New Hire Announcement: Lydia Tymon

Lydia Tymon

Environmental Horticulture Advisor
Riverside & San Bernardino Counties
2980  Washington St.
Riverside, CA 92504
[email protected]
206-321-9216

Lydia Tymon joined UC ANR on October 1st as the new Environmental Horticulture Advisor serving San Bernardino and Riverside counties. In her role, she will be developing and extending horticultural knowledge in areas including climate-adapted landscape trees and integrated pest management to nursery, landscape, and urban forestry professionals along with community organizations. 

Lydia comes to UC Cooperative Extension with extensive background in applied pathology and nursery production. She holds and Ph.D. in plant pathology from Washington State University and a master's degree in forestry for the University of Washington. She previously held a research position at Washington State University's Northwestern Research and Extension Center in Mount Vernon, WA, where her work focused on the management of fungal and bacterial pathogens and pests affecting vegetable and small fruit crops in the state. Most recently, she was the Senior Director of Bio R&D at Mast Reforestation, partnering with nursery growers and foresters on projects to improve seedling survival after planting and trialing novel container types for conifer seedling production.