Dr. Carrie Wohleb

Carrie Wohleb is a Professor and Potato Extension Specialist at Washington State University. Her Extension and research programs focus on improving the profitability, productivity, and sustainability of irrigated potato production in Washington’s Columbia Basin. Her work emphasizes field diagnostics, pest monitoring and integrated pest management, and the development of decision support tools and educational resources for growers. She publishes the WSU Potato Alerts newsletter during the growing season and contributes a quarterly “Potato Pointers” column to American Vegetable Grower magazine. Carrie holds a B.S. in Botany from the University of Washington and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Horticulture from Washington State University, where she
studied potato physiology and agronomy. Before joining WSU in 2008, she worked for eight years as a potato farm agronomist.