NERA Members Directory - updated October 2023
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (New Haven)
Jason White
Director
123 Huntington Street, P.O. Box 1106
New Haven, CT 06504
Ph 203-974-8500
Fx 203-974-8502
Jason.White@ct.gov
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (Storrs)
Indrajeet Chaubey
Dean and Director
1376 Storrs Road U-4066
Storrs, CT 06269
Ph 860-486-2917
Kumar Venkitanarayanan
Associate Director and Associate Dean
George White Building, Room 114
Storrs, CT 06269
Ph 860-486-0947
kumar.venkitanarayanan@uconn.edu
Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station (Ithaca) / Cornell AgriTech (Geneva)
Benjamin Z. Houlton
Dean – CALS
215 Garden Avenue
Roberts Hall 260, Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-5905
Ph 607-255-2241
calsdean@cornell.edu
Margaret Smith
Director, Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station
Ithaca, NY 14853-5905
Ph: 607-255-2552
mes25@cornell.edu
Christine Smart
Cornell AgriTech
Professor, School of Integrative Plant Science Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
213 Barton Lab
15 Castle Creek Dr
Geneva, NY 14456
Anna Katharine Mansfield
Associate Director, Cornell AgriTech
Associate Professor of Enology, Department of Food Science
107 Food Research Laboratory
665 W North Street
Geneva, NY 14456
Ph 315 787 2268
Delaware Agricultural Experiment Station
Calvin Keeler
Interim Dean and Director, Delaware Agricultural Experiment Station
113 Townsend Hall, University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716-2103
Ph 302-831-6473
Fx 302-831-6758
District of Columbia Experiment Station
Dwane Jones
Dean and Director of Landgrant Programs
College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability & Environmental Sciences
University of the District of Columbia
4200 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Bldg. 52, Room 416E
Washington, DC 20008
Ph 202-274-7182
dwane.jones@udc.edu
William W. Hare
Associate Dean/Director
Land Grant Programs/CAUSES
University of the District of Columbia
4200 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20008
Ph 202-274-7133
whare@udc.edu
Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station
Diane Rowland
Dean, University of Maine College of Natural Sciences, Forestry and Agriculture
Director, Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station
Winslow Hall, University of Maine
Orono, ME 04469-5782
diane.rowland@maine.edu
George Criner
Associate Dean/Director, Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station
5782 Winslow Hall, Rm 101, University of Maine
Orono, ME 04469-5782
Ph 207-581-3205
criner@maine.edu
Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station
Craig Beyrouty
Dean and Director
1104 Symons Hall, University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-5565
Ph 301-405-2072
beyrouty@umd.edu
Puneet Srivastava
Associate Dean for Research and Associate Director
1201 Symons Hall, University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-5565
Ph 301-405-2459
srivapu@umd.edu
Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station
Lynne McLandsborough
Interim Director, Center for Agriculture, Food and the Environment
Interim Director, Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Stations
Interim Director, UMass Extension; Assistant Vice Chancellor
Professor, and Department Head
Room 241, Chenoweth Laboratory, University of Massachusetts
100 Holdsworth Way
Amherst, MA 01003
Ph 413-545-1016
lm@foodsci.umass.edu
William Miller
Assistant Director
Room 321 Stockbridge Hall, University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
Ph 413-545-5017
wamiller@cns.umass.edu
NERA
Richard C. Rhodes III
Executive Director, NERA
University of Rhode Island
Aquaculture Center
14 East Farm Road
Kingston, RI 02881
Ph 401-874-2468
rcrhodes@uri.edu
David Leibovitz
Coordinator, NERA
University of Rhode Island
Aquaculture Center
14 East Farm Road
Kingston, RI 02881
Ph 401-874-4801
david_leibovitz@uri.edu
New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station
Anthony S. Davis
Dean, College of Life Sciences and Agriculture
Rudman Hall, University of New Hampshire
46 College Road
Durham, NH 03824-2617
Ph 603-862-1453
Anton Bekkerman
Director, New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station
Rudman Hall, University of New Hampshire
46 College Road
Durham, NH 03824-2617
New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station
Laura J. Lawson
Executive Dean and Director
Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey
88 Lipman Drive
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8525
Ph 848-932-3600
Wendie Cohick
Director for Research and Sr. Assoc. Dir.
Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey
88 Lipman Drive
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8525
Ph 848-932-3777
Northeastern Regional Center for Rural Development
Stephan J. Goetz
Director
207C Armsby Building (Penn State University)
University Park, PA 16802-5602
Ph 814-863-7105
Fx 814-865-3746
Pennsylvania Agricultural Experiment Station
Laszlo Kulcsar, Ph.D.
Interim Dean, College of Agricultural Sciences
103 Armsby Building
University Park, PA 16802
Ph 814-865-5461
lzk68@psu.edu
Blair Siegfried
Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education
Associate Director, Pennsylvania Agricultural Experiment Station
217 Agricultural Administration Building, The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16801
Ph 814 865 3136
Rhode Island Agricultural Experiment Station
John Kirby
Dean and Director
College of the Environment and Life Sciences, The University of Rhode Island
Center for Biotechnology and Life Sciences, Room 423
120 Flagg Rd.
Kingston, RI 02881-0804
Ph 401-874-2957
Fx 401-874-4017
jdkirby@uri.edu
Lisa Townson
Associate Dean, Extension and Agricultural Programs
College of the Environment and Life Sciences, The University of Rhode Island
Center for Biotechnology and Life Sciences, Room 413
120 Flagg Rd.
Kingston, RI 02881-0804
Ph 401-874-2240
Fx 401-874-4017
ltownson@uri.edu
Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station
Leslie Parise
Dean and Director
110 Morrill Hall
Burlington, VT 05405
Ph 802-656-0442
West Virginia Agricultural & Forestry Experiment Station
Darrell Donahue
Dean and Director
Agricultural Sciences Building, West Virginia University
P.O. Box 6108
Morgantown, WV 26506-6108
Ph 304-293-2395
Jason Hubbart
Interim Associate Dean of Research
Associate Director, WV Agriculture and Forestry Experiment Station
340 Percival Hall, West Virginia University
P.O. Box 6108
Morgantown, WV 26506-6108
Ph 304-293-2472
Jason.Hubbart@mail.wvu.edu
Matthew Wilson
Past Chair, Experiment Station Section/ESCOP
4121 Agricultural Sciences Building, West Virginia University
P.O. Box 6108
Morgantown, WV 26506-6108
Ph 304-293-1935
Fx 304-293-3740
mwilso25@wvu.edu