Late last year, NGWI refreshed our research focus areas to better reflect current research needs and more tightly align with researchers and funding sources like ARS and NIFA. At the Mid-Year Board Meeting on June 8 in Sacramento, Research Chair Nick Dokoozlian shared the structure for the four Theme Committees, and announced the people who have agreed to serve on them.<\/p>\n
Each NGWI Research Theme Committee has nine members, Nick said: six representing industry (the chair and five standing committee members) and three academic subject matter experts. Committee members are chosen for their expertise, and industry and geographic diversity, and serve three-year terms. The new committee members are:<\/p>\n
Natural Resources and Environment Integrated Vineyard Production Systems Genetics and Grapevine Improvement Extension and Outreach The Research Theme Committees began their work in June, and will be working to identify research needs in their respective theme areas. Their goal is to produce a refreshed research roadmap by the end of the year.<\/p>\n Congratulations\u2014and thank you\u2014to all who have committed to serve!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Late last year, NGWI refreshed our research focus areas to better reflect current research needs and more tightly align with researchers and funding sources like ARS and NIFA. At the Mid-Year Board Meeting on June 8 in Sacramento, Research Chair Nick Dokoozlian shared the structure for the four Theme Committees, and announced the people who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ngwi-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graperesearch.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graperesearch.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graperesearch.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graperesearch.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graperesearch.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/graperesearch.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":823,"href":"https:\/\/graperesearch.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graperesearch.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graperesearch.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graperesearch.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/u><\/em><\/strong>Anji Perry \u2013 CA \u2013 J Lohr Vineyards & Wines
\n<\/strong>Imed Dami \u2013 The Ohio State University
\nAnne Fennell – South Dakota State University
\nToby Halkovich \u2013 CA \u2013 Cakebread
\nAllison Jordan \u2013 CA \u2013 Wine Institute
\nMarkus Keller \u2013 Washington State University
\nAndrew McElrone \u2013 ARS\/UC Davis
\nTony Stephen \u2013 CA \u2013 American Vineyard Foundation (Scheid Vineyards)
\nJulie Tarara \u2013\u00a0 WA \u2013 Ste. Michelle Wine Estates
\nVladimer Tudor \u2013 CA \u2013 California Table Grape Commission\u00a0(Tudor Ranch)<\/p>\n
\n<\/u><\/em><\/strong>Russell Smithyman \u2013 WA \u2013 Ste. Michelle Wine Estates
\n<\/strong>Craig Bardwell \u2013 WA \u2013 National Grape Co-operative\/Welch\u2019s
\nKaan Kurtural \u2013 UC Davis
\nAndrew Meggitt \u2013 MO \u2013 St. James Winery
\nMarshall Miller \u2013 CA \u2013 Thornhill Properties
\nRich Schaefers \u2013 CA \u2013 Silverado Partners
\nPatty Skinkis \u2013 OR \u2013 Oregon State University
\nTony Wolf \u2013 Virginia Tech University
\nJohn V. Zaninovich \u2013 CA \u2013 California Table Grape Commission (Vincent B. Zaninovich & Sons)<\/p>\n
\n<\/u><\/em><\/strong>Franka Gabler, CTGC
\n<\/strong>Dario Cantu \u2013 UC Davis
\nMatt Clark \u2013 MN \u2013 University of Minnesota
\nDeborah Golino \u2013 UC Davis
\nJason Londo \u2013 ARS\/Cornell University
\nDan Martinez \u2013 CA \u2013 Martinez Nursery
\nJohn Martini \u2013 NY \u2013 Anthony Road Wine Company
\nRachel Naegele \u2013 CA \u2013 USDA ARS Parlier
\nRick Stark \u2013 CA \u2013 Sun-Maid
\nAndrew Zaninovich \u2013 CA \u2013 Sunview Vineyards \/ California Table Grape Commission<\/p>\n
\n<\/u><\/em><\/strong>Keith Striegler \u2013 CA \u2013 E&J Gallo
\n<\/strong>Jim Anderson \u2013 Missouri Wine & Grape Board
\nStephanie Bolton \u2013 CA \u2013 Lodi Winegrape Commission
\nEd Hellman \u2013 Texas A&M University
\nRyan Logoluso \u2013 California Table Grape Commission (Frank A. Logoluso Farms)
\nMichelle Moyer \u2013 Washington State University
\nEmilio Miranda \u2013 CA \u2013 Allied Grape Growers
\nMike Moriyama \u2013 CA \u2013 Sun-Maid
\nHans Walter-Peterson \u2013 Cornell University<\/p>\n