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ECOLANDSCAPE 2009 CONFERENCE GUEST SPEAKERS
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Brad Lancaster
www.HarvestingRainwater.com
Brad Lancaster is the author of the award-winning Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands, Volume 1: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain Into Your Life and Landscape and Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 2: Water-Harvesting Earthworks - (www.HarvestingRainwater.com).
Living on an eighth of an acre in downtown Tucson, Arizona, where rainfall is less than 12 inches annually, Brad practices what he preaches by harvesting over 100,000 gallons of rainwater a year.
Brad and his brother Rodd have created an oasis in the desert by directing this harvested rainwater not off their property and into storm drains, but instead incorporating it into living air conditioners of food-bearing shade trees, abundant gardens, and a thriving landscape that includes habitat for wildlife.
Brad Lancaster is a permaculture teacher, designer, consultant and co-founder of Desert Harvesters (DesertHarvesters.org). Brad has taught programs for the ECOSA Institute, Columbia University, University of Arizona, Prescott College, Audubon Expeditions, City of Asheville, North Carolina and many others. He has helped design integrated water harvesting and permaculture systems for homeowners and gardeners, including the Tucson Audubon Simpson Farm restoration site, the Milagro and Stone Curves co-housing projects.
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Pamela G. Marrone, PhD
CEO and Founder, Marrone Organic Innovations
2121 Second St, B-107
Davis, CA 95616
530-750-2800 (office/lab)
www.marroneorganicinnovations.com
Dr. Marrone is currently CEO/Founder of Marrone Organic Innovations, a company she started in 2006 to discover and develop natural products for organic weed control and other unmet pest management needs for both organic and conventional farming. Dr. Marrone founded AgraQuest in 1995 and served as its CEO, Chairman and President until March 2006. At AgraQuest, she raised more than $50 million in venture capital and commercialized seven natural pest management products. AgraQuest received the Presidential Green Chemistry Award for small business in 2003 and Red Herring magazine’s Top 100 private Company Award and the World Technology Award in 2004. Before AgraQuest, she was founding president and business unit head for Entotech, Inc. in Davis (CA), a biopesticide subsidiary of Denmark-based Novo Nordisk (sold to Abbott in 1995). At Monsanto, she led the Insect Biology group, which was involved in pioneering projects in transgenic crops, natural products, and microbial pesticides.
Pam has been featured in the press and on radio many times – the Wall Street Journal (front page, Nov 2005), National Public Radio, LA Times, Fortune, USA Today, Entrepreneur, Chemical & Engineering News, Farm Chemicals and others. She is an alumna of CORO Foundation's intensive "Women in Leadership" program. She is on the Board of the Association of Applied IPM Ecologists and the Organic Farming Research Foundation. For many years, he served on the Board of Sutter Health's Sacramento-Sierra Region, Sacramento's largest private employers and ion the Sutter Davis Hospital Foundation. She is cofounder and Board member of UC Davis CONNECT and DATA (Davis Area Technology Association). She is founding Chair of the Biopesticide Industry Alliance (BPIA), a trade association of 30 biopesticide companies. She is also on the UC Davis Graduate School of Management and Cornell and UC Davis Ag & Life Sciences Dean's Advisory Council. She was elected by her peers as a Fellow of AAAS (American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science). In May 2006, Pam was named a northern California finalist for Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year award She has a B.S. in entomology with Honors and Distinction from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in entomology from North Carolina State University.
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Bob Garrison
Bob Garrison is the Director of the Roseville Utility Exploration Center. Prior to joining the City of Roseville staff in April 2007, he has worked as an environmental educator and interpretive planner for California State Parks and California Fish and Game. Most recently he worked as a nature tourism consultant on projects throughout North America and has written one book -- Northern California Nature Weekends -- as well as numerous articles on nature and the environment. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Placer Nature Center, enjoys gardening and lives in Newcastle with his wife Lisa and 10-year-old son Sean.
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Janet Hartin
With B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Univ. of Minnestoa in Environmental Horticulture, Janet has been in her current position as Environmental Horticulturist for Univ. of CA Cooperative Extension since 1984. Her priorities are applied research and education in sustainable landscaping (water efficient landscapes, use of greenwaste and compost, and use of integrated pest management practices).
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Steve Nawrath
Steve Nawrath is a Landscape Architect and Certified Professional in Erosion and Sediment Control (CPESC). He has degrees in Ornamental Horticulture and Landscape Architecture from California Polytechnic State University. Steve has worked in the environmental design and ecological restoration fields for 18 years, both in the private and public sectors.
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Mary Louise Flint, PhD
Mary Louise Flint is Associate Director for Urban and Community IPM, University of California Statewide Integrated Pest Management Project, and Extension Entomologist, Department of Entomology, UC Davis. She earned her Ph.D. in entomology from UC Berkeley in 1979. Previous to her appointment as Associate Director for Urban and Community IPM in 2007, she coordinated the University of California's educational materials in the area of integrated pest management and developed UC's popular IPM manual series, the UC IPM Pest Management Guidelines for agricultural crops, and the Pest Note series for home and landscapes. Her research has primarily been in the areas of biological control, adoption and dissemination of alternative pest management practices, and landscape pest management. She is author of over 100 research papers and books on integrated pest management including the University of California ANR Publications Pests of the Garden and Small Farm: A Grower’s Guide to Using Less Pesticide (Second Edition); Natural Enemies Handbook: The Illustrated Guide to Biological Pest Control; and IPM in Practice: Principles and Methods of Integrated Pest Management.
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Ron Whitehurst
Marketing Manager, Rincon-Vitova Insectaries, Inc.
PO Box 1555, Ventura, CA 93002
805-643-5407
ron@rinconvitova.com
www.rinconvitova.com
BA Biology, Indiana University
Additional training: many conferences and workshops on organic gardening, farming, and pest control
Ron is an avid gardener who loves making compost, building soil, and planting food producing landscapes. He enjoys using his diverse skills to help people set up gardens, landscapes or farms so that they minimize pest problems. He has learned how to guide people through the steps of biologically managing ecosystems to control pests, using insect habitat, cultural methods, soft pesticides, and beneficial insects. His mentor is Everett (Deke) Dietrick, who worked alongside the academic lights of biocontrol in the 1960’s and 70’s, Van den Bosch, Paul De Bach and others. Ron works with his wife Jan Dietrick (Deke’s daughter) running the commercial insectary and non-profit institute in Ventura, California.
Ron grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana where he worked as an organic garden writer and helped organize an organic grower association. He moved to Silicon Valley in 1979 with his first wife, a computer programmer. He got a PCA license in 1980 and over the years attended numerous organic farm meetings and pest control conferences. He moved to Ventura in 1997 and married Jan Dietrick. He is the proud grandfather of a six year old boy who lives in the Santa Cruz mountains.
Ron has experience doing research, training, and technical writing in the fields of plant and insect ecology and economic botany with emphasis on least toxic pest control methods. Marketing manager of an insectary for nine years. Developed a database of weeds and their value as bioindicators. Prior industrial experience includes four years medical diagnostic R & D, six years of pharmaceutical and industrial lab work, three years GMP documentation, and three years interviewing and technical reporting. Other work covers two years teaching science, six years writing procedures and reports in industry, and writing a magazine column. CA pest control advisor license.
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