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 Brad Gaolach
Director, King County Extension
206.205.3110
brad.gaolach@kingcounty.gov
Brad joined WSU King County Extension in March 2001 as an Area Agriculture and Natural Resource Extension agent and has been serving as Director since November, 2003. As Director he provides leadership in extension programs related to the needs of King County citizens, provides leadership in networking, collaboration, and working with community leaders and community-based organizations to identify and address priority issues across the county, and oversees the office of 40 staff including 14 faculty members and an annual budget of $3 million. In addition he conducts educational programming and on-farm research about cultural control methods for insect pests on vegetables.
Areas of Expertise:
· Agroecology
· IPM
· Plant-insect interactions
· Vegetable pest management
Education:
·B.S. 1992, University of Washington, Zoology
·B.A. 1992, University of Washington, Politicial Science
·M.S. 1995, North Carolina State University, Entomology
·Ph.D. 2001, University of Washington, Zoology
Selected Publications:
Kantor, S., Gaolach, B. and H. Cavendish-Palmer. 2005. Washington State University Extension’s King County Harvest Celebration Farm Tour: Summary Report of Seven Years of Growth and Impact. WSU King County Extension. Renton, WA.
Gaolach, B. 2005. "Flea beetles: biology & control options". Proceedings of the 95th Annual Western Washington Horticultural Association, January 11-13, 2005 SeaTac, WA.
Zimmerman, T., and B. Gaolach. 2004. "Using bugs to combat weeds – how does biocontrol work in Western Washington?” In, Snyder, W., and C. Miles (eds.). 2004. Making the bugs work for you: Biological control in organic agriculture. Symposium proceedings. Washington State University Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, Portland OR.
Gaolach, B. and A. Stout. 2004. "Organic control options for flea beetles in Arugula". In, Snyder, W., and C. Miles (eds.) Making the bugs work for you: Biological control in organic agriculture. Symposium proceedings. Washington State University Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, Portland OR.
Gaolach, B. 2004. "Dirty cropping and insect community structure: Can relaxed weed control benefit pest control in Brassicaceae crops". In, Snyder, W., and C. Miles (eds.). 2004. Making the bugs work for you: Biological control in organic agriculture. Symposium proceedings. Washington State University Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, Portland OR.
Gaolach, B. 2005. Celebrating the Bounty of King County. Pg. 3, Harvest Celebration Farm Tour insert in Seattle Weekly, Vol. 30, Number 37.
Gaolach, B. 2004. Farm fresh food – It's closer than you think. Pg. 3, Harvest Celebration Farm Tour insert in Seattle Weekly, Vol. 29, Number 37.
Gaolach, B. 2004. “Expo Trots Out the Goods for Gardens and Small Farms.” The Seattle Times, March 24, pg. F6. (Written under byline of Mary Robson.)
Gaolach, B. 2003. “Small Farm Expo.” Gardening in Western Washington: Weekly Regional Garden Column, March 3, 2003. Available at: http://gardening.wsu.edu/column/03-02-03.htm
Gaolach, B. 2003. “Small Farm Expo scheduled for March 29 at King County Fairgrounds.” Tacoma News Tribune, March 1, pg. E3.
Gaolach, B. 2002. "Alert! Hay contaminated with Toxic Weeds" in Conservation News. Published by Pierce Conservation District, Winter 2002.
Gaolach, B. 2005. Abomination: Flea Beetles. In Tilth Producers Quarterly, A Publication of Organic and Sustainable Agriculture, Vol. 14, Number 2.
Gaolach, B. 2004. Dirty Cropping and Insect Community Structure: Can relaxed weed control benefit pest control in Brassicaceae crops? Poster presentation at XXII International Congress of Entomology: Strength in Diversity, August 15-21, 2004, Brisbane, Australia.
Schoenly, K. G., M. B. Cohen, A. T. Barrion, W. Zhang, B. Gaolach, and V. D. Viajante. 2003. Effects of Bacillus thuringiensis on non-target herbivore and natural enemy assemblages in tropical irrigated rice. Environ. Biosafety Res. 3: 181-206.
Klepetka, B. and F. L. Gould. 1996. Effects of age and size on mating in Heliothis virescens (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae): implications for resistance management. Environ. Entomol 25: 993-1001.
Grevstad, Fritzi S., and B. Klepetka. 1992. The influence of plant architecture on the foraging efficiencies of a suite of Ladybird Beetles feeding on aphids. Oecologia, 92: 399-404.
Winterer, J., B. Klepetka, J. Banks, and P. Kareiva. 1992. Crop intensification and increased pest problems: strategies for minimizing the vulnerability of rice to pest epidemics. Proceedings of the 1992 International Rice Research Conference, IRRI, Manila, edited by P. Pingali.
Kareiva, P., J. Winterer, and B. Klepetka. 1992. Overcoming pest and pathogen adaptability using insights from evolutionary biology. Sixth International Symposium on Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, edited by Howard Clark.
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