| Agriculture
IPM

Doug
Walsh, Ph.D.
Environmental and Agrichemical
Education Specialist
email: dwalsh@wsu.edu
Doug
is involved with IPM research and extension on crops including apples,
asparagus, carrots, mint, stone fruits, hops, grapes, poplars, and
onions. His projects also include pest management issues associated
with riparian restoration. Doug is based at WSU's Irrigated Agriculture
Research and Extention Center (IAREC) in Prosser.
Doug
serves as the statewide IPM coordinator, developing annual and 5-year
plans of work for implementation of integrated pest management strategies
in Washington State; as an ex officio Commissioner on the Washington
State Commission on Pesticide Registration, assisting in the review
of pest management research projects for funding; and as the Washington
State Liaison to the USDA IR-4 project for minor crop pesticide
registration, attending prioritization workshops and conducting
field research. Doug's Environmental and Agricultural Entomology
Laboratory (EAEL) serves as the Field Research Center for EPA Region
10, comprising Eastern Oregon, Eastern Washington, and most of Idaho.
Doug
earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from the University
of California at Santa Cruz and a Ph.D. in entomology from the University
of California at Davis. Doug's areas of expertise include acarology,
agrichemicals, and economic entomology.

Holly Ferguson,
Ph.D.
Extension
IPM
Coordinator Specialist
email: hferguson@wsu.edu
Holly is based at WSU's Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extention
Center (IAREC) in Prosser. She supervises the ongoing research at
the Environmental and Agricultural Entomology Laboratory (EAEL)
and is responsible for coordinating local, statewide, and regional
IPM projects in support of a wide variety of commodities including
tree fruits, mint, wheat, potato, timothy hay, carrots, juice grapes,
and wine grapes.
Extension
activities include authoring the annual IPM report for Washington
State, assisting in development of outreach materials including
web pages and extension bulletins, and making oral and poster presentations
to a diverse group of agricultural stakeholders in Washington State
and beyond, including grape growers, home gardeners, tree fruit
growers, horse owners, hay growers, pesticide applicators, and university
and ARS researchers. Holly is also active in grantwriting and funding
acquisition.
Current
and recent research activities include assessing mint growers' pest
management practices, examining control of overwintering cutworms
in vineyards via attract and kill bait stations, conducting efficacy
trials for new miticides in timothy hay, conducting a lepidopteran
survey in mint, and surveying Peristenus parasitism of
Lygus bug nymphs.
Holly
earned a Bachelor of Science degree in economic biology from Clemson
University and Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in entomology
from Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA. Her agricultural pest management
background is diverse, having worked on pests of cotton, soybean,
and small grain on the East Coast before moving to the West Coast
to work on the codling moth in apple. In addition, she is becoming
quite the expert in the management of the flies pestering her horses
residing at her ranchette.
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Urban
IPM

Carrie Foss, M.S.
Urban IPM Coordinator
email:
cfoss@wsu.edu
Carrie
manages the WSU Urban IPM Program in western Washington which
includes the WSU IPM Certification Program for Landscape and Turf
Professionals, and the Structural Pest Research and Demonstration
Facility. She is based at WSU's Puyallup Research and Extension
Center.
Carrie
developed and initiated the WSU IPM Certification Program which
includes IPM curriculum for landscape and turf management and
certification for continuing IPM education. She manages the Structural
IPM program which includes hands-on training for pest management
professionals and structural pest inspectors.
Carrie
earned a Bachelor of Science degree in botany from the University
of Washington and a Master of Science degree in plant pathology
from the University of Hawaii. Her background includes plant problem
diagnosis and research on beneficial microorganisms and management
strategies for turf and ornamental diseases.
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