Northeast Region IPM Grants Projects Funded, FY 2004

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2004 Research Projects

2 proposals funded

Title	State	Project Directors & Co-PDs	Crops	Term	Reports
Assessment of Efficacy and Cost of Banker Plants for Aphid Control in Spring Flower Crops See Proposal	Massachusetts, New York	Vandriesche, Roy G., Sanderson, J.	spring flower crops	2004-2006	2005 Progress Report Final Report
Organic Acids as Alternative Controls and Resistance-Management Tools in Parasitic Honey Bee Mite IPM See Proposal	New Jersey	Vorsa, N. (formerly Stanghellini, formerly Polavarapu)	Honey Bees	2004-2006 (28 months)	Final Report Publication Presentation

2004 Extension Projects

4 proposals funded

Title	State	Project Directors & Co-PDs	Crops or Focus area	Term	Reports
Revision, Expansion, and Maintenance of the Internet Center for Wildlife Damage Management See Proposal	New York	Curtis, Paul D., Hygnstrom, S., Schmidt, R., Yarrow, G.	Wildlife IPM	2004-2006	2005 Progress Report Final Report
Promoting Apple IPM Implementation in Eastern New York Orchards by Expansion of the Northeast Weather Association System See Proposal	New York	Carroll, Juliet	Apple	2004-2007 (extended)	2005 Progress Report Roadmap of work 2006 Progress Report Final Report
Reducing Pesticide Inputs in Nurseries Using a Portable Hot Water Recirculation Immersion System See Proposal	Maryland	Gill, Stanton	Nursery	2004-2006	2005 Progress Report Final Report
IPM Displays for the Public See Proposal	New York	Koplinka-Loehr, Carrie, Coen, C, Grant, J.	community and urban IPM	2004-2006	2005 Progress Report Final Report

2004 Research and Extension Projects

4 proposals funded

Title	State	Principle Investigators & Co-PD's	Settings	Term	Reports
Using Maryblyt to Manage Economic Risks of Fire Blight See Proposal	New York, West Virginia	Aldwinckle,Herb A.R. Biggs (formerly Turecheck, W.)	Apple	2004-2007	2006 Progress Report Final Report
Landscape Ecology and Mangement of Strawberry Sap Beetle in the Northeast See Proposal	New York	English-Loeb, Greg	Strawberry	2004-2006	2005 Progress Report Final Report
Validation and Implementation of a Weather-based Spray Advisory Model For White Rust of Spinach See Proposal	Maryland, Delaware	Everts, Kathryne	Spinach	2004-2006 (extended)	2005 Progress Report 2006 Progress Report 2007 Final Report
Verification of Web-based, Real-time, High-resolution Weed and Insect Predictive Models for Northeast IPM Programs See Proposal	Pennsylvania	Calvin, Dennis	Pest Modeling - Weeds	2004-2006	2005 Progress Report Final Report

Information about the Northeast IPM Competitive Grants Program

The FY 2004 Northeast Regional IPM Grants Program has funded 10 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.

The table above provides information about the funded proposals.

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