New agriculture and natural resources personnel

Because of your ongoing support of Clemson Public Service Activities (PSA), we have been able to hire innovative scientists to advance South Carolina’s agriculture and natural resources industries. Below are the recent appointments. Active searches are underway for many other positions across the state. These will be posted as they are filled with Top 20 University scientists.

A summary of biographical information is available for selected appointments below by clicking on the individual's name or you can download a hand-out (.pdf, 440 KB).

New PSA Hires as of May 10, 2008

Faculty Location Dept* Name
Agonomic Crops Edisto REC ESPS Pawel Wiatrak
Animal Emergency Coordinator LPH Columbia LPH Charlotte Krugler
Bioinformatics Campus GB Alex Feltus
Bioinformatics Campus GGC/GB Liang Wang
Community Development Campus/ Sandhill REC AES Ken Robinson
Community/ Youth Dev. Specialist Campus/ Sandhill REC PRTM Mary Sara Wells
Cotton Entomologist Edisto REC ESPS Jeremy Greene
Irrigation & Water Management
Edisto REC
ABE Hamid Farahani
Cryovac Chair Campus PKG Kay Cooksey
Department Chair Campus AVS Mary Beck
Developmental Biologist Campus BS Lisa J. Bain
Ecologist Campus BS Gene Eidson
Ecologist Campus BS Kalan Ickles
Environmental Pedalogist Campus FNR Elena Mikhailova
Epidemiologist LPH-Columbia LPH Michael K. Martin
Equine Specialist Campus AVS Chris Mortensen
Forage/ Livestock Grazing Systems Campus ESPS John Andrae
Director, Campbell Museum Campus BS Patrick McMillan
Master Naturalist Prog. Coord. Campus BS Karen Hall
Meat Science / Corley Chair Campus AVS Susan Duckett
Mycologist/ Plant Pathologist Campus ESPS Julia Kerrigan
Physical Activity/ Obesity Specialist Campus PHS Joel Williams
Plant Nematologist Campus ESPS Paula Agudelo
Population Biologist Campus BS Peter Marko
Restoration Ecologist Campus BS Gene Eidson
Row crop Entomologist Pee Dee REC ESPS Francis Reay-Jones
Rural/ Economic Development Sandhill REC AES David Hughes
Rural/ Economic Development Sandhill REC AES David Lamie
Soil & Water Quality/Turfgrass Pee Dee REC HORT Dara Park
Statistician (Environmetrics) Campus AES Patrick Gerard
Transformational Scientist Campus GB Hong Luo
Turfgrass & Ornamentals/Entomology Pee Dee REC ESPS Juang Horng. Chong
Water Policy Campus AES/STI David Willis
Water Quality Engineer Baruch Institute ABE Dan Hitchcock
Watershed Management Engineer Baruch Institute ABE Anand Jayakaran
Weed Scientist Edisto ESPS Michael Marshall
Weed Scientist Pee Dee REC ESPS David Gunter
Woody Plant Genomics (Molecular Biol) Campus GB Haiying Liang
       
Extension Positions      
Agriculture Aiken
Extension
Lisa Marshall
Agriculture Dorchester/ Berkeley Extension Jonathan Croft
Ag/4H Equine Statewide Extension Margaret Shelton
Agronomic Crops Darlington Extension Patricia DeHond
ANR Chester Extension Cory Heaton
ANR/Agronomy Newberry Extension Jay Crouch
ANR Spartanburg Extension George Dickert
4H Abbeville Extension Jennifer Grier
4H Barnwell Extension Catherine Campbell
4H Cherokee Extension Alana Willingham
4H Clarendon Extension Mary Margaret McCaskill
4H Horry Extension Sharon Strickland
4H Jasper Extension Felicia Cunningham
4H Lancaster Extension Ashley Hinson
4H Laurens Extension Kathryn T. Berry
4H McCormick Extension Caroline Caldwell
4H Orangeburg Extension Morgan Elizabeth Judy
4H Pickens Extension Marquerite Porter
Community Development Barnwell Extension Harry Crissy
Community Development Beaufort  Extension
Karen Kouzmanoff
Community Development Horry Extension Blake Lanford
Community Development York/ Chester/ Lancaster Extension Benjamin Boyles
Food Safety Greenville Extension Kimberly Rapp
Food Safety/Nutrition Specialist Extension Angela Fraser
Food Safety/Nutrition Specialist Extension Julie Northcutt
Horticulture-urban Greenville Extension Cory Tanner
Horticulture Midlands Extension Powell Smith
Horticulture Upstate Extension Andy Rollins
Horticulture-urban Charleston
Extension
Amy Dabbs
Horticulture-urban Richland Extension Vicky Bertagnolli-Heller
Livestock Aiken Extension Lisa Marshall
Livestock Anderson Extension Chris Talley
Livestock Chester area Extension Brian L. Beer
Livestock Greenwood area Extension Kevin Campbell
Livestock Pee Dee Region Extension Richard Lee VanVlake
Livestock Pickens Extension Matthew Burns
Livestock-Dairy Statewide Extension Tina Horn
Natural Resources Charleston Extension David Joyner
Natural Resources Greenville Extension Jaime Keller
Natural Resources Horry Extension Benjamin Powell
Natural Resources McCormick Extension James Thomas Brant
Site-Specific Crop Production Edisto REC Extension Will Henderson
Title 3 - Forestry Edgefield Extension Steven Pohlman
Youth - SC Palmetto Youth Leadership Charleston Extension Erin Marie Menchhofer
     
* Departments      
ABE: Ag & Biological Engineering
Admin: Administration
AES: Applied Economics & Statistics
AVS: Animal & Veterinary Sciences
BS: Biological Sciences
ESPS: Entomology, Soils & Plant Sciences
FNR: Forestry & Natural Resources
FSHN: Food Science & Human Nutrition
GB: Genetics & Biochemistry
GGC: Greenwood Genetics Center
HORT: Horticulture
LPH: Livestock-Poultry Health
PHS: Public Health Sciences
PKG: Packaging Science
STI: Strom Thurmond Institute


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