Department Committees

Plant Agriculture Chair: Peter Pauls (ppauls@uoguelph.ca)
Executive Officer: Jenny Van de Kamer (jvandeka@uoguelph.ca)

Advisory Executive Committee:

The Advisory Executive Committee consists of the Department Chair, Associate Chair, Executive Officer and three (3) other members elected by and from the faculty in the Department of Plant Agriculture:

Chair: Peter Pauls (ppauls@uoguelph.ca)
Associate Chair: Mary Ruth McDonald (mrmcdona@uoguelph.ca)
Executive Officer: Jenny Van de Kamer (jvandeka@uoguelph.ca)
Elected members:

Istvan Rajcan (irajcan@uoguelph.ca)

Jay Subramanian (jsubrama@uoguelph.ca)

Francois Tardif (ftardif@uoguelph.ca)

Lewis Lukens (llukens@uoguelph.ca)

Committee Structure

Departmental committees will represent the interests of all four divisions of Plant Agriculture. Faculty, staff and student assignments to the various committees will be undertaken in collaboration with each faculty/staff/student member and the Chair.

Each committee will appoint a Chair and Vice Chair (if appropriate)
Each committee is to meet a minimum of once in each semester
The Chair of each committee will ensure that an agenda for each meeting is prepared and circulated to each of the committee members and the Department Chair and to Division Leaders as requested
Minutes/highlights from each meeting are to be copied to the Department Chair
Chair of each committee is responsible to the Department Chair and the Advisory Executive Committee (AEC) of the Department
Faculty and membership on most committees will be for a minimum of 3 years while student representation will be for 1 year
Where possible members will be replaced on a rotating basis

Membership of All Committees

Awards Committee

Gopi Paliyath (Chair)
Lewis Lukens
Eric Lyons
Jen Kingswell (staff)
Praveen Saxena
Jay Subramanian

Building & Safety Committee

Department Safety Officers:

Gopi Paliyath
Barry Micallef

Bovey Bldg.

Gopi Paliyath (Chair)

Bob Nichols (Staff)

Kendra Sauerteig (Student)

Crop Science Bldg.

Barry Micallef (Chair)

Jan Brazolot (staff)

Chris Grainger (staff/student)

Dietmar Scholz (staff)

Zorka Szlavnics (staff)

Simcoe Campus

Wally Andres (Chair)

Cathy Bakker

Jason Smith

Jim Todd (OMAFRA)

Vineland Campus

Ray Kaczmarski (Chair)

Rocco Guarnaccia

Bradford (Muck Crops Research Station)

Shawn Janse
Laura Riches

Guelph Turfgrass Institue (GTI)

Peter Purvis
Katerina Jordan
Pam Charbonneau (OMAFRA)

Common Lab Equipment Committee

Manish Raizada (Chair)
Jan Brazlot
Istvan Rajcan
Naheed Rana

Computer Committee

Steve Bowley (Chair)
Jim Hoare (Crop Science)
Mike Peppard (Bovey)
Glen Alm (Vineland)
Rob Grohs (Simcoe)
Web-site Sub-committee
- Peter Pauls (Chair)
- Steve Bowley
- Beth Livingstone
- Mike Peppard
- Manish Raizada