Juan D. Lopez, Jr, Research Entomologist

 Phone: 979-260-9530

 Fax: 979-260-9386

j-lopez@tamu.edu

Current Research

Biographical Information

Education:

• 1964-68 Texas A&M University, major, Entomology; B.S. 1968
• 1972-73 Texas A&M University, major, Entomology, minor, Ecology; M.S. 1973
• 1973-76 Texas A&M University, major, Entomology, minor, Ecology; Ph.D. 1976

Employment:

• 1976-84 Research Entomologist, USDA-ARS, Cotton Insects Research, College Station, TX
• 1984-87 Supervisory Research Entomologist and Research Leader, USDA-ARS, Cotton Insects Research Unit, College Station, TX
• 1987-90 Supervisory Research Entomologist and Lead Scientist, USDA-ARS, Pest Management Research Unit, College Station, TX
• 1990-94 Supervisory Research Entomologist, USDA-ARS, Crop Insect Pests Management Research Unit, College Station, TX
• 1994-present Supervisory Research Entomologist, Areawide Pest Management Research Unit, College Station, TX

Professional Society Memberships, Offices and Appointments:

• Entomological Society of America (ESA); elected member - 1993-94
• vice-chair - 1994-95
• chair of the Standing Committee on Awards - 1995-96
• Member - President's Committee on Human Diversity 1994-95
• Member - Governing Board Committee on Human Diversity, 1995-96
• Southwestern Branch of ESA
• Chairman - Resolutions Committee (1984-85)
• Public Information Committee (1992-93)
• Member - Resolutions Committee (1979, 1982-83)
• Program Committee (1986-88)
• Public Information Committee (1987-94)
• Award Selection Committee for the Student Research Paper Contest (1987)
• Southwestern Entomological Society - President (1982-83)
• Past President and member of the Executive Committee (1983-84)
• , member - Publications Committee for the Southwestern Entomologist (1985-89)
• Nominations Committee (1988)

Honors and Awards:

• Honors and Awards: USDA Certificate of Merit, 1988, 1990
• USDA Certificate of Appreciation in recognition of service on the ARS Research Position Evaluation System Advisory Committee, August 1991-November 1993.

Advisory and Consulting Appointments:

• Visiting Member of Graduate Faculty, Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 1983-present
• Appointed Authorized Departmental Officer's Designated Representative (ADODR) for a cooperative research agreement between Cotton Incorporated and USDA, ARS, entitled "Use of Pheromone Traps and Emergence from Overwintering to Determine the Role of Early Season Migration in the Population Dynamics of Heliothis Spp. Throughout the Cotton Belt," 1982-85
• Cooperating Scientist for PL480 projects "Studies on the Sex Attractant of Pink Bollworm" at the Central Cotton Research Institute, Multan, Pakistan and "Biological Control of the European Corn Borer" with the Institute for Plant Protection, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 1985-88
• Selected by USDA, OICD, Scientific and Technical Cooperation Division, to represent ARS in an exchange visit to the People's Republic of China (PRC) titled "Migration of Insect Pests of Field Crops and Implications for Pest Management," 1988
• Appointed by the Administrator of ARS as representative of the Southern Plains Area to the RPES Advisory Committee in August 1991 and served until November 1993Rr.