Summer 1993 (v5n4)
UC SAREP is required by the California
Legislature's 1986 Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education
Act to have both public and technical advisory committees to advise
the university on program goals and make recommendations on the
award of competitive grants. The Public Advisory Committee (PAC)
includes individuals actively involved in agricultural production,
as well as representatives from government, public organizations,
and institutions of higher education. The Technical Advisory Committee
(TAC) is made up of university wide faculty and staff with knowledge
and experience related to sustainable agriculture and makes recommendations
about the scientific merit of grant applications. Each PAC or
TAC member serves for three years. New members in 1993 are listed
below.
Public Advisory Committee
LARRY CARMEAN provides pest management consulting services, with an emphasis on integrated pest management, for fruit and nut growers in the San Joaquin Valley.
PETER COOEY is the chief consultant to the Assembly Committee on Agriculture of the California State Legislature. He is particularly interested in developing sustainable agriculture policies that are attractive to mainstream agriculture, and in maximizing the public's understanding of the role agriculture plays in the economic and social fabric of California society.
JENNIFER CURTIS is a senior research associate at the National Resources Defense Council in the Pesticide Project. Her areas of expertise include scientific and policy analysis of pesticides in food and drinking water and alternative agriculture. She is the author of the NRDC's 1991 Harvest of Hope: The Potential for Alternative Agriculture to Reduce Pesticide Use.
FRANK DAWLEY is a ranch manager for Big Bluff Ranch in Red Bluff. Careful beef cattle management is the cornerstone of his watershed management plan.
DEBORAH DURST is a farm partner in Yolo County, where she and her husband raise dried beans, small grains, canning tomatoes, fresh market melons, sunflowers and sugar beets on 600 acres, 450 of which are farmed organically. Her main interest is in sustainability, "both in the way we care for the soil, and the way we work with our employees."
MARTA SALINAS
is a farmworker and farm labor and community organizer from Orcutt
in Santa Barbara County. She has spent her life involved with
farm labor and environmental justice issues in California, Oregon,
Idaho and Arizona. She is interested in sustainable agriculture
as it can provide a safe environment for "those who toil
the earth." She is also particularly interested in medical
benefits for the poor and those who work in the fields.
Technical Advisory Committee
BEN FABER is a farm advisor in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties where he studies soil and water-related topics. He works primarily with avocados and other subtropical crops. His current research involves water requirements of lemon and avocados, and the effects of sources and qualities of mulches on plant growth and disease suppression. He is interested in diverting organic materials from landfills to agriculture.
HOLLY GEORGE McCANN is the Cooperative Extension county director and livestock/youth development advisor in Plumas and Sierra counties. She is interested in integrated resource/multiple use land management and holistic resource management, as well as economic diversification for communities in timber- and cattle-dependent resource areas.
DUNCAN A. McMARTIN is acting director and an Extension Specialist at the Veterinary Medicine Extension Unit at UC Davis. His specialty is the diagnosis and prevention of infectious diseases in agricultural animals, especially poultry production systems. He initiated an Extension program in animal welfare for agricultural animals in 1988.
DON NIELSEN is a professor of soil and water science in the Department of Land, Air and Water Resources at UC Davis. A past president of the American Society of Agronomy and an internationally known soil scientist, he specializes in monitoring water and other materials within and below the root zone of plants and assessing the spatial variability of water-conducting properties of field soils. He is interested in developing on-farm monitoring projects using geostatistical analysis, a way of describing the effects of farming practices as they vary across farm fields.
ELLEN RILLA is a Cooperative Extension county director in Sonoma and Marin counties. She specializes in working with local community groups and decision-makers to solve local critical issues in public policy. Her research on agricultural literacy in California's public schools has spawned local ag education materials, including a $50,000 grant from the Marin Community Foundation to develop bilingual teacher resources.
CAROL SHENNAN is an associate professor of vegetable crops
at UC Davis. Her research focuses on nutrient cycling and soil
management in vegetable production systems, and she has done much
work with cover crops. Her interests include on-farm and long-term
systems research approaches and their importance for the development
of sustainable agricultural systems.
Continuing PAC/TAC
Public Advisory Committee: Glenn Anderson, Vashek
Cervinka, Sibella Kraus, Bryce Lundberg, Molly Penherth, Judith
Redmond and Betty Van Dyke.
Technical Advisory Committee: Marita Cantwell, George
Goldman, Richard Harris/John LeBlanc, Donna Hirschfelt, Nicelma
J. King, Deborah Letourneau, Carol Lovatt, Jackelyn Lundy, Michael
McKenry, Jim Oltjen, Howard Rosenherg and Lupe Sandoval.
Biographies of continuing PAC/TAC members appeared in the Summer
1992 (Volume 4, Number 4) and Fall 1991 (Volume 4, Number 1) issues
of Sustainable Agriculture News.
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