Plant Assistant

Birehane Kasaye Desta

**** .* ******* **, **********, OK, 74075

Cell phone 405-***-****

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Education

M.Sc. Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74075

Major field Plant and Soil Sciences

Thesis work Identification of Spectral Bands to Detect Mid Season Nitrogen and Phosphorus Deficiencies in Winter Wheat

From Aug 2007 to July 2009

B.Ed Alemaya University, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia 138

Major Geography

Senior Essay Milk Production, Distribution, and Consumption at Alemaya University Dairy Farm

From Sep 1998 - July 2002

College courses Chemistry 2011 at NOC

Microbiology 2011 at NOC

GED

(certificate) Bekoji Senior Secondary School, Bekoji, Ethiopia

Completion June1998

Work Experiences August 2010 to present

Working at Stillwater Group Homes.

Work Experiences

January 2009 Teaching assistant at Oklahoma State University Department of Plant and Soil Sciences (Fundamentals of Soil Science, Soil 2124)

Aug 2007 to Jul 2009 Agronomy research assistant under Dr.William R.Raun,

Group leader- Daniel E. Edmonds

Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74075

Responsibility Conducting research

Sample processing collecting data

Oct 2005 to July 2007 Instructor at Chilalo College, Asella, Ethiopia Team work

Jan 2004 to May2005 Instructor at Rift valley University College, Asella, Ethiopia

Sep 2002 to 2003 Teacher at Abobo High School, Gambella, Ethiopia

Special skills Field sensors and N -Tech N capture operation

sampling Spectrometry reading

Digital crop picture processing,

Soil and crop sampling, data analysis, and interpretation

Others Experiment setup and field layout

Operating farm machinery except combiner

Different safety rules on work

PC Proficient in: Ms word, Excel, power point, and some in Access

Software SAS, ESIR-ArcGis,

Language All language skills in:

English

Amharic - Ethiopian national language

Oromo language - The second popular Ethiopian language

Publications

Published Edmonds, Daniel E., Silvano L. Abreu, Heidi West, Donna R. Caasi, Travis O. Conley, Michael C. Daft, Birehane Desta, Brandon B. England, Chelsea D. Farris, Tia J. Nobles, Nehaben K. Patel, Elliott W. Rounds, Brennan H. Sanders, Samar S. Shawaqfeh, and W.R. Raun. 2008. Cereal Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Sub Saharan Africa. J. Plant Nutr. [in press

Abstracts Kanke, Y., D.B. Arnall, D. Edmonds, B. England, B. Desta, and W.R. Raun.2008. A Visual Method of Calibrating Nitrogen Need, Tied to Season NDVI Values. In Agronomy Abstracts. ASA, Madison, WI.

Other publications Birehane Desta, Brian Arnal, and Bill Raun. 2009. The evolution of Reference Strips in Oklahoma. PSS-2258-4. Oklahoma State University

Edmonds, Daniel, Brain Arnall, Kefyalew Desta, Bill Raun, John Solie, Marvin Stone, Randy Taylor, Hailin Zhang, Birehane Desta, Yumiko Kanke, Jerry May, Emily Ruto, Guilherme Torres, Jacob Vossenkemper, Olga Walsh, Scott Clark, Jared Crain, and Bee Khim. 2008. Oklahoma Precision Agriculture Research Highlights Bulletin. Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK

Professional Associations and meetings Membership Soil Science Society of America (SSSA), American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CSSA),

North American college and teachers association (NACTA

Meetings

NUE annual meeting at Manhattan, Kansas, 2008

SSSA, ASA, CSSA 2008 annual meeting, 5-9 Oct, 2008 , Houston, TX

Noble Foundation Educational Tour and Seminar, Nov.20 to 21,2008

NACTA meeting at Oklahoma State University, June 17 to 20, 2009

Professional presentations Poster NUE annual meeting: Spectral Identification of Nitrogen and Phosphorus deficiency in winter wheat at Manhattan. Manhattan, Kansas, 2008

SSSA, ASA, and CSSA annual meeting: Identification of Spectral bands to detect Phosphorus deficiency in winter wheat. Houston TX, 2008

Seminar

Oklahoma State University Department of Plant and Soil Sciences: Identification of Spectral bands to detect Phosphorus deficiency in winter wheat. Nov.24, 2008

Grants received HF “PAT”MRRPHY memo, 2008, $500.00

Supplementary fellowship, 2007/08 , $300 for 9 months

Ralph S. Matlock Scholarship, 2009, $750.00

References

Dr. William R. Raun Regents Professor, Walter R. Sitlington Chair in Agriculture, Soil Fertility. Oklahoma State University Department of Plant and Soil Sciences 368 Agricultural Hall, Stillwater, OK 74078-6028

Phone 405-***-****

Dr.Kefyalew Girma Washington State University, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences , Prosser, WA Phone number 509-786 - 9307, Cell, 405-***-****

E- mail: ********.*****@***.***

Kirra Stillwater Group homes Inc. Phone number 405-***-****

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