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Funding Program:
Western Region Information Networks |
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Project Title:
Western IPM Center Workgroup on Weather Systems |
Project Directors (PDs):
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Lead State: OR Lead Organization: Oregon State University |
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Cooperating State(s):
California, Washington |
| Undesignated Funding: $10,000 |
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Start Date: Jan-31-2009 End Date: Dec-31-2009 |
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Pests Involved: Arthopods and Plant diseases |
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Site/Commodity: All |
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Area of Emphasis: Weather and Forecast data for pest models |
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Summary:
The Western IPM Weather Workgroup requests continued support for another year. The groups mission is to further science-based principles and procedures for the acquisition, utilization, analysis, and distribution of weather and climate data that enhance IPM management decisions and improve plant biosecurity. The groups activities will continue to focus on development of research projects in pursuit of our mission. Over the past year, the group members have submitted several grants (total value $4.5 million) and obtained over $1,000,000. These proposals have been a direct result of discussions and the synergy created by group meetings. Group membership has been changed to better reflect the level of participation. In the future there will primary and associate membership where primary members are those actively involved in the development of weather related tools and the associate members are those individuals that are involved in the implementation and tech transfer. Efforts to recruit new members are being targeted toward individuals with expertise not currently represented in current membership with consideration to be more inclusive of other states within the Western Region, but are limited due to the travel costs associated with the geographic region. The group has helped develop and obtain funding for a sister group the North-Central region that will help extend collaborations and impact of the Wetern IPM Weather Workgroup to other regions of the united states. The group was invited to present a symposium entitled A consortium approach to advancing the use of weather information in IPM at the Pacific Division Meeting of the American Phytopathological society and individual members have made numerous presentations to stakeholders on the tools being developed by the group and sought their input into how to improve usability of these tools. The group will continue to interact with stakeholders and get feedback to help improve tools for the utilization of weather and forecast data and pest and crop models. Anticipated outcomes include standards and guidelines for weather driven IPM, tools for weather data and forecast interpolation, methods for estimating parameters needed for pest models, and grant proposals. The groups ultimate goal is to increase user confidence in and utilization of weather data, and pest, disease, and crop phenology models to enhance IPM management decisions in crop, rangeland, forest, horticultural, and urban environments; thereby ensuring that pesticides are strategically used.
Objectives: 1. Continue to identify and assemble experts in climatology, meteorology, information technology, precision agriculture, extension, and insect and plant pathogen epidemiology and modeling to clarify conceptual and technical direction for developing and utilizing weather-based crop, disease and pest management tools. 2. Further develop the conceptual, research, and implementation framework for a weather and climate-based system to enhance management decisions for IPM and other agricultural and societal purposes. 3. Increase awareness of, access to, and use of forecasting and epidemiological models in IPM that exploit high quality weather data. 4. Engage user groups including individual producers, crop consultants, and commodity groups in determining the value and needs of a weather and climate-based decision support system. 5. Coordinate application for regional, federal, and state-based grants that support the collection and use of weather data and modeling tools in IPM. |
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