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Funding Program:
IPM Partnership Grants |
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Project Title:
Pest Resources Online (PRONewEngland) Website |
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Lead State: ME Lead Organization: University of Maine |
| Undesignated Funding: $7,931 |
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Start Date: May-01-2010 End Date: Apr-30-2011 |
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Area of Emphasis: education, forecasting, modeling |
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Summary:
The PRONewEngland web site (http://pronewengland.org) provides a single access point to the best IPM resources among the six New England states. The site provides the public with links to people and information from each state in an organized, coherent format. The People directories provide email, web, telephone, and U.S. mail information for expert contacts for each pest topic in each state; all of the university, state and Federal programs active in each state; and for private sector groups with an interest in pest management issues active in each state (i.e. commercial agriculture associations and environmental organizations). The best online resources for addressing New England pest problems are those produced within the region and which deal with specific needs. A key feature of the site is a database of 1099 pest fact sheets published by New England Land Grant Extension, Experiment Station, and state government agencies that site users can search by keyword. For more direct access to the very best resources, there are subject-oriented directories for the topics of Biotechnology in pest management, Crop and Livestock pests, Health and Indoor pests, Invasive and Natural Resource pests, Integrated Pest Management and Biocontrol, Organic, Ornamental, Turf and Greenhouse pests, and Pesticide safety and reference information. The site features results from pest management tactic surveys, crop profiles, and pest management strategic plans produced in and for New England. In addition, during the growing season PRONewEngland provides real-time site-specific weather based apple pest development and risk models for six locations in Maine, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. This system is known as Orchard Radar as it addresses apple insect and disease pests, as well as horticultural development models. The groundwork has been done to extend this methodology of site specific pest models to other sites and other crops (woody ornamentals pest, corn growth stages, etc.), and to allow users to download models with the latest weather observation and forecast data, and then customize model output according the growth stage and pesticide application dates for their specific situation. The information provided in the contact directories, factsheet database, and publication directory links changes constantly. Staff assignments change, people change email addresses and phone numbers, new publications are issued and older ones are replaced, and web sites are routinely reorganized causing changes in web URL addresses. The purpose of this project is to keep the PRONewEngland website in operation; to validate and update all of the contact person and information links on the site; to move the apple pest phenology models to a more robust software platform; and to implement recently introduced capability for site visitors to customize pest model output by filtering it with their pesticide application dates. Objectives: Objective 1 -- Validate and update links to contact persons and information resources on the PRONewEngland.org website. Update entries in the Pest Factsheet database. Impact 1 -- A more effective and efficient site for New England citizens to reach research-based, geographically specific, unbiased pest management information. Objective 2 -- Upgrade the Orchard Radar pest phenology models to a more robust software platform. Impact 2 -- Fewer service interruptions, less maintenance time, ability for users to customize output with farm specific growth stage and pesticide application dates, better graphing and less lag time between receipt of updated weather data and updated model output. Proposal |
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