The following Oregon State University faculty members have expertise related to hemp or marijuana and are willing to speak with journalists. Their specific expertise, and contact information, is listed below. For help with other OSU faculty experts, contact Sean Nealon, 541-737-0787, [email protected].
Hemp
Gordon Jones, 541-447-6228, [email protected]
Jones is an associate professor of practice in OSU’s Department of Crop and Soil Science and OSU Extension agronomist in Crook, Deschutes, and Jefferson counties. His areas of expertise include:
- Hemp agronomy
Lloyd Nackley, [email protected]
Nackley is an associate professor and OSU Extension research leader for greenhouse and nursery production at the North Willamette Research and Extension Center in Aurora, about 20 miles south of Portland. His areas of expertise include:
- Hemp agronomy
Richard Roseberg, 541-883-4590, [email protected]
Roseberg is an associate professor of agronomy in OSU’s Department of Crop and Soil Science. His areas of expertise include:
- Hemp production in southern Oregon
- Hemp agronomy
Jeffrey Steiner, 541-737-9119, [email protected]
Steiner is the director of the OSU Global Hemp Innovation Center. His areas of expertise include:
- OSU Global Hemp Innovation Center
- Hemp agronomy
Kelly Vining, 541-737-0646, [email protected]
Vining is an assistant professor in OSU’s Department of Horticulture. Her areas of expertise include:
- Hemp genomics and bioinformatics
Marijuana
Anita Cservenka, 541-737-1366, [email protected]
Cservenka is an associate professor in the School of Psychological Science in the College of Liberal Arts. She is director of the Substance Use & Neurocognition (SUN) Lab. Her areas of expertise include:
- Cannabis use and neurocognitive effects
- Cannabis use and brain development
- Cannabis use in adolescents and young adults
- Cannabis forms and methods of administration
David Kerr, 541-737-1364, [email protected]
Kerr is a professor in the School of Psychological Science. His areas of expertise include:
- Public health effects of recreational (non-medical) marijuana legalization
- Cannabis use by adolescents and young adults
Aimee Huff, 541-737-3688, [email protected]
Huff is an assistant professor of marketing in the College of Business. Her research explores consumer culture in contexts that are socially contentious, including recreational marijuana. Her areas of expertise include:
- Consumer and non-consumer attitudes and acceptance of the market
- The process of the market becoming more legitimate
- Marketing and product design
Jane Ishmael, 541-737-5783, [email protected]
Ishmael is an associate professor of pharmacology in the College of Pharmacy. She served on the Retail Marijuana Scientific Advisory Committee for the Oregon Health Authority in 2015-16, in preparation for the opening of the retail cannabis market in Oregon. In 2015, she was appointed to an Oregon governor’s task force charged with researching the medical and public health properties of cannabis in Oregon. She also serves on the Hemp-Cannabis Working Group for the OSU Office of Research. Her areas of expertise include:
- Medicinal properties of cannabis
- Plant-derived cannabinoids and endocannabinoids
- State and federal rules for the regulation of cannabis-based medicines
- Oregon Medical Marijuana Program
- Natural product drug discovery