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Technical Team
DR. DONALD H. MARX
Chief Scientist
Few companies other than Plant Health
Care, Inc. can offer access to scientists of Dr. Marx’s caliber. Dr. Marx
spends the majority of his time working with Plant Health Care, Inc.'s
horticulture, agricultural, arboricultural, forestry, and land reclamation customers. He also manages the
university and field testing of Plant Health Care, Inc. products. Dr. Marx
lectures extensively throughout the U.S. and abroad on plant physiology,
mycorrhizae and bacteria. The esteemed winner of the Marcus Wallenberg Prize
for Forestry (awarded by the King of Sweden), Dr. Marx is the leading
authority on mycorrhizae and their practical application to plants. During
his 37 years of service with the USDA Forest Service, he conducted extensive
research on the practical use of mycorrhizal fungi to improve forests
worldwide, as well as work in air pollution, stress relationships in trees,
use of organic soil amendments in reclamation, exotic tropical forestry and
nursery management. Dr. Marx founded the Institute for Mycorrhizal Research
and Development in 1975 and the Institute of Tree Root Biology in 1990 for
the Forest Service. He has authored more than 270 scientific papers in
forest microbiology and has presented more than 400 invitational lectures in
28 countries, as well as at most major universities in the U.S.
DR. C. EDWARD
CORDELL
Vice President, Technical Services,
Land Restoration and Forestry Division
Like Dr. Marx, Dr. Cordell also spends the majority of his time working
one-on-one with Plant Health Care, Inc. customers in the forestry and land
reclamation industries. He also manages the MycorTree™ seedling production
operation with designated contract growers. Dr. Cordell is considered the
leading authority in the technology transfer and practical application of
ectomycorrhizae in forest tree nurseries, field restoration, Christmas tree
production, mineland reclamation and other related forest tree uses. He has
received numerous awards for his accomplishments in forest pathology and
ectomycorrhizal fungi applications, including the USDA Forest Service
Certificate of Merit Award (1982, 1990 and 1991). Dr. Cordell is formerly
the National Mycorrhizal Coordinator and Nursery Specialist, USDA Forest
Service. He has authored more than 100 scientific papers and lectured
throughout the U.S. and abroad.
DR.
STEPHEN B. MAUL
Vice President, Research & Development
Dr. Maul has an extensive and distinguished background in the management of
commercial microbial product research and development programs. At Plant
Health Care, Inc., he ensures that the Company’s products are fully
developed before they reach the hands of the customers. He encourages
customers to contact him with any suggestions relating to Plant Health Care,
Inc. products. Dr. Maul was founder and President of Mycorr Tech, Inc.,
which developed the process that is used to produce Plant Health Care,
Inc.’s ectomycorrhizal inoculum products. Prior to founding Mycorr, he was
vice president, member of the board of directors and director of research
for Sylvan Spawn Laboratory, Pittsburgh. Dr. Maul held positions as manager
of bioengineering at Schering Plough Corp. and was a senior scientist at Eli
Lilly.
DR.
MICHAEL J. KERNAN
Technical Services
Dr. Kernan is a valuable member of the Plant Health Care, Inc. Technical
Support Services team, providing technical information about Plant Health
Care, Inc. products to customers to ensure their proper use and best
results. In addition, Dr. Kernan is responsible for the production of all
ectomycorrhizal fungi inoculum and maintenance of rigid quality control
standards. He is also responsible for maintaining Plant Health Care,
Inc.’s culture collections of ectomycorrhizal fungi (one of the world’s
largest). The Ben Franklin Ericoid Project, a research grant program
established to develop an ericoid mycorrhizal fungi inoculum, is also
coordinated by Dr. Kernan. Prior to his position with Plant Health Care,
Inc., Dr. Kernan served as Production Manager for Mycorr Tech, Inc., as
technical writer at SKC, Inc.and with the University of Pittsburgh’s
Center for Hazardous Materials Research. He received his B.A. in Biology
from St. Vincent College and his Ph.D. in Biology from St. Bonaventure
University, where he described an ericoid mycorrhizal discomycete (a new
fungal species).
DR.
JOSEPH STRAUSS
Technical Services, Europe
Dr. Joseph Strauss is in charge of technical services for continental
Europe. As a key scientist for both the Plant Health Care and
Environmental Health Care business divisions, he provides technology support
to the Company’s European distributors and operations. Dr. Strauss also
works on the development of new technologies for application in microbial
ecology and manages quality control of biotechnological processes and
pathogen analysis.
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Dr.
Donald H. Marx
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