Northeast Region IPM Grants Projects Funded, FY 2003

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2003 Research Only Projects

2 proposals funded

2003 Research-Extension Projects

2 proposals funded

Title	State	Principle Investigators& Co-PIs	Crops	Term	Reports
Refinement and Delivery of Bio-Based Approaches to Reducing Insecticide against Two Key Apple Pests See Proposal	Massachusetts, Rhode Island	Cooley, D., Tuttle, A. F., and H. Faubert (formerly Prokopy, R.E.)	apple	2003-2006	CRIS Progress Report 2006 Final Report
Threshold-based cover cropping strategies for weed management See Proposal	Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland	Gallandt, E.R., C. Reberg-Horton, W. S. Curran, D. A. Mortensen, M. E. Barbercheck	cropping systems	2003-2006	2006 Final Report 2005 Progress Report 2004 CRIS Progress Report

Information about the Northeast IPM Competitive Grants Program

The FY 2003 Northeast Regional IPM Grants Program has funded 4 different proposals for extension, research, and research/extension. All involve multi-state cooperation of collaborators and the results of all of these projects should be useful in numerous states.

Each year the Northeast Region Integrated Pest Management Grants Program supports selected research and extension projects. Funds for this program originate at the USDA and are matched in part by the institutions sponsoring each project. The projects described here were selected by the regional review committee, and approved by USDA.

A competitive grant proposal process is used to select projects for funding. Proposals are reviewed and rated by a review committee comprised of experts in IPM from outside the region. The criteria for judging proposals this year included:

• Relevance to the Northeast Region IPM priorities, including explicit linkage to stakeholder expressed needs.
• Appropriate objectives, design, and methodology
• Degree of interdisciplinary and/or multi-organization collaboration, including appropriate state-wide and multiple state collaboration among research, extension, private consultants, industry, and the user community, appropriately scaled to the problem
• Appropriate strategy/process to evaluate the success or the project, including milestones, developed by IPM implementation team
• Appropriateness of the budget
• Professional expertise of the project team.

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