Extension Faculty

Center for Agriculture, Food, and the Environment (CAFE) Extension Faculty are UMass Amherst faculty members located within academic departments.  In addition to their teaching duties, the academic research conducted by Extension Faculty is integrated with educational programs, resources, tools or technologies that meet the needs of citizens, communities, organizations, businesses, government agencies, or policy-makers. Extension Faculty portfolios are diverse but they hold in common a responsibility to conduct, disseminate and apply research in practical ways so as to address some of our Commonwealth’s most pressing needs. All CAFE Extension Faculty are listed below and you can find more information on each of them by consulting their Profiles or Personal Webpages.

  • Dwayne Breger

    Dwayne Breger

    Director, Clean Energy Extension; Extension Professor, Environmental Conservation
    Specialty: Renewable energy and energy efficiency
    Tel: (413) 545-8512

    209 Agricultural Engineering Building
    University of Massachusetts
    250 Natural Resources Way
    Amherst, MA 01003-9295
    United States

  • Paul Catanzaro

    Paul Catanzaro

    Extension Professor
    Specialty: Stewardship of privately owned forests and legacy planning for land
    Tel: (413) 545-4839
    Personal Webpage

    329 Holdsworth Natural Resources Center
    University of Massachusetts
    100 Holdsworth Way
    Amherst, MA 01003-9285
    United States

  • Jynessa Dutka-Gianelli

    Jynessa Dutka-Gianelli

    Extension Assistant Professor
    Specialty: Integrative fisheries science; human dimension of fisheries; sustainable seafood

    Gloucester Marine Station
    932 Washington Street, P.O. Box 6013
    Gloucester, MA 01930
    United States

  • Masoud Hashemi

    Masoud Hashemi

    Extension Professor
    Specialty: Sustainable Food and Farming
    Tel: (413) 545-1843
    Fax: (413) 545-0260
    Personal Webpage

    207 Bowditch Hall
    University of Massachusetts
    201 Natural Resources Rd
    Amherst, MA 01003-9294
    United States

  • Christine Hatch

    Christine Hatch

    Extension Professor
    Specialty: Hydrogeology; Water Resources and Climate Change
    Tel: (413) 577-2245
    Personal Webpage

    240 Morrill 4
    University of Massachusetts
    639 N Pleasant St
    Amherst, MA 01003-9298
    United States

  • Scott Jackson, Extension Associate Professor

    Scott Jackson

    Extension Professor
    Specialty: Wetlands, Reptiles and Amphibians
    Tel: (413) 545-4743
    Personal Webpage

    328 Holdsworth Hall
    University of Massachusetts
    160 Holdworth Way
    Amherst, MA 01003-9285
    United States

  • Peter Jeranyama

    Peter Jeranyama

    Cranberry Station Interim Director, Extension Associate Professor
    Specialty: Plant Physiology
    Tel: 508-970-7636

    One State Bog Rd.
    E. Wareham, MA 02538
    United States

  • Katie Kahl

    Katie Kahl

    Extension Assistant Professor
    Director, Gloucester Marine Station
    Specialty: Climate Resilience & Blue Economy
    Tel: 978 865-3472

    Gloucester Marine Research Station
    932 Washington St./PO Box 6013
    Gloucester, MA 01930
    United States

  • Amanda Kinchla

    Amanda Kinchla

    Extension Professor
    Specialty: Food Safety, Product Development, Commercialization, Food Science Outreach Education.
    Tel: (413) 545-1017
    Personal Webpage

    231 Chenoweth Laboratory
    University of Massachusetts
    100 Holdsworth Way
    Amherst, MA 01003-9282
    United States

  • Olga Kostromytska

    Olga Kostromytska

    Extension Assistant Professor
    Specialty: insect pests of turfgrass (primarily) and landscape plants
    Tel: 413-577-3997

    104 Agricultural Engineering
    University of Massachusetts
    250 Natural Resource Rd.
    Amherst, MA 01003
    United States

  • Jianyu Li

    Jianyu Li

    Extension Assistant Professor
    Specialty: Sustainable Fruit and Vegetable Production
    Tel: (785)-370-9966

    208 Paige Lab
    161 Holdsworth Way
    Amherst, MA 01003
    United States

  • Giverson Mupambi

    Giverson Mupambi

    Extension Assistant Professor
    Specialty: Cranberry plant physiology
    Tel: 508-970-7638

    One State Bog Rd.
    East Wareham, MA 02538
    United States

  • Jaime Piñero

    Jaime Piñero

    Extension Professor
    Specialty: Tree Fruit Entomology/IPM
    Tel: 413-545-1031
    Personal Webpage

    207 Fernald Hall
    University of Massachusetts
    270 Stockbridge Rd
    Amherst, MA 01003-9320
    United States