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
UNH COLSA Farms
Luke Pacchioli serves as a lead farmer worker for all the COLSA farms, as well as the Macfarlane Research Greenhouses.
UNH Organic Dairy Research Farm
Jason Scruton, a longtime New Hampshire dairy farmer, joined UNH as the manager of the Organic Dairy Research Farm.
UNH Woodman Horticultural Research Farm and Kingman Research Farm
UNH farm manager Evan Ford pursued a career in farming and horticulture, which eventually led him to UNH, after seeing the importance and value of food production overseas.
UNH Fairchild Dairy Teaching and Research Center
Jon Whitehouse, manager of the Fairchild Dairy Teaching and Research Center, has spent close to four decades running this conventional dairy farm and research center located at the University of New Hampshire.
UNH Office of Woodlands & Natural Areas
UNH woodlands manager Steve Eisenhaure ’97 oversees the Office of Woodlands and Natural Areas, teaches forest management at UNH and has been recognized for his work supporting and advancing New England’s forestry industry.
Fairchild Dairy Teaching and Research Center
Fairchild Dairy lead farm worker Tim Cahill '21 joined the team at the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station in 2022—a little over a year after graduating from UNH with a...
New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station
COLSA and NHAES finish carpenter Curtis Johnson got his start working in construction and carpentry in the New Hampshire seacoast area in 1987. In 2007, he joined COLSA as a part-time carpenter. Now, on any given day, you’ll likely find him engaged in a new task around campus, whether it’s breaking...
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...
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...
UNH Woodman & Kingman Farms
Mark Trabold, assistant farm manager of UNH's Woodman Horticultural Research and Kingman Research farms,...
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.
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...
NHAES Researchers
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Enticed by environment, economics and opportunity
Vincent Pagano ’20 is an environmental conservation and sustainability major and economics minor from Epsom, New Hampshire. At UNH, Vincent has forged a challenging and exciting path that...
Accomplished researcher and educator brings strong background in sustainable farming systems
Find out what David Mortensen thinks about his new role at COLSA, what lead him to his career as a researcher and educator, and why finding sustainable ways to feed the world is more important than ever.
Accomplished Researcher Heading the Department of Biological Sciences
Bonnie Brown, who comes to UNH from...