Drew Hubbard

Grower

339 followers

Portland, Oregon, United States

Connect with Drew Hubbard to Send Message

Connect

Connect with Drew Hubbard to Send Message

Connect

Timeline
About me
Technical &amp; Regulatory Services Coordinator at FINE AMERICAS, INC.
Education
- Oregon State University
  2014 - 2020
  Doctoral Candidate (incomplete) Horticultural Science
- Oregon State University
  2009 - 2011
  Master's degree Plant Pathology/Phytopathology
  Activities and Societies: Graduate Student Association President.
- Illinois State University
  2002 - 2005
  BS Psychology
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  2005 - 2008
  Bachelor's degree Horticultural Science
  Activities and Societies: Pi Alpha Xi Vice President, Flower Show Chair for Horticulture Club As Flower Show Chair, I organized an event with over 100 volunteers and 20,000 visitors over a single weekend.
Experience
- Pepper Creek
  Oct 1996 - Dec 2008
  Grower
  Scheduling, ordering and growth of ornamental horticultural crops. Pest management. Costumer service and sales. General maintenance including basic electric, plumbing, structural and heavy equipment.
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  May 2007 - Dec 2007
  Plant Disease Diagnostics, data collection & entry, phyto-sanitary analysis, writing result reports for growers.
  - Student
    Aug 2005 - Dec 2007
  - Plant Diagnostician Intern
    May 2007 - Sept 2007
- Oregon State University
  Aug 2010 - Dec 2011
  Experimental design and implementation of fire blight trials over a 3 year period which included but not limited to: techniques for standard laboratory culturing of bacteria on artificial media and plant material, lyophylization, inoculation of field plots, bacterial isolation from plant material, data analysis, and presentation of results to local and international colleagues. Conducted mutagenesis experiments directed at developing spontaneous antibiotic resistant bacteria for use in standard integrated pest control trials for efficacy of fire blight suppression on flowers of apple and pear trees. Application of pesticides for research purposes using proper safety technique.Tissue Culture propagation of plant material. Standard laboratory skills such as media preparation, sterile technique, culture maintenance, data recording, and experimental design were executed routinely. Show less
  - Research Technician
    Jan 2009 - Dec 2011
  - Graduate Teaching Assistant
    Aug 2010 - Dec 2010
- Left Coast Cellars
  Sept 2011 - Jan 2012
  Cellar Hand
- G.S. Long Co., Inc
  Jan 2012 - Dec 2017
  Research Specialist
  Experimental design & implementation, statistical analysis, customer service, product development, crop claims, disease diagnosis
- Oregon State University
  Jan 2015 - now
  PHD Candidate
  I'm beginning my PhD working on the inducement of early dormancy in sweet cherry in order to both eliminate natural entry points and gain some cold hardiness to reduce early winter damage in order to exclude the bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas syringe pv syringe.
- FINE AMERICAS, INC.
  Nov 2017 - now
  Technical & Regulatory Services Coordinator
Licenses & Certifications
- Pesticide Research & Demonstration License
  Washington State Department of Agriculture
  Feb 2012
- Pesticide Research & Demonstration License
  Oregon Department of Agriculture
  Mar 2010