Charles (Chuck) Mohler joined the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences in 2001 as a Senior Research Associate after 21 years in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell. His research focuses on the ecology of weeds, mechanical and ecologically based weed management and biology of organic cropping systems. He was founder and former Project Coordinator of the Cornell Organic Cropping systems Project, a large multi-experiment, interdisciplinary investigation into the ecology of organic farming (for more information, see www.organic.cornell.edu/ocs/html/index). He is coauthor with Matt Liebman and Charles Staver of the book "Ecological Management of Agricultural Weeds" (Cambridge University Press, 2001). His long-standing interest in the forests of New York State led to the publication in 2006 of the "Guide to the Plant Communities of the Central Finger Lakes Region", co-authored with Peter L. Marks and Sana Gardescu. This book, lavishly illustrated with color photographs, is intended to satisfy the curiosity of both professionals and lay persons interested in where and why different sorts of forests and wetlands occur in central NY. To order copies, see https://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/store/catalog/. Publication of another book "Crop Rotation on Organic Farms: a Planning Manual" (co-edited with Sue Ellen Johnson) was published in 2009. He is an active member of the Weed Science Society of America and several other professional organizations and has taken a leadership role in collaborative multi-state weed projects since 1985. For more information on Charles Mohler, see the Cornell University Weed Ecology Research Laboratory HomePage: http://www.css.cornell.edu/WeedEco/.