Center Director
USDA, Agricultural Research Service
El Reno, Oklahoma
Stacey Gunter is the Center Director of the Oklahoma and Central Plains Agricultural Research Center of Oklahoma where he manages a statewide, multidisciplinary research program among 4 locations and 2 worksites including 29 scientists since 2022. Stacey started with the USDA, Agricultural Research Service in 2008 as a Supervisory Rangeland Management Specialist at the Woodward, Oklahoma location. During his 34-year career, he has taught courses in animal nutrition and management and conducted research in grazing livestock nutrition. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Animal Science from Oregon State University (1987) and the University of Nevada-Reno (1989), and Ph.D. in Animal Nutrition (1993) from Oklahoma State University. After serving as a Post-doctoral Research Associate at the New Mexico State University – Clayton Livestock Research Center he joined the University of Maine in 1994 and in 1996 moved to the University of Arkansas Southwest Research & Extension Center in Hope where he was promoted to Professor and Center Director in 2006. Stacey and his colleagues have authored 109 peer-reviewed articles and 353 proceedings, experiment station articles, research reports, and scientific abstracts. The 10 M.S. and 3 Ph.D. students who have completed their programs under his guidance have gone on to noteworthy careers.
Stacey has actively served the American Society of Animal Science (ASAS) through service on the ASAS Board of Directors, national meeting program planning committees, and by service on several editorial boards, including the Journal of Animal Science (Associate Editor) and Applied Animal Science (Associate Editor 2012-2020). Stacey’s research has expanded the boundaries of nutrition research in several important aspects of the nutrition of grazing ruminants. Of greatest significance are his contributions in the selenium nutrition of beef cattle on the Coastal Plain and his research projects covering the management of cattle grazing midgrass prairie on the Southern Plains.
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Wednesday, July 24, 2024
2:35 PM - 3:20 PM MT