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Penn State Names Research Viticulturist
S
tate College, Pa.—After a search process that lasted more
than four years, Pennsylvania State University announced
in December that Dr. Michela Centinari would be the new
research viticulturist in the Department of Plant Science. Her
position, which will be 75% research and 25% extension, will
be co-funded by the Pennsylvania Wine Marketing and Research
Program and Penn State.
Centinari earned a Ph.D. in 2008 from the University of Bologna,
Italy, where she studied in the Department of Fruit Tree and Woody
Plant Sciences. Her doctoral research looked at vineyard cover
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crops and specifically investigated the methods for measuring cover
crop evapotranspiration and the effects of vineyard floor
management practices on total vineyard water use. According
to Centinari, her research "was designed to determine the reliability
of available methods used to study cover crop water use, to analyze
the relationship between vineyard cover crop water use and the
climatic factors that drive evaporative
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