Meet NHAES Staff & Researchers

Meet the staff and researchers who keep your NH Agricultural Experiment Station running!

 

Who are the people conducting research at NHAES, organizing the studies, recording the data, and maintaining the facilities? They work across the UNH College of Life Sciences and Agriculture – in each of the departments – and they serve in a range of capacities, as full- and part-time staff or faculty, as undergraduate or graduate student researchers, and as postdoctoral fellows and associates. Below, we’ve highlighted just a few of the NHAES staff and researchers working at your Ag Station!

NHAES Staff

A photo showing a white woman with long blond hair and a pink shirt standing outside in front of granite steps, grass, trees and a brick building in the background.
Catherine Armstrong, Research Project Manager
New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station
NHAES research project manager Catherine Armstrong began working at UNH as an accountant in 2013. During that time, she became familiar with federal grant funding programs, including those run by the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). So, when the opportunity came to join the…
Learn More
A photo of a white male with a blue shirt, brown pants and a hat sitting in a tractor cab next to a grey, white and brown dog.
Isagani Kimball ’10, Assistant Farm Manager
Organic Dairy Research Farm
Isagani Kimball, assistant farm manager of the Organic Dairy Research Farm (ODRF), started farming in his hometown of Kensington, N.H., at age 8. Attending UNH from 2006–2010 for a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Isagani learned he preferred the outdoor work of farm life over the indoor…
Learn More
Mark Trabold, assistant farm manager, standing in front of a row of trees at Kingman Research Farm
Mark Trabold ’15, Assistant Farm Manager
UNH Woodman & Kingman Farms
Mark Trabold, assistant farm manager of UNH's Woodman Horticultural Research and Kingman Research farms, returned to work at UNH in July 2022. A 2015 graduate of the Bachelor’s degree in Animal Science: Dairy Management program, Mark lived and worked at the Fairchild Dairy Teaching and Research…
Learn More
A photo of UNH lead farmer Terry Bickford with corn in the background at Kingman Research Farm.
Terry Bickford, Lead Farm Worker
UNH Farm Services Operation
Terry Bickford works as a lead farm worker for UNH's Farm Services Operation. It's a role he's been in since 2021, however, his farming experience dates back to when he was an infant, helping his family on the Stiles Dairy Farm in Strafford, NH.
Learn More
A photo of UNH Farm Services manager Peter Davis leaning on a tractor.
Peter Davis '16, Manager of Farm Services Operations
UNH Farm Services Operation
Manager of Farm Services Operations Peter Davis ’16 has a long history of working for the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station. After graduating from UNH in 2016, he joined Farm Services full-time as a lead farm worker. After four years, he took a brief hiatus, working for the Portsmouth…
Learn More

NHAES Researchers

  • UNH student Isabelle Lopez
    Isabelle Lopez '23
    Learning How to Protect Our Natural Resources
    Isabelle Lopez is a wildlife and conservation biology major with a geospatial analysis minor who received a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) to study the use of drones to monitor and protect natural resources. 
    Learn More
  • UNH student Kennedy McGrath
    Kennedy McGrath '25
    Learning how to use solutions-based research to protect oceans
    Kennedy McGrath is a dual major in marine, estuarine and freshwater biology and sustainability with a minor in marine policy. Kennedy conducts research on marine plastic pollution, and she is currently being mentored by Taja Sims-Harper, a doctoral candidate in the marine biology Ph.D. program.
    Learn More
  • UNH Assistant Professor Jeff Garnas
    Jeff Garnas
    Protecting Forests on an Interconnected and Changing Planet
    Jeff Garnas says that the planet's forests face serious problems due to climate change and a global trade system that make possible the spread of insects and pathogens.
    Learn More
  • UNH master's degree student Sophie Kenny
    Sophie Kenny '19, '20G, '22G
    Diving into Diet and Mental Health
    Sophie Kenny '19, '20G, '22G earned her bachelor’s degree in nutrition: nutrition and wellness and a graduate certificate in the didactic program in dietetics from UNH and is now a master’s student in nutritional sciences at the university.
    Learn More
  • Mary Kate Munley '21
    Kate Munley '21
    COLSA student follows her passion for the sea
    Mary Kate Munley's love of the sea has motivated her work monitoring Loggerhead sea turtles nesting along the coast of Florida and studying the state’s stone crab population.
    Learn More