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Eric Hesketh is the Soil Scientist/Pest Management
Specialist for the Water Quality and Quantity Team of the West National
Technology Support Center. He is the lead technical expert for and developer of
the Windows Pesticide Screening Tool (WIN-PST). He also is involved with the
development of the Nitrogen Trading Tool (NTT) and the development of other
conservation technology tools.
Eric received his Bachelor of Science in Plant Science in
1982 and his Master of Science in Plant Science in 1986 from the University of
Rhode Island. As a graduate student, he worked as an IPM scout, Plant
Protection Clinic Technician, and Guest Lecturer for the Master Gardener
Program.
He served as a Research Assistant for the Plant Nutrition
Laboratory at the University of Rhode Island from 1986 to 1987. He did post
graduate work towards his Doctorate at the University of Massachusetts and was a
graduate teaching assistant at the Stockbridge School of Agriculture. His
expertise includes computer modeling, agrichemical fate, and soils.
He began working at NRCS (then SCS) in 1992 as a Soil
Conservationist with the National Agricultural Pesticide Risk Analysis Project. He later
became the projects Soil Scientist. Eric has written chapters for the NEDC
‘Nutrient and Pest Management Considerations in Conservation Planning' course as well
as being an instructor. He has also been involved in the development and
teaching of NRCS’s ‘Conservation Boot Camp’. He is the primary contact for
WIN-PST technical issues and is the lead trainer for the technology.
Eric has a Black Belt in Songahm Tae Kwon Do and is an
instructor and webmaster for his school in South Deerfield, Massachusetts. He
is also an avid beekeeper. The bears have gotten to the hives the past few years
so he has not seen the ravages of ‘colony collapse’ as of yet, but he has seen what hungry black bears can do to
wooden hives.
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