Since its founding, the College has been committed not only to basic research, but to using science to meet society’s needs. One of the most effective methods for transferring scientific discoveries from the laboratory to the public has been through the Cooperative Extension Service.
Cooperative Extension specialists are headquartered at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and UC Riverside, where they conduct research and coordinate public outreach activities. As a land-grant institution, the Cooperative Extension mandate is tied to the welfare, development, and protection of California agriculture, natural resources, and people.
All professors within the College hold agricultural experiment station positions and receive partial funding from the University of California-wide Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources. In addition, the College employs more than 20 Cooperative Extension specialists within our four departments to meet specific research and educational needs in areas ranging from childhood obesity to biological control to biotechnology.
CE Specialists at CNR
Agricultural & Resource Economics
Howard
Rosenberg
Agricultural labor management
David
Sunding
Water policy
Pesticides
David
Zilberman
Biotechnology/economics
Intellectual property rights
Environmental Science, Policy & Management
Kent
Daane
Biological control
Matteo
Garbelotto
Sudden Oak Death
Forest pathology
Christina
Getz
Natural-resource dependent workers and communities
Richard
Harris
Forestry
Native American natural resource management
Riparian ecology
Maggi Kelly
Monitoring environmental change
Vernard
Lewis
Biology and management of household insect pests
Doug
McCreary
Oak regeneration
Riparian restoration
Agroforestry
Adina
Merenlender
Conservation biology and landscape ecology
Watershed science and ecological monitoring
Proximate causes of species extinction
Gary
Nakamura
Forestry/soils
Silviculture
Rick
Standiford
Forestry
Resource economics
Silviculture
Bill Stewart
Forest management
Resource economics
Watershed management
William
Tietje
Oak woodland ecology
Human impacts on wildlife
Robert
VanSteenwyk
Pest management of deciduous fruit, nut, and vine crops
Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology
Patricia
Crawford
Childhood obesity
Osteoporosis prevention
Child malnutrition
Plant & Microbial Biology
Peggy
Lemaux
Biotechnology education
Genetic egineering of cereals
