CAHNRS

David Brown

Associate Professor/Scientist
Crop and Soil Sciences
WSU Pullman

Research Interests: Digital soil mapping; proximal soil sensing; visible and near-infrared diffuse reflectance spectroscopy; soil carbon sequestration; greenhouse gas emission

Top Achievements: Constructed a global soil VisNIR library; competitive USDA-NIR, NSF, and DOE grants; Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership, terrestrial group leader

James F. Harbertson

Associate Scientist and Extension Specialist E-3
WSU Prosser

Debra Ann Inglis

Professor and Extension Plant Pathologist
Plant Pathology
WSU Mount Vernon NWREC

Research Interests: Diseases of specialty vegetable crops including those under biodegradable crop covers and in high tunnel systems

Top Achievements: National Women's History Month Award for Professional and Academic Leadership (from WSU CAHNRS in 2009)

Website: plantpath.wsu.edu/people/faculty/inglis.htm

Mark Lange

Associate Scientist
Institute of Biological Chemistry
WSU Pullman

Research Interests: Plant isoprenoid biosynthesis; metabolomics; systems biology

Website: www.wsu.edu/~lange-m

Doreen S. Main

Associate Scientist and Associate Professor

Pius Ndegwa

Associate Professor
Biological Systems Engineering
WSU Pullman

Research Interests: Animal nutrient management systems; air quality control engineering; bioconversion of agricultural waste streams; natural treatment systems for waste waters; systems modeling

Top Achievements: The Honor Society of Agriculture (Gamma Sigma Delta); Superior ASAE Paper Award; Associate Editor of Transactions of ASABE and Applied Engineering in Agriculture

Website: bsyse.wsu.edu/ndegwa

Hanu Pappu

Professor
Plant Pathology
WSU Pullman

Research Interests: Plant virology; genomics and proteomcis of DNA and RNA viruses pathogenic to horticultural crops

Top Achievements: Fulbright Scholar; President Sam Smith Distinguished Professor of Plant Virology

Website: plantpath.wsu.edu/people/faculty/pappu/pappu.htm

Mark Pavek

Associate Professor
Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
WSU Pullman

Research Interests: Potato variety development and general potato agronomy

Website: www.potatoes.wsu.edu

Carolyn F. Ross

Associate Professor
School of Food Science
WSU Pullman

Research Interests: Food science; sensory evaluation; flavor chemistry; wine quality

Website: www.sfs.wsu.edu/facultystaff/ross

Lisa A. Shipley

Professor and Scientist
Natural Resource Sciences
WSU Pullman

Research Interests: Foraging behavior of wild herbivores; wildlife nutrition and energetic, habitat ecology; conservation of endangered species

Website: nrs.wsu.edu/people/faculty/shipley.html

C. Richard Shumway

Regents Professor
School of Economic Sciences
WSU Pullman

Research Interests: Estimating output supply and input demand relationships; testing applicability of economic theory to agriculture; predicting producer response

Top Achievements: Fellow, American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA); Award for Publication of Enduring Quality, AAEA; Distinguished Scholar, Western AEA

Website: www.ses.wsu.edu/People/Shumway.html

William E. Snyder

Professor
Entomology
WSU Pullman

Research Interests: Biodiversity; sustainable agriculture

Top Achievements: Crowder DS, TD Northfield, MR Strand, and WE Snyder. 2010. Organic agriculture promotes evenness and natural pest control. Nature 466:109-112. Finke DL and WE Snyder. 2008. Niche partitioning increases resource exploitation by diverse communities. Science 321:1488-1490

Website: entomology.wsu.edu/profiles/snyder.html

Joan Wu

Professor and Scientist
Biological Systems Engineering
WSU Pullman

Research Interests: Laboratory and field experimentation and mathematical modeling of hydrological and erosion processes

Top Achievements: Lead the development of the USDA's Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) at WSU; Outstanding Mentor (2006-2009); Team Research Excellence Award, WSU CAHNRS (2003)

Website: www.bsyse.wsu.edu/Joan