Food Security

acharya

♦ Ram N Acharya | Associate Professor

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
sanogo

♦ Sangu Angadi | Professor | angadis@nmsu.edu

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
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♦ Derek W. Bailey | Professor

Expertise:
Precision Livestock Management, Grazing Management, Foraging Ecology, Riparian Area Management, Targeted Livestock Grazing

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture
  • Big Data
  • Food Security
  • Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply Chain Entrepreneurship
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
Delgado

♦ Efren Delgado | Assistant Professor

Expertise:
Food Chemistry, functional foods and food processing
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Food processing
  • Food Safety
  • Food Security
  • Hemp Industrialization
  • Nutraceutical and Functional Foods
  • Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply Chain Entrepreneurship
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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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♦ Nancy C. Flores | Assistant Professor, Extension Food Technology Specialist

Expertise:

Commercial food processing procedures, regulations and certification courses, Home food preservation, Bilingual Extension education to informal and professional audiences

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Food Safety
  • Food Security
  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
  • Value-added Agribusiness & Ag Supply Chain Entrepreneurship
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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
geli

♦ Hatim M. E. Geli | Assistant Professor of Landscape Hydrology | hgeli@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Hydrology, Remote sensing, Water resource management, Drought monitoring and impact analysis

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture
  • Big Data
  • Food Security
  • Produced & Brackish Water Utilization
  • Sustainable Water Systems
Ghimire

♦ 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 Security
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Soil Health
  • Sustainable Water Systems
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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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♦ Kulbhushan Grover | Associate Professor

Expertise:
Sustainable Crop Production, Alternative Crops, Crop Rotation, Cover Crops
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture
  • Food Security
  • Soil Health
  • Sustainable Water Systems
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♦ Robert Hagevoort | Extension Dairy Specialist

Expertise:

Dairy Management & Nutrition

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Workforce Development & Training
  • Food Security
  • Soil Health
  • Sustainable Water Systems
Hertsman

♦ Jean Hertzman, PhD, CCE, CSW | Director | jhertzma@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Food safety for retail establishments, Purchasing, procurement, and supply chain management, Culinary and foodservice management

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Agriculture and Culinary Tourism
  • Food Safety
  • Food Security
  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
  • Specialty Meat and Produce Markets
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♦ Leonard Lauriault | College Professor - Forage Crop Management Scientist | lmlaur@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Forage Crops

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Food Safety
  • Food Security
  • Hemp Industrialization
  • Produced & Brackish Water Utilization
  • Sustainable Water Systems
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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
Marin

♦ Merranda Romero Marin | Associate Professor

Expertise:
Evidence-base treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Resilience, Psychological Aspects of Poverty, Multicultural Training when working with Diverse Populations, Childhood Obesity
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Childhood Obesity
  • Food Security
  • Psychosocial Aspects of Food
Sergio Martinez - Monteagudo

♦ Sergio Martinez-Monteagudo | Assistant Professor

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
Mitchell

♦ Pete Mitchell | College Assistant Professor | petemit@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Leadership, Food & Beverage Management, Sanitation & Kitchen Safety, Facilities Management, Hospitality Marketing, Hospitality Accounting

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Agriculture and Culinary Tourism
  • Food Safety
  • Food Security
  • Hemp Industrialization
  • Sustainable Water Systems
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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
Patrick

♦ Michael Patrick | Associate Professor and Community Economic Development Specialist | jmpat@nmsu.edu

Expertise:

Community Economic Development and Entrepreneurship

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Food Security
  • 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
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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
Luis Sabillon

♦ Luis Sabillon Galeas | Assistant Professor of Microbial Food Safety

Expertise:

Food Safety Microbiology, Molds and Mycotoxins, Post-harvest storage and processing of cereal grains, Processing of wheat-based products

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Food Bioprocessing
  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Food Safety
  • Food Security
  • Hemp Industrialization
  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
  • Sustainable Water Systems
sallenave

♦ Rossana Sallenave | Extension Animal Sciences and Natural Resources | rsallena@nmsu.edu

Expertise:

Aquatic Ecology, Watershed stewardship, Water quality, Aquatic Toxicology, Aquaponics

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Aquaponics as a sustainable food production system
  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Food Security
  • Sustainable Water Systems
shutte

♦ Brian Schutte | Associate Professor | bschutte@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Entomology, Plant Pathology and Weed Science

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture
  • Food Security
  • Soil Health
  • Sustainable Water Systems
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♦ 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 Safety
  • Food Security
  • Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy
  • Hemp Industrialization
  • Nutraceutical and Functional Foods
  • Specialty Meat and Produce Markets
  • Sustainable Water Systems
Shukla

♦ Manoj K Shukla | Professor and Extension Specialist | shuklamk@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Soil Physics and Hydrology

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Food Security
  • Soil Health
  • Sustainable Water Systems
  • Produced & Brackish Water Utilization
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♦ Adam Summers | Assistant Professor

Expertise:

Reproductive physiology

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture
  • Food Safety
  • Food Security
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
April Ulery

♦ April Ulery | Professor | aulery@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Soil chemistry, metal contamination, salinity, phytoremediation, soil health/soil quality, soil, plant, water analyses

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Food Safety
  • Food Security
  • Produced & Brackish Water Utilization
  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
  • Soil Health
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, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
  • Food Safety
  • Food Security
  • Science & Agriculture Literacy and Consumer Education
Walker

♦ Stephanie J. Walker | Extension Vegetable Specialist | swalker@nmsu.edu

Expertise:
Chile pepper processing, variety selection and mechanization. Sustainable vegetable production techniques including season extension, irrigation efficiency, crop rotation, companion planting, and cover crops. Vegetable breeding and seed saving.

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Areas:

  • Adapting to Climate Variability
  • Agriculture and Culinary Tourism
  • Food Safety
  • Food Security
  • Nutraceutical and Functional Foods
  • Soil Health
  • Specialty Meat and Produce Markets