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Funding Program:
Regional IPM Competitive Grants - Northeastern |
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Project Title:
Regional Monitoring for Northeastern IPM |
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Lead State: PA Lead Organization: Pennsylvania State University |
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Cooperating State(s):
Massachusetts |
| Extension Funding: $50,000 |
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Start Date: Jul-01-2002 End Date: Jun-30-2004 |
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No-Cost Extension Date: Jun-30-2005 |
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Site/Commodity: corn |
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Area of Emphasis: modeling |
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Summary:
Pest monitoring is the primary, but constantly changing, ecological information used for IPM, but monitoring programs are hard to develop and maintain in this agro- and social landscape due to farm and crop diversity, spatial segregation of farms in urbanizing landscapes, and the smaller size of many farms. This proposal advances the timely creation, management, delivery and utilization of pest monitoring information across numerous small farms nested in heterogeneous, often urbanizing landscapes. We propose to establish a regional human and information technology infrastructure for organization and delivery of agricultural pest monitoring information in the northeastern IPM region using integrated GIS and Web ("web-mapping") technology, using sweet corn as a model system.
We will use sweet corn as the model system based on needs defined in participatory activities, the importance of sweet corn in the region, and the potential for pesticide reduction. We will build from progress in monitoring technologies, phenology modeling, previous web/GIS infrastructure building, and advances in web-mapping informational technologies. The results will be directly incorporated into ongoing IPM programs in multiple states. We will evaluate impacts with web tracking and focus groups. Objectives: 1) establish and expand a human and georeferenced data infrastructure in the northeast, add spatial scaling and dynamic querying functionality to web-displayed maps of pest pressure with interfaces useful to growers today, and develop useful visualization methods to capture the 3 dimensions (x and y location, and time) of the information. 2) Incorporate pest phenology with the e-maps of pest pressure, and enable rapid reviews of both information themes. Progress Report 2003 |
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