The international research team is composed of climatologists, computer scientists, economists, geographers and horticulturalists from Michigan (USA) and central and eastern Europe, two primary tart cherry production regions. The research team works closely with industry stakeholders.
People
- Zubin Abraham
- Jeffrey Andresen
- Marco Artavia
- J. Roy Black
- Geza Bujdoso
- Frank Chmielewski
- Adam Cinderich
- Yuriy Farion
- Dieter Kirschke
- Robert Kurlus
- Peter Hilsendegen
- Amy Iezzoni
- Melba Lacey
- Sangjun Lee
- Malgorzata Liszewska
- Scott Loveridge
- Lukasz Malarzewski
- Philipp Matzneller
- Nelly Mojsejchenko
- Tadeusz Niedzwiedz
- Denys Nizalov
- Magadalena Opala
- Aaron Pollyea
- Perdinan
- Nikki Rothwell
- Mariusz Rybak
- Victoria Skryaga
- Pang-Ning Tan
- Suzanne Thornsbury
- Zbigniew Ustrnul
- Harald Von Witzke
- Xuan Wei
- Julie Winkler
- Mollie Woods
- Agnieszka Wypych
- Alexandr Yareschenko
- David Young
- Costanza Zavalloni
- Jinhua Zhao
- Sharon Zhong


![Jeffrey Andresen [Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Michigan State University] is an agricultural meteorologist and the State Climatologist for Michigan. Research interests include the impacts of weather and climate on agriculture, applied climatology, and climate change.](images/bio/Andresen.jpg)

![J. Roy Black[Professor, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics] Research interests include risk assessment, decision support and crop insurance.](images/bio/Black.jpg)


![Adam Cinderich [Graduate Student, Department of Geography, Michigan State University]. He is interested in applied climatology and regional climate change. His current studies focus on the validation of regional climate models using gridded observational and reanalysis data.](images/bio/Cinderich.jpg)
![Yuriy Farion [Junior Researcher, Institute of Geography, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine] is a geographer specializing in physical geography, landscape science and GIS](images/bio/Farion.jpg)
![Dieter Kirschke[Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany] is an agricultural economist working on agricultural policy analysis and evaluation and on European and international agricultural policies. The impact analysis and evaluation of climate change and climate change adaptation policies has become a new research focus.](images/bio/Kirschke.jpg)
![Robert Kurlus [Research Scientist, Department of Pomology, Poznan University of Life Sciences]. Research interests include growth, yield and quality of fruit crops.](images/bio/Kurlus.jpg)
![Peter Hilsendegen [Research Scientist, DLR Rheinpfalz, Oppenheim, Germany]. Research interests include the cultivation and management of fruit crops.](images/bio/Hilsendegen.jpg)
![Amy Iezzoni [Professor, Department of Horticulture, Michigan State University] is a plant breeder/geneticists specializing in cherry breeding and genetics, and comparative genomics in the Rosaceae](images/bio/Iezzoni.jpg)
![Melba Lacey [Project Coordinator] has a long history with MSU in project development and management working primarily with federal donor agencies. Melba has earned her Bachelor's Degree in Social Sciences and her Master's Degree in Higher and Lifelong Education both from MSU where she was the recipient of the Jack Breslin Outstanding Staff Award and the Faculty-Professional Women's Association Outstanding Non-Academic Staff Award.](images/bio/Lacey.jpg)


















![Julie Winkler [Professor, Department of Geography, Michigan State University] is a geographer/climatologist specializing in synoptic and applied climatology, regional climate change, and climate scenario development](images/bio/Winkler.jpg)





![Jinhua Zhao [Professor, Department of Economics, and Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, Michigan State University] is an economist specializing in resource and environmental economics, dynamic decision making under uncertainty and irreversibility, and technology adoption.](images/bio/Zhao.jpg)
![Sharon Zhong [Professor, Department of Geography, Michigan State University]. My research interests lie primarily in improving our understanding of atmospheric boundary layer and mesoscale processes with an emphasis on those induced by topography and landscape heterogeneity](images/bio/Zhong.jpg)