Dr. Carol Allen Agent Associate in Food Safety | | - Optimizing water quality
- Fruit and vegetable crop production to meet current food safety requirements
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Ann Anderson Lecturer with 20+ years of landscape architectural office practice specializing in graphic communication and planting design | | - Planting Design
- Design Theory
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Dr. Craig Beyrouty Professor | | |
Dr. Daniel Buonaiuto Assistant Professor | | - Plant phenology and global change
- Plant community ecology
- Invasive species impacts and control
- Sustainable nursery and turf management practices.
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Dr. Mark Carroll Associate Professor and Director, Environmental Science and Policy Program | | - Turfgrass
- Water Quality
- Nutrients
- Pesticides
- Runoff
- Organic Lawn Care
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Phillip Cho Lecturer & University Landscape Architect, Project Manager at UMBC | | - Project Management
- Landscape Construction
- Campus Planning and Design
- Senior/ Low-income Housing
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Dr. Diana Cochran Assistant Clinical Professor | | - Commercial crop production
- Crop diversification
- Relationship between plants and environmental variables
- Sustainable in-season crop management practices
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Dr. Gary Coleman Associate Professor | | - Tree growth and development
- Nitrogen Storage
- Bud Dormancy
- Plant Adaptation
- Nitrogen-use efficiency
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Diana Cortez Lecturer &Faculty Specialist | | |
Dr. James Culver Professor | | PLSC399 opportunities may be available during the Fall and Spring semesters. Please email for more information. |
Dr. Olumide Sam Daramola Assitant Clinical Professor | | - Agronomy and Weed Science
- Weed Ecology and Management
- Integrated Weed Management
- Optimizing Herbicide Efficacy
- Precision Weed Control
- Teaching and Mentoring
- Experiential Learning
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Dr. Christopher Ellis Professor | | - Planning and design for sustainable land development
- Landscape ecology & environmental perception
- Information technology for landscape planning and design
- Geographic modeling and analysis of built and natural systems
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Dr. John Erwin Professor and Chair | | - Environmental control of plant growth in greenhouses and controlled environment agriculture
- Identifying ways to maximize flowering, photosynthesis and yield using different
lighting and temperature strategies - Manipulating the environment in controlled environment systems to maximize
edible crop nutritional value. - Identifying new production strategies to reduce chemical use, environmental input and labor costs.
- Identifying strategies to facilitate heat and drought tolerant crops to improve plant
resilience in a changing climate. - Identifying new ornamental crops that are heat and drought tolerant.
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Dr. Kathryne Everts Professor & Director- Wye Research Center and the Harry R. Hughes Center for AgroEcology | | - Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. niveum
- Sclerotinia sclerotiorum
- Sustainable management of soilborne diseases
- Vegetable disease forecasting for reducing fungicide use
- Epidemiology of vegetable diseases
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Dr. Macarena Farcuh Assistant Professor | | - Fruit quality
- Fruit ripening
- Postharvest physiology
- Fruit biochemistry and molecular biology
- Fruit safety
- Fruit hormonal balance
PLSC399 opportunities may be available during the Fall, Spring, and Summer semesters. Please email the semester prior for more information. |
Dr. Nicole Fiorellino Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist | | - Adaptive nitrogen management
- Alternative crops
- Long-term phytoremediation of soils with high phosphorus concentrations
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Dr. Ana Cristina Fulladolsa Director, Maryland Plant Diagnostic Lab | | - Plant Disease Diagnostics - all crops
- National Plant Diagnostic Network
- Diseases of woody and herbaceous ornamentals
- Plant Diagnostic Laboratory
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Tom Flores Lecturer Fermentation Science | | - Viticulture
- Brewing
- Sensory
- Biochemistry
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Jonathan Gemmell Assistant Clinical Professor | | - Higher Education and Campus Design
- Transportation
- Community Engagement
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Kayla Griffith, MS, CCA Lecturer (PLSC112, PLSC113) | | - Agriculture education
- Farm stress
- Application of integrated agronomic systems
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Dr. Mengjun Hu Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist | | - Plant Pathology
- Grape and Small Fruit Disease
- Fungicide Resistance and Its Mechanisms
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Dr. Pierre Jacob Assistant Professor | | - The plant immune response in a stressful environment.
- Plant response to environmental stress.
- Gene discovery for increased resistance to biotic and abiotic stress.
- Function of NLRs and TIR domains in immunity and beyond.
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Dr. Byoung-Suk Kweon, PLA Professor | | - Environmental behavior
- Environment and health
- School and Children's Environment
- Landscape Performance
- Urban Agriculture
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Christine Machado Lecturer (LARC120) | | - Environment and health
- Symbiotic relationship between landscape & architecture
- Primary based research
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Dr. Shirley Micallef Professor, PLSC Graduate Admissions Chair | | - Food safety of fresh produce
- Rhizosphere and phyllosphere bacterial interactions
- Microbial ecology
- Plant exudate biology
- Environmental detection of human pathogens
PLSC399 opportunities may be available during the Fall and Spring semesters. Please email the semester prior for more information. |
Dr. David Myers Associate Professor, LARC Director & MLA Program Chair | | - Green Infrastructure
- Ecological Design
- Greenway design and planning
- Residential environments
- Conservation design and planning
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Dr. Maile Neel Professor | | - Habitat Fragmentation and the Spatial Distribution of Biological Diversity
- Endangered Species Recovery and Conservation
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Dr. Yiping Qi Professor | | - Plant genome engineering
- Plant innate immunity
- Plant genome engineering
- CRISPR-Cas Systems
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Dr. Nidhi Rawat Associate Professor, PLSC Director | | - Gene discovery for resistance to fungal pathogens
- Susceptibility mechanisms of plants to pathogen infection
- Mechanistic investigation of molecular interaction between plants and fungal pathogens
- Developing solutions to fungal diseases of small grain crops including wheat and barley
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Dr. Daniel Rodriguez Leal Assistant Professor | | - Plant Developmental Genetics
- Genome Editing
- Trait Development in Biotech
- Phylogenetics and Evolution
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Dr. Deni Ruggeri Associate Professor, BLA Program Chair | | - Community participation, citizen engagement and co-creation
- PAR processes in community and landscape development
- Landscape Democracy and environmental justice
- Place identity, and attachment
- Livability in Urban Design
- Engaged Scholarship and Pedagogy.
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Sherry Russell Lecturer | | - Landscape performance
- Economic effects of community managed open spaces and parks
- Practice business strategy
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Dr. Naomi Sachs Associate Professor | | - Application of the Healthcare Garden Evaluation Toolkit (H-GET) in healthcare and beyond
- Design for Mental and Behavioral Health Environments
- Correlations between Urban Greenspace and Violent Crime
- Positive Nature Theory
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Jessica Sanders Lecturer (PLSC471) | | |
Jeff Server ASLA, LEED AP BD +C Lecturer & Project Manager/Project Architect at Prism Design Collective
| | - Digital/analog workflows incorporating technology
- Interdisciplinary design and practice
- Urban design, with an emphasis on waste landscapes and sustainability
- Land art and Earthworks
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Dr. Colby Silvert Assistant Professor | - Email: csilvert@umd.edu
- Room: PLS 2131
- Phone: 301.405.4356
| - Extension education
- Evaluation and program planning
- Planned change approaches
- Andragogy
- International agricultural development
- Specialty crop and small-scale farming systems
- Residential landscape conservation
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Dr. Joseph Sullivan Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Programs | | - Environmental Stress
- UV-B Radiation
- Global Climate Change
- Ecosystem Services
- Plant Physiological Ecology
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Dr. Vijay Tiwari Assistant Professor | | - Genetics and genomics of small grain crops
PLSC399 opportunities may be available during the Fall, Spring, and Summer semesters. Please email for more information. Interview process required before acceptance in the lab and PLSC399. |
Dr. Katherine Tully Associate Professor | | - Effects of sea-level rise and saltwater intrusion on nutrient dynamics in coastal farmlands
- Cover crops for ecosystem services provisioning
- Environmental impacts of the African Green Revolution
PLSC399 opportunities may be available during the Fall and Spring semesters. Undergrads must apply and go through an interview process before they are accepted into PLSC399. There is a required discussion group component, which is run by my grad students. |
Dr. Melissa Leiden Welsh Associate Clinical Professor, AGST Director | | - Agricultural & Extension Education
- Teacher Preparation/ Mentoring
- Learner Centered Teaching
- Agricultural Literacy
- Motivation
- Experiential Learning
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James Westwater, Ph.D. Lecturer (LARC489R, LARC620, LARC689C) and visual artist | | - Art + design
- Land art
- Conceptual art
- Creative spaces
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Dr. Shunyuan Xiao Professor | | - Plant immunity
- Powdery mildew pathogenesis
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Caren Yglesias Lecturer (LARC 263); Architect; author of the recent book, Desert Gardens of Steve Martino (Monacelli, 2018)
| | - History and theory of landscape architecture
- Materials and methods of construction
- Sustainable design
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 Position to be filled by February 2025 | | Invasive Species Biologist |
 Position to be filled by February 2025 | | Abiotic Stress Biologist |
