Vaughn Walton serves as a leader in OSU’s Horticultural Pest Management team in diverse integrated pest management programmatic areas. He has established a strong local and internationally recognized extramurally funded program. His work includes research in two focus areas: 1) Small Fruit IPM and 2) IPM of pests on tree crops.

He works closely with industry and stakeholders to provide economical and sustainable solutions to economically important pests in perennial specialty crops. His laboratory specializes on Integrated Pest Management within a whole-system approach to obtain sustainable means of production. Much the work from his laboratory has resulted in patented technologies that has been implemented in industry, both here in Oregon and other parts of the world.