SAFS Newsletters

Fall 2007 - Vol. 8/No. 2

Articles:

Temperature effect on runoff and dissolved organic carbon in furrow irrigation system
(from page 1)

California agriculture’s role in addressing climate change
(from page 3)

New year, new research manager, new grant

Welcome to the Sustainable Agriculture Farming Systems (SAFS) Project, Winter/Spring 2008, Vol. 8/No 2 newsletter, which presents research results from the UC Davis Russell Ranch Sustainable Agriculture Facility and from the fields of cooperating farmer members. We start the year saying goodbye to Z. Kabir, who was the SAFS research manager for the last three years. We are grateful to Kabir for his excellent work. He contributed to all aspects of the successful SAFS project and team, and helped us secure important grants. He has begun work as a Staff Scientist at the California Department of Pesticide Regulation. We won’t let him go completely, though, as he’ll be helping us complete research and outreach projects he initiated. Thank you, Kabir, for your many contributions.

I would like to welcome our new research manager, Martin Burger, who will be helping us move forward on the innovative work we are doing at SAFS. Martin was a post doctoral researcher in Arnold Bloom’s plant physiology lab at UC Davis, and will work with me, our 20 SAFS principal New year, new research manager, new grant investigators and UC Cooperative Extension farm advisors, several dozen farmers and many other researchers, graduate and undergraduate students. He will help guide our field research work and manage our research efforts at UC Davis and grower fields.

I am also happy to announce that we have secured a new grant for the SAFS project. The Kearny Foundation of Soil Science announced that we will receive $90,000 for a project looking at the positive effects of cover crop residues on water quality and water use efficiency in furrow irrigation. Wes Wallender, professor of hydrology, and I will be the principal investigators; we will primarily be working with Damodhara Mailapalli, who worked hard on the grant proposal with Kabir, Wes and me. We look forward to a good year of collaborative innovative research, and our continued work with the UC Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (SAREP) on outreach.

—Will Horwath, project leader

SAFS Principal Investigators

Crop Ecology	Louise Jackson, lejackson@ucdavis.edu
Crop Production	Steve Temple, srtemple@ucdavis.edu
Economics	Karen Klonsky, klonsky@primal.ucdavis.edu
Entomology	Frank Zalom, fgzalom@ucdavis.edu
Hydrology	Wes Wallender, wwwallender@ucdavis.edu
Nematology	Howard Ferris, hferris@ucdavis.edu
Plant Pathology	Lynn Epstein, lepstein@ucdavis.edu
Soil Microbiology	Kate Scow, kmscow@ucdavis.edu
Soil Fertility	Will Horwath, wrhorwath@ucdavis.edu
Soil & Water Relations	Jeff Mitchell, mitchell@uckac.edu
Weed Ecology	Tom Lanini, wtlanini@ucdavis.edu

SAFS Technical Staff

Research Manager	Z. Kabir, kabir@ucdavis.edu
Crop Production Manager	Dennis Bryant, LTRAS associate director dcbryant@ucdavis.edu
Principal Agricultural Technician Supervisor	Israel Herrera, igherrera@ucdavis.edu
Project Technician	Stephanie Ma, sama@ucdavis.edu

SAFS Technical Advisors

UC Cooperative Extension	Gene Miyao, emmiyao@ucdavis.edu
Farm Advisors, Yolo & Solano counties	Kent Brittan, klbrittan@ucdavis.edu

Growers

Jim Durst, jdurst@onemain.com; Scott Park, parkfarm@syix.com; Frank Muller, jmsyvsm@aol.com; Bruce Rominger, brrominger@ucdavis.edu; Ed Sills, esills@earthlink.com; Tony Turkovich, tturk@bigvalley.net

UC Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education Program (SAREP) Cooperating Outreach Staff

Publications Editor	Lyra Halprin, lhalprin@ucdavis.edu
Web Development	James Cannon, safsweb@ucdavis.edu

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