Workgroup Directory/Information

Workgroup Directory

Workgroup Information Precision Agriculture
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
E-Mail	palarbi@ucanr.edu
Unit:	Kearney Agricultural Research & Extension Center

Membership List
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