Neal Barto graduated from The Pennsylvania State University
in 1981 with a BS in Horticulture. He worked for a year in a
wholesale greenhouse operation in New Hampshire. He then attended
North Carolina State University and graduated in 1985 with a BS in
Biological and Agricultural Engineering. Neal worked for several
years in consulting engineering on various municipal wastewater projects
and then matriculated to The Pennsylvania State University again for a MS
degree in Biological and Agricultural Engineering. Neal graduated in
1993 and began a PhD program in Penn State's Horticulture
Department. He became increasingly involved with greenhouse and
growth chamber operation and management, as well as instrumentation for
plant physiology experimentation. In 2002, Neal began working
full-time as a greenhouse technician. He joined CEAC in September
2006 as a Research Specialist providing technical support, mostly in the
area of data acquisition and control.
Mark Kroggel received a BS (1983) in agriculture and a MS
(1988) in horticulture from The Ohio State University. Before and after
pursuing his degrees, he worked extensively in most areas of commercial
nursery production of woody ornamentals, ranging from management of a
micropropagation operation to field production of finished stock. He
started working in academia in 1997, eventually focusing on applied
research of woody ornamentals, specifically investigating the response of
landscape trees subjected to the typical stresses that occurs in urban
planting sites. He began working at the University of Arizona in 2002,
working in the research program of Dr. Chieri Kubota, http://ag.arizona.edu/pls/faculty/kubota.htm,
supporting that research effort through project management, facilities and
instrumentation support, data analysis and staff
supervision.
Connie Hackathorn has an Associates degree through Pima Community College and is currently enrolled at Arizona State University in pursuit of a BS in Multimedia Writing and Technical Communications. Connie is originally from Oregon, having moved to Tucson in 1999 with her husband and daughter. Connie worked for six years at the VA Health Care facility in Tucson for two Professor of Medicine associated with the Arizona Cancer Center, as research coordinator. She has worked at UA since 2006 - as a Program Coordinator in Human Subjects, and at Campus Health before joining CEAC in April 2008. |
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