Faculty & Staff
Environmental Horticulture is composed of seventeen faculty members, ten staff members, and twenty-seven graduate students. On staff are three research specialists, a lab manager, a landscape specialist, an agricultural and animal associate, a webmaster, an information coordinator, and an information resource consultant.
The faculty research fields span plant and vegetable physiology, pomology, cultural systems and germplasm enhancement, landscape architecture, pest management, molecular genetics, and turfgrass management and physiology.
See the faculty, staff, and graduate students links to the left for more information about individuals in the section.
Faculty & Staff Listing
Faculty Listing (scroll to last names ending): N-Z
Post-Docs — Adjunct Faculty — Ph.D. Students — M.S. Students — Administrative Staff
A-M
- Jeff Adelberg, Associate Professor
- Douglas G. Bielenberg, Associate Professor
- Judy Caldwell, Faculty Emerita
- Zhongping Cheng, Visiting Professor
- Robert J. Dufault, Professor and CREC Interim Director
- Jim Faust, Associate Professor
- Ksenija Gasic, Assistant Professor
- Mary B. Taylor Haque, Alumni Distinguished Professor/Faculty Emerita
- Richard L. Hassell, Associate Professor
- Desmond R. Layne, Associate Professor of Pomology
- Haibo Liu, Professor
- Bert McCarty, Professor
P-Z
- Dara Michelle Park, Assistant Professor
- Robert F. Polomski, Horticulture and Urban Forestry
- Nihal C. Rajapakse, Professor Emeritus
- Gregory L. Reighard, Professor
- Ellen Vincent, Environmental Landscape Specialist/Extension Associate
- Christina E. Wells, Associate Professor
- Sarah A. White, Assistant Professor
- Ted Whitwell, Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Post-Docs
- Zhigang (Carl) Li F-151 P&A Bldg., Clemson University
Adjunct Faculty
- Basil Acock Six Mile, SC
- James Blake HGIC, Clemson University
- Jeanne Briggs Dept. of Horticulture, Clemson University
- Jeanine Davis NC State University--Hort Crops Res. & Ext.
- Mark W. Famham USDA Vegetable Lab, Charleston, SC
- Richard L. Fery USDA Vegetable Lab, Charleston, SC
- Chelcy Ford Coweeta Hyrologic Lab
- Philip Gibson Gwinnett Technical College
- Howard Harrison USDA Vegetable Lab, Charleston, SC
- Greg Hoyt NC State University--Hort Crops Res. & Ext.
- Richard Hull Univ. of Rhode Island, Plant Science
- Nirmal Joshee Fort Valley State University, GA
- Louis B. Lynn Monsanto Co., Columbia, SC
- David Marren Bartlett Tree Research Lab
- Seth Pritchard College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
- Christopher Ray Dept. of Plant Industry, Clemson University
- Anand Yadav Fort Valley State University, GA
Ph.D. Students
| Student | Major | Advisor(s) | Research |
| Asma Abdelgafar | PES | Gasic | Marker Assisted Breeding in Peach |
| Jeffrey Atkinson (Turfgrass) | PES | McCarty | Biology and Control of Doveweed (Murdannia nudiflora) in Turfgrasses |
| Lance Beecher | ENTOX | White | Remediation of Steroid Compounds from Agricultural Wastewater |
| Jeremy Crook |
PES | Faust | Water Use and Physiology of Floriculture Crops |
| Rabia El-Hawaz |
PES |
Adelberg | Understanding Primary and Secondary Metabolism of Turmeric (Curcuma longa L.) by in vitro Microrgizome Technique |
| Ray Hubbard (Turfgrass) | PES | McCarty | Developing Best Aerification Strategies for Golf Course Putting Greens |
| Allison Justice |
PES | Faust | Using Mycorrhizae to Promote Adventitious Root Formation in Cuttings |
| Jeffrey Marvin (Turfgrass) | PES | McCarty | Using Biopesticides for Disease Control In Turfgrasses |
| Nicholas Menchyk (Turfgrass) | PES | Liu |
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| Gilbert Miller |
PES |
Wells | Sensor Based Irrigation Effects on Root Distribution and Growth of Grafted and Non-grafted Watermelons |
| James Parris |
PES |
Knap |
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| Nannan Yang |
PES | Gasic | Developing Markers for Bacterial Spot Resistance/Tolerance in Peach |
(as of 1/31/12)
M.S. Students
| Student | Major | Advisor(s) | Research |
| Emre Akturk | PES | Gasic | Marker Assisted Breeding in Peach |
| Frank Bethea (Turfgrass) [NT] | PES |
Liu |
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| Ralph Burrell, III |
PES | Reighard | Reducing Split Pits On Early Season Peaches |
| Bob Cross, III (Turfgrass) |
PES | McCarty | Mechanism and Control of Herbicide-Resistant Annual Bluegrass (Poa annua) Populations In Turfgrasses |
| Todd Driesse | PES | Adelberg | Optimizing Tissue Culture Medium for Turmeric (Curcuma longa L.) using Multivariate and Correlation Analysis |
| Terrence Frett | PES | Gasic | Inheritance of Blush and Marker Assisted Selection for Fruit Quality in Peach |
| James Gann (Turfgrass) | PES | McCarty | Biocontrol of Soil Borne Nematodes In Turfgrasses |
| Jack Harrell (Turfgrass) [NT] | PES | McCarty |
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| Robin Landry (Turfgrass) | PES | McCarty | Evaluation of A Humectant for Water Conservation In Turfgrasses |
| Sean Markovic |
PES | Reighard |
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| Elizabeth Nyberg | ENTOX | White | Remediation of Phytophthora Zoospores from Irrigation Runoff |
| Garrett Ridge | PES | White | Susceptibility of Wetland Plant Species to Infestation by Phytophthora spp. |
| Lee Roberson (Turfgrass) [NT] | PES | McCarty |
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(as of 1/31/12)
Staff
- Linda D. Alexander, Administrative Specialist, Department Webmaster
- Deanna Burns, Administrative Assistant
- Alan Estes, Agriculture and Animal Associate II
- Brenda Green, Accountant/Fiscal Analyst I
- Jacqueline Naylor-Adelberg, Ag./Animal Assoc. I
- Kelly P. Prevete-Lewis, Research Technician
- David M. Price, Information Resource Consultant I, SPSES
- Brad Rauh, Research Specialist II