 Maria
Leticia Gonzalez Ferreira (Leticia) comes to Bielinski
Santos's Hort Science program from Paraguay, where she earned her MS as
a Plant Science Engineer. Leticia will be training with us until this
fall. |
Sabrina Spurgeon is a
new
Biological
Scien tist for David Schuster's Entomology research program.
Sabrina is a recent newcomer Lakeland. She earned her BS in
Entomology and a MS in Forensic DNA/Serology from UF. She is also experienced in training and showing hunter/jumper horses. |
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 Also
transferring to the Plant City campus is someone who has actually been
working there since December 2004 under the supervision of Sudeep
Viapari from the Apopka Center. Greg Doyen is a Biological
Scientist who will also be under the supervision of Sydney Park Brown.
Greg graduated from high school in Plant City and received his BS from
UF in Environmental Horticulture. |
 Congratulations
to Robert Graves who graduated this past December with his BS in
Environmental Horticulture with a degree emphasis in horticulture
operations. Robert is the third student to graduate from the Plant City
program since they began offering courses in 2002. His education and
training come in handy with his position of sales associate at Kerby’s
Nursery & Landscaping located in Seffner, Florida. Robert has a heritage
and love for horticulture which is greatly enhanced by his additional
interests in environmentally-conscience gardening, landscape design,
botanical gardens, and bonsai gardening. We are very proud to claim
Robert as one of our Plant City Gators.
(Martin
Wortman) |
If
these two guys look familiar, it's because they've been working in the
landscape research plot area for some time now under the management of
Sudeep Viapari from the Apopka Center. The research program will
be transferring to the supervision of Sydney Park Brown and Amy Shober,
so they are now officially working for the Plant City campus.
Davey Crockett (left) supervises the work done in the research plots
and is ably assisted by Scott LaPointe. Davey has a BS in
Landscape and Nursery Mgmt. from UF. He is a US Army retiree and plans
to continue his studies in Environmental Hort. Scott graduated
from Bloomingdale High School in Valrico. The two make a great
team!