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CFF
Research Team
Top row (left to right): Stewart
Higgins, Dave Sjoding
Middle Row: Chad Kruger,
Dave Huggins, Hal
Collins, Phil Wandschneider, Craig
MacConnell
Bottom Row: Shulin Chen,
Claudio Stockle, Shawel
Haile-Mariam, Chris Feise, David
Granatstein
To contact the Climate Friendly FarmingTM
Research and Demonstration Project, please call Chad
Kruger, Director of Outreach and Communication, (509) 663-8181
x235
Dairy
Shulin Chen. Professor of Biological
Systems Engineering and Registered Engineer in Civil Engineering,
WSU Pullman. Over a decade experience in research and teaching in
waste management and utilization, wastewater treatment, and bioprocessing
and biotreatment processes. Currently directing a 19-person research
group focusing on environment and renewable energy research topics
Craig MacConnell. Extension Agent
and Chair, WSU Cooperative Extension Whatcom County. MS in Horticulture,
MBA. Education and community development programs have focused at
the nexus of agricultural sustainability and environmental protection
for the past fifteen years. Initiator of the Whatcom Dairy Biogas
Team, comprised of community agencies, NGO's, and the dairy community.
Research focused on utilization of dairy manure for high value uses.
Joe Harrison. Professor and Nutrient
Management Specialist, WSU Puyallup Research and Extension Center.
Expertise in determination of nutrient management factors limiting
profitability and impacting the environment. Leading the Climate
Friendly Farming effort of nutrient extraction from the anaerobic
digester effluent.
Craig Frear. Mr. Frear is a PhD
student and Associate in Research within the Department of Biological
Systems Engineering. Mr. Frear’s PhD studies and interests
reside within the application of biochemistry to biological systems
such as algal fermentation and anaerobic digestion. Mr. Frear has
a BS in Chemistry, MA in Science Education Administration, and considerable
past experience as a science teacher.
Cary Swanson. Research Associate,
Biological Systems Engineering, WSU. Degrees in fish physiology/endocrinology,
UW; biology, WSU. Experience in private sector design, construction,
management and marketing of aquacultural systems and products, including
re-circulating hatcheries.
Goksel Demirer. Associate Professor
of Environmental Engineering at METU, Ankara, Turkey. BS (1989)
and MS (1991) in Environmental Engineering, METU; Ph.D. (1996) in
Civil and Environmental Engineering, Vanderbilt University. Research
interests: Anaerobic Digestion, Environmental Biotechnology, Wastewater
Engineering, Pollution Prevention, Municipal/Industrial/Agro-Industrial
Waste Management.
Zhiyou Wen. Dr. Wen is a Post-Doctoral
Researcher in the Department of Biological Systems Engineering with
a PhD in Biochemical Engineering from Hong Kong University. His
expertise is fermentation kinetics, process monitoring and optimization,
development of novel fermentation process, and high cell density
culture techniques.
Wei Liao. Mr. Liao is a PhD student
within the Department of Biological Systems Engineering. His research
is focused on novel techniques and improvements in the hydrolysis
of lignocellulosic material and in particular fiber conversion within
animal manures. Mr. Liao has a MS in Biotechnology from Wuxi University
of Light Industry, China along with industrial experience as a Project
Manager for the Suntory Brewing Company, Shanghai China.
Dan Coyne. Agricultural Research
Technician, WSU Whatcom County Extension. Research focuses on high-value
utilization of fiber from anaerobically digested dairy manure.
Dave Huggins. Soil Scientist,
USDA-ARS Land Management and Conservation Unit, Pullman. PhD in
Soil Science. Leading cropping system studies for dryland production
in eastern Washington, with a focus on direct-seeding, alternative
crops, and perennial polyculture.
Stewart Higgins. Research Technician,
Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, WSU. BA, Biology, Western
Washington University, 1976. MS, Botany, Washington State University,
1980. PhD, Botany, Washington State University, 1984. Currently
studying trace gas fluxes and carbon sequestration as affected by
dryland farming systems. Past research interests have included weed
ecology; physiology of conifers; growth, physiology and production
of tree fruits; and biometrics.
Hal Collins. Soil Microbiologist,
USDA-ARS, Prosser. PhD in Soil Science. Over 20 years of research
on soil management and impacts on C, N, and microbial dynamics.
Currently focused on irrigated vegetable systems.
Shawel Haile-Mariam. Research
Associate, WSU, IAREC, Prosser. PhD in Soil Science. Research experience
includes measurement of soil carbon and nutrient concentrations;
physical, chemical and biological fractionation of SOM; and the
assessment of plant residue and soil organic matter dynamics (including
the application of C isotope methods). Currently involved in CO2
& N2O fluxes on irrigated vegetables.
Claudio Stockle. Professor and
Dept. Chair, Biological Systems Engineering, WSU Pullman. PhD in
Soil Science. Has 17 years experience in agricultural systems modeling,
including the development of several software packages used worldwide
in agricultural systems analyses.
Armen Kemanian. Postdoctoral Research
Assistant, Biological Systems Engineering Department, WSU. Ph.D.
Biosystems Engineering (WSU). Expertise in development and application
of biophysical modeling to agricultural systems. Research experience
in crop physiology and low input - high technology cropping systems,
and consulting experience in livestock production. Teaching experience
at the collegiate level in crop and pasture physiology. Current
research is focused on cropping systems modeling with emphases in
crop growth and nitrogen and carbon cycles.
Bingcheng Zhao. Post-Doc Research
Associate, WSU Biological Systems Engineering Department. Ph.D.
2001 in agricultural environmental engineering from WSU. M.S., 1991
in water quality and water environment from Institute of Water Conservancy
and Hydroelectric Power Research (IWHR) (Beijing, China). Research
focused on enhancing nutrients values in animal manure while protecting
ground and surface water, identifying strategies for reducing greenhouse
gases emission from agriculture by studying dynamics of carbon and
nitrogen.
Roger Nelson. Programmer, WSU
Biological Systems Engineering Department.
Kate Painter.
Economist, WSU CSANR. PhD in Agricultural Economics. Expertise in
crop enterprise budgeting.
Phil Wandschneider.
Professor, Agricultural Economics, WSU Pullman. PhD in Agricultural
Economics. Has expertise in economic evaluation methods including
non-market valuation, in the economics of off-farm environmental
effects (air quality, carbon), and in the economics of the adoption
of conservation innovations.
Hayley Chouinard.
Assistant Professor, School of Economic Sciences, WSU Pullman. PhD
in Agricultural Economics. Has expertise in the economic evaluation
of agricultural policies, and in the economics of the adoption of
conservation innovations.
Richard Shumway.
Professor, School of Economic Sciences, WSU Pullman. Ph.D. in Economics.
Has expertise in production economics. Conducting the economic evaluation
of the anaerobic digester for the dairy component of the project.
Bioenergy
Dave Sjoding.
Renewables and Engineering Division Manager, WSU Extension Energy
Program. MA in Public Administration. Has expertise in distributed
generation, energy efficiency, energy prices, renewable energy,
and biomass energy.
Chris Feise.
Director, WSU Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources.
PhD in Agricultural Economics. Has 22 years as an Extension educator
in Washington in agricultural development, water quality, environmental
protection, (Liaison to EPA), and administration.
David Granatstein.
Sustainable Agriculture Specialist, WSU Center for Sustaining Agriculture
and Natural Resources, Wenatchee. Degrees in Environmental Science
and Soil Management. Has 25 years of experience working on the mitigation
of environmental impacts from agriculture. Has expertise in cropping
systems, soil organic matter, and extension education.
Cindy Murray-Armstrong.
Assistant to the Director, CSANR. Coordination of Climate Friendly
FarmingTM project business affairs including daily issues,
personnel, payroll, budgets, grant facilitation, event coordination
and other related matters. She is an editor of the CSANR’s
quarterly newsletter Sustaining the Pacific Northwest.
Chad Kruger.
Director of Outreach and Communications, Climate Friendly FarmingTM
Research and Demonstration Project, WSU Center for Sustaining Agriculture
and Natural Resources, Wenatchee. MS in Land Resources. Has more
than 9 years of experience working in institutional change and policy
in sustainable agriculture research and education and farmer adoption
of sustainable agriculture systems and technologies.
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March 8, 2006
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