Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy

acharya

♦ Ram N Acharya | Associate Professor | acharyar@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Farm production risk and profitability, valuation of ecosystem services, food safety and security, marketing of farm and value added products, and sustainability

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Big Data
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Food Safety
  • Food Security
  • Nutraceutical and Functional Foods
  • Soil Health
  • Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply Chain Entrepreneurship
Angadi

♦ Sangu Angadi | Professo| angadis@nmsu.edur

Expertise:
Stress Physiology of Crops, Sustainable Crop Diversification, Alternative Cropping Systems, Ecosystem Services, Deficit Irrigation, Crop Simulation Modeling

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture
  • Big Data
  • Food Security
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Sustainable Water Systems
bailey

♦ Derek Bailey | Professor | dwbailey@nmsu.edu

Expertise:

Forestry, Fire ecology, Fire behavior, Youth programs

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
Blanley

♦ Don P. Blayney | Adjunct Professor | dblayney@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Agricultural policy, Dairy, Quantitative analysis using various techniques

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Food Safety
  • Food Security
  • Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply Chain Entrepreneurship
boeing

♦ Wiebke Boeing | Professor | wboeing@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Aquatic Ecology (every trophic level from bacteria to fish); algae cultivation

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Produced & Brackish Water Utilization
  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
  • Sustainable Water Systems
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♦ James W. Cain | Professor and Department Head

Expertise:

Large mammal ecology, Wildlife Ecology, Wildlife-habitat Relationships, Population Ecology
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
cram

♦ Doug Cram | Extension Forest and Fire Specialist | dcram@nmsu.edu

Expertise:

Forestry, Fire ecology, Fire behavior, Youth programs

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
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♦ Tom Dominguez | Agricultural Agent

Expertise:
Fruit and vegetable production. Range and Animal Science. Small Acreage production. Land Stewardship. Hoop House and Green house production

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Agriculture and Culinary Tourism
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Food Safety
  • Food Security
  • Hemp Industrialization
  • Produced & Brackish Water Utilization
  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
  • Soil Health
  • Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply Chain Entrepreneurship
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♦ Akasha Faist | Assistant Professor

Expertise:
Rangeland Ecology; Restoration Ecology; Plant Ecology

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Soil Health
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♦ John R. Garlisch | Extension Agriculture Agent

Expertise:
Horticulture Production - Fruits, Vegetables, Insects, Plant diseases and disorders On -Farm Food Safety, Small Farm Business Planning, Economics, Entrepreneurship

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Agriculture and Culinary Tourism
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Food Safety
  • Food Security
  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
  • Soil Health
  • Sustainable Water Systems
  • Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply Chain Entrepreneurship
chimire

♦ Rajan Ghimire | Assistant Professor | rghimire@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Soil organic matter pools and dynamics, nutrient cycling, greenhouse gas emissions, C sequestration, soil health, sustainable crop production practices

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Food Security
  • Soil Health
  • Sustainable Water Systems
Giese

♦ Gill Giese| Extension Viticulture Specialist

Expertise:
Viticulture, enology, grape and wine compositional quality, cover crops and soil health, nematodes and other biotic factors that impact grape and wine compositional quality, water use and irrigation efficiency
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Agriculture and Culinary Tourism
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Nutraceutical and Functional Foods
  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
  • Soil Health
  • Sustainable Water Systems
  • Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply Chain Entrepreneurship
Gifford

♦ Craig Gifford | Extension Beef Cattle Specialist | cgifford@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Beef cattle production, Beef cattle reproduction, Beef cattle health

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy
  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
  • Specialty Meat and Produce Markets
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♦ Matthew Gompper | Professor and Department Head

Expertise:
Wildlife management, human-wildlife conflict, disease ecology, pathogen spillover, ecology of free ranging domestic animals
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Food Security
  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
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♦ Olga Lavrova | Associate Professor

Expertise:

Power electronics; Semiconductor device physics; Solar cell and PV and wind system design; Reliability and lifetime studies; Resiliency of infrastructure; Hardware in the Loop simulation; Power systems: stability and transients; Electric grid modernization and integration with renewables; Novel power electronics and power conversion devices; Electric vehicles (drives), charging power electronics, V2G and charging infrastructure; Pulsed power applications; Machine learning for a variety of areas; Cybersecurity applications

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Smart Grid, Renewable Energy, Solar PV and Wind systems
  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Big Data
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Food Safety
  • Food Security
  • Produced & Brackish Water Utilization
  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
  • Sustainable Water Systems
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♦ Erik A. Lehnhoff | Assistant Professor of Weed Ecology and Management

Expertise:
Agroecology; Integrated Weed Management; Weed Ecology; Invasive Weeds

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Soil Health
  • Sustainable Water Systems
Mandabach

♦ Keith H. Mandabach | Professor | kmandaba@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Developing and Sustaining Independently owned New Mexican Restaurants, Gastronomic Festivals and Events-Food Tourism, Innovative use New Mexico Specialty Food Products: from the Gate to the Plate

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Agriculture and Culinary Tourism
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Food Safety
  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
  • Specialty Meat and Produce Markets
Sergio Martinez - Monteagudo

♦ Sergio Martinez-Monteagudo | Professor; Director of Molecular Biology Graduate Program

Expertise:
Value-added, extraction of bioactive compounds, chemical modifications, technology development

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Valorization of Agricultural byproduct streams
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Food Safety
  • Food Security
  • Nutraceutical and Functional Foods
  • Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply Chain Entrepreneurship
miller

♦ Maryfrances (Frannie) Miller | Associate Professor | franniem@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Agricultural policy, research in animal disease and traceability

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Food Safety
  • Soil Health
  • Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply Chain Entrepreneurship
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♦ Shannon Norris | Assistant Professor

Expertise:
Agricultural Communications, Agricultural Literacy, Science Communication, National Defense, Food Security, Agricultural Education and Youth Development
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Agriculture and Culinary Tourism
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Food Security
  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
  • Sustainable Water Systems
  • Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply Chain Entrepreneurship
pierce

♦ Jane Breen Pierce | Research/Extension Entomologist | japierce@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Economic Entomology, Host Plant Resistance to Insects, Biological Control, Economic Injury Levels

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Food Security
  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
Regmi

♦ Madhav Regmi | Assistant Professor | mregmi@nmsu.edu

Expertise:

Agricultural finance, risk management, production economics and agricultural policy

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Big Data
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply Chain Entrepreneurship
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♦ Jennifer J. Randall | Professor; Director of Molecular Biology Graduate Program

Expertise:
Molecular Biology, Genetics, Plant-microbe interactions

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Agriculture and Culinary Tourism
  • Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture
  • Big Data
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Food Safety
  • Food Security
  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
  • Soil Health
Robinson

♦ Chadelle Robinson | Assistant Professor

Expertise:
Food marketing, general marketing, consumer behavior, and general agricultural business.
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Agriculture and Culinary Tourism
  • Food Safety
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Nutraceutical and Functional Foods
  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
  • Specialty Meat and Produce Markets
  • Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply Chain Entrepreneurship
Scholljegerdes

♦ Eric Scholljegerdes | Associate Professor | ejs@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Ruminant nutrition, Animal physiology, Animal health, Animal management, Range management

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy
  • Food Safety
  • Food Security
  • Nutraceutical and Functional Foods
  • Specialty Meat and Produce Markets
  • Sustainable Water Systems
Thompson

♦ Marisa Y. Thompson, PhD | NMSU Extension Horticulture Specialist | risi@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Urban horticulture, landscape ornamentals, xeriscaping, backyard fruits and vegetables, urban trees/forests, mitigating effects of climate change through sustainable planting, water-wise gardening, and supporting wildlife habitats

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Agriculture and Culinary Tourism
  • Food Security
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Nutraceutical and Functional Foods
  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
  • Soil Health
  • Sustainable Water Systems
  • Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply Chain Entrepreneurship
Torell

♦ Greg Torell | Assistant Professor | gtorell@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Resource and environmental economics, rangeland economics, water economics, energy economics, and applied microeconomics

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture
  • Big Data
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Produced & Brackish Water Utilization
  • Sustainable Water Systems
vanderpool

♦ Cassandra Vanderpool | Extension Associate II; Credentials: MS, RDN, LD | cvpool@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Nutrition/Dietetics-general, diabetes, maternal/child, pediatric, disabilities

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Food Safety
  • Food Security
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
ward

♦ Marcy Ward | Extension Livestock Specialist | maward@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Ruminant nutrition, Beef cattle genetics

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
  • Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply Chain Entrepreneurship