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Justin Evertson has worked for the Nebraska Forest Service and Nebraska Statewide Arboretum since 1990, serving as the green infrastructure coordinator since 2010. He oversees programs that provide funding, technical assistance and educational outreach for community forestry and public landscaping efforts across the state. His areas of expertise are in trees, arboriculture and sustainable landscaping. Evertson has authored several publications with an emphasis on woody plant selection. He’s passionate about trees, the native landscape, biodiversity and sustainability. Evertson lives in Waverly, Nebraska, where he serves as a volunteer community forester planting trees across the community and working to make the community more biodiverse and sustainable.
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Eileen Bergt is the Assistant Directory of Landscape Services, her main focus in horticulture is in campus gardens, any trees, shrubs, perennials and annuals on campus. She is has a chair on the Nebraska State Board of Landscape Architects and is a member of National Trust for Historic Preservation. Bergt is familiar with the history of the university’s campus gardens and the landscape and gave a N 150 lecture on this topic in June of 2019.
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Kim Todd is an assistant professor and an extension horticulture specialist focusing on turf, landscape design, and horticulture systems. Her research interest include landscape design and management landscape architecture and plant materials as well as the development of niche landscape markets in rural areas. Todd has worked on multiple teams where she has created a horticulture course and/or landscape designs.
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Roch Gaussions is an extension coordinator and a professor who works closely with students of the CASNR Undergraduate Scholarship Program (CUSP) for Rwanda. His current research focuses on the photo-biome in turfgrass and nutraceutical assessment of amenity grass and specialty crop extracts. In 2016, Gaussoin was appointed to National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and Economics Advisory Board (NAREEEAB) by the Secretary of Agriculture.
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Bob Henrickson is the horticulture program coordinator with the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum. As the program coordinator, he organizes the Great Plants for the Great Plains program, assists affiliated arboretum sites with plants collection and to acquire, propagate and produce native and exotic plants for plant development and sales. Henrickson is a Nebraska-certified nurseryman and a certified arborist with the International Society of Arboriculture. He has been the host of a live, call-in gardening radio talk show, “How’s It Growin’?” in the Lincoln area since 2000.