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Faculty

James R. Bates

Phone: (518) 255-5221
Email: BatesJR@cobleskill.edu

  • Professor
  • Course focus: Woody Plants
  • Botany I
  • Arboriculture
  • LANDCADD

Ronald D. Bayzon

Phone: (518) 255-5247
Email: BayzonRD@cobleskill.edu

  • Associate Professor
  • Course focus: Recreational Land Management
  • Recreational Land Management Techniques I
  • Recreational Land Management Techniques II
  • Introduction to Recreational Service
  • Introduction to Soil Science

Theodore Bruetsch

Phone: (518) 255-5645
Email: BruetsTF@cobleskill.edu

  • Professor
  • Course focus: Plant Pathology
  • Entomology
  • Plant Nutrition
  • Plant and Soil Diagnostics
  • Fruit Science

R. Christian Cash

Phone: (518) 255-5246
Email: CashC@cobleskill.edu

  • Associate Professor
  • Course focus: Woody Plants,
  • Nursery Management I
  • Nursery Management II
  • Landscape Plants: Association and Uses
  • Plant Propagation

George Crosby

Phone: (518) 255-5279
Email: CrosbyGW@cobleskill.edu

Holly K. Emmons

Phone: (518) 255-5640
Email: EmmonsHK@cobleskill.edu

  • Associate Professor
  • Course focus: Annuals and Perennials
  • Floral Design I
  • Floral Design I I
  • Contemporary Design
  • Silk and Dried Flowers
  • Wildflower Culture and Propagation

Robert D. Emmons

Phone: (518) 255-5644
Email: EmmonsRD@cobleskill.edu

  • Professor
  • Course focus: Turfgrass Management I
  • Turfgrass Management II
  • Golf Course Management
  • Advanced Golf Course Management
  • Sports Field Management
  • Entomology
  • Integrated Pest Management

Terry A. Forsyth

Phone: (518) 255-5647
Email: ForsytTA@cobleskill.edu

  • Associate Professor
  • Course focus: Environmental Design I
  • Landscape Contracts
  • Landscape Graphics
  • Herbaceous Plant Materials
  • Bonsai

Arthur S. Graves

Phone: (518) 255-5283
Email: GravesAS@cobleskill.edu

  • Assistant Professor
  • Course focus: Weed Identification and Control
  • Equine Forage Management
  • Plant and Soil Diagnostics
  • Agricultural Chemicals
  • Vegetable Crops

Jack E. Ingels

Phone: (518) 255-5646
Email: IngelsJE@cobleskill.edu

  • Distinguished Teaching Professor
  • Course focus: Environmental Design I
  • Environmental Design II
  • Environmental Design III
  • Landscape Firm Management
  • Landscape Graphics
  • Landscape Contracts
  • Gardens of the World
  • Advanced Landscape Contracts

Zhongchun Jiang

Email: JiangZ@cobleskill.edu

  • Associate Professor
  • Course focus: Turfgrass Management I
  • Golf Course Management
  • Sports Field Management
  • Botany
  • Applied Plant Physiology
  • Occupational Experience/Turfgrass Management

John J. Kowal

Phone: (518) 255-5280
Email: KowalJJ@cobleskill.edu

  • Professor
  • Course focus: Introduction to Soil Science
  • Soil Fertility
  • Soil and Water Conservation
  • Water Resources
  • Plant Ecology

Edward J. Zuchorski

Phone: (518) 255-5648
Email: ZuchorEJ@cobleskill.edu

  • Assistant Professor
  • Course focus: Greenhouse Management
  • Interior Plantscapes and Maintenance
  • Management of Horticultural Businesses
  • Marketing of Horticultural Products
  • Floriculture Production I
  • Floriculture Production II
Staff

Don Helme

Phone: (518) 255-5281
Email: HelmeDK@cobleskill.edu

  • Instructional Support Assistant

Steven C. Mullarkey

Phone: (518) 255-5281
Email: MullarS@cobleskill.edu

  • Campus Horticulturist / Instructional Support Technician

Robert Sutherland

Phone: (518) 255-5281
Email: SutherRT@cobleskill.edu

  • Instructional Support Technician
Plant Science Department
Mr. John J. Kowal, Department Chair
Email: kowaljj@cobleskill.edu

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