The Potato Association of America

2008-2009
"Executive Committee"
&
"Section Chairs"

Position Held Person Address
President Chuck Brown USDA/ARS-Irrigated Agric. R & E Ctr.
24106 N Bunn Road
Prosser, WA 99350  USA
Phone: 509-786-9252
Fax: 509-786-9277
E-mail: chuck.brown@ars.usda.gov
President-Elect Phil Nolte Ext. Seed Potato Specialist
University of Idaho
1776 Science Center Drive
Idaho Falls, ID 83402-1575  USA
Phone: 208-529-8376
Fax: 208-522-2954
E-mail: pnolte@uidaho.edu
Vice-President Don Halseth Cornell University
147E Plant Science Building
Ithaca, NY  14853  USA
Phone: 607-255-5460
Fax: 607-255-0599
E-mail: deh3@cornell.edu
Secretary Loretta Mikitzel NB Dept of Agriculture & Aquaculture
Potato Development Ctr.
39 Barker Road
Wicklow, NB E7L 3S4
CANADA
Phone: 506-392-5199
Fax: 506-392-5102
E-mail: loretta.mikitzel@gnb.ca
Treasurer
Al Bushway Dept. of Food Sci & Human Nutr
Univ of Maine
5735 Hitchner Hall, Room 109
Orono, ME 04469-5735  USA
Phone: 207-581-1639
Fax: 207-581-1636
E-mail: abushway@apollo.umenfa.maine.edu
Treasurer-Elect
Larry Hiller 740 SE Derby Street
Pullman, WA 99163-2402  USA
Phone: 509-335-8690
Fax: 509-335-8690
E-mail: hillerl@wsu.edu
Past President Alexander Pavlista Panhandle Res. & Ext. Ctr., Univ of NE
4502 I Avenue
Scottsbluff, NE 69361  USA
Phone: 308-632-1240
Fax: 308-632-1365
E-mail: apavlista@unl.edu
Director
(exp 2009)
Bill Campbell Alaska Plant Materials Center
HC04 / Box 7440
Palmer, AK 99645-9706  USA
Phone: 907-745-4469
Fax: 907-746-1568
E-mail: billyc46@yahoo.com

Director
(Exp 2011)

Robert Gareau Potatoes NB
P.O. Box 7878
777B Everard H. Daigle Blvd.
Grand Falls, NB E3Z 3E8  CANADA
Phone: 506-473-3036
Fax: 506-473-4647
E-mail: rgareau@potatoesnb.com
Director
(exp 2009)
Phil Hamm Hermiston Agric R&E Ctr, OSU
PO Box 105
Hermiston, OR 97838  USA
Phone: 541-567-8321
Fax: 541-567-2240
E-mail: philip.b.hamm@oregonstate.edu
Director
(Exp 2010)
Leigh Morrow McCain Foods, Inc.
319 Richardson Road
Easton, ME 04740  USA
Phone: 207-488-1246
Fax: 207-488-1382
E-mail: leigh.morrow@mccain.com

Director
(Exp 2011)

Bret Nedrow J.R. Simplot Co Food Grp-Raw Prod Proc
3630 Gateway Drive
Grand Forks, ND 58203
Phone: 701-780-7847
Fax: 701-780-7882
E-mail: bret.nedrow@simplot.com 
 

Editor In Chief

John Bamberg US Potato Genebank, NRSP-6
4312 Highway 42
Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235  USA
Phone: 920-743-5406
Fax: 920-743-1080
E-mail: john.bamberg@ars.usda.gov
Administrative Asst./Membership Secretary Lori Wing The Potato Association of America
The University of Maine
5719 Crossland Hall, Room 220
Orono, ME 04469-5719  USA
Phone: 207-581-3042
Fax: 207-581-3015
E-mail: umpotato@maine.edu

PAA Section Chairs & Officers
Ex-officio, Non-Voting Members of the Executive Committee

Breeding & Genetics Isabel Vales
Dept. of Crop & Soil Science, OSU
109 Crop Science Bldg.

Corvallis, OR 97331  USA
Phone: 541-737-3539
Fax:
541-737-1583
E-mail:
isabel.vales@oregonstate.edu
Vice Chair: Jiwan Palta
Secretary: Dennis Halterman
Certification Susie Siemsen
Montana Seed Potato Certification Lab
Plant Growth Center
P.O. Box 172060
Bozeman, MT 59717  USA
Phone: 406-994-3150
Fax: 406-994-6042
E-mail: uplss@montana.edu
Vice Chair: Gregg Wolf
Sec/Treas: Willem Schrage
2nd Yr Dir: Pablo Guzman
1st Yr Dir: Amy Charkowski

Extension Silvia Rondon
Hermiston Agricultural REC, OSU
2121 South First Street

P.O. Box 105
Hermiston, OR 97838  USA
Phone: 541-567-8321 x108
Fax: 541-567-2240
E-mail: silvia.rondon@oregonstate.edu
Vice-Chair: Robert Gareau
Secretary: Chris Long
Physiology Kent McCue
USDA:ARS-WRRC
800 Buchanan Street

Albany, CA 94710  USA
Phone: 510-559-5796
Fax: 510-559-5775
E-mail:
kent.mccue@ars.usda.gov
Vice-Chair: Sastry Jayanty
Secretary: Barbara Daniels-Lake
1-Yr Dir: Sanjay Gupta

Plant Protection (Pathology/Entomology & Weeds)

Jim Crosslin
USDA-ARS
24106 N Bunn Road

Prosser, WA 99350  USA
Phone: 509-786-9253
Fax: 509-786-9370
E-mail: jim.crosslin@ars.usda.gov
Vice-Chair: Gary Secor
Secretary: Andrew Johnson
1-Yr Director: Nick David
Website Com: Clint Shock
Production & Management Bryan Hopkins
BYU Plant & Animal Science Dept.
685 E University Ave., 275 WIDB
Provo, UT 84602  USA
Phone: 801-422-2185
Fax: 801-422-0008
E-mail: hopkins@byu.edu
Vice-Chair: Samuel Essah
Secretary: AJ Bussan
2-Yr Dir: Zack Holden
Utilization & Marketing Robert Gareau
Potatoes NB
P.O. Box 7878
777B Everard H. Daigle Blvd.
Grand Falls, NB  E3Z 3E8  CANADA
Phone:
506-473-3036
Fax: 506-473-4647
E-mail: rgareau@potatoesnb.com
Vice-Chair: Bret Nedrow
Secretary: Jeff Bragg

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