Staff

Welcome to Emma Buczkowski!  She grew up in Portland and received her B.S. in Botany from OSU and then went to the University of Wisconsin for her M.S. in Plant Pathology. Her thesis examined the impact of pesticides on the turfgrass microbiome and the effectiveness of it on the market biocontrol products for controlling dollar […]

We are pleased to welcome Sergio Alfaro-Ramirez as a permanent farm worker at the Columbia View orchard. If you see him, stop by and introduce yourself.          

Emily Riffe joined Stefano Musacchi’s program this month from North Carolina. For her undergraduate degree, she majored in Plant Biology, with a minor in Horticulture Science at North Carolina State University. She continued her education and got her Masters in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Appalachian State University. There she studied ecophysiology of invasive plants […]

Please help me to welcome Kim Rains, our new Fiscal Analyst. She will be fulfilling the budget/finance and grants administration duties of our admin team. Feel free to contact her at kim.rains@wsu.ed or ext 221, Room 110, if you need assistance.

Nic is starting as a Research Assistant in the Musacchi lab on July 2, 2018. He will be assisting with the Manchurian crab apple replacement study. He is excited to learn about fruit tree physiology and orchard management. Welcome Nic to our TFREC team!

Hayley began working at a Tree Fruit Research and Extension Technician in Tianna’s program in April of this year. She recently moved to Wenatchee from Pullman, though she is originally from Poulsbo, WA. Hayley will be assisting Tianna in her research projects with orchard floor management, replant disease, irrigation, and Fire Blight. We are happy […]

Megan Welker has officially joined the TFREC team as our new Office Assistant. She is a joy to work with and we are so happy to have her. Please take a moment to stop by and say hello.

Congratulations are in order for some outstanding TFREC employees recently awarded employee excellence awards by the College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource Sciences (CAHNRS). Tree Fruit Extension Team (Jim McFerson-TFREC, David Granatstein-TFREC, Ines Hanrahan, Lynn Sosnoskie-TFREC, Tianna DuPont-TFREC, Karen Lewis, Wendy Jones-TFREC, Bernardita Sallato, Gwen Hoheisel and Tory Schmidt) – Team Interdisciplinary Award Trish […]

Hector is an agronomist from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and has an M.S. in Biological and Agricultural Engineering from Washington State University with an emphasis in land, air, water & environmental engineering, and crop modeling. He is working in Lee Kalcsits’ tree fruit physiology lab as a Research Assistant and will assist with all the trials performed in […]

Ethan Federman will be working remotely for Vince Jones’ program. You may not see him at the Center but he will be hard at work on computer programming from his home in Spokane, WA.