John Snider
Third Year Review
T.L. Grey
W. Vencill
M. Habteselassie
Job announcement 2011
submission closed Sept 16, 2011
• 85% Research
– Focused on physiological aspects of cotton
– The objective improve cotton management systems
– Physiology of growth & development, fruiting profile, fiber
quality, stress management, cultural management, & termination
– Irrigation management /fiber quality areas of focus
• Work cooperatively
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CRSS faculty (including IPBGG)
Cotton Team (ENT, PP)
county extension personnel
Industry
commodity groups
• 15% Teaching in Cotton Physiology
– active graduate student program
– one undergraduate course
– one graduate course, each every other year
Degrees and Employment
BS
MS
PhD
USDA
UGA
Henderson State U – Biology (‘05)
Central Arkansas U – Biology (‘07)
U Arkansas – Crop Phys (‘10)
POST Doc Boonville, AR (‘10-’12)
Assistant Professor (April 2012)
Areas of research
Cotton Physiology
• Drought stress & plant-based irrigation
• Heat stress
• Genotype & environment
– Yield
– Fiber quality
– Seedling vigor, seed oil content
Research Strategy
• Field research
• Lab research
Research (85%)
1) Book chapters
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b)
4 total; 3 senior
2 since 2012 hire – 2 senior
2) Refereed Publications
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b)
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26 total; 15 senior
since hired UGA 2012: 13 total; 7 senior
citations 79 times – work is relevant
3) Abstracts (papers presented)
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41 total
18 since hire (5 as speaker)
4) Extension reports – 25, 7 at UGA
Research (85%)
• Experimental areas of specific interest
• Drought stress – field studies
• chlorophyll fluorescence
• gas exchange methodology
• J. Plant Physiol. 171:1576-1585
• J. Agron. Crop Sci. 200:77-82
• Plant-based irrigation scheduling
• water efficiency irrigation practices - yield or fiber quality
• between predawn water potential and canopy temp
• Crop Water Stress Index
• Heat Stress Physiology
• In press
Research Grants - UGA
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Total funds associated
Grants as cooperator (9)
Various
Contracts
Nonfunded grant proposals
Notable since 2012
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b)
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$632,600
$409,500
$115,800
$107,300
3 - 2013
Using rapid techniques to identify drought sensitivity in
commercial cotton cultivars
Utilize Sub-Surface Drip Irrigation & Plant-Based Triggers
Proper variety selection & production management decisions
Teaching (15%)
Tifton Campus
• CRSS 8050 “Advanced crop production”
– taught 2013, summer 2015
• CRSS 4450/6450 “Crop physiology”
– Spring 2014, spring 2016
• Students are very complementary to his
teaching skills & plant phys knowledge (4-5)
• Graduate students
– 5 committees
– Advisor 2 PhD
– Committee member for 2 MS and 1 PhD
Extension (0%)
1)
Workshop speaker at Georgia
Cotton Conferences & Field
days
13 from 2012-2015
2)
Editorships
Georgia Cotton Research and
Extension Report
2012
12 articles
2013
9 articles
Professional Contributions
1) Beltwide Cotton Conference
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2015 - present
2013 & 2014
2014
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Steering committee
Agronomy & Physiology – chair
Symposium coordinator
Linking physiology to management
Carbon dynamics in cotton
Moderator sessions
2) Graduate student contest judge
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ASA, CSSA, SSSA meeting 2013
3) Peer reviewer for journals: 5-10 each year
Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, Agronomy Journal, Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta
– Bioenergetics, Crop Science, European Journal of Agronomy, International Journal of Plant and Soil Science, Journal of
Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, Journal of Plant Physiology, Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science, Journal of the
American Society for Horticultural Science, Journal of Agricultural Science, Journal of Cotton Science, Plant Physiology
and Biochemistry, Physiologia Plantarum
University Committee
Contributions
Committee Member
Sunbelt Ag Expo Committee
CRSS/UGA 2014
CRSS 2014 Program Review
Research Committee
Crop and Weed Management Subcommittee
2015 Cotton Extension Specialist Search and Screen
Committee (vice Collins)
Recognition at UGA
Awards
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John Snider
2015 Young Cotton Physiologist of the Year - BWCC
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Graduate students
Daryl Chastain
2014 1st place BWCC student poster contest
2014 1st place CSSA student poster contest
2015 2nd place BWCC student poster contest
2015 3rd place BWCC student oral contest
Team Player
• Publications
• Grants
• Graduate students
• Professional societies
• Work with public
Commissions/Private industry
Committee review comments
• Teaching is being transmitted to Athens
– Indicates his statewide teaching efforts
• Needs to serve on CSSA/ASA committees
• Keep trying for larger grants
• Effective researcher
John Snider
For 3rd year review
Positive and building on a program for which he
was hired per the job announcement
Continue his successful research & teaching efforts
Thanks to committee
William Vencill
Mussie Habteselassie
Questions?