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Advisor: Dr. Om Parkash Dhankher

Professor Amarasiriwardena regularly teaches analytical chemistry, environmental chemistry and general chemistry. His research interests include topics in chemistry, environmental pollution, water quality, inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry, studies of trace metal analysis, toxic wastes, radon monitoring, pesticide residues, soil and environmental chemistry. This includes chemical speciation of arsenic and antimony and characterization of trace metals bound to soil-derived humic acids by size exclusion chromatography (SEC) or ion chromatography (IC) coupled with inductively coupled

Advisor: Dr. Stephen Herbert

Until recently, Wes Autio served as the UMass Fruit Program Leader. He regularly interacts with tree-fruit farmers and the many individuals interested in tree fruit in the landscape. His research focuses on apple and peach rootstocks, controlling growth apple trees with mechanical and hormonal approaches, and chemical thinning of peaches. He teaches courses in pruning fruit crops for undergraduates and in statistical analysis for graduate students.

(Not Currently Accepting New Graduate Students)
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Head of Department, Plant and Soil Sciences, 1977-1985
Graduate Program Director, 1977-1985

Sarah Berquist currently teaches courses in the Sustainable Food and Farming undergraduate program. Sarah offers contemplative and participatory courses in farm-based agriculture education, social justice, food systems, and personal sustainability.

She is excited to equip students with practical life skills: the ability to grow their own food, confidence in leading others, community organizing, and critical thinking to solve problems. Experiential learning is at the heart of her teaching philosophy and she loves getting her hands dirty with her students in the field.

Management of the undergraduate program in Arboriculture & Urban Forestry, including advising students; student recruiting on and off campus.

Professor Bhowmik's research interests include biology and management of perennial weeds, weed management strategies with emphasis on cultural practices, sequential applications, reduced rate use, organic products, and growth regulators, tolerance of turfgrass species and cultivars under NTEP to new registered herbicides, and evaluation of new herbicides and bio-control products.

Amanda is currently the director of the UMass Student Farming Enterprise Program and the Stockbridge School of Agriculture's Agricultural Learning Center. Amanda joined the Stockbridge faculty after working with the UMass Extension Vegetable Program for over a decade.

Nicole Burton has over 20 years of experience in the field of agriculture and is currently the director of the Stockbridge Livestock Program (SLP) at the Agricultural Learning Center. The objective of this program is to train the next generation of livestock farmers to gain hands-on experience working with sustainable livestock systems. Currently, the program raises turkeys on pasture and integrated into silvopasture systems, broilers on pasture, sheep in a chestnut silvopasture and pigs rotationally revitalizing a woodland. SLP allows students to also take the next step in production with