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Avocado Variety Collection

College of Natural & Agricultural Sciences

Variety List Contributors

 

Researchers:

Dr. Bob Bergh
Avocado Breeder
10/56 to 3/91

Bob Whitsell
Staff Research Associate II
9/61 to 10/88

Gray Martin
Staff Research Assistant II
4/84 to 3/97

David Stottlemyer
SRA II
3/97 to 3/06

Dr. Mary Lu Arpaia
Subtropical Horticulturist
arpaia@uckac.edu

Eric Focht
SRA II
eric.focht@ucr.edu

Margaret Crowley
Lab Tech II
margaret.crowley@ucr.edu

 

 

 

Volunteers and Gray Martin
Photograph of the volunteers and Gray Martin. Photo was taken June 10, 1998. These are the volunteers who have contributed greatly in the maintenance and collection of data for the avocado breeding program. Left to right: Frank James, Julie Frink, Dickson Shafer, Geroge Brown, and Isabel Barkman with researcher Gray Martin (who recruited them).

Volunteers: In early 1993, a group of volunteers was recruited from a local chapter of the California Rare Fruit Growers Organization to assist Gray Martin in his work at the South Coast Research and Extension Center. Most of the data in the variety list came from information gathered by the volunteers.

Volunteers 2004:
Mrs. Julie Frink
Mr. Dickson Shafer
Mrs Isabel Barkman
Mr. George Brown
Mr. Frank James
Riley Holly
Dewey Savage
Steven Berger

Volunteers 2009:
Mrs. Julie Frink
Mr. Dickson Shafer
Mrs Isabel Barkman
Mr. George Brown
Dewey Savage
Riley Holly
Steven Berger

 

 

Dr. Mary Lu Arpaia with Dr. Emi Lavi and Dr. Bob Bergh
Dr. Mary Lu Arpaia on the right with Dr. Emi Lavi (left) and Dr. Bob Bergh (center).
Margie Crowley and Eric Focht
Margie Crowley and Eric Focht collecting yield data from some of our experimental trees.
David Stottlemyer
David Stottlemyer on a recent trip with Dr. Arpaia to Israel to visit researchers and see the avocado industry in that country.
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