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work on canopy management techniques. Smart: International Viticultural Consultant, Smart
Viticulture, Truro, UK, richard@smartvit.com.au
Dr. Smart is a graduate from Sydney University
with Honors in Agricultural Science in 1966.
Additionally he holds the degrees M.Sc (Hons) from Amaya Atucha: is an assistant
Macquarie University following a study of sunlight professor and Gottschalk Chair
use by vineyards, a Ph.D from Cornell University in for cranberry research in the
New York State studying under the Professor Nelson department of Horticulture at the
Shaulis, and in 1995 awarded a D.Sc. in Agriculture University of Wisconsin-Madison
by the Stellenbosch University, South Africa, in and State Fruit Crop Specialist with
recognition of research into canopy management UW Extension. She earned a B.S. in
effects on vineyard yield and quality. horticulture from the Pontificia Universidad Católica
de Valparaíso (Chile) and a Ph.D. in horticulture
Dr. Smart is the author of the book Sunlight into from Cornell University. Her research program
Wine as well as a contributor to several trade pub- focuses on fruit crop physiology and production of
lications, and the viticulture editor of The Oxford deciduous fruit crops, predominantly cranberries
Companion to Wine. Consulting has been a full and cold climate grapes, and her extension program
time occupation since 1991, and he has consulted delivers up to date, research-based information to
to over 300 clients worldwide. While many clients fruit growers in Wisconsin. She edits the Wisconsin
want to use Richard’s expertise in canopy manage- Fruit Newsletter, a biweekly newsletter distributed
ment to improve wine quality and vineyard yield, statewide in Wisconsin, and is a contributor to the
complete viticultural advice has been given on a Cranberry Crop Management Journal, a publication
range of issues like choice of site, variety, rootstock, highlighting research and extension in cranberry
irrigation and nutrition management. Dr.Richard E. production at UW-Madison.

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