Office Information
Monterey County
Cooperative Extension Monterey County
1432 Abbott Street
Salinas, CA 93901
Phone: PH-(831) 759-7350 4-H-(831) 759-7360
Fax: (831) 758-3018
County Director
Sonya L Varea Hammond
Title: County Director
Specialty: Public Policy - Biotechnology Education and Land Use
Email: slvareahammond@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (831) 759-7358
Staff List
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Advisors
Larry J Bettiga
Title: Viticulture Farm Advisor
Specialty: Wine grape production, canopy management, pest management, rootstock and clonal evaluation.
Email: lbettiga@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (831) 759-7361
Jianlong Bi Ph.D.
Title: Farm Advisor Entomology
Specialty: Entomology
Email: jbi@ucdavis.edu
Phone: 831-759-7359
Michael D Cahn
Title: Farm Advisor
Specialty: Irrigation & Water Resources
Email: mdcahn@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (831) 759-7377
William E Chaney Emeritus
Title: Farm Advisor Entomology
Specialty: Entomology
Email: wechaney@ucdavis.edu
Steven T Koike
Title: Plant Pathology Farm Advisor
Specialty: Plant pathology research and education for vegetable, fruit and ornamental crops; plant disease diagnostics; food safey research and extension.
Email: stkoike@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (831) 759-7356
Richard Smith
Title: Farm Advisor
Specialty: Vegetable Crop Production & Weed Science
Email: rifsmith@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (831) 759-7357
Cross County Advisors
Mark Bolda
Title: Farm Advisor Strawberries & Caneberries
1432 Freedom Boulevard
Watsonville, 95076-2796
Email: mpbolda@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (831) 763-8040
Fax: (831) 763-8006
William W Coates
Title: Farm Advisor - Pomology (San Benito, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, Monterey Counties), Acting County Director (San Benito County only)
Specialty: Pomology - Tree Fruit and Nut Crops
Notes: UPS - Fed-Ex only to street address above.
Email: bwwcoates@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (831) 637-5346
Dr Royce Larsen E.
Title: Area Natural Resource Watershed Advisor
Specialty: Water Quality and Non-point Source Pollution on Rangelands. Also, othe natural resource issues including: Rangeland Improvements, Noxious Invasive Weeds, Wildland Fires, Grassland Restoration and Endangered Species.
350 N. Main Street, Ste. B
Templeton, CA, 93465
Email: relarsen@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (805) 434-4106
Fax: (805) 434-4881
Carrie Pomeroy Ph.D
Title: Marine Advisor
Specialty: Social, cultural & economic aspects of fisheries, marine policy & management
1432 Freedom Blvd
Watsonville, 95076-2796
Email: cmpomeroy@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (831) 763-8002
Fax: (831) 763-8006
Richard M. Starr Ph.D.
Title: Marine Advisor
Specialty: Marine ecology, fisheries, coastal resources
8272 Moss Landing Road
Moss Landing, 95039
Email: starr@mlml.calstate.edu
Phone: (831) 771-4442
Fax: (831) 632-4403
Steven A. Tjosvold
Title: Farm Advisor
Specialty: Environmental horticulture
1432 Freedom Boulevard
Watsonville, 95076-2796
Email: satjosvold@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (831) 763-8013
Fax: (831) 763-8006
Laura Tourte
Title: County Director and Farm Advisor
Specialty: Farm Management and Small Farms
1432 Freedom Boulevard
Watsonville, 95076
Email: ljtourte@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (831) 763-8040
Fax: (831) 763-8006
Staff Research Associate
Barry Farrara
Title: Staff Research Associate III
Email: bffarrara@ucdavis.edu
Phone: 831.759.7365
Aaron Heinrich
Title: Staff Research Associate II
Email: alheinrich@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (831) 759-7389
Grace McClellan
Title: Staff Research Associate II
Email: grmcclellan@ucdavis.edu
Phone: 831. 759.7374
4-H Youth Development Program
Wendy Grennan
Title: 4-H Youth Development Program Representative
Specialty: 4-H
Email: wdgrennan@ucdavis.edu
Phone: 831.759.7386
Fax: 831.758.3018
Program Manager
Kathleen Nolan
Title: Program Manager
Specialty: Nutrition Education, Health Promotion
Email: kmnolan@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (831) 759-7373
Administrative Staff
Lennis Arriaga
Title: Secretary
Email: larriaga@ucdavis.edu
Phone: 831.759.7353
June Rasmussen
Title: Accounting Technician
Email: jrasmussen@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (831) 759-7352
Fax: 831.758.3018
Melinda K Stirling
Title: Office Manager Administrative Services Assistant
Specialty: Administrative services
Email: mkstirling@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (831) 759-7354
Support Staff
Kat Kammeijer
Title: Staff Research Associate II
Specialty: Plant Pathology
Email: katkammeijer@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (831) 759-7363
Patty Ayala
Title: Lab Assistant
Specialty: Plant Pathology
Phone: 831-759-7363
Adam Coleman
Title: Farm Assistant III
Email: adacoleman@ucdavis.edu
Phone: 831.759.7380
Fax: (831) 758-3018