Brian Charlton

Brian is the Director of the Klamath Basin Research & Extension Center. He also has research & Extension responsibilities for potato production systems in the PNW with primary emphasis in the Klamath Basin. He has worked in the area of potato variety development and cultural management alongside various colleagues in the Tri-state Potato Breeding and Variety Development Program the past 30 years. Impacts from this endeavor have been the release of 55 potato varieties with an estimated annual farm-gate value of 1.57 billion to the US industry.  He has held the endowed Klamath Basin Potato Faculty Scholar position since 2014.