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Funding Program:
Integrated Pest Management Competitive Grants Program |
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Project Title:
Joining forces: Midwest and Western Weather Work Groups for national harmonization of weather-based decision tools |
Project Director (PD):
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Lead State: OR Lead Organization: USDA-ARS Pacific West Area |
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Cooperating State(s):
California, Oregon, Washington, Iowa |
| Undesignated Funding: $21,900 |
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Start Date: Mar-02-2015 End Date: Feb-29-2016 |
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Area of Emphasis: Weather data and Forecast Modeling |
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Summary:
Implementation of weather-driven IPM systems for crop diseases and arthropod pests has been hindered by fragmented, start-and-stop efforts to provide access to reliable weather data and decision-support tools. As a result, scores of promising and well-validated warning systems remain locked up in the IPM toolbox. The Western Weather Working Group (WWWG) and the Midwest Weather Working Group (MWWG) propose to develop a united plan to harmonize each groups strategies in order to overcome these obstacles and make weather-based IPM advisories readily available to specialty-crop growers nationally. To accomplish this ambitious goal we propose to hold a 2.5-day-long workshop in August 2015 to bring together 30 of the nations leaders in weather-based plant modeling (many of whom have already attended previous MWWG and WWWG meetings). The outcomes of the workshop will be to: 1) share and compare current online platforms for weather-based decision support; 2) assess capability gaps and potential for harmonization of these systems to make them more interactive with each other and more widely available to state and national decision support systems; 3) publish a joint position paper proposing an action plan; and 4) collaboratively write a USDA-NIFA-CAP proposal to the SCRI program in 2016 to fill these capability gaps, harmonize standards and platforms where possible, assess stakeholder viewpoints on using these shared resources, using our trans-disciplinary networking and significant accomplishments, to advance the science of weather-based IPM decision tools to reshape implementation of weather-based IPM decision support on a national scale for decades to come.
Objectives: Objective 1. Organize a joint 2.5-day- meeting of the Midwest Weather Working Group (MWWG) and the Western Weather Working Group (WWWG) a) plan for a position paper summarizing the current status and future needs for national implementation of weather-based IPM decision tools b) Establish framework for a 2016 CAP grant proposal to USA-NIFA-SCRI that will involve leadership from members of each group. Objective 2. Establish Framework for a 2016 USA-NIFA-SCRI CAP proposal a) Reach consensus on proposal objectives, b) secure commitments for co-writing and editing the Position paper and CAP proposal c) secure commitments for leadership roles in the project if it is funded. d) Submit Proposal |
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