SAN JUAN – Dr. Brook Brouwer has been named the new County Director for WSU San Juan County Extension. Brouwer, who grew up on Lopez Island, completed his PhD with WSU in Dept. of Crop and Soil Sciences. He was the first recipient of a Seed Matters Fellowship in organic plant breeding, and worked on his Ph.D. under Dr. Stephen Jones at Washington State University, Mount Vernon Research and Extension Center. (Jones now leads The Bread Lab.) Brouwer was a research associate with a longtime WSU program partner, The Organic Seed Alliance, and has a start date of June 6 as the San Juan Director.