Pia Beatriz Arismendi Golborne
Research Scholar
Biography
Pia Beatriz Arismendi Golborne is a Research Scholar at the OSU/OARDC; Pia received a BS in agricultural science and natural resources, and became an agricultural engineer with vegetable science specialization in 2014 at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. She also has an academic certificate in promotion and healthcare.
She has been a teaching assistant in many different courses at her university which including Botany, Management Practices in Protected Areas, Crop Protection, Native Flora of Chile, and Ecophysiology of weeds and Management.
Pia worked in extension in Chile specializing in spray application technology and provided information in Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) in plant protection products.
As a researcher she worked in the botany lab in pollen recognition and classification. Then she presented at the IX Congreso latinoamericano de botánica about “flora y vegetación del área costera de agua amarilla, los Vilos, IV región de Chile”, and in the ecophysiology weed lab where she developed her thesis in “precision mapping of johnsongrass (Sorghum halepense) in maize cultures as a contribution to site specifics control that was presented in the 65 congreso agronómico in Chile.
In 2014 she won the merit award of agronomy faculty for department of vegetable science of Pontifical Catholic University.
Current research in the Weed lab focuses on the behavior of Giant ragweed and looking at the impact of germination time through the season on growth and reproduction of that specie.