA’s Biorefinery and Carbon Cycling center was constructed on campus to conduct research
on various feedstocks for biodiesel and ethanol using a thermo-chemical process and pyrolysis.
Pilot projects have been conducted on campus and in the state. During the 1980s, the Athens
campus buses were fueled with peanut oil and during the winter of 2002, the Athens boilers were
retrofitted to use fats and grease to heat the campus. In 2004, electricity was generated in north
Georgia from chicken litter. Five million Federal and state dollars have been awarded to the
Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering and Faculty of Engineering for research
in biofuels.
Bioenergy Science Center - A multi-disciplinary team from The University of Georgia will
participate with Oakridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and other universities and colleges,
foundations, and industry as part of the Bioenergy Science Center located in the Southeast. Four
CAES scientists are members of the UGA team that will assist in developing processes for
converting plants such as switchgrass and poplar trees into fuels. This is one of three biofuels
research centers in the nation funded by the Department of Energy. UGA’s portion of the
research funding is $20 million for five years.
UGA Biofuels Applications - Today, as a result of research conducted by CAES engineers, the
campus bus fleet runs on a B-20 blend of biodiesel and next year the cars will run on an E-10
ethanol blend. When fuel costs reach a price determined by the facilities manager, grease and
fats will be used as alternative in the campus boilers to heat the buildings. In addition, University
of Georgia President Adams elected to spearhead an energy initiative for the University System
of the state to reduce energy and use alternative fuels including bioenergy in the campus fleets
and boilers. The work is being spearheaded by CAES engineers and students.
Industrial Application - A bioenergy conference was held at the UGA Tifton Campus in the
agricultural area. Seven hundred people attended including the Governor, Commissioner of the
Georgia Department of Agriculture, the President of the University of Georgia, many state and
local politicians, farmers, government officials, environmentalists, scientists and engineers and
venture capitalists. The industry has taken off and engineers and scientists work with
entrepreneurs setting up biorefineries across the state.
Breeding Biofuel Crops - Crop and soil scientists are working to modify sorghum and switch
grass to be used for biofuels in Georgia.
State Energy Plan – The state of Georgia has drafted an energy plan and a CAES engineer was
appointed to work on the biofuels portion of the plan.
Climate Monitoring and Carbon Sequestration
Climate Monitoring - Climate Monitoring - Since 1991, biological and agricultural engineers
established 71 weather stations throughout the state to collect detailed weather data such as air
temperature, relative humidity, rainfall, solar radiation, wind speed, wind direction, soil
temperature, soil moisture, etc. The data are disseminated via the web -www.Georgiaweather.net
and updated every 15 minutes. The information is used by a variety of individuals including the
state climatologist, farmers, teachers, engineers, and government officials when making policy
decisions such as determining if the state is in a drought and to what magnitude. The state
climatologist, who resides within the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering,
relies on this data for his weather forcasting. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration provides funding to look at the impact of long-term climate change.
With researchers from universities in Alabama and Florida, the UGA College of Agriculture and
Environmental Sciences scientists established the Southeast Climate Consortium to issue
monthly climate forecasts and agricultural outlooks for farmers. The information is maintained
on a web site, AgClimate, and uses data the National Climatic Data Center and advanced
computer simulation models that predict crop yield and water use. In addition, surface
temperatures in the Pacific Ocean are monitored to predict the potential effect of climate
variability, such as El Niño and La Niña, which significantly impact the Southeast.
The U.S. Department of Defense funds a project to determine how the stress level of weather
affects soldiers during rigorous exercises.
The Georgia Environtron is a research laboratory that encompasses nine large growth chambers
in which climate can be regulated. Many researchers from throughout the world use the facility
to grow crops typically cultivated in their countries in climate conditions predicted with climate
change.
Carbon Sequestration – Great quantities of biomass, a booming population requiring additional
power plants, and a sagging forest industry have propelled state government officials to establish
a Georgia registry to trade carbon units. Since most of the state power plants are coal fired and
constructed before the advent of pollution control equipment, the plant’s owners have a strong
interest in offsetting emissions from their facilities. CAES scientists are involved in determining
the amount of carbon sequestered in cropped fields and forests to provide a standard for carbon
credits.
Scientists do not fully understand how trees and plants remove carbon from the atmosphere. The
CAES Lab for Environmental Physics conducts research to improve the understanding of
terrestrial carbon cycles and how variability in atmospheric conditions during the day and night
can effect the cycle. (i.e. biometeorology).
Field experiments are being conducted in peanut fields, orchards, and widely contrasting forest
canopies to compute carbon exchange between a variety of biomass and the atmosphere. Among
the measurements taken are rainfall, air and soil moisture, solar radiation, wind speed and
direction, and CO2 uptake. These field experiments contribute to improved understanding not
only of the terrestrial carbon cycle but also of the hydrological cycles and diffusion processes
within the vegetated canopy layer.
Since 1995, this research has been conducted in collaboration with world-renown experts from
throughout the US, Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia. Currently, the U.S. Dept. of Energy has
awarded $4 million for a project to determine innovative techniques to advance the current
technology for studying nighttime conditions and its effect on carbon uptake. To meet this
objective, state-of-the-art observational tools are being developed that include multi-level eddycovariance systems, SODAR, LIDAR and tethersonde with the numerical modeling systems.
This research is being conducted in collaboration with the Brookhaven National lab, Savannah
River National lab, and NOAA.
Research results will provide a more accurate inventory of carbon uptake for various sources of
biomass. In the near future, this information will be transferred to policy makers and to the
general public for use in making informed decisions on ways to mitigate global warming.
Organic Farming and Local Produce Markets
There is growing interest in both certified organic and locally grown fruits, vegetables meats and
dairy products. CAES is beginning to respond to these needs through research, teaching and
extension. Building on the work of Dr. Sharad Phatak, research is being conducted in Tifton on
organic vegetable production and 4 acres of land on the Tifton campus are being certified for
organic production. Faculty in the College received federal funding to develop strategies for
transitioning to organic peanut production and improving the efficiency of grazing dairies using
complementary pasture species and irrigation scheduling. These new efforts along with ongoing
research on markets, integrated pest management, beneficial insects, and other issues will help
provide farmers the needed technical information for successful operations.
The College, led by the Horticulture Department, has developed a new multi-disciplinary
certificate in organic agriculture for undergraduates. This program includes faculty from
throughout CAES and from the Odum School of Ecology. The program will include an
experiential education component on two acres of newly certified land for organic production at
the Athens campus.
In partnership with Georgia Organics, county extension agents and specialists have formed
working groups to share information and conduct research on growing organic Vidalia onions,
blueberries and peanuts. These efforts are opening new markets for producers. Faculty from the
College provide training on finishing grass-fed ruminants and direct marketing of livestock
products. The Agricultural & Applied Economics, Biological & Agricultural Engineering, Crop
& Soil Science, and Food Science actively participated in these workshops designed to help
farmers make wise choices about these potential niche markets. These extension workshops are
conducted in partnership with the USDA Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education
Program, and other non-governmental groups such as American Grass-Fed Association and the
Animal Compassion Foundation. County extension also plays an important role in supporting
efforts in niche markets and local foods by assisting communities to begin farmer’s markets,
nurturing cooperatives, and developing contact information for pick-your-own and other direct
marketing operations.
Agricultural and Environmental Economics – The Center for Agribusiness and Economic
Development (CAED), a college center, works closely with the state government on a number of
important environmental issues such as the markets for organic produce and the viability of
biofuels in Georgia. The CAED has conducted a number of feasibility or marketing studies for
new or expanding firms interested in sustainable, organic products. A new interactive data base
to connect producers of such products with consumers, MARKETMAKER
(www.marketmakeer.uga.edu) has recently been developed. Economists provided an extensive
study that was used in the state energy plan. The biofuels industry has also commissioned studies
for feasibility of specific facilities. The Department of Agricultural and Environmental
Economics is conducts research in determining the value of ecosystem services and land
conservation. The poultry processing industry commissioned an economic study to determine
ways to recycle and reuse water in their plants. The pilot project showed Georgia’s largest
agricultural industry ways to save considerable water, energy and money in this period of
extreme drought.
Youth Education
4-H Program - Georgia leads the nation with its 4-H program and outdoor environmental
education centers. Approximately 183,000 students participate in the 4-H program. They study
water issues in the 5th grade along with other environmental subjects in grades 5th through 12th.
As many as 40,000 students visit the outdoor centers each year where they learn about ecology
and watershed issues and actually do field work.
Many 4-H students participate in the Rivers Alive campaign which is volunteer effort across the
state to remove trash from the streams and rivers. Others work with Adopt-a-Stream volunteers
to do biological and chemical stream monitoring. The Georgia Environmental Protection
Division supplied a Project Wet instructor to teach 4-H agents and teachers a curriculum that
includes information on watersheds, water use, and saving water.
A group of our 4-hers distinguished themselves internationally after they developed a method for
tracking the source of fecal coliform on St. Simon Island’s beaches. They used oranges to track
the flow of tidal streams and discovered that dog feces were a potential pollutant. The students
conducted an education campaign to turn the brown tide around and prevent beach closings. For
their ingenuity, they received state, national and even international awards that allowed them to
spend time on a Norwegian research ship studying dolphins, whales and sea turtles.
Young Scholars – the College supports a program to pair students who come from under
privileged backgrounds but have a science interest with faulty who provide them with an
opportunity to work in their field of expertise. An international component was added for travel
to the Ecolodge in Monte Verde, Costa Rica to study lessons in ecology.
AGRICULTURAL & APPLIED ECONOMICS
Agricultural and Applied Economics
Natural resource economics research focuses on the impact of growth in population and
economic activity on natural resource use, allocation and management. In the related area of
environmental economics our research focuses on valuation, incentives, and consequences of
environmental degradation or enhancement and policy. This research involves natural resource
valuation and benefit-cost analysis related to agricultural practices, land use, water management
and forest, fish and wildlife management. A recognition of the department’s accomplishments in
the area of natural resource and environmental economics, John Bergstrom was named the first
Richard B. Russell Distinguished Professor of Public Policy in 2005 for his his research and
teaching program which focuses assessing natural resource and agricultural values and applying
these values to resource and agricultural policy and management. Below are some examples of
programs in the two areas of natural resource and environmental economics
Waste and Pollution Issues
Contamination by animal manure has become a major issue in Georgia. The U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency and the Georgia Environmental Protection Division have revised their water
quality regulations governing concentrated animal feeding operations, but omitted certification
requirements that could assist in assuring water quality. A UGA agricultural and applied
economist found that nutrient management plans, developed by certified specialists, is an
important monitoring technique to manage manure and prevent pollutants from entering waters.
A certification process serves as an ongoing quality control component to help assure
environmental regulators, producers and the public that high-quality management plans are being
developed. The voluntary certification of persons and facilities including applicant training,
examination, and the investigation of qualifications can help reduce the denigration of waters.
Research has been conducted on the proper measurement of productivity and efficiency of firms
when firms produce unwanted waste products. Examples of such “bad” products in the
environmental arena are animal waste, air pollution, and pesticide leaching. By developing a
new method of correctly measuring the productivity and efficiency of firms in these situations,
firms can be given credit for the effort they place on reducing the production of unwanted
byproducts. Under traditional methods of economic measurement, spending money and effort to
reduce pollution would have lowered measured firm efficiency because more cost would have
gone into producing the same amount of output. With the new methods developed, such a firm
can show an increase in efficiency that accounts for their work in protecting or improving the
environment. Such methods will be needed if green payments to farmers are ever a reality.
Water and Coastal Issues
Georgia's coastal shore amenities valued by property owners and visitors are being degraded by
erosion. In developed areas, 55 percent of the shoreline has been armored with concrete seawalls
or large boulders. Armoring usually destroys a beach's recreation and natural habitat because it
disrupts the flow of sand. Since most experts predict that more coasts will experience erosion
problems, the current levels of tourism, related economic activity and biodiversity are not
sustainable. Officials charged with managing our public beaches can employ two beach
improvement strategies: artificially renourish the beach, or let nature take its course. The
college's resources were combined with two Georgia Sea Grant projects that contributed $87,000
for a survey of how visitors would respond to projected beach conditions at Tybee and Jekyll
Islands. It was conducted by UGA agricultural and applied economists. They found that,
regardless of which management approach is taken, a way to pay for it must be found. The
economists explored two methods. Financing by general tax revenue was found to be feasible
because the benefits exceeded the costs by $38.3 million. However, this could be viewed as a
localized project benefiting a small number of people. Since it is uncertain that the state or
federal governments would fund the project, they also explored financing by user fees. They
estimated the parking fee increase needed to fully fund the beach improvements would be $1.55
per day. Therefore, beach improvement projects at Jekyll and Tybee Islands are feasible under
either financing method. These results can be used by the local governments in their planning to
preserve Georgia's coastal environment and ensuring the future of its tourism industry.
Estuaries along the coastal U.S. often are highly managed ecosystems as freshwater flows into
these estuaries are influenced by large networks of water projects that control river flows into the
estuaries. In these coastal areas, there is great interest in how management projects that influence
the flow of freshwater into estuaries impacts ecosystem benefits. UGA agricultural and applied
economists conducted a case study to estimate the recreational benefits of management projects
that influence the flow of freshwater into estuaries from rivers impacting fish habitat, fish
populations and ultimately recreational fish catch. The case study area was the Lower
Atchafalaya River Basin along the Louisiana coast. Average catch elasticity calculated using the
estimated model was .079, which implies that for the user who takes an average number of
annual fishing trips to the study area, a 1 percent increase in catch per trip would induce him or
her to take .079 percent more trips per year. Mean net economic value per person per trip was
estimated at $30.73. Federal, state and local policy-makers and resource managers face a long
list of coastal management problems with alternative solutions that are all very expensive. The
responsiveness of angling trips per user to changes in catch rates in our case study was relatively
low. However, because total effects may be large when per user effects are aggregated across
total users, resource management agencies should consider these changes in recreation benefits
when evaluating restoration and protection policies and programs that influence the ecology of
coastal estuaries, fish populations and catch rates.
A UGA agricultural and applied economics study was conducted to estimate the changes in
aggregate recreation use and associated changes in recreation expenditures within the Tennessee
Valley Authority region over a 30-year study period as a result of proposed changes in TVA
reservoir system operating conditions. The TVA region is composed of seven states including
Georgia. Three recreation user groups were included in the analysis: public access site users,
commercial patrons, and shoreline property owners. Results show the overall sensitivity of
recreation expenditures in the TVA region from external sources to changes in reservoir
operating conditions affecting various reservoir and tailwater purposes including power
generation, navigation, lake-based recreation and river-based recreation. Estimated changes in
recreation expenditures in the TVA region in 2004 during August, September and October range
from $9.8 million for alternatives emphasizing commercial use and production including power
generation to $13.2 million for alternatives emphasizing reservoir-based and river-based
recreation.
Much progress has been made in the past two decades in the development of techniques for
measuring the economic value of environmental goods. One of the most commonly applied
techniques is the contingent valuation (CV) method. A special tax to finance public goods is a
typical payment vehicle and has been used in many previous CV surveys. A UGA agricultural
and applied economist compared financing of public natural resource and environmental goods
using tax reallocations vs. tax increases. A case study was conducted for public programs to
protect ground water quality in Dougherty County, Georgia and Aroostook County, Maine. A
contingent valuation survey was conducted to collect data on preferences and values for ground
water protection in both Georgia and Maine. The results of the ground water case study indicate
that people were willing to pay more for ground water quality protection using a tax reallocation
financing mechanism as compared to a special tax financing mechanism. In Georgia,
willingness-to-pay for a ground water quality protection program was about $65 per household
per year as measured by a special tax and $114 per household per year as measured by a tax
reallocation. Results suggest that tax reallocations provide a potentially viable, alternative means
for financing public environmental goods and for eliciting value measures for changes in public
natural resources and environmental goods.
In the Little Tennessee River watershed in north Georgia and western North Carolina, private
land use decisions have major impacts on watershed ecosystem health. Working with private
land owners, a consortium of public agencies is attempting to restore and protect 20 miles of
stream bank along the Little Tennessee River. UGA agricultural and applied economists
provided information to the consortium regarding the economic value of restored ecosystem
services in the watershed. Preferences and values for watershed restoration and protection were
elicited using a computer-assisted contingent valuation survey. Economic benefits of watershed
restoration were estimated at about $5.00 per household per mile of river restoration. The
benefit/ cost ratio for riparian restoration ranged from 3.33 for partial restoration to 15.65 for full
restoration. Thus, the public policy perspective held by some stream ecologists that partial
restoration should proceed with available funds even if funding is not available for full
restoration proved to be economically feasible in this case. However, results indicate a strong
preference for programs that fully restore the watershed and the ecosystem services provided.
Alternative Fuel Issues
The U.S. Energy Tax Act of 1978 authorized the first federal excise tax exemptions for biomass
derived fuels, mainly gasohol (a blend of 10 percent ethanol and 90 percent gasoline). The U.S.
General Accounting Office estimated this tax exemption (subsidy) will lower highway excise tax
revenue projections by a total of $13.72 billion from fiscal years 2002 through 2012. This
subsidy yields an ethanol industry with a 7 percent share of the fuel-oxygenate market requiring
5 percent of the domestic corn production. UGA agricultural and applied economists provided
information on the impact market determinants have on the ethanol market. They developed an
econometric model of the fuel-blending market demand and supply for ethanol. The economic
structure of the ethanol market indicates ethanol agents are addicted to the federal tax exemption
on ethanol blended fuels. The highly elastic ethanol supply response implies purchasers of
ethanol bear more than 90 percent of the increase in costs if the federal subsidy is reduced. Even
if the subsidy is only cut in half the resulting price hike is sufficient to squeeze all the demand
out of the market. With the subsidy, ethanol competes on the basis of quality and price in the
gasoline additive fuels market. The potential for demand expansion resides in structural shifts
occurring from clean air and water regulations, health restrictions, renewable fuels, and global
warming. Unless these structural shifts in the ethanol industry occur, which significantly
improves the competitiveness of ethanol, ethanol will remain dependent on the subsidy.
Land Preservation and Rural Development Issues
Many communities in Georgia and throughout the U.S. are turning to the use of conservation
easements to help stem the loss of farmland to urban and related developments. A conservation
easement is a voluntary legal agreement between a land owner and the easement holder that
places restrictions on development of the land in exchange for monetary compensation to the
land owner. Active efforts and programs to preserve farmland through purchase of conservation
easements are underway in several Georgia counties including Carroll, Fulton, Habersham and
Oconee counties. There is also state-level interest in preserving farmland and other green space
primarily through the Georgia's Land Conservation Partnership focusing on conservation
easements. When public tax dollars are used in PACE (purchase of agricultural conservation
easement) programs, this prioritization involves targeting protection of farmland that is most
highly valued by the general public. A UGA agricultural and applied economist analyzed how
public preferences and values for a PACE program in Georgia are affected by different attributes
or characteristics of farmland the program would preserve. Respondents placed a high priority on
using conservation easements to preserve farmland relative to other types of protected land uses
in Georgia. Respondents also viewed farmland protection as being consistent with protection of
the environment. Results indicated that willingness-to-pay to protect farmland is highest for
prime farmland near urban areas used to produce crops for human consumption.
For agriculture in Georgia to continue to be sustainable, production and marketing practices must
contribute to economic profit, environmental quality and community development. A UGA
agricultural and applied economist is examining the development of social capital in rural areas,
focusing on how sustainable agriculture can be enhanced and how it can enhance a rural
community. In 2004 a survey was conducted to determine whether differences exist between
Georgia farmers who practice sustainable agriculture and those who farm conventionally, in
terms of social capital. Social capital originates from social relations. Approaching the issue of
agriculture and the environment from a social capital perspective allows communities to talk not
about environmental protection but about enhancing the quality of life through attention to
community and stewardship. Second, movement toward sustainable agriculture through local
farming groups and organizations may be associated with a community's social capital.
Sustainable agriculture and social capital are linked when farmers and non-farmers in a rural
community recognize their actions can make a difference in achieving goals. Third, social capital
is at the heart of quality of life issues. From education to health to development, improving social
capital can affect the life of a rural community.
CURRENT EXTRAMURAL FUNDING OF CAES ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAM FACULTY
Faculty Member
Warren Kriesel and
Jeff Mullen
Agency and
Funding Source
Grant Title
Georgia Sea Grant,
NOAA
An Economic Analysis of Land
Development Options for Georgia’s Coast
50%
3/06 -2/08
$30,692
Sustainable Agriculture Research and
Education Cooperative Agreement
50
2002-2007
2,733,349
USDA-CSREES
2003-2008
3,024,074
2004-2009
2,732,700
2005-2010
2,868,700
2006-2011
2,682,.698
2007-2012
2,617,138
2002-2007
1,081,025
2003-2008
1,736,421
2004-2009
982,861
2005-2010
869,961
Jeff Jordan
Sustainable Agriculture Research and
Education Professional Development
Cooperative Agreement
% of
Env. EFT
10
Project
Period
Direct Costs
(Current Yr)
2006-2011
856,578
John Bergstrom
U.S.D.A
Assessment and Management of Natural
Capital Benefits: Land and Water
Resources in the Southeast
100
2004-2007
$77,700
John Bergstrom
U.S.D.A
Forecasting Recreation Visitation to
National Forests to Facilitate Natural
Resource and Environmental Policy
100
2005-2008
$26,000
John Bergstrom
U.S.D.A
Assessment of Preferences, Demand and
Supply for U.S. Natural Resource Policy
and Planning
100
2005-2008
$17,000
John Bergstrom
U.S.D.A
Valuation and Marketing of Ecosystem
Services from Public Lands
100
2005-2008
$10,000
John Bergstrom
U.S.D.A
Ecosystem Services in the Urban/Wildland
Interface: Phase I
100
2006-2008
$26,000
Poultry Litter Trading Study
8.5
An Economic Analysis of Alternative
Development Options in Coastal Georgia
15
Hedonic Price Analysis of Brownfield
Redevelopment
8.5
Jeffrey D. Mullen
Georgia Soil and
Water
Conservation
Service
Jeffrey D. Mullen
Georgia Sea Grant
Jeffrey D. Mullen
Georgia
Department of
Natural Resources
Jeffrey D. Mullen
USDA-CREES
Agricultural Water Use Decision Support
Tools for Water Conservation
5
Jeffrey D. Mullen
USDA-CREES
Agricultural Water Use Innovative Tools
for Water Conservation
5
June 2007
to
December
2008
April 2006
to August
2007
January
2006 to
March
2006
September
2005 to
September
2008
September
2004 to
September
2007
$50,000
$40,850
$79,836
$78,748
Jeffrey D. Mullen
USDA-CEAP
Jeffrey D. Mullen
Georgia
Department of
Natural Resources
Long-Term Water Quality Responses to
Conservation Practices in Nested Coastal
Plain Watersheds
Analysis of Georgia Blue Crab Fishery
Data
5
September
2005 to
September
2008
January
2004 to
January
2005
TRAINEES OF CAES ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAM FACULTY
Faculty
Member
Past/
Current
Trainee
Kriesel
Trainee Name
M.S.
Ph.D.
PostDoc
Deg.
at
Entry
Training
Period
Current
Sam Pugh
MS
BS
2006-2008
UGA
Redevelopment of
Brownfields
UGA Student
Kriesel
Current
Hovhanne
Nahapetyan
MS
BS
2005-2007
Armenia University
Property
Development in
Marshland Areas
UGA Student
Kriesel
Past
Jay Harvard
MS
BS
1998-2000
UGA
Hedonic Price
Analysis in Coastal
Communities
Dept. of Homeland Security
Kriesel
Past
Craig Landry
MS
BS
1997-1999
UGA
Beach Erosion
Management
Alternatives
East Carolina University
Jeff Jordan
Past
Abdul Munasib
Post Doc
PhD
Aug 200506
Ohio State
University
Social capital and
environmental
awareness
Asst Prof. Dept. of Econ,
Oklahoma State University
Current
Bulent Anil
Post Doc
PhD
Aug 2007-
Georgia State
University
Farmer’s and social
capital
Phd Student, GSU
Past
Senhui He
Post Doc
PhD
1999-2002
University of
Georgia
Willingness to Pay
for clean water
Lead Analyst, HSBC
Past
Nii Abrahams
Post Doc
1997-1999
Penn State
Willingness to pay
for clean water
Assoc. Prof. Southwest
Missouri State
Past
Abdul
Elnagheeb
Post Doc
PhD
1991-1995
University of
Wisconsin
Contingent valuation
Vice President, Wachovia
Bank
PostDoc
PhD
2005-2006
Univ. of New
Mexico
Economic value of
National Forest
Recreation
Assistant Professor,
New Mexico State University
John
Bergstrom
past
Meghan
Starbuck
PhD
Prior Institution
Research Topic
Current Position and/or
Institution
John
Bergstrom
past
Willard Phillips
M.S.
B.S.
John
Bergstrom
past
Joshua Gill
M.S.
B.S.
John
Bergstrom
past
Chris Allen
M.S.
B.S.
John
Bergstrom
Past
Thomas Curtis
M.S.
B.S.
John
Bergstrom
past
Wesley Zwin
M.S.
B.S.
John
Bergstrom
past
Carter Betz
M.S.
B.S.
John
Bergstrom
past
Marie
Truesdell
PhD
M.E.
Jeffrey D.
Mullen
Current
Shanshan Lin
MS
BS
2005-2007
Jeffrey D.
Mullen
Current
John StevensGarmon
MS
BA
2006-
Oberlin College
Jeffrey D.
Mullen
Current
Randall Starr
MS
BS
2007
UGA
Jeffrey D.
Mullen
Current
Hovhanne
Nahapetyan
MS
BS
2006-2007
Jeffrey D.
Mullen
Current
Hillary Tanner
MS
BS
2005-2007
2004-2006
University of West
Indies, Trinidad
Economic Value of
Wetlands Protection
Economist,
Trinidad and Tobago
Government
2003-2004
University of
Georgia
Economic Value and
Impacts of Rail-Trails
Research Associate,
University of Georgia
2003-2004
University of
Tennessee
Economic Value of
Wetlands Protection
Cooperative Extension Agent,
University of Tennessee
(last contact)
2002-2003
University of
Georgia
Economic Feasibility
of Biofuels
Production
Environmental Consulting
Firm, Atlanta (last contact)
2002-2003
University of
Georgia
Agricultural and
Nature-Based
Tourism
Agricultural Chemicals
Representative (last contact)
1999-2000
North Carolina
State University
Economic Value of
Rail-Trials
North Carolina
State University
Economic Analysis
of Regulatory
Takings and Givings
Dean,
Marian College
Optimizing Irrigation
Research Assistant, UGA
Adoption and
Efficacy of
Conservation
Practices
Returns to Research
Funded by SARE
1997-1999
UGA
Alternative
Development
Options for Coastal
GA
Bio-Retention Cells
for Stormwater
Management
U.S.D.A. Forest Service
Jeffrey D.
Mullen
Past
Julia
Beckhusen
MS
BS
2004-2006
UC-Davis
Jeffrey D.
Mullen
Past
Willard Phillps
MS
MS
2004-2006
Wetland Mitigation in
GA
Jeffrey D.
Mullen
Past
Peter Foster
MS
BS
2003-2005
Spatial Analysis of
Irrigation Permits
Law Student, Gonzaga
University
Jeffrey D.
Mullen
Past
Augustus
Matakole
MS
BS
2001-2003
Irrigation Technology
Adoption
PHD Candidate, LSU
Jeffrey D.
Mullen
Past
Lesroy Samuel
MS
BS
2002-2003
Dairy Industry in
Trinidad
Jeffrey D.
Mullen
Past
Yassert
GonzalezAlvarez
MS
BS
2000-2002
Agricultural Water
and Pumping Costs
Water Management
Specialist, State of FL
Jeffrey D.
Mullen
Current
Doris Sande
PhD
MS
2006-
Benefits of Public
Research
Jeffrey D.
Mullen
Current
Mohammed Al
Hassan
MS
MS
2006-
Jeffrey D.
Mullen
Current
Daniel Ngugi
PhD
MS
2004-2007
Value of Weather
Information to
Agricultural
Producers
Economic Valuation
of Watershed
Ecosystems
UGA
Valuing Irrigation
Permits in GA
PHD Candidate, Purdue
University
ANIMAL & DAIRY SCIENCE
Environmental Review Narrative
Department of Animal and Dairy Science
College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
The University of Georgia
Thomas Bass1 and Stephen Nickerson2
1
Public Service Representative, 2Department Head
"Research, teaching, and extension/outreach scholarship that contributes to the restoration,
conservation, or enhancement of air, water and soil, and environmentally responsible production
of food, fiber, feed, biofuels and other natural resources.”
Introduction: The Department of Animal and Dairy Science (ADS) recognizes that animal
agriculture is reliant upon clean water and air, and healthy productive soils. Animal production
systems become integrated into the ecology of the area in which they are placed. Through
proper management these systems can be sustainable in the environment and can offer additional
benefits. Modern agriculture is also subject to overall enhanced environmental responsibility
and accountability. This comes in the form of regulations, record keeping requirements,
scientific methods of production and comprehensive management systems.
Facilities: ADS manages properties across the State of Georgia. The department strives to
manage these properties in accordance with pertinent regulation and best environmental
management practices. The current development of Double Bridges Farm (DBF) outside of
Athens provides an opportunity to showcase environmental responsibility, while producing food
and fiber and supporting the teaching, research and Extension mission of the University. This
237 acre tract will contain beef, sheep and swine production areas, as well as classroom and lab
space.
Pigs at DBF will be raised in farrow-to-finish unit that utilizes the best available technology in
waste handling, air quality management and sustainable land application of manure to produce
forage crops. A small cattle feeding facility at the farm will use innovative waste management
practices to collect manure for beneficial use on crops. In addition, DBF will include pastured
beef and sheep. Environmental quality on the entire property will be preserved by appropriate
set-backs from water features, wildlife buffers and protected forest areas, sustainable stocking
rates and agronomic use or organic and commercial fertilizers.
Extension: In cooperation with departments across the College, ADS is engaged activities
benefiting producers across the entire state. ADS Extension faculty members have a long history
of assisting producers in waste management and production of crops. Extension nutritionists
have worked across all species to develop rations and programs to efficiently utilize feed
nutrients and reduce surpluses. Eight Extension faculty members are self identified as having
environmentally related programming.
For the last five years, ADS has been integral to the UGA AWARE Team. AWARE stands for
Animal Waste Awareness in Research and Extension; its mission is to provide education,
technical assistance, and applied research answers to all stakeholders in Georgia’s livestock and
poultry industry. This program provides ongoing workshops on animal waste and nutrient
management, regulatory compliance, non-point source pollution and recommended
environmental best management practices. Program products include various manuals, bulletins,
newsletters and internet resources, including the AWARE web page at www.agp2.org.
Technical assistance is provided as requested by various parties through the county delivery
system, assorted direct correspondence, and site visits. While many primary AWARE activities
originate from within the Bio and Ag Engineering Department and the Animal and Dairy Science
Department, they are collaborative efforts with other departments, external agencies, producers
and agri-businesses.
Research: ADS has participated in animal waste research by making their property available to
Biological and Agricultural Engineering. Studies have been conducted at Athens on lagoon
management at the dairy and swine centers. In Tifton work has been done on waste treatment
and anaerobic digestion and biogas production. Other projects have included waste digestion by
and harvesting of black soldier flies. Geneticists and nutritionists are investigating waste
reduction through genetic and feeding efficiency. Economic feasibility studies for farm
management have also included waste management aspects. The use of bioassays is being
investigated to detect pharmaceuticals and toxins; this research has relevance in detecting these
compounds in the environment. Nine faculty members are self identified as having
environmentally relevant research.
Instruction: All of the production management course blocks have aspects of environmental
management. Topics may include waste management, water quality, feed efficiency and manure
use on crops. Several nutrition courses address feed efficiency issues, byproduct feeds and use
of enzymes and diet additives. An aquaculture course has an significant amount of water quality
components as well. Seven Faculty members are self-identified as teaching environmental
topics.
CAES Environmental Programs (Current and Pending) Survey - Research
Faculty Member
Michael Azain
Dept. or Unit Name
Total Res. EFT*
5.59
EFT: %
EFT in
Env. Res.
Technical
Support
EFT
.75/0.20
0.20
EFT in Env. Research*
2.449
Project
Duration
Funding –
Source &
Amount
2002present
Syngenta Animal
Nutrition - $121,000
2006
CAES Contingency
Funds - $25,000
Phytase to reduce phosphorus excretion
2005-2006
Syngenta-$45,000
2205-2008
USEPA - $30,360
1996 to
present
Florida Milk Checkoff , Hatch Regional
Project
# Grad
Students Program Area/Projects
1
.75/0.05
Use of phytase to improve phosphorous utilization and reduce
excretion in the pig
Genetic Approach for Animal Waste Management
Co-investigator with Dr. Rekeya
Robert Dove
.66/.15
Bill Graves
.05/.001
0
1
Heat Stress, Progestin Therapy & Embryonic Death
Lane Ely
0.2 / .35
0
0
Financial Decision Making
2005present
Clay A. Lents
0.0 / 1.0
2
Estrogen regulation of the ovine GnRH receptor gene
06-Present
UGA CAES $25,000
USDA; $106,000
Regulation of puberty and reproduction in the pig by kisspeptins 06-Present
G. Larry Newton
.95 / 1.0
0
0
ANIMAL MANURE AND WASTE UTILIZATION,
TREATMENT, AND NUISANCE AVOIDANCE FOR A
SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
Stephen Nickerson
0.33/.10
0
0
Efficacy of a natural antimicrobial infusion product in treating
bovine mastitis
2005-2006
Monsanto - $40,000
Effect of a food-grade antimicrobial intramammary infusion
product on somatic cell counts in dairy cows
2005-2006
ImmuCell - $18,000
Using soybean hulls and corn gluten feed in preconditioning
rations for calves
2003-2005
Johnny Rossi
Steve Stice
0.05/0.15
1.0/0.1
0
1 post doc
Developing neurotoxicity assays for pharmaceutical and
Two grant proposals
are pending
2005-
Sponsored research from
Aruna Biomedical
environmental toxins using stem cells
Gary Heusner
* of faculty reporting
?
0
1
The effects of dietary phytase on bone growth and fecal
excretion of phosphorus in weanling horses.
present
approximately $92,000
2006-2007
Benefit Auction
proceeds
CAES Environmental Programs (Current and Pending) Survey - Instruction
Dept. or Unit Name:
Faculty Member
Michael Azain
EFT: %
EFT in
Env.Instr.
/0.01
Total Instruction EFT* 2.095
EFT in Env. Instruction*
Major(s) in Environmental Area
0
Gary Burtle
Bill Graves
.35/.05
Avg. No.
Students
10
40
40% of course ADSC 4010 devoted to environmental issues
0.1 / 100%
0.1/ 20%
No. Students 286
ADSC 3300, Nutrition and Metabolism
0.05/ 0.4
Lane Ely
.438
Support
Staff EFT Courses Taught
ANNU 6370, ADS 4370/6370, POUL 6370: Monogastric Nutrition
/0.01
John Bernard
0
0
ADSC 3660 Aquaculture
16
ADSC 3620 – Dairy Production
32
ADCS 3420 – Physiology of Lactation
41
ADSC 3400 & 3400L Reproductive Physiology
ADSC 4410/6410 & 4410/6410L Applied Reproductive Physiology
8
ADSC 3260 & 3260L Dairy Evaluatio
10
ADSC 3270 & 3270L Advanced Dairy Evaluation
Clay A. Lents
Kari Turner
0.195 / 1.0
0.8 / .1
0
0
ADSC 3400L Physiology of Reproduction in Domestic Animals
50
ADSC 8400 Advanced Animal Reproduction
6
ADSC 2630 Pleasure Horse Management
23
ADSC 3630 Horse Production
30
ADSC 4390/6390 Horse Nutrition and Exercise Physiology
20
CAES Environmental Programs (Current and Pending) Survey – Extension and Outreach
Faculty Member
Thomas Bass*
*.5 in BAE, same
responsibility
Dept. or Unit Name
Total Extension EFT
4.0*
EFT in Environmental Programs 1.52*
EFT: %
EFT in
Support
Env. Prog. Staff EFT Program Area
0.5 ADS /
100%
0
Agricultural Pollution Prevention, Animal Waste, and H2O
Quality
#
Clientele
Served
Program
Duration
500+
annual
On-going
300
On-going
1,000
On-going
0.35/0.1
Gary Burtle
.5/40%
0
Pond water quality management
.5/40%
0
Aquatic plant management
.5/20%
0
Fisheries management
500
On-going
.7/ 30%
0
Nutrient Management, Forages, Financial
543
On-going
.6/.1
0
Manure/Environment/Application & Storages Issues
200
On-going
Johnny Rossi
0.05/0.85
0
Environment/heavy metals/forages
50
On-going
Kari Turner
0.2 / .05
0
Exercise Physiology/4-H
500+
On-going
Tim Wilson
0.1 / 100%
0
Beef Quality Assurance Trainings
75
On-going
0.7/.5
0
Master Equine Management Trainings
90
On-going
Bill Graves
Gary Heusner
CAES: $20K
DNR/EPD: 1/5 of
$400K
Feeding management and its relation to water quality
John Bernard
Lane Ely
Funding –
Source &
Amount
Florida Milk Checkoff (partial)
Department
Oconee River
Resource
Conservation &
Development
Council. & NRCS
Faculty
Member
Past/
Current
Trainee
S.C. Nickerson
Trainee Name
M.S.
Ph.D.
PostDoc
Deg.
at
Entry
Training
Period
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
Gary Burtle
Past
Travis Ingram
M.S.
B.S.
Ditto
Past
Barry
Fitzgerald
NA
Ditto
Past
Jake Owens
Ditto
Past
Ditto
Research Topic
Institution
NA
NA
NA
5 yr
North Carolina DNR
NA
Georgia DNR
NA
1 yr
High School, Irwin
Co
NA
ABAC Student
NA
NA
2 yr
High School,
Wilcox Co
NA
UGA-Tifton Student
Matt Dockery
NA
NA
6 mo
High School, White
Co
NA
ABAC Student
Current
Adam Schiavo
NA
NA
4 mo
High School,
Conyers
NA
ABAC Student
ditto
Current
Colby
Matthews
NA
NA
4 mo
High School,
Conyers
NA
ABAC Student
T.W. Wilson
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
Prior Institution
BIOLOGICAL & AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING
Environmental Review Narrative
Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering
College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
The University of Georgia
Rose Mary Seymour1 and Mark Risse2
1
Public Service Assistant, 2Professor
Introduction
The mission of the Biological and Agricultural Engineering (BAE) Department is to create, adapt and
disseminate engineering knowledge and technologies associated with the design and management of
systems for the state of Georgia, the nation and the world. Within this broad context, the Department has
defined three priority areas for developing excellence in the next decade. These priorities are
•
•
•
Bio-Nanoengineering
Biochemical Engineering
Natural Resource and Environmental Systems Engineering.
These 3 areas are described as follows.
Bio-Nanoengineering involves the fabrication and manipulation of materials and structures at nanometerscale level and design of nano/micro-devices. The BAE program is focusing on two interrelated areas:
nano/micro-sensing and molecular imaging.
Biochemical Engineering involves the conversion of “raw” biomaterials such as crops, trees and industrial
biowaste, by a wide array of processes, into useful materials and products. The BAE program is focusing
on two interrelated areas: metabolic engineering and biorefinery engineering.
Natural Resource and Environmental Systems Engineering involves the establishment of systematic
methods for managing soil, water and air resources for environmental improvement. The BAE program
is grounded in a systems approach and seeks to develop integrative models to provide solutions for
resource allocation and protection issues.
Each of these 3 areas has the potential for being involved with environmental sciences and issues.
However, the “Natural Resource and Environmental Systems Engineering” focused area is wholly
involved with environmental sciences and engineering. The “Biochemical Engineering” focus area has
several faculty and student participants that spend a significant part of their time working on alternative
uses for by-products and waste which is directly related to preventing pollution by the reuse of these
materials.
Degree Programs And Academics
BAE has two primary undergraduate degree programs, Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Engineering
(BSAE) and Bachelor of Science in Biological Engineering (BSBE). Each of these degrees has several
emphasis options for students. The area of emphasis that deal with most directly with environmental
sciences and engineering for the BSAE is Natural Resources Management. This area of emphasis
prepares graduates to apply technology for economic development while maintaining environmental
sustainability. In the BSBE degree program there is the emphasis area of Environmental Engineering.
This emphasis area is designed to couple the students’ skills in microbiology, biochemistry and
engineering so that they can design processes and products that prevent pollution formation or remediate
polluted environments.
There is also a dual degree program that is available which allows a student to earn both the BSBE degree
with the Environmental Engineering emphasis and the Bachelor of Science in Environmental Health
(BSEH) simultaneously in a five year course of study.
The Board of Regents has approved 3 new BS degree programs that will be administered through the
Faculty of Engineering, but will have involvement primarily from BAE faculty. These degrees are
1)Computer Engineering, 2)Environmental Engineering, and 3)Biochemical Engineering.
Implementation of these degree programs is in progress.
Additionally, the Department offers a Certificate Program in Coastal and Oceanographic Engineering.
The Coastal and Oceanographic Engineering certificate is offered at the graduate and undergraduate
levels. These programs are designed to give students the opportunity to document their educational
achievement at the interface of engineering and marine science. Students successfully completing the
requirements for this certificate are expected to have a fundamental understanding of marine and
engineering systems, the necessary knowledge and skills to pursue graduate work or employment in
marine sciences, marine instrumentation or marine engineering depending on their undergraduate major,
and the knowledge and motivation to continue lifelong learning in marine engineering.
Graduate degree programs offered either in the Department or through the Faculty of Engineering that
emphasize environmental sciences and engineering are:
Master of Science Agricultural Engineering
Master of Science Biological Engineering
Doctor of Philosophy Biological and Agricultural Engineering
Two new Master of Science degree programs were approved in 2005, MS in environmental engineering,
and a MS in biochemical engineering. The MS in environmental engineering is scheduled to be
implemented in the fall of 2007 and the other degree program will follow soon thereafter.
Further information on the work of graduate students will be discussed in the Research section of this
document.
Research
The research within the Department can be loosely classified into the same three emphasis areas as the
academic programs. Each of these areas of emphasis has the potential to be involved in environmental
sciences and engineering to some extent.
Natural Resource And Environmental Systems Engineering
Natural Resource and Environmental Systems Engineering (NRES) involves the establishment of
systematic methods for applying scientific and engineering principles to soil, water, and air resources for
environmental improvement. With increasing interests in conservation of resources and environmental
protection, BAE programs are grounded in a systems approach and rely heavily on ecological principles
to provide solutions to resource allocation and protection issues pertinent to Georgia citizens. BAE
programs are inspired by applications in agriculture and focus on integrative models that include risk
assessment and aid in decision-making. We recognize that environmental solutions will be derived from
the integration of air, soil, water and biota to address environmental effects of livestock, poultry and crop
production and will strive to develop products and solutions under such a framework. NRES programs are
consistent with the CAES and the University of Georgia missions.
Current Activities and Accomplishments: BAE has approximately 13 EFT tenure-track and public service
faculty members (8.3 EFT research), including six EFT supported by funds from contracts and grants,
involved in the NRES area. Program activities range from developing nutrient management plans or
variable rate irrigation systems for farmers to implementing new degree programs in environmental
engineering to prepare the future workforce. The current activities are built on interdisciplinary
cooperation with other UGA departments and extramural organizations. NRES programs are strong in
research, extension, and outreach. The BS in Agricultural Engineering degree offers an area of emphasis
in Natural Resource Management and the BS in Biological Engineering degree offers an area of emphasis
in Environmental Systems. Nearly 20% of graduate theses are prepared in an NRES engineering area.
However, we lack sufficient relevant graduate level course offerings at this time.
We have a strong team addressing agricultural pollution assessment and prevention, particularly in
extension. Our faculty members are national leaders in the area of agricultural water use efficiency with
the development and commercialization of the UGA Variable Rate Irrigation (VRI) system. This system
has gained national recognition and is being considered by NRCS as an approved cost-share practice in
several states. We are now developing sensor networks for real-time control of VRI. Additionally, we
have nationally recognized faculty members working on numerous non-point source pollution control
projects and outstanding research and outreach programs related to atmospheric sciences, crop systems
modeling and biologically-based waste management technologies.
Future Direction: We are well placed to make significant impacts in the NRES area. Our faculty
members are highly productive and they receive a relatively high level of extramural funding to support
their work. However, our NRES program addresses an extremely broad range of subjects that makes it
difficult to achieve and maintain national excellence in each current area of activity.
While NRES is one of the largest programs in BAE, it still remains insufficient to meet current demands
and to capitalize on opportunities at the state and national levels. Because Georgia has a large poultry
industry, much of which is located in an area of the state that is becoming increasingly urbanized, the
effects of this industry on air, soil, and water quality will be one of the next two critical environmental
issues in the state. The second critical environmental issue is the availability and management of water
resources. Agricultural water use efficiency is high on the state as well as the national agenda. As a
result, national funding agencies have placed water used efficiency and water conservation programs
among their top funding priorities. Increased concern over allocation of water resources by the state’s
water plan currently under development and the anticipated development of regional plans has created a
need for science-based information and a workforce that can understand the complexities of water
resource management. Another emerging concern is air quality and the atmospheric transport of
pathogens and pollutants from confined animal feeding operations. Consequently, we are proposing the
following focus areas that are critical to meeting the state’s NRES needs:
1. Air, Soil, & Water Quality Effects of Agricultural Production
2. Improving Agricultural Water Use Efficiency
3. Non-point Source Pollution Assessment and Control
Biochemical Engineering
Biochemical engineering is involved with environmental issues in 2 primary ways, reuse of waste
products and biofuel development. Solid and liquid wastes from industrial and food processing can be
reused to create value-added products through biochemical processes. The development of biofuels will
provide less reliance on mined natural resources while increasing our reliance on renewable energy
sources produced from the land.
Current Activities and Accomplishments: In the last two years, BAE has been focusing on two
interrelated areas: metabolic engineering and biorefinery engineering. Metabolic engineering activities
are targeted to alter biochemical pathways and optimize associated processing systems for increasing
yield of products or for enhancing biodegradation capabilities. The work in biorefinery engineering is
focused on developing biochemical and thermochemical processes for producing useful products and
fuels at all scales. Both areas endeavor to add economic value to underutilized food, agricultural, textile
and paper resources, or undeveloped new resources.
Members of the Biochemical Engineering program have been successful in obtaining state and federal
grants to pursue research, education and outreach in biorefining and carbon cycling. A new initiative in
this area is now under way with a research focus on biological and thermochemical processes to convert
biomass to value-added products (including fuel ethanol, biodiesel, char based fertilizer and catalysts,
etc.). A search was completed and two new faculty positions have been added to the Biochemical
Engineering Program. Members are developing an integrated laboratory for graduate student research in
biological and thermochemical areas.
Future Direction: Two global driving forces, now reaching crisis proportion, play a major role in the
future direction of the biochemical engineering program – the increasing cost of petroleum-based
products, and evidence that global warming results from unsustainable consumption of fossil energy
resources. A 2004 NRDC report stated, “Increasingly, farmers will have incentive to transition into
energy-crops, and new ways will arise to integrate growing biomass with current agricultural products. In
a concerted scientific effort not seen since the Manhattan Project, investments of billions in ten years will
support research, development and demonstration package to make biofuels affordable for American
consumers.”
Despite the significant hurdles for the development of a prestigious biochemical engineering program,
UGA has strengths that match well with the opportunities of the coming decade in the evolution of
engineering, in the need for students with broad education, and in the demand for research, instruction
and outreach in Biochemical Engineering. The BAE advantages stem from university-wide assets: 1)
academic strengths in disciplines of public policy, languages, business, sciences, agriculture and forestry,
2) emphasis on outreach and international programs, and 3) advantage of being in a state with substantial
biomass resources.
Bio-Nanoengineering
Bio-Nanoengineering involves applying scientific and engineering principles to fabricate and manipulate
materials and structures at micro/nano scale-level. The ubiquitous applications of these advances, and the
resulting profound changes in how we develop new systems, have characterized bio-nanotechnology as
the most significant force for future developments in industry and the global economy BAE programs are
inspired by applications in agricultural, biological and environmental systems and focused on those
aspects that show potential for advancing the state, university and the department to a preeminent
position.
Current Activities and Accomplishments: Most work conducted in bio-nanoengineering emphasis at this
time is not directly involved with environmental sciences. However, there are many possible applications
of smaller, more accurate, longer lasting, more rugged and target-specific sensors in environmental
sciences and engineering. Thus as this program develops and grows beyond its initial establishment, the
many new micro/nano-sensing modalities and devices will lend themselves to more environmental
science data collection, problem solving, commercial applications and pollution remediation technologies.
). Faculty members in this program will integrate well with programs in other CAES departments and
will benefit from its supportive research, instructional and outreach infrastructure.
Future Direction: By taking advantage of the advances in FE at UGA with its unique interdisciplinary
approach, and focusing on those aspects of the field that integrate nanotechnology with biotechnology,
BAE is in a unique position to establish a niche without directly competing with or duplicating programs
elsewhere. BAE’s strategy is to address a few “grand challenge” problems with vast application potential.
With this strategy, in five years, BAE will acquire prominence recognized nationally and internationally.
Specific supportive curricular actions needed include: 1) the development of several new graduate courses
including hands-on laboratory exercises, and 2) the establishment of a structured doctoral training
program with support from federal training grants (e.g., NIH, GAANN) or private foundations (e.g.,
Keck). Specific supportive outreach actions needed include: 1) developing and sustaining links with
relevant industries in Georgia as well as the surrounding states, and 2) establishing a program to assist
traditional industries in taking advantage of insights gained at the nanoscale.
Extension and Outreach
Service and outreach from the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering is primarily
provided by the Extension Engineering unit of Cooperative Extension – serving primarily agricultural
interests and needs; the Engineering Outreach Service – serving primarily industry and government
needs; and the Office of the State climatologist – which serves local, state, and federal needs. Through
these three structures, BAE Department academic and professional expertise is extended to the public –
and through comprehensive planning processes, each of these entities is able to identify and respond to
current and emerging needs of stakeholders in the state, nation, and world.
In addition, many research and teaching faculty members, and even students, through service-learning
initiatives, make significant service contributions and several faculty members are involved in centers or
multi-disciplinary programs that engage in significant service-oriented activities.
Extension Engineering
The Department’s extension program is recognized throughout Cooperative Extension for its
contributions to the success of county agents and those engaged with the agricultural sector statewide.
There are a total of 15 BAE faculty members with extension appointments (7 on appropriated funding and
8 on extramural funding). While some of the more senior faculty members have full-time extension
appointments, most extension faculty members have 20-30% research appointments. BAE has chosen to
avoid joint appointments involving teaching and extension unless absolutely needed.
Four of the six extension faculty located in Tifton work on predominately environmental issues (Kerry
Harrison, Gary Hawkins, Calvin Perry, and Glen Rains) covering water resources and irrigation, precision
agriculture, and cropland pollution prevention. Both extension faculty members located on the Griffin
Campus (Rosemary Seymour, and Joel Paz) cover issues including climate and weather data utilization,
and environmental horticultural pollution prevention. There is an additional extension position currently
open in Griffin working with on-site wastewater treatment systems. Mark Risse serves as coordinator of
Extension Engineering and is located in Athens. Other Athens-based faculty members include Tommy
Bass, Barbara Bellows, Mike Czarick, Julia Gaskin, and John Worley. The Athens faculty members focus
on environmental issues such as water quality and waste management, environmental control for livestock
and poultry production, farm structures, and energy production and conservation. Extension Engineering
provides statewide leadership in several areas that serve farmers and the agricultural community,
community governments, and private citizens. Some of the main emphasis areas include:
•
•
•
•
•
•
Water Quantity and Quality
Agricultural Pollution Prevention
Environmental Control of Structures
Agricultural Waste Management
Sustainable Agriculture
Energy Production and Conservation
For more information visit the web site for the Extension Engineering Unit at
http://www:ugaengineering.org
During the review period, Extension Engineering has experienced a slight net growth through funding
from extramural sources. The loss of 2.55 EFT of extension faculty during the last eight years due to
budget cuts has had substantial impact on traditionally appropriated funded programs. The most severely
affected programs related to environmental issues are water resources and irrigation. The severity of the
impact of the loss of 50% (1 EFT) of faculty EFT in the water resources and irrigation area has been
mitigated due to the success we have had in obtaining extramural funding in this area. Most of the
Extension Engineering growth that has occurred is in the environmental area, which illustrates both the
strong demand and the more readily available funding for engineering support in these programs.
While extramural funding definitely aids us in meeting state needs, it is not without challenges. Contract
(soft-funded) employees do not have the flexibility to respond to local requests or to re-direct programs as
easily or rapidly as their counterparts funded by appropriations. It is also difficult to retain quality faculty
on extramural funds. Ideally, successful extramural funded programs that are pertinent to the state’s needs
should evolve into appropriation-funded programs. Due to the declining appropriated funds budget, we
have been unable to effect this transition.
Engineering Outreach Service
The Engineering Outreach Service (EOS) provides engineering service and outreach to industry
(primarily non-agricultural) and government. The EOS employs five faculty: 1) Director (Public Service
Associate), 2) Finance/Economist (Public Service Associate), 3) Water Quality Specialist (Public Service
Representative), 4) Renewable Fuels Specialist (Public Service Representative) and 5) Chemical Engineer
(Professor – part time). Additionally, the EOS employs four Research Engineers and a Research
Technician. The EOS works closely with Extension Engineering.
The primary responsibilities of EOS are to provide technology transfer, technical assistance, education
and applied research for stakeholders in the state. Emphases center on energy conservation, water
conservation, water and air quality, solid waste and other environmental and sustainability issues. The
overall goal of the EOS is to decrease the cost of doing business, increase environmental sustainability
and competitiveness of the state’s industries, lower costs for government agencies and facilities, and
enhance economic development.
The delivery of services is based upon on site evaluations and consultations with professionals across the
state. Deliverables to stakeholders are provided through reports, publications, industry-specific and public
presentations, workshops, training sessions and extended education. Since 2002, special attention has
been provided to issues surrounding air quality, climate change, energy conservation, renewable energy
development and strategic planning for the state’s forest products and biomass industries. These activities
resulted in the establishment of the UGA Integrated Biorefinery and Carbon Cycling Initiative.
EOS works statewide in cooperation with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources and the Georgia
Institute of Technology through the Georgia Environmental Partnership (GEP). This partnership provides
diverse expertise to stakeholders. Through the GEP, EOS receives funding from the University System of
Georgia via an annual grant provided to the GEP from the state. This funding provides approximately
50% of the funds needed to operate EOS. The balance of funding is obtained through grants and contracts
primarily from state and private sources with an occasional federal grant. EOS is not a recipient of state or
federal funds provided in the University’s regular budget. This method of funding results in the EOS
being very responsive to Georgia stakeholder needs since funds are allocated at the project level. Using
this method of funding, EOS has annually increased its scope and budget during the 12 years of its
existence. However, this heavy dependency on contract funding for personnel, and the associated
uncertainties in both availability and level of funding, creates major difficulties in recruiting and retaining
well-qualified faculty and staff in EOS.
Office of the State Climatologist
The Office of the State Climatologist (OSC) is housed in the Department of Biological and Agricultural
Engineering. The primary duties of the OSC are outlined in the Governor’s 2002 letter formally
establishing the OSC at The University of Georgia.
The Governor’s letter states that the OSC should at a minimum 1) coordinate and collect weather
observations for the purpose of climate monitoring, 2) summarize and disseminate weather and climate
information to the user community, 3) demonstrate the value of climate information in the decision
making process, 4) perform climate impact assessments and weather event evaluations, 5) conduct
climate research, diagnosis, and projections, and 6) assist state agencies in their weather and climate
needs.
To fulfill these mandates the OSC employs 1) David Stooksbury as the state climatologist and associate
professor in engineering and 2) Pam Knox as the assistant state climatologist and project coordinator.
The state climatologist’s salary is funded by state money and the assistant state climatologist’s salary is
funded primarily by grant money. The OSC receives no other direct funding from the state. The OSC also
employs Pierre Gerard-Marchant as a post doctoral research associate in hydroclimatology, funded
through a grant with the Southeast Climate Consortium (Auburn University, Florida State University,
University of Alabama – Huntsville, University of Florida, University of Georgia, and the University of
Miami).
Because of the mandate from the Governor, the OSC service component is geared to the needs of federal,
state, and local agencies. The OSC is the official federal contact for weather and climate information in
Georgia. The OSC provides weekly weather summaries to USDA for the weekly Crop and Weather
Bulletin. The OSC has developed a close working relationship with the National Weather Service (NWS)
in Atlanta. The OSC and NWS have been working diligently to develop a statewide network of automated
weather stations every 20 miles.
At the state level the OSC works closely with the Environmental Protection Division – Department of
Natural Resources in drought monitoring. The state climatologist and the director of EPD co-chair the
State Drought Committee. The OSC also works closely with Georgia Emergency Management Agency –
Department of Homeland Security (GEMA-DHS) during weather events that have major, large-scale
impacts such as tropical storms and winter storms. The OSC provides weather impact forecasts to
GEMA-DHS and other state agencies during these events.
For the general public, the OSC maintains a webpage that includes most of the commonly requested
climate information and climate summaries. The OSC produces press releases covering current and future
climate conditions, expected impacts, and weather-related safety. In a normal year approximately 150
print/radio/TV interviews are given by the OSC. The OSC also annually answers over 250 data requests
from industry, governmental agencies, the press, and the general public. Approximately 10 invited
presentations to industrial and civic groups are given annually across the state.
Student Involvement
Public service and outreach is also performed by undergraduate engineering students through senior
capstone design projects that are typically based on real world needs identified by faculty across the unit.
Student teams have addressed issues ranging from development of lagoon closure plans on production
farms to the development of new designs and instrumentation to assist handicapped individuals in
completing recreational tasks. In addition, many student service learning projects involve an
international component that is integral to meeting global needs. For example, one team of students
worked with Nigerian dairy farmers to develop milk cooling systems that could function in remote areas.
Global Impact
Public service work of BAE faculty is directed toward fulfilling state needs but has global impact.
Beyond proactive demonstration and presentations at international meetings, many of our extension and
outreach faculty are routinely requested to provide training workshops or presentations to global
audiences. Often these requests lead to the development of new relationships and further cooperation.
Examples of technologies and knowledge developed at UGA that are frequently requested by global
audiences include ventilation and environmental control in poultry housing, agricultural pollution
prevention, variable rate irrigation, and energy production from biomass resources. Our faculty members
are routinely invited to other countries to consult or provide training. Additionally, many scientists and
citizens from abroad come to workshops and training courses held by public service faculty in Georgia.
For example, the poultry ventilation workshops hosted by Mike Czarick have attracted more than 100
individuals from more than 12 countries over the last five years. In addition, these workshops were also
taught in Australia, Mexico, and Malaysia. Other faculty members have offered similar workshops that
also attract some international attendees.
Environmental Sciences and Engineering Topics of Research and Outreach
Air Pollution
By-Product and Waste Re-use
Biofuels and Renewable Energy
Systems Approach to Environment
Ecological Engineering
Crop Modeling
Precision Agriculture
Watershed Assessment and Protection
Weather and Climate
Animal Waste Management
Water Resources Management
Ecological Engineering
Irrigation Water Efficiency and
Non-point Source Pollution
Effectiveness
Dept. or Unit Name
Biological & Agricultural Engineering
Total Research EFT 21.7
Faculty Member
Tom Adams
Mark Bakker
EFT: %
EFT in
Env. Res.
0.5/100%
0.5/100%
Technical
Support
EFT
1.0
0
EFT in Environmental Research
15.5
# Grad
1
Advanced waste management – Chicken litter to energy
0
Project
Duration
2003-2006
Funding –
Source &
Amount
Earth Resources,
Inc.; $100,000
Combustion of poultry fat for plant heat and steam
2004-2005
State Traditional
Industries Program;
$43,460
Utilization of Bio-oil from wood and fiber in diesel engines
2005-2006 Traditional Industries
Program; $53,000
Biorefinery and hydrogen fuel cell research
2006-2007
US Dept. of Energy;
$1,546,875
Single landuse watersheds for pathogen TMDLs
2001-2006
USDA/NRI;
$280,000
Impact of marsh hammock development on subsurface
hydrology and water quality
2005-2006
NOAA/GCIGP;
$47,000
Barbara Bellows
0.20/100%
0.0
0
Using EMS to enhance farmer environmental awareness and
implementation of innovative resource conservation practices
2006-2009
NRCS –
Conservation
Innovation Grant;
$104,606
Deborah Borden
0.10/100%
0.0
0
Impact of marsh hammock development on subsurface
hydrology and water quality
2005-2006
GA DNR; $45,728
Stormwater management & habitat restoration for Southeast
Clarke Park, Athens, GA
2005-2006
US Fish & Wildlife
Service; $24,000
Development and transfer of peanut processing technologies
in Bulgaria
2001-2006
USAID/Peanut
CRSP; $541,000
Improved processing technologies to increase cowpea
utilization and improve nutrition
2001-2006
USAIDBean/Cowpea CRSP;
$700,000
Manjeet Chinnan
1.0/10%
1.0
1
K.C. Das
0.7/100%
1.5
2
Enhanced biofiltration of odorours and VOCs
BioRem Tech;
$36,423
Enhanced odor and VOC removal from rendering operations
Mark Eiteman
Dinku Endale
0.6/50%
1.0/100%
1.0
1.0
3
2
FoodPAC; $95,518
Engineering Escherichia coli for the production of C3
biochemicals pyruvate and alanine
2000-2005
USDA; $217,000
Process design for the biocatalysis of value-added chemicals
from carbon dioxide
2004-2007
US DOE; $384,275
Runoff generation process & stable carbon isotopes as proxy
to climate change analysis
2005-2009
UGA-Geology
Role of ponds in reducing the threat of nutrient and pathogen
contamination from livestock in agricultural watersheds
2006-2009
NRI; $455,000
Linking soil and water quality in tall-fescue pastures
2006-2009
NRI; $218,000
Enhancing soil-water-nutrient processes in Southern
Piedmont pasture and crop system
On-going
USDA-ARS;
$1,306,095
Developing sustainable crop and animal production systems
suitable for the southeast
On-going
USDA-ARS;
$1,011,098
Preventing pathogen transport to Southern Piedmont
landscapes from poultry production systems
On-going
USDA-ARS;
$270,000
Tim Foutz
0.5/25%
0
0
Animal welfare aspects of poultry slaughter
2005-2006
US Poultry & Egg
David Gattie
0.6/90%
0
2
Comprehensive watershed assessment
1999-2007
Individual county
and municipality in
partnership with
Carter & Sloope;
$780,000
National center for engineering and technology education
2004-2009
National Science
Foundation; $10,000
Engineering design cognitive capabilities evaluation
instrument
2005-2007
NSF-NCETE;
$30,000
Paige Gay
0.80/100%
0
0
Watershed scale transport of salmonella, campylobacter, and
fecal indicators in the Satilla River Watershed (GA)
2006-2009
USDA-NRI-CGP;
$384,097
Takoi Hamrita
0.60/20%
0
0
A comprehensive UGA-Tunisia educational partnership
2005-2006
Presidential Middle
East Partnership
Initiative; $600,000
Gerrit Hoogenboom
1.0/50%
1
1
Training on the use and application of climate forecasts in
agriculture and natural resource management
2005-2006
GA Space Grant
Consortium
Application of weather data to help improve cotton
production
2005-2006
GA Cotton
Commission
Incorporating weather and climate information to enhance the 2005-2005
Tomato Spot Wilt Virus Index
James Kastner
0.6/100%
0.5
1
Southeastern Peanut
Research Initiative
Weather support for Georgia peach growers
2006-2006
GA Agricultural
Commodity
Commission for
Peaches
Efficient odor and VOC removal from rendering emissions
using inexpensive catalytic processes
2004-2005
US Poultry & Egg;
$19,000
Enhanced biofiltration of odors and VOCs
2005-2007
Biorem
Technologies;
$70,000
Measurement and suppression of ammonia emission from
poultry litter
2006-2007
US Poultry & Egg;
$35,000
Caner Kazanci
0.6/50%
0.5
1
Theoretical analysis of ecological networks through
identification of important ecosystem properties
2005-2006
OVPR, Faculty
Research Grant;
$8,000
John Knox
0.6/50%
0
0
Mesoscale tropopause dynamics diagnosed in GOES water
vapor and ozone products
2003-2005
NOAA; $66,000
S. Edward Law
0.40/90%
0.0
1
Food-processing water treatment for recycling via UVenhanced ozonation
On-going
USDA/NRI
Measurement and abatement of respirable dust in mechanized
nut harvesting
On-going
Univ. of
California/Davis
Measurement and abatement of ambient ozone in floricultural
greenhouses
On-going
USDA/NRI
Electrostatic coating of textile/carpet yarns for reduction of
spin-finish COD
On-going
USDA/NRI
Electrostatic application of pesticide sprays on crops and
postharvest
On-going
USDA/NRI
Ron McClendon
Joel Paz
Calvin Perry
0.6/25%
0.2/50%
0.49/60%
0
0
1.5
0
0
0
Risk management of fruit crops through prediction of frost
conditions in Georgia
2002-2004
USDA FCIC; Risk
Management Agency
$249,898
Risk management of fruit crops through prediction of frost
conditions
2005-2007
USDA FCIC; Risk
Management
Agency; $350,000
Agricultural water use: decision support tools for water
conservation
2005-2007
USDA CSREES
Special Research
Grants; $240,756
Development of software to analyze on-farm precision
agriculture database
2003-2004
Iowa Soybean
Promotion Board;
$59,289
Incorporating weather and climate information to enhance the 2006-2006
Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus Risk Index
Southeastern Peanut
Research Initiative;
$17,000
Development of a web-based irrigation scheduler that uses
local weather information
2006-2006
Southeastern Peanut
Research Initiative;
$10,000
In-field evaluation of a vacuum-based cotton picker
2006
Cotton Inc.; $10,000
Using Soil electrical conductivity and pH to identify
nematode-prone areas
2006
GA Cotton Comm.;
$20,000
2004-2007
USDA-NRCS
$501,580
Maintaining optimal soil moisture in peanuts with variablerate irrigation
2006
National Peanut
Board; $20,000
Smart linkage of precision irrigation control with real-time
soil data
2006-2007
GA Peanut Comm.;
$7,000
Examination of the temporal and spatial distribution and
control of pests and beneficial organisms using native
vegetative borders in cotton
2001-2006
USDA-ARS;
$90,000
Utilization of soil amendments and brassica winter crops for
management of soilborne pests and disease
2003-2006
USDA-CSREES;
$28,000
A framework for trading phosphorus credits in the Lake
Allatoona Watershed
2003-2007
USDA 406;
$749,163
Demonstration of variable-rate irrigation for water
conservation and application optimization
Glen Rains
Mark Risse
0.50/50%
0.25/100%
1.0
0.0
1
2
Jackie Sellers
Rose Mary Seymour
Andrew Sornborger
0.50/100%
0.2/100%
0.6/50%
1.0
0
0
1
0
0
Agricultural pollution prevention program
2005-2006
GA DNR P2AD;
$434,720
National learning center for animal agricultural water quality
issues
2005-2008
USDA 406;
$400,000
Investigating the use of compost for sediment and erosion
control
2006-2007 GA Water Resources
Institute USGS 104b;
$18,000
Energy and Bio-oil production from poultry litter using
fractionation and pyrolysis
2006-2008
EPA Region 4
Environmental
Priorities Grant;
$58,000
Restoration of a natural wetland to improve water quality
2006-2009
CAES Associate
Dean of Research;
$45,701
Full-scaled implementation of tertiary mechanical screen in a
poultry slaughter plant to monitor effects on wastewater
streams
2005-2006
US Poultry & Egg;
$34,220
Development of innovative poultry processing wastewater
analysis methods to reduce treatment costs and increase
product recovery and industry profitability
2005-2006
US Poultry & Egg;
$15,080
Use of engineered soils and landscape systems (ES & LS) to
meet Stormwater runoff quality and quantity management
2004-2006
USEPA, Region 4
Waste Management
Division; $57,656
Turfgrass environmental research grant
2004-2006
USEPA; $241,750
Intrinsic fluorimetric imaging of neural activation in cultured
cells and zebrafish
2004-2006
UGA Research
Foundation; $90,000
EB005432 Intrinsic fluorimetric imaging at the system and
cellular scales
2006-2008
NIH; $404,000
David Stooksbury
0.4/50%
1
0
Decision support system for reducing agricultural risks
caused by climate variability
2005-2007
USDA; $630,000
Sidney Thompson
0.4/50%
0
0
Utilization of paper and plastic by-products for new product
development through extrusion technology
2002-2006
GA Traditional
Industries Program;
$110,000
Bill Tollner
George Vellidis
0.25/100%
1.0/100%
0.0
1.0
2
2
Watershed assessment of the Nzoia, Kenya
On-going
USAID; $150,000
Evaluation of selected BMPs for Stormwater management
On-going
State Hatch
Remote sensing and precision irrigation technologies to
improve water, fertilizer, and pesticide use
2001-2006
USDA-ARS;
$810,560
The Suwanee River of Georgia and Florida: Tools for
integrated resource management in a major interstate river
basin
2002-2007
USDA-ARS;
$1,138,422
A real-time smart sensor array for measuring soil moisture
and temperature
2003-2007
GA Peanut
Commission;
$22,000
Understanding and explaining the relationships between
dissolved oxygen, water quality, and natural stream
ecosystems in the coastal plain of Georgia
2004-2007
USDACSREES; %580,000
Using soil electrical conductivity and pH to identify
nematode-prone areas
2005-2007
GA Cotton
Commission;
$40,000
Long-term water quality response to conservation practices in 2005-2008
nested coastal plain watersheds
USDA-CSREES;
$650,000
The role of ponds in reducing the threat of pathogen
contamination from livestock in agricultural watersheds
USDA-CSREES;
$448,000
2005-2009
Dept. or Unit Name:
Total Instruction EFT
9.6
Faculty Member
Mark Bakker
John Knox
EFT: %
EFT in
Env.Instr.
EFT in Environment Instruction
2.0
4.0
No. Students 200
Support
ENGR 8101 Computational Engineering: Fundamentals
Avg. No.
Students
10
K.C. Das
ENGR 3540 Physical Unit Operations
10
Mark Eiteman
ENGR 3520 Mass Transport and Rate Phenomena
15
Gerrit Hoogenboom
Andrew Sornborger
James Kasnter
Mark Bakker
David Gattie
Mark Eiteman
Caner Kazanci
K.C. Das
Walter Dale Greene
ENGR 8980 Advanced Topics in Biological Engineering
5
Mark Eiteman
ENGR 4510 Biochemical Engineering
10
Mark Eiteman
ENGR 4520 Design of Biochemical Separations Processes
10
David Gattie
ENGR 3440 Water Management
25
James Kastner
ENGR 3140 Thermodynamics
25
James Kastner
ENGR 4450 Environmental Engineering Remediation Design
10
ENGR 4650 Building Environmental Control I
25
Tom Lawrence
ENGR 4660 Building Environmental Control II
10
David Stooksbury
ENGR 4111 Atmospheric Thermodynamics
5
Tom Lawrence
0.5/50%
0
David Stooksbury
ENGR 4131 Atmospheric Physics
10
David Stooksbury
ENGR 4161 Environmental Microclimatology
5
David Stookbury
Charles E. Tilburg
ENGR 4171 Atmospheric and Oceanic Thermodynamics
0
David Stooksbury
ENGR 4175 Coastal Meterology
5
Chi Thai
ENGR 4940 Introductory Systems Modeling
10
Bill Tollner
ENGR 3410 Introduction to Natural Resource Engineering
0
Bill Tollner
ENGR 6410 Open Channel Hydraulics and Sediment Transport
5
Faculty Member
Thomas Adams
Dept. or Unit Name
Total Extension EFT
11.4
EFT in Environmental Programs 9.8
EFT: %
EFT in
Support
Renewable Energy
#
Clientele
Served
Program
Duration
Funding –
Source &
Amount
800
On-going
VP for Public
Service, State, P2AD
500+
annual
On-going
CAES: $20,000
DNR/EPD:1/5 of
$400,000
On-going
P2AD/$100K
1.0/100%
1.5
Thomas Bass
0.5 in
BAE/100%
0
Ag Pollution Prevention, Animal Waste, and H20 Quality
Barbara Bellows
0.80/100%
0
Ag Partners/Environmental Management Systems
Deborah Borden
1.00/100%
0
Water quality, watershed management, Stormwater, stream
restoration
1000
On-going
P2AD, USDA 406,
GA DNR Coastal
Incentive Grant
Program
Julia Gaskin
0.80/100%
1.0
Land Application and Sustainable Agriculture
250
On-going
P2AD/$100K
Daniel Geller
0.50/100%
0
Biodiesel, Biofuels
200
On-going
GEP
Kerry Harrison
0.01/100%
0
Chemigation – application of chemicals through irrigation
systems
100
On-going
Hatch
0.40/100%
0
Regulations – Interpreting current regulations and training
regulators regarding agricultural irrigation systems
22,000
6 months
Georgia EPD;
$120,000
.25/100%
0
Making irrigation recommendations regarding selection,
design, operation & maintenance, and scheduling
2500
On-going
Gary Hawkins
0.80/100%
0
Water Resources, Conservation Tillage
250
On-going
P2AD/$100K
Joel Paz
0.50/50%
0
Crop Models and Decision Support Tools
250
On-going
SE Climate Consort/
$100K
Calvin Perry
0.51/60%
0
Precision Agriculture, Water Resources (Irrigation)
250
On-going
GA Homeland
Security Committee
& the Office of
Domestic
Preparedness;
$25,000
Glen Rains
0.20/50%
0
Sensors, Security, Safety
150
On-going
USDA $50K
Mark Risse
0.80/100%
1.0
Water Quality, Waste Management AgP2AD
200
On-going
USDA 406: $80K
P2AD: $50K
EPA: $80K
Jackie Sellers
0.20/25%
0
Water, Energy, Finance
50
On-going
GEP:$50K
Rose Mary Seymour
0.80/100%
1.0
Green Industry Pollution Prevention; Urban/Suburban Water
Quality
250
On-going
P2AD:$100K
EPA:$50K
David Stooksbury
0.50/50%
2.0
Climate, Coastal Systems, Wind/Solar Resources
1000
On-going
SE Climate
Const:$50K
Paul Sumner
1.0/50%
0
Crop Processing & Machinery
500
On-going
STATE
Hillary Tanner
0.20/100%
0
Watershed Assessments
50
On-going
County/Industry:$75
K
John Worley
0.80/80%
0
Animal Waste Management, Structures, Electr. Apps.
150
On-going
EPA:$50K
Faculty Member
Agency and
Grant Number
Grant Title
% of
Env. EFT
Project
Period
Direct Costs
(Current Yr)
Tom Adams
Earth Resources
Chicken Litter to energy
10
2003-2006
$100,000
Tom Adams
State Traditional
Industries Program
Combustion of poultry fat for heat and steam
10
2004-2005
$43,460
Tom Adams
State Traditional
Industries Program
Utilization of Bio-oil from wood and fiber in
diesel engines
10
2005-2006
$53,000
Tom Adams
US Dept of Energy
Biorefinery and hydrogen fuel cell research
10
2006-2007
$1,546,875
Mark Bakker and
Debbie Borden
NOAA GA Coastal
Zone Incentive
Grant
Impact of marsh hammock development on
subsurface hydrology and water quality
15
2005-2006
$280,000
Debbie Borden
US Fish and
Wildlife
Stormwater management & habitat restoration
for Southeast Clarke Park, Athens, GA
10
2005-2006
$24,000
Joy Peterson and K.C.
Das
GA TIP3
Ethanol production from pulp mill sludge
5
July 1 06 –
June 30 07
59,100
Tom Adams, John
Goodrum , K.C. Das,
Dan Geller
GA TIP3
Utilization of biooil from logging slash in diesel
engines
5
“”
55,620
K.C. Das, Brian Bibens
VA Tobacco
Commission
Technology assessment for bioenergy
5
Aug 06 – Aug
07
5,587
K.C. Das, S.
Chinnasamy
Dalton Utilities
Microalgae mediated wastewater treatment
and biofuel production
5
May 07 – April
08
39,928
Tom Adams and K.C.
Das
Partners for People
and Place
Haiti biomass energy project
5
April 06 – Dec
07
7,300
Casey Ritz, A. Tasistro,
K.C. Das et al
US Poultry and Egg
Association
Use of char and active carbon for ammonia
reduction in poultry waste
5
Jan 06 – Dec
07
45,000
Casey Ritz, A. Tasistro,
K.C. Das et al
National APWMC
North Carolina
Evaluation of char and active carbon as fed
supplement for ammonia reduction
5
“”
19,000
USDA-CSREESNRI 2007-3510717868
Linking Soil and Water Quality in Tall Fescue
Pastures
20
Per
definition
1/15/20071/14/2010
$100, 000
US-EPA R833419
Fate of Hormones in Waste from Concentrated
Broiler Feeding Operations
20
7/1/20076/30/2010
$37,600 (ARS Contract)
USDA-CSREESNRI 2005-3510216374
Role of Ponds in Reducing the Threat of
Pathogen Contamination from Livestock in
Agricultural Watersheds
20
10/1/20059/30/2009
$112,000
GA Cotton
Commission
Managing Cover Crops with Stocker Cattle in
Conservation Tillage Cotton
20
01/01/200612/31/2008
$10,000
Carter and Sloope
Engineering and
local governments
Comprehensive Watershed Assessments
10
1999-2007
$780,000
Use of Char and Active Carbon for Reduction
of NH3 Emissions from Poultry Wastes
10
8/1/2006 –
7/31/2008
$38,846
2006 Plan of Work for SARE Model State
Program
10
4/1/2006 –
3/31/2007
$40,000
DM Endale
(With AJ Franzluebbers
PI, ARS, JS Buyer-ARS.
JA Stuedemann-ARS)
DM Endale
(with ML Cabrera PI,
PG Hartel, DE Radcliffe,
DE Kissell, WK Vencill,
S Hassan, UGA)
DM Endale
(with MB Jenkins PI, DS
Fisher, R Lowrance, RK
Hubbard, RAS, and GL
Newton, G Vellids UGA
DM Endale
(with HH Schomberg PI,
DW Reeves, DS Fisher,
ARS)
David Gattie
Gaskin, J.W. Co_PI
With D. Kissel, A.
Tasistro, C. Ritz, and K.
Das
National Animal
and Poultry Waste
Management
Center, North
Carolina State
University
Gaskin, J.W. PI
USDA Southern
SARE
Gaskin, j.W. Co-PI with
M. Risse, G. Hawkins.
R. Seymour, T. Bass, B.
Bellows
Georgia DNR
Pollution
Prevention
Assistance Division
Agricultural Pollution Prevention Program –
2006 Scope of Services
40
7/01/06 6/30/07
$434,720
Gaskin J.W. Co-PI with
M. Cabrera and M.
Risse
USDA NRCS
Using Cropping Alternatives to Improve Water
Quality in High Nutrient Status Farms
20
1/1/05 12/31/07
$60,000
Gaskin J.W. Co-PI with
M. Cabrera, C. Lacy,
and C. Escalante
Subcontract to
USDA ARS for
Southern SARE
Research &
Education Program
Profitable Alternatives to Improve Water
Quality in High Nutrient Status Farms
20
2/15/04 2/15/06
$32,137
Paige Gay
USDA-NRI-CGP
Watershed scale transport of salmonella,
campylobacter, and fecal indicators in the
Satilla River Watershed (GA)
20
2006-2009
$384,097
Kerry Harrison
GaEPD
Flint River Basin Plan Implementation &
Agricultural Permit Management
20
Jan 2006 –
Dec 2006
$116, 000
Kerry Harrison
GaSWCC
Agriculture Water Conservation GIS Mapping
20
Jan 2007 –
Dec 2007
$316,000
Kerry Harrison
GaDOE
Energy Awareness in Agriculture - Irrigation
10
Oct. 2006 –
Sept. 2007
$4000
Hawkins
Southeastern
Peanut Research
Initiative
Comparing Soil Moisture Sensors for Peanut
Irrigation Scheduling
20%
10/01/2006 –
09/30/2007
(1 yr)
Hawkins
NRCS
Conservation
Innovation Grant
Program
GA – NRCS
Using EMS to Enhance Farmer Environmental
Awareness and Implementation of Innovative
Resource Conservation Practices
10%
10/01/2006 –
09/30/2009
(3 yrs)
Conservation Workshops and Field Days for
Promoting Better Use of Natural Resources
100%
9/25/2006 –
9/24/2007
(1 yr)
A Systems-Based Approach to Evaluate the
Benefits of Conservation Tillage in the
Southern Coastal Plain
5%
07/01/2006 –
6/30/2007
(1 yr)
Hawkins
Hawkins
Georgia
Agricultural
Commission for
Corn
$11,500.00
$34,868.67
$15,000.00
$15,635.00
Hawkins
Hawkins
Georgia
Agricultural
Commission for
Peanuts
NRCS
Conservation
Innovation Grant
Program
USDA-NRCS-CIG
Hawkins
USDA-CSREES
Long-Term Water Quality Responses to
Conservation Practices in Nested Coastal
Plain Watersheds
1%
09/15/2005 –
9/14/2008
(3 yrs)
Hawkins
USDA-NRCS-CIG
Demonstration of Variable-Rate Irrigation for
Water Conservation and Application
Optimization
2%
10/01/2004 –
09/30/2007
(3 yrs)
Hawkins
Southern SARE
Increasing Farm Sustainability Through the
Incorporation of Cover Crops for Weed
Suppression in Non-Transgenic Cotton
100%
10/01/2004 –
9/30/2006
(2 yrs)
Hawkins
USDA-CSREES
8%
09/15/2004 –
09/14/2007
(3 yrs)
Gerrit Hoogenboom
International
Livestock &
Research Inst.
Understanding and Explaining the
Relationships Between Dissolved Oxygen,
Water Quality, and Natural Stream
Ecosystems in the Coastal Plain of Georgia
Forage-Livestock Modeling for Impact
Assessment of Crop-Livestock Production
Systems
2
12/99-6/07
Gerrit Hoogenboom
Seed for disaster recovery and development in
groundnut producing countries
1
5/98-7/07
Gerrit Hoogenboom
Peanut
Collaborative
Research Support
Program
Tufts Univ/ NOAA
2
6/02-5/07
Gerrit Hoogenboom
Univ of Miami
Pilot studies to evaluate interpretation
methods, intermediary effectiveness, and
appropriate levels of intervention in the
provision of climate forecasts in the SahelSudan
Climate information system for ag and water
resource management in the SE USA
5
7/02 – 8/07
Hawkins
A Systems-Based Approach to Evaluate the
Benefits of Conservation Tillage in the
Southern Coastal Plain
5%
07/01/2006 –
6/30/2007
(1 yr)
Utilizing Wind and Solar Power for Alternative
Water Supply for Cattle in Coastal Georgia
80%
08/08/2006 –
08/07/2009
(3 yrs)
Utilizing Solar Power as a Supplement Power
Source for Small Irrigation Needs”
100%
06/01/2005 –
06/01/2008
(3 yrs)
$15,635.00
$71,146.67
$31,638.33
$216,666.67
$167,283.33
$5,000.00
$193,333.33
Gerrit Hoogenboom
Univ of Florida
Risk reduction for Agriculture specialty crops in
the SE USA
5
3/03-9/07
Gerrit Hoogenboom
USDA-RMA
Risk Management of Fruit Crops through
prediction of frost conditions in Georgia
10
6/05-5/08
96,030
Gerrit Hoogenboom
GACCP
Application of weather and climate data for
peanut management
5
7/06-6/07
3,000
Gerrit Hoogenboom
Colorado State
University
UV-B Monitoring Network
5
3/94-6/07
2,555
Gerrit Hoogenboom
USAID
Peanut Collaborative Research Support
Program
5
8/96-7/07
Gerrit Hoogenboom
USDA-CSREESFederal
Administration
Research Grants
Decision Support System for Reducing
Agricultural Risks Caused by Climate
Variability
20
9/05-8/07
361,408
Gerrit Hoogenboom
Georgia Cotton
Commission
Application of weather data for management of
cotton production
5
7/06-12/07
1,000
Gerrit Hoogenboom
NATO
Water Resources Management of AgroEcosystems in the South Caucasus
Transboundary Regions
10
5/06-12/06
11,050
Gerrit Hoogenboom
Southeastern
Peanut Research
Initiative
Development of a web-based irrigation
scheduler that uses local weather information
5
1/07-12/07
10,000
Gerrit Hoogenboom
Mactec
Engineering &
Consulting
Air monitoring for dry deposition
5
7/03-7/07
4,511
Gerrit Hoogenboom
USDA-CSREES
Ag water use: decision support tools for water
conservation
5
9/04-9/07
Gerrit Hoogenboom
USDA-CSREES
Ag water use: decision support tools for water
conservation
5
9/05-8/08
Gerrit Hoogenboom
GA Commodity
Commission for
peaches
Weather support for Georgia Peach Growers
2
1/07-12/07
2,000
Gerrit Hoogenboom
Tufts Univ/ NOAA
Improved water resources management in the
Sahel-Sudan: a case studey of Burkina Faso
5
6/06-5/07
26,160
James Kastner
US Poultry and Egg
Efficient odor and VOC removal from
rendering emissions using inexpensive
catalytic processes
10
2004-2005
$19,000
James Kastner
Biorem
Technologies
Enhanced biofiltration of odors and VOCs
10
2005-2007
$70,000
James Kastner
US Poultry and Egg
Measurement and suppression of ammonia
emission from poultry litter
10
2006-2007
$35,000
Caner Kazanci
OVPR
Theoretical analysis of ecological networks
through identification of important ecosystem
properties
15
2005-2006
$8,000
S. Edward Law
Hatch 561
Measurement & Abatement of Atmospheric
Ozone in Floricultural Greenhouses
0.20
2005-2008
See CAES
S. Edward Law
USDA NRI
Food-processing water treatment for recycling
via UV-enhanced ozonation
0.20
2005-2008
See CAES
Tom Lawrence
1031RE722042
Assistance with LEED Certification of New
School Building
100%
Aug 2006 –
June 2008
$6,720
Ron McClendon
USDA CSREES
Agricultural water use: decision support tools
for water conservation
10
2005-2008
$240,746
Paul E. Sumner
Georgia Office of
Energy Resources
Energy Efficient Application Of Agricultural
Pesticides
100
Oct 1, 2006 –
Sept 30, 2007
$20, 751
Mark Risse
DNR EPD 319
Initiative for Watershed Excellence
10
3/05-3/08
$900,000
Mark Risse
USDA 406
A Framework for Trading Phosphorus Credits
in the Lake Allatoona Watershed,
10
9/03-9/07
$749,000
Mark Risse
USDA 406
Southern Region Water Quality Coordination
Project
10
9/04-9/07
$1,500,000
Mark Risse
USDA 406
National Learning Center for Animal
Agricultural Water Quality Issues
10
9/06-9/08
$300,000
Mark Risse
USGS 104b
Investigating the use of compost for sediment
and erosion control under concentrated flow
conditions
5
3/06-3/08
$36,000
Mark Risse
EPA Regional Env.
Priorities
Energy and Bio-oil Production from Poultry
Litter using Fractionation and Pyrolysis
5
7/06-6/08
$58,000
Jackie Sellers
US Poultry and Egg
10
2006-2008
$49,300
Seymour, Rose Mary
and Deborah Borden
US NASA Space
Grant Program
Development of innovative poultry processing
wastewater analysis methods to reduce
treatment costs and increase product recovery
and industry profitability
Education on Advanced Tools for Improved
Land Use Planning to Improve Water Quality
45
3/1/2004 2/28/2005
$7727 of 9091
Use of Engineered Soils and Landscape
Systems (ES&LS) to Meet Storm Water Runoff
Quality and Quantity Management
Requirements
20
9/30/2004 9/30/2007
$21,100 of 49703
Proposal to Demonstrate and Evaluate the
WeatherTRAK Irrigation Controller for
Residential Landscapes in Cobb County
10
1/1/200512/31/2007
$5402 of 9003
Cobb County Water
System
Seymour, Rose Mary
and Deborah Borden
Georgia Space
Grant Consortium
45
3/1/2005 5/15/2006
$9159 of 14,091
Seymour, Rose Mary
USEPA Star Grant
Turfgrass Environmental Research Grant
15
10/1/20049/30/2007
$18,000 of 219,773
Seymour, Rose Mary
US EPA, Region IV
Waste
Management
Division
Seymour, Rose Mary
Seymour, Rose Mary
Georgia Space
Grant Consortium
15
5/16/2006 5/15/2007
$7727 of 9091
Bill Tollner
US AID
Watershed Assessment in Kenya
5
2006-2007
$150,000
George Vellidis
USDA-ARS
Remote sensing and precision irrigation
technologies to improve water, fertilizer, and
pesticide use
5
2001-2006
$810,560
George Vellidis
USDA-ARS
The Suwanee River of Georgia and Florida:
Tools for integrated resource management in a
major interstate river basin
5
2002-2007
$1,138,422
George Vellidis
GA Peanut
Commission
A real-time smart sensor array for measuring
soil moisture and temperature
5
2003-2007
$22,000
George Vellidis
USDA-CSREES
Understanding and explaining the relationships
between dissolved oxygen, water quality, and
natural stream ecosystems in the coastal plain
of Georgia
5
2004-2007
%580,000
George Vellidis
GA Cotton
Commission
Using soil electrical conductivity and pH to
identify nematode-prone areas
5
2005-2007
$40,000
George Vellidis
USDA-CSREES
Long-term water quality response to
conservation practices in nested coastal plain
watersheds
5
2005-2008
$650,000
George Vellidis
USDA-CSREES
The role of ponds in reducing the threat of
pathogen contamination from livestock in
agricultural watersheds
5
2005-2009
$448,000
Energy Conservation in Agriculture 2007
60%
John Worley
GA Env. Facilites
Authority #03447401
10/06-9/07
$63,636
Faculty
Member
Past/
Current
Trainee
K.C Das
Trainee Name
M.S.
Ph.D.
PostDoc
Deg.
at
Entry
Current
U. Jena
PhD
MS
2006 Present
IIT - Kharagpur
Thermal conversion of
biomass
UGA
“”
“”
K. Singh
“”
“”
2005 present
Industry
Pyrolysis of
fractionated poultry
litter
“”
“”
“”
E. Jarrett
M.S.
B.S
“”
UGA
Pyrolysis kinetics of
biomass
“”
“”
“”
J. Smith
“”
“”
“”
Miss State Univ
Pyrolysis of lipid
poultry byproducts
“”
“”
Past
J. Garcia
M.S
B.S
2003 2005
National University
Colombia - Bogota
Pyrolysis of palm oil
mill residue
Vice President of Research at
Cenipalma Inc., Bogota
Comombia.
“”
Past
Y. Ding
“”
“”
1999 2001
Nanging Univeristy,
China
Biofiltration of
methanol and
hydrogen sulfide
Deceased
“”
Past
C. Liang
2nd MS in
Artificial
Intel.
Ph.D
“”
UGA
UGA – Bioinformatics Lab.
DM Endale
Committee
member
Past
RJ McKinnon
M.S.
B.S.
2003-2006
Clemson
Neural network and
physical modeling of
biosolids respiration
rates in composting
Runoff generation
mechanisms
DM Endale
Committee
member
Current
JC Austin
Ph.D
M.S.
2003-2008
UGA-Geology
On-going research
DM Endale
Committee
member
Current
B Price
M.S.
B.S.
2007-2008
UGA-Geology
Stable carbon isotope
13 signature in soil
carbonates and
implication of ancient
ecology and climate
change
Groundwater under
pasture- modeling
Training
Period
Prior Institution
Research Topic
Institution
Employment pending
Just started research
DM Endale
Committee
member
Current
J Muckler
M.S.
B.S.
2007-2008
UGA-Geology
Groundwater under
pasture- nitrate
Just started research
DM Endale
Committee
member
Current
J. Thomas
M.S.
B.S.
2007-2008
UGA-Geology
Runoff generation
mechanisms
Just Started research
Gerrit
Hoogenboom
Current
Mohammad
Bannayan
Post Doc
PhD
7/05current
The University of
Nottingham
Weather analogue
Post Doc/UGA
Axel Garcia
Post Doc
PhD
University of Sao
Paulo, Brazil
Post Doc/ UGA
Current
7/05 current
Crop Modeling
Gerrit
Hoogenboom
Gerrit
Hoogenboom
Current
Cecilia Tojo
Soler
Post Doc
MS
10/05 current
University of Sao
Paulo, Brazil
Crop modeling
Post Doc/ UGA
Gerrit
Hoogenboom
Current
Johan Tomas
Persson
PostDoc
PhD
12/06 current
Swedish Univ of
Agric Sciences
Crop production
sciences
Post Doc/UGA
Gerrit
Hoogenboom
Current
Rabiu Olatinwo
Post Doc
PhD
8/06 current
University of
California
Plant disease
epidemiology
Post Doc/UGA
Gerrit
Hoogenboom
Current
Thara
Prabhakaran
Post Doc
PhD
10/06current
The University of
Georgia
Atmospheric modeling
Post Doc/UGA
Gerrit
Hoogenboom
Current
Pierre GerardMarchant
Post Doc
PhD
5/05 current
Cornell University
Post Doc/ UGA
Gerrit
Hoogenboom
Current
Todd Crane
Post Doc
PhD
12/06current
The University of
Georgia
Post Doc/ UGA
Gerrit
Hoogenboom
Current
Tasneem Khaliq
MS
MS
2/07 –
8/07
University of
Agriculture
Faisalabad
Crop modeling
Visiting Scientist/UGA
Gerrit
Hoogenboom
Current
Ben Wende
BS
BS
10/06-4/07
University of
Rostock, Germany
Crop modeling
Research Professional/UGA
Gerrit
Hoogenboom
Current
Mahdi Gheysari
Gerrit
Hoogenboom
Current
Ekanao Tedihou
Gerrit
Hoogenboom
Current
Gerrit
Hoogenboom
MS
MS
9/06 current
University of Tarbiat
Modarres
Crop Modeling
Visiting Scientist/UGA
MS
MS
4/07current
IITA Benin Station
Aspergillus flavus
Research Associate/UGA
Kevin Crowell
BS
BS
8/05 –
current
The University of
Georgia
Current
Moussa Sanon
PhD
PhD
11/06 –
current
National School of
Agriculture, France
Crop modeling
INERA/CNRST
Gerrit
Hoogenboom
Past
Larry Guerra
PostDoc
PhD
10/01 –
3/07
University of
Philippines Los
Banos
Crop modeling
EPD
Gerrit
Hoogenboom
Past
Vijay Boken
PostDoc
PhD
7/01 –
6/04
Southwest Texas
State University
Crop Modeling
University of Mississippi
Gerrit
Hoogenboom
Past
Jiftah BenAsher
PhD
PhD
9/06-3/07
Ben-Gurion
University of Negev
Gerrit
Hoogenboom
Past
Wanlaya Putto
BS
BS
5/06 - 4/07
Khon Kaen
University
Crop modeling/plant
breeding
Khon Kaen University
Gerrit
Hoogenboom
Past
Jakarat Anothai
BS
BS
5/06 - 4/07
Khon Kaen
University
Crop modeling
Gerrit
Hoogenboom
Past
Bhalang
Suriharn
BS
BS
8/04-8/05
Khon Kaen
University
Crop modeling
Gerrit
Hoogenboom
Past
Nittaya
Phakamas
BS
BS
1/04-3/05
Khon Kaen
University
Crop modeling
Gerrit
Hoogenboom
Past
Poramate
Banterng
Post Doc
PhD
6/04-12/05
Khon Kaen
University
Crop modeling
Graduate Student/UGA
Ben-Gurion University of Negev
Gerrit
Hoogenboom
Past
Jim Houser
Post Doc
PhD
7/00-1/01
Warren Wilson
College
Gerrit
Hoogenboom
Past
Abhishek Jain
MS
MS
11/0212/03
The University of
Georgia
Crop modeling
Gerrit
Hoogenboom
Past
Nelson Joaquin
MS
MS
11/03-4/04
CIAT
Crop modeling
Gerrit
Hoogenboom
Past
Bin Li
BA
BA
1/01-6/01
The University of
Georgia
Gerrit
Hoogenboom
Past
Ramyaa
Ramyaa
BA
BA
11/02-5/04
The University of
Georgia
Gerrit
Hoogenboom
Past
Cyriaque Sia
BS
BS
1/04-5/04
Regional Center
Agrhymet
Gerrit
Hoogenboom
Past
Ayman
Suleiman
Post Doc
PhD
6/06-9/06
Michigan State
University
Gerrit
Hoogenboom
Past
Seung Tak
Yoon
PhD
PhD
6/02-12/03
Dankook University
in South Korea
Dankook University
Gerrit
Hoogenboom
Past
Xianzhou Zhang
Post Doc
PhD
7/02-7/03
Chinese Academy of
Sciences
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Gerrit
Hoogenboom
Past
Mohsen
Zavereh
MS
MS
1/04-11/04
The University of
Guilan
University of Tehran
Gerrit
Hoogenboom
Past
Julia Beckhusen
BA
BA
8/06-12/06
The University of
Georgia
Gerrit
Hoogenboom
Past
Martin Itumoh
MS
MS
1/07 –
4/07
University of
Nottingham
CIAT
Office Of Meteorology
Mark Risse
Past
Britt Faucette
PhD
MS
2000-2003
Slippery Rock
Compost for erosion
control
Mark Risse
Current
K. Singh
PhD
MS
2005-2008
India
Value added
processing of Poultry
Litter
Mark Risse
Current
Xianben Zhu
PhD
BS
2005-2008
China
Erosion control in
Concentrated flow
Mark Risse
Current
Josh Romies
PhD
MS
2005-2008
Colorado
Phosphorus fate and
transport
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Research
CROP & SOIL SCIENCES
Department of Crop and Soil Sciences Research Program in Environmental Sciences
Introduction
CRSS research programs strive to discover new knowledge and evaluate innovative concepts and
technologies to enhance science, improve the educational environment for students, and to help
ensure sustainable and profitable agroecosystems. Most faculty have research appointments
ranging from 25 to 100%. Also, some extension faculty have no research appointment but have
active applied research programs. CRSS research programs range from fundamental to applied
and are located at all three campuses. All research faculty are expected to supplement state
support with extramural funding, communicate their resulted in peer-reviewed articles. and when
possible, help to ensure that research findings are communicated to colleagues and stakeholders
and translated into useful solutions to agricultural and environmental problems. In addition,
research programs provide for: the training of graduate students and post doctoral fellows, the
exposure of undergraduate students to scientific research, and the exchange of concepts and
techniques from visiting scientists. CRSS research programs focus in
breeding/genetics/genomics, crop management and physiology, environmental sciences and
weed science. Faculty work on a diverse array of row crops, vegetables and forages; water
quality; soil, water and waste management; crop physiology; weed ecology and management;
pesticide fate and carbon flux in crop canopies.
Main foci and purposes of research:
Research programs in the area of environmental sciences and natural resource management
address a diverse spectrum of soil, water, and air issues facing Georgia and the nation. The
greatest emphasis of faculty in this area is on water quantity and quality which includes
programs addressing agricultural and urban irrigation water management, sources of and
management practices to reduce loads of phosphorus, sediment, and bacteria in surface water
including animal, household, and industrial wastes, and abiotic and biotic remediation of
contaminants in soil and water. Other programs in this area include research into fundamental
chemical, physical, and biological processes that affect cycling, transport, and bioavailability of
nutrients and contaminants, management and environmental effects on nutrient cycling,
influences of biological activity on soil structure and function, use of morphological properties to
understand and predict soil hydrology, and gas exchange at the surface-atmosphere interphase.
Research programs are focused in the following areas:
$
Biomicrometeorology - This program (sometimes referred to as the 'Environmental Physics'
Program) examines the surface-atmosphere exchange of gases, and turbulence. Here, the
word 'surface-atmosphere' is used broadly to signify that the exchange can be between a bare
soil surface and the atmosphere (as is often the need for nitrogen loss studies), the exchange
of heat between a parking lot and the store patrons, the atmospheric transport of pollen,
pollutants or bio-hazardous material in the urban environment. However, this group is
generally focused on the exchange between the vegetated-canopy layer and its environment.
Experiments take place in the southeastern U. S., throughout the U. S. and the Americas, and
in Europe. This is done using a combination of atmospheric models, sophisticated turbulence
measurements, tracer dispersion releases, and atmospheric soundings.
$ Molecular Environmental Science - This research area is focused on providing a fundamental
understanding of the processes controlling the cycling, transport, and bioavailability of
nutrients and contaminants in the environment. Modern spectroscopic and imaging
capabilities facilitate the interrogation of environmental samples, including biota, with
minimal sample manipulation, allowing for molecular-level information to be gleaned from
these complex samples. Combining these capabilities with molecular biological (Aomics@)
tools is providing new insights into the coupled physical, chemical, and biological processes
and mechanisms controlling nutrient and contaminant behavior in the environment.
$ Nutrient Management - The faculty in the Nutrient Management area conduct research on the
biological and chemical pathways of nutrient cycling in soils, including how environmental
factors affect the rates of nutrient cycling. Research objectives include the development of
remote sensing methods and other protocols for mapping the spatial variability of soil
properties, which in turn affects the spatial variability of plant available nutrients. Maps of
soil properties are also useful for their practical use in precision farming. Specific nutrient
research projects deal with cycling of nitrogen and phosphorus in soil, including studies to
quantify the rates of nitrogen mineralization from soil organic matter and the rates of
ammonia volatilization from surface applied urea fertilizer and animal manures in both forest
and pasture environments. One of the goals of the nitrogen research is to develop practical
methods for determining sustainable nitrogen fertilizer rates for crop production. Research is
also in progress on the development of better methods for the routine determination of soil
pH and lime requirement for use in soil testing laboratories and the possible extension of this
technology for field measurement using near infrared reflectance technology.
$
Remediation - This area includes abiotic remediation and phytoremediation. In terms of
abiotic remediation, iron in conjunction with metal sulfides has been used for the effective
remediation of halogenated solvents in groundwater. Areas of research in phytoremediation
include: the use of macrophytes Schoenoplectus californicus and Typha angustifolia in a
pilot, constructed wetland for sorption and bio-concentration of mercury, selenium, and
arsenic in wastewater, trials using cattail and other wetland species to study remediation of
aniline and nitrobenzene derivatives in highly contaminated ground waters of an abandoned
chemical plant, sorption of TNT and other explosives on humic-clay mineral complexes, and
the use of mushroom compost extract to increase the bioavailability and subsequent
biodegradation of high concentrations of PAHs.
$ Soil Biology and Biochemistry - This area investigates the influences of biological activity
on soil structure and function. One focus of research is to understand how soil invertebrates
(especially earthworms) affect water-stable aggregate formation and the associated turnover
and accumulation of soil organic matter and nutrients. Another research area aims at
understanding how microorganisms influence the soil environment, specifically the regions
directly surrounding a microbial population. Research tools include standard soil
microbiology techniques to study microbial life and soil organic matter, as well as the more
advanced techniques of compound specific isotope analysis, nuclear magnetic resonance
spectroscopy, and DNA-based methods. In addition to basic understanding of soil processes,
these focus areas have implications for environmental quality, conservation management and
carbon-sequestration in agricultural and forest soils.
$
Soil Genesis and Pedology: Faculty in Pedology conduct research on the genesis, landscape
distribution, and interpretation of soils. An understanding of the processes important to
formation of soils and the distribution of soils and features across the landscape is the basis
for better interpretation of soil suitability for agricultural, silvicultural, and urban uses.
Current research is focused on developing a more comprehensive understanding of hydraulic
properties of soils and better methods to estimate these properties from soil and landscape
properties. Research objectives include investigations of the relationships between
redoximorphic features and depth and duration of seasonal saturation; genesis of preferential
flow zones in soil horizons; and soil-landscape relationships and their effect on landscape
redistribution of water.
$ Waste Management - The faculty in the waste management area conduct research on land
application of industrial and animal wastes ("by-products"). Industrial by-products studied
include coal combustion wastes (fly ash, gypsum), pulp and paper mill wastes, and sewage
sludge. Fly ash and ash-organic mixtures have been evaluated as soil amendments and
potting mixes and gypsum (CaSO4) was shown to ameliorate aluminum toxicity effects on
turf grasses. Animal wastes include different poultry manures, which are by-products of the
large poultry industry in Georgia. Research objectives aim at understanding the chemistry of
nutrients, trace metals and organic contaminants in these by-products, and preventing
soil/water/crop contamination from land application. The waste management area includes a
focus on on-site wastewater (septic) management systems. The purpose is to improve the
effectiveness of these systems in treating wastewater. Work in this area has focused on the
effect of biomats on water movement from drainfield trenches, the development of state
regulations governing on-site systems, and the use of computer models to compare
alternative systems.
$ Water Resources - The effect of non-point sources of pollution on surface water quality is a
primary focus. The primary pollutants of concern are phosphorus, sediment, and bacteria.
The purpose of the research is to determine the sources of pollution and to identify best
management practices (BMPs) that reduce pollutant loads. The work in this area is done in
close coordination with the waste management and nutrient management areas. Along with
other Eastern states, Georgia has experienced localized but severe water shortages during
recent droughts. Both urban and rural areas have been forced to curtail irrigation for
landscapes, recreational areas, and even crop production. Research has focused on water
conservation options through management changes, including turfgrass water management,
conservation tillage in row crop areas, and irrigation scheduling for all areas through
improved sensing and prediction of soil water deficits and rainfall. Water resource
limitations of the state=s aquifers and rivers has been the focus of another effort to aid the
state in predicting the impact of water withdrawals on stream flows and groundwater levels.
Withdrawals are potentially-controllable variables for watershed management and
economics.
Primary strengths in research:
A multi-locational, multi-functional and interdisciplinary department can be considered both a
strength and a weakness. The diversity of CRSS research programs provides an opportunity to
pursue new areas of science. Having Crop and Soil Sciences faculty at all three locations
provides CRSS faculty with an opportunity to effectively meet our state-wide mission. The
relatively recent introduction of teaching programs at Tifton and Griffin provides an opportunity
for time-and space-bound students to participate in the educational experience, but potentially
dilutes research effort. In addition to the relatively new teaching responsibilities, CRSS extension
faculty have increasingly become involved in applied research. Some faculty are now
responsible for teaching, research and extension. Although many faculty programs are
strengthened by multi-functional responsibilities, time demands could result in compromising
quality. The Environmental Sciences faculty in the department have specific strengths that
follow:
$ Use of simulation models such as the Soil Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) for modeling P
and sediment loading to reservoirs in Georgia that are threatened by eutrophication.
$ Use of automated sampling for collecting storm samples from edge-of-field experiments and
from streams.
$ Establishment of high-quality analytical services (Laboratory for Environmental Analysis)
within the Department to provide fee-based trace contaminant analysis (organic and
inorganic) for research dealing with remediation and contaminant fate and transport.
$ Measurement and prediction of agricultural water withdrawals for irrigation.
$ Use of miniature radio communications technology with soil moisture and weather variable
sensing for use in irrigation management.
$ Expertise in soil invertebrate taxonomy and systematics.
$ Use of stable isotopes (13C, 15N) and mass spectroscopy in studies of soil organic matter
dynamics and soil biological processes.
Research effectiveness and impacts:
The effectiveness and impacts or the research program can be appreciated through the
descriptions provided below under the title How research has affected the profession, industry,
state, region, nation, and other constituents:
Research challenges:
Several challenges confront the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences. One of the biggest
challenges is based on the fact that societal and institutional demands on our research programs
continue to cause diversification. As we diversify to meet the increasingly complex needs of our
clientele, our core capacity within some of our disciplines has become critically thin (ie., the loss
of one faculty member in some of our disciplines would preclude our maintaining research
excellence). A second significant challenge, which from a different point of view, could also be
considered a strength, is the fact that our faculty are located at three different campuses and
engaged in all three functions (teaching, research and extension). Multi-locational and multifunctional responsibilities exacerbates the problem of maintaining critical depth of research
expertise within each discipline. These challenges will be further complicated as continued
pressure is placed on state resources and faculty continue to supplement diminishing state
resources with extramural funding. As extramural funding becomes a larger component of our
budget, the department’s ability to respond to local and state needs will be compromised as our
faculty responsibilities will continue to gravitate towards the demands of granting agencies.
Specific discipline challenges follow:
Net loss of three environmental sciences research faculty positions: Faculty members in
environmental sciences at Griffin (Shuman), Tifton (Gascho), and the Savannah River Ecology
Lab (Adriano) retired and were not replaced with new positions. The demographics of the
environmental sciences faculty could result in significant loss in critical expertise unless younger
faculty are hired over the coming years. The department is refilling a position in water chemistry
at the Griffin campus and has recently filled the Georgia Power Professorship in Environmental
Remediation and Soil Chemistry. In addition, the department will be refilling the Enironmental
Soil Chemist position in Athens.
How research is funded and how this has changed over the last seven years:
The need for research faculty to supplement state support with extramural funds has and will
continue to increase. CRSS faculty have continued to increase the amount of both competitive
and non-competitive external support. The need to support research programs with extramural
funds will continue to escalate as state support declines and the cost of conducting research
increases. The CRSS department will continue to balance competitive grants with noncompetitive grants and contributions. This balance is essential as the non-competitive grants and
donations to programs allows our faculty to focus on local problems, many of which are acute in
nature. A total reliance on nationally competitive grant programs would jeopardize our ability to
respond rapidly to state needs.
How research has affected the profession, industry, state, region, nation, and other constituents:
In the water resources and waste management areas, our research has convinced state agency
personnel that poultry litter is a major non-point source of phosphorus (P) to streams in northern
Georgia and that it is causing eutrophication of reservoirs in this region. This is a major change
in the past 5 years because nitrogen was the only concern in the past. The turning point probably
came in a series of articles in the Atlanta Journal Constitution that highlighted research from our
faculty on the level of P in soils with a history of broiler litter application.
Research on stream water quality in pastures has shown that installing cattle crossings or water
troughs can reduce time spent by cattle in streams and stream contamination with phosphorus,
E.coli, and sediments. These results are now being used by the USDA-NRCS in support of costsharing the installation of cattle crossings and water troughs in pastures with unfenced streams.
Also, research on pasture aeration has shown that this practice can reduce runoff volume and
phosphorus losses in well-drained to moderately well-drained soils.
Research on ammonia volatilization from urea fertilizer in the forest environment has shown
how significant these losses can be and how the forest floor and environmental conditions affect
the amount of ammonia lost from surface applied urea. Forest managers now have realistic data
on how depth of the forest floor, soil water content and air temperature, relative humidity, and
rainfall affect the amount of ammonia lost from surface applied urea fertilizer. In addition,
research on ammonia volatilization from urea fertilizers applied to pastures has provided
estimates of the magnitude of those losses, which can now be used to adjust fertilizer rates.
Research on soil pH methodology has resulted in the implementation of the routine measurement
of soil pH in 0.01 molar calcium chloride solution to avoid the errors caused by differences in
ionic strength of the soil solution of samples sent by clients (about 65,000 samples analyzed each
year by the Soil, Plant, and Water lab at UGA). The other part of the new procedure uses titration
for measurement of soil pH buffering capacity, needed for making lime recommendations to
clients. These procedures have been modified for routine determination using a robotic soil pH
measurement system. Other soil testing laboratories (three in the southern region and one lab in
the Midwest) are considering changing to these new methods.
Procedures have been developed for mapping soil organic C in crop production fields using
remote sensing techniques. Work continues with a scientist with VERIS corporation (Salina, KS)
on mapping of soil pH, soil pH buffering capacity, soil organic C, etc in crop production fields
using a field near infrared reflectance (NIR) Spectrometer.
Water use analyses that used hydrologic models, GIS, real-time irrigation monitoring, and
frequent field visits to farms over the state have provided state water agency and water user
stakeholders with science-based planning for future water permitting activity. The recently
completed Flint River Basin Plan and the soon to be released Coastal Zone plan use
environmental monitoring data and analyses to help set permit action levels for regions as small
as sub-watersheds.
International conferences and field research on earthworm invasion biology, sponsored by UGA,
USDA and NSF, have identified 1) the current and likely future geographic extent of earthworm
invasions in North America; 2) mechanisms and pathways of invasions, and characteristics of
invasive species; 3) impacts of earthworm invasions on soil processes and other organisms, both
aboveground and belowground; and 4) possible means by which earthworm invasions might be
mitigated, including regulatory intervention, appropriate land management, and increased public
awareness of the problem.
Dept. or Unit Name
Crop & Soil Sciences
Faculty Member
Miguel Cabrera
EFT: %
EFT in
Env. Res.
0.60/100
Technical
Support
EFT
1.0
7.27
# Grad
4
Laboratory and field investigations of processes
affecting phosphorus speciation and dynamics in
grasslands fertilized with animal manures
Funding –
Source &
Project
Amount
Duration
8/2003- USDA NRICGP.
9/2007
$308,000.
Fate of urea and an experimental urea-based fertilizer 6/20043/2007
applied to grasslands in Georgia
Peter Hartel
0.30/100%
Georgia Pacific,
$91,572.
Using cropping alternatives to improve water quality
in high nutrient status farms
9/20046/2007
USDA-NRCS
CIG, $60,000.
Combining targeted sampling and bacterial source
tracking to identify sources of fecal contamination to
the Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research
Reserve
5/20065/2007
NOAA, $19,965
Combining targeted sampling and bacterial source
tracking to identify sources of fecal contamination
responsible for beach advisories on the Georgia Coast
5/20066/2007
GA EPD, $104,076
Combining targeted sampling and fluorometry to
identify sources of human fecal contamination in
Georgia’s coastal waters
10/200511/2006
NOAA, $53,987
Section 319 TMDL implementation plan for Potato
Creek,
3/20054/2006
GA EPD, $129,994
Field-testing targeted sampling and Enterococcus
faecalis to identify human fecal contamination in
three National Estuarine Research Reserves
10/20031/2006
CICEET,
$254,709
Faculty Member
Paul Hendrix
EFT: %
EFT in
Env. Res.
0.10/100%
Technical
Support
EFT
# Grad
3
Native earthworms modify effects of exotic
earthworm invasions on soil processes in wildland
ecosystems
Long-term consequences of biochemical and
biogeochemical changes in the Horseshoe Bend
Agroecosystem, Athens, GA
James Hook
David E. Kissel
0.95/100%
0.15/15%
1.0
1.0
2
Project
Duration
3/20032/2007
1/20058/2006
Funding –
Source &
Amount
NSF, $500,000
NSF, $60,000
Rates of soil carbon accumulation and transformation
in a Ponderosa pine forest using high resolution
chronosequence analysis
1/200412/2006
Graham, R.,
Kearney
Foundation, $2500
Invasion of exotic earthworms in the Great Smoky Mts.
National Park
3 years
NSF/US Park
Service (pending)
Efficient irrigation strategies for corn and corn-based
rotations
3/20047/2005
Georgia ACC for
Corn, $12,000.
Efficient Irrigation for Peanut and Peanut-based
Rotations.
1/20046/2005
Southeastern
Peanut Research
Initiative, $45,000
Efficient Irrigation for Peanut and Peanut-based
Rotations
1/20057/2006
Southeastern
Peanut Research
Initiative, $59,000
On-going
State $1,000
NASA Space Grant
$6,000
GIS and Remote Sensing, Precision Agriculture, Mapping
soil organic matter, clay contents, and soil pH and soil pH
buffering capacity. Studies of ammonia volatilization from
fertilizer and animal waste.
Faculty Member
Monique Leclerc
Anand Karipot
(Asst. Res. Scientist
with Dr. Leclerc.)
EFT: %
EFT in
Env. Res.
1.0 / 100%
Technical
Support
EFT
# Grad
From Tower to Pixel: Integration of Patch-Size NEE Using
Experimental and Modeling Footprint Analysis
1.0/100%
Project
Duration
2001-2004
Funding –
Source &
Amount
DOE - $645,237
From Tower to Region: Integration of Patch-Size NEE Using 2004Experimental and Modeling Footprint Analysis-Phase 2
present
DOE $601,000
A Manipulative Experiment at the Flow land AmeriFlux Site
2001-2004
DOE $769,848
Regional Scale Modeling and Turbulence Measurements of
Long-Term Carbon and Energy Exchange
2003present
DOE $420,000
Impact of Atmospheric Motions on CO 2 Flux in Non-Ideal
Terrain.
2004present
DOE $446,786
Application of Micrometeorological Technology to
Determine Environmental Stress Affecting Peanut Growth,
Yield and Quality
2003-2005
Georgia Peanut
Commission $14,000
Assessing CO2 Greenhouse Gas missions from Peanut Farms
and From Broiler Producing and Processing Facilities in
Georgia.
2002present
Hatch Project $3,000
Impact of Canopy Nitrogen Deposition on Forest Carbon
Storage: A Manipulative Experiment at the Howland
AmeriFlux site: Phase 2
2004present
DOE $750,000
Reducing the Uncertainties Greenhouse Gas Emissions from
Agricultural Farms by Making use of Nocturnal Boundary
Layer Properties
2001-2004 Canadian Foundation
for Climate and
Atmospheric
Sciences $256,340
Cross Regional Enhancement of CO2 Flux Measurements at
Three AmeriFlux Sites in the Presence of Flow Circulations.
2001-2004
DOE $463-062
1
Measurements of CO2 nocturnal respiration as an indicator of
Stress Response in Peanuts
2005
National Peanut
Board $24,700
1
Measurements of CO2 nocturnal respiration as an indicator of
stress response in peanuts (pending)
2006
Georgia Peanut
Commission $10,000
2006-2007
APWMC $40,000
Mitigation of Odor from Dairy Lagoons (pending)
Faculty Member
Monique Leclerc
(Cont.)
EFT: %
EFT in
Env. Res.
Technical
Support
EFT
# Grad
Assessment and Control of Odor Dispersion from poultry
houses. Egg and Poultry Proposal (pre-proposal accepted;
proposal now pending)
Toward the uncertainties in our local and regional carbon
assessments: new insights into our knowledge of ecosystematmosphere exchange. (Pre-Proposal sent and pending)
Regional estimates of ecosystem-atmosphere exchange in
Maine (Pre-Proposal sent and pending)
Dispersal, Effects, and Remediation of Radioactive
Contamination in Urban Environments
William Miller
David Radcliffe
Craig Kvien
0.4/100%
1.0
0.70/100%
1.0/100%
1.0
Project
Duration
2006
Funding –
Source &
Amount
Egg and Poultry
Proposal $40,000
2006
NICCR $425,000
2006-2009
NICCR $425,000
2005
Federal Project
Funding Request.
The University of
Georgia $ 2.3M
2006-2009
DOE $899.672
2
A New Carbon Flux Supersite: Innovative Methods of
Atmosphere-Terrestrial Carbon Exchange (PI)
0
Use of Industrial Byproducts in Agriculture
’00-‘06
Hatch Funds
Gypsum Use on Turf to Improve Drought Resistance
’01-‘06
Southern Co.-$250K
Laboratory for Environmental Analysis
On-going
Fees ($100K/y)
1
A framework for trading phosphorus credits in the Etowah
River basin
2004-2007
USDA $550,000
1
Watershed restoration: North Fork of the Broad River
2005-2007
USEPA 319
$121,550
1
Modeling of on-site wastewater system drain fields
2005present
Water efficiency and water quality
2005
USDA, $414,000
Agricultural innovations
2005
AIC, $140,000
Remote sensing
2005
USDA, $188,000
Faculty Member
Larry West
Paul Bertsch
EFT: %
EFT in
Env. Res.
0.55 /
100%
0.6 / 100%
Technical
Support
EFT
1.0
Funding –
Source &
# Grad
Project
Amount
Duration
5
Soil properties influencing performance of on-site wastewater 2002-2005 GADHR - $140,000
management systems in Georgia
Evaluation of Permeability Estimates for Soils in the
Southern Piedmont in Georgia
2004-2006 USDA-NRCS $64,000
Order 1 Soil Survey, Landscape Attributes, and Simulation
Modeling to Predict Seasonal Saturation of Plinthic Soils in
the Coastal Plain of Alabama and Georgia
2006-2008
USDA-NRCS $75,000
Evaluation of P removal technology in Onsite Wastewater
Management Systems
2005present
National Small
Flows Clearinghouse
- $30,000
Quantification of Seasonal Saturation for Selected Soils in
Georgia
2005present
USDA-NRCS $10,000
1
Bioavailability,toxicity &trophic transfer of manufactured
ZnO nanoparticles:A view from the bottom.
2005-2008
US EPA-$363,680
2
Linking Chemical speciation,desorption kinetics and
bioavailability of U and Ni in Aged-Contaminated
Sediments: A scientific Basis for Natural Attenuation & Risk
Assessment
2002ongoing
US Department of
Energy -$478,725
0
Tidal Creek material loading for the SC-GA-LU-CES
Program
2004-2006
South Carolina Sea
Grant Consortium$60,514
0
Evaluation of “transfer factors or “Bioconcentration Ratios’
for assessing radiological risk.
2004-2005
US EPA - $100,000
2
Biogeochemical Processes Controlling U(VI) Reduction in
Mixed Waste Systems
2003-2006
US Department of
Energy - $450,000
0
The Chemical and Physical Nature of Particulate Nature
Matter Affecting, Air, Water, and Soil Quality.
2003ongoing
USDA-CSREES $300,000
0
Tidal creek material loading for the SC-GA-LU CES
Program.
2003-2003
South Carolina Sea
Grant Consortium $15,335
Faculty Member
Sayed Hassan
(Asst. Res. Scientist)
EFT: %
EFT in
Env. Res.
1.0/100%
Technical
Support
EFT
1
# Grad
State and nationwide analytical services for fees in support of
environmental and related research fields
Project
Duration
On-going
Funding –
Source &
Amount
Generated fees$100,000 / year
Dept. or Unit Name:
3.07
Faculty Member
Miguel Cabrera
EFT: %
EFT in
Env.Instr.
0.40 / 50%
.
EFT in Env. Instruction
3
2.58
No. Students 40
Support
Staff
EFT
Courses Taught
0.75
CRSS 4590/6590 – 4590L/6590L Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition
Avg. No.
Students
50
0
CRSS 8100 – Advanced Crop & Soil Sciences Seminar
10
0
CRSS 8650 – Nutrient Cycling Models
8
Glenn Harris
0.04/100%
0
CRSS 3060/3060L – Soils and Hydrology (50%)
23
Peter Hartel
0.70/100%
0
EETH 4000/6000 – Environmental Ethics Seminar
7
0
EETH 4010 – Undergraduate Research
2
0
CRSS 4610/6610 – Soil Microbiology
14
0
EETH 4230/6230 – Environmental Values and Policy
10
0
CRSS 8010 – Research Methods
10
0
EETH 8010 – Graduate Research
1
0
CRSS 3060/3060L – Soils and Hydrology (50%)
23
0
ECOL 4010/6010 Ecosystem Ecology
30
0
CRSS/ECOL 8660 Soil Biology and Ecology
8
0
CRSS 8529 Advanced Soil Fertility
2
0
CRSS 4375/6375 GIS Applications in Agriculture
10
0
CRSS/FORS 3060&L Soils and Hydrology
0
CRSS 4580/6580&L Soil Erosion and Conservation
15
0
CRSS 4660/6660&L Chemical Analysis of Environmental Samples
8
0
CRSS 8000 Soil Physical Chemistry
3
0
CRSS 4670/6670 Environmental Soil Chemistry
18
0
CRSS 3050 Water Quality
20
James Hook
Paul Hendrix
David Kissel
William Miller
[Soil Chemistry-Xia]
0.05/100%
0.08/100%
0.15/15%
0.6/100%
0.3/100%
175 (/yr)
Faculty Member
David Radcliffe
Larry West
Administration Staff
EFT: %
EFT in
Env.Instr.
0.30/100%
0.35 / 60%
Support
Staff
EFT
Courses Taught
0
CRSS (FORS) 1020 Introduction to Water Resources
Avg. No.
Students
18
0
CRSS 4600/6600 Soil Physics
20
0
CRSS 8600 Advanced Soil Physics: Numerical Method (tutorial)
2
0
CRSS 8610 Advanced Soil Physics: Spatial Modeling
8
0
CRSS 4540/4540L
15
0.25
Faculty Member
Dept. or Unit Name
Total Extension EFT
1.16
EFT: %
Support
EFT in Env.
Staff
Prog.
EFT
Program Area
#
Clientele
Served
Program
Duration
Glen Harris
0.96/25%
0
N and P in animal manures, ammonia losses, water quality
100
On-going
Larry West
0.10 / 100%
0
Onsite wastewater management systems
150
On-going
Management Measures for On-Site Disposal Systems
100
2002-2005
Funding –
Source &
Amount
GA-DNR - $60,000
Faculty Member
Agency and
Grant Number
Grant Title
% of
Env. EFT
Project
Period
Direct Costs
(Current Yr)
Bertsch
US DOE
Linking Chemical Speciation Desorption
Kinetics and Bioavailability of U and Ni
30
2/20057/2007
65,131
Bertsch
US EPA
Bioavailability, toxicity, and trophic transfer of
manufactured ZnO nanoparticles: A view
from the bottom
30
7/20059/2008
116,776
Bertsch
US Dep. of Interior
Watershed Restoration and Education in
Aiken County
30
10/20059/2007
145
Cabrera
USDA-NRI 200301970
30
9/20039/2007
32,000
Cabrera
USDA-NRCS-CIG
029739-01
Laboratory and field investigations of the
processes affecting phosphorus speciation
and dynamics in grasslands fertilized with
animal manures
Using cropping alternatives to improve water
quality
10
9/20049/2007
20,000
Cabrera
EPA R833419
Fate of hormones in manure from
concentrated broiler feeding operations
50
7/20076/2010
218,825
Carrow
Toro Company
25-21-RD316-275
Sensor Based Technology in Turfgrass
Management
60
On-going
$43,200
Seashore paspalum vegetative and seeded
establishment on saline sites --- cultivar
development
Testing of Product for Alleviation of
Salinity Stress
10
9/20069/2007
$9,000
5
9/20066/2007
$4,000
Carrow
UGARF
25-21-RD316-328
Carrow
PBI Gordon, Various
25-21-316RD-206
Paul Hendrix
NSF
Research Experiences for Undergraduates
10
3/20072/2008
9,750
Paul Hendrix
NSF
Native earthworms modify effects of exotic
earthworm invasions on soil processes in
wildland ecosystems
60
3/20032/2008
75,000
Paul Hendrix
NSF
Long-term consequences of biochemical and
biogeochemical changes in the Horseshoe
Bend Agroecosystem, Athens, GA
10
7/20026/2007
27,638
Radcliffe
USDA CSREES
2521RC284465
A framework for trading phosphorus credits in
the Lake Allatoona Basin
10
10/1/2003 9/30/2007
43,943
Radcliffe
GA EPD
Watershed restoration action strategy -- North
Fork Broad River watershed
10
1/1/2002 12/31/2007
32,896
Radcliffe
US EPA
Fate of hormones in waste from concentrated
broiler feeding operations
5
6/1/2007 6/30/2010
80,000
West
USDA-CREES
15
2007
$3,000
West
USDA-NRCS
Development of a field-scale protocol
to measure the long term hydraulic
acceptance rate of mature wastewater
drainfield systems with varying
interface architecture.
Order 1 soil survey, landscape
attributes, management dependent
soil properties, and simulation
modeling to predict seasonal
saturation of plinthic soils in the
southeastern Coastal Plain
30
2006-2008
$30,000
West
National Small Flows
Clearinghouse
Evaluation of experimental onsite
system components
15
2006-2007
$16,000
West
GA Department of
Human Resources
Georgia environmental health
specialist training program.
40
2007-2008
$54,000
Paul Bertsch
US DOE
Linking Chemical Speciation Desorption
Kinetics and Bioavailability of U and Ni
30
2/20057/2007
65,131
Paul Bertsch
US EPA
Bioavailability, toxicity, and trophic transfer of
manufactured ZnO nanoparticles: A view
from the bottom
30
7/20059/2008
116,776
Paul Bertsch
US Dep. of Interior
Watershed Restoration and Education in
Aiken County
30
10/20059/2007
145
Faculty
Member
Past/
Current
Trainee
Bertsch
Trainee Name
M.S.
Ph.D.
PostDoc
Deg.
at
Entry
Training
Period
Prior Institution
Research Topic
Current
Nadine Kabengi
Post-Doc
Ph.D.
1/01-8/04
Univ. of Florida
Bertsch
Current
Prashant
Srivastava
Post-Doc
Ph.D.
2003-2004
Univ. of Australia
Bertsch
Current
Ben Neely
Ph.D.
B.S.
2005Present
Medical University of
South Carolina
Bertsch
Current
Hongbo Ma
Ph.D.
M.S.
2005Present
Univ. of Georgia
Cabrera
Past
Harris Byers
M.S.
B.S.
2002-2004
Univ. of Georgia
Cabrera
Past
Chelly Richards
M.S.
B.S.
2004-2006
Univ. of Georgia
Cabrera
Past
Nicolas Vaio
M.S.
B.S.
2004-2006
Univ. La Plata,
Argentina
Cabrera
Current
Tasha
Mashburn
M.S.
B.S.
2004Present
East Tennessee
State University
Cabrera
Current
Yebin Zhao
Ph.D.
M.S.
2005Present
China
Charaterization of
manufactured
nanoparticles in the
environment
Chemical speciation of
U and Nickel on
contaminated
sediments
Bioavailability and
toxicity of Zn and ZnO
nanoparticles to
bacteria
Bioavailability and
toxicity of
nanoparticles to
nematodes
Cattle and water
quality response to
shade and alternative
water sources
Determination of
limiting nutrient for
periphyton growth in
Piedmont Streams
Ammonia volatilization
and nitrogen uptake
from urea-based
nitrogen fertilizers
applied to tall fescue
Water soluble
phosphorus in runoff
and drainage from
grasslands fertilized
with manures
Water soluble
phosphorus in animal
manures
Institution
Post-Doc SREL
Post-Doc SREL
Ph.D. student
Ph.D. student
Environmental Consulting
Company
Non-profit Organization
Consultant in Argentina
USDA-Aphis
Graduate Research Assistant
Impact of Aeration on
runoff volume and
quality in grasslands
fertilized with manures
Site Assessment of
Spatial Soil Moisture
Conditions on Golf
Courses
Modeling vegetationatmosphere above an
agricultural canopy
Peanut stress
response assessment
using nocturnal
respiration
measurements
The influence of
rainfall rate and
duration on soil
respiration
VegetationAtmosphere Exchange
model validation
At UGA under a MOU
Cabrera
Current
David Butler
Ph.D.
M.S.
2005Present
North Carolina State
University
Carrow
Current
Joseph Krum
MS
BS
Sept 2005
To Fall
2007
Michigan State
University
Leclerc
past
Deepthi
Achutavarier
Ms
BS
2002-2004
Univ. in India
Leclerc
current
Natchaya
Pingintha
PhD
BX
2004present
Chiang Mai Univ.
Leclerc
current
Chompunut
Chayawate
PhD
MS
2006present
Chiang Mai Univ.
Leclerc
current
Gilbert Gao
PhD
MS
2007present
Peking University
Leclerc
current
Gengsheng
Zhang
Post doc
2002present
Utah State University
Canopy – atmosphere
exchange of CO2
Post doc
Leclerc
current
Jinkyu Hong
Post doc
2006present
Yonsei University,
Seoul, Korea
Canopy-Atmopshere
exchange in nocturnal
conditions
Post doc
Leclerc
past
Thara Prabha
Post doc
2001-2006
BABA Nuclear
Research Institute at
Kalpakkam, India
Canopy-atmoshpere
exchange modeling
Post doc
Leclerc
past
Brad Morris
Summer
intern
2004-2005
High School Student,
Fayette County
Assist others
Undergrad student at Rice
University
Leclerc
Past
Brian Martin
Summer
intern
2006
Top 250 students
nationwide, Fayette
County High School
Assist others
Undergra student at Georgia
Tech
Leclerc
Past
Kate Hutson
Summer
intern
2002-2003
Baylor undergrad
Assist others
Master Degree at Baylor
University
Graduate Assistant
Back in home country
AT UGA under a MOU
At UGA under a MOU
System to monitor
amount of irrigation
water in Georgia
Ga EPD
National Cheng Kung
University, Taiwan
Effects of exotic
earthworms on tropical
soil processes
Ph.D. student
2004present
University of
Wisconsin,
Green Bay
Earthworm-millipede
interactions in
deciduous forest soils
Ph.D. student
M.S.
2000-2003
Katholic University,
Belgium
High School Teacher
Ph.D.
M.S.
2000-2004
University of
California, Berkeley
Soil organic matter
studies in managed
and wildland
ecosystems
Earthworm ecology in
California grassland
ecosystems
Robert Potter
Post-doc
Ph.D.
2000-2005
Calcium
biogeochemistry in
long-leaf pine forests
Post-doc, Pittsburg University
Current
Glenn Ritchie
Ph.D.
M.S.
2004-2007
Brigham Young
University
Research Coordinator, UGA
Radcliffe
Past
Zhulu Lin
Postdoc
Ph.D
2004-2007
UGA
Using spectroscopic
methods in remote
sending for irrigation
scheduling of cotton
Modeling phosphorus
loading to Lake
Allatoona
Radciffe
Past
Hathai
Sansupan
M.S.
B.S.
2003-2005
U. of FL
Transport of estradiol
and testosterone
hormones
High School teacher
Radcliffe
Current
Rajith
Mukundan
Ph.D
M.S.
2004-2007
India
Sediment transport in
North Fork Broad River
UGA graduate student
Radcliffe
Past
Kenneth
Bradshaw
M.S.
B.S.
2004-2007
James Madison
University
Pollutant loads of
single landuse
watersheds
Radcliffe
Current
Kenneth
Bradshaw
Ph.D
M.S.
2007-
UGA
Modeling of on-site
wastewater systems
Radcliffe
Current
John Bryant
M.S.
B.S.
2005-2007
UGA
Phosphorus loads from
small single landuse
watersheds
Hook
Past
Amber Alfonso
M.S.
B.S.
2004-2006
Hendrix
Current
Ching-Yu
Huang
Ph.D.
M.S.
2004present
Hendrix
Current
Bruce Snyder
Ph.D.
M.S.
Hendrix
Past
Heleen Bossuyt
Ph.D.
Hendrix
Past
Thais Winsome
Hendrix
Past
Hook
Assistant Prof., California State
Univ., Santa Clara
Consultant
West
Past
Patrick Davies
M.S.
B.S.
2002-2005
UGA
Nutrient movement
from onsite system
drainfields
Consultant
West
Past
Shelby Finch
M.S.
B.S.
2003-2006
UGA
Onsite system
drainfield biomat
hydraulic conductivity
Environmental Health Specialist
– Hall County
West
Past
Maria Abreu
M.S.
B.S.
2003-2005
?
Hydraulic conductivity
of Piedmont soils
Gwinnett County Extension
West
Current
Jeremy Bishop
M.S.
B.S.
2002-
Clemson
Hydraulic conductivity
of Piedmont soils
Environmentalist - South
Carolina Department of Health
and Environmental Control
West
Current
Kelli Coleman
M.S.
B.S.
2005-
UGA
Seasonal saturation of
Mafic Piedmont soils
ENTOMOLOGY
Entomology
The majority of the research, instruction and extension programs conducted in the Department of
Entomology fall under the scope of this review.
Academic Programs: The academic programs began with the founding of the Department in
1955. The Bachelor of Science was offered through the College of Arts and Sciences and the
Bachelor of Science in Agriculture (BSA) was offered through the College of Agriculture.
Following the merger of Entomology Departments in 1995, the undergraduate degree option was
the BSA which was changed to the Bachelor of Sciences in Environmental Sciences (BSES) in
2003-2004 to more accurately reflect the developments in the discipline and the interests of
undergraduate majors. Entomology is a specialized area of the agricultural and life sciences, and
Graduate programs typically have more students than do undergraduate programs. This has been
reflective of the employment trends and opportunities in the discipline and the extensive and
varied research programs found in most Entomology Departments. The M.S. program was begun
in the late 1950’s and the Ph.D. program in the early 1960’s. The Department also participates in
a Master of Plant Protection Pest Management (MPPPM) that is jointly offered with Plant
Pathology and Crop and Soil Sciences.
Our instructional program has been largely an Athens Campus activity; however, over the last
two years six Entomology courses are being taught by members of our faculty in the new
interdisciplinary majors being offered in Tifton and Griffin. The curriculum continues to evolve
in order to reflect changes in the discipline, and the present day needs of our students as they
prepare for a wide variety of career opportunities.
Research: The research programs are well balanced between the basic and applied insect
sciences. Early research programs at the Griffin and Tifton Campuses focused primarily on the
biology and management of insect pest species. Georgia has a highly diverse and dynamic
agricultural sector with several major commodities such as poultry, dairy, beef, field crops,
fruits, nuts, vegetables and ornamentals, all of which have insect pest problems that limit either
their production or profitability. Pest management issues in the agricultural sector and the urban
community have directly influenced the funding and direction of the applied research programs.
Basic research programs in the Department have been in general areas of organismal biology,
insect molecular biology, insect host-pathogen relationships and aquatic and wetland ecology.
Extension and Applied Research: Extension faculty members are located primarily in Athens and
Tifton with the exception of the urban entomology position in Griffin. Insects impact the lives of
every citizen of Georgia and these impacts range from termite protection for homeowners to
public health and veterinary issues to multiple pest management challenges in virtually every
agricultural crop or commodity produced in the state. Over the past several years, control costs
and economic costs of damages from insect pests in Georgia typically have ranged from 1 to 1.2
billion dollars annually. The extension and outreach programs of the Department have addressed
the needs of our varied clientele in the state and region with relevant and timely programs that
enhance economic competitiveness and quality of life from an environmental perspective.
Core Program Areas Relevant to Environmental Programs
Insect Host – Pathogen Interactions – (Core of Excellence under development)
Research in this core area primarily involves the interactions between different types of parasites
and pathogens and their insect hosts. Most of the projects involve parasitoid wasps and the
relationships with the host’s immune system. These include the study of polydnaviruses that are
carried by many parasitoids and their role in suppressing the immune system of insect hosts.
Current projects include regulation of cellular defense responses in insects, disruption of cellular
defense responses by polydnavirus-carrying parasitoids, the evolution of caste formation and
polyembryonic development in parasitoids, and characterization of the mosquito cellular immune
response. Three new faculty positions will be filled in this area over the next year, one of which
will involve transmission of plant disease agents.
Other research in this are involves the target receptors and mode of action of Bacillus
thuringiensis toxins in insect with a primary focus on enhancement of Bt toxins for insect pest
management. Additional research in this area has focused on compounds which enhance the
action of Bt toxins.
Insect Molecular Biology/Vector Biology
A major research effort in this area has involved characterization of the structure and function of
peptide hormones and their receptors that activate key reproductive processes in two mosquito
species, Aedes aegypti (yellow fever mosquito) and Anopholes gambiae (African malaria
mosquito). Other molecular studies with vector species have focused on comparative studies of
saliva components from mosquitoes, triatomine bugs, and ticks. A major focus has been the role
that different salivary components may play in vector borne parasites or pathogens gaining entry
into the vertebrate and possibly modulating the immune systems of vertebrate hosts. Additional
work in vector biology has involved the transmission of viral disease agents in livestock and
wildlife species by black flies.
The transmission of viral causal agents of plant disease has been a major problem in GA
agricultural production systems in recent years in both agromomic crops (eg. peanuts, cotton,
tobacco) and in the rapidly expanding vegetable production industry. Researchers are looking at
the transmission of these viral agents in a variety of crops and a search is underway to fill a plant
vector biology position at the Tifton Campus.
IPM and Insect Pest Management/Biological Control
Entomological programs at all three campuses are involved in an array of research and extension
programs insect pest management. Historically at the Athens campus, the major agricultural IPM
focus has been on corn and soybean insect pest management and more recently the effects of
transgenic varieties on pest management strategies. A major program in Athens is in the general
area of management of forest insect pests and the applied ecology of forest insect pests. Insect
pest management with fruit crops Athens based but programmatically is state wide and is
focused on peaches, apples and small fruits. Another focus in Athens has been the development
of laboratory and field bioassessment protocols for Bt toxins used in vector control programs
(black flies, mosquitoes, and nuisance species of midges). The development of IPM strategies
for control of arthropod pests livestock, poultry and companion animals is also an Athens
Campus initiative. The Department also has an Athens base apiculture program that is heavily
focused on controlling insect pests, parasites, and diseases of bees, and a bee breeding program
that selects for resistance to pests.
Insect pest management research and extension programs for the major agricultural commodities
produced in Georgia are principally based at the Tifton Campus. These include major
commodities such as peanuts, cotton, pecans, soybeans, tobacco, and a wide variety of vegetable
crops. Many of these programs have a significant biological control component.
Urban Entomology
Urban programs are principally base at the Griffin Campus and include extension as well as
basic and applied research programs. Structural pests and other household pests, ornamental
plant and greenhouse pests constitute a majority of the effort. Other initiatives in this area
include fire ant management in both agricultural and urban settings.
Stream and Wetland Ecology, Bioassessment and Ecotoxicology
Programs in this core area are focused on the ecology of stream and wetland invertebrate species.
The stream ecology component has focused on the effects of disturbance on stream ecosystems;
organic matter dynamics in streams; secondary production and ecology of aquatic invertebrates;
manipulation of stream food webs; invertebrate community structure in streams; and, role of
aquatic invertebrates in stream ecosystem processes. Wetland research has focused on the role
of invertebrates in wetland food webs, predator-prey relationships and invertebrate-plant
interactions.
Bioassessment and ecotoxicology research has focused on the larval stages of black flies in
streams and their utility in bioassessment of the effects of contaminants in streams. A major
effort has involved laboratory colonization of black flies and the development of laboratory
bioassays with black fly larva that can be used to assess the effects of contaminants found in
southeastern watersheds.
Entomology Faculty - Athens
EFT Dist.
Name
Rank
R
.50
.80
T
.29
.20
.34
.25
.25
E
Grad.
Fac.
Michael J. Adang1
John N. All
Professor
Professor
Darold Batzer
Mark Brown**
Donald Champagne*
Keith Delaplane
Karl Espelie2
Brian Forschler
L. Paul Guillebeau
Nancy C. Hinkle
Dan Horton
Joseph V. McHugh3
Raymond Noblet***
Assoc. Prof.
Assoc. Prof.
Assoc. Prof.
Professor
Professor
Professor
Professor
Professor
Professor
Professor
Professor
.66
.75
.75
.32
.54
.80
.51
.33
.26
.33
Kenneth Ross4
Professor
.80
.20
X
Professor
.64
.36
X
Michael R. Strand*
4
Total
.68
.24
.20
.12
.88
1.0
1.0
.34
Responsibility
X
X
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
IPM - Field Crops
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Ecology – Wetland Invertebrates
Mosquito Endocrinology/Molecular Biology
Medical & Vector Biology
Apiculture, 4-H Education Programs
Insect Plant Interactions
Household & Structural – Social Insects
IPM Coordinator - Pesticide Programs
Veterinary – Livestock and Poultry
Fruit Crop Pest Management
Beetle Systematics & Morphology, Curator
Department Head – Vector Biology/
Environmental Toxicology
Social Insects, Fire Ants – Biology and Genetics
Molecular Biology/Parasitoid Wasps, Vector
Arthropods
7.40 3.04 3.90
Entomology Non-Tenure Track Faculty - Athens
EFT Dist.
Name
Rank
Kevin Clark
Gang Hua
Jay Overmyer***
Asst. Res. Sci.
Asst. Res. Sci.
Asst. Res. Sci.
Gretchen Pettis
Pub. Serv. Asst.
Total
R
1.0
1.0
.79
T
E
Grad.
Fac.
X
.21
X
1.0
2.79 .21
Responsibility
Insect Molecular Biology
Insect Molecular Biology
Environmental Toxicology/Vector Biology
IPM and Pesticide Programs
1.0
Entomology Faculty - Griffin
EFT Dist.
Name
S. Kristine Braman
G. David Buntin
Wayne A. Gardner
Tracie Jenkins
Daniel R. Suiter
Total
Rank
Professor
Professor
Professor
Asst. Prof.
Assoc. Prof.
R
.85
.85
1.0
.50
T
.15
.15
E
Grad.
Fac.
1.0
X
X
X
X
X
.50
3.20 0.8
1.0
Responsibility
Ornamentals & Turfgrass IPM
Grain & Forage Crops IPM
Microbial Control of Insects – Fire Ants
Applied Insect Genetics
Urban Pest Management, Household Structural
Entomology Faculty - Tifton
EFT Dist.
Name
Rank
Steve L. Brown
G. Keith Douce
Professor
Professor
Jim Dutcher
Will Hudson
Robert McPherson
David Riley
Phillip Roberts
John Ruberson
Alton Sparks Jr.
Michel Toews
Professor
Professor
Professor
Assoc. Prof.
Assoc. Prof.
Assoc. Prof.
Assoc. Prof.
Asst. Prof.
Total
R
T
.01
E
.99
1.0
Grad.
Fac.
Peanuts/Stored Products IPM
Forestry and Natural Resource Entomology
1.0
X
Pecan & Peach Pest Management
Ornamentals & Turf, Pecans, Christmas Trees
Soybeans, Tobacco IPM
Vegetable IPM
Cotton IPM
Biological Control
Vegetable IPM
Cotton Insect Pest Management
1.0
1.0
1.0
X
X
1.0
1.0
X
.06
.94
1.0
5.0
Responsibility
.07 4.93
Entomology Faculty – Rehired Retirees
Name and
Retirement Date
C. Wayne Berisford
April 01, 2006
Robert Matthews
July 01,2004
Ronald D. Oetting
June 01, 2003
Craig Sheppard
November 30, 2003
James W. Todd
November 30, 2003
J. Bruce Wallace
July 01, 2006
Total
EFT Dist.
Rank
Professor
R
.25
T
.10
Professor
.23
.10
Professor
E
Grad.
Fac.
Responsibility
X
Forestry Entomology
X
Wasps – Biology of Social Insects
.35
X
Floriculture Crops, Greenhouse Management
Assoc. Prof.
.35
X
Veterinary Entomology
Professor
.33
Professor
.25
Host Plant Resistance – Peanut IPM
.10
1.76 .30
X
Stream Ecology – Aquatic Entomology
0
1
Jointly Appointed – 0.21 EFT – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Franklin College
Jointly Appointed - 0.22 EFT – Division of Biology, Franklin College
3
Jointly Appointed – 0.23 EFT – Georgia Museum of Natural History, Franklin College
4
Adjunct – Genetics
*Faculty Member - Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases
**Associate Faculty Member - Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases and a member of the
Division of Neurosciences in the Univ. Biomedical Health Sciences Initiative
***Faculty Member - Interdisciplinary Toxicology Program
2
Summary
EFT Distribution
Faculty Category
Tenure Track
Non-Tenure Track
R
T
E
15.60
3.91
9.83
2.79
0.21
1.00
Faculty Member
Agency and Grant
Number
Grant Title
% of
Env. EFT
Project
Period
Direct Costs
(Current Yr)
M.J. Adang
InsectiGen, Inc.
Development of Novel BtBoosters for Pest
Beetle Control
5%
9/01/200608/31/07
$72,464
M.J. Adang
PHS-NIH
RO1 AI 29092
Functional Domains of Bacillus thuringiensis
endotoxins
5%
12/05/200309/30/2008
$109,949
M.J. Adang
USDA-NRI
2004-35607-14936
Bacillus thuringiensis-Heliothis receptor
interactions
5%
9/15/20049/14/2007
$280,000
M.J. Adang
InsectiGen, Inc.
BtBooster optimization and formulation
research
5%
7/1/200512/31/2006
$34,530
Adang, M.J.
InsectiGen, Inc.
Stabilization of BtBooster for Enhanced insect
control
5%
4/01/200612/31/2006
$36,232
John All
GA Commodity
Commission Cotton
IPM using cultural control with Bt transgenic
cotton
PI
5%
2005-2006
$10,000
John All
USDA-NRI
Molecular approaches for soybean insect
resistance
CoPI
5%
2002-2006
$237,035
John All
UGA Cultivar
Development
Development of pyramided insect resistance
PI 5%
2006
$20,000
John All
GA Commodity Com
Soybean
Deployment of pyramided Bt soybean
PI 5%
2007
$10,000
John All
USDA-Small
Business Innovative
Research
Bt Booster as a biopesticides potentiator
Consultant
2%
2006-2007
$5,000
John All
Industry Various
Insecticide and transgenic crop development
PI 12
2005-2006
$56,000
Faculty Member
Darold Batzer
Agency and Grant
Number
The Nature
Conservancy
Grant Title
Restoring flood pulses to the highly regulated
Savannah River: influence on floodplain biota.
% of
Env. EFT
PI, 67%
Project
Period
8/01/2005
07/31/2007
Direct Costs
(Current Yr)
$75,000
PI, 100%
4/1/2006
3/31/2007
$18,000
1/1/2006
12/31/2007
$26,361
Darold Batzer
USGS Water
Resources Institutes
Restoring flood pulses to the highly regulated
Savannah River: influence on fish and
invertebrates
Darold Batzer
Society of Wetland
Scientists
Journal Editorship Support
C. Wayne Berisford
Pine Tip Moth Res.
Consortium
25-21-RC293-177
Biology and control of the Nantucket pine tip
moth
PI , 5%
12/11/95 –
12/31/07
$20,000
Evaluation of “Last Call” for control of the
Nantucket pine tip moth
PI, 5%
3/01/05 –
12/31/07
$36,000
C. Wayne Berisford
USDA Forest Service
25-21-RC293-301
C. Wayne Berisford
USDA Forest Service
25-21-RC293-278
Chemical ecology of the southern pine beetle
and its parasitoids
PI, 5%
6/01/03 –
6/01/07
$21,000
C. Wayne Berisford
USDA Forest Service
25-21-RC293-288
Biological control of the hemlock woolly
adelgid
PI, 5%
1/15/04 –
9/30/07
$28,000
C. Wayne Berisford
USDA Forest Service
25-21-RC293-310
Soil-injected insecticides for control of the
hemlock woolly adelgid
CO-PI, 5%
6/1/057/30/07
$41,000
C. Wayne Berisford
USDA, APHIS
25-21-RC293-321
A rearing facility for predators of the hemlock
woolly adelgid
PI, 10%
9/1/06 –
8/31/07
$50,000
C. Wayne Berisford
Georgia Power Co.
10-11-RH174-144
Hemlock woolly adelgid research
PI, 3%
2006
$50,000
Kris Braman
EPA- STAR
25-21-RD309-063
Turfgrass Environmental Research
Coop
10/01/2006
05/ 31/2007
$282,177 (Braman 3.7%)
Agency and Grant
Number
UGARF-CDP
25-21-RD318-057
Grant Title
Development of vegetative and seeded
cultivars of Seashore paspalum
% of
Env. EFT
Co-PI
Project
Period
02/15/2006
02/28/2007
Direct Costs
(Current Yr)
$70,000 (Braman 7.1%)
Kris Braman
UGARF-CDP
25-21-RD318-072
Breeding deciduous azaleas for lace bug
resistance
Co-PI
02/15/2003
02/28/2007
$7,500 (Braman 50%)
Kris Braman
USDA- CSREESSRIPM
25-21-RD318-103
Optimizing Turfgrass Pest Management for the
Southeast
PI
09/15/2004
09/15/2006
$72,680 (Braman 52%)
Kris Braman
USDA-Forest Service
25-21-RD318-212
Identifying optimal chemical controls for
management of hemlock wooly adelgid
PI
09/15/2005
09/01/2008
$60,000 (Braman 100%)
Kris Braman
USDA- Southern
SARE
25-21-RD318-215
Increasing use of sustainable plants in
production and landscape design
PI
05/09/2006
03/21/2009
$180,000 (Braman 67%)
Kris Braman
IR-4
Management of white grubs and Japanese
beetles in nursery stock
PI
PI
Open
$81,081 (Braman 100%)
Faculty Member
Kris Braman
$9,000 (Braman 100%)
06/30/2007
Kris Braman
Various industries
25-21-RD318-012
Management of insect pests of turf and
ornamentals
David Buntin
Georgia Commodity
Commission for Corn
Stink bug resistance and damage to corn
50%
2006
$20,000
David Buntin
Georgia Commodity
Commission for Corn
Nematode control in corn using seed
treatments
50%
2006
$6,000
Johnson, Buck, Buntin
Georgia Crop
Improvement
Association
Genetic improvement of wheat
20%
2006
$72,000
David Buntin
UGA Research
Foundation
Royalties from cereal grain varieties allocated
to PI programs
100%
2006
$2,000
Faculty Member
David Buntin
Agency and Grant
Number
Pioneer Hybrid Seed
Company
Keith Delaplane
US EPA
Implementing Proven IPM Practices to Reduce
Pesticide Use in Beekeeping
Keith Douce
USDA-CSREES
2631RE677289
% of
Env. EFT
100%
Project
Period
2006-2007
Direct Costs
(Current Yr)
$1,000
PI
2005-2007
$89,564
Building and Educational, Training, and
Outreach Image Support System for the
Southern Region Plant Diagnostics Network
70%
5/1/05 4/30/08
$60,000
Grant Title
Evaluations of wheat germplasm for Hessian fly
resistance
Keith Douce
USDA Forest Service
-NER
2631RE677293
Developing and Extending through Public
Awareness and Outreach FHP Healthy
Forests/Invasive Species Information and
Programs Using the Bugwood Network
50%
3/1/05 2/28/10
$50,415
Keith Douce
USDA Forest Service
NER
2631RE677295
Assisting USDA/FS, S&PF, Northeast Region,
St. Paul Field Office Implement Programs Using
the Forestry System
100%
7/8/05 7/7/07
$5,000
KeithDouce
Georgia Dept Ag pass
thru USDA-APHISPPQ
2631RE677310
Georgia Agric.
Commodity
Commission for
Pecan
Insecticide Industry
Grants
Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey (CAPS) 2006
100%
1/1/06 12/31/06
$63,840
Pecan Insect and Mite Pest Management
100%
7/1/2006
$ 8,800
Chemical Control of Pecan Insects and Mites (7
grants-in-aid)
100 %
January 1,
2006
$ 27,000
Brian Forschler
various
gifts
30%
2005
NA
Brian Forschler
various
gifts
30%
2006
NA
James D. Dutcher
James D. Dutcher
Karl Espelie
Faculty Member
Wayne Gardner
Agency and Grant
Number
USDA Pecan Weevil
(SARE-ACE)
25-21-RD318-207
% of
Env. EFT
Project
Period
Direct Costs
(Current Yr)
Co-PI
30%
2003-06
$217,500 (33%)
Co-PI
10%
2005-06
$10,000 (30%)
Co-PI
10%
2005-06
$8,000 (25%)
Pesticide Safety Education
2006-2007
$31,000
Development of an Interactive Computer
Program to Certify Private Pesticide
Applicators
2006-2007
$50,000
Increasing IPM in Georgia Schools. Ga. Dept. of
Agriculture (from EPA)
2005-2007
$45,000
PI, 20%
08/01/2003
07/31/2006
$43,560
($14,520)
Co-PI, 20%
08/15/2004 –
08/14/2007
$265,000
($25,943)
Grant Title
Integrating Biological Control Into Pecan
Weevil Management: A Sustainable Approach
Wayne Gardner
Georgia Pecan
Commission
25-21-RD318-210
Combining Entomopathogenic Nematodes with
Surfactants for Improved Pecan Weevil Control
Wayne Gardner
Georgia Pecan
Commission
25-21-RD318-083
Enhancing Control of the Pecan Weevil with
Entomopathogenic Nematodes
Guillebeau and Pettis
USDA
GDA
GDA-EPA
USDA-CSREES
GEO-2003-04846
Impacts on Pest Arthropods of In-House
Manure Composting in Commercial High-Rise
Layer Houses
USDA-CSREES
2004-51100-02208
House Fly Behavior and Improving IPM in
Confined Animal Systems
Dan Horton
South Carolina Peach
Council
Developing Novel IPM Strategies Against Plum
Curculio
5%
co-PI
2004-2006
$3,000
Dan Horton
Georgia Commodity
Commission for
Peaches
Developing Novel IPM Strategies Against Plum
Curculio
5%
co-PI
2004-2006
$2,000
Dan Horton
Georgia Commodity
Commission for
Peaches
Mating Disruption for Management of Peachtree
Borer and Lesser Peachtree Borer
5%
co-PI
2004-2006
$5,000
Nancy Hinkle
Nancy Hinkle
Faculty Member
Agency and Grant
Number
Grant Title
% of
Env. EFT
Project
Period
Direct Costs
(Current Yr)
Dan Horton
Georgia Commodity
Commission for
Peaches
Border Sprays Against Migrating Plum Curculio
5%
co-PI
2004-2006
$1,500
Dan Horton
Georgia Commodity
Commission for
Peaches
Life History of White Peach Scale
5%
co-PI
2004-2006
$1,000
Dan Horton
US EPA-SAI
Risk Reduction for Southeastern Peaches:
Implementing Mating Disruption for
Management of Borers
5%
co-PI
2005-2006
$90,000
Dan Horton
USDA RAMP
Advancing IPM & Reducing Pesticide Risks in
Eastern Peaches
8%
co-PI
2004-2008
Horton’s share $99,000
Dan Horton
USDA, IR-4
Evaluation of Low-Risk Organophosphate
Replacement Insecticides for Southeastern
Peaches
2%
2005-2006
$15,000
Dan Horton
Various account
Primarily small industry grants supporting
reduced-risk peach insecticide trials
2%
2006…
$12,776
Will Hudson
SERA-ACE
58-6606-4-225
Integrating Biological Control into Pecan
Weevil Management
Coop
10/01/04 09/30/07
$72,000 ($6000 to me)
Will Hudson
EPA Star Grant
Turfgrass Environmental Research
Coop
Thru 2006
$338,612 ($6899 to me)
Will Hudson
Ga Pecan Commodity
Commission grant
Reducing Insect Control Costs
Coop
07/01/06 06/30/07
$6000
Turfgrass Insect Management
PI
Will Hudson
$12,500
Industry Partnerships
Tracie Jenkins
LI-COR BioSciences
Genomics Education
Matching Funds
Grant Program
Integrated DNA Analyses: An Active Learning,
Network Approach to Molecular Biology For A
Small Campus
PI (5%)
2005-2006
$34,949.00
% of
Env. EFT
Project
Period
Direct Costs
(Current Yr)
Stepanitis pyrioides (Scott) Genetic Diversity,
Gene Flow and Population Structure:
Understanding the Genetics of a Successful
Invader
Population genetics research on subterranean
termite gene flow.
PI (10%)
2006
$7,500.00
PI (10%)
2006-2007
$9,400.00
National Geographic
Society Award 774004
NSF-TOL
25-21-RC293-312
Nesting Behavior of the Giant Australian Mason
Wasp
PI, 10%
11/1/2004 –
10/30/2006
$10,000
Assembling the Coleoptera Tree of Life.
Subcontract
,
20%
12/1/200509/30/2007
$655,318 award total
$92,700 total DC to JVM
($14,400 DC to JVM ‘06)
Joe McHugh
NSF-BSI
25-21-RC293-300
Beetles and their yeast associates from
basidiocarp habitats.
Co-PI, 20%
07/05/200412/31/2007
($12,210 DC to JVM ‘06)
Joe McHugh
NSF-PEET
25-21-RC293-283
Building systematics expertise in Cucujoidea
(Coleoptera): Monographic and phylogenetic
research in the Cerylonid Series.
PI, 33%
01/01/200412/31/2008
($192,614 DC to JVM ’06)
Robert McPherson
Ga. Ag Comm Comm
for soybean
2521RF330358
Screening soybeans for stink bug resistance
under natural infestations
PI 10
07/01/200512/30/2006
$5,500
Robert McPherson
Industrial Partnership
2521RF330149
Managing insect pests in soybeans and
tobacco cropping systems
PI 10
01/01/200612/30/2006
$14,000
Robert McPherson
Monsanto
2521RF330364
Evaluating Bt protected soybeans for insect
pest damage
PI 10
07/01/200509/30/2006
$12,300
Robert McPherson
Ga Ag Comm Comm
for tobacco
2521RF330374
Evaluating thrips vectors of tomato spotted wilt
virus
PI 20
07/01/200512/30/2006
$7,800
Robert McPherson
Ga Ag Comm Comm
for soybean
2521RF330--( number pending)
Advanced soybean screening for stink bug
resistance- mechanisms of resistance
PI 15
07/01/200606/30/2007
$5,100
Faculty Member
Tracie Jenkins
Agency and Grant
Number
UGA Seed Funding
for preliminary
research
Tracie Jenkins
FMC: Industry gift
Robert Matthews
Joe McHugh
Grant Title
Agency and Grant
Number
USDA So. Reg. IPM
2521RF330354
Grant Title
Assessing early-season thrips vectors of
spotted wilt
Robert McPherson
Monsanto
2521RF330375
Evaluating soybean protected with the Bt
transgrene for resistance to lepidopterans
Robert McPherson
Ga Ag Comm Comm
for cotton
2521RF330371
Insecticide resistance monitoring of Heliothines
in cotton
Faculty Member
Robert McPherson
% of
Env. EFT
Co-PI 10
Project
Period
07/01/200506/30/2006
Direct Costs
(Current Yr)
$27,902
PI 15
04/01/200603/30/2007
$18,750
Co-PI 10
01/01/200612/31/2006
$18,000
Ronald Oetting
USDA
Pesticide Evaluations on Q Whitefly
Sub-award
5%
5/01/066/30/08
$5,000
Ronald Oetting
IR-4
PI
7/01/’066/30/07
$4,000
Ronald Oetting
IR-4
PI
7/01/’066/30/07
$10,000
Jay P. Overmyer
EPA
032529-01
A multifaceted approach for detecting humaninduced insults in the waters of the
Mobile/Tensaw Delta and Mobile Bay
Co-PI
30%
11/1/2005 –
10/31/2007
$14,500
Jay P. Overmyer
Valent Biosciences
Bioassay systems and biological control of
black flies with Bacillus thuringiensis var.
israeliensis.
Co-PI
20%
1/1/2006 –
12/31/06
$85,000
Jay P. Overmyer
USDA
Standard cooperative agreement with UGA: the
role of insect vector transmission in the
pathogenesis of vesicular stomatitis virus
Co-PI
10%
6/1/2006 –
5/31/2011
$22,589
David G Riley
(subcontract)
USAID IPM-CRSP
EPP-A-00-04-0001600
Tospoviruses in vegetables (in India)
CoPI, 5%
10/01/2006
09/30/2007
$63,644 (Riley 19%)
David G. Riley
Various chemical
companies
Vegetable insecticide efficacy trials
PI, 10%
1/1/2006
12/31/2006
$74,700
Agency and Grant
Number
USDA Southern IPM
Center
Grant Title
Assessing the early-season risk of thrips
vectors of tomato spotted wilt virus
% of
Env. EFT
PI, 10%
Project
Period
7/1/2005
6/31/2006
Direct Costs
(Current Yr)
$27, 902
David G. Riley
USDA Southern IPM
Center
Development of a PMSP for tomato and pepper
in GA and SC in preparation for RAMP
PI, 10%
7/1/2006
6/31/2007
$15,000
Phillip Roberts
GA Cotton
Commission
Identifying Practical Knowledge and Solutions
for Managing the Sucking-Bug Complex in
Cotton: Research in the Southeast Region - GA
10
1/1/07
12/31/07
$23,712
Phillip Roberts
GA Cotton
Commission
Cotton Extension Programs
5
7/1/066/30/07
$87,000
Phillip Roberts
USDA
Cotton Insect Management GA
5
9/1/068/30/07
$456,566
Phillip Roberts
GA Cotton
Commission
Insecticide Resistance Monitoring of
Heliothines in Cotton
1
1/1/07
12/31/07
$18,200
Phillip Roberts
Industry Partnerships
Various
Cotton Insect Pest Management
3
1/1/07
12/31/07
Varies by year
John Ruberson
USDA – CSREES
25-21-RF330-380
10
10/01/2006
to
09/30/2007
$456,566 (Ruberson 33%)
Faculty Member
David G. Riley
Cotton Insect Management GA
John Ruberson
Cotton Incorporated
05-728SE
Identifying Practical Knowledge and Solutions
for Managing the Sucking-Bug Complex in
Cotton: Research in the Southeast Region
10
1/1/2007 to
12/31/2007
$23,712 (Ruberson 50%)
John Ruberson
Cotton Incorporated
Insecticide Resistance Monitoring of
Heliothines in Cotton
35
1/1/2007 to
12/31/2007
$22,000 (Ruberson 100%)
John Ruberson
Cotton Incorporated
Importance of Natural Enemies for Stink Bug
Control
45
1/1/2007 to
12/31/2007
$15,500 (Ruberson 100%)
Faculty Member
Alton Sparks, JR.
Agency and Grant
Number
Vidalia Onion
Committee
Alton Sparks, JR.
Industrial
Partnerships
(Various)
Alton Sparks, JR.
Industrial
Partnerships
(Other)
Grant Title
Monitoring of thrips species composition in the
Vidalia onion production region and evaluation
of efficacy of selected insecticides against
thrips on onions.
Support of Vegetable Entomology Extension
Programs
Support of Vegetable Entomology Extension
Programs
% of
Env. EFT
PI, 5%
Project
Period
11/01/20056/30/2006
Direct Costs
(Current Yr)
$2,500
PI, 40%
1/200612/2006
$62,000
PI, 10%
1/200612/2006
$8,000
Dan Suiter
Workshop
$22,000 in account
Dan Suiter
4-H
$5,000 in account
Dan Suiter
Formosan Termite
$10,000-$40,000 annually
in account
Michael Toews
Cotton Incorporated
State Support
Program
Marking methods for stink bugs in cotton
5%
01/01/0712/31/07
$19,895
Michael Toews
Georgia Cotton
Commission
Optimization of sampling methods for stink
bugs
5%
01/01/0712/31/07
$17,500
Michael Toews
UGA/CAES/Seed
Grants
Landscape scale movement of stink bugs
5%
01/01/07 –
6/30/07
$23,500
J. Bruce Wallace
NSF –
DEB-0212315
Consequences of Detrital Complexity for
Ecosystem Function
PI 30%
8/1/2002
07/31/2007
~$186,000 Total for 5 y
period $1,007,000
Faculty
Member
Past/
Current
Trainee
Mike Adang
Trainee Name
M.S.
Ph.D.
PostDoc
Deg.
at
Entry
C
Jiang Chen
Predoc
MSc
2001present
Univ. of Florida
Functional
Characterization of Bt
receptors
Research Assistant, InsectiGen
Mike Adang
C
Lohitash
Karumbiah
Predoc
MSc
2002present
Griffith Univrsity,
Queensland,
Australia
Research Assistant
USDA-NRI
Mike Adang
C
Rui Zhang
Predoc
MSc
2003present
Huazhong
Agricultural
University, China
Characterization of
altered proteinases in
Bt-Resistant Heliothis
virescens
Midgut
Aminopeptidases in
Anopheles gambiae
Mike Adang
C
Krishnareddy
Bayyareddy
Predoc
MSc
2005present
Univ. of Agricultural
Sciences, Dharwad,
India
Identification of Bt
Toxin Receptors in
Culex mosquitoes
Research Assistant
USDA-NRI
Mike Adang
C
Reben Rahman
Predoc
MSc
2006present
Clemson University
Bt mode-of-action in
Culex mosquitoes
Teaching Assistant
UGA
Mike Adang
P
Malini
Krishnamoorthy
Predoc
M.Sc.
2001-2004
India
Proteomic Analyses of
Bt Binding Proteins in
Heliothis virescens
Research Technician
Mike Adang
P
Rebecca McNall
Predoc
MSc.
1997-2004
Univ. of Vermont
Proteomic Analyses of
Insect Midgut Proteins
Research Scientist
CDC, Atlanta
Mike Adang
P
Juan Luis Jurat
Fuentes
Predoc
M.Sc.
2007-2002
University of
Valencia, Spain
Mode-of-Action of Bt
toxins in Heliothis
virescens
Assistant Professor
University of Tennessee
Mike Adng
P
Juan Luis Jurat
Fuentes
Posdoc
PhD
2002-2004
toxins in Heliothis
virescens
“
Mike Adang
P
Juan Luis Jurat
Fuentes
Asst Res.
Scientist
PhD
2005-2006
toxins in Heliothis
virescens
“
Training
Period
Prior Institution
Research Topic
Institution
Research Assistant
NIH
Faculty
Member
Past/
Current
Trainee
Mike Adang
P
Mike Adang
M.S.
Ph.D.
PostDoc
Deg.
at
Entry
Training
Period
Prior Institution
Mohd Amir
Abdullah
Post doc
PhD
2003-2006
P
Gang Hua
Post Doc
PhD
Mike Adang
P
Anu Daniel
Predoc
Mike Adang
P
Sreedhara
Sandagadal
Mike Adang
P
Mike Adang
Research Topic
Institution
Ohio State University
BtBooster as a
Biopesticide Enhancer
Scientist,
InsectiGen
1999-2000
Nagoya City
University,
Japan
Bt binding to target
insects
MSc.
1998-2002
Analyses of Bt toxin
receptor interaction in
Manduca sexta
Post doc
PhD
1993-2002
National Research
Center for Plant
Biotechnolgy, Indian
Ag Res. Institute,
New Delhi, India
Bt Receptors in
Lepidoptera
Research Professor,
Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical
Center
David Banks
Predoc
MSc
1996-2002
Univ. of Kansas
Identification of a novel
Bt-binding
aminopeptidases
Postdoctoral Researcher,
UCLA
P
Ke Luo
Pre-doc
MSc
1992-1998
Beiing Agricultural
University
Specificity of Bt toxins
for Heliothis virescens
Unknown
Mike Adang
P
Laura Kasman
Post doc
PhD
1996
Harvard Medical
School
Phage Display of Bt
toxins
Professor,
Medical College of South
Carolina
Mike Adang
P
Steve
Garczynski
Predoc
BSc
1989-1992
Purdue University
Bt Receptors in
Manduca sexta
Research Scientist, USDA
ARS, Yakima WA
Mike Adang
P
Steve
Garczynski
Predoc
MSc
1992-1999
Univ. of Georgia
Bt receptors in
Manduca sexta
Research Scientist, USDA,
ARS, Yakima WA
Mike Adang
P
Susan
Paskewitz
Post doc
PhD
1993
Centers for Disease
control, Atlanta
Bt receptors in
Manduca sexta
Professor,
University of Wisconsin,
Madison
Mike Adang
P
James Morris
Predoc
BSc
1990-1992
College of William
and Mary
Toxicity of Bt to Lesser
Corn Stalk Borer
Clemson University
Trainee Name
Assistant Research Scientist
UGAEntomology and NIH grant
(Adang)
Posdoctoral Researcher,
Rockefeller University
Faculty
Member
Past/
Current
Trainee
Trainee Name
M.S.
Ph.D.
PostDoc
John All
Past
Glenn Hammes
MPPPM
John All
Past
James Dutcher
Ph.D
M.S.
1975-1978
John All
Past
Ali Javid
PostDoc
Ph.D.
1975-1978
John All
Past
Garfield House
M.S.
B.S.
1975-1979
University of
California, Davis
John All
Past
Jane Schmidt
M.S.
B.S.
1976-1978
Michigan State
University
John All
Past
Joseph
Cheshire Jr.
M.S.
B.S.
1976-1978
UGA
John All
Past
Edward
Hornyak
M.S.
B.S.
1976-1978
UGA
John All
Past
David Alverson
Ph.D.
M.S.
1976-1979
Clemson University
John All
Past
M. Scott
Thomson
M.S.
A.B.
1976-1981
Middleberry College
Deg.
at
Entry
Training
Period
Prior Institution
Research Topic
1973-1975
Institution
DuPont Research
Michigan State
University
Field biology & control
of the grape root borer
Faculty Member, UGA,
Entomology, Tifton
Toxicology of
Methomyl on Fall
Armyworm
FDA, Washington, D.C.
Carabid Beetle
Abundance, Diversity,
and Seasonality in
Conventional and
Conservation Tillage
Cropping Systems
Allomones of
Entomophilic
Nematodes
Faculty Member, Dept. of Ent.
NC State University
Behavior of lesser
cornstalk borer in
modified cropping
systems
Faculty member, UGA
Entomology, Griffin
deceased 2/10/02
Faculty Member, National
Taiwan University, Taipei
TAIWAN ROC
UGA Cooperative Extension,
Retired
Epidemiology and
Control of Graminella
nigrifrons-borne MCD
and MDM Virus
Diseases in Corn in
Georgia
Sampling Techniques,
Spatial Distribution and
Temporal Distribution
of Fall Armyworm Egg
Masses on Sweet
Corn
Faculty Member, Dept of
Entomology, Clemson
University
Biological Sci., Univ of
Wisconsin-Parkside
Faculty
Member
Past/
Current
Trainee
John All
Trainee Name
M.S.
Ph.D.
PostDoc
Deg.
at
Entry
Training
Period
Past
William Spradlin
MPPPM
B.S.
1977-1979
North Georgia
College
John All
Past
Gail Collmann
M.S.
B.S.
1977-1979
Emory University
John All
Past
John Ellis
MPPPM
1977-1979
Clemson
John All
Past
Roger Weaver
M.S.
1977-1983
UGA
John All
Past
Myra Beisal
MPPPM
1978-1980
UGA
John All
Past
Leonard Kantiki
M.S.
1978-1982
University of Malawi,
Africa
John All
Past
Henry Highland
MPPPM
1979-1981
Merck, Research, Georgia
John All
Past
John Etheredge
MPPPM
1979-1981
Dow, Research
John All
Past
Kevin Monkman
MPPPM
1980-1982
Faculty Member, Dept. of Agri.
& Fishing BERMUDA
John All
Past
J. Couch
MPPPM
1980-1982
John All
Past
T. Hayes
MPPPM
1980-1982
B.S.
B.Sc.
Prior Institution
Research Topic
Institution
Research Associate, Crop &
Soil Sciences Dept., UGA,
Griffin
Toxicology of
Greenhouse Whitefly
Housewife, Knoxville TN
Insect Infestations
Associated with the
Maturation of Corn
Ears
IPM Consultant, Atlanta
Administrator, Florida A&M
University
Economic Threshold
for Southern Corn
Billbug
Faculty Member, University of
Malawi, Africa, deceased
11/13/93
Faculty
Member
Past/
Current
Trainee
Trainee Name
M.S.
Ph.D.
PostDoc
John All
Past
Walter Mitchell
MPPPM
1980-1982
John All
Past
E. Ruchijat
MPPPM
1981-1983
University of
Indonesia
Dept. of Agriculture,
INDONESIA
John All
Past
Kasturo
MPPPM
1981-1983
Jember University
Dept. of Agriculture,
INDONESIA
John All
Past
Michael
Saunders
Ph.D.
M.S.
1981-1984
Old Dominion
College
John All
Past
Douglas Dix
Ph.D.
B.S.
1981-1984
John All
Past
John Aleck
Ph.D.
M.S.
1982
John All
Past
Scott Foster
MPPPM
1982-1984
UGA
DuPont, Research
John All
Past
Gordon Lee
MPPPM
1982-1984
UGA
IPM Research, South Georgia
John All
Past
Thane Htay
MPPPM
1982-1984
Arts & Science
University, Rangoon
Dept. of Agriculture, Rangoon,
BURMA
John All
Past
Eric Njomou
MPPPM
1982-1984
AFRICA
Deg.
at
Entry
Training
Period
Prior Institution
Research Topic
Institution
DuPont, Research
Utilization of
Entomophilic
Rhabditoid Nematodes
for Control of Selected
Subterranean Pest
Insects
Interactive Bionomics
of the Maize Weevil
and Aspergillus flavus
Link
Faculty Member, Pennsylvania
State University Department of
Entomology
IPM and Environmental
Toxicology Consultant, Oso,
WA
Faculty
Member
Past/
Current
Trainee
John All
Past
John All
M.S.
Ph.D.
PostDoc
Deg.
at
Entry
Joseph Sayia
Laisa
M.S.
B.
Educ.
Past
Jule-Lynne
Macie
MPPPM
John All
Past
Benjamin
Rogers
Ph.D.
John All
Past
Joe Chamberlin
John All
Past
John All
Training
Period
Prior Institution
Research Topic
Institution
1983-1985
University of Nairobi
Biology of Southern
Corn Billbug
Faculty Member, Egerton
College KENYA
1984-1986
SUNY College of
Environmental
Science & Forestry
M.S.
1984-1988
UGA
Ph.D.
M.S.
1985-1988
VPI & SU
L. Paul
Guillebeau
Ph.D.
B.S.
1986-1989
UGA
Past
Wen-Feng
Hsiao
Ph.D.
M.S.
1987-1990
National Taiwan
University
John All
Past
Brian Nault
M.S.
B.S.
1988-1990
John All
Past
William Walker
B.S.A.
1988-1992
John All
Past
Hans Eckman
B.S.
1988-1992
John All
Past
Adam Berger
B.S.A.
1989-1991
Trainee Name
Rockdale Co Extn Office
Conyers, GA
as a Cultural Control
Practice for Lesser
Cornstalk Borer
Economic Threshold:
Sorghum Head Insects
Research, Salt Lake City, Utah
Interaction of
Insecticides and Biotic
and Factors
Influencing Abundance
of Heliothis spp. and
Arthropod Predators in
Cotton
Conservation
Biological Control
Practices for
Entomophilic
Nematodes
Seasonality Influence
on Soybean Insect
Resistance
Faculty Member, Department of
Entomology, UGA, Athens
Valent USA Corporation,
Research
Faculty Member, National
Chiayi Agriculture Institute,
Dept of Plant Protection,
Taiwan
Entomology Cornell University
Faculty
Member
Past/
Current
Trainee
John All
Trainee Name
M.S.
Ph.D.
PostDoc
Deg.
at
Entry
Training
Period
Past
Phillip Roberts
Ph.D.
B.S.
1989-1993
John All
Past
Michael
McGuiness
B.S.
1989-1993
John All
Past
Stephen Cook
B.S.A.
1989-1993
John All
Past
L. Paul
Guillebeau
Post Doc
John All
Past
Andre Kiss
Post Doc
John All
Past
Mike Evans
MPPPM
B.S.
1991-1993
University of
Kentucky
John All
Past
Jeff Stancil
M.S.
B.S.
1993-1995
UGA
John All
Past
Neal Stewart
Post Doc
Ph.D.
1993-1995
John All
Past
Berry Tanner
MPPPM
B.S.
1994-1996
UGA
John All
Past
Clare Fulkes
B.S.A.
1992-1996
UGA
Ph.D.
1991
Prior Institution
UGA
Research Topic
Cultural Control of Fall
Armyworm in Corn and
Soybean
Institution
Entomology, UGA, Tifton
Dept Forest Resources,
University of Idaho
UGA
1991
Entomology, UGA, Athens
Insecticidal Action of
Ozone
HUNGARY
Insecticide Efficacy
Tests on Field Crops
and Evaluation of
Commercial
Insecticidal Baits for
Suppression of the
Argentine Ant
Evaluations of
Genetically-Modified
B.t. Products for
Control of the Fall
Armyworm
Development of Bt
Soybean and Canola
Division of Plant Industry,
Georgia Department of
Agriculture
Entomologist, U.S. Navy
Faculty Member, University of
Tennessee, Knoxville
Ph.D. Program, Univ Florida, N
FL IR-4 Center
Faculty
Member
Past/
Current
Trainee
John All
Past
John All
M.S.
Ph.D.
PostDoc
Deg.
at
Entry
Training
Period
Suresh
Ramachandran
co-major
professor
Ph.D.
M.Sc.
1995-1997
Tamil Nadu
Agricultural
University, India
Past
Charles Holton
MPPPM
BSA
1995-1997
UGA
John All
Past
Brian Rector
Ph.D.
B.A.
1995-1998
Clark University
John All
Past
Toby Palmer
B.S.A.
1996-2001
John All
Past
Mark Mitchell
MPPPM
1997-1999
Auburn
IPM Consultant, South Georgia
John All
Past
Melissa Walsey
MPPPM
1997-1999
UGA
IPM Consultant, West Palm
Beach, FL
John All
Past
Christy Dickens
B.S.A.
1998-2001
Abraham Baldwin
Research
John All
Past
Jim Narvel
Post Doc
1999-2000
John All
Past
Brian Savage
MPPPM
B.S.
1999-2001
Central Connecticut
State University
John All
Past
David Hulburt
M.S.
B.S.
1999-2001
University of
Delaware
Trainee Name
Prior Institution
Research Topic
Resistance and
Deployment of
Transgenic Canola
Possessing a Bacillus
thuringiensis Gene
against Diamondback
Moth
Institution
Dow, Research
Dow, Research
Genetic Markers to
Identify soybean Insect
Resistance Genes
Mapping of Insect
Resistance Genes in
Soybean
European Biological Control
Laboratory, St. Gely du Fesc,
FRANCE
Monsanto Research, Illinois
IPM Consultant, Florida
Pubescence Anatomy
Influence on Soybean
Resistance to Insects
Technician, Crop & Soil
Sciences, UGA
Faculty
Member
Past/
Current
Trainee
John All
Trainee Name
M.S.
Ph.D.
PostDoc
Deg.
at
Entry
Training
Period
Past
Kim Lohmeyer
Ph.D.
M.S.
1999-2002
John All
Past
Daniel Potucek
B.S.A.
(posthumous)
John All
Past
Christy Dickens
MPPPM
BSA
2001-2003
UGA
Research
John All
Past
David Walker
Post Doc
Ph.D.
2001-2005
UGA
USDA-ARS Research,
Champagne, IL
John All
Past
Kim Lohmeyer
Post Doc
Ph.D.
2002-2003
UGA
John All
Past
Dean Kemp
MPPPM
BSA
2002-2003
UGA
John All
Past
Punya
Nachappa
M.S.
B.S.
2002-2004
John All
Current
Shuquan Zhu
Post Doc
Ph.D.
2003present
Gandhi Krishi
Vignana Kendra,
Bangalore,
Karnataka, India
University of
Wisconsin, Madison
John All
Past
Colleen Miko
MPPPM
B.A.
2004
University of
California, San Diego
John All
Past
Caleb
Warrington
M.S.
A.B
2004-2006
University of
Delaware
Prior Institution
University of
Tennessee
Research Topic
Precision Placement of
Aldicarb to Reduce
Insecticide
Requirements in
Cotton
2000
Institution
USDA-ARS Research, KniplingBushland Livestock Insects Res
Lab, Kerrville TX
Deceased 2000
Precision Placement of
Aldicarb to Reduce
Insecticide
Requirements in
Cotton
USDA-ARS Research, KniplingBushland Livestock Insects Res
Lab, Kerrville TX
Research Professional, UGA
Entomology
Biology and
Management of
Twolined Spittlebug, in
Turfgrass
Pyramiding native
resistant genes with Bt
transgenes in soybean
Ph.D. program, Kansas State
University
Student, Washington State
University
Linkage drag of insect
resistance genes with
yield
Ph.D. program, Crop & Soil
Sciences, UGA
Faculty
Member
Past/
Current
Trainee
John All
Trainee Name
M.S.
Ph.D.
PostDoc
Deg.
at
Entry
Current
Michelle
Samuel-Foo
Ph.D.
(2007)
M.S.
2004present
UGA
John All
Current
Nicholas Lee
MPPPM
(2007)
BSA
2006present
UGA
John All
Current
Cesar
Hostallero
MPPPM
(2008)
2006present
John All
Current
Shaku Nair
MPPPM
(2008)
2006present
Darold Batzer
C
Eric Bright
MS
BS
Training
Period
Prior Institution
2006-
Research Topic
Wetland ecology
Research Assistant, University
Of Georgia Dept. of Entomology
Wetland Ecology
Research Assistant, University
Of Georgia Dept. of Entomology
Wetland ecology
Ph.D program University of
Southern Illinois
Wetland ecology
Ph.D. program University of
California, Riverside
Stream ecology
Research Technician,
Wetland ecology
Northern Arizona University
Wetland ecology
Ph.D. program Virginia Tech
University
Wabash College, IN
Darold Batzer
C
Alani Taylor
MS
BS
2004Cornell University,
NY
Darold Batzer
P
Rich Schulteis
MS
BS
2002-2005
Allegheny College<
PA
Darold Batzer
P
Jennifer Henke
MS
BS
2002-2005
University of
Alabama
Darold Batzer
Darold Batzer
P
P
Melissa
Churchel
MS
Elizabeth Reese
MS
BS
2002-2005
Wheeling Jesuit, WV
BS
2001-2004
Mary Washington,
VA
Darold Batzer
P
Erika Kratzer
MS
BS
1999-2002
Allegheny College<
PA
Institution
Faculty
Member
Past/
Current
Trainee
Darold Batzer
P
Darold Batzer
P
Darold Batzer
P
M.S.
Ph.D.
PostDoc
Deg.
at
Entry
Training
Period
Stephanie
Haggerty
MS
BS
1998-2001
Susan DietzBrantley
MS
BS
1998-2001
Bagie George
Ph.D.
Trainee Name
Prior Institution
Syracuse University
Research Topic
Stream ecology
Environmental Lawyer, Private
practice, NJ
Wetland ecology
Part-time Biology Instructor,
Georgia Perimeter College
Wetland Ecology
Assistant Professor, George
Gwinnet University, GA
Wetland ecology
Post-doctoral Associate,
Virginia Tech University
Wetland ecology
Ph.D. program Notre Dame
University, IN
Wetland ecology
University of Florida
U. of Wisconsin
Gypsy Moth –
Southern host plants
Forest Health Specialist
Wisconsin Div. of Forestry
U. of Illinois
Bark beetle attraction
Penn State
University
MS
1998-2002
Georgia Southern
University
Darold Batzer
P
Amy Braccia
MS
BS
1997-2000
Virginia Tech
University
Darold Batzer
P
Sally Entrekin
MS
BS
1997-2000
West Georgia
College
Darold Batzer
P
Aaron Shurtleff
MS
BS
1996-2000
C. Wayne
Berisford
P
Todd Lanigan
Predoc
B.S.
1988-90
C. Wayne
Berisford
P
Rebecca Klaper
Predoc
B. S.
1993-95
C. Wayne
Berisford
P
Alberto Moreira
Predoc
M. S.
1990-93
C. Wayne
Berisford
P
C. Wayne
Berisford
P
Susquehanna
College, PA
U. of Sao Paulo,
Brazil
Carlos
Flechtmann
Predoc
Consuelo
DeMoraes
Predoc
M. S.
1995-98
U. of Sao Paulo
B. S.
1993-98
Institution
Universidade Federal
de Minas Gerais,
Brasil
Risk-rating sites for
Pine tip moth
Professor, Biology Dept.
U. of Sao Paulo, Brasil
Ambrosia beetle
pheromones
Professor, Biology Dept.
Universidade Estadual Paulista,
Ilha Solteria, Brasil
Parasitoid host
location & utilization
Associate Professor
Dept. of Entomology
Penn State U.
Faculty
Member
Past/
Current
Trainee
Trainee Name
M.S.
Ph.D.
PostDoc
Deg.
at
Entry
Training
Period
Prior Institution
Research Topic
Institution
C. Wayne
Berisford
P
Kenneth
McCravy
Predoc
M. S.
1993-1998
Old Dominion U.
Natural Enemies of the
Nantucket pine tip
moth
Associate Professor
Biology Dept.
Western Illinois U.
C. Wayne
Berisford
P
Darrell Ross
Predoc
M. S.
1987-91
Oregon State U.
Growth impact –
Nantucket pine tip
moth
Professor, Forest Resources
Oregon State U.
C. Wayne
Berisford
P
Michael
Camann
Predoc
M. S.
1992-95
U. California,
Berkeley
Southern pine beetle
population growth
model
Professor, Forestry Dept.
Humboldt U.
C. Wayne
Berisford
P
Brian Sullivan
Predoc
B. A.
1992-97
George Mason U.
Host location cues for
southern pine beetle
parasitoids
C. Wayne
Berisford
P
Christopher
Asaro
Predoc
M. S.
1997-2001
Syracuse U.
C. Wayne
Berisford
P
Christopher
Fettig
Predoc
M. S.
1997-99
Pine tip moth
population estimation
and damage
thresholds
Optimizing control of
the Nantucket pine tip
moth
Research Scientist
USDA Forest Service
Southern Station
Pineville, LA
Director, Pest Management
Virginia Dept. of Forestry
Charlottesville, VA
C. Wayne
Berisford
P
John Nowak
Predoc
C. Wayne
Berisford
C
C. Wayne
Berisford
C
Jessica Beck
Predoc
B. S.
2004-06
C. Wayne
Berisford
P
Goeran
Birgersson
Postdoc
Ph. D.
1988-91
C. Wayne
Berisford
P
Thomas Eager
Postdoc
James Young
Virginia Polytechnic
Institute & SU
Predoc
B. S.
B. S.
1995-2001
U. of Florida
Growth impact of tip
moths, parasitoid
impact
Syracuse U.
Nantucket pine tip
moth control – timing
optimization
2002-06
U. of Missouri
Goteborg Univ.,
Sweden
Ph. D.
1993-94
U. of California,
Berkeley
Research Scientist
USDA Forest Service
Davis, CA
Director, Healthy Forest
Initiative, USDA Forest Service,
Forest Health Protection,
Asheville, NC
Temporary postdoc, UGA
Dept. of Entomology
Control of pine tip
moths with
“attracticides”
M. S. candidate, UGA
Dept. of Entomology
Bark beetle parasitoid
kairomone chemistry
Lecturer, Dept. of Chemistry,
University of Lund
Sweden
Evaluation of southern
pines as hosts for the
pine shoot beetle
Zone Leader, USDA Forest
Service, Forest Pest
Management, Gunnison, CO
Faculty
Member
Past/
Current
Trainee
Trainee Name
M.S.
Ph.D.
PostDoc
Deg.
at
Entry
Training
Period
C. Wayne
Berisford
P
Elizabeth
Skillen
Postdoc
Ph. D.
1996-97
C. Wayne
Berisford
P
Brian Sullivan
Postdoc
Ph. D.
1998-99
C. Wayne
Berisford
P
C. Wayne
Berisford
P
Chris Asaro
Postdoc
Ph. D.
2003-05
C. Wayne
Berisford
C
Thomas
Coleman
Postdoc
Ph. D.
2006 -
Kris Braman
P
Julie Balsdon
Predoc
BS
1991-1993
Kris Braman
P
Yuefang Wang
Predoc
BS
1993-1996
Kris Braman
P
Jeffrey Gillman
Predoc
MS
1994-1997
Chris Fettig
Postdoc
Ph. D.
Prior Institution
U. of Georgia
Research Topic
Institution
Review of forest insect
pheromones
National Park Service
UGA
Bark beetle attacks in
relation to intensity of
prescribed burns
UGA
Tree mortality from
burn-induced bark
beetle attacks
Research Entomologist, USDA
Forest Service,
Forest pest Research
Pineville, LA
Research Entomologist
USDA Forest Service, Forest
Pest Research, Davis, CA
Attract and kill
technology for pine tip
moth control
Director, Forest Pest Mgt.
Virginia Forestry Dept.
Charlottesville, VA
Predators of the
hemlock woolly adelgid
Research Associate
Dept. of Entomology, UGA
Biology and Ecology of
Anagrus takeyanus
Gordh (Hymenoptera:
Mymaridae), an egg
parasite of the azalea
lace bug
Identification of azalea
genotypes resistant to
azalea lace bug
(Heteroptera:
Tingidae) and possible
resistance
mechanisms
Resistance of Buddleia
taxa to the two spotted
spider mite
(Teranychus urticae
Koch)
Private consultant for the
nursery industry, freelance
writer
1999-2000
UGA
U. of Kentucky
Associate Professor, University
of Minnesota
Faculty
Member
Past/
Current
Trainee
Kris Braman
P
Kris Braman
M.S.
Ph.D.
PostDoc
Deg.
at
Entry
Training
Period
Prior Institution
William
Klingeman
Predoc
MS
1995-1998
P
Colin Stewart
Predoc
MS
1997-2000
Penn State
Kris Braman
P
Greg Hodges
Predoc
MS
1997-2001
Auburn University
Kris Braman
P
Susan
Shortman
Predoc
BS
1996-2001
Gretchen V.
Pettis
Predoc
Kris Braman
P
Trainee Name
Auburn University
BS
2001-2005
Research Topic
Developing decisionmaking guidelines for
control of azalea lace
bug Stephanitis
pyrioides (Scott)
(Heteroptera:Tingidae)
Evaluating and
improving pest
management in the
urban landscape
Life history information
including degree-day
relationships and
taxonomy of scale
insects found in the
urban landscape
Resistance and
susceptibility among
turfgrass and potential
weedy hosts to
twolined spittlebug
Prosapia bicincta (Say)
Hemiptera: Cercopidae
Management of insect
pests of crape myrtle
(Lagerstoemia spp.)
with special reference
to the ecology and
biology of Altica litigate
Fall (Coleoptera:
Chrysomelidae
Institution
Associate Professor, University
of Tennessee
USDA, APHIS employee
Beltsville
Taxonomist, Florida
Department of Plant Industry
Teacher at Atlanta Alternative
School
Public Service Assistant,
Extension Ipm Programs,
University of Georga
Faculty
Member
Past/
Current
Trainee
Kris Braman
P
Kris Braman
M.S.
Ph.D.
PostDoc
Deg.
at
Entry
Training
Period
Prior Institution
Shimat V.
Joseph
Predoc
BS
2004-2006
Kerala University
C
Shimat V.
Joseph
Predoc
MS
2006-
Kris Braman
C
Gretchen Pettis
Post-doc
PhD
2006
David Buntin
P
Timothy G. Daly
M.S.
BS
2001-2003
UGA
David Buntin
P
Suresh
Ramachandran
Ph.D.
M.S.
1996-1998
-
Characterization of Bt
resistance in canola
Bt Cotton Research
Coordinator, Dow
AgroSciences, Bombay, India
David Buntin
P
Wen-Feng
Hsiao
Ph.D.
M.S.
1990
-
Did not complete
program
Unknown
Effects of comb age on
honey bee colony
growth, brood
survivorship and adult
mortality
Small hive beetle IPM
Trainee Name
Keith Delaplane
Past
Jennifer Berry
Undergraduate
-
1997
NA
Keith Delaplane
Past
Jamie Ellis
Undergraduate
-
1998
NA
Keith Delaplane
Past
Tapha Martin
Undergraduate
-
1999-2000
NA
Research Topic
The Potential Role Of
Heteropteran
Predators - Geocoris
Punctipes (Say), G.
Uliginosus (Say)
(Geocoridae) And
Orius Insidiosus (Say)
(Anthocoridae) In
Warm - Season
Turfgrass
Management of
Hemlock Wooly
Adelgid in the
Landscape
Increasing use of
sustainable plants in
production and
landscape
Effect of Bt corn on
Beneficial Arthropods
Productivity of Kenya
top-bar hives versus
conventional hives
Institution
Ph.D. Student University of
Georgia
County agent, Gwinnet County,
GA
Research Coordinator, Honey
Bee Lab, Dept. Entomology,
Assistant Professor, University
of Florida
Past/
Current
Trainee
Keith Delaplane
Trainee Name
M.S.
Ph.D.
PostDoc
Deg.
at
Entry
Training
Period
Past
Jennifer Berry
M.S.
B.S.
1997-2000
Keith Delaplane
Past
Selim Dedej
Ph.D.
Keith Delaplane
Past
Nabor Chavez
Mendizabal
M.S.
B.S.
2002-2004
Universidad Mayor
de San Simon,
Cochabamba, Bolivia
Keith Delaplane
Past
Jamie Ellis
PostDoc
Ph.D.
2004-2006
Keith Delaplane
Current
Amanda Ellis
Ph.D.
M. Sc.
Keith Delaplane
Current
Eleanor Spicer
M.S.
B. Sc.
Faculty
Member
James D.
Dutcher
Current
Joey Williamson
Grad.
Student
James D.
Dutcher
Past
Tricia McCarthy
Undergrad
Res.
James. D.
Dutcher
Past
Dr. M. Hurej
Full-bright
Fellow
James D.
Dutcher
Past
Dr. W. Kaakeh
Post doc
Prior Institution
UGA
Institution
Effects of comb age on
honey bee colony
growth, brood
survivorship and adult
mortality
Bee foraging behavior
and pollinating activity
on rabbiteye blueberry
Vaccinium ashei
Reade
A multi-character
honey bee breeding
protocol
Research Coordinator, Honey
Bee Lab, Dept. Entomology,
Rhodes University,
Grahamstown, South
Africa
Small hive beetle IPM
Assistant Professor, University
of Florida
January
2005present
Rhodes University,
Grahamstown, South
Africa
Foraging ecology of
bees
August
2005present
University
Pollination of
watermelon
2001-2004
MS
Research Topic
Post Doctoral Associate,
Department of Entomology,
Texas A&M University, College
Station TX
3 years
Univ. Arkansas
Biocontrol of Pecan
Aphids
PhD. Student, Grad. Teaching
Asst.
1
semester
UGA
Control of Fall
Webworm
Undergrad. Student
PhD.
Hab.
1 year
Univ Wroclaw
Pecan Aphid Control
Professor, Univ. Wroclaw,
Poland
PhD.
2 years
Grad. Student
Pecan Aphid
Bionomics
Professor, Univ United Arab
Emerates, Adjunct at Purdue
Past/
Current
Trainee
James D.
Dutcher
Trainee Name
M.S.
Ph.D.
PostDoc
Deg.
at
Entry
Training
Period
Past
Dr. R. L. Bugg
Post doc
PhD.
3 years
James D.
Dutcher
Past
Rod Heyerdahl
Grad
student
MS
BS
James D.
Dutcher
Past
J. H. Gillman
Grad
Student
MS
James D.
Dutcher
Past
Lynn Swain,
Mary Greer,
Carol McClean
Brian Forschler
past
Brian Forschler
past
Faculty
Member
Research Topic
Institution
Univ. Calif – Davis
Ground covers for
pecan
Professor, Univ. California Davis
3 years
Univ. Georgia
Leafminers of Pecan
Staff Scientist, Asgrow Seed
BS
2 years
Franklin Marshall
Fall Webworm
Biocontrol
Extension Specialist, Univ
Minnesota
GIFT
Fellows
MS
1
semester
Tift Co. High School
Design of Biology Lab
Exercises with Insects
Tift Co. High School
Jeanine Blachly
MS
candidate
BS
1993-1996
NA
Argentine ant food
preference
Instructor at Mercer University
College
Douglas butts
Post doc
PhD
1995-1997
Micro- satellites and
subterranean termites
Professor, Berry College
Agonism in
subterranean termite
populations
Case worker at Chemreg in
Washington DC
Tunneling behavior in
Scientist at USDA Bee
laboratory, Boulder, CO
Maternallineage and
social structure of
subterranean temrites
AssistantProfessor UGA
Protist symbyionts in
PhD candidate at UGA
Prior Institution
Karl Espelie
UGA
Brian Forschler
Brian Forschler
past
past
Janine Polizzi
Theresa Singer
Ms
Candidate
BS
Post doc
PhD
1995-1997
cornel
1997-1998
UGA
Brian Forschler
past
Tracie Jenikins
Post doc
PhD
1996-2000
UGA
Brian Forschler
past
Jennifer Lewis
Ms
Candidate
BS
2001-2003
University of
Louisville
Faculty
Member
Past/
Current
Trainee
Brian Forschler
past
Trainee Name
M.S.
Ph.D.
PostDoc
Deg.
at
Entry
Training
Period
Sabine Grube
Post doc
PhD
2001-2003
Prior Institution
Free University of
Berlin
Brian Forschler
past
Verna Blaske
Post doc
PhD
1001-2002
Free University of
Berlin
Research Topic
Institution
Ontogeny of
Conservation Officer
Pennemude, Germany
Pathogens in
field populations
Research Scientist University of
Florida
Biomolecular
indicators of vigor in
Instructor at Athens Technical
Institute
Brian Forschler
past
Timothy
Arquette
Ms
Candidate
BS
2002-2005
Brian Forschler
present
Andrew Nuss
PhD
Candidate
MS
2003Present
Purdue
Neuropeptides in
UGA
Brian Forschler
present
Jeffery Whitman
Ms
Candidate
BS
2002present
Georgia Southern
Daily behavior of
UGA
Brian Forschler
present
Jennifer Lewis
PhD
candidate
MS
2003present
UGA
Subterranean termite
reproductive strategies
UGA
Brian Forschler
present
David SilliamDuesys
Post doc
PhD
2005present
University of Dijon
Tracking termite field
populations using
maternal markers
UGA
Wayne Gardner
C
Erika A. Scocco
Predoc
B.S.
2005-06
Wingate University
Pecan Weevil
Management Using
Deuteromycete Fungi
Wayne Gardner
C
Wen-Feng
Hsiao
Post
Ph.D.
2006
National Chiayi
University
(Taiwan)
Fire Ant Biology
Wayne Gardner
P
Reid M. Ipser
Predoc
M.S.
2000-04
Texas Tech
University
Ecology and
Management of Pest
Ant Species
General Manager
HomeTeam Pest Defense
Wayne Gardner
P
Mark A.
Brinkman
Post
Ph.D.
1998-2004
South Dakota State
University
Biological Control of
Imported Fire Ants
Assistant Professor
Biology Department
Gordon College
(grant supported)
Visiting Scientist
(sabbatic leave)
Faculty
Member
Past/
Current
Trainee
Wayne Gardner
Trainee Name
M.S.
Ph.D.
PostDoc
Deg.
at
Entry
Training
Period
P
Mary A. Harris
Post
Ph.D.
Wayne Gardner
P
Mary A. Harris
Predoc
Wayne Gardner
P
Roberto Cesnik
Wayne Gardner
P
Wayne Gardner
Prior Institution
Research Topic
Institution
1995-96
Microbial Control of
Fungus Gnats
Adjunct Professor
Biology Department
Iowa University
M.S.
1993-95
University of
California-Riverside
Fungus Gnat
Management
Adjunct Professor
Biology Department
Iowa University
Post
Ph.D.
1993-94
????
Microbial Control with
Entomogenous Fungi
Ronald D.
Harrison
Predoc
M.S.
1989-92
P
Gail O.
Richards
Predoc
B.S.
1990-92
Wayne Gardner
P
Brian T.
Forschler
Predoc
M.S.
Wayne Gardner
P
Gregory K.
Storey
Predoc
Wayne Gardner
P
Jonathan A.
Hornby
Wayne Gardner
P
Wayne Gardner
Paul Guillebeau
EMBRAPA
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Microbial Control of the
Pecan Weevil
Manager
Orkin Training Center
University of Guyana
Entomogenous Fungal
Dynamics in Soils
????
1986-90
University of
Kentucky
Biological Control of
Scarabaeid Grubs with
Nematodes
Associate Professor
Department of Entomology
B.S.
1985-87
Georgia Tech
Movement of
Entomogenous Fungi
in Soils
Manager
Bayer Corporation
Predoc
B.S.
1982-84
Florida Institute of
Technology
Lepidopterous Pests
Mosquito Abatement Program,
Lee County, Florida
S.H. Wang
Post
Ph.D.
1983
???
Insect Pests
Senior Specialist
Crop Protection Division
Taiwan (ROC)
P
Robert D.
Schwehr
Predoc
B.S.
1980-81
Clemson University
Lepidopterous Pests
Field Development
BASF Corporation
X
Gretchen Pettis
Post-Doc
Ph.D.
2005present
UGA
Ornamentals
Public Service Asst. UGA
Past/
Current
Trainee
G.A. Herzog
(deceased)
Trainee Name
M.S.
Ph.D.
PostDoc
Deg.
at
Entry
Training
Period
Past
Marion Burgwin
M.S.
B.S.
-1981
Herbicide effects on
insect predators and
pests
Unknown
G.A. Herzog
(deceased)
Past
Archie Morris
M.S.
B.S.
-1982
Monitoring of boll
weevils
Unknown
G.A. Herzog
(deceased)
Past
Davis Martin
M.S.
B.S.
-1985
Effects of flea beetles
on tobacco
Unknown
Nancy Hinkle
Current
Aubree Roche
M.S.
B.S.
2005present
UGA
Alphitobius Beetles as
Reservoirs
Nancy Hinkle
Past
Lauren Wood
Young
Scholar
H.S.
2006
Morgan Co. H.S.
Alphitobius Beetle
Pesticide Testing
High School Senior
Nancy Hinkle
Past
Max Kerr
Young
Scholar
H.S.
2005
Cedar Shoals H.S.
Survey of Grazed
Pasture Arthropods
Freshman, UGA
Nancy Hinkle
Past
Christina Faust
Young
Scholar
H.S.
2004
Cedar Shoals H.S.
Three-Year Survey of
Clarke Co. Ticks
Freshman, UGA
Dan Horton
Past
Greg Hodges
PostDoc
Ph.D.
2001-2002
UGA
Scale biology and
control in peaches
Florida Department of
Agriculture, Division of Plant
Industry
Dan Horton
Past
Tim Daly
M.S.
2002
UGA
Efficacy of reducedrisk insecticides in
peaches
Extension Agent, Gwinnett
County, Georgia
Dan Horton
Past
Amanda
Hodges
Ph.D.
2002
UGA
Plum curculio host
range
Entomology and Nematology
Department
University of Florida
Dan Horton
co-major
Past
Zhiwen Lan
M.S.
2002-2004
University of
Saskatchewan
Ecology of peach scab
and plum curculio
Harris Moran Company,
Modesto, CA
Faculty
Member
M.S.
Plant
Pathology
Prior Institution
Research Topic
Institution
M.S. Student
University Of Georgia Dept. of
Entomology
Faculty
Member
Past/
Current
Trainee
Dan Horton
Trainee Name
M.S.
Ph.D.
PostDoc
Deg.
at
Entry
Training
Period
Past
David Jenkins
PostDoc
Ph.D.
2002-2005
UGA
Plum curculio host
range and mobility
Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
Dan Horton
co-major
Past
Sean Lennon
B.S.
2003-2004
Middle Georgia
College
Reduced-risk IPM for
baby food peaches in
the southeast
Farm Manager, Barnes
Orchards, Meriwether County,
GA
Dan Horton
Current
Sara Hague
M.S.
(Clemson
Univ,
Horticulture)
M.Sc.
B.S.
2003present
Florida State
University
Biological control of
the glassy winged
sharpshooter
Teacher, Gwinnett County
School System
Dan Horton
Current
Jaime Fuest
Ph.D.
M.S.
2005present
Virginia
Commonwealth
Ph.D. program, Entomology,
Robert
Matthews
P
Leif D. Deyrup
Predoc
BS
2001-2005
Stetson University
Ecology and
management of the
peachtree borer
complex
Behavior of Melittobia
wasps
Robert
Matthews
P
Jorge M.
González
Post-doc
PhD
2001-2005
Universidad Central
de Venezuela
Melittobia biology
Robert
Matthews
P
Christian S.
Torres
MS
BS
2002-2004
Univ. Rural de
Pernambuco,
Recife, BRAZIL
Parasitoid wasp host
finding cues
Ph.D. Student, Recife, BRAZIL
Robert
Matthews
P
Christopher S.
Hartley
BS
Honor
-
2000-2002
UGA
Male combat in
Melittobia
Science Educator
Missouri Botanical Gardens
St. Louis, MO
Robert
Matthews
P
David A.
Jenkins
Predoc
MS
1998-2002
Clemson University
Xylophilous
Hymenoptera & fire
ants
Research Scientist, USDA
Mayaquez, PUERTO RICO
Robert
Matthews
P
Carolyn S.
Kemppinen
MS
BS
1994-1998
?
Prior Institution
Research Topic
Development &
Rearing of Soldier flies
Institution
Mosquito Surveillance
Coordinator,
Maine Dept. Public Health,
Albany, ME
Research Scientist, Texas
A & M University, College
Station, TX
USDA Research Lab.
Athens, GA
Past/
Current
Trainee
Robert
Matthews
Trainee Name
M.S.
Ph.D.
PostDoc
Deg.
at
Entry
Training
Period
P
Timothy Foard
MS
BS
1992-1994
Robert
Matthews
P
Jerome E.
Freilich
Predoc
MS
Robert
Matthews
P
Touré G.
Thompson
Predoc
Robert
Matthews
P
Linda Flage
Robert
Matthews
P
Robert
Matthews
P
Faculty
Member
Robert
Matthews
Research Topic
Institution
?
Systematics of tachinid
flies
Pest Control Consultant
Washington, DC
1986-1990
Cornell University
Dispersal of
Pteronarcys stoneflies
Research Coordinator
Olympia National Park,
Olympia, WA
MS
1989-1995
Clemson University
Dispersal Behavior of
Melaworms
Associate Professor
Florida A & M University
Tallahassee, FL
Post-doc
PhD
1996
Science Educ.
Science curricular
materials development
PhD student at NC State
Sara L. Ranger
MS
BS
1994-1996
Kalamazoo College
Role of surface
hydrocarbons in host
recognition
North Carolina, Unknown
Stacey A. Lapp
MS
BS
1989-1991
Troy State University
Comparative courtship
of Melittobia wasps
Research Technician, Poultry
Science, UGA, Athens, GA
Jorge M.
González
MS
BS
1983-1985
Universidad Central
de Venezuela
Sex Pheromones in
Melittobia
Research Scientist
Texas A & M University
College Station, TX
Prior Institution
Robert
Matthews
P
Christopher K.
Starr
Post-doc
PhD
1981-1983
Social Behavior of
Microstigmus wasps
Professor of Zoology, Univ. of
West Indies, St. Augustine,
TRINIDAD
Robert
Matthews
P
Adam Messor
MS
BS
1982-1984
Univ. of Kansas
World’s largest bee
from New Guinea
Research Scientist, USAID,
AFRICA
Robert
Matthews
P
Gerold Morrison
Predoc
MS
1981-1985
Florida State
University
Population dynamics
and modeling of
Trichogramma
SWIM program, Tampa, FL
Robert
Matthews
P
Randall Cooper
Predoc
MS
1982-1986
Camelia scale insect
parasitoid biology
HS Science Teacher, Spring
Lake, MI
Past/
Current
Trainee
Robert
Matthews
Trainee Name
M.S.
Ph.D.
PostDoc
Deg.
at
Entry
Training
Period
P
Margaret Hodge
MS
BS
1983-1985
Robert
Matthews
P
Allan Hook
MS
BS
1975-1978
Robert
Matthews
P
Kathleen
Phillips
MS
BS
1975-1978
Robert
Matthews
P
Mary Lambright
MS
BS
1977-1979
Pholcus spider whirling
behavior
Unknown
Robert
Matthews
P
Owen
Crankshaw
MS
Bs
1978-1980
Mating Behavior of
Megarhyssa wasps
Chapel Hill, NC, private industry
Robert
Matthews
P
Paul Decelles
MS
BS
1974-1976
University of Kansas
Behavior of Pheidole
megacephala ants
Assoc. Professor of Biology,
Overland Park Community
College, Kansas
Robert
Matthews
P
John
MacDonald
Post-doc
PhD
197619976
Washington State U.
Yellowjacket biology
Professor Emeritus, Purdue
University, W. Lafayette, IN
Robert
Matthews
P
Cynthia J.
Kislow
MS
BS
1972-1975
University of
Massachusetts
Nesting behavior of
Ceratina bees
Retired, unknown
Robert
Matthews
P
Robert
Jacobson
MS
BS
1975-1979
Cornell University
Systematics of
yellowjacket wasps
Research Technician, Greer
Laboratories, Inc. Lenoir, NC
Robert
Matthews
P
Joan W. Krispyn
Predoc
MS
1975-1978
Nesting Behavior of
Polistes wasps
Retired, Athens, GA
Robert
Matthews
P
Lisa D.
Hermann
MS
BS
1969-1971
Courtship behavior of
Melittobia
Retired, unknown
Faculty
Member
Prior Institution
University of Maine
Research Topic
Institution
Spider dispersal
behavior
Professor of Biology, Wooster
University, Wooster, OH
Sand Wasp nesting
behavior
Professor of Biology, St.
Edwards University, Austin, TX
Seattle, WA, unknown
Univ. of
Massachusetts
Faculty
Member
Past/
Current
Trainee
Joe McHugh
Trainee Name
M.S.
Ph.D.
PostDoc
Deg.
at
Entry
Training
Period
P
Erich H. Tilgner
Pre-doc
M.S.
1997-2002
Cornell University
Systematics of
Phasmida
Staff member, Fernbank
Museum and Science Center,
Atlanta, GA
Joe McHugh
P
Tatiana G.
Kiselyova
Pre-doc
PH.D.
1998-2003
Moscow State
University, Russia
Systematics of
Dermestidae
(Coleoptera)
Mother/Housewife
Joe McHugh
P
Erica Chiao
Pre-doc
M.S.
1998-2000
Temple University
Phylogenetic study of
Sphindidae
(Coleoptera)
Working for pharmaceutical
company in Philadelphia, PA
Joe McHugh
(with Ken Ross)
P
James P. Pitts
Pre-doc
Ph.D.
1998-2002
University of
Tennessee
Assistant Professor, Utah State
University, Logan, UT
Joe McHugh
P
Christopher S.
Hartley
Pre-doc
M.S.
2003-2005
Systematics of the fire
ants of the Solenopsis
saevissima species
group.
Systematics of
Latridiidae
(Coleoptera)
Joe McHugh
C
Juanita A.
Forrester
Pre-doc
M.S.
2001present
Reinhardt College
Systematics of
Coccinellidae
(Coleoptera)
Grad student, UGA
Joe McHugh
C
Floyd W.
Shockley
Pre-doc
PH.D.
2002present
University of Missouri
Systematics of
Endomychidae
(Coleoptera)
Grad student, UGA
Joe McHugh
C
Jose Adriano
Giorgi
Pre-doc
PH.D.
2004present
Universidade de Sao
Paulo, Brazil
Systematics of
Coccinellidae
(Coleoptera)
Grad student, UGA
Joe McHugh
C
James A.
Robertson
Pre-doc
PH.D.
2003present
Brigham Young
University
Phylogenetic studies of
Phasmida and
Cerylonid Series
Grad student, UGA
Joe McHugh
C
Nathan P. Lord
Pre-doc
M.S.
2006present
Systematics of
Bothrideridae
(Coleoptera)
Grad student, UGA
Robert
McPherson
P
Holly June
Ferguson
Predoc
BS
1981-1983
Clemson University
Arthropod predators in
four soybean cropping
systems
Extension Coordinator Spec.
Washington State Univ.
Prior Institution
Research Topic
Institution
Staff Entomologist, Missouri
Botanical Garden, St. Louis,
MO
Past/
Current
Trainee
Robert
McPherson
Trainee Name
M.S.
Ph.D.
PostDoc
Deg.
at
Entry
Training
Period
P
John Deighan
Predoc
BS
1981-1983
Virginia Tech
Effect of cropping
systems on soybean
arthropod pests
Computer programmer and
business man
Robert
McPherson
P
Daniel Joseph
Donahue
Predoc
BS
1983-1985
Cornell University
Insecticidal response
of spider mites on
soybean
Farm Owner/Manager
Robert
McPherson
P
David Chyen
Predoc
BS
19901991
National Taiwan
University
Evaluating stink bug
management options
for soybeans
Research Scientist Dept. of
Agriculture in Taiwan
Robert
McPherson
P
Titi Hendrawati
Mintarsih
Predoc
BS
19901991
Bogor Agriculture
University
Impacts of host plant
resistance and trap
cropping in soybean
Assistant Sec. of Agriculture in
Indonesia
Robert
McPherson
P
Amy Lee
Lambert
Predoc
BS
1994-1995
Host plant resistance
mechanisms for
control of whiteflies
Research Scientist Syngenta
Crop Protection
Robert
McPherson
P
Marvin Leonard
Wells
Predoc
MS
1997-1999
Georgia Southern
University
Dynamics of cotton
aphids in an integrative
system
Assistant Professor University
of Georgia
Robert
McPherson
P
Charles Scott
Bundy
Predoc
MS
1997-1999
University of
Southern Illinois
Dynamics of stink bugs
in a cotton/ soybean
ecosystem
Associate Professor
New Mexico State University
Robert
McPherson
P
Michael Paul
Seagraves
Predoc
BS
2001-2002
Centre College
Impact of fire ants on
soybean arthropods
Completing PhD at the
University of Kentucky
Ray Noblet
P
J. P. Overmyer
Predoc
MS
1998-2002
Biological Impacts of
Contaminants in Urban
Streams
Asst. Research Scientist
University Of Georgia Dept. of
Entomology
GA College and
State University
Impacts of algae on
efficacy of Bti toxins on
black flies
Program Coordinator – UGA
Dept. of Entomology
University of GA
Service learning in
Entomology
Program Coordinator-UGA
Dept. of Entomology
Faculty
Member
Prior Institution
Clemson University
Ray Noblet
Ray Noblet
p
C
Marianne
Robinette
Predoc
Marianne
Robinette
Predoc
BS
MS
1999-2001
2004Present
Research Topic
Institution
Faculty
Member
Past/
Current
Trainee
Ray Noblet
C
Trainee Name
M.S.
Ph.D.
PostDoc
Deg.
at
Entry
Training
Period
Paul Smith
Predoc
MS
2006-
Prior Institution
New Mexico State
University
Ron Oetting
P
Michael Bodri
M.S.
B.S.
1980-1983
University of
Maryland
Ron Oetting
P
Randall M.
Cooper
Ph.D.
M.S.
1982-1986
Ohio State
Ron Oetting
P
Tong-xian Liu
Ph.D.
Ron Oetting
P
Denise Olson
PostDoc
Ron Oetting
P
Mary Harris
Ph.D.
1992-1995
Ron Oetting
P
Scott Ludwig
Ph.D.
1996-1999
Ron Oetting
P
Juang-Horng
Chong
M.S.
1999-2001
Ron Oetting
P
Juang-Horng
Chong
Ph.D.
M.S.
2001-2005
Jay P.
Overmyer
Current
David Rouse
Pre
doctoral
Toxicolog
y and
Entomolo
gy
BS
2005-
Research Topic
Institution
Vector Biology of Black
Flies and Env. Impacts
of Control
Research Assistant – USDA
and Industrial Partnership
Funds
Environmental
Manipulations and
Their Effects on the
Developmental Biology
of Liriomyza trifolii
Life History and
Control of Camellia
Scale and Tea Scale
on Camellia and Holly
Veterinarian in Pennsylvania
1989-1992
Ph.D.
1994-1997
Teaches at a College in
Michigan
Texas A&M University,
Agriculture Expt Stn,
Weslaco, TX
Kansas State
Natural Enemies of
Pests of Ornamentals
Faculty, Department of
Entomology, North Dakota
State
Colorado State
University
Relationships among
water quality, land use
and macroinvertebrate
community structure
Research assistant
Black fly biocontrol grant
UGA toxicology program
scholarship
Past/
Current
Trainee
Trainee Name
Jay P.
Overmyer
Current
Grant Howell
Jay P.
Overmyer
Current
Benjamin
Brewer
David Riley
(major advisor)
P
Jennifer B.
Thielen
David Riley
(committee
member)
P
David Riley
(major advisor
M.S.
Ph.D.
PostDoc
Deg.
at
Entry
Training
Period
Pre
doctoral
Entomolo
gy
Pre
doctoral
Entomolo
gy
Predoc
BS
2006-
BS
2006-
BS
1998-1999
Yan Wang
Predoc
MS
P
Chatchawan
Chaisuekul
Predoc
David Riley
(major advisor)
P
Wei-Jia Tan
David Riley
(major advisor)
P
David Riley
(major advisor)
Faculty
Member
Prior Institution
Research Topic
Institution
Stable isotopes in
black flies: effects of
temperature and flow
on seasonal variation
Effects of algae on
black fly feeding and
ingestion rates
Research assistant
Teaching Assistant
Entomology department
Research technician II
Winthrop University,
SC USA
Insect contaminants of
leafy greens
technician
Winthrop University, SC
1998-2001
Zhejiang Agricultural
University, China
Insect chemical
ecology
FMC Corporation,
Development, CA
BS
1998-2000
University of
Delaware, DE USA
Thrips transmission of
Tospovirus
Continued on in a PhD program
at the University of Georgia
Postdoc
PhD
1999-2001
Chinese Academy of
Agricultural
Sciences, China
Insecticide resistance
and whitefly
reproduction
Postdoc at University of
Massachusetts
Houston Joost
Predoc
MS
2000-2003
University of
Delaware, DE USA
Thrips feeding and
settling behavior
FMC Corporation, Regional
Product Manager, OR
P
Chatchawan
Chaisuekul
Predoc
MS
2000-2004
University of
Georgia, GA USA
Thrips reproduction on
crop and weed hosts
Chulalongkorn University,
Assistant Professor, Thailand
David Riley
(major advisor)
P
Anitha Chitturi
Predoc
BS
2003-2005
Acharya N. G. Ranga
Agricultural
University, India
Pollen effects on thrips
behavior
Continued on in a PhD program
at the University of Georgia
David Riley
(major advisor)
P
James “Shine”
Taylor
Predoc
BS
2004-2006
University of
Georgia, GA USA
Economic injury level
for beet armyworm in
tomato
PhD program at the University
of Florida
David Riley
(major advisor)
C
Anitha Chitturi
Predoc
MS
2006-
University of
Georgia, GA USA
Thrips vector survey in
India
PhD program at the University
of Georgia
Past/
Current
Trainee
David Riley
(major advisor)
Trainee Name
M.S.
Ph.D.
PostDoc
Deg.
at
Entry
Training
Period
C
Gina Angelella
Predoc
BS
2006-
Phillip Roberts
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
John Ruberson
Current
Yigen Chen
PhD
Student
John Ruberson
Current
Kyle Wickings
Robert
McPherson/
John Ruberson
Past
John Ruberson
Past
Faculty
Member
Research Topic
Institution
Michigan State
University, MI
Pollen effects on thrips
behavior
Masters program at the
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
MS
2002-
South China
Agricultural
University,
Guangzhou, China
Nitogen effects on
biological control in
cotton
Graduate research Assistant,
UGA
PhD
Student
BS
2002-
SUNY Buffalo
Graduate research Assistant,
UGA
Lenny Wells
PhD
Student
MS
Effects of Bttransgenic cotton on
soil arthropod
community
Influence of fire ants
on insect populations
in soybeans
Mark Abney
MS
Student
BS
cotton aphids
Postdoctoral research Assoc.,
NCSU
Effects of Bttransgenic cotton on
arthropod predators
Professor, Pernambuco State
University, Recife, Brazil
Black Soldier Fly and
it’s use in Animal
waste management
Assistant Professor-Extension
Entomology Texas A&M
Resistance monitoring
in diamondback moth
and corn earworm
Student, ENSAM Horticulture
Department, Montpellier,
France
Applied Ecology of
Pest Ants
Post-Doc at LSU
Prior Institution
1999-2001
John Ruberson
Past
Jorge Torres
PhD
Student
MS
2001-2005
Craig Sheppard
P
Jeffery
Tomberlin
Predoc
MS
1998-2001
State University of
Viçosa, Brazil
Clemson University
Alton Sparks, Jr.
Past
Delphene
Lescure
Summer
internship
Dan Suiter
Past
Beverly Wiltz
(major prof)
Ph.D.
Student
May 15 –
July 21,
2006
M.S.
2002-2005
Student, ENSAM
Horticulture
Department,
Montpellier, France
LSU
Assistant Professor, UGA
Faculty
Member
Past/
Current
Trainee
Dan Suiter
Trainee Name
M.S.
Ph.D.
PostDoc
Deg.
at
Entry
Current
Chris Scocco
(major prof)
M.S.
Student
B.S.
2006current
Dan Suiter
Current
Jeff Whitman
(committee
member only)
M.S.
Student
M.S.
2003current
Bruce Wallace
P
W.R. Woodall
M.S.
& Ph.D
BS
19671972
M.S.
B.S.
Bruce Wallace
Bruce Wallace
P
P
A. E. Gordon
F. F.
Sherberger
M.S.
&Ph.D.
B.S.
Training
Period
1968 1970
Research Topic
Institution
Wingate University
Ecology of PerimeterInvading Invertebrates
Entomology Dept.
?
Behavior of
Subterranean Termites
Entomology Dept.
Influence of terrestrial
practices on
headwater streams
Retired – Vice President of the
Southern Company
Distribution of
Hydropsychidae in
Savannah River Basin
Ph.D. at Georgia 1974 (with
Herb Ross, Florida A&M, New
Mexico) retired?
Prior Institution
University of New
Mexico
1968 1974
Distribution of
Limnephilidae and
Oxidation Lagoons
Fernbank Science Center
Atlanta Georgia
Bruce Wallace
P
S. D. Caldwell
Ph.D.
MS
1969-1973
University of Tenn
Ecology of Aquatic
insects in Fowler’s Mill
Creek
Professor Georgia College,
Milledgeville, (Retired)
Bruce Wallace
P
H. W. Howard
M.S.
B.S.
1972-1975
Columbus College
Ecology of springs in
Fowler’s Mill Creek
Biologist with the US EPA in
Athens GA
Bruce Wallace
P
J. B. Brown
M.S.
B.S.
1974-1976
Diel Periodicity of drift
in Fowler’s Mill Creek
Biologist With DNR, Albany,
Georgia
Bruce Wallace
P
D. M. Malas
M.S.
B.S.
1974-1976
University of
Wisconsin
Feeding and Habitat
partitioning in
Hydropsychidae
Ph.D. North Texas State,
Biologist, City of Dallas TX
Bruce Wallace
P
M.D. Cudney
M.S.
B.S.
1976-1979
University of
Michigan
Secondary production
in the Savannah River
Law degree at College of
Pacific, Practicing Attorney.
Cameron Park, CA
Bruce Wallace
P
T. J. Georgian
Ph.D.
B.S.
1976-1981
Princeton Univ.
Ecology of Grazing
insects in a Mountain
Stream
Professor of Biology
Saint Bonaventure University,
NY
Faculty
Member
Past/
Current
Trainee
Bruce Wallace
Trainee Name
M.S.
Ph.D.
PostDoc
Deg.
at
Entry
Training
Period
P
J. D. Haefner
M.S.
B.S.
Bruce Wallace
P
M. Freeman
M.S.
Bruce Wallace
P
D. H. Ross
Bruce Wallace
P
Bruce Wallace
Institution
Prior Institution
Research Topic
1977-1980
Michigan State
University
B.S.
1980-1982
Aquatic Insects in
reference and
succession forest
streams
Production of
Hydropsychidae on
Rock Outcrop.
Ph.D. Georgia (now Scientist
with US Fish and Wildlife
Service)
Ph.D.
M.S.
1977-1981
Michigan State
University
Longitudinal
Production in S.
Appalachian Stream
Farnam Companies Inc.
301 W. Osborn Rd.
Phoenix, AZ 85013 USA
M. E. Gurtz
Ph.D.
M.S.
1976-1981
John Hopkins &
UNC Chapel Hill
Effects of Clear-cut
logging on streams
USGS Headquarters, Reston
Va
P
T. F. Cuffney
Ph.D.
M.S.
1979-1984
Idaho State
University
Detritus Dynamics on
a Coastal Plain River
Scientist USGS, Raleigh, NC
Bruce Wallace
P
J. O’Hop
M.S.
B.S.
19761981
Old Dominion
University
Drift in headwater
streams
Completed Ph.D. Prelims, (no
thesis) Scientist Florida Bureau
of Fisheries, St. Pete
Bruce Wallace
P
D. Vogel
M.S.
B.S.
19821984
Penn State Univ
Recovery of headwater
stream from pesticide
State of Florida DNR
Tallahassee Fl
Bruce Wallace
P
A. D. Huryn
Ph.D.
M.S.
1981-1986
Kent State Univ
Effects of local
geomorphology on
secondary production
Professor of Biology, U.
Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Bruce Wallace
P
F. SmithCuffney
Ph.D..
B.S.
1982-1987
Oberlin College
Role of Moss Outcrop
Communities
Professor, Meredith College,
Raleigh, NC
Bruce Wallace
P
G. A. Schurr
M.S.
B.S.
1986 1989
Bruce Wallace
P
G. J. Lugthart
Ph.D.
B.S.
1986-1991
Ball State University
St. Lawrence
University
Savannah Georgia, Pt Time
teacher
Feeding rates of
aquatic insects
Part-time Instructor, Dalton
College
Effects of insecticides
on secondary
production
Professor of Biology, Dalton
College, Dalton GA.
Faculty
Member
Past/
Current
Trainee
Bruce Wallace
Trainee Name
M.S.
Ph.D.
PostDoc
Deg.
at
Entry
Training
Period
P
K. Chung
Ph.D.
M.S.
1988-1992
Seoul National
University (Korea)
Effects of pesticides on
leaf litter processing …
Professor, Korean National
Agricultural University
Bruce Wallace
P
M. R. Whiles
M.S. &
Phd
B. S.
19871995
Kansas State Univ.
Recovery of headwater
streams from pesticide
treatment
Assoc. Professor, Southern
Illinois University,
Carbondale, IL
Bruce Wallace
P
J. W. Grubaugh
Ph.D.
M.S.
1989-1994
Western Illinois
University
Longitudinal
production in L. Tn.
River, NC
Assoc. Professor
University of Memphis,
Memphis, TN
Bruce Wallace
P
A. Marcilio
M.S.
B.S.
1990-1993
Univ. Toronto
Distribution and
production in a
mountain stream
Canadian National Railway
Bruce Wallace
P
E. Houston
M.S.
B.S.
1991-1993
Oberlin College
Longitudinal
distribution and
production
Aquatic Biologists, State of
Alabama DNR
Bruce Wallace
P
D. Wohl
M.S.
B.S.
1991-1994
University of
Michigan
Effects of substrate
and habitat on
macroinvertebrates.
Ph.D., UGA (J. V. McArthur)
Assistant Prof. Elizabethtown
College, PA
Bruce Wallace
P
M. K. Stone
M.S.
B.S.
1992-1995
VA. Tech
Long-term recovery of
a headwater stream …
Lab Professional, Georgia
Perimeter College, Atlanta GA
Bruce Wallace
P
Sara Baer
M.S.
B.S.
1992-1995
North Texas State
University
Recolonization of a
headwater stream
Ph.D. Kansas State, Assistant
Professor Southern Illinois
University
Bruce Wallace
P
G. R. Plague
MS
BS
1993-95
Macrostemum retreats
Savannah Riv
Ph.D. Georgia JV McArthur –
Asst. Prof. Fordham Univ. NYC
Bruce Wallace
P
E. Rossi
M.S.
B.S.
1995-1997
Univ. Michigan
Trophic Basis of
production..
Ph.D. UGA, Currently Asst.
Prof. Loyola Univ. Chicago
Bruce Wallace
P
S. Lachnicht
M.S.
B.S.
1994-1997
Rutgers Univ
Effects of Debris dams
on benthic …
PhD UGA (with Paul Hendricks)
Currently USDA Soils Lab in
MN
Prior Institution
Univ. Kansas
Research Topic
Institution
Faculty
Member
Past/
Current
Trainee
Bruce Wallace
Trainee Name
M.S.
Ph.D.
PostDoc
Deg.
at
Entry
Training
Period
P
A. Willats
M.S.
B.S.
1995-1998
Carleton College
(MN)
Biology of
Brachycentrus in
Etowah Riv
Teacher
1961 Marin Ave.
Berkeley, CA 94707
Bruce Wallace
P
E. Romaniszyn
M.S.
B.S.
1996-1999
Kent State Univ
Terrestrial inputs as
food for trout
Project Manager, Haywood
Waterways, Waynesville NC
Bruce Wallace
P
Allison Roy
MS
BS
1996-1998
Alleghany College
Effects of Urbanization
on streams
Ph. D. UGA, Currently at US
EPA Lab, Cincinnati Ohio
Bruce Wallace
P
J. J. Hutchens
Ph.D.
M.S.
1995-2000
VA Tech
Effects of Fire and
disturbance on a
western NC Stream
Asst. Professor Coastal
Carolina University, Conway SC
Bruce Wallace
P
B. R. Johnson
Ph.D.
M.S.
1998-2002
Marshall University
Salamander response
to litter exclusion
Scientist, USEPA, Cincinnati,
Ohio
Bruce Wallace
P
S. L. Eggert
Ph.D.
M.S.
1993-2006
Michigan State Univ
(Tech, PhD, PostDoc)
Effects of litter
exclusion on a
headwater stream
Aquatic Scientist with the US
Forest Service, Grand Rapids,
MN
Bruce Wallace
P
Heidi Wilcox
Ms
BS
2000-2003
San Francisco
State University
Effects of labile C
addition to stream
Dept. Biology, University of
Alabama
Tuscaloosa (technician)
Bruce Wallace
P
Wyatt F. Cross
PhD
MS
20002004
U. Colorado, and U.
Alabama
Effects of Nutrient
addition on secondary
production
Post Doc with USGS and U.
WY in Flagstaff, AZ
Bruce Wallace
P
Erica Chiao
PhD
MS
20012005
UGA
Philadelphia, PA working with a
drug company
Bruce Wallace
P
Damon Ely
MS
BS
2003-2005
University of Maine
Benthic macroinvertebrates of a
southern appalachian
wild and scenic river…
Effects of logging on
stream
Bruce Wallace
C
A. Romito
MS
BS
2005 –
Kent State University
Prior Institution
Research Topic
Ingestion rates of
aquatic
invertebrates….
Institution
Ph.D. Program Dept. Biology
VA. Tech.
HORTICULTURE
Environmental Programs in Horticulture Summary
The discipline of horticulture addresses the science and art of cultivating, processing, and
marketing of fruits, vegetables, tree nuts, and ornamental plants. The mission of the Horticulture
Department is to develop and disseminate new knowledge through student education leading to
the improvement and facilitation of cost-effective and profitable production, post harvest
handling, and utilization of horticultural commodities and services in a concerted effort to
conserve natural resources while protecting and enhancing the environment.
The faculty EFT concentrated in the environmental arena within our teaching, extension, and
research programs documents the protection and enhancement of the environment component of
our department. Over 50% of our research EFT, 60% of our teaching EFT, and 50% of our
extension EFT is dedicated to environmental programming.
Research Emphases
Departmental environmental research programs address a diverse range of topics including
preservation of native plants; control of invasive exotic plant species; development of new
landscape plants with an emphasis on noninvasiveness and pest resistance; organic production
research for vegetables; sustainable weed management strategies for ornamentals and small fruit;
integration of sustainable techniques into conventional vegetable production practices; organic
production of small fruits; fertilizer efficiency in nursery and landscape situations; improving the
sustainability of peach production; efficient water management of greenhouse and nursery crops;
and studies into ambient ozone concentrations in greenhouses.
Instructional Emphases
The department offers 23 undergraduate and graduate courses that contain a significant
environmental component. Courses covering environmental issues include most horticulture
production courses plus courses concentrating almost solely on environmental topics such as
Organic Gardening, and Environmental Physiology, Environmental Issues in Horticulture.
Combined course enrollment (annual exposure impact) for our department averages over 1,200
per year. In addition, CAES is developing an undergraduate interdisciplinary certificate program
in organic agriculture, and this program will be first offered starting fall semester 2007. Four
additional courses are being developed to support this program. We anticipate the program will
average an enrollment of 75 to 100 students by 2011. Dr. Mark Rieger spearheaded the
development of a $149,000 USDA Challenge Grant that was funded to initiate this program.
Extension Emphases
Many departmental extension programs also have large environmental components. These
programs address the needs of the commercial clientele groups as well as the general public of
Georgia. Examples of commercial programs include educational programs into organic
production of vegetables, methyl bromide alternatives in vegetable production, development of
an e-learning resource for water and nutrient management for the nursery and greenhouse
industries, and programs on landscape water conservation. Programs geared towards the general
public include best management practices for homeowner landscape care, home composting, and
conservation of native plants.
Dept. or Unit Name
Horticulture
8.01
Faculty Member
Jim Affolter
EFT: %
EFT in
Env. Res.
0.50/100%
Technical
Support
EFT
0
Allan Armitage
0.67/100%
2
1
Development of new landscape plants for horticulture
On-going
George Boyhan
0.28/50%
0
0
Organic production of vegetables
On-going
Mark Czarnota
0.25/100%
1
0
Weed control in ornamentals and blueberries
On-going
Ga. DOT $50,000;
Dow Agro $8,500;
SeaPro $4,000; IR-4
$6,000; Monsanto
$5,000; AzkoNobel
$16,400; Gowen
$7,000; Olympic
$2,000
Juan Carlos DiazPerez
0.90/50%
1
1
Integrating no-tillage with farmscaping & crop rotations to
improve pest management and soil quality in organic
vegetable production; Organic soil amendments in dripirrigated solanaceous crops; Potential of brassica greens and
compost for control of soil borne pests and diseases in
vegetable plasticulture
On-going
USDA/CSREES
$145,582
USDA-SRIPM
$26,800
David Knauft
.50/100%
1
2
Development of new ornamental cultivars
On-going
UGARF $20,000
# Grad
2
Field guide to the rare plants of Georgia; Endangered Plant
Stewardship Network (environmental education); Native
plant propagation; Privet control and floodplain restoration;
Selection and development of ornamental cultivars from the
Monteverde cloud forest region of Costa Rica; Medicinal
plant conservation
Project
Duration
On-going
Funding –
Source &
Amount
Vaughn-Jordan
Foundation
$101,200; Ga. DOT
$70,000;
GaDNR $7,800;
S.Smith Hort. Trust
$15,000; Bloom, Inc.
$10,000; US Fish &
Wild. $26,000
Various seed
companies and plant
suppliers $140,800
Orville Lindstrom
0.79/100%
1
1
Cold hardiness of landscape plants
On-going
Pioneer Plants
$7,500
Sharad Phatak
1.00/100%
1.5
0
Conservation tillage systems for agricultural crops
On-going
Mark Rieger
0.51/100%
1
0
Out-of-season small fruit production for improved
profitability of organic farming; Irrigation scheduling for
horticultural crops
2006present;
On-going
USDA $313,517
Carol Robacker
0.95/100%
1.5
2
Breeding landscape plants for adaptation to urban
environments
On-going
UGARF $40,000;
CANR $2,000
John Ruter
0.80/100%
2
1
Breeding, evaluation, and production of new nursery crops;
Utilization of nickel to reduce nitrogen inputs in container
production of nursery crops; Use of calcined clay to reduce
phosphorus leaching from container operations
On-going
UGARF $35,000;
CANR $5,000; HRI
Tim Smalley
0.14/100%
0.5
2
Effect of commercial arbuscular mycorrhizal inocula on
ornamental annual plants
On-going
Kathy Taylor
0.40/50%
1
0
Improving the sustainability of peach production; Evaluation
of messenger STS for impact on nematode populations in
peach; deficit irrigation management
On-going
GACC $21,800;
Marc van Iersel
0.68/100%
0.5
1
Water requirements of greenhouse crops; Controlled
environment technology and use; Developing and integrating
components for commercial greenhouse production systems
On-going
Gloeckner
Foundation $5,500;
CANR $2,000
Hazel Wetzstein
0.85/50%
1
1
Ambient ozone concentrations in greenhouses: biological
implications and engineering abatement
On-going
Dept. or Unit Name:
Horticulture
5.35
Faculty Member
Jim Affolter
EFT: %
EFT in
Env.Instr.
0.25/100%
HORT
3.45
No. Students 105
Support
0
HORT 3440 Herbs, Spices and Medicinal Plants (2 hrs)
Avg. No.
Students
250/year
Allan Armitage
0.33/50%
0
HORT 4060/6060 Greenhouse Management II (2 hrs)
30/year
David Berle
0.85/85%
0
HORT 2000 Horticultural Science (3 hrs)
HORT 3450 Residential Design (3 hrs)
HORT 3460 Residential Design II (3 hrs)
HORT 4070 Community Tree Inventory Practices (3 hrs)
300/year
40/year
30/year
5/year
Juan C. Diaz-Perez
0.10/50%
0
HORT 3010 Introduction to Vegetable crops (3 hrs)
David Knauft
0.50/75%
0
HORT 3300 Organic Gardening (2 hrs)
AESC 4920 Service Learning (3 hrs)
120/year
90/year
Orville Lindstrom
0.21/100%
0
HORT 4440/6440 Environmental Physiology (4 hrs)
HORT 4990 Environmental Issues in Horticulture (1 hr)
CRSS 4400/6400 Crop Ecology (3 hrs)
10/year
10/year
10/year
Mark Rieger
0.49/65%
0
HORT 4440/6440-4440L/6440L Environmental Physiology in Horticulture (4 hrs)
HORT 4930/6930 Agriculture and Ecology in Tropical America (3 hr, 50%
responsibility)
HORT 4931/6931 Agriculture and Ecology in Tropical America Field Trip (3 hr, 50%
responsibility)
HORT 4990 Environmental Issues in Horticulture (1 hr)
Received a $148,778 USDA challenge grant (plus an additional $50,000 of CAES
matching support) to develop a teaching certificate program in organic agriculture here at
UGA – new organic production course will be developed
40/year
20/year
Tim Smalley
0.86/75%
0
HORT 3630-3630L Nursery Management (3 hr)
5/year
15/year
25/year
20/year?
20/year
HORT 3900 Horticultural Study Tour (3 hr)
HORT 3910 Horticulture Internship (3 hr)
HORT 4090 Landscape Horticulture (3 hr)
20/year
25/year
30/year
Paul Thomas
0.49/80%
0
HORT 3140 Interiorscaping (1 hr)
HORT 4040/6040 Floriculture for Educators (2 hr)
HORT 4050/6050 Greenhouse Management I (3 hr)
15/year
20/year
25/year
Marc van Iersel
0.32/100%
0
HORT 4590/6590 Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition (3 hr; 50%)
HORT 8104 Photosynthesis (1 hr)
50/year
3/year
Dept. or Unit Name
Horticulture
Total Extension EFT
11.67
Faculty Member
EFT: %
EFT in
Support
#
Clientele
Served
Program
Duration
Funding –
Source &
Amount
Jim Affolter
0.25/100%
0
Conservation of native plants
>500
On-going
Ga. Native Plant Soc.
$4,300
David Berle
0.25/100%
0
Environmental inventory using GPS
>300
On-going
Ga. Forestry Com.
$20,000
George Boyhan
0.73/50%
0
Organic production of vegetables
>1,000
On-going
Mark Czarnota
0.75/100%
0
Weed control in ornamentals and blueberries
>1,000
On-going
Marco Fonseca
1.00/100%
1
Master Gardener program coordinator
>4,000
Ongoing
Terry Kelley
1.00/20%
1
Methyl Bromide alternatives in vegetable production
>300
On-going
Gerard Krewer
0.85/20%
0
Organic blueberry production
>50
On-going
Ga. Organics $1,000
Jim Midcap
1.00/100%
0
Nursery production of ornamental plants
>500
On-going
CANR $4,500
Bodie Pennisi
0.88/100%
0
Greenhouse production of ornamental plants
>500
On-going
SGC $3,500; GFGA
$5,000
John Ruter
0.20/100%
0
Developing an e-learning resource for water and nutrient
management and conservation for the nursery and greenhouse
industries
>500
On-going
USDA $272,000
(received $2,000)
Kathy Taylor
0.60/80%
0
Improving the sustainability of peach production
>50
On-going
Paul Thomas
0.51/50%
0
Water management in floriculture greenhouses
>500
On-going
Gary Wade
0.77/80%
0
Landscape water use; Invasive plants
>500
On-going
Bob Westerfield
1.00/80%
0
Consumer horticulture
>5,000
On-going
PLANT PATHOLOGY
The Department of Plant Pathology
The discipline of plant pathology is well rooted in the environmental sciences, as every student
that passes through an introductory course in plant pathology becomes well acquainted with the
“disease triangle” that highlights the interaction of disease development with the pathogen, host
and the environment. Hence, nearly every aspect of what plant pathologists engage in for
developing and implementing extension and research programs touches on or is impacted by the
environment. The responses provided in the tables and narratives in this document are examples
of some of the activities of faculty in the department. Below are some examples that highlight
the breadth of environmentally related activities in the Department of Plant Pathology.
Prudent use of agrichemicals
The warm humid weather of the Southeast is generally ideal to facilitate the establishment and
rapid development of most plant disease agents. Hence, the profitable production of most crops
in Georgia would not be possible without the use of fungicides. The goal of many programs in
the department is to reduce the use, and hence cost to producers, of agrichemicals for disease
management. In peanut for example, research and educational programs on newer, more
effective fungicides reduced sprays by producers, and producers in one county saved $180,000 in
expenditures.
Fungal sensitivity to fungicides is becoming a critical issue. Demethylation inhibitors (DMIs)
and respiration inhibitors compose the primary fungicidal classes that control brown rot, caused
by Monilinia fructicola, in peaches. Over the past 3-4 years, a resistance shift has been
documented for the DMI fungicides in populations of M. fructicola from Georgia. This shift
could result in the widespread failure of current brown rot control programs that rely heavily on
the DMIs for pre-harvest disease control. Failure of control would often result in significant
losses to the industry (> $10 million/year based on research trials), and the industry would cease
to exist if this occurred on a regular basis. DMI resistance can be overcome by simply increasing
the rates of DMI fungicides to a level that controls the pathogen. However, rate increases are not
generally possible as tolerances are based on environmental and human health concerns, and the
field rate is often established at the tolerance level. Effective rates of an alternative,
fenbuconazole (Indar), were determined and a label obtained. Modified fungicide programs are
now available and recommended to address the critical issue of fungicide resistance management
and brown rot control.
The home landscape is where a significant use of fungicides occurs. Georgia's population grew
from 6 million to 8 million in the ten-year period from 1990 to 2000. Due to the increase of
population, housing, gardening and the rising value of property; the popularity of turf and
ornamental species had increased significantly. Hispanics are the backbone of the workforce in
Georgia's Green Industry. Eighty percent of the landscape companies, greenhouses and nurseries
employ Hispanics workers. Thus, there is a significant need to educate consumers, homeowners,
producers, managers and landscape companies' personnel on Integrated Pest Management
strategies for control of plant pests and plant diseases. A joint effort between the University of
Georgia and Clemson University Extension specialists was initiated to conduct activities to
educate homeowners, green industry professionals and students about the judicious use of
pesticides, increase knowledge and efficacy of IPM strategies and to instruct them on alternative
ecologically friendly solutions. Additional topics included pollution control, strategies for water
quality, storm water management and water quality, and avoiding storm drain pollution by
avoiding fertilizer and pesticide deposition. Materials in Spanish specifically targeted to Hispanic
audiences were also developed. Nine statewide and regional educational trainings were carried
out. A total of 306 participants were contacted and trained. Participants included 58 county
agents; 82 industry professionals; 145 homeowners and master gardeners and 21 K-12 students.
Participants received science-based information on pollution control, environmental strategies
for water quality, preserving a clean urban watershed, storm water management and water
quality, and avoiding storm drain pollution by avoiding fertilizer and pesticide deposition.
Emphasis was given on reducing pesticide input through scouting techniques, pest thresholds,
host resistance, proper timing of pesticide application, cultural management and biological
control. A total of 2302 hrs of direct participant-contact was achieved. Several Agricultural and
Natural Resources County Extension Agents had initiated regional IPM and water quality
programs on their own county. Twenty fact sheets were developed in English and Spanish and
made available through the Clemson Extension Home & Garden Information Center
(hgic.clemson.edu). Additionally, three trainings in Spanish were conducted and tailored to the
landscape Hispanic workforce. Evaluation of the effectiveness of the outreach programs was also
implemented by using surveys at the educational trainings.
Alternatives to conventional pesticides
As outlined above, disease management in turf has traditional been addressed with significant
chemical inputs. Research conducted in the department has indicated managing yeast
populations on turfgrass could provide an additional tool to be used in an integrated management
plan for foliar diseases. Epiphytic yeasts colonizing turf grass leaves are presumed to provide a
natural barrier to foliar diseases caused by Rhizoctonia solani and Sclerotinia homoeocarpa.
Applications of organic nitrogen (tryptone or yeast extract) significantly increased yeast
population sizes on tall fescue compared to controls. The results obtained showed that organic
nitrogen stimulates yeast populations while carbohydrates, inorganic nitrogen and nonnitrogenous nutrients have little positive effect.
Plant-parasitic nematodes are found in most agricultural soils and often cause crop damage and
economic losses to growers. Few effective nematicides are available to growers, due to health
and environmental concerns. There is a critical need for additional nematode management
options that use safer and more targeted compounds. Fungi commonly inhabit soils, and are
known to produce a wide range of antibiotic compounds. Compounds derived from fungi are
biologically-based and should prove more biorational than existing pesticide formulations.
Research in the department has resulted in obtaining fungal isolates from grower fields in
Georgia that are suppressive to plant-parasitic nematodes. Additional fungal isolates were
discovered that produce nematicidal compounds. A group of fungal products that have already
undergone extensive laboratory evaluations were tested for the first time in agricultural field
trials. The eventual release of a new nematicidal compound, especially a more biorational
product, would have a positive economic and environmental impact on agricultural production in
Georgia.
Non-indigenous fruit crops such as peaches, apples, and strawberries have limited potential for
commercial organic production in the southern U.S. due to the substantial pest pressures
associated with the long growing season and the warm, humid climate. In contrast, rabbiteye
blueberries, which comprise a large majority of the blueberry acreage in the South, are native to
the region and are well-adapted to its challenging climate, poor soils, and extensive pest
complexes. In the last few years, about 100 acres of organic or organic transition blueberries
have been established in Georgia alone, and several factors indicate considerable near-term
potential for expansion throughout the region: 1) increased consumer demand associated with the
widely publicized health benefits of blueberry fruit; 2) the need for alternative sources of income
for small and medium-sized farms in a region where traditional cash crops have become
unprofitable; 3) higher wholesale prices (30-100%) for organic produce; and 4) interest in
organic blueberries by three major marketing organizations in Georgia and Florida. If some key
production limitations can be solved and important knowledge gaps filled, organic blueberry
production will become a significant part of the Georgia industry and an expanding segment of
the Florida industry. In collaboration with colleagues from the University of Florida, an
interdisciplinary Integrated Organic Program was established to develop the best management
practices for organic blueberry production in the southeastern U.S. The first results on
management of mummy berry disease and flea beetles with biopesticides have been obtained in
field trials during the 2006 season. A long-term mulching, weed control, and nutritional
experiment has been initiated at the Bacon County blueberry research farm in late fall of 2006.
Results from these trials will enable us to develop a comprehensive package of best management
practices and enterprise cost analyses aimed at determining the financial viability of organic
blueberries in the Southeast
Management of Invasive Species
Chinese Privet has become a significant threat to native plants since being introduced in the
Southeast in the early 1800s. Initial experiments are underway to identify amino acids toxic to
Chinese Privet. Several toxic amino acids have been identified and the minimal inhibitory
concentration of these amino acids is being determined. The ultimate goal is to use a host
specific fungal pathogen that is modified to secrete toxic amounts of the toxic amino acid(s) to
generate an effective biological control agent that can be safely applied in natural areas.
Phytophthora spp. are the most important root disease pathogens in ornamental plant nurseries,
and cause the greatest amount of crop loss compared to other plant diseases. Since the
introduction of P. ramorum, cause of Sudden Oak Death (SOD) in the western United States,
into retail ornamental nurseries and landscapes in Georgia in 2004, there has been an increased
interest in knowing what Phytophthora species are present within retail and production
ornamental plant nurseries, and most importantly if P. ramorum is present and surviving within
these plant nurseries with the potential to spread to the native ecosystems. As Phytophthora
species survive and spread in soil and water; soil, water and foliar samples were collected from
retail ornamental nurseries that received P. ramorum-infected plants at any time since 2004.
Over 200 Phytophthora isolates representing over ten known and unknown species have been
recovered from recycled irrigation water collection ponds within ornamental nurseries and
adjacent streams. In 2005, P. ramorum was recovered from soil at one retail plant nursery, and
subsequent collections of soil from the same nursery in 2006 has documented its survival within
the nursery environment for over 1.5 years. This indicates that if P. ramorum is introduced into
Georgia landscapes and nurseries it will probably survive. In addition, the soil sampling results
also documented that P. ramorum was spread within the nursery either on infected plants or in
surface water from the original infested area. Efforts to remediate the soil at the retail nursery
are underway. Results of the water and soil surveys were used to aid the development of a
proposed Georgia certification program for P. ramorum in conjunction with the Georgia
Department of Agriculture and the Georgia Green Industry Association. Presentations to reduce
the risk of introducing and spreading Phytophthora diseases, particularly P. ramorum, in
nurseries were presented to green industry professionals in Georgia and Florida.
Water quality
Work in water quality is the newest effort in the department in environmental research. The
project underway focuses on reducing the impact of point and non-point sources of pollution on
piedmont streams. Virtually every stream in the southern piedmont is adversely affected by the
pollutants carried in storm water run-off, and efforts are underway to identify and remediate
sources of contamination. This initial study is on “Restoration of a Natural Wetland to Improve
Water Quality at the Orange Trail in the UGA Botanical Garden.” The intended outcome of this
project is to reduce the nutrient impacts that the animal operations on South Milledge Ave. have
on the Botanical Garden groundwater and nearby river.
Dept. or Unit Name
Faculty Member
J.P. Noe
EFT: %
EFT in
Env. Res.
0.20
Plant Pathology
-FACULTY
0.97
Total Research EFT 21
-TECH SUPPORT
1.50
Technical
Support
EFT
1.00
# Grad
0
Identification and development of biological nematicides
Project
Duration
ongoing
Funding –
Source &
Amount
Ga Cotton
Commission $10,000
CAES $2,000
Elizabeth Little
Harald Scherm
0.17
0.25
0
0.25
0
0
Restoration of a Natural Wetland to Improve Water Quality at
the Orange Trail in the UGA Botanical Garden
2006-2007 UGA CAES $27,274
Restoration of a Natural Wetland to Improve Water Quality at
the Orange Trail in the UGA Botanical Garden
2007-2009
UGA CAES $18,427
Advancing IPM and reducing pesticide risks in eastern
peaches
2004-2008
USDA-RAMP
$1,034,722
($369,972 to UGA)
2005
Southern Region
Small Frt. Cons.
$6,250
Prescription brown rot management in peach based on sitespecific fungicide resistance profiles in Monilinia fructicola
2006-2008
Southern Region
IPM $136,980
($18,480 to UGA)
Organic production of blueberries in the southeastern United
States: Development of best management practices
2006-2009
USDA Integrated
Organic Program
Mummy berry control in organic blueberries
$357,351 ($85,625 to
UGA
James Buck
0.25
0.25
0
Ecology of leaf surface yeasts
Scott Gold
0.1
0
0
Developing a Biocontrol Agent for Chinese Privet,
Ligustrum sinense
ongoing
2007
Gift money
UGA CAES Seed
Grant $5,000
Dept. or Unit Name:
Plant Pathology
4.77
Faculty Member
Jean WilliamsWoodward
Elizabeth Little
EFT: %
EFT in
Env.Instr.
0.25
0.20
0
0.45
No. Students 0 majors
Support
0
PATH/ENTO 4350/6350 Ornamental Pest Management
Avg. No.
Students
20
0
PATH 4300/6300 Clinical Plant Pathology
3
0
PATH4400/6400 Plant Pathology for Teachers
10
Faculty Member
Phil Brannen
Alfredo Martinez
Dept. or Unit Name
Plant Pathology
Total Extension EFT
-FACULTY
5.72
Total Extension EFT
-TECH SUPPORT
2.00
EFT: %
EFT in
Support
0.05
0.20
0
0
#
Clientele
Served
Program
Duration
Methyl bromide alternatives
100
On-going
USDA, CSREES
(methyl bromide
transition); $13,000
Advancing IPM and reducing pesticide risks in Eastern
peaches
50
On-going
USDA-CSREESRAMP; $80,145
Biopesticides as replacements or rotation partners for
fungicides used to control blueberry diseases
200
On-going
IR-4; $33,500
Reducing Homeowner Pesticide Use and Increasing
Consumer and Student Knowledge of IPM Through Public
Outreach/Education
306
7/05 to
9/06
CREEES $14,620
Turfgrass Disease Identification and Management (Emphasis
on IPM strategies)
300
On going
Cooperative
Extension, MartinezSeveral gifts, grants
and contracts
Turfgrass Environmental Research and Management
250
6/05-6/08
EPA $338,000 total.
Martinez ($14,066)
Control of R. solani (brow patch) of tall fescue using biofungicides
30
2005, 2006
Martinez- Several
gifts, grants and
contracts ($5,000)
Funding –
Source &
Amount
Jean WilliamsWoodward
0.75
Evaluation of fungicide efficacy and influence of timing of
fungicide application in the control of turfgrass diseases
40
2005, 2006
Martinez- Several
gifts, grants and
contracts ($ 40,000)
0
Surveying for Phytophthora ramorum in nurseries, forests,
and home landscapes in Georgia
150
2006-2008
GA Forestry
Commission,
$60,000
0
Monitoring the risk of introducing Phytophthora ramorum
into nurseries and landscapes in the southeastern United
States—Year 2
75
2005-2006
USDA-APHISCPHST, $91,000
($16,500 to UGA)
1.0
Surveying retail garden centers and plant nurseries for sudden
oak death, an exotic pathogen (Year 3)
200
2006-2007
Georgia Department
of Agriculture:
$57,026
0
Mefenoxam resistance in Phytophthora spp. from ornamental
nurseries in GA
125
2006
Center for Applied
Nursery Research,
$2,000
0
Surveying for Phytophthora species in ornamental nursery
irrigation water
125
2006
Center for Applied
Nursery Research,
$2,000
1
Recovery and identification of Phytophthora species from
ornamental nurseries and forested areas within Georgia
75
2004-2006
Georgia Forestry
Commission,
$35,000
1
Characterizing Diplodia tip blight on southern pine species
40
On-going
GFC (pending)
0
Monitoring fungicide use and efficacy within ornamental
production nurseries
35
On-going
BASF, $11,000
Faculty
Member
Past/
Current
Trainee
P. Brannen
None
J. Buck
Past
Trainee Name
M.S.
Ph.D.
PostDoc
Deg.
at
Entry
Training
Period
Prior Institution
Research Topic
Institution
Tom Allen
PostDoc
PhD
2 yr
Auburn University
Phylloplane yeast
ecology
Mississippi State Univ.
Shannon Nix
PostDoc
PhD
2 yr
Rutgers University
Phylloplane yeast
ecology
PostDoc at UGA
Effect of flowerapplied Serenade
biofungicide
(Bacillus subtilis) on
pollination-related
variables in rabbiteye
blueberry
Evaluation of a
diverse panel of
biocontrol agents
against infection of
blueberry flowers by
Monilinia vacciniicorymbosi
Research Associate, Penn
State University
J. Buck
Current
S. Gold
None
E. Little
None
A. Martinez
None
J. Noe
None
H. Scherm
Past
Henry Ngugi
Postdoc
Ph.D.
1999-2006
University of
Reading, UK
H. Scherm
Past
Holly Thornton
M.S.
B.S.
2003-2005
UGA
Homeowner IPM Specialist,
UGA Department of Plant
Pathology
H. Scherm
Past
Selim Dedej
Ph.D.
M.S.
2002-2003
Ministry of
Agriculture,
Government of
Albania
H. Scherm
Past
Jeremy
Edwards
Undergraduate
n/a
2001
UGA
J. WilliamsWoodward
Current
Stephanie
Adams
M.S.
BS
3 yr
Western Illinois
University
J. WilliamsWoodward
Current
Emily House
M.S.
BS
2 yr
Northwestern
University
Tip blight of pine
identification and
pathogencity
Graduate student at UGA
J. WilliamsWoodward
Current
Alexey
Kravstov
PostDoc
PhD
1 yr
All Russian
Institute of
Phytopathology
Phytophthora
species diversity in
waterways
PostDoc at UGA
Effectiveness of
honey bees in
delivering the
biocontrol agent
Bacillus subtilis to
blueberry flowers to
suppress mummy
berry disease
infection of blueberry
flowers caused by
Monilinia vacciniicorymbosi
Phytophthora
species diversity in
water and soils
Self-employed
Graduate student at UGA
POULTRY SCIENCE
Department of Poultry Science
Environmental Programming Summary
May 2007
Commercial poultry production in Georgia annually contributes more than $4.6 billion in farm
gate value to the state's economy making poultry and eggs Georgia's primary agricultural
industry. Of all the farm products produced in Georgia, poultry and eggs account for more than
51% of the farm value produced in the state. It has been estimated that one in every 16
employees in Georgia has a job related to poultry with the total annual economic impact
exceeding $17.0 billion.
Environmental issues are an important area of concern for the poultry industry. The industry is
facing growing pressure with regard to environmental stewardship, and the future growth and
viability of this industry depends on its ability to address important environmental issues related
to poultry waste utilization, water quality, and air quality. These issues have become
increasingly important to the industry, and the industry continues to request assistance in these
areas. As a result, the issues of waste management, water conservation, and water and air quality
have become and will continue to be significant components of the University of Georgia
Department of Poultry Science programs as faculty continue to conduct research and develop
Extension programs to assist the poultry industry in addressing these important environmental
issues.
The Department of Poultry Science is actively engaged in a number of program areas related to
the environment.
Nutrient Management Planning
Poultry nutrient management plans have become important management tools for poultry
producers in Georgia. In recent years a nutrient management program has been developed to
provide poultry producers with information and skills necessary for the completion of effective
nutrient management plans. The basic objectives of a nutrient management plan are the proper
storage, handling and application of poultry manures to minimize the potential for excess
nutrients to get into surface or ground waters. The key components of a poultry nutrient
management plan are soil and litter nutrient analysis, calculation of the appropriate amount of
poultry manure for application, and documentation of the process. The implementation of
nutrient management plans by poultry producers reduces the potential for adverse impacts on the
environment, takes advantage of the value of poultry manures, and has the added benefit of
improving public perceptions of poultry producers' commitment to best management practices.
Departmental faculty members are actively involved with and will continue to provide poultry
producers and county extension agents with training and support in developing nutrient
management planning activities. Through numerous meetings, over 4,000 poultry producers
within the state have been introduced to and trained in nutrient management planning. Activities
such as proper soil and manure sampling procedures, calibration of manure application
equipment, erosion control strategies, mortality disposal practices and nutrient application and
storage Best Management Practices (BMP) have been presented to poultry growers for
implementation on their individual farming operations. The implementation of nitrogen or
phosphorous based nutrient management plans provides producers a means to manage nutrients
to meet plant needs, protect water quality, and obtain maximum economic benefit of the nutrients
available in the manure.
Environmental Management System (EMS) Development
Development of a poultry Environmental Management System (EMS) as part of a national
program effort has recently been completed. Georgia served as the lead pilot state to test the
applicability and use of EMS programs on poultry farms. Through the implementation of an
EMS, a farm will address all aspects of the farming enterprise that may impact the environment
while helping the farmer to address management strategies and practices that will assist to
improve the operation’s economic bottom line. Funding for this programming effort was
provided through grants from the Initiative for Future Agriculture and Food Systems, (IFAFS);
CSREES; USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS); and U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency.
Breeder Manure Enhancement
Broiler breeder manure contains approximately 60% moisture. This high moisture content limits
its use due to poor handling characteristics. As a result, it is not uncommon for contract growers
to store this type of manure for long periods of time potentially creating runoff problems.
Enhancing ventilation of the manure may be an effective method in improving manure-handling
characteristics. Assessments on the effects of air velocity on breeder manure characteristics
indicate moisture reductions of 47% with the application of mechanical ventilation. Improving
the handling quality of the manure will increase the utilization options for breeder manure and
reduce the potential for vector proliferation and land application issues associated with high
moisture manures.
Improving In-house Air Quality and Reducing Emissions of Poultry Houses
Air quality is an important component of commercial broiler production. Ammonia is a driving
force in how poultry growers maintain a suitable environmental within poultry houses.
Emissions of ammonia from poultry houses have become an environmental liability for some in
the public arena. Controlling ammonia volatilization from within poultry houses is important on
several levels. Broiler growers need educational opportunities to better learn to control ammonia
emissions from the standpoint of both flock performance and environmental stewardship.
Ongoing research is being conducted to assess ammonia suppression products, technologies and
practices. This research will provide more information on ammonia generation and control.
Funding for this research has been secured from private sources and through the research grants
program of the U.S. Poultry & Egg Association.
Research has been conducted to evaluate the use of an electrostatic space charge system to
reduce dust and ammonia within poultry houses. The premise of the technology is to reduce
particulates and gases within poultry houses and cause a corresponding reduction of emissions
from poultry houses. Reduced emissions result in reduced environmental impacts and improved
community relations. This innovative technology has the potential to significantly impact both
the in-house and community air quality associated with poultry producing areas. Collected data
show a 40-50% dust reduction within broiler houses with the use of this technology.
Natural Resource Conservation through Innovative Technologies
Efficient use of natural resources is being impacted through the evaluation of poultry heating,
ventilation, and monitoring equipment. Several studies are underway in conjunction with the
Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering to examine the efficiencies of broiler
house heating systems, namely an indirect fire unit that burns waste oil, radiant tube heaters and
electric brooders. Additional studies are examining the efficacy of using insulating materials
with higher R-values in place of standard curtains on tunnel-ventilated houses. Technologies
that are developed to enhance poultry production equipment efficiency will also reduce the
volume of lost energy associated with poultry production facilities.
Wastewater Management
Water usage and wastewater reclamation are issues of great importance with poultry processing.
Poultry Science faculty have developed programs for processors to study wastewater use patterns
and waste loading of the waste stream. These programs resulted in water use reduction of 3
gallons per bird which reduced annual water costs to U.S. processors by approximately $100
million per year. By using the wastewater stream to determine those times and operations where
excessive product was lost, processors were able to recover more product into a higher value
form. It has also been determined that accurate pH control of the floculation process would
increase the solids produced by dissolved air flotation (DAF) from 5 percent to 25 percent. This
resulted in 16 tons less water that would be hauled to and evaporated at rendering to recover 1
ton of solids. This improved floculation process, reduced hauling and evaporation costs by
approximately $75 million per year to U.S. broiler processors.
Fat Recovery from Wastewater for Fuel or Feed Production
Wastewater studies have shown that approximately 80 percent of the organic load of
broiler processing wastewater is in particulate matter form. Using laser defraction and
microscreening, it was determined that particles 100 microns or greater were mainly fat,
whereas, those less than 100 microns are protein particles. Using these data, air flotation and
microscreening processes are being developed where the fat particles are collected to produce
fuel to be burned in the processing plant boilers, to produce biodiesel, or to produce a high
quality fat that can be delivered directly to the feed mill without being rendered.
In-house Composting
After several years of in-house composting experiments initiated here at the University of
Georgia, this method of layer manure management has become a well-adopted method of layer
manure utilization with many egg production companies. At present in the U.S., approximately
10 million birds are being managed using in-house composting as the current waste management
procedure. New experiments, in collaboration with the Departments of Entomology and
Biological and Agricultural Engineering, are focusing on whole house composting using several
types of carbon sources and house fly reduction using composting strategies.
Mortality Composting
In emergency situations, disposal of large volumes of poultry mortality is a daunting task. A
common challenge during catastrophic disease events is to ensure that carcass disposal is capable
of keeping pace with the rate of infection and exposure. On-site management of mortality is
preferred over off-site management to reduce potential spread of disease organisms and
environmental impacts. Whole house composting of poultry carcasses has been evaluated and
shown to be an effective method for effective disposal of mass mortality. Field demonstrations
and county agent/grower training programs are being used to continue to instruct industry
personnel on appropriate procedures, materials, and personnel training requirements to dispose
of an entire house of birds and to be able to use this method in situations of mass mortality or
spent hen disposal.
Phytate Phosphorous Utilization
The department has had an active project for approximately 25 years studying the factors that
influence the utilization of phytate phosphorus by poultry. Approximately 70% of plant
phosphorus is in the form of phytate which is unavailable to poultry and other monogastric
animals when the plant material is orally consumed. Since these animals have a high dietary
requirement for absorbable phosphorus, the industry supplements the diet with large amounts of
available inorganic phosphorus. The result, however, is that large amounts of phosphorus
(undigested phytate phosphorus) are excreted in the feces. Increasing the utilization of phytate
phosphorus will mean less supplementation of the diet with inorganic phosphorus and a decrease
in the amount of phosphorus excreted into the environment. We have studied in some detail the
effects of genetics, environment and dietary composition on the utilization of phytate by poultry.
Ours was the first laboratory in the world to document large genetic effects, significant effects of
ultraviolet light, effects of level of dietary ingredients such as calcium and phosphorus, and the
effect of supplementing diets with 1" substituted vitamin D3 derivatives on phytate utilization.
We have studied many important both 2 and 3way interactions such as Ca X P X phytate or Ca X
phytase X 1"OHD3 in the diet. We have published approximately 50 papers and been granted
four patents as a result of our discoveries.
Regional Water Quality Programs
The Department of Poultry Science is currently involved with SDC321 Multi-State Regional
Project: Nutritional and Management Abatement Strategies for Improvement of Poultry Air and
Water Quality. The goals of this project are to evaluate nutritional and management strategies to
minimize the impact of poultry production on air and water quality and to develop and
disseminate science based information through outreach activities. Maintaining profitability
while protecting the environment has become a critical issue for the poultry producer. On many
farms, traditional agricultural practices related to traditional crop and livestock production cannot
provide adequate protection of the environment while sustaining agricultural profitability. To
achieve a balance, agriculture must implement cost effective practices that invoke innovative
approaches to marketing, production, management, and waste utilization that provides for
profitability and environmental stewardship at the same time. By sharing innovative program
approaches among states, time, money, and energy in solving related problems can be saved.
In the future, the Department of Poultry Science will continue to direct its resources to be a
leader in addressing poultry production and processing activities that impact the environment.
Through research and extension outreach activities that address nutrient management strategies,
reduce waste loads, enhance water and air quality, and promote natural resource conservation,
the Department of Poultry Science at the University of Georgia plans to continue to address the
environmental challenges facing the poultry industry in a positive manner.
Dept. or Unit Name
Poultry Science
Funding –
Source &
Amount
US Poultry $82,800
Phosphorous reduction in poultry manure through nutritional
strategies
2004-2006
US Poultry $57,000
4
Improved wastewater treatment in poultry processing
2006-2008
FoodPac $80,000
1
Genetic reduction of phosphorous excretion in poultry and
phosphorous reduction in poultry manure through nutritional
strategies
On-going
Use of dry distillers grains with solubles in poultry diets
On-going
Faculty Member
Sammy Aggrey
Technical
Support
EFT
1.00
Hardy Edwards
.85 / 30%
.10
1
Dan Fletcher
.65 / 10%
1.0
Gene Pesti
.60 / 20%
1.0
.65 / 10%
1.0
.720
Project
Duration
2004-2006
EFT: %
EFT in
Env. Res.
0.7 / 30%
Amy Batal
# Grad
4
Genetic reduction of phosphorous excretion in poultry
1
Collaborator
Industry $33,000
Dept. or Unit Name:
Poultry Science
3.166
EFT in Environmental
Instruction
.072
No. Students
Faculty Member
Amy Batal
EFT: %
EFT in
Env.Instr.
.366 / 5%
Brian Fairchild
.088 / 10%
0
POUL 4010 Adv Broiler Production
8
Dan Fletcher
.35 / 10%
0
POUL 4860 Poultry Processing
17
Scott Russell
.20 / 5%
0
POUL 2020 Intro poultry Science
32
Support
0
POUL 2020 Intro Poultry Science
Avg. No.
Students
32
Faculty Member
Dept. or Unit Name
Poultry Science
Total Extension EFT
8.378
EFT: %
EFT in
Support
#
Clientele
Served
Program
Duration
Funding –
Source &
Amount
Dan Cunningham
1.0 / 70%
0
Nutrient management for poultry farms
+4000
On-going
collaborator
Brian Fairchild
1.0 / 30%
0
Ammonia emissions from poultry houses
+1000
On-going
National Animal and
Poultry Waste Center
$78,000
Bill Merka
.10 / 100%
0
Wastewater reduction from poultry processing
+1000
On-going
FoodPac $80,000
Casey Ritz
1.0 / 100%
0
Environmental protection on poultry farms
+4000
On-going
US Poultry $108,000
Lowry Harper
.5 / 100%
0
Ammonia emissions from poultry houses
+1000
On-going
collaborator
Claudia Dunkley
1.0 / 100%
0
Nutrient management for poultry farms
+1000
On-going
collaborator
Faculty Member
Agency and
Funding Source
Grant Title
% of
Env. EFT
Project
Period
Direct Costs
(Current Yr)
Dr. Amy Batal
USPEA
USPEA Water Quality in Poultry Production
20
11/1/03 –
11/1/07
7,000
Dr. Sammy Aggrey
USPEA
USPEA Phytate Phosphorous Utilization
70
7/1/04 –
6/1/07
31,000
Dr. Hardy Edwards
USPEA
USPEA Phytase supplementation of poultry
diets
75
6/1/04 –
7/1/07
19,000
Dr. Casey Ritz
USPEA
USPEA Evaluation of Char and Active
Carbon to Reduce Ammonia from Poultry
Manure
50
7/1/06 –
6/30/08
7,000
Dr. Brian Fairchild
USPEA
USPEA Monitoring Ammonia and Particulate
Matter at Property Fence Lines
50
5/1/06 –
3/1/08
18,000
Dr. Lowry Harper
USDA
USDA Trace-Gas Emissions from Livestock
Facilities
50
9/29/06 –
9/28/08
50,000
Dr. Brian Fairchild
USPEA
USPEA Monitoring Ammonia during Cold
Weather
50
12/1/06 –
12/1/08
19,000
Dr. Casey Ritz
Industry
Evaluation of Ferric Sulfate for Ammonia
Control
50
5/1/06 –
4/30/07
27,000
Dr. Casey Ritz
USPEA
Evaluation of Poultry House Emissions in
Relation to Slash Pine Plantations
50
6/06/07 –
12/31/08
8,500
Faculty
Member
Past/
Current
Trainee
Edwards
Trainee Name
M.S.
Ph.D.
PostDoc
Deg.
at
Entry
Training
Period
P
Robert Shirley
Ph.D.
MS
3 yr
University of Illinois
Edwards
P
Anastasia Liem
MS
BS
2 yr
UGA
Phytate phosphorous
utilization in poultry
UGA Ph.D.
Aggrey
P
Weng Shang
Xhang
Ph.D.
MS
3 yr
University of Beijing
Genetic reduction of
phosphorous excretion
UGA Post Doc
Aggrey
P
Pan Kaj Sethi
MS
BS
2 yr
University of Punjab
Phosphorous
bioavailability in poultry
UGA Ph.D.
Edwards
C
Anastasia Liem
Ph.D.
MS
NA
UGA
Phytate phosphorous
utilization in poultry
NA
Prior Institution
Research Topic
Reduction of
phosphorous excretion
using enzymes
Institution
Research Director at Novus
International
OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
See website http://www.caes.uga.edu/unit/oes/
CES - COUNTY
Environmental Programs May 3, 2007
Definitions of criteria used to identify data in GA Counts
Environmental Programs used to collect data are either Formal Programs or
Informal Programs.
1. Standard CEU: Programs or presentations that meet the requirements set by the
Board of Regents. These programs are UGA sponsored and include a roster,
agenda and course evaluations.
2. Presentations: Formal programs that do not meet all the requirements as set by
the Board of Regents.
3. Events: Informal programs such as a field day.
Environmental Programs were identified in 4-H and ANR programs areas using a
combination of topics and keywords.
1. Topics: Topics are the general listing in which programs refer to.
2. Keywords: Based upon the topic selected, different key words are provided.
Keywords describe the substance of the program.
4-H Topics used to identify Environmental Programs:
1. Environmental Science
ANR Keywords used in researching Environmental Programs:
*Keywords were used for ANR because not all keywords of a topic applied to
Environmental Programs.
1. Conservation Programs
2. Conservation Tillage
3. Household Energy Conservation
4. Household Waste/ Enviroshopping/ Recycling
5. Integrated Pest Management
6. Pesticide Training – Commercial
7. Pesticide Training – Private
8. Waste Management
9. Water Conservation
10. Water Quality
Summary of Environmental Programs Results
During the 2006 calendar year 49,529 people attended formal education courses in
relation to Environmental Programs. The number of programs held to reach this
attendance was 2,100 totaling 1,509 hours of instruction by CAES personnel.
Of those formal education programs 892 sessions met the requirements as stated by the
Board of Regents to track continuing education units (CEU). These sessions reached
17,163 people within 892 sessions. The total instructional hours used to complete these
sessions are 799 hours.
Informal programming reached 13,612 people. Since these programs are informal, we do
not track instructional hours.
Below are charts breaking down the numbers for 4-H and ANR. There are also detailed
reports displaying the date the activity of the activity, the title of the activity and the
county the activity was held at are attached
Informal Education
Activities held between 1/1/06 to 12/31/06 in relation to informal education for Environmental
Sciences
4-H
ANR
Total
8,605
5,500
14,105
Contacts/Number of people who attended
Number of Sessions
198
129
327
Formal Education
Activities held between 1/1/06 to 12/31/06 in relation to formal education for Environmental
Sciences
ANR
Total
4-H
35,141
12,425
47,566
Number of programs held
1602
452
2,054
Educational Contact Hours
29738.05 28050.86
57,789
Teaching hours sum
388.05 726.267
1,114
CEU Programs
Activities held between 1/1/06 to 12/31/06 in relation to informal education for
Environmental Sciences.
ANR
Total
4-H
32869
9261
42,130
Number of programs held
1532
340
1,872
Educational Contact Hours
27515.55 22709.31
50,225
Teaching hours sum
358.85 508.577
867
ANR Formal Detail Report Sorted by Date
Title
VH-Private Pesticide Training
Irrigation Permiting in Ga.
Ag Committee - Chamber of
Commerce
beltwide otton conference
Beltwide Cotton Conference
Presentation
Fruit and Vegetable Conference
2006 Corn Production Meeting
SilverLake Homeowner Assoc.
Farm Service Agency New Borrower
Corn Production Update
Activity
Location
1/3/2006 Cobb
1/3/2006 Colquitt
County
County
1/5/2006 Colquitt
1/5/2006 Grady
County
County
1/6/2006 Coffee
1/6/2006 Screven
1/9/2006 Lamar
1/10/2006 DeKalb
1/12/2006 Irwin
1/12/2006 Mitchell
National
County
County
County
County
County
MultiCounty
County
Date Range
Scope
Commercial Pesticide Review Session
Resource Guide Program
Worth County Conservation Tillage
Alliance
1/12/2006 Richmond
1/13/2006 Rockdale
2006 Winter School Rock Eagle
1/18/2006 Putnam
2006 Winter School- Rock Eagle
Farm and Farmland Preservation
Winter Conference
1/18/2006 Putnam
1/18/2006 Putnam
1/19/2006 Putnam
County
District/Dep
artment
District/Dep
artment
State
State
Georgia Alternative Energy Producers
Cotton Seminar
Pesticide Applicator Training
Pecan Seminar
Plant Vogtle Pesticide Liscense
Training
Cotton Insect and Nematode Update
pesticide certification training
Environmental Roundtable
Delta and Pineland Cotton Variety
Update
Agro security Training/Workshop
Georgia Green Industry Association
Peanut Production Update
Tobacco Production Meeting
Corn Production Meeting
Disease Control Seminar
Conservation Tillage Shortcourse
Cotton Production Update
Cotton Profitmaker-Class 1
Irwinville Corn Meeting
Cotton and Peanut Weed Update
1/20/2006 Worth
1/23/2006 Brooks
1/23/2006 Wheeler
1/24/2006 Brooks
County
County
County
County
1/24/2006 Burke
1/24/2006 Colquitt
1/25/2006 Grady
1/25/2006 Rockdale
County
County
County
County
District/Dep
artment
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
1/17/2006 Worth
1/25/2006 Worth
1/26/2006 Clayton
1/26/2006 Gwinnett
1/26/2006 Mitchell
1/27/2006 Cook
1/27/2006 Seminole
1/30/2006 Brooks
1/30/2006 Colquitt
1/30/2006 Mitchell
1/31/2006 Coffee
1/31/2006 Irwin
1/31/2006 Mitchell
1/31/2006 Rockdale
2/1/2006 Ben Hill
2/1/2006 Coffee
2/2/2006 Coffee
2/2/2006 Wilcox
2/2/2006 Worth
MultiCounty
County
County
County
County
2/3/2006 Decatur
2/3/2006 Lamar
County
County
2/4/2006 Pulaski
2/6/2006 Coffee
2/6/2006 Grady
State
County
County
Lee County Corn Production Meeting
Private Pesticide License Training
Peanut Production Meeting
Oconee Area Pesticide Recertifcation
Clinic
2/6/2006 Lee
2/6/2006 Marion
2/6/2006 Seminole
County
County
County
2/7/2006 Barrow
County
Private Pesticide Applicators Training
Georgia Alternative Energy Producers
Meeting
6th Conservation Tillage Production
Systems Training
Wildlife and Their Habitat
2/7/2006 Lamar
County
2/7/2006 Worth
County
2/8/2006 Irwin
2/8/2006 Lanier
State
County
Pesticide Applicators License Training
2/8/2006 Macon
County
Southeast Georgia Tobacco Workshop
Cotton Production Meeting
Pesticide Training - February 2006
Small Grain Seminar
Agrosecurity Level 1 Awearness
Training
Private Pesticide Applicator Training
Ben Hill Cotton Production Meeting
Irwin County Cotton Production
Meeting
VH-Commercial Pesticide Training
Pulaski Houston Peanut Production
meeting
Ga. Peanut Research Report-TiftonNESPAL Bldg.
Agrosecurity Training Awareness
2/9/2006 Atkinson
2/9/2006 Cook
2/9/2006 Lanier
2/10/2006 Brooks
County
County
County
County
2/10/2006 Gordon
2/10/2006 Jones
2/13/2006 Ben Hill
County
County
County
2/13/2006 Irwin
2/14/2006 Cobb
County
County
2/14/2006 Pulaski
County
2/15/2006 Atkinson
2/15/2006 Hart
2/15/2006 Rockdale
Vegetable Meeting
2/16/2006 Columbia
2/16/2006 Cook
2/16/2006 Rockdale
State
County
County
MultiState/Regio
nal
County
County
Ben Hill/Irwin Seedling Weed ID
Grower Meeting
Pesticide Safety Training
Peanut Production Workshop
Weed ID Meeting
Worth Cotton Production Update
Decatur Co. Cotton/Peanut Herbicide
Meeting
2006 Agriculture Outlook
Georgia Young Farmers Annual
Meeting
Weed ID Training
Conservation, Wildlife, and Farmland
Protection Workshop
How Georgia Farmers & Agribusiness
Can Succeed in Obtaining Federal
Grants
Private Pesticide Certification
VH-Commercial Pesticide Training
Conserving Water in the Landscape
2/18/2006 Clarke
State
2/20/2006 Bulloch
2/20/2006 Walton
2/21/2006 Cobb
2/22/2006 Coffee
2/23/2006 Barrow
2/23/2006 Cook
State
County
County
County
County
County
Decatur Co. Cotton Production Update
2/23/2006 Decatur
Lanier Peanut Production Meeting
2/24/2006 Lanier
County
MultiCounty
Private Pesticide Training and licening
Ben Hill Peanut Production Meeting
Pesticide Seminar
2/25/2006 Gordon
2/27/2006 Ben Hill
2/27/2006 Brooks
Crisp/Dooly/Wilcox Cotton Mtg.
2/27/2006 Dooly
Crisp/Dooly/Wilcox Cotton Update
2/27/2006 Wilcox
County
County
County
MultiCounty
MultiCounty
Lowndes\Lanier Cotton-Peanut
Meeting
Pesticide Training for Private
Applicators
Pesticide Training
March Private Pesticide Applicator
Training
McCranie Tractor Field Day
Pest Seminar
Commercial Pesticide Applicator
Training
commercial pesticide recertification
2/28/2006 Lamar
County
2/28/2006 Lanier
County
2/28/2006 Polk
2/28/2006 Tattnall
County
County
3/1/2006 Colquitt
3/1/2006 Pulaski
3/1/2006 Wayne
3/2/2006 Brooks
County
County
County
County
3/2/2006 Hart
3/2/2006 Hart
County
County
Lee County Cotton Production Meeting
Protection Workshop
Ben Hill/Irwin Cotton and Peanut Weed
Management Meeting
Metro MG Training
3/3/2006 Lee
County
3/4/2006 Tift
Agrosecurity Training
3/7/2006 Atkinson
State
MultiCounty
County
County
MultiCounty
Private Pesticide Training
Girl Scout Merit Badge Clinic
3/7/2006 Banks
3/8/2006 Gordon
3/8/2006 Rockdale
County
County
County
3/6/2006 Ben Hill
3/6/2006 DeKalb
3/6/2006 Rockdale
Protection Workshop
weed control mtg
Lawn & Weed Care Workshop
3/11/2006 Bulloch
3/14/2006 Early
3/15/2006 Fulton
Lanier/Berrien Cotton Meeting
Douigherty/Lee Pecan Production
Meeting
Hydrology and Geology of Coastal
georgia
Irwin County Peanut Production
Meeting
Water Quality Meeting
Pesticide Update 2006
Weed Identification workshop
3/16/2006 Berrien
3/16/2006 Clay
State
County
County
MultiCounty
County
3/16/2006 Dougherty
County
3/16/2006 Glynn
County
3/16/2006 Irwin
3/16/2006 Macon
3/16/2006 Spalding
3/16/2006 Turner
County
County
County
County
Local Agrosecurity Awareness Training
3/16/2006 Webster
County
Presentation to Cattlemans Asociation
Utilization of Well Camera in
Diagnosing Problems
3/16/2006 Wilkes
County
3/17/2006 Colquitt
County
Decatur Co Peanut Production Update
3/17/2006 Decatur
Organic Blueberry Working Group
Pesticide Training
commercial pumpkin production
Golden K
Learn at Lunch Elements of
3/17/2006 Lanier
3/17/2006 Washington
3/20/2006 Lincoln
3/21/2006 Dawson
3/22/2006 Hart
County
MultiState/Regio
nal
County
County
County
County
3/22/2006 Jasper
County
2006 Lanier Cotton Production Meeting
Area Pesticide Update
3/22/2006 Lanier
3/22/2006 Walker
Worth County Peanut Update 2006
Westmont Elementary School 3rd
Grade
Pesticide training
Area Cotton Meeting
Peanut Production Update
Well Water Quality Seminar
Resource Guide Program -trees
Private pesticide training class
Protecting Private Wells
Private applicators Training
Area Wildlife Management Meeting
3/23/2006 Worth
County
County
District/Dep
artment
3/24/2006 Columbia
3/24/2006 Screven
3/27/2006 Morgan
3/28/2006 Appling
3/28/2006 Banks
3/28/2006 Clay
3/28/2006 Rockdale
3/30/2006 Bacon
3/30/2006 Catoosa
3/30/2006 Columbia
3/30/2006 Columbia
3/30/2006 Hart
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
Area Cotton Meeting
Weed Control Update Meeting
Pesticide Training
Garden Club Presentation
Georgia Certified Naturalist # 2
Advances in Irrigation Technology
Irrigation Meeting/Ga Soil & Water
NARFE
Certified Naturalist Class #3
Corn Production
Southwest and Northwest Agents
Conservation Tillage Training
Pesticide Training - April 2006
3/30/2006 Wheeler
3/30/2006 Wheeler
3/31/2006 Madison
3/31/2006 Rockdale
4/4/2006 Clay
4/5/2006 Bryan
4/5/2006 Colquitt
4/5/2006 Colquitt
4/6/2006 Worth
4/7/2006 Appling
4/12/2006 Houston
4/12/2006 McIntosh
4/13/2006 Rockdale
4/14/2006 Gordon
Hillside Garden Club
Ryegrass Suitability in Worth County
Con-Till
Certified Naturalist Program 2006- 4th
Class
Erosion & Sediment Control
Certification - Level 1A
Sprayer Calibration Workshop
Certified Naturalist Class #5 2006
Arbor Day
Land Management
Irrigation
Certified Naturalist Program #6
4/18/2006 Richmond
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
District/Dep
artment
County
MultiCounty
4/18/2006 Worth
County
4/19/2006 Chatham
County
4/20/2006 Spalding
4/23/2006 Greene
4/25/2006 Long
4/26/2006 Chatham
4/28/2006 Brooks
4/28/2006 Gordon
5/1/2006 Wayne
5/3/2006 Liberty
State
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
Area Dove Field Management Program
Oxford Lyons Club
May Master Gardener Meeting
Water Quality Protection
5/4/2006 Jones
5/4/2006 Newton
5/9/2006 Murray
5/9/2006 Rockdale
County
County
County
County
5/10/2006 Bryan
5/10/2006 Columbia
5/11/2006 Columbia
County
County
County
5/11/2006 Lanier
5/11/2006 Meriwether
5/11/2006 Newton
County
County
County
5/13/2006 Fulton
County
5/15/2006 Jasper
5/16/2006 Wayne
5/17/2006 Effingham
County
County
County
Certified Naturalist Program Class #7
Garden Club
Brooks,Lanier,Lowndes Area Pecan
Meeting
Merry Weather Garden Club Meeting
Annual Cattlemen's Field Day
Care and Maintenance of Ornamental
Plants in the Landscape
Learn Elements of Sustainable
Agriculture at Lunch
Conservation Tillage Tour and Clinic
Certified Naturalist # 8
4/14/2006 Pulaski
4/17/2006 Lanier
2006 In Field Weed Science Training
UGA In-Field Weed Science Training
Commercial Pecan Agent Training
5/17/2006 Tift
5/17/2006 Worth
5/18/2006 Dougherty
State
College
State
Cotton Scout
5/19/2006 Lamar
5/20/2006 Brooks
County
County
5/20/2006 Fulton
Native Plant Presentation
4-H Water wise and Water treatment
facility tour
SPEAKER PRESENTATION (HO)
Lawn & Weed Care Workshop
5/21/2006 McIntosh
County
MultiState/Regio
nal
5/23/2006 Dougherty
5/24/2006 DeKalb
5/24/2006 Fulton
County
County
County
Stone Mountain Water Dept (MG)
Perennials and Shrubs
Junior Master Gardener
Certified nturalsit Program Class #10
Acadamy Greenhouses
5/25/2006 Columbia
5/26/2006 DeKalb
5/27/2006 Dougherty
County
County
County
5/27/2006 Fulton
County
5/27/2006 Spalding
5/30/2006 Rockdale
5/31/2006 Chatham
County
County
County
5/31/2006 Fulton
6/1/2006 Gordon
County
County
MultiCounty
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
June 2006 Cattlemen's Meeting
Chamber farm tour
Grounds Maintainance
Drip Irrigation Program
Forestry Judging Practice
Beef Cattle Management
Horticulture Presentation
Private Applicator Testing
6/1/2006 Murray
6/2/2006 Bulloch
6/3/2006 Gordon
6/5/2006 Dougherty
6/5/2006 Heard
6/6/2006 Gordon
6/6/2006 Harris
6/6/2006 Rockdale
6/7/2006 Colquitt
6/8/2006 Bartow
Private Pesticide Applicator's Training
Kick off of the Teachers MG Trng.
Landscape Design
6/8/2006 Wheeler
6/12/2006 Heard
6/13/2006 Cobb
6/13/2006 Cobb
County
County
County
County
June 2006 Master Gardener Meetinng
Georgia Vocational Staff Development
Consortium
Pesticide Certification Training
Certification - Level 1B
Teachers MG Trng
6/13/2006 Murray
County
6/13/2006 Newton
6/14/2006 Grady
State
County
6/15/2006 Houston
6/16/2006 Cobb
State
County
Pesticide Training - June 2006
6/16/2006 Lanier
County
Master Gardener Newspaper Feature
6/19/2006 Clayton
County
Master Gardener Progam - Carroll Co.
Morgan Dairy Association
Creative Gardening Series #6 (HO)
Adopt-A-Stream Biolbgical Monitoring
Training
Augusta Kiwanis Club
Area Forestry Workshop
Teachers MG Trng.
Native Plant & Bird Walk
Drinking Water: Let’s Be Clear!
Timber and Wildlife Production
Learn Elements of Sustainable
Agriculture at Lunch - on the farm
Inter Ag Agency Meeting
Lunch & Learn at the Hall County
Library - July 2006
Sonoraville Recreation Complex
CANR Needs Meeting
Putnam Co. Hunter Education Section
2
Putnam County Hunter Education
Program Section 1
Section 8
Putnam Hunter Ed Section 5
Mom's Club of Canton
Master Naturalist Program
SGA program
Church of Latter Day Saints Meeting
Beautifying Your Landscape
Farm Management Systems
6/19/2006 Cobb
6/19/2006 Morgan
6/20/2006 DeKalb
County
County
County
6/20/2006 Paulding
6/20/2006 Richmond
6/21/2006 Fannin
6/22/2006 Cobb
6/24/2006 McIntosh
6/26/2006 Heard
6/26/2006 Putnam
7/5/2006 Baker
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
7/5/2006 Jasper
7/10/2006 McDuffie
7/10/2006 McDuffie
7/11/2006 Rockdale
7/12/2006 Floyd
County
County
County
County
County
7/12/2006 Hall
7/17/2006 Morgan
7/18/2006 Gordon
7/18/2006 McDuffie
County
County
County
County
7/18/2006 Putnam
County
7/18/2006 Putnam
County
7/19/2006 Houston
County
7/20/2006 Putnam
7/20/2006 Putnam
7/21/2006 Cherokee
7/21/2006 Tattnall
7/22/2006 Cobb
7/26/2006 Gilmer
8/1/2006 Columbia
8/1/2006 Fulton
8/1/2006 Rockdale
8/1/2006 Turner
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
8/1/2006 Twiggs
8/2/2006 Dougherty
8/3/2006 Gordon
8/4/2006 Clinch
County
County
County
County
8/4/2006 Jones
County
Central Ga Master Gardener Meeting
Pesticide Safety
Testing Nitrates in Hay
Irrigation Well Permits
Session
8/4/2006 Lamar
ISA Certification Training 2
QUARTERLY MG TRAINING
Cohutta Ruritan Club
Ag Training
August Master Gardener Meeting
master gardening
UGA New Faculty Tour of Colquitt
County Agriculture
Water Quality
Nitrate Trouble Shooting
Pasture Management
Georgia Recreation Parks Association
Facilities and Grounds Maintenance
Day
Conservation Tillage School Planning
Meeting
8/7/2006 Chatham
8/7/2006 DeKalb
County
MultiState/Regio
nal
County
8/7/2006 Fulton
8/7/2006 Murray
8/8/2006 Charlton
8/8/2006 Murray
8/9/2006 Clayton
County
County
County
County
County
8/9/2006 Colquitt
8/13/2006 Newton
8/15/2006 Gordon
8/16/2006 Gordon
County
County
County
County
8/16/2006 Tift
State
8/17/2006 Atkinson
County
Muscogee County Pest Cert Test 2006
ISA Training #4
8/18/2006 Muscogee
County
8/19/2006 Houston
State
8/19/2006 Spalding
8/21/2006 Chatham
County
County
East Lake Neighborhood Assoc. (HO)
Master Naturalist Fall 2006 #1
Forest Land Owners Assoc. Meeting
Private Pesticide Recertification
FFA Jr. Natural Resources Field Day
Practice
8/21/2006 DeKalb
8/23/2006 Bryan
8/23/2006 Charlton
8/23/2006 Gilmer
County
County
County
County
8/23/2006 Paulding
County
Homeowner Creative Gardening Series
Haralson County Master Gardener
Meeting
8/24/2006 DeKalb
County
8/24/2006 Paulding
County
Master Gardener August 2006 Meeting
Wilcox Ag Advisory Committee
Area Fall Wildlife Food Plot Program Ace Hardware - Gray
Area Fall Wildlife Forage Program
Tennga Homemakers
Hart co farmers
Wheat Production Meeting
Putnam Co. Hunter Ed. Program
8/24/2006 Paulding
8/24/2006 Wilcox
County
County
8/26/2006 Houston
County
8/26/2006 Jones
8/26/2006 Putnam
8/28/2006 Murray
8/29/2006 Hart
8/29/2006 Pulaski
8/29/2006 Putnam
County
County
County
County
County
County
Putnam Co. Hunter Education Program
Putnam County Hunter Ed Program
Program
Herbs for Gardens
Optimist of Hartwell
Program
Fall Gardening and Composting
Homeowner Horticulture
Cotton Defoliation Peanut Harvest
Clinic
Albany Mens' Garden Club
Private Pesticide Applicator Re-cert
Trng
8/29/2006 Putnam
8/29/2006 Putnam
County
County
8/29/2006 Putnam
8/31/2006 Columbia
8/31/2006 Gilmer
8/31/2006 Hart
County
County
County
County
8/31/2006 Putnam
9/6/2006 Colquitt
9/6/2006 Effingham
9/6/2006 Gwinnett
9/6/2006 Gwinnett
County
County
County
County
County
9/7/2006 Appling
9/7/2006 Lee
County
County
9/7/2006 Spalding
County
Pine CRP and Wildlife Field Day
SoGeorgia Cattlemen's Assoc.
Master gardener
9/8/2006 Lamar
9/9/2006 Emanuel
9/11/2006 Warren
9/12/2006 Coffee
9/12/2006 Hart
September Master Gardener Meeting
Gardening at Lunch
9/12/2006 Murray
9/13/2006 Bryan
9/13/2006 Columbia
County
County
County
County
County
MultiCounty
County
County
County Lunch and Learn
Cotton Defoliation Update
9/13/2006 Lamar
9/13/2006 Rockdale
9/13/2006 Worth
County
County
County
2006 Georgia Peanut Tour
9/14/2006 Burke
International
2006 Georgia Peanut Tour - Day 3
ISA Certification Training 3
Home Hort. Series
Composting Workshop
Erosion and Sedimentation program
Georgia Milk Area Meeting
9/14/2006 Burke
9/14/2006 Chatham
9/14/2006 Cobb
9/14/2006 Fulton
9/14/2006 Walton
9/18/2006 Morgan
Aiken, SC Master Gardener class
Home Hort. Series
PenPack Pesticide Training
Master Naturalist
WEB Power Point Presentation
Composting Workshop
9/19/2006 Richmond
9/20/2006 Cobb
9/20/2006 Morgan
9/20/2006 Rockdale
9/21/2006 Chatham
9/21/2006 Fulton
International
County
County
County
County
County
MultiState/Regio
nal
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
9/21/2006 Lamar
County
9/21/2006 Spalding
County
Georgia Milk Producers Board Meeting
Master Gardener Class
9/25/2006 Bibb
9/25/2006 Glynn
9/26/2006 Banks
State
County
County
Low Cost Landscaping (Homeowners)
Preparing Your Landscape for the Fall
Workshop
Pesticide License Training
Horticulture Seminar at Bull Street
Library
9/26/2006 DeKalb
County
9/26/2006 Houston
9/27/2006 McIntosh
County
County
9/30/2006 Fulton
10/2/2006 Marion
10/4/2006 Glynn
10/4/2006 Liberty
County
County
County
County
10/5/2006 Chatham
County
10/5/2006 Fulton
County
10/5/2006 Fulton
County
MultiCounty
County
County
MultiCounty
MultiState/Regio
nal
County
County
County
Tobacco Advisory Meeting
Pesticide License Training
Pesticide Certification Training
October 2006 Master Gardener
Meeting
10/7/2006 Coffee
10/9/2006 Marion
10/10/2006 Gwinnett
CANR Open House
Winter Grazing Forage Meeting
Farm Fest
McMillian Creek Greenway Tree
Identification
N. Decatur Methodist Church
NE Ga Master gardener
Private Applicator Recertification
Private Pesticide Applicator
10/12/2006 McDuffie
10/13/2006 Irwin
10/14/2006 Gwinnett
10/16/2006 Morgan
Hephzibah Ag. Club
small grain production
10/21/2006 Richmond
10/21/2006 Wayne
October Dalton Herb Society Meeting
Small Grain Production Update
10/24/2006 Whitfield
10/25/2006 Chatham
10/25/2006 Decatur
10/10/2006 Murray
10/17/2006 Wayne
10/18/2006 Liberty
10/19/2006 DeKalb
10/19/2006 Hart
10/19/2006 Pike
10/19/2006 Pike
10/23/2006 Houston
County
County
County
County
County
County
MultiCounty
County
County
MultiCounty
County
County
SE Georgia Cotton Field Day
McMillian Creek Greenway Project
Fall Festival EEC
Workshop
Workshop
Master Gardener Class # 15
Sotheast District Plan of Work
Fall Lunch & Learn Series
Pike County Cattlemen's Association
Workshop
Gardening at Lunch
Who Wants to be a Soil Scientist
Posionous Plants, Venomous Insects
and Snakes
10 th North American Blueberry
Workers Conf
Matthews Master Gardener
Collaboration
Pesticide Training
November Master Gardener Meeting
Master gardener
Morgan Dairy Association Spouses
Night
Sedimenation Certification Seminar
Session
Pasture Management
Crop Year in Review and a Look to
2007
AAS Visual Monitoring Training
10/26/2006 Coffee
County
10/26/2006 Fulton
County
10/26/2006 Houston
10/26/2006 Wayne
10/28/2006 DeKalb
County
County
County
10/28/2006 Fulton
County
10/30/2006 Fulton
10/30/2006 Walton
11/1/2006 Bulloch
11/1/2006 Colquitt
11/2/2006 Lumpkin
11/2/2006 Rockdale
County
County
County
County
County
County
11/2/2006 Spalding
County
11/4/2006 Fulton
11/8/2006 Columbia
11/8/2006 Fulton
County
County
County
11/9/2006 Columbia
County
11/10/2006 Clinch
International
11/10/2006 Paulding
11/10/2006 Polk
11/14/2006 Murray
11/16/2006 Hart
County
County
County
County
County
11/17/2006 Jeff Davis
County
11/18/2006 Spalding
County
11/20/2006 Morgan
County
11/20/2006 Wayne
11/21/2006 Chatham
11/21/2006 DeKalb
County
County
County
11/27/2006 Houston
County
11/27/2006 Jones
11/28/2006 Gordon
County
County
11/30/2006 Colquitt
County
11/30/2006 Spalding
12/1/2006 Paulding
County
County
Turfgrass Institute & Tradeshow
Workshop
Pesticide Use and Safety
JOINT TRAINING WITH MALTA (GI)
Greenhouse Trouble Shooting
Georgia Milk Producers Meeting
12/5/2006 Gwinnett
12/7/2006 Evans
12/7/2006 Rockdale
12/8/2006 DeKalb
12/11/2006 Gordon
State
County
County
County
County
12/11/2006 Morgan
County
State
Dec. Bryan County Master Gardeners
12/12/2006 Bryan
SE Dist. CEC Meeting-Appling Co.
Gardening at Lunch
VIDEO TRAINING - OFFICE GI
USCTA
12/12/2006 Charlton
County
District/Dep
artment
12/12/2006 Spalding
12/13/2006 Columbia
12/13/2006 DeKalb
12/13/2006 Turner
12/14/2006 Decatur
County
County
County
County
County
Pesticide Applicator Training, Cat. 24
2006 Cherokee County Green Industry
Update
Georgia Arborists (GI) Awards
12/14/2006 Floyd
County
12/15/2006 Cherokee
12/15/2006 DeKalb
12/15/2006 Turner
County
County
County
12/18/2006 Wayne
County
12/19/2006 Houston
County
January Private Pesticide Applicator
Training
01/01/2006 To
01/30/2006
Colquitt
First Responders Class
01/04/2006 To
01/28/2006
Columbia
Conservation Tillage School
02/07/2006 To
02/08/2006
Atkinson
County
MultiState/Regio
nal
Atlanta Power Show
03/09/2006 To
03/10/2006
Rockdale
County
Pesticide Selection and Safety for
March-April
03/15/2006 To
04/30/2006
Colquitt
County
Hall County Solid Waste Planning
Committee - April 2006
04/11/2006 To
04/27/2006
Hall
County
04/13/2006 To
04/14/2006
Baker
District/Dep
artment
County
District Conservation Tillage Training
04/13/2006 To
04/14/2006
Worth
County
Conservation Tillage Workshop
04/17/2006 To
04/18/2006
Appling
County
Northeast & Southeast Agent
04/17/2006 To
04/18/2006
Pulaski
District/Dep
artment
05/01/2006 To
Colquitt
Pesticide Selection and Safety for May 05/31/2006
County
Sustainable Agriculture Research
05/06/2006 To
11/06/2006
Pulaski
County
HERD Sale
05/30/2006 To
05/31/2006
Gordon
State
Monthly Meeting/Picnic
06/01/2006 To
06/30/2006
Clayton
County
06/01/2006 To
Colquitt
Pesticide Selection and Safety for June 06/30/2006
County
Powerpoint Presentation
07/01/2006 To
07/31/2006
Clayton
County
American Peanut Research and
Education Society
07/10/2006 To
07/14/2006
Lanier
International
National Association of County AG
Agents
07/23/2006 To
07/28/2006
Lanier
County
August Pesticide Training-2006
08/01/2006 To
08/31/2006
Clinch
County
National Association of Conservation
Districts Congressional Tour
08/21/2006 To
08/23/2006
Bulloch
National
Certification - Level 1B
08/28/2006 To
08/29/2006
Houston
County
09/01/2006 To
Peanut Hull-Scrape Harvesting Clinics 09/30/2006
Atkinson
County
Peanut Maturity Clinics
09/01/2006 To
10/03/2006
Worth
County
Peanut Maturity Hull Scrape ClinicsSeptember
09/05/2006 To
09/30/2006
Lanier
County
Washington County Big Buck Contest
10/01/2006 To
10/07/2006
Washington
County
Washington County Big Turkey
Contest
10/01/2006 To
10/07/2006
Washington
County
10/01/2006 To
10/30/2006
Colquitt
County
October Peanut Hull-Scrape
Harvesting Clinics
10/01/2006 To
10/31/2006
Atkinson
County
Pesticide Selection and Safety for
October
10/01/2006 To
10/31/2006
Colquitt
County
Forestry Landowner Meeting
10/12/2006 To
10/31/2006
Burke
County
4-H Formal Environmental Education listed by Date
Title
Date Range
Activity
Location
Scope
Moth Trap Inspection & Maint. (USDA Support)
12/30/2006 Glynn
County
12/22/2006 Glynn
County
Georgia Barrier Islands/Tapp MS
12/20/2006 Cobb
County
Garden Earth Naturalist Club
12/20/2006 Ware
County
Ms. Ahmed 6th grade Club meeting
12/20/2006 Butts
County
Ms. Edgin 6th grade clubs
12/18/2006 Butts
County
Archery Team Organizational Meeting
12/18/2006 Grady
County
Organizational Shotgun Teams Meeting
12/14/2006 Grady
County
GEN - ASP Club
Poison Pump
12/14/2006 Paulding
12/14/2006 To
12/15/2006
Henry
County
County
12/13/2006 Glynn
County
Shooting Sports Practice
12/13/2006 Pulaski
County
Georgia Barrier Islands
12/13/2006 Henry
County
Loganville Middle School Meeting
12/12/2006 Walton
County
Betts Club Meetings December 2006
12/12/2006 Pike
County
The Rock Cycle
12/12/2006 Henry
County
Batchelor Clubs December 2006
12/11/2006 Pike
County
BB Orientation 12/11/06
12/11/2006 Upson
County
Shotgun Team Orientation 12/11/06
12/11/2006 Upson
County
Traditional Archery
12/10/2006 Hall
County
Social Circle Middle School Meeting
5th Grade Meeting
The Rock Cycle
12/10/2006 Walton
12/07/2006 To
12/14/2006
Henry
12/7/2006 Henry
County
County
County
12/07/2006 To
12/08/2006
Henry
County
Shooting Sports
12/6/2006 Pulaski
County
12/6/2006 Glynn
County
Minerals Rock!
Static Electricity
SAFE Team Practice 2
12/5/2006 Cobb
12/05/2006 To
12/06/2006
Schley
12/04/2006 To
12/11/2006
Henry
County
County
County
12/1/2006 Hall
12/01/2006 To
12/31/2006
Gwinnett
County
HMS 6th grade club meeting Ms. Ahmed
4-H SAFE Shotgun Team Program
Orientation/Registration Meetings
11/30/2006 Butts
County
11/30/2006 Jones
County
Target Sports BB
11/30/2006 Walton
County
5th grade school video program
Resource Class- Flat Shoals Kindergarden
Mold
County
11/30/2006 Rockdale County
11/30/2006 To
12/01/2006
Pulaski
County
11/29/2006 Pulaski
County
HMSClub meeting Ms. Robinson
11/29/2006 Butts
County
HMS 6th club MS. Edgin
11/28/2006 Butts
County
BB Team Organizational Meeting for New Members
11/28/2006 Crisp
County
11/24/2006 Glynn
County
Shooting Sports
11/22/2006 Pulaski
11/21/2006 To
12/07/2006
Fayette
11/17/2006 To
11/21/2006
Lumpkin
County
GEN - ASP Club
11/16/2006 Paulding
County
The Rock Cycle
11/16/2006 Henry
County
11/15/2006 Pulaski
County
November Cloverleaf Meeting - Peeples
Club Mtgs, 6, Lumpkin
Club Mtgs, 6, Dawson
11/15/2006 Glynn
11/13/2006 To
11/15/2006
Dawson
County
County
County
County
Traditional Archery
November Meeting
Traditional Archery Club
CES/CMS November Club Meeting
November Cloverleaf Meeting - St. Paul
Resource Guide Program - Insects
Betts Clubs November 2006
November 6th Grade 4-H Meetings
November Cloverleaf Meeting - Huddleston
Batchelor Clubs November 2006
5th Club Meetings-RCES
11/13/2006 To
11/27/2006
11/13/2006 To
11/16/2006
11/12/2006 To
11/26/2006
11/10/2006 To
11/11/2006
Hall
County
Schley
County
Hall
County
Tattnall
County
11/10/2006 Fayette
County
11/8/2006 Pike
11/07/2006 To
11/14/2006
Coffee
11/7/2006 Glynn
11/06/2006 To
11/10/2006
Fayette
County
County
County
County
11/6/2006 Pike
County
11/03/2006 To
11/10/2006
Randolph County
GMS November Club Meetings
11/3/2006 Tattnall
County
6th grade club meetings
11/2/2006 Irwin
County
RMS November Club Meeting
GMS Junior Club Meetings
BB Rifle Team
Dublin Middle 6th Grade
November 4-H Meetings
Bug club
Cloverleaf Meeting at Boys & Girls Club
The Rock Cycle
5th grade club meetings
agu. science
5th Grade Club Meeting
11/2/2006 Tattnall
11/02/2006 To
11/03/2006
Tattnall
11/02/2006 To
11/13/2006
Hall
11/2/2006 Laurens
11/02/2006 To
11/21/2006
Murray
County
County
County
County
County
11/2/2006 Glynn
11/01/2006 To
11/30/2006
Henry
11/01/2006 To
11/30/2006
Henry
11/1/2006 Irwin
11/01/2006 To
11/30/2006
Haralson
11/01/2006 To
11/30/2006
Henry
County
County
County
County
County
County
11/01/2006 To
11/30/2006
Gwinnett
10/27/2006 To
10/29/2006
Hall
County
Home school 4-H November
10/26/2006 Butts
County
10/26/2006 Glynn
County
Resource CLass- High Tower 3rd grade
10/24/2006 Cobb
County
Betts Clubs October 2006
10/24/2006 Pike
County
Batchelor Clubs October 2006
10/23/2006 Pike
County
Traditional Archery
10/22/2006 Hall
County
GEN - ASP Club
10/19/2006 Paulding
County
MNES Ms. Reese 5th grade club Oct.
10/19/2006 Butts
County
4-H Beekeeping Club 10/19/06
10/19/2006 Upson
County
Marine Life and Environment Presentation
10/18/2006 Cobb
County
Birney GEN Club Meeting
10/18/2006 Cobb
County
NMES Ms. Hestad 5th grade clubs
10/18/2006 Butts
County
School video program
SAFE Coaches Training
NMES MS. Harper 5th grade clubs
5th Club Meeting-RCES
County
10/17/2006 Butts
County
10/17/2006 To
10/24/2006
Randolph County
NMES MS. Brannan 5th grade clubc Oct.
10/16/2006 Butts
County
Cloverbud Meeting
10/16/2006 Walker
County
10/14/2006 Glynn
County
Home School Meeting - October 2006
10/12/2006 Newton
County
BB Rifle Team
10/12/2006 Hall
County
Hopewell 4-H Club
10/12/2006 Gwinnett
County
5,6,7 Rss Club Meeting
10/11/2006 Randolph County
Homeschool Club meeting
10/10/2006 Randolph County
6th Grade Club
10/10/2006 Jenkins
County
6th Grade Club
10/10/2006 Jenkins
Montgome
10/10/2006 ry
Montgome
10/10/2006 ry
10/09/2006 To
10/13/2006
White
County
10/8/2006 Hall
10/06/2006 To
10/11/2006
Cobb
County
County
Cloverleaf 4-H Club Meeting
10/5/2006 Glynn
County
10/3/2006 Glynn
County
Cloverleaf 5th Grade October Meeting
10/3/2006 Wheeler
County
Middle School Club Meetings
10/3/2006 Wilkes
County
October 6th Grade Club Meetings
10/3/2006 Jasper
County
Resource Class- Honey Creek 3rd grade
CB Greer Elementary - Classroom Sessions
9/27/2006 Glynn
Carter 1 Club Meeting
5th grade Cloverleaf Club Meetings
Traditional Archery
Microbes
Taught Wildlife Judging Training
6th Grade Club Meetings
9/27/2006 Walton
09/26/2006 To
09/28/2006
Lumpkin
County
County
County
County
State
County
Resources Class- Hightower 3rd grade
8th In-School Meetings (Kelley)
9/25/2006 Turner
County
Traditional Archery
9/24/2006 Hall
County
BB Rifle & .22 Rimfire
9/21/2006 Hall
County
Beekeeping Club 9/21/06
Forestry Judging Practice -State Comp.
9/21/2006 Upson
County
09/20/2006 To
09/27/2006
Randolph County
Jekyll Island 4-H Center
9/18/2006 Berrien
County
Betts Clubs September 2006
9/13/2006 Pike
County
Batchelor Clubs September 2006
9/11/2006 Pike
County
Montgome
9/11/2006 ry
County
Montgome
9/11/2006 ry
County
Palmer 1 Club Meeting
Palmer 2 Club Meeting
Davis 4-H In-school Meeting
9/11/2006 Turner
Traditional Archery Club
9/10/2006 Hall
County
Montgome
9/9/2006 ry
County
County
Wildlife Judging Competition
9/9/2006 Greene
Eastanollee Elementary 4-H Club
9/8/2006 Stephens County
Montgome
9/8/2006 ry
County
Liberty Elementary 4-H Club Meeting
9/7/2006 Stephens County
Environmental Science Presentation to Kiwanis Club
9/5/2006 Glynn
County
Friends of NRA Banquet Committee Meeting
9/5/2006 Grady
County
Wildlife Judging Workshops
9/5/2006 Grady
County
9/5/2006 Grady
09/05/2006 To
09/12/2006
Coffee
County
County
9/5/2006 Barrow
County
Forestry Field Day Workshops
September Sixth Grade 4-H Club Meetings
Presentation to Girl Scout Troop
S.A.F.E.-Archery Coaches Meeting
Governor's Litter Summit
August 6th Grade 4-H Club Meetings
8/30/2006 Morgan
08/28/2006 To
08/29/2006
Chatham
08/25/2006 To
08/31/2006
Coffee
County
County
State
County
Land Judging Practice #2
8/23/2006 Pike
County
Land Judging Practices
8/18/2006 Pike
County
Cairo City Council Meeting
Forestry Field Day Practices
Forestry Field Day Workshops
Wildlife Training Topographic Maps
Wildlife Judging Workshops
Land Judging Practices
Friends of NRA Banquet Committe Meetings
Introduction to Land Judging
8/14/2006 Grady
08/10/2006 To
08/31/2006
Grady
08/10/2006 To
08/31/2006
Grady
8/10/2006 Decatur
08/08/2006 To
08/24/2006
Grady
08/08/2006 To
08/23/2006
Wheeler
08/07/2006 To
08/14/2006
Grady
8/1/2006 Wheeler
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
Wildlife Team Meeting
8/1/2006 Crawford
County
Wildlife Team Meeting
7/31/2006 Crawford
County
E. E. Day at Rock Eagle
7/14/2006 Putnam
County
4-H Summer class
Flint River Friends of NRA Banquet Committee
Meetings
GAEL Conference
7/13/2006 Walton
07/10/2006 To
07/31/2006
Grady
County
County
7/10/2006 Rockdale State
Summer Program - Recycled Craft Class
7/6/2006 Upson
County
Team SAFE practice
7/6/2006 Gwinnett
County
JMG - Rosemont
7/3/2006 Troup
County
Cigarette Litter Campaign
6th grade club meeting
Cigarette Litter Campaign
Summer Program - Herpetology Class
Wildlife Judging Practices
4-H Fishing Rodeo
Junior 4-H Camp
Forestry Judging Practices
6/24/2006 Chatham
06/19/2006 To
06/24/2006
Jones
County
6/18/2006 Chatham
County
County
6/17/2006 Upson
06/14/2006 To
09/06/2006
Greene
County
6/13/2006 Wheeler
06/12/2006 To
06/16/2006
Coffee
County
County
State
Shooting Sports Fun Shoot & Supper
5/30/2006 Grady
County
Presentation to Georgia Wildlife Association
5/30/2006 Glynn
County
5th Gr Pilot Curriculum Club Meetings
5/23/2006 Morgan
County
5/23/2006 Morgan
05/22/2006 To
05/25/2006
Lanier
County
S.A.F.E. Archery Team Meeting
Alizabeth Anderson's Project Club
County
BB Team Cookout Celebration
5/21/2006 Hall
County
West Coffee Middle School River Day
5/19/2006 Coffee
County
4-H Wildlife Presentation
5/18/2006 Decatur
County
Atkinson Elementary
5/16/2006 Coweta
County
S.A.F.E. Archery State Tournament
5/13/2006 Morgan
County
S.A.F.E. Shotgun State Tournament
5/13/2006 Morgan
County
Newnan Crossing
5/12/2006 Coweta
County
Newnan Crossing
5/11/2006 Coweta
County
Wildlife Practice for National Contest
5/11/2006 Walton
County
Soil Conservation
5/11/2006 Cobb
County
DMS-6th
5/10/2006 Laurens
County
ELMS 6th (Anderson)
5/10/2006 Laurens
County
WLMS - (Brown)
5/10/2006 Laurens
County
ELMS 6th - (Luensmann)
5/10/2006 Laurens
County
WLMS 6th (May)
5/9/2006 Laurens
County
Betts Club Meetings - May
5/9/2006 Pike
County
Arnco Sargent Elementary
5/9/2006 Coweta
County
Soil Conservation
5/9/2006 Cobb
County
Batchelor Club Meetings - May
5/8/2006 Pike
County
GONE WILD Club Meeting
5/8/2006 Morgan
County
Grady Co. 4-H Archery Team Practices
5/7/2006 Grady
County
STATE BB MATCH
5/6/2006 Walton
County
Canongate Elementary
5/5/2006 Coweta
County
Elm Street
5/4/2006 Coweta
County
5/4/2006 Walton
05/04/2006 To
05/11/2006
Grady
05/04/2006 To
05/11/2006
Upson
05/04/2006 To
05/11/2006
Upson
05/04/2006 To
09/11/2006
Hart
County
Grady Co. 4-H Modified Shotgun Team Practice
Shotgun Team Practice
Hart county foresty trainings
Practice Safe BB Team
5/4/2006 Hall
County
County
County
County
County
Archery Practice
Jefferson Parkway
May 4-H Club Meeting
Marine Life
Northside Elementary
Team SAFE
S.A.F.E. Archery Team Practices
S.A.F.E. Shotgun Team Practices
4-H Land Judging Practices
05/03/2006 To
05/18/2006
Putnam
5/2/2006 Coweta
05/02/2006 To
05/12/2006
Rabun
05/01/2006 To
05/04/2006
Cobb
5/1/2006 Coweta
05/01/2006 To
05/30/2006
Gwinnett
05/01/2006 To
05/12/2006
Morgan
05/01/2006 To
05/12/2006
Morgan
05/01/2006 To
05/04/2006
Wheeler
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
4/27/2006 Walton
County
BB SAFE Practice 4/27/06
Dry Run Presentation for GA Environmental
Symposium
Dry Run Presentation for GA Environmental
Symposium
4/27/2006 Hall
County
4/26/2006 Glynn
County
4/25/2006 Glynn
County
Atkinson Elementary
4/25/2006 Coweta
County
Adopt a Stream
4/25/2006 Coweta
County
DISTRICT BB MATCH
4/22/2006 Walton
County
5th Grade
4/21/2006 McIntosh
County
Home School Meeting - April 2006
4/20/2006 Newton
County
4/20/2006 Walton
04/20/2006 To
04/25/2006
White
County
Forest Insect Program
County
BB Practice 4-20-06
4/20/2006 Hall
County
sr. club meeting
4/19/2006 Talbot
County
Forestry Judging
4/17/2006 Coweta
County
BB Practice 4-H
4/14/2006 Hall
County
4-H SAFE BB Practice 4/13/06
4/13/2006 Hall
County
4/13/2006 Walton
County
Archery Practices
04/13/2006 To
04/27/2006
Putnam
County
jr. club meeting
4/12/2006 Talbot
County
6 grade club meeting
4/11/2006 Talbot
County
Betts Clubs - April
4/11/2006 Pike
County
Batchelor Clubs - April
4/10/2006 Pike
County
GONE WILD Club Meeting
4/10/2006 Morgan
County
Target Sports Meeting
4/10/2006 Coffee
County
Mildly Intellectually Disabled 4-H Club
Forestry Judging
4/10/2006 Coweta
04/09/2006 To
05/07/2006
Hall
04/06/2006 To
04/27/2006
Grady
County
Junior Master Gardeners
4/6/2006 Coweta
County
Wildlife Practice National
4/6/2006 Walton
County
4/5/2006 Liberty
04/04/2006 To
04/06/2006
Berrien
County
Archery Club
D. C. Miller Land tust Presentation
April 5th grade club meetings
County
County
County
Home School Meeting
4/4/2006 Jeff Davis County
4/4/2006 Talbot
CUE Club
Apirl Sixth Grade 4-H Club Meetings
Target Sports Team Training
Forestry Judging
Team SAFE practices - 8 practices
Insects
County
04/04/2006 To
04/13/2006
Coffee
County
4/3/2006 Talbot
04/02/2006 To
04/30/2006
Grady
04/01/2006 To
04/30/2006
Coffee
04/01/2006 To
04/30/2006
Hart
04/01/2006 To
04/20/2006
Upson
04/01/2006 To
04/26/2006
Gwinnett
04/01/2006 To
04/30/2006
Henry
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
SAFE Organization Meeting
3/31/2006 Gordon
County
Junior Forestry
3/30/2006 Hart
County
Hightower Trail Elem. - Resource Class
HMS Mr. McFarland
3/29/2006 Butts
County
HMS Ms. AHmed
3/28/2006 Butts
County
HMS Robinson
3/27/2006 Butts
County
Rotary Club Program on 4-H Target Sports
3/27/2006 Crisp
County
Forestry Judging
3/27/2006 Coweta
County
BB Practice
3/23/2006 Hall
County
3/23/2006 Walton
County
Resource Class
3/22/2006 Coweta
County
Forestry Judging
3/20/2006 Coweta
County
BB Practice
3/16/2006 Hall
County
Recycling
OCEANOGRAPHY
Senior Forestry
3/15/2006 Cobb
03/15/2006 To
03/23/2006
Henry
03/15/2006 To
04/24/2006
Hart
County
County
County
Batchelor Clubs - March
3/14/2006 Pike
County
Betts Clubs - March
3/13/2006 Pike
County
Forestry Judging
3/13/2006 Coweta
County
3/11/2006 Glynn
03/11/2006 To
03/25/2006
Upson
03/09/2006 To
03/31/2006
Wayne
County
County
3/9/2006 Coweta
County
Workshop - Seine Net Making (3/11/06)
Shooting Sports - Shotgun Practice
Respect for Nature
Forestry Judging
BB Practice #9
DISCOVERING CHEMICALS
3/9/2006 Hall
03/09/2006 To
03/14/2006
Henry
County
County
County
Home School Meeting - March 2006
March 5th grde club meetings
March Sixth Grade 4-H Club Meetings
Shooting Sports BB Practice
Cloverleaf Club Meeting
3/8/2006 Newton
03/07/2006 To
03/09/2006
Berrien
03/07/2006 To
03/22/2006
Coffee
03/07/2006 To
03/28/2006
Upson
03/07/2006 To
03/28/2006
Henry
03/05/2006 To
03/26/2006
Grady
County
County
County
County
County
County
ANIMAL KINGDOM
3/3/2006 Henry
County
# 8 BB practice
3/3/2006 Hall
County
Manning Oaks 4-H Club Meeting
Team SAFE practices - 9 sessions
Rock Eagle camp-video-Cedar Hill Elem
Rock Eagle camp-video-Harmony Elem
Rock Eagle camp-video-Chattahoochee Elem
Rock Eagle camp-video-Suwanee Elem.
Rock Eagle camp-video-Minor Elem
Rock Eagle camp-video-Simonton Elem
Rock Eagle camp-video-Simonton Elem
Rock Eagle camp-video-Harbins Elem
Rock Eagle camp-video-Dacula Elem
Animal Kingdom
4-H Cloverleaf Club Meeting - March
Animal Kingdom
3/2/2006 Fulton
03/02/2006 To
03/30/2006
Gwinnett
03/02/2006 To
03/30/2006
Grady
03/01/2006 To
04/30/2006
Morgan
03/01/2006 To
04/30/2006
Morgan
03/01/2006 To
03/30/2006
Coffee
03/01/2006 To
03/31/2006
Gwinnett
03/01/2006 To
03/31/2006
Gwinnett
03/01/2006 To
03/31/2006
Gwinnett
03/01/2006 To
03/31/2006
Gwinnett
03/01/2006 To
03/31/2006
Gwinnett
03/01/2006 To
03/31/2006
Gwinnett
03/01/2006 To
03/31/2006
Gwinnett
03/01/2006 To
03/31/2006
Gwinnett
03/01/2006 To
03/31/2006
Gwinnett
03/01/2006 To
03/07/2006
Henry
03/01/2006 To
03/31/2006
Newton
03/01/2006 To
03/31/2006
Henry
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
Insects
Chemicals
Weather
Water Sampling & Analysis for Phytoplankton
Traditional Archery
03/01/2006 To
03/31/2006
Henry
03/01/2006 To
03/31/2006
Henry
02/27/2006 To
02/28/2006
Cobb
2/26/2006 Glynn
02/26/2006 To
03/26/2006
Hall
County
County
County
County
County
Shotgun Team
2/26/2006 Hall
County
JMG - Twin Cedars
2/23/2006 Troup
County
February 2006 Barrow Beautification
2/23/2006 Barrow
County
Forestry Judging
2/23/2006 Coweta
County
BB practice # 7
2/23/2006 Hall
County
SAFE Shotugn training for you
2/22/2006 Gordon
County
2/22/2006 Coweta
02/21/2006 To
02/28/2006
Upson
County
County
WLMS 6TH (MAY)
2/21/2006 Laurens
County
Twin Cedars -JMG
2/21/2006 Troup
County
2/21/2006 Pulaski
County
Shotgun Team
2/19/2006 Hall
County
BB Practice
2/16/2006 Hall
County
Shooting Sports - BB Practice
Forestry Judging
Mairne Life
6th Grade meetings
2/16/2006 Coweta
02/15/2006 To
02/16/2006
Cobb
2/14/2006 Pulaski
02/14/2006 To
02/21/2006
Jones
County
County
County
County
JMG-Mountville
2/14/2006 Troup
County
Arbor Springs
2/14/2006 Coweta
County
Arnco Sargent Elementary
2/14/2006 Coweta
County
Atkinson Elementary
2/13/2006 Coweta
County
Club Gone Wild Club Meeting
2/13/2006 Morgan
County
ELMS-6TH (ANDERSON)
2/10/2006 Laurens
County
2/9/2006 Coweta
02/09/2006 To
02/10/2006
Henry
County
Newnan Crossing Elementary (Partin)
Rocks & Minerals
JMG - Hogansville
ANIMAL KINGDOM
2/9/2006 Troup
02/09/2006 To
02/16/2006
Henry
County
County
County
Forestry Judging
2/9/2006 Coweta
County
2/8/2006 Henry
County
Newnan Crossing
2/8/2006 Coweta
County
Grantville Elementary
2/8/2006 Coweta
County
2/8/2006 Coweta
02/08/2006 To
02/21/2006
Coffee
02/07/2006 To
02/21/2006
Coffee
County
County
Ruth Hill School
2/7/2006 Coweta
County
Jefferson Parkway Elementary
2/7/2006 Coweta
County
February Junior & Senior 4-H Club Meetings
February Sixth Grade 4-H Club Meetings
JMG - Hogansville
Team SAFE practices - 7 sessions
BB Team Practices
# 6 BB Team Practice
February 2006 6th Grade Classes
Northside Elementary School
Shooting Sports - Shotgun Practice
Thomas Crossroads
Canongate Elementary
Animal Kingdom
2/7/2006 Troup
02/07/2006 To
02/28/2006
Gwinnett
02/07/2006 To
05/05/2006
Appling
2/7/2006 Hall
02/06/2006 To
02/07/2006
Jasper
County
County
County
County
County
County
2/6/2006 Coweta
02/05/2006 To
02/26/2006
Grady
02/04/2006 To
02/18/2006
Upson
County
County
2/3/2006 Coweta
County
2/3/2006 Coweta
02/03/2006 To
02/15/2006
Henry
County
County
County
Discovering Chemicals
Elm Street Club Meeting
SAFE BB Team Practice #5
Forestry Judging
Rocks & Minerals
Shakerag Elementary 4-H Club Meeting
Oceanography
Chemicals
JMG - Rosemont
Hunter Safety Course
02/02/2006 To
02/03/2006
Henry
2/2/2006 Coweta
02/02/2006 To
02/28/2006
Coffee
02/02/2006 To
02/23/2006
Grady
2/2/2006 Hall
2/2/2006 Coweta
02/02/2006 To
02/03/2006
Cobb
2/1/2006 Fulton
02/01/2006 To
02/28/2006
Morgan
02/01/2006 To
02/28/2006
Morgan
02/01/2006 To
02/17/2006
Henry
02/01/2006 To
02/28/2006
Henry
2/1/2006 Troup
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
1/31/2006 Coffee
01/31/2006 To
02/14/2006
Henry
County
1/31/2006 Pulaski
County
Shooting Sports
1/31/2006 Pulaski
County
SAFE Orientation Meeting
1/30/2006 Gordon
County
1/30/2006 Henry
County
ROCKS AND MINERALS
Team SAFE organizational meeting
County
1/26/2006 Gwinnett
01/26/2006 To
01/27/2006
Cobb
County
# 4 BB Team Practice
1/26/2006 Hall
County
Forestry Judging
1/26/2006 Coweta
County
1/24/2006 Pulaski
County
DPA Presentation Preparations (Will Prince)
1/24/2006 Glynn
County
Archery Practice
1/23/2006 Banks
County
Rocks & Minerals
County
01/23/2006 To
01/30/2006
Upson
County
Home School Meeting
1/23/2006 Jones
County
S.A.F.E.-Shotgun Orientation Meeting
1/22/2006 Morgan
County
Forestry Judging
1/19/2006 Coweta
County
The New SAFE - Winter Conference Training
1/18/2006 Putnam
College
1/17/2006 Grady
01/17/2006 To
01/25/2006
Monroe
County
Shotgun Team Meeting
Modified Shotgun Team Meeting
6th nGrade Club Meetings
BB Practice - Target Sports
SAFE State Certification
1/17/2006 Pulaski
01/13/2006 To
01/15/2006
Gordon
County
County
State
Archery Team Meeting
1/12/2006 Grady
County
Jr Funtastic day
1/12/2006 Hart
County
Water Sampling & Analysis for Phytoplankton
1/12/2006 Glynn
County
Forestry Judging
1/12/2006 Coweta
County
# 3 BB Practice
1/12/2006 Hall
County
Shooting Sports
Sixth Grade 4-H Club Meetings
Shotgun Team Orientation
S.A.F.E. Achery Orientation Meeting
Traditional Archery
Union County BB Team Practices
Target Sports Parents Informative Meeting
Forestry Judging
Shooting Sports - BB Team Practice
Target Sports BB
Target Sports Shotgun
1/10/2006 Pulaski
01/10/2006 To
01/31/2006
Coffee
1/9/2006 Upson
1/8/2006 Morgan
01/08/2006 To
02/13/2006
Hall
01/06/2006 To
05/04/2006
Union
1/5/2006 Coffee
1/5/2006 Coweta
01/04/2006 To
01/31/2006
Upson
1/3/2006 Pulaski
01/01/2006 To
05/08/2006
Walton
01/01/2006 To
05/15/2006
Walton
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
ANR Infomal Education arranged by date
Title
Date Range
Activity Location
Scope
Livestock Facility Advisory Committee Mtg.
Wildlife Forage Trail - Weed Control
Application
12/28/2006 Decatur
County
12/19/2006 Putnam
County
Nutrient Management Plant Development
12/19/2006 Putnam
County
Peanut Up-Date
12/12/2006 Baker
District/Department
Park & Rec Trail Committee Mtg.
12/1/2006 Lumpkin
County
Applied Wildlife Forage Research Trials
11/27/2006 Putnam
County
November Hort Staff Mtg.
Georgia Pest Control Assoc. Region 9
Monthly Meeting
11/21/2006 Cobb
County
11/21/2006 Gwinnett
County
Xeriscaping Class
American Farmland Trust National
Conference
11/21/2006 Fayette
County
11/13/2006 To 11/14/2006 Bulloch
National
Commodity Storage and Fumigation Training
11/9/2006 Seminole
County
Stormwater Conference
11/9/2006 Cobb
County
Spreader Calibration
11/1/2006 Wilkes
County
State Technical Committee Meeting
10/26/2006 Oconee
State
ANR Training
10/24/2006 Turner
County
SunBelt Expo
International
Master Gardener Fair Booth Installation
10/17/2006 To 10/18/2006 Whitfield
Multi-County
Southeastern Gin Peanut Plots
10/16/2006 To 10/31/2006 Appling
County
Southeastern Gin Peanut Plot
10/16/2006 To 10/31/2006 Appling
County
Park & Recreation Trails Committee Meeting
10/13/2006 Lumpkin
County
RR Resistant Pigweed Study
2006-2007 Wildlife Forage Trail
Establishment, Key Farm, Putnam County
10/11/2006 Turner
County
10/11/2006 Putnam
County
Gainesville Fall Garden Expo - 2006
10/7/2006 Hall
County
River's Alive/CUE Club
10/5/2006 Rockdale
County
Conservation program development meeting
10/5/2006 Bulloch
County
Master Gardener Board Mtg.
10/4/2006 Cobb
County
Livestock Facility Advisory committee Mtg.
Little River 319 Stewardship Committee
Meeting
10/3/2006 Decatur
County
10/2/2006 Morgan
County
GTA board mtg
Rooty-Crooked Creek 319 Stewardship
Committee Meeting
9/29/2006 Cobb
County
9/28/2006 Putnam
County
Georgia Water Basin Advisory Committee
Georgia Golf Hall of Fame's Botanical
Gardens Advisory Board meeting
9/27/2006 Gwinnett
County
9/25/2006 Richmond
Multi-State/Regional
Georgia Crop Protection Alliance Meeting
9/21/2006 Bulloch
State
Pesticide Recert Training Sept 21, 2006
FFA Northwest Region Jr Natural Resources
Competition
9/21/2006 Clarke
State
9/20/2006 Paulding
County
Biosolid Fertilizer Plot
9/20/2006 Appling
County
Center Pivot Calibration
9/19/2006 Appling
County
Pesticide Training
9/13/2006 Mitchell
County
State Peanut Tour
9/13/2006 Appling
State
Master Gardeners Paulding Meadows Booth 09/09/2006 To 09/10/2006 Paulding
County
09/06/2006 To 09/20/2006 Appling
County
Well Cam Project - Ray Rozar Well - Jones
County
09/01/2006 To 09/30/2006 Turner
County
8/30/2006 Jones
County
8/30/2006 Worth
District/Department
Peanut Maturity Training
Area Fall Food Plot Program - Power Point
Development Work Session
8/25/2006 Jones
County
Environmental Advisory Commitee Meeting
8/24/2006 Newton
County
Midville Field Day
8/24/2006 Jefferson
County
NE District A&NR Update Training - Athens
8/15/2006 Clarke
District/Department
Power Point Presentation - Wildlife Forage
Crops Research Project
Keep Polk Beautiful Litter Index
ANR Training
08/15/2006 To 08/31/2006 Turner
County
8/11/2006 Jones
State
8/11/2006 Polk
County
08/08/2006 To 08/22/2006 Appling
County
8/8/2006 Decatur
County
Cotton Research Plot - August activity
08/01/2006 To 08/31/2006 Decatur
Gardens Advisory Committee meeting
7/31/2006 Richmond
Summer Food Plot Project Evaluation # 2 - J.
Geary Property - Jones Co.
7/27/2006 Jones
County Reception - Clean Community
Commission Director
7/26/2006 Jones
County
Polk County Chamber meeting
7/26/2006 Polk
County
Hort. Staff Mtg.
7/25/2006 Cobb
County
7/24/2006 Appling
County
Private Applicator Training
7/13/2006 Lumpkin
County
Keep Polk Beautiful
7/13/2006 Polk
County
Townhall Water Council Meeting
7/12/2006 Decatur
County
Sunbelt Expo Field Day
7/11/2006 Worth
County
APRES annual meeting
American Peanut Research and Education
Society
Sunbelt Ag Expo Field Day 2006
Summer Wildlife Food Plot Research Project Evaluation # 1
County
County
07/11/2006 To 07/14/2006 Jefferson
National
07/11/2006 To 07/14/2006 Lanier
International
7/11/2006 Randolph
County
6/30/2006 Jones
County
Georgia National Fairgrounds Water Meeting
6/29/2006 Decatur
State
Ag Water Issues
6/29/2006 Houston
County
Flint-Ochlockonee Water Basin Meeting
6/22/2006 Decatur
District/Department
6/21/2006 Gwinnett
County
June Hort Staff Mtg.
6/21/2006 Cobb
County
Georgia Dairy Field Day
Grower Tour and Training at National Peanut
Lab
6/14/2006 Sumter
State
6/8/2006 Ben Hill
County
USCTA Field Day at Peanut Lab
6/8/2006 Turner
County
Master Gardener's green house committee
6/8/2006 Douglas
County
SGA Garden Comm. Mtg.
Summer Food Plot Project - Excluder Cage
Placement - J. Geary Farm - Jones Co.
Gardens
6/7/2006 Cobb
County
6/6/2006 Jones
County
6/6/2006 Richmond
County
Meth Lab Emergency TRaining
5/31/2006 Randolph
County
GASWCC Little River 319 Project Kickoff
5/30/2006 Morgan
County
05/30/2006 To 05/31/2006 Oconee
County
Water/Fair Host North Carolina Farm Tour
Summer Food Plot Crop Study - J. Geary
Property - Jones Co.
5/23/2006 Jones
County
Weed Science training
5/17/2006 Turner
County
Water Basin Video Conference
5/15/2006 Decatur
University
5/10/2006 Appling
County
5/9/2006 Appling
County
General Water Quality Training
5/9/2006 Decatur
District/Department
GASWCC Little River 319 Project
5/9/2006 Morgan
County
4-H Horse Club Event
5/6/2006 Troup
County
4/27/2006 Houston
State
Organizing Blueberry Tours for 10 th
NABREW
4/25/2006 Appling
County
4/24/2006 Clinch
International
Northeast & Southeast Agent Conservation
Tillage Training
Southwest and Northwest Agents
4/24/2006 Banks
County
04/17/2006 To 04/18/2006 Pulaski
District/Department
04/13/2006 To 04/14/2006 Pulaski
District/Department
conservation tillage training
04/13/2006 To 04/14/2006 Berrien
County
ANR Conservation Tillage training
National Association of State Conservation
Agencies Conservation Delivery Task Force
04/13/2006 To 04/14/2006 Turner
County
04/11/2006 To 04/12/2006 Bulloch
National
Satellite Technology and Urban Irrigation
2005-2006 Wildlife Food Plot Research
Project- 6th and Final Evaluation
Drinking Water Team Meeting
4/10/2006 Cobb
County
4/6/2006 Baldwin
County
4/5/2006 Clarke
College
Aerial Applicator Fly-in
3/28/2006 Seminole
County
Northwest Georgia Cotton Update
Spirit Creek Education Forest Advisory Board
Meeting
3/27/2006 Floyd
County
3/27/2006 Richmond
County
TAG Meeting
3/23/2006 Lowndes
Peanut Update ANR Training
3/23/2006 Turner
County
Center for Inovation farm Meeting
3/22/2006 Turner
County
Dairy Mock Inspection
3/21/2006 Appling
County
CROP PRODUCTION MEETING
3/21/2006 Bleckley
County
Ag. Day at the Capitol
3/20/2006 DeKalb
County
CROP pRODUCTION MEETING
Baldwin County Progressive Farmers Club
Meeting
3/14/2006 Bleckley
County
3/11/2006 Baldwin
County
3/7/2006 Bleckley
County
3/7/2006 Atkinson
Multi-County
Peanut Achievement Seminar
03/03/2006 To 03/05/2006 Mitchell
State
FARM TOUR
Project- Evaluation 5
03/02/2006 To 03/05/2006 Bleckley
County
3/2/2006 Baldwin
County
3/1/2006 Lamar
County
`Pesticide Applicators Training Program
Program planning for Well Head Assessment
and Water Quality Program
2/25/2006 Hancock
County
2/21/2006 Baldwin
County
Cotton Update Training
2/21/2006 Grady
District/Department
Private Applicator Pesticide License Training
2/21/2006 Jones
County
Intensive Irrigated Corn Production Meeting
2/17/2006 Mitchell
County
Big Cedar Creek watershed meeting
2/14/2006 Polk
County
Development Authority meeting
2/14/2006 Turner
County
Keep Polk Beautiful Meeting
2/9/2006 Polk
County
Peanut Research Report
2/8/2006 Worth
University
Miller County Irrigation Meeting
2006 Conservation Production Systems
School
Oconee Area Pesticide Recertification
Training.
2/7/2006 Decatur
County
Oconee Area Pesticide Training
Advisor Credits for 6th Conservation Tillage
Production Systems Training
02/07/2006 To 02/08/2006 Ben Hill
2/7/2006 Oconee
County
2/7/2006 Walton
County
02/07/2006 To 02/08/2006 Irwin
State
Wheat/Soybean Expo/Statesboro
2/2/2006 Appling
County
Swine Facility Feasibility Visit
2/1/2006 Seminole
County
Summer Water Quality Camp
1/30/2006 Fannin
County
Project-Evaluation 4
1/27/2006 Decatur
Multi-County
1/27/2006 Baldwin
County
Model farm meeting
1/26/2006 Turner
County
Cotton Educational Meeting
Oconee River Soil and Water Conservation
District
UGA Extension Winter Conference
Nature Trail Planning Committee Meeting
Pesticide Training
2006 SE Regional Fruit and Vegetable
Conferences
Southeastern Peach and Vegetable
Conference
Funding & Program Planning for
Meetings/Field Demonstrations
1/25/2006 Baker
University
1/23/2006 Oconee
County
01/18/2006 To 01/19/2006 Worth
County
1/11/2006 Lumpkin
County
1/6/2006 Lumpkin
County
01/06/2006 To 01/08/2006 Lanier
01/05/2006 To 01/08/2006 Brooks
01/02/2006 To 03/17/2006 Colquitt
County
ANR Infomal Education arranged by county
Title
Wheat/Soybean Expo/Statesboro
Date Range
Activity Location
Scope
2/2/2006 Appling
County
Dairy Mock Inspection
3/21/2006 Appling
County
4/25/2006 Appling
County
5/9/2006 Appling
County
5/10/2006 Appling
County
7/24/2006 Appling
County
State Peanut Tour
9/13/2006 Appling
State
9/19/2006 Appling
County
9/20/2006 Appling
08/08/2006 To
08/22/2006
Appling
09/06/2006 To
09/20/2006
Appling
10/16/2006 To
10/31/2006
Appling
10/16/2006 To
10/31/2006
Appling
County
Cotton Educational Meeting
Peanut Up-Date
2005-2006 Wildlife Food Plot Research Project-Evaluation
4
Program planning for Well Head Assessment and Water
Quality Program
2005-2006 Wildlife Food Plot Research Project- Evaluation
5
3/7/2006 Atkinson
1/25/2006 Baker
12/12/2006 Baker
County
County
County
County
Multi-County
University
District/Department
1/27/2006 Baldwin
County
2/21/2006 Baldwin
County
3/2/2006 Baldwin
County
Baldwin County Progressive Farmers Club Meeting
2005-2006 Wildlife Food Plot Research Project- 6th and
Final Evaluation
3/11/2006 Baldwin
County
4/6/2006 Baldwin
County
4/24/2006 Banks
Grower Tour and Training at National Peanut Lab
2006 Conservation Production Systems School
conservation tillage training
6/8/2006 Ben Hill
02/07/2006 To
02/08/2006
Ben Hill
04/13/2006 To
04/14/2006
Berrien
County
County
MultiState/Regional
County
3/7/2006 Bleckley
County
CROP pRODUCTION MEETING
3/14/2006 Bleckley
County
3/21/2006 Bleckley
03/02/2006 To
03/05/2006
Bleckley
01/05/2006 To
01/08/2006
Brooks
County
FARM TOUR
Southeastern Peach and Vegetable Conference
Georgia Crop Protection Alliance Meeting
Conservation program development meeting
National Association of State Conservation Agencies
Conservation Delivery Task Force
American Farmland Trust National Conference
Drinking Water Team Meeting
9/21/2006 Bulloch
10/5/2006 Bulloch
04/11/2006 To
04/12/2006
Bulloch
11/13/2006 To
11/14/2006
Bulloch
4/5/2006 Clarke
County
MultiState/Regional
State
County
National
National
College
NE District A&NR Update Training - Athens
8/15/2006 Clarke
District/Department
Pesticide Recert Training Sept 21, 2006
9/21/2006 Clarke
State
Organizing Blueberry Tours for 10 th NABREW
4/24/2006 Clinch
International
Satellite Technology and Urban Irrigation
4/10/2006 Cobb
County
6/7/2006 Cobb
County
June Hort Staff Mtg.
6/21/2006 Cobb
County
Hort. Staff Mtg.
7/25/2006 Cobb
County
GTA board mtg
9/29/2006 Cobb
County
Master Gardener Board Mtg.
10/4/2006 Cobb
County
Stormwater Conference
11/9/2006 Cobb
County
SGA Garden Comm. Mtg.
November Hort Staff Mtg.
Funding & Program Planning for Meetings/Field
Demonstrations
11/21/2006 Cobb
01/02/2006 To
03/17/2006
Colquitt
1/27/2006 Decatur
County
County
Multi-County
Miller County Irrigation Meeting
2/7/2006 Decatur
County
General Water Quality Training
5/9/2006 Decatur
District/Department
Water Basin Video Conference
5/15/2006 Decatur
University
Flint-Ochlockonee Water Basin Meeting
6/22/2006 Decatur
District/Department
Georgia National Fairgrounds Water Meeting
6/29/2006 Decatur
State
Townhall Water Council Meeting
7/12/2006 Decatur
County
8/8/2006 Decatur
County
Livestock Facility Advisory committee Mtg.
10/3/2006 Decatur
County
Livestock Facility Advisory Committee Mtg.
12/28/2006 Decatur
08/01/2006 To
08/31/2006
Decatur
County
County
3/20/2006 DeKalb
County
ANR Training
Cotton Research Plot - August activity
Ag. Day at the Capitol
Master Gardener's green house committee
Summer Water Quality Camp
6/8/2006 Douglas
County
1/30/2006 Fannin
County
11/21/2006 Fayette
County
Northwest Georgia Cotton Update
3/27/2006 Floyd
County
Cotton Update Training
2/21/2006 Grady
District/Department
6/21/2006 Gwinnett
County
9/27/2006 Gwinnett
County
11/21/2006 Gwinnett
County
Xeriscaping Class
Georgia Pest Control Assoc. Region 9 Monthly Meeting
Gainesville Fall Garden Expo - 2006
10/7/2006 Hall
County
`Pesticide Applicators Training Program
2/25/2006 Hancock
County
4/27/2006 Houston
State
Ag Water Issues
6/29/2006 Houston
Commercial Private and Certified Crop Advisor Credits for 02/07/2006 To
6th Conservation Tillage Production Systems Training
02/08/2006
Irwin
County
SunBelt Expo
International
Midville Field Day
APRES annual meeting
Private Applicator Pesticide License Training
Summer Food Plot Crop Study - J. Geary Property - Jones
Co.
8/24/2006 Jefferson
07/11/2006 To
07/14/2006
Jefferson
State
County
National
2/21/2006 Jones
County
5/23/2006 Jones
County
Summer Food Plot Project - Excluder Cage Placement - J.
Geary Farm - Jones Co.
Summer Wildlife Food Plot Research Project - Evaluation #
1
County Reception - Clean Community Commission
Director
Summer Food Plot Project Evaluation # 2 - J. Geary
Property - Jones Co.
Work Session # 1 - Development of New Power Point
Presentation - Wildlife Forage Crops Research Project
Area Fall Food Plot Program - Power Point Development
Work Session
Well Cam Project - Ray Rozar Well - Jones County
2006 SE Regional Fruit and Vegetable Conferences
American Peanut Research and Education Society
TAG Meeting
Pesticide Training
6/6/2006 Jones
County
6/30/2006 Jones
County
7/26/2006 Jones
County
7/27/2006 Jones
County
8/11/2006 Jones
State
8/25/2006 Jones
County
8/30/2006 Jones
County
3/1/2006 Lamar
01/06/2006 To
01/08/2006
Lanier
07/11/2006 To
07/14/2006
Lanier
3/23/2006 Lowndes
County
MultiState/Regional
International
MultiState/Regional
1/6/2006 Lumpkin
County
Nature Trail Planning Committee Meeting
1/11/2006 Lumpkin
County
Private Applicator Training
7/13/2006 Lumpkin
County
10/13/2006 Lumpkin
County
Park & Rec Trail Committee Mtg.
12/1/2006 Lumpkin
County
Intensive Irrigated Corn Production Meeting
2/17/2006 Mitchell
County
9/13/2006 Mitchell
03/03/2006 To
03/05/2006
Mitchell
County
Park & Recreation Trails Committee Meeting
Pesticide Training
Peanut Achievement Seminar
GASWCC Little River 319 Project
State
5/9/2006 Morgan
County
GASWCC Little River 319 Project Kickoff
5/30/2006 Morgan
County
Little River 319 Stewardship Committee Meeting
10/2/2006 Morgan
County
Environmental Advisory Commitee Meeting
8/24/2006 Newton
County
Oconee River Soil and Water Conservation District
1/23/2006 Oconee
County
2/7/2006 Oconee
County
Oconee Area Pesticide Recertification Training.
10/26/2006 Oconee
State
Water/Fair Host North Carolina Farm Tour
FFA Northwest Region Jr Natural Resources Competition
Master Gardeners Paulding Meadows Booth
Keep Polk Beautiful Meeting
05/30/2006 To
05/31/2006
Oconee
9/20/2006 Paulding
09/09/2006 To
09/10/2006
Paulding
County
County
County
2/9/2006 Polk
County
Big Cedar Creek watershed meeting
2/14/2006 Polk
County
Keep Polk Beautiful
7/13/2006 Polk
County
Polk County Chamber meeting
7/26/2006 Polk
County
Keep Polk Beautiful Litter Index
Southwest and Northwest Agents Conservation Tillage
Training
8/11/2006 Polk
04/13/2006 To
04/14/2006
Pulaski
04/17/2006 To
Northeast & Southeast Agent Conservation Tillage Training 04/18/2006
Pulaski
Rooty-Crooked Creek 319 Stewardship Committee
Meeting
9/28/2006 Putnam
2006-2007 Wildlife Forage Trail Establishment, Key Farm,
Putnam County
10/11/2006 Putnam
County
District/Department
District/Department
County
County
Applied Wildlife Forage Research Trials
11/27/2006 Putnam
County
Nutrient Management Plant Development
12/19/2006 Putnam
County
Wildlife Forage Trail - Weed Control Application
12/19/2006 Putnam
County
Meth Lab Emergency TRaining
5/31/2006 Randolph
County
Sunbelt Ag Expo Field Day 2006
7/11/2006 Randolph
County
Spirit Creek Education Forest Advisory Board Meeting
3/27/2006 Richmond
County
Georgia Golf Hall of Fame's Botanical Gardens
Georgia Golf Hall of Fame's Botanical Gardens Advisory
Committee meeting
Georgia Golf Hall of Fame's Botanical Gardens Advisory
Board meeting
7/31/2006 Richmond
9/25/2006 Richmond
County
MultiState/Regional
MultiState/Regional
River's Alive/CUE Club
10/5/2006 Rockdale
County
2/1/2006 Seminole
County
Aerial Applicator Fly-in
3/28/2006 Seminole
County
Commodity Storage and Fumigation Training
11/9/2006 Seminole
County
Georgia Dairy Field Day
6/14/2006 Sumter
State
Swine Facility Feasibility Visit
6/6/2006 Richmond
4-H Horse Club Event
5/6/2006 Troup
County
Model farm meeting
1/26/2006 Turner
County
Development Authority meeting
2/14/2006 Turner
County
Center for Inovation farm Meeting
3/22/2006 Turner
County
Peanut Update ANR Training
3/23/2006 Turner
County
Weed Science training
5/17/2006 Turner
County
6/8/2006 Turner
County
10/11/2006 Turner
County
10/24/2006 Turner
04/13/2006 To
04/14/2006
Turner
08/15/2006 To
08/31/2006
Turner
09/01/2006 To
09/30/2006
Turner
County
USCTA Field Day at Peanut Lab
RR Resistant Pigweed Study
ANR Training
ANR Conservation Tillage training
Oconee Area Pesticide Training
Master Gardener Fair Booth Installation
Spreader Calibration
2/7/2006 Walton
10/17/2006 To
10/18/2006
Whitfield
11/1/2006 Wilkes
Peanut Research Report
2/8/2006 Worth
Sunbelt Expo Field Day
7/11/2006 Worth
Peanut Maturity Training
UGA Extension Winter Conference
8/30/2006 Worth
01/18/2006 To
01/19/2006
Worth
County
County
County
County
Multi-County
County
University
County
District/Department
County
4H Informal Detailed Records listed by date
Title
Date Range
Activity
Location
Scope
12/15/2006 Terrell
12/01/2006 To
12/20/2006
Forsyth
County
County Recycling Program
11/30/2006 Tattnall
County
BB Team Practice
11/30/2006 Crisp
County
11/28/2006 Pulaski
County
Shorting Sports Practice 11-21
11/21/2006 Pulaski
County
BB Practice 11-16
11/16/2006 Pulaski
County
BB Team Safety Meeting
11/13/2006 Forsyth
County
BB Practice
11/7/2006 Pulaski
County
BB Team Orientation
11/6/2006 Forsyth
County
Sporting Clays Invitational Match
11/4/2006 Fayette
State
Archery Activity
Dec. SAFE (BB) Team
County
Augusta Fair Forestry Contest
10/30/2006 Burke
County
Rivers Alive
10/28/2006 Stephens
County
10/24/2006 Pulaski
County
Stream Water Testing
10/21/2006 Wilkinson
County
The Islander Interview for Senior 4-H Club
10/18/2006 Glynn
County
B.B. Practice
10/17/2006 Pulaski
County
4-H SAFE Shotgun Team Coaches Meeting
10/12/2006 Jones
County
4-H River Clean Up
10/11/2006 Wheeler
County
Rivers Alive Clean-Up
10/11/2006 Putnam
County
Storm Drain Clean Up
Trip to Sea World San Antonio (Environmental
Award)
Rivers Alive
10/11/2006 Lanier
10/11/2006 To
10/14/2006
Glynn
10/7/2006 Pulaski
County
County
County
Adopt - A - Highway Cleanup
10/5/2006 Ben Hill
County
Pandemic Flue Meeting
10/4/2006 Wilkinson
County
10/3/2006 Pulaski
County
Roadside Cleanup / Beautification
9/28/2006 Barrow
County
September 4-H Adopt-A-Highway Workday
9/28/2006 Coffee
County
9/26/2006 Pulaski
County
Rivers Alive Clean-up
9/23/2006 Tift
County
State Forestry Contest
9/23/2006 Burke
County
Play in the Park
9/23/2006 Forsyth
County
Evacuation Mapping Training
9/20/2006 McIntosh
County
BB Organizational Meeting
9/19/2006 Pulaski
County
Forestry Judging Competition 2006
9/11/2006 Upson
County
State Wildlife Judging Contest
9/9/2006 Grady
State
State Wildlife competition at Rock Eagle
9/9/2006 Decatur
State
Wildlife Judging Contest
Garden Earth Naturalist
9/9/2006 Burke
09/07/2006 To
09/08/2006
Walton
County
County
SW Area Forestry Field Day Contest
9/7/2006 Grady
Southwest District Forestry Field day
9/7/2006 Decatur
State
District/De
partment
Forestry Judging Practice 9/7/06
9/7/2006 Upson
County
District Forestry Contest
9/6/2006 Burke
County
State 4-H Land Judging Contest
8/26/2006 Wheeler
County
Wheeler County Land Judging Contest
8/25/2006 Wheeler
County
Honored by State DNR in Atlanta Ceremony
8/23/2006 Glynn
County
Flint River Friends of NRA Banquet
8/19/2006 Grady
County
Moth Trap Inspection & Maintenance
Water Sampling for Phytoplankton in Terry
Creek
8/16/2006 Glynn
County
8/12/2006 Glynn
County
08/10/2006 To
08/31/2006
Upson
County
Moth Trap Inspection & Maintenance (7/28)
7/28/2006 Glynn
County
Fernbank Museum
7/21/2006 Clayton
County
Georgia Aquarium
7/20/2006 Clayton
County
Pick a Class Day
7/13/2006 Bulloch
County
Dawson Fish Hatchery-Summer Class
7/13/2006 Terrell
County
Forestry Judging Practices August 2006
Earth Explorers Summer Class
Cloverleaf 4-H Camp at Burton
Junior Camp
GA Games
Georgia Games BB Competition
Georgia Games Air Rifle Match
Georgia Games BB Rifle Match
Free Spirit Pottery
Cloverleaf Camp At Rock Eagle
Senior 4-H Camp at Wahsega
Cloverleaf 4-H Camp at Rock Eagle
4-H Camp at Burton
4-H Summer Class - Hiking
International BB Gun Competition
Earthwatch Expedition in Spain
Natural Resources Conservation Workshop at
Middle GA College
7/12/2006 Coweta
07/10/2006 To
07/14/2006
Murray
07/10/2006 To
07/14/2006
Jones
7/8/2006 Gwinnett
07/08/2006 To
07/09/2006
Appling
07/07/2006 To
07/08/2006
Coffee
07/07/2006 To
07/08/2006
Coffee
County
County
County
State
County
County
County
7/6/2006 Bulloch
07/03/2006 To
07/07/2006
Oconee
07/03/2006 To
07/07/2006
Coffee
07/03/2006 To
07/07/2006
Coffee
07/02/2006 To
07/07/2006
Jones
County
6/28/2006 Barrow
06/28/2006 To
07/03/2006
Appling
06/27/2006 To
07/14/2006
Glynn
06/25/2006 To
06/30/2006
Glynn
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
Wildlife Team Practice
6/20/2006 Burke
County
Summer Class Hiking Providence Canyon
6/14/2006 Terrell
County
4-H Day at Charlie Elliot Outdoor Center
unicoi state park
6/13/2006 Putnam
06/13/2006 To
06/14/2006
Haralson
County
County
Jekyll Island Jr. Camp
06/12/2006 To
06/16/2006
Burke
State
Archery Team Cookout/Swimming Party
6/9/2006 Grady
County
Junior/Senior 4-H Trip to Jacksonville
6/8/2006 Coffee
County
Tennesee Aquarium Day Camp
6/8/2006 Chattooga
County
Fishing Rodeo
6/8/2006 Jenkins
County
Photo Op for Orange-Tide Participants
6/8/2006 Glynn
County
Georgia Aquarium Trip
6/7/2006 Putnam
County
4-H Day at Georgia Aquarium
6/7/2006 Putnam
County
Summer Fishing Day Camp
6/5/2006 Chattooga
County
Shotgun Team Year End Party
6/3/2006 Seminole
County
Summer Camp
6/3/2006 Barrow
County
Cloverleaf Summer Activity-Day at Rock Eagle
6/2/2006 Coffee
County
Field Trip to Georgia Aquarium
5/31/2006 Henry
County
Cloverleaf Summer Activity-Wild Adventures
5/30/2006 Coffee
County
Jake's Day
5/27/2006 Hall
County
4-H Lake Tour
Bulldog Buck Reward Trip
5/26/2006 Seminole
05/25/2006 To
05/26/2006
Wilkes
County
County
Fish and Wildlife Camp
5/24/2006 Dougherty
County
Preparation for Junior Camp
5/23/2006 Irwin
County
Land Judging Practice #2
Jekyll Island Environmental Education
Evans County Clean- Up Day
Target Sports Weekend III
5/23/2006 Pike
05/22/2006 To
05/24/2006
Camden
5/20/2006 Evans
05/19/2006 To
05/21/2006
Coffee
County
County
County
County
Glynn Academy Student Awards Ceremony
5/16/2006 Glynn
County
State 4-H Archery Tournament
5/14/2006 Forsyth
County
Target Sports Weekend II
5/13/2006 Coffee
County
Target Challenge Weekend II
5/13/2006 Upson
State
Coweta County Youth Fishing Rodeo
5/13/2006 Coweta
County
Target Challenge Weekend 2
Grady Co. 4-H State Archery Match
Grady Co. 4-H State Modified Trap Shotgun
Match
State Project SAFE
State Shotgun Match
5/13/2006 Echols
05/12/2006 To
05/13/2006
Grady
05/12/2006 To
05/13/2006
Grady
05/12/2006 To
05/13/2006
Mitchell
05/12/2006 To
05/13/2006
Seminole
State
County
County
County
State
Shooting Sports Family Night Supper
5/11/2006 Grady
County
BB appreciation party
5/11/2006 Walton
County
S.A.F.E. Practice #14
5/9/2006 Pike
County
Invasive Plant Mtg, Lumpkin
5/8/2006 Lumpkin
County
5/6/2006 Hall
05/05/2006 To
05/07/2006
Coffee
05/05/2006 To
05/07/2006
Appling
05/05/2006 To
05/07/2006
Forsyth
05/05/2006 To
05/07/2006
Forsyth
05/05/2006 To
05/07/2006
Gwinnett
County
BB State Competetion 5/6/06
Target Sports Weekend I
4-H State BB Competition
State 4-H BB Match
State 4-H Rifle Match
Target Challenge Weekend - SAFE
Jones Co. 4-H SAFE Shotgun Team Practice
Session
Anhusear Bush Shoot
Georgia Youth Environmental Symposium in
Atlanta
5/2/2006 Pike
05/01/2006 To
05/11/2006
Hart
County
County
County
County
County
County
County
4/30/2006 Jones
County
4/29/2006 Gordon
County
4/29/2006 Pike
04/27/2006 To
04/28/2006
Glynn
County
County
District Qualification Match-Shotgun
Trash to Treasures Contest Loganville Elem.
School
4/27/2006 Berrien
County
4/27/2006 Walton
County
Area 4-H Shotgun Match
4/27/2006 Coffee
County
4/25/2006 Pike
County
Shotgun Team District Qualification Match
Forestry Judging Preparation for National
Contest
4/25/2006 Echols
County
4/24/2006 Coweta
County
2006 BB District Match
4-H Area State Shotgun Team Qualification
Match - Oconee Gun Club
4/22/2006 Hall
County
4/22/2006 Putnam
County
NW District Shotgun Qualification Match Griffin
4/22/2006 Upson
BB qualifying match Madison County
4/22/2006 Gwinnett
County
District/De
partment
District BB Match
4/22/2006 Forsyth
County
District BB Match - Lumpkin County
4/22/2006 Union
County
District Shotgun Meet
4/22/2006 Burke
County
S.A.F.E.-Shotgun Area Qualifier
4/22/2006 Morgan
District Shotgun Match
4/21/2006 Gordon
County
District/De
partment
Jacksonville Zoo Trip
4/19/2006 Liberty
County
4-H Enrichment Trip
4/18/2006 Bibb
County
Putnam County Area Qualification Match
Southwest District 4-H Area Archery
Competition
4/15/2006 Putnam
County
4/15/2006 Mitchell
County
Area 4-H BB Rifle Match
4/15/2006 Coffee
County
4-H SAFE Team Shotgun Team Practice
4/15/2006 Jones
County
District BB Competition - Host
4/15/2006 Gordon
County
Crisp 4-H'ers at District BB Match
4/15/2006 Crisp
County
4-H District BB Competition
4/15/2006 Appling
County
4/15/2006 Pike
SAFE District BB Match
4/15/2006 Pulaski
County
District/De
partment
Grady County Modified Trap Qualification Match
4/13/2006 Grady
County
Crisp District Shotgun Match
4/11/2006 Crisp
County
4/11/2006 Pike
County
4-H SAFE Team Shotgun Practice
4/9/2006 Jones
04/08/2006 To
Southeast District Junior Spring 4-H Conference 04/09/2006
Coffee
04/06/2006 To
Earth Day Poster Contest
04/22/2006
Chatham
County
SAFE 4-H Shotgun Team Practice
County
Jaycees BB Competition
April BB Practices
4/2/2006 Jones
4/1/2006 Appling
04/01/2006 To
04/28/2006
Forsyth
County
County
County
County
4/1/2006 Pike
County
3/26/2006 Jones
County
Jackson County BB match
3/25/2006 Gwinnett
County
BB Cop and Kids Target Challenge and
Planning Session
3/25/2006 Pike
County
3/24/2006 Hall
County
3/19/2006 Jones
County
Walton County BB Match
3/18/2006 Walton
County
Walton County BB match
Area BB Matches
3/18/2006 Gwinnett
03/18/2006 To
03/31/2006
Forsyth
County
County
3/18/2006 Pike
County
3/11/2006 Pike
County
Cloverleaf Aquarium Field Trip
3/10/2006 Gwinnett
County
Archery Team Meeting
3/6/2006 Coffee
County
Judge - JR - SR DPA - Marine Science &
Wildlife Projects
3/5/2006 Jones
County
District/De
partment
S.A.F.E. Team Practice #2
Forestry Judging
Mar. BB Team Practices
3/4/2006 Putnam
3/4/2006 Pike
03/01/2006 To
03/31/2006
Hart
03/01/2006 To
03/29/2006
Forsyth
County
County
County
4-H Shotgun Team Meeting
2/27/2006 Coffee
County
S.A.F.E. Class
2/25/2006 Pike
County
Clean Up the Enivronment Day
Certified 4-H Target Sports Coaches Training
Feb BB Team Practices
2/21/2006 Rockdale
02/10/2006 To
02/12/2006
Coffee
02/06/2006 To
02/28/2006
Forsyth
County
County
County
BB Team Safety meeting
2/6/2006 Forsyth
County
4-H SAFE Team Shotgun Practice
2/5/2006 Jones
County
Hunter's Safety class review and test
BB Team Orientation Meeting for Parents & 4H'ers
2/4/2006 Gwinnett
County
1/31/2006 Appling
County
Meeting with DNR Biologists at the DNR Facility
1/31/2006 Glynn
County
BB Team Orientation
1/30/2006 Forsyth
County
4-H Adopt-A-Highway Workday
1/26/2006 Coffee
County
S.A.F.E. Team Sign-up
1/24/2006 Pike
County
4-H SAFE Shotgun Team Practice Session
1/22/2006 Jones
County
4-H SAFE Shotgun Team Practice
Shotgun Team Practice/15 Sessions
S.A.F.E. Archery Equipment Open House
Air Pistol & Air Rifle Team Practices
1/15/2006 Jones
01/15/2006 To
03/07/2006
Seminole
1/10/2006 Morgan
01/10/2006 To
01/31/2006
Coffee
County
County
County
County
2006 SAFE Shotgun Team Practice # 1
1/7/2006 Jones
County
Christmas Tree Recycling
1/7/2006 Forsyth
County
SAFE Volunteer Meeting
1/6/2006 Haralson
County
ACADEMIC PROGRAMS
See website
http://www.caes.uga.edu/unit/oes/academics.html
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
See website
http://www.caes.uga.edu/unit/oes/IssueRelatedReports.cfm?TopLevelIssueID=2
APPENDIX
See website
http://www.caes.uga.edu/unit/oes/publications.html

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