Joe is the Nutrient and Pest Management Team Leader on the National Water Quality and Quantity Technology
Development Team. He is also the Windows Pesticide Screening Tool (WIN-PST) Team Leader. Joe is located
in Amherst, MA at the Massachusetts NRCS State Office. He lives with his wife Jeanne and his son Connor
on part of the family farm where he was raised in Sunderland, MA.
Joe graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with a Bachelor of Sciences Degree in Plant
and Soil Sciences in 1980. He ran a small vegetable, tobacco and dairy farm before he began his career with
the Soil Conservation Service in 1985. He spent two years as a County Executive Director for the Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation Service and then came back to the Soil Conservation Service as a Soil
Conservationist. He continued on as a Resource Conservationist for the Natural Resources Conservation Service
and then became the Project Leader for NAPRA: National Agricultural Pesticide Risk Analysis. Since 1994, Joe
has served as a national Pest Management Specialist and he has helped develop and deliver Nutrient and Pest
Management Considerations in Conservation Planning training, CORE 4 training, and Conservation Boot Camp training.
In his current position, Joe is responsible for NRCS pest management related technology and technical policy.
He represents NRCS on the Federal IPM Coordinating Committee and works with CSREES, ARS, EPA and the pesticide
industry to help coordinate NRCS activities in the pest management arena. Joe’s main focus is providing technology
support to NRCS field staff nationwide so they can evaluate the environmental risks of pest management activities
and recommend appropriate mitigation in the conservation planning process.
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