Cooperative Extension Specialist, Univ. California Berkeley
Dr. Kent M. Daane is a Cooperative Extension Specialist in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA. Dr. Daane has laboratories on the Berkeley Campus and at the Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center, where his lab groups work on the development of IPM and sustainable agriculture programs for insect and mite pests in vineyards and orchards (pistachio, almond, stone fruit, and olive), lettuce, and urban (eucalyptus) systems. Research and extension of programs to improve insect pest management are his primary objective and, to this goal, he has delivered >700 presentations at farmer and research symposia and co-authored >200 peer-reviewed publications. Biological control, insect ecology, natural enemy biology, applied use of pheromone chemistry are his primary contributions to integrated pest management. In pistachios and almonds, Kent has worked on navel orangeworm, Lygus, San Jose scale, stink bugs, leaffooted bugs, and the obliquebanded leafroller with many excellent entomologists and plant pathologists, including Jocelyn Millar, Rodrigo Krugner, Walter Bentley, Bob Beede, Paul DaSilva, Themis Michailides, Frank Zalom Joel Siegel, Dick Rice, Glenn Yokota, Chuck Burks, David Haviland, Pete Goodell, Brad Higbee, Gary Weinberger, Houston Wilson, Bas Kuenen, John Edstrom, Shawn Steffan, Karen Sime, and Kris Tollerup.
