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Workgroup Information Water Quality
Summary	Workgroup would function for communications and networking as well as subject matter in-service training for Advisors conducting Farm Water Quality Planning short courses.
Website:	http://waterquality.ucanr.org
Workgroup Chair Information
No Chairs selected.

Membership List
AES Scientist
Fujino, Dave		Dean's Office CA&ES (UCD)
	Director, California Center for Urban Horticulture; Co-Director, UC Nursery and Floriculture Alliance
Hopmans, Jan		Hydrology Program
	Professor, Department of Land, Air and Water Resources	Irrigation systems; system analysis; shallow groundwater and drainage water disposal; soil and water management of water resources
Knapp, Keith		Environmental Sciences
	Professor	Water resource economics, agricultural production economics, economics of irrigation and drainage, crop-water production functions, agricultural commodity markets.
Lauchli, Andre		Soils & Biogeochemistry Program
	Plant Physiologist   Professor of Plant Nutrition	Plant nutrition; responses of plants to environmental stresses; absorption and translocation of ions in plants; ion localization in plants by means of x-ray microanalysis and related techniques; comparative mineral nutrition, involving genotypes of crops and wild plants; physiology of salt and nutrient stresses in plants
Letey, John		Environmental Sciences
	Professor Emeritus, Director Emeritus	General water flow; infiltration; water pollution; drainage; irrigation; water repellency; transport phenomena in soils; mass flow and diffusion of pesticides; denitrification; evaporation; polymers; soil salinity.
Pandey, Pramod		Veterinary Medicine Extension
	Professor & Specialist - AES and CE split (50/50)	Microbial waste management, microbial water quality, rendering, pesticide residues in water and sediment
Rolston, Dennis		Land, Air & Water Resources
	Professor   Soil Physicist-AES	Soil physics, contaminant transport processes in soils, denitrification, trickle irrigation, soil carbon, diffusion of gases in soils, spatial and temporal variability in soil processes; transport of VOCs in soil
van Kessel, Chris		Department of Plant Sciences
	Emeritus Professor, Department of Plant Sciences	Agronomy, soil fertility, nutrient cycling, cropping systems, international agriculture.
CE Advisor
Aegerter, Brenna		San Joaquin County
	Farm Advisor	Vegetable Crops, Plant Pathology
(info only) Cahn, Michael		Monterey County
	Farm Advisor, Irrigation and Water Resources	Irrigation & Water Resources
Caprile - Emeritus, Janet		Contra Costa County Cooperative Extension
	Farm Advisor	Commercial fruit, nut, vine, vegetable, field, specialty crops
Dahlquist-Willard, Ruth		Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education Program (SAREP)
	Interim Director, UC SAREP
Faber, Ben		Ventura County
	Advisor	Soils and water, avocados and minor subtropicals in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties.
Fulton, Allan		Glenn County
	Irrigation and Water Resources Advisor emeritus
(info only) Haver, Darren		ANR Research and Extension Center System
	Director for REC System & Interim Director South Coast REC
(info only) Kabashima, John		Orange County - UC Cooperative Extension
	Environmental Horticulture Advisor, Emeritus	Ornamental horticulture, nursery crops, pest management, exotic and invasive pests, water runoff, water quality
Larsen, Royce		San Luis Obispo County
	Area Natural Resource/Watershed Advisor	Water Quality and Non-point Source Pollution on Rangelands. Also, other natural resource issues including: Rangeland Improvements, Noxious Invasive Weeds, Wildland Fires, Grassland Restoration and Endangered Species.
(info only) Lewis, David		Marin County
	Director, Advisor	Water and Watershed Management and Research, Community Development, Sustainable Agricutlure
(info only) Long, Rachael		Capitol Corridor MCP Cooperative Extension
	Emeritus Farm Advisor for Field Crops, Pest Management	Pest management, agronomy, dry beans, alfalfa, water quality, oil seed crops
Mccullough-Sanden, Blake		Kern County
	Farm Advisor Emeritus (Retired)	Irrigation, soil, water, agronomy, blackeyes, sugarbeets, safflower, alfalfa
Munk, Daniel		Fresno County
	Farm Advisor	Irrigation, crop nutrient management and cotton production systems
Reid, Karrie		San Joaquin County
	Retired Area Environmental Horticulture Advisor	Landscape Horticulture/Water Conservation
Rios, Sonia
	Area Subtropical Horticulture Advisor
(info only) Wilen, Cheryl		Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Statewide Program
	Area Integrated Pest Management Advisor - Emeritus	Integrated Pest Management (IPM) for ornamental plant production and maintenance including nurseries, greenhouses, field production, floriculture, turf and landscape, pesticide reduction and alternatives. Research specialty in weed management, snails & slugs.
CE Specialist
Collar, Carol		Veterinary Medicine Extension
	CE Specialist	Dairy, livestock and forage
(info only) Gan, Jay		Environmental Sciences
	CE Water Quality Specialist and Professor of Environmental Chemistry	Environmental risks and mitigation practices of pesticides, water and air quality issues related to pesticide uses, IPM practices
George, Melvin
	CE Specialist, Emeritus	Range and pasture improvement, grazing management, rangeland water quality, rangeland management practices, ranch planning, and ecological site descriptions.
Grattan, Stephen		Hydrology Program
	CE Plant-water Specialist	Irrigation water management, crop-water management, salinity effects on plants, toxic element accumulation in crops
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
Harter, Thomas		Hydrology Program
	Distinguished Professor & Distinguished Professor in Cooperative Extension	Flow and transport processes in groundwater and in the vadoze zone; non-point source pollution of groundwater; numerical and statistical modeling of non-point source pollution at the agriculture-groundwater nexus; sustainable groundwater management; integrated water management.
Hartz, Timothy		Department of Plant Sciences
	CE Vegetable Crops Specialist	Improved management regimes for commercial vegetable production, cultural practices for warm-season vegetable crops
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
Maas, John		Veterinary Medicine Extension
	CE Veterinarian	Beef cattle health and food safety; metabolic diseases; herd health management
(info only) Merhaut, Donald		Botany & Plant Sciences
	Extension Specialist for Nursery and Floriculture Crops	Plant Nutrition, Woody Ornamentals, Floriculture, Blueberry Production
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.
Oki, Lorence		Department of Plant Sciences
	Specialist in CE, Environmental Horticulture	Irrigation and runoff management in urban landscapes and nurseries; effect of water quality (salinity) on plant growth; evaluating ornamental plants for use in landscape horticulture; introduction of plants for environmental horticulture. Additional unit
Oster, James		Environmental Sciences
	Emeritus CE Soil & Water Specialist	*Please contact me via Email* Diagnosis and solution to water penetration problems, reclamation of saline, sodic and boron affected soils, water quality impacts on soils and plants, environmental impact of irrigated agriculture
Pettygrove, G.		Land, Air & Water Resources
	CE Soils Specialist Emeritus	Soil fertility; land application of wastes and wastewater; dairy manure; winegrape nutrition; precision agriculture.
Prichard, Terry		Land, Air & Water Resources
	CE Irrigation  Water Management Specialist	Irrigation water management, crop response to limited water supplies, water infiltration, Delta water quality and soil salinity issues
(info only) Putnam, Daniel		Department of Plant Sciences
	Cooperative Extension Specialist, Agronomist in the AES	Alfalfa and forage crops systems, forage quality and utilization, alternative field crops, cellulosic energy crops (switchgrass, miscanthus) crop ecology.
Sandoval Solis, Samuel		Land, Air & Water Resources
	Associate Professor and Cooperative Extension Specialist in Water Resources	Water Resources Management, Environmental Flows, Agricultural Water management, Risk Analysis, Cost Benefit Analysis, Science Communication
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
Wu, Laosheng		Environmental Sciences
	Professor   CE Water Management Specialist	Soil physics, vadose-zone hydrology, water quality, water management
Zaccaria, Daniele		Land, Air & Water Resources
	Associate Professor and Agricultural Water Management Specialist in Cooperative Extension	Agricultural water management and irrigation
Zalom, Frank		Entomology (UCD)
	Distinguished Professor and CE Specialist	Fruit and Vegetable Crop Entomology; Integrated Pest Management
Other ANR
Birkle, David
	Staff Research Associate
Newman, Julie		Ventura County
	Emeritus	Floriculture and nursery production in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties.
Parker, Doug		California Institute for Water Resources
	Director Emeritus, California Institute for Water Resources
Peters, Doug		Hansen Agricultural Research and Extension Center
	Center Superintendent
Non-UC
Benes, Sharon
	Professor	Salinity, Crop Nutrition, Soil Science
Challender, Rebecca
	State Water Quality Specilist	Water Quality
Faria, Jose
	Chief, Special Investigations and Regional Planning Branch
Green, Sarge
		water resources management
Johnson, Dan
	Water Management Engineer	Irrigation
Troiano, John
	Research Scientist III	pesticide residues in ground water
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Zoldoske, David
	Director	Irrigation/water
Membership Totals
Number of Members		60
ANR Members		49
Non-ANR		11
Info Only		9