Position Title
Co-Director — UCNFA
Specialist in CE Emeritus — Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis
Loren is a Specialist in Cooperative Extension Emeritus having “retired” in 2023 after more than 20 years at UC Davis. His research and extension program focused on water issues in urban landscapes, greenhouses, and nurseries and studied runoff from residential sources, biological water treatment methods, characterizing nursery runoff, and assessing responses of plants to deficit irrigation and providing irrigation recommendations to those plants.
Loren continues to lecture to the landscape and nursery industry, regulatory agencies, pest management professionals, and Master Gardeners on topics including irrigation management, pollution reduction, water treatment, and others.
His B.S. in Ornamental Horticulture is from Cal Poly SLO, M.S. in Plant Sciences from UC Riverside, and Ph.D. in Ecology from UC Davis. He worked at Oki Nursery, founded by his grandfather, prior to coming to UC Davis. He has served on numerous trade, regulatory, and academic organizations on committees and other groups.
- B.S. Ornamental Horticulture, Cal Pol SLO
- M.S. Plant Sciences, UC Riverside
- Ph.D. Ecology, UC Davis