• Plant and animal systems management
• Animal Scientist (Production, nutrition, live animal evaluation and meat science)
• Environmental stewardship/environmental compliance issues for farmers and ranchers
• 4-H Youth (Animal science programs/youth livestock projects

• Agricultural Entomology: Dryland agronomic systems and crop
• IPM: Dryland crop systems with emphasis on cereals, canola, grass seed production, pulses, urban horticulture, CRP and rangeland. Protection of non-target species
• Cereal and field crop agronomy
• Biological Control: As applicable to IPM in crops and weeds
• Insect identification, bionomics, questions answered by electronic modes
• Water Quality Issues: Pesticide reduction, soft chemistry, safety

• Integrated pest management in tree fruits
• Pesticide use and safety education
• General Entomology: Insect identification, conservation and management

• Precision farming applications utilizing GPS, GIS and remote sensing.
• Soil nutrition and agronomic practices for field crop production
• Dryland cropping systems utilizing minimum, no till and direct seed cropping practices
• Sustainable agriculture systems
• Farm management
• Livestock Production and Management: Beef and swine production and managemen

• Livestock, forages, horses, cereal grains, international agricultural development
  
  
  
  
  

Mark Heitstuman
(509) 243-2009

heitstuman@wsu.edu

Resume

• 4-H Youth Development: Managing volunteers, technology applications for youth, science-based school enrichment, empowering youth through civic engagement and community service
• Animal Science: Selection, production and management of beef, sheep and swine; live animal and carcass evaluation of beef, sheep and swine; food safety and quality assurance
• Plant Science: Basic botany, management of natural resources, community horticulture, weed management

Frank Hendrix
(509) 574-1600
hendrixf@wsu.edu

Resume

• Livestock Production and Management: Beef cattle, sheep, swine and meat goats
• Animal/plant system sustainability
• Irrigated pasture and forage management
• Range and watershed management
• Riparian ecosystem management, protection and sustainable utilization.

Gwen-Alyn Hoheisel
(509) 786-5609
ghoheisel@wsu.edu

Resume

• Viticulture, tree fruit and high-value specialty crops
  
  
  
  
  

• Rangeland ecology
• Beef cattle production
• Pasture management
• Water quality
• Forage production

Chris Jackson
(509) 574-1600
chrisj@wsu.edu

Resume

• 4-H Youth (animal science programs/youth livestock projects)
• 4-H (Traditional, school enrichment and short-term)
• Clothing: Management, consumer skills, construction, working with 4-H judges, superintendents
• 4-H Youth development with emphasis in volunteer screening, training and tracking system
• Organizational facilitation and strategic planning
• Low-income, Mesican-American and Native-American audiences

• Small ruminant production
• Life skill development activities
• Animal health
  
  
  

• Tree fruit production
• Grade production
• Farm labor management: Employer/employee relations, workforce training and education
  

• Sustainable irrigated agriculture systems
• Cover crops
• Soil quality
  
  
  

Debbie Moberg
(509) 524-2685
dmoberg@wsu.edu

Resume

• Pasture management of horses, beef cattle and goats: Grazing systems, forage selection, weed management, sustainability
• 4-H Youth Development: Volunteer management, leadership, ethical decision making, Latino youth outreach
• Food safety and nutrition: Volunteer program, family budgeting, food security, cultural issues
• Economic Development: Workforce education, facilitation, strategic planning, Latino outreach
• Master Gardener Volunteer Program: Home gardening, weed management, diagnosis of plant problems

• Economics of livestock production and marketing
• Economics of livestock waste management
• Economics of livestock disease
• Farm financial analysis

• Environmental Quality: Community forestry, home gardening, landscape and turf management and composting
• Integrated Pest Management: Master Gardener Volunteer Program, home gardening, diagnosis of plant problems, professional landscape management
• Youth/Human Development: Plants Grow Children, volunteer management

• Forages, Agronomy and Farming Systems
  
  
  
  
  

• Nutrition/Health/Wellness: Lifestyles to promote health, health at any size and body weight stabilization (children and adults)
• Food Safety/Food Preservation: Safe food handling practices for the home and volunteer educator training and management (Master Food Preservers)

• Clothing: Management, consumer skills, construction, working with 4-H judges, superintendents
• Organization/Planning: Short-term goals programs/activities, long-range goals, setting mid-term benchmarks
• Conflict Resolution/Mediation: Working with groups who don't get along

• 4-H Youth Development
  
  
  
  

• Food safety and nutrition
  
  
  

Janet Schmidt
(509) 397-6290
schmidtj@wsu.edu

Resume

• Personal and community leadership development
• State 4-H shooting sports training and coordination
• 4-H Livestock quality assurance
• Character education and ethical decision making
• Lifeskill evaluatio/logic model

• Latino Child Care Providers Literacy and Best Practices
• Organizational facilitation and strategic planning
  

• Beef Cattle: Production, management and carcass evaluation
  
• Swine: Production and management
• Sheep: Production and management, carcass evaluation
• Performance testing
• Irrigated pasture management
• Meat animal quality assurance
• Animal well being
• School enrichment in agriculture and animal science
  

• Beef Cattle: Nutrition, carcass evaluation, quality assurance, selection of market and breeding stock
• Sheep: Nutrition, carcass evaluation, Sheep Safety and Quality Assurance Program, wood harvest, handling and grading, selection of market and breeding stock
• Swine: Nutrition, carcass evaluation, Pork Quality Assurance Program, selection of market and breeding stock
• Pasture: Grazing systems

• Cereal and field crop agronomy
• Dryland cropping systems with an emphasis on cereals, oilseed and pulse crops
• Biological control of noxious weeds
• Range and pasture grazing systems
• Water quality issues

• Commercial vegetable production
• Irrigated cropping systems in the Lower Columbia Basin