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NEW HAMPSHIRE 



NEWS 



Fisher Selected 



The position of Dr. Owen Rogers, 

 who recently retired from the De- 

 partment of Plant Biology, has been 

 filled. The new person is Dr. Paul R. 

 Fisher, currently a post-doctorate re- 

 searcher at the Department of Envi- 

 ronmental Horticulture at the Uni- 

 versity of California, Davis. 



Originally from New Zealand, his 

 undergraduate and masters degrees 

 were received there. He received 

 his Ph.D. from MSU in 1995; his dis- 

 sertation was on "Prediction and 

 Control of Stem Elongation and 

 Flowering in Poinsettia and Easter 

 Lily;" Royal D. Heins was his advisor. 



Research activities noted on his 

 resume included developing Green- 

 house CARE System, "a computer 

 extension tool that is the world's 

 first commercially available simula- 

 tion model and expert system for 

 the ornamental greenhouse indus- 

 try." He's presently working on crop 

 modeling of ornamental potted 

 plants — modeling the carbon budget 

 of a rose plant stand and predicting 

 harvest of lily populations. 



Research interests include: "ap- 

 plied research on ornamental crop 

 species, biological modeling, devel- 

 opment of decision-making tools, 

 and sustainability." 



Industry-oriented and seeing New 

 Hampshire as a good place to raise 

 a family, he began his work here in 

 mid-August and is expected to 

 make his presence felt throughout 

 the Green Industry. 



Mautz Chosen 



(from Campus ]ournal, May 22, 1996) 



William Mautz, professor of wildlife 

 ecology, is the new dean of the Col- 

 lege of Life Sciences and Agricul- 

 ture Mautz earned his bachelor's 

 degree in biology at the University 

 of Wisconsin and doctoral degrees 

 in wildlife ecology and management 

 at Michigan State University. He 



came to UNH in 1969 as an assistant 

 professor of wildlife ecology and 

 was responsible for establishing the 

 Brentwood Wildlife Research Facil- 

 ity, a state-of-the-art complex for 

 studying wildlife energetics. He's 

 served as interim dean since 1994 

 and in this role, has, among other 

 things, continued the major planning 

 effort begun by former dean Tom 

 Fairchild and helped the UNH Foun- 

 dation with fund-raising activities 

 that have resulted in a $3.5 million 

 endowment to benefit several pro- 

 grams in the college. 



While interim dean, Mautz has at- 

 tended several NHPGA functions 

 and this promises an realistic under- 

 standing of the Green Industry and 

 its relationship to the college. 



A Major Restructuring 



Last winter, an outside review team 

 looked at ornamental horticulture 

 programs within the College of Life 

 Sciences and Agriculture (COLSA). 

 Programs in research, teaching, and 

 extension were looked at. As a re- 

 sult of the team's recommendations, 

 the following changes have been 

 made to more effectively identify, 

 develop, and deliver Extension edu- 

 cational programs to the Green In- 

 dustry. The industry has been di- 

 vided into four segments — turf, 

 greenhouse, nursery/landscaping, 

 and garden center. For each seg- 

 ment, there will be a program coor- 



dinator responsible for working with 

 an advisory group to identify and 

 develop needed programs. These 

 programs will utilize appropriate 

 UNHCE staff as well as resources 

 from outside New Hampshire. The 

 following staff members have agreed 

 to assume some additional respon- 

 sibility for this new direction: 



NANCY ADAMS: Greenhouse (includ- 

 ing outdoor cut flowers) 



RALPH WINSLOW: Nursery/Land- 

 scaping (including perennials) 



DAVID SEAVEY: Garden Centers 



CHERYL SMITH: Contact with the 

 Plant Biology Department and 

 Campus Specialists 



|ohn Roberts will continue to pro- 

 vide leadership for the turf industry, 

 especially in the areas of municipal 

 and recreational turf. Charlie Will- 

 iams will devote more time to ap- 

 plied research, demonstration sites, 

 horticultural therapy, and informa- 

 tion for consumer horticulture. The 

 entire Ornamental Horticulture 

 Team, which consists of all staff that 

 is involved with the Green Industry, 

 will meet on a periodic basis to 

 look at the industry as a whole and 

 insure coordination between the 

 various segments. 



For more information, contact 

 Bruce Marriott at 603-862-2033. 



Locating the Analytical 

 Services Lab 



Stuart Blancfiard 



After over two decades in Nesmith 

 Hall, the Analytical Services Lab has 

 moved to the newly renovated 

 Spaulding Life Science Center, 

 Rooms G-54/55. Although our new 

 facilities are much improved over 

 those in Nesmith, Spaulding is less 

 accessible to visitors, partly because 

 it is located nearer the center of 

 campus. We hope to eventually 



AUGUST ♦SEPTEMBER 1996 



