INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

USAID IDEA – October 2005. Evaluating production, harvesting, handling and processing of loroco in El Salvador.

USAID AERI Institutional Capacity Building activities – Jan. and Sept.-Oct. 2004; Sept. 2005. Working with Faculties of Agriculture at six universities in Upper Egypt to reform and strengthen their curricula and teaching methods to better prepare graduates for careers; reviewing and overseeing horticulture grant projects.

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), Transportation Working Group (TPT-WG). Australia-New Zealand-U.S.-Canada joint project, conducting analysis and case studies of sea and air container track and trace technologies in the Pacific region for APEC, 2003-2004

Travelled to Mexico as part of a collaborative research project with Autonomous University of Queretero, Mexico, 2001.

Forum PRO LOGISTIK-Controlled Atmosphere, University of Applied Sciences, Heilbronn, Germany 1999 (invited presention: An overview of controlled atmosphere technology in the USA).

USDA FAS Technical Seminars: “Maintaining the Cold Chain: The Bottom Line,” Bangkok, Thailand and Manila, Philippines, 1999 (presenter)

Answering the Consumers' Needs for Fresh and Convenient Foods Shortcourse, Instituto Inter-Universitário de Macau (IIUM) Macau, 1998 (presenter).

Cargo Systems/Pacific Shipper Asia-Pacific Refrigerated Trade '98 Conference, San Francisco, Calif. , 1998 ( presenter ).

USAID ATUT Mango Postharvest Shortcourse, Cairo, Egypt, 1998 (organizer and presenter).

Consulted in Egypt with scientists and gave presentations on controlled atmosphere shipping at Alexandria Univ., Alexandria and Ain Shams Univ., Cairo concerning collaborative research activites between Egypt and Florida, 1997.

Faculty development leave, University Laval, Quebec, Canada, 1997.

Quality and Safety Assurance in Fruits and Vegetables for Export Shortcourse, Cairo, Egypt, 1997 (organizer and presenter).

Acted as U.S. leader of a project, funded by JNICT, Portugal, as a collaboration between Univ. Catolica Portugal and Univ. of Florida: “A New Approach to Maintaining Fruit and Vegetable Quality After Harvest Using Perforation-Mediated Modified Atmosphere Packaging,” 1996-2002.

Postharvest Physiology/Technology and Chilling Injury Scientific Exchange to Peoples Republic of China, funded by USDA-OICD, 1995.

Reviewed postharvest USAID-supported (NARP) research activities at Alexandria University and at Ministry of Agriculture, Horticulture Research Center, Giza, Egypt, 1994.

Postharvest Technology Shortcourse, Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Porto, Portugal, 1992-96 (organizer and lecturer).

Packaging Perishable Products for Export Shortcourse, Instituto Technologico de Costa Rica, Cartago, Costa Rica, 1991 (organizer and presenter).

Evaluation of postharvest handling systems for horticultural crops. Univ. Center of Dschang, Cameroon, 1988 (USAID-funded project).