Bugg, Robert
Robert
Bugg
530-754-8549
530-754-8550
rlbugg@ucdavis.edu
Robert L. Bugg, Ph.D. Assistant to the Director UC Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (UC SAREP) University of California 1 Shields Avenue Davis, CA 95616-8716
Dr. Robert Bugg, Assistant to the Director, UC Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (UC SAREP), University of California, Davis. Dr. Bugg studies methods for enhancing biological pest control, cover cropping, restoration ecology, earthworm biology, nitrogen dynamics, and pollination biology. He has conducted studies with field crops, vegetables, vineyards, and orchards, as well as in agricultural field borders. Dr. Bugg also co-founded the prize-winning and internationally acclaimed Biologically Integrated Orchard Systems (BIOS) Program, which takes an integrated, whole farming system approach to voluntary agrichemical reduction. He has served with BIOS Management Teams in Merced, San Joaquin, Solano, Stanislaus, and Yolo counties.