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Nina L. Bassuk
Professor and Program Leader
E-mail: nlb2@cornell.edu
Major interest and projects:
Research:
- Street tree selection, evaluation and diversity based
on site environmental constraints.
- Developing screening protocols to objectively assess
a tree's adaptation to environmental stress factors.
- Asexual propagation of desirable, hard-to-root woody plants.
- Transplanting and establishment of shrubs and trees: water relations
and seasonal effects.
- Development and application of a load-bearing soil mix to use
under pavements, 'CU-Structural Soil.'
- Developing remedial techniques to reduce the effects of soil
compaction.
Teaching:
- "Creating the Urban Eden : Woody Plant Identification,
Design and Plant Establishment" HORT/LA 491 and 492, 8 credits.
Extension:
- Bulletins and other resources, workshops, conferences.
- NYS Urban Forestry Council, member of Landscape Horticulture,
Integrated Pest Management, Community Horticulture and Community
Forestry Program Work Teams.
 Dr.
Thomas Whitlow
Associate Professor
Email: thw2@cornell.edu
Major interest and projects:
Research:
- Restoration ecology, plant physiological ecology.
- Designing plant communities to restore function to
stressed and degraded landscapes.
- Phytoremediation of contaminated soil using perennial
plants.
- Intraspecific variation in stress responses in wide
ranging tree species.
- Variation in tolerance of green ash and American elm
to phytoplasmal infection.
- Variation in flood and drought adaptation in red maple.
- ABA as a signal of water stress in trees.
- Repatriating populations of rare plants.
Teaching:
- Woody Plant Physiology (Hort 640), 4 credits.
- Restoration Ecology, Hort 440 (3 credits).
- Tools for Thought, Hort 635 (1 credit).
Peter Podaras
Visiting academic
Email:pp13@cornell.edu
Cornell University Dept. of Horticulture, Cornell Plantations and the Landscape Plant Development Center are developing a cooperative landscape plant breeding project. Among the genera being worked on are Quercus, Diervilla, Rhododendron, Buddleia, Weigela, Platanus, Abelia, Aesculus,Clematis, Calyanthus,Chionanthus, Cornus, Euonymus, Forsythia, Fothergilla, Kalmia, Kolkwitzia, Leucothoe, Physocarpus, Myrica, Sambucus,Viburnum and Syringa.
Maribea
Marranca (BZ)
Technician
Email: mmm10@cornell.edu
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