UMass Amherst: Department of Plant, Soil, and Insect Sciences

Department of Plant, Soil & Insect Sciences

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Main Office Plant, Soil, and Insect Sciences 101 Fernald Hall University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 (413) 545-2004	Fax Numbers Fernald Hall: (413) 545-2115 French Hall: (413) 545-3075 Clark Hall: (413) 545-2115 Bowditch Hall: (413) 545-0260 Stockbridge Hall: (413) 545-3958 W. Experiment Sta:(413) 545-1931 Cold Spring Orchard: (413) 323-6647 Cranberry Station: (508) 295-6387 Hatch Lab: (413) 545-0231 Ag. Engineering: (413) 545-5858
Department Head
Peter Veneman Professor and Department Head veneman@psis.umass.edu Fernald 102A (413) 545-5225

Faculty
Lynn Adler Assistant Professor lsadler@ent.umass.edu Fernald 209E (413) 545-1060	Wesley Autio Professor autio@pssci.umass.edu Bowditch 205 (413) 545-2963
Anne Averill Associate Professor aaverill@ent.umass.edu Fernald 204G (413) 545-1054	Allen V. Barker Professor barker@pssci.umass.edu Bowditch 202 (413) 545-4733
Robert Bernatzky Associate Professor rb@pssci.umass.edu French 204A (413) 545-5222	Prasanta C. Bhowmik Professor pbhowmik@pssci.umass.edu Stockbridge 10 (413) 545-5223
John Burand Associate Professor jburand@microbio.umass.edu Fernald 202A (413) 545-3629	Daniel R. Cooley Associate Professor dcooley@microbio.umass.edu 103 Clark Hall (413) 577-3803
Douglas A. Cox Associate Professor dcox@pssci.umass.edu French 211 (413) 545-5214	Lyle E. Craker Professor craker@pssci.umass.edu Stockbridge 12A (413) 545-2347
Michelle DaCosta Assistant Professor mdacosta@psis.umass.edu Stockbridge 11 (413) 545-2547	J. Scott Ebdon Associate Professor sebdon@pssci.umass.edu Stockbridge 12F (413) 545-2506
Joseph Elkinton Professor elkinton@ent.umass.edu Agricultural Engineering 310 (413) 545-4816	John M. Gerber Professor jgerber@psis.umass.edu Bowditch 308 (413) 545-5301
Duane W. Greene Professor dgreene@pssci.umass.edu Bowditch 302 (413) 545-5219	Susan Han Associate Professor susanh@umext.umass.edu French 204B (413) 545-5228
Stephen J. Herbert Professor sherbert@pssci.umass.edu Bowditch 207 (413) 545-2250	Geunhwa Jung Assistant Professor jung@psis.umass.edu French 206 (413) 545-2243
Francis X. Mangan Extension Associate Professor fmangan@umext.umass.edu French 201 (413) 545-1178	William J. Manning Professor wmanning@microbio.umass.edu Fernald 207 (413) 545-2289
Benjamin Normark Associate Professor bnormark@ent.umass.edu Fernald 204B (413) 577-3780	Om Parkash Assistant Professor parkash@psis.umass.edu French 202 (413) 545-0062
Deborah J. Picking Undergraduate Program Director dpicking@psis.umass.edu French 103 (413) 545-2249	Adam Porter Associate Professor aporter@ent.umass.edu Hatch Laboratory 13 (413) 545-1036
Stephen Rich Associate Professor smrich@psis.umass.edu Fernald 209B (413) 545-1057	Stephen Simkins Associate Professor ssimkins@pssci.umass.edu Stockbridge 12E (413) 545-5211
John Stoffolano Professor stoff@ent.umass.edu Fernald 204A (413) 545-1046	Roy Van Driesche Extension Professor vandries@nre.umass.edu Agricultural Engineering 320 (413) 545-1061
Petrus L. M. Veneman Professor and Dept. Head veneman@psis.umass.edu Stockbridge 19A (413) 545-5215	Patricia Vittum Professor pvittum@ent.umass.edu Agricultural Engineering 316 (413)545-0268
Robert L. Wick Professor rwick@pltpath.umass.edu Fernald 109 (413) 545-1045	Baoshan Xing Professor bx@pssci.umass.edu Stockbridge 12B (413) 545-5212
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Adjunct Faculty and Instructors
Dulasiri Amarasiriwardena Adjunct Associate Professor dula@hampshire.edu School of Natural Sciences Hampshire College Amherst, MA 01002 (413) 559-5561 Fax: (413) 559-5448	Cynthia Barstow Instructor cbarstow@unext.umass.edu Stockbridge 120 (413) 545-6549
A. Richard Bonanno Adjunct Professor Extension Weed Management Specialist rbonanno@umext.umass.edu 225 Merrimack Street Methuen, MA 01844 (978) 682-9563 Fax: (978) 685-6691	Frank L. Caruso Extension Associate Professor fcaruso@umext.umass.edu Cranberry Experiment Station University of Massachusetts P.O. Box 569, 1 State Bog Rd. East Wareham, MA 02538-0569 (508) 295-2212, ext. 18 Fax: (508) 295-6387
Robert Childs Instructor rchilds@psis.umass.edu Agricultural Engineering 204 (413) 545-1053	Carolyn DeMoranville Extension Assoc. Professor & Director carolynd@umext.umass.edu Cranberry Experiment Station University of Massachusetts P.O. Box 569, 1 State Bog Rd. East Wareham, MA 02538-0569 (508) 295-2212, ext. 25 Fax: (508) 295-6387
Clifford Desch Adjunct Faculty desch@uconnvm.uconn.edu University of Connecticut (860) 570-9217	W. Thomas Griffin Instructor griff@psis.umass.edu Stockbridge 12C (413) 545-3066
Masoud Hashemi Adjunct Associate Professor masoud@psis.umass.edu Bowditch 208 (413) 545-1843	Craig Hollingsworth Adjunct Assistant Professor chollingsworth@umext.umass.edu Agricultural Engineering 201 (413) 545-1055
Elizabeth M. Jakob Adjunct PSIS Professor & Professor of Psychology ejakob@psych.umass.edu Tobin Hall (413) 577-0707	Norman Johnson Adjunct Asst. Research Professor njohnson@ent.umass.edu Hatch Laboratory 10 (413) 545-1275
Christopher Joyner Instructor joyner@psis.umass.edu French Hall Greenhouse (413) 545-5233	Chris Kilham Adjunct Lecturer, Ethnobotany medicinehunter@mindspring.com 12C Stockbridge (413) 545-2347
Peter Konjoian Adjunct Professor peterkfes@aol.com 48 Brundrett Avenue Andover, MA 01810 (978) 683-0692	Donna McDonald Instructor
David Noonan Instructor dnoonan@rcn.com P.O.Box 223 Shelburne Falls, MA 01370 (413) 834-7102	Hillary Sandler Adjunct Assistant Professor hsandler@umext.umass.edu Cranberry Experiment Station University of Massachusetts P.O. Box 569, 1 Bog Rd East Wareham, MA 02538 (508) 295-2212 x21 Fax: (508) 295-6387
Tina M. Smith Instructor tsmith@umext.umass.edu French 203 (413) 545-5306	Nina Theis Adjunct Assistant Professor nthesis@nsm.umass.edu Fernald 204 E (413) 577-1284
Ralph W. Tiner Adjunct Professor Ralph_tiner@fws.gov U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Wetlands Inventory 300 Westgate Center Drive Hadley, MA 01035 (413) 253-8620
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Professional Staff
Phyllis Berman Research & Administrative Associate berman@psis.umass.edu Fernald 204C (413) 545-2364	Steven M. Bodine Soil Testing Lab Director bodine@psis.umass.edu West Experiment Station (413) 545-2311
A. Richard Bonanno Extension Weed Management Specialist rbonanno@umext.umass.edu 225 Merrimack Street Methuen, MA 01844 (978) 682-9563 Fax: (978) 685-6691	Kyle Bostrom Farm Manager kbostrom@nre.umass.edu Agronomy Farm Deerfield, MA (413) 665-3592
Kathleen M. Carroll UMass Extension Program Director - Agriculture & Landscape kcarroll@umext.umass.edu French 205 (413) 545-0895	Carrie N. Chickering-Sears Extension Educator
Robert Childs Extension Educator - Landscape, Nursery & Urban Forestry rchilds@psis.umass.edu Agricultural Engineering 204 (413) 545-1053	Roberta Clark Extension Educator - Landscape, Nursery & Urban Forestry robertac@umext.umass.edu Barnstable County Cooperative Extension P.O. Box 367 Barnstable, MA 02630 (508) 375-6692
William Clark Extension Specialist wclark@umext.umass.edu Barnstable County Cooperative Extension P.O. Box 367 Barnstable, MA 02630 (508) 375-6701	Jon Clements Extension Educator - Fruits clements@umext.umass.edu UMass Cold Spring Orchard 393 Sabin St. Belchertown, MA 01007 (413) 478-7219 Fax: (413) 323-0382
William Coli Extension Educator wcoli@umext.umass.edu Agricultural Engineering 211 (413) 545-1051	M. Bess Dicklow Extension Educator mbdicklo@umext.umass.edu Holdsworth 108 (413) 545-3208
W. Thomas Griffin Turfgrass Facility Manager griff@psis.umass.edu Stockbridge 12C (413) 545-3066	(Abolhassan) Masoud Hashemi Extension Educator - Crops, Dairy & Livestock masoud@psis.umass.edu Bowditch 208 (413) 545-1843
Ruth Hazzard Extension Educator rhazzard@umext.umass.edu Agricultural Engineering 301 (413) 545-3696	Craig Hollingsworth Extension Educator - Aquaculture & Insect Pest Management chollingsworth@umext.umass.edu Agricultural Engineering 201 (413) 545-1055
Paul R. Lopes Extension Specialist - Floriculture lopes@umext.umass.edu Cranberry Experiment Station University of Massachusetts P.O. Box 569 1 State Bog Rd. East Wareham, MA 02538-0569 (508) 295-2212	Mary Owen Extension Educator & Specialist - Turf mowen@umext.umass.edu 237 Chandler Street Worcester, MA 01609 (508) 892-0382 Fax: (508) 892-4218
Stephen Plotkin Extension Educator splotkin@ma.nrcs.usda.gov USDA NRCS (413) 253-4377	Randall Prostak Extension Educator - Landscape, Nursery, & Urban Forestry rprostak@umext.umass.edu Bowditch 206 (413) 577-1738
Hillary Sandler Extension Educator hsandler@umext.umass.edu Cranberry Experiment Station University of Massachusetts P.O. Box 569, 1 Bog Rd East Wareham, MA 02538 (508) 295-2212 x21 Fax: (508) 295-6387	Sonia Schloemann Extension Educator - Fruit sgs@umext.umass.edu West Experiment Station (413) 545-4347 Fax: (413) 577-3820
Tina M. Smith Extension Educator tsmith@umext.umass.edu French 203 (413) 545-5306	Deborah Swanson Extension Educator - Landscape, Nursery & Urban Forestry dswanson@umext.umass.edu Plymouth County Extension PO Box 658 Hanson, MA 02341-0658 (781) 293-3541
Arthur Tuttle Research Associate tuttle@psis.umass.edu Clark Hall 104 (413) 545-3748
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Postdoctoral Research Associates (and Faculty Supervisor)
Yingchen Bai (Xing) Bai-yingchen@126.com Stockbridge 24 (413) 545-3862	Damon Crook (Elkinton) damon.j.crook@aphis.usda.gov Otis (508) 563-9303 X267
Alaa El-din Abdallah (Craker)	Hussein Al-Aimer Ibrahim (Craker) hibrahim@pssci.umass.edu Stockbridge 1C (413)545-2570
Maiko Inoue (Jung) French 8 (413) 545-5230	Young-Ki Jo (Jung) jo@psis.umass.edu French 306 (413) 545-2917
David Mausel (Van Dresche) Ag. Engineering 307 (413) 577-2478	Bo Pan (Xing) panbocai@gmail.com Stockbridge 23/24 (413) 545-3862
Chung H. Park (Craker)	Marinko Sremac (Porter) sremac@bio.umass.edu Hatch Lab 3 (413) 577-1753
Nina A. Theis (Adler) ntheis@nsm.umass.edu Fernald 204E (413) 545-3879	Seth Walk (Rich) walk@psis.umass.edu Fernald 209C (413) 577-3785
Xinlong Wang (Xing) xilong@psis.umass.edu Stockbridge 20 (413) 545-2860	Guang Xu (Rich) gxu@psis.umass.edu Fernald B1 (413) 545-1039
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Office Staff
Eileen Harris Office Manager eileenh@psis.umass.edu Fernald 102C (413) 545-1059	Marilyn Kuzmeskus Extension Bookkeeper marilynk@psis.umass.edu Agricultural Engineering 203 (413) 577-0712
Barbara L. Miller Bookkeeper blmiller@psis.umass.edu Fernald 102B (413) 545-1058	Kathy Rice Bookkeeper krice@psis.umass.edu Fernald 102B (413) 545-5224
Susan Saletnik Secretary saletnik@psis.umass.edu Fernald 101 (413) 545-1050	Mary Szala Extension Bookkeeper szala@umext.umass.edu Agricultural Engineering 205 (413) 545-2230
Doreen York Extension Bookkeeper dyork@umext.umass.edu Bowditch 204 (413) 545-2254
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Technical Staff
Tracy Allen Technical Assistant West Experiment Station (413) 545-2311	Jeffrey Anderson Greenhouse Technician jbanders@psis.umass.edu French Hall Greenhouse (413) 545-5233
Edward Bodzinski Technical Assistant ebozdzinski@psis.umass.edu Bowditch 112 (413) 577-2512	George "Jeff" Boettner Departmental Assistant boettner@psis.umass.edu Agricultural Engineering 115 (413) 545-1032
Laurel Brocklesby Technical Staff ljbrock@psis.umass.edu 104 Ag Eng (413) 545-0268	Andrew Cavanagh Technical Assistant acavanagh@psis.umass.edu Agricultural Engineering 111 (413) 577-3976
Natalia Clifton Pesticide Education & Application (Extension Technician) nclifton@psis.umass.edu Agricultural Engineering 212 (413) 545-1044	Amanda Duphily Brown Technical Assistant aduphily@ent.umass.edu Agricultural Engineering 111 (413) 577-3976
Jackie Carleruale Technical Assistant Bowditch	Michael Formosi Durfee Conservatory Director mformosi@larp.umass.edu Durfee Conservatory (413) 545-5234
Zoe Gardner Technical Staff zoeegardner@hotmail.com Stockbridge 12-A (413) 545-2349	Kristen Hanley Farm Assistant kmhanley@psis.umass.edu Cold Spring Orchard 391 Sabin St. Belchertown, MA 01007 (413) 323-6647
Roy R. Hunkins Technical Assistant Ag Engineering 105 (413) 545-1032	Christopher Joyner Greenhouse Manager joyner@psis.umass.edu French Hall Greenhouse (413) 545-5233
James Krupa Technical Staff jkrupa@psis.umass.edu Cold Spring Orchard 391 Sabin St. Belchertown, MA 01007 (413) 323-0382	Jason Lanier Extension Technician jdlanier@umext.umass.edu French 308 (413) 545-2965
Nancy Luce Research Assistant nluce@psis.umass.edu Agricultural Engineering 104 (413) 545-0268	Suzanne Lyon Research Assistant slyon@psis.umass.edu Agricultural Engineering 117 (413) 545-1031
Hamid Mashayekhi Technical Assistant hamid@psis.umass.edu Stockbridge 23/24 (413) 577-0101	Shawn McIntire Farm Worker, Orchard shawnm@psis.umass.edu Cold Spring Orchard 391 Sabin St. Belchertown, MA 01007 (413) 323-6647
Maria Moreira (Mangan) Extension Clerk mmoreira@umext.umass.edu Off Campus	Joseph E. Sincuk Supervisor - Department Orchard sincuk@psis.umass.edu Cold Spring Orchard 391 Sabin St. Belchertown, MA 01007 (413) 323-6647
Lesley (Mickey) Spokas Research Technician mspokas@psis.umass.edu Stockbridge 19B (413) 545-3068	Martha Sylvia Technical Assistant martys@umext.umass.edu Cranberry Experiment Station University of Massachusetts P.O. Box 569, 1 State Bog Rd. East Wareham, MA 02538-0569 (508) 295-2212X20
Shawn P. Walker Farm Worker Belchertown, MA	Ellen Weeks Extension Technician Landscape, Nursery, & Urban Forestry eweeks@umext.umass.edu French 104 (413) 545-2685
Sarah Weis Research Technician sweis@psis.umass.edu Bowditch 305 (413) 545-5221	Neal Woodard Supervisor nealw@psis.umass.edu Tillson Farm (413) 545-0033
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Entomology Graduate Students (and Department Advisor)
Kristopher Abell (Van Driesche) kabell@psis.umass.edu Agricultural Engineering 303 (413) 545-5859	Nigel Aminake (Rich) aminake@psis.umass.edu Fernald 209A (413) 577-3782
Jeremy Anderson (Normak) janderson@student.umass.edu Fernald 104 (413) 545-2844	Holly Baltzer (Adler) hbaltzer@nsm.umass.edu Fernald 102G (413) 577-1824
Julie Bednarski (Jakob) jbednars@nsm.umass.edu Middlesex House 102 (413) 577-3570	Andrew Cavanagh (Adler/Hazzard) acavanagh@psis.umass.edu Agricultural Engineering 111 (413) 577-3976
Sandra Gillespie (Adler) sgillesp@nsm.umass.edu Fernald 102G (413) 577-0268	Nicole Sops Gordon (Adler) nsopereg@nsm.umass.edu Fernald 102G (413) 577-1824
Matthew Gruwell (Normark) gruwell@psis.umass.edu Fernald 104 (413) 545-2844	Rodger Gwiazdowski (Normark) rodger@psis.umass.edu Fernald 104 (413) 545-1049
Woojin Kim (Burand) wjkim@psis.umass.edu Fernald 106 (413) 545-5856	Fatos Kopliku (Rich) fkopliku@psis.umass.edu Fernald 209A (413) 577-3784
Molly Notestine (Averill) mnotesti@psis.umass.edu Fernald 106 (413) 545-1731	Ann Paradis (Elkinton) aparadis@psis.umass.edu Agricultural Engineering 115 (413) 545-1032
Anna Soper (Van Dreische) asoper@psis.umass.edu Ag. Engineering 303 (413) 545-5859	Sunil Tewari (Averill) stewari@psis.umass.edu Fernald 106 (413) 545-1731
Alexander Tulchinsky (Porter) atulchin@nsm.umass.edu Hatch 12 (413) 577-1753	Jin Wu (Normark) jwu@nsm.umass.edu Fernald 104 (413) 545-2844
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Plant and Soil Graduate Students (and Department Advisor)
Ganisher D. Abbasov (Craker) gmzz@acad.umass.edu (413) 545-2570	Jennifer Albertine (Manning) jalberti@psis.umass.edu Fernald 106A (413) 545-3330
Michael Baker (Veneman) mdbaker@acad.umass.edu Off Campus	Katie A. Bednaz (Veneman) bednaz@nre.umass.edu Off-campus (413) 562-6402
Nicholas Brazee (Wick) nbrazee@psis.umass.edu Fernald 107B (413) 577-1827	Katherine Campbell-Nelson (Herbert) katiecampbellnelson@gmail.com
Susan Cheplick (Bhowmik) ravensclaw5@aol.com Chenoweth 424 (413) 545-3505	Anirudha Dixit (Parkash) adixit@nsm.umass.edu
Jason Dowgiewicz (Ebdon) jmdowgie@psis.umass.edu Stockbridge 21 (413) 545-3083	Rebecca Elwood (Veneman/Xing) rebecca.elwood@ct.usda.gov Off-campus
Ali Farsad (Herbert) afarsad@psis.umass.edu Bowditch (413) 545-5236	Kathryn Fiedler (Cooley) kfiedler@psis.umass.edu Clark 103 (413) 577-3803
Daniel Forberg (Herbert) dforberg@student.umass.edu Bowditch (413) 545-5236	Saikat Ghosh (Bhowmik) sghosh@psis.umass.edu Stockbridge 22 (413) 545-2739
Elizabeth Hammack-Leidhold (Veneman) lizleid@aol.com Off-campus	Tanner Harris (Manning) tbharris@psis.umass.edu Fernald 106A (207) 610-0307
Lindsey Hoffman (Ebdon) lindseyh@student.umass.edu Stockbridge 21 (413) 545-3083	Liyuan Huang (Xing) liyuan@psis.umass.edu Stockbridge 23B (413) 545-3862
Wei Jiang (Xing) wijang@psisumass.edu Stockbridge 22 (413) 545-2739	Seunghun Kang (Xing) seunghun@psis.umass.edu Stockbridge 22A (413) 545-2739
Kerry Kelley (Craker) kerryjk@psis.umass.edu Stockbridge 12 (413) 545-2347	Nica Klaber (Barker) nklaber@psis.umass.edu Bowditch 302 (413) 545-3862
Lawrence Kramer (Bernatzky) lawrenck@psis.umass.edu French 306 (413) 545-2917	Jason Lanier (Ebdon) jdlanier@umext.umass.edu French 308 (413) 545-2965
Kathleen Leahy (Greene) polaris2@rcn.com Bowditch 302	Hamid Mashayekhi (Xing) hamid@psis.umass.edu Stockbridge 22 (413) 577-0101 Office (413) 545-2633 Lab
Md J Meagy (Craker) jmeagy@psis.umass.edu Stockbridge 14 (413) 545-2570	Jamie Morgan (Picking) jamiem@psis.umass.edu Stockbridge 19 (413) 545-3068
Matthew Nowak (Veneman) Mathew.Nowak@hatchmott.com Off-campus (413) 586-7074 x120	James O’Connell (Sandler) jameso@umext.umass.edu Off Campus
Mary Owen (Ebdon) mowen@umext.umass.edu French 308 508-892-0382	Bibin Paulose (Parkash) bpaulose@psis.umass.edu French 03 (413) 545-5231
Dipayan Sarkar (Xing) dsarker@psis.umass.edu Stockbridge 16 (413) 545-3072	Damian Sears (Xing) dsears13@comcast.net (413) 545-2506
Jeffery Shamas (Veneman) Off Campus	Lei Song (Bhowmik) lsong@psis.umass.edu Stockbridge 22 (413) 545-2939
Robert Stewart (Xing) rastewart@psis.umass.edu Off-campus	Brett Suhayda (Demoranville) bsuhayda@psis.umass.edu Off-campus
Nishanth Tharayil (Bhowmik) nishanth@psis.umass.edu Stockbridge 16 (413) 545-3072	Stephen Weckstrom (Vittum) sweckr@student.umass.edu Aq. Engineering 104 (413) 545-0268
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