November 2, 2021
Gus Elmore grew up in Crouse, N.C., a small town near Charlotte. His appreciation for the outdoors started during childhood growing up on a small family farm. After high school he followed that appreciation to UNC-Chapel Hill where he studied Biology and Environmental Studies with a focus on Ecology. Through an internship working in the […]
November 2, 2021
Damon Doolittle is contributing to the South Carolina Asian Longhorned Beetle Eradication Program as a ALB Technician, but this is far from his first encounter with the pest. Damon got his start with ALB working for USDA APHIS in New York City in 2012. In 2013 he moved to Ohio to assist with the ALB […]
November 2, 2021
Ston Coles is excited to join the South Carolina Asian Longhorned Beetle Eradication Program team as an ALB Technician. Growing up outside Charleston in Goose Creek, Ston has always had a passion for wildlife and the outdoors, which lead to him earn his B.S. degree in Geological Sciences from the University of South Carolina. His biggest […]
November 1, 2021
Megan Schumpert began work in the Agricultural Service Laboratory as a chemist on October 18, 2021. She joins the Plant/Feed/Waste section of the lab, focusing on nutritional and chemical analyses of feed and plant samples. Megan is a South Carolina native who grew up on a pine and cattle producing farm along the Saluda River […]
November 1, 2021
November historically has been a time when we pause and give thanks for the many blessings in our lives. Before President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the resolution on Dec. 26, 1941, that established the fourth Thursday in November as the Federal Thanksgiving Day holiday. Before President Lincoln gave his Oct. 3, 1863, Thanksgiving Proclamation. Even before the colonists at […]
