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Workgroup Information Precision Agriculture |
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| Summary | Provide a venue for networking opportunities that can lead to collaborative planning and coordination of research and extension activities to advance the science of precision agriculture (PAg) in California. This workgroup would also enhance communication among PAg practitioners in the field and provide them updates on the latest developments in California and throughout the world. |
| Website: | http://groups.ucanr.org/precag/ |
| Workgroup Chair Information | |
| Name | Peter Larbi (Chair) |
| Phone | 559-646-6577 |
| palarbi@ucanr.edu | |
| Unit: | Kearney Agricultural Research & Extension Center |
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Membership List |
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| AES Scientist | ||
| Brown, Patrick | Department of Plant Sciences | |
| Pomologist-AES, Professor of Plant Nutrition | Plant mineral nutrition; root soil interaction; rhizosphere dynamics and genetic aspects of plant nutrition; function of boron in plants; sustainable agriculture | |
| DACCACHE, ANDRE | ||
| ASST AGRON AES-AY-B/E/E | Irrigation engineering; agricultural water resources management; precision irrigation | |
| Delwiche, Michael | Biological & Agricultural Engineering | |
| Professor Emeritus | Electronic instrumentation and sensor development in biological systems; biosensors; postharvest engineering; digital signal and image processing; computer control; biological control of insect pests. | |
| Earles, Jeffrey | ||
| Giles, Ken | Biological & Agricultural Engineering | |
| Professor | Engineering for pest control and plant protection; development of target sensing and sprayer control systems; handling and distribution of biological pest control agents; automation of pest control operations. | |
| Hills, David | Biological & Agricultural Engineering | |
| Professor emeritus | Pressurized irrigation system design and hardware development system performance in trickle and sprinkle irrigation; chemigation. | |
| Jin, Yufang | Land, Air & Water Resources | |
| Assistant Professor of Remote Sensing and Ecosystem Change | ||
| Kisekka, Isaya | Land, Air & Water Resources | |
| Assistant Professor and Assistant Irrigation Engineer in AES | Irrigation Management and Agricultural Water Management | |
| Magney, Troy | ||
| Assistant Professor | proximal and satellite remote sensing. environmental informatics. plant ecophysiology. | |
| Plant, Richard | Department of Plant Sciences | |
| AES Professor Emeritus Quantitative Analyst | Application of systems analysis to crop and resource management; including statistics, geographic information systems, and mathematical modeling. | |
| Rosa, Uriel | Biological & Agricultural Engineering | |
| Assistant Professor | Engineering integration of electro-mechanical systems, sensing and control techniques for use in bio-production systems. | |
| Slaughter, David | Biological & Agricultural Engineering | |
| Professor | Instrumentation and postharvest engineering for biological materials; packaging, handling, storage and transportation of agricultural commodities; nondestructive measurement of quality and composition of biological materials; robotics, control and vision | |
| (info only) Southard, Randal | Land, Air & Water Resources | |
| Professor and Soil Genesis /Morphologist-AES | Pedology | |
| Upadhyaya, Shrinivasa | Biological & Agricultural Engineering | |
| Professor | Tillage and traction, soil dynamics, soil crusting and compactional; site-specific crop management, soil and yield sensors, GIS, precision planting of propagules; and mathematical modeling of biological problems. | |
| Ustin, Susan | Hydrology Program | |
| AES Professor of Resource Science | Remote sensing of environmental properties and landscape analysis utilizing optical, microwave, and/or thermal scanners, radiation interactions in plant canopies and application to ecological problems | |
| (info only) van Kessel, Chris | Department of Plant Sciences | |
| Emeritus Professor, Department of Plant Sciences | Agronomy, soil fertility, nutrient cycling, cropping systems, international agriculture. | |
| CE Advisor | ||
| (info only) Baameur, Abdelaziz | Small Farm Program | |
| Retired Emeritus, Farm Advisor | Small Farms, cultivar evaluation, nutrient management, irrigation, specialty crops, vegetables, Asian vegetables, Small Farms | |
| Babu, Arun | Imperial County | |
| Cooperative Extension Entomology Advisor | Entomology | |
| Biscaro, Andre | Ventura County | |
| Irrigation and Water Resources Advisor | Irrigation and nutrient management of berry and vegetable crops | |
| Brittan, Kent | Sacramento County | |
| Emeritus Farm Advisor for Field Crops | Small grains, corn and biofuel crops | |
| Cahn, Michael | Monterey County | |
| Farm Advisor, Irrigation and Water Resources | Irrigation & Water Resources | |
| (info only) Doran, Morgan | Capitol Corridor MCP Cooperative Extension | |
| UC Cooperative Extension Advisor for Livestock and Natural Resources | Livestock, beef cattle, sheep, nutrition, range management, irrigated pastures, grazing systems, ranch water quality. | |
| Faber, Ben | Ventura County | |
| Advisor | Soils and water, avocados and minor subtropicals in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties. | |
| (info only) Frate, Carol | Tulare County | |
| Farm Advisor, Emeritus | Alfalfa, dry beans, sugarbeets, corn, plant pathology | |
| Freeman, Mark | Fresno County | |
| Farm Advisor | Nut crops--almond, walnut, pistachio, pecan; citrus--orange, lemon, mandarin; olive | |
| (info only) Fulton, Allan | Glenn County | |
| Irrigation and Water Resources Advisor emeritus | ||
| Garcia, Emeritus, Sergio | San Benito County | |
| Farm Advisor, Emeritus - Livestock Range and Natural Resources | ||
| (info only) Greer, Christopher | San Luis Obispo County | |
| Area Cooperative Extension Advisor - Integrated Pest Management | Integrated Pest Management of Agricultural Crops | |
| (info only) Jensen, Wayne | Santa Barbara County | |
| Emeritus County Director | Livestock, natural resources, public issue education | |
| Johnson, Grant | South Coast Research & Extension Center | |
| Assistant CE Urban Agriculture Technology Area Advisor | Irrigation management, horticulture, nursery crops, indoor production, urban agriculture | |
| Kayad, Ahmed | ||
| Agricultural Engineer Advisor | Agricultural Engineering, Precision Agriculture, Farm Machinery, Remote Sensing | |
| Marcum, Daniel | Shasta-Lassen Office | |
| Farm Advisor - Emeritus | Irrigation, plant nutrition, salinity, entomology, sustainable agriculture, agronomy, vegetable crops, engineering, plant pathology, integrated pest management, systems management, economics, weed control, nematology, strawberry nursery production, garlic, wild rice, alfalfa, timothy, sugarbeet, pasture, range, biodiversity, peppermint, viticulture | |
| (info only) Marsh, Brian | Kern County | |
| County Director/Farm Advisor | Agronomy, cotton, small grains, corn and silage, weed control | |
| Miyao, Eugene | Capitol Corridor MCP Cooperative Extension | |
| Emeritus Farm Advisor, Vegetable Crops | Processing tomato production. | |
| Mohamed, Abdelmoneim | Stanislaus County | |
| Irrigation and Soils Advisor | Irrigation systems, Groundwater sustainability, Precision irrigation in trees and vines | |
| Munier, Douglas | ||
| Retired Farm Advisor | Agronomy-cotton, corn, wheat, clover seed, safflower, sunflower, and dry beans | |
| Munk, Daniel | Fresno County | |
| Farm Advisor | Irrigation, crop nutrient management and cotton production systems | |
| (info only) Mutters, Randall | Butte County | |
| Emeritus Farm Advisor | Rice, winter cereals, turf | |
| Niederholzer, Franz | Colusa County | |
| Farm Advisor Orchard Systems | Prunes, almonds, pears, apple, cherry, olive, plum, citrus, and pomegranate | |
| Oker, Tobias | Kern County | |
| Farm Advisor | Irrigation and Soils Management | |
| Pastrana Leon, Ana Maria | Imperial County | |
| Plant Pathology Advisor | Plant Pathology | |
| Schmierer, Jerry | Colusa County | |
| Farm Advisor Emeritus | Plant science, alfalfa, wheat,dry beans, corn, barley, and oil seed crops with speciality in precision agriculture and weed management. | |
| Singh, Jagdeep | Siskiyou County | |
| Stoddard, C Scott | Merced County | |
| County Director and Farm Advisor Vegetable Crops and Soils | Soil fertility and soil conservation, tomatoes, melons, sweetpotatoes, weed management | |
| (info only) Wroble, Jonathan | Fresno County | |
| Cotton, Soils and Water Assistant | ||
| CE Specialist | ||
| Bali, Khaled | Kearney Agricultural Research & Extension Center | |
| Irrigation Water Management Specialist | Irrigation and water management, irrigation systems, soil salinity, drainage, infiltration, water quality, TMDL, biosolids | |
| (info only) Hanson, Blaine | Land, Air & Water Resources | |
| CE Irrigation and Drainage Specialist | Drainage; wells and pumps; micro-irrigation, sprinkler irrigation; furrow irrigation, border and basin irrigation, irrigation scheduling; salinity; soil moisture sensors | |
| (info only) Kaffka, Stephen | Department of Plant Sciences | |
| CE Specialist. | Production and resource use efficiency of sugar, oilseed crops and other agronomic crops; Cropping systems and agroecology; biomass, bioenegy, bioproducts and related public policy issues; irrigation, salinity and drainage | |
| Khorsandi Kouhanestani, Farzaneh | Biological & Agricultural Engineering | |
| Cooperative Extension Specialist | ||
| Lampinen, Bruce | Department of Plant Sciences | |
| Integrated Orchard Management, Walnut and Almond Specialist | Integrated Orchard Management with an emphasis on walnuts and almonds | |
| Lanini, W | Weed Science Program | |
| CE Weed Ecologist | Ecology, weed crop competition, weed biology and low-input agriculture | |
| Larbi, Peter | Kearney Agricultural Research & Extension Center | |
| Assistant Cooperative Extension Specialist | Agricultural Application Engineering/Spray Application Engineering | |
| Mcgiffen Jr., Milton | Botany & Plant Sciences | |
| CE Specialist and Plant Physiologist | Vegetable Crops, Invasive Species, Weed Science, Sustainable Agriculture, and Alternatives to Methyl Bromide | |
| O'geen, Anthony | Soils & Biogeochemistry Program | |
| Professor and Cooperative Extension Soil Resource Specialist | Soil-landscape relationships, hydropedology, application of digital soil databases, soil survey; pedologic and hydrologic processes in deep regolith; macrofauna and mesofauna in soils. | |
| Pettygrove, G. | Land, Air & Water Resources | |
| CE Soils Specialist Emeritus | Soil fertility; land application of wastes and wastewater; dairy manure; winegrape nutrition; precision agriculture. | |
| Pourreza, Alireza | ||
| Assistant CE Specialist of Agricultural Mechanization | Sensing, Agricultural Automation, Precision Agriculture, Big Data | |
| Schwankl, Lawrence | Kearney Agricultural Research & Extension Center | |
| CE Irrigation Specialist, Retired | Irrigation engineering, design, operation and management of irrigation systems, soil moisture monitoring, low-volume irrigation | |
| Verdi, Amir | Environmental Sciences | |
| Assistant CE Professor | Precision agriculture, soil hydrology, landscape and agricultural irrigation, data mining, remote sensing | |
| Other ANR | ||
| Nosera, Jim | Mendocino County | |
| Agricultural Technologist | Field assistant, public service | |
| User, Unverified | ||
| Whiting, Michael | ||
| Assist. Research Scientist | RS, Soils | |
| Zhang, Minghua | Land, Air & Water Resources | |
| Non-UC | ||
| agattack.com, warren | ||
| agriumretail.com, mlarkin | ||
| Ampatzidis, Yiannis | CSU Bakersfield | |
| calpoly.edu, rstrohma | ||
| Coates, Bob | UC Davis Dept of Bio & Ag Engineering | |
| Graduate student | Irrigation controllers | |
| cos.edu, robertn | ||
| csuchico.edu, lackerman | ||
| csufresno.edu, matthewy | ||
| (info only) gointime.com, mseal | ||
| gointime.com, mpeterson | ||
| (info only) fresno.ars.usda.gov, rgroves | ||
| Horney, Marc | ||
| Horney, Randy | ||
| Precision ag | ||
| ias.csic.es, pzarco | ||
| ocsnet.net, prueger | ||
| pvts.net, rparks | ||
| Reinert, Bill | ||
| consultant | Precision ag | |
| Roberts, Bruce | ||
| J.G. Boswell Chair of Agronomy | ||
| (info only) Shrestha, Anil | Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Statewide Program | |
| IPM Weed Ecologist | Development and implementation of IPM strategies and tactics for vegetation management. Primary crops corn, cotton, tree fruit, grape, tomato. | |
| (info only) Stone, Tim | ||
| User, Unverified | ||
| Wood, Robin | ||
| (info only) Zelinski, Lowell | Precision Ag Consulting | |
| Precision ag, cotton | ||
| Other UC | ||
| (info only) Downey, Dan | Biological & Agricultural Engineering | |
| Assistant Research Engineer | Instrumentation for fluid handling systems, micro-spray applications for weed control, application of GPS tools for agricultural production systems, transport and sampling of aerosols and sprays, use of laser diffraction devices to characterize droplet size distributions, characterization of aerosols and sprays for agricultural and industrial products. | |
| Jahn, Bernie | UC Davis Dept of Bio & Ag Engineering | |
| Grad student | sensors, spatial statistics | |
| Moghimi, Ali | ||
| Membership Totals | ||
| Number of Members | 88 | |
| ANR Members | 65 | |
| Non-ANR | 23 | |
| Info Only | 20 | |