Berkeley
Berkeley
Altieri, Miguel
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise: Biological Control. Agro-ecology
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-9802, 642-3327
agroeco3@nature.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Davids, René
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise: South American architecture. Quality design.
Mutifamily and affordable housing. Urban design
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-643-1699
rdavids@uclink.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
de Janvry, Alain
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Economic planning. Poverty. Agricultural and
rural development policy
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-3348, 642-3345
alain@are.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Frankie, Gordon
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Urban entomology. Community organization of
solitary bee species in California and Costa Rica
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-0973, 643-2212, 642-3327
frankie@nature.berkeley.edu
Berkeley/Cooperative Extension
Garbelotto, Matteo
Forest Pathologist
Area of expertise: diseases of native California trees, sudden oak death
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (510) 643-4282
matteo@nature.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Gutiérrez,
Andrew
Professor & Entomologist
Area of Expertise: Biological control of insects, biotechnology
in crop protection, ecosystems analysis
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (510) 642-9186
carpdiem@nature.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Hastorf, Cristine
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Food and agriculture. Archeology. Political
complexity. Gender. Paleoethnobotany. Andes
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-5457, 643-1112
hastorf@sscl.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
La France, Jefrrey
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Food policy.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510- 643-5416
lafrance@are.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Milton, Katharine
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Tropical ecology of humans and non-human primates.
Diet. Parasite-host interactions
Languages: English
Phone:510-642-8607
kmilton@socrates.berkeley.edu
Berkeley
Sadoulet, Elisabeth
Professor
Areas of Expertise: Economic development. Macroeconomic and agricultural
policies. Quantitative analysis and economic models. Contract theory.
Household and community behavior.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:510-642-7225, 642-3345
sadoulet@are.berkeley.edu
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Davis
Davis
Hird, David
Professor
Area of Expertise: Veterinary epidemiology, veterinary medicine
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (530) 752-7675
dwhird@ucdavis.edu
Davis
Laca, Emilio
Assistant Professor
Area of Expertise: Grazing ecology; grasslands; international livestock
development; foraging theory and behavior; range management, spatial
heterogenicity and geostatistical applications: agricultural ecology.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (530) 754-4083
ealaca@ucdavis.edu
Davis
Martin, Philip
Professor-Agricultural/Resource Economics
Areas of Expertise: Professor Martin is an authority on migration
and labor issues, particularly agricultural labor. He can discuss
labor and migration as they affect U.S. and Mexico relations. He
has published extensively on labor, migration, economic development
and immigration policy issues and has testified before Congress
and state and local agencies on those issues. He recently co-authored
a report urging California policy-makers to develop strategies that
will encourage and hasten the integration of immigrants into the
state's economy and society.
Languages: English
Phone:530-752-1530
plmartin@ucdavis.edu
Davis
Medrano, Juan
Associate Professor
Area of Expertise: Animal genomics, molecular genetics; animal
growth; milk
composition, milk genomics; gene expression; functional genomics
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (530) 752-6786
jfmedrano@ucdavis.edu
Davis
Piedrahita, Raul
Associate Professor
Area of Expertise: Aquacultural engineering with emphasis on water
quality; aquaculture recirculation systems; water treatment unit
operations; water quality monitoring equipment and techniques;
computer modeling
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (530) 752-2780
rhpiedrahita@ucdavis.edu
Davis
Sainz, Roberto
Assistant Professor
Area of Expertise: Animal nutrition; beef production
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (530) 752-0526
rdsainz@ucdavis.edu
Davis/Cooperative Extension
Snyder, Richard L.
Bioclimatologist
Area of Expertise: Biometeorology; climatology; irrigation scheduling;
freeze & frost protection; plant-climate mapping; evapotranspiration
modeling; effective rainfall; climatic risk analysis
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (530) 752-4628
rlsnyder@ucdavis.edu
Davis/Cooperative Extension
Stock, Tim
Pesticide Educator
Area of Expertise: Pesticide safety education, training of trainers,
Spanish language materials
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (530) 752-6841
twstock@ucdavis.edu
Davis/Cooperative Extension
Temple, Steven R.
Specialist
Area of Expertise: Agronomy and host plant resistance breeding
of grain legumes, sustainable farming systems
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (530) 752-8216
srtemple@ucdavis.edu
Davis/Cooperative Extension
Weber, Jennifer
Pesticide educator
Area of Expertise: Pesticide safety education, training of trainers,
Spanish language materials. Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (530) 752-5930
jlweber@ucdavis.edu
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Irvine
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Hecht, Susanna B.
Professor - Urban Planning
Areas of Expertise: Agricultural economics, Amazonian ecosystems,
anthropology, geography, resource-based rural development, international
development studies.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:310-825-4676
sbhecht@ucla.edu
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Merced
(Campus to open in Fall 2004)
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Riverside
Riverside
de la Cruz, Marlene
Coordinator - Genetics and Plan Biology/Botany
Areas of Expertise: Genetics and Plan Biology/Botany (She coordinates
grad student and faculty cooperative partnerships between UC and
Mexico)
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:909-787-4744
Marlene.delacruz@ucr.edu
Riverside
Gómez-Pompa, Arturo
Professor - Botany
Areas of Expertise: Rain forest conservation and management. Ethnobotany,
management of natural resources, floristics, and biological conservation.
Has developed several collaborative projects with Mexican colleagues
and also a research station at the El Eden Ecological Reserve in
the state of Quintana Roo,Mexico.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:909-787-4686
floramex@ucrac1.ucr.edu
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San Diego
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San Francisco
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Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara
Palerm, Juan Vicente
Sociocultural Professor
Areas of Expertise: Agribusiness and the formation of Chicano/Mexican
enclaves in rural California, 1960-present. This is a study about
the intensification of farming and the expansion of agricultural
labor markets, immigration and rural poverty.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:805-893-8449
Palerm@ucrac1.ucr.edu
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Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz
Gliessman, Stephen R.
Professor - Environmental Studies
Areas of Expertise: Agroecology, sustainable agriculture, traditional
farming systems in Mesoamerica, agroforestry, natural history, tropical
land use and sustainable development, culture and environment in
farming communities, ethnobotany.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-4051, 459-2178
gliess@zzyx.ucsc.edu
Santa Cruz
Goodman, David
Professor - Environmental Studies
Areas of Expertise: Political economy of international environmental
issues, global agri-food systems, technology, North-South relations
and sustainable development, Brazilian economy and society.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone:831-459-4561, 459-3517
hatters@cats.ucsc.edu
Cooperative Extension
Cooperative Extension
Aguiar, José
Farm Advisor, Riverside County
Area of Expertise: Vegetable crops and small farms
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (760) 863-7949
jlaguiar@ucdavis.edu
Cooperative Extension
Battany, Mark
Farm Advisor, San Luis Obispo County
Area of Expertise: viticulture, wine grapes, agricultural water
and soils management
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (805) 781-5948
mcbattany@ucdavis.edu
Cooperative Extension
Billikopf-Encina, Gregorio
Farm Advisor, Stanislaus, San Joaquin and Merced counties
Area of Expertise: Labor management in agriculture; employee selection;
pay &
Incentives; negotiation & conflict management; discipline & termination;
supervisory
skills training; interpersonal communications on the job
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (209) 525-6800
gebillikopf@ucdavis.edu
Cooperative Extension
Cantwell de Trejo, Marita
Cooperative Extension Specialist
Area of Expertise: Postharvest physiology; handling and storage
of vegetables, including specialty and fresh cut vegetables
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (530) 752-7305
micantwell@ucdavis.edu
Cooperative Extension
Crisosto, Carlos H.
Postharvest Physiologist, Kearney Agricultural Center
Area of Expertise: Postharvest biology and technology of fruits;
fruit quality and deterioration and handling systems
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (559) 646-6596
carlos@uckac.edu
Cooperative Extension
De la Fuente, Maria
Farm Advisor, Santa Clara County
Area of expertise: Mushrooms, cut flowers, nursery crops, specialty
vegetables, plant pathology and soil microbiology.
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (408) 299-2635 x1001
medelafuente@ucdavis.edu
Cooperative Extension
Fouche, Benny
Farm Advisor, San Joaquin County
Area of Expertise: Small farms operations and specialty crops
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (209) 468-2085
bfouche@ucdavis.edu
Cooperative Extension
García, Sergio
Farm Advisor, San Benito County
Area of Expertise: Livestock, range, natural resources and agronomic
crops
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (831) 637-5346
sgarcia@ucdavis.edu
Cooperative Extension
Gaskell, Mark
Farm Advisor, Santa Barbara County
Area of expertise: Vegetables, specialty crops, small farms, sustainable
agriculture, marketing, small fruits
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (805) 934-6240
mlgaskell@ucdavis.edu
Cooperative Extension
Gispert, Carmen
Farm Advisor, Riverside County
Area of expertise: viticulture, table and wine grapes, integrated
pest management
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (760) 863-8293
cgispert@ucdavis.edu
Cooperative Extension
González, Refugio
A.
CE Specialist, Imperial County
Area of Expertise: Farm marketing; personnel management
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (760) 352-9474
ragonzalez@ucdavis.edu
Cooperative Extension
Guerrero, Juan N.
Farm Advisor, Imperial County
Area of Expertise: Livestock; alfalfa and irrigated pasture; feedlot
cattle; waste management; biosolids
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (760) 352-9474
jguerrero@ucdavis.edu
Cooperative Extension
Haviland, David
Farm Advisor, Kern County
Area of Expertise: Entomology, pest management, insect management
in agricultural and urban areas
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (530) 752-6841
dhaviland@ucdavis.edu
Cooperative Extension
Koike, Steven T.
Farm Advisor, Monterey County
Area of Expertise: Plant pathology; nematology research and education
for vegetable, fruit and ornamental crops
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (831) 759-7350
stkoike@ucdavis.edu
Cooperative Extension
Larson, Kirk D.
CE Specialist, South Coast Research & Extension Center
Area of Expertise: Commercial strawberry production in California,
Mexico and Latin America; strawberry breeding; environmental factors
regulating growth and development of strawberries; pesticide use
and safety; methyl bromide; soil fumigation; global strawberry
market
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (949) 857-0136
kdlarson@ucdavis.edu
Cooperative Extension
Lobo, Ramiro
Farm Advisor, San Diego County
Area of Expertise: Farm management, marketing, agricultural economics,
agricultural tourism, small farms, new/specialty crops
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (858) 694-3666
relobo@ucdavis.edu
Cooperative Extension
Molinar, Richard H.
CE Advisor, Fresno County
Area of Expertise: Small farms; vegetable crops; organic farming;
insect/weed management; specialty crops; sugar peas; strawberries;
eggplant; squash; Asian
vegetables
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (559) 456-7555
rhmolinar@ucdavis.edu
Cooperative Extension
Moratorio, Mario
CE Advisor, Solano County
Area of Expertise: Small farms; urban horticulture; Master Gardener
program
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (707) 421-6793
msmoratorio@ucdavis.edu
Cooperative Extension
Orloff, Steve B.
Farm Advisor, Siskiyou County
Area of Expertise: Alfalfa, small grains, potatoes, and irrigated
pasture, with emphasis on variety adaptation, pest management,
irrigation, and general production practices
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (530) 842-2711
sborloff@ucdavis.edu
Cooperative Extension
Phillips, Phil
Farm Advisor, Ventura County
Area of expertise: IPM information and adoption of IPM through
demonstration and adaptive local research; in citrus, avocados,
grapes, strawberries and vegetables
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (805) 645-1457
paphillips@ucdavis.edu
Cooperative Extension
Smith, Richard F.
Farm Advisor, Monterey County
Area of Expertise: Vegetable crops, weed science
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (831) 759-7350
rifsmith@ucdavis.edu
Cooperative Extension
Stapleton, James J.
CE Specialist, Plant Pathologist, Kearney Ag. Center
Area of Expertise: Integrated pest management; non-chemical pest
control strategies; soil-plant ecology; diseases of grapes and
vegetable crops; establishment of permanent crops; methyl bromide
and soil fumigation alternatives
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (559) 646-6536
jim@uckac.edu
Cooperative Extension
Valencia, Jesús
Farm Advisor, Fresno County
Area of Expertise: Processed and fresh market tomatoes, broccoli,
cauliflower, lettuce, garlic, onions, watermelons; practical research
in plant pathology, irrigation and plant nutrition
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (559) 456-7553
jgvalencia@ucdavis.edu
Cooperative Extension
Varela, Lucía
Farm Advisor, Sonoma County
Area of Expertise: Apples; pears; wine grapes; integrated pest
management
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (707) 565-2621
lgvarela@ucdavis.edu
Cooperative Extension
Viveros, Mario
Farm Advisor, Kern County
Area of Expertise: Deciduous tree, fruits, nuts
Languages: Spanish/English
Phone: (661) 868-6211
maviveros@ucdavis.edu
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