FLORIDA STATE AGRICULTURAL RESPONSE TEAM - Key Persons


Adam Leath

Job Titles:
  • Division Director

Albert De Vries

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Animal Sciences, Gainesville

Andrew Koeser

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Environmental Horticulture, Wimauma, FL

Angie Lindsey

Job Titles:
  • Public Issues Education & Family, Youth and Community Services

April Lessig

Job Titles:
  • ESF17 Coordinator

Bennie Jackson

Job Titles:
  • Director

Brett Bultemeier

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Pesticide Information Office

Brooke Moffis

Job Titles:
  • Agent

Carissa Wickens

Job Titles:
  • Extension Equine Specialist, Gainesville
Horse behavior and welfare, management, alternative feeds and forage during disasters, adult extension programs.

Chris Demers

Job Titles:
  • Florida Forest Stewardship Program Extension Program Manager, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, Gainesville

Chris Mauldin

Job Titles:
  • Director

Chris Thornton

Job Titles:
  • Manager

Chuck Cichra

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Gainesville

Colleen Larson


Dr. Sally DeNotta

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, Veterinary Medicine and Extension, Gainesville

Ed Williams

Job Titles:
  • Director

Emily Nolen

Job Titles:
  • Government Analyst I

Forest Entomology


Forest Pathology


Gary Goode

Job Titles:
  • Director

Izabella Toledo

Job Titles:
  • Agent

Jamie Jones

Job Titles:
  • Dir. of Utilities Public & Works

Jason Ferrell

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Director, Pesticide Information Office

Jason Smith

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, Gainesville

Jiri Hulcr

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, Gainesville

John Arthington

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Department Chair Animal Sciences

John Chater

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, Citrus, Citrus REC / Lake Alfred, Fl

Katja Miller

Job Titles:
  • Operations Section Chief

Keith Schneider

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Food Science & Human Nutrition, Gainesville
Protecting against food contamination, risk assessment, food borne pathogens; Food Microbiology

Kelly Wilson

Job Titles:
  • Deputy EM Director

Marcus McDonough

Job Titles:
  • Director

Maria Valencia

Job Titles:
  • Animal Safety Coordinator

Martha Oberdorfer

Job Titles:
  • Deputy EM Director

Michael Andreu

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, Gainesville

Michelle Danyluk

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Citrus and Research Education Center, Lake Alfred
Protecting against food contamination, risk assessment, food borne pathogens; Food Microbiology

Pamela Allen

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director

Peter Dittmar

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, Horticultural Sciences, Gainesville

Randy Cantrell

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, Family Youth and Community Sciences, Gainesville

Robert Lawson

Job Titles:
  • Interim Director

Roy Yanong

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Fish Health Management / Aquaculture, Tropical Aquaculture Laboratory, Ruskin, FL

Ruth Francis-Floyd

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Gainesville

Saundra Tenbroeck

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Animal Sciences, Gainesville

Sonji Hawkins

Job Titles:
  • Interim Public Safety Director

Stephen Gran

Job Titles:
  • Director

Timothy Maguire

Job Titles:
  • Director

Todd Thrift

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Animal Sciences, Gainesville

Wendell Porter

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Gainesville / Controlling