Progress 09/01/11 to 08/31/14
Outputs
Target Audience:
Nothing Reported
Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided? Training was primarily informal and involved teaching IPM Center personnel how to use new features. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest? The proximate users of this project's products are made aware of it through 3 annual meetings, through routine emails, as part of teleconference agendas, and in other routine communications. The ultimate users - IPM stakeholders - have access to IPM information via websites, etc. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? This is a termination report. There is no next reporting period. However much of the functionality will be carried forward as part of the Information System supplement to the Southern IPM Center Partnership project initiated 8/31/14.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Our efforts to redesign the ipmcenters.org and ipm.gov websites, integrating the two into a single site, were completed. The new site can now be accessed through either line. We will continue to enhance this site under the auspices of other projects. Most of the other objectives of this project deal with maintenance of national online tools and resources related to IPM, which we continued to do throughout the reporting period. The national website http://ipmcenters.org website was maintained even as it was being redesigned, providing access by any user to logic model examples and the complete databases of crop profiles and PMSPs. A portal for logic model was provided and maintained. The Proposal and Project Management System, used to manage grants competitions and subsequent project reporting by IPM Centers was maintained with slight modifications suggested by grant program managers at the Regional IPM Centers; three Centers used the system in this reporting period and the 4th (North Central IPM Center) will start using it in their next competition. The crop profile and PMSP databases provide critical decision support for regulatory agencies and others. Numerous IPM-related databases were maintained or archived (when their usefullness was diminished.) Leadership of all Regional IPM Center agreed on a contingency transition plan for functions supported by this project in the event federal funding ends, as follows (excerpted from the IPM Information System supplemental proposal submitted by NCSU to the 2014 CPPM program): Commercialization the systems or similar support from non-governmental sources is not a viable option. Commercialization is not appropriate due to concerns about objectivity. User fees are not likely to be successful. IPM IS is a classic case of a valuable product whose cost is readily justified by contributions of everyone (through government programs) but that likely could not glean the critical mass of support if the costs were distributed among individual stakeholders. If core RIPMC funding remains, each RIPMC will provide continuing content updates to essential IPM IS components. As a group and including NIFA NPL we will define which components are “essential”. Technical maintenance will be addressed through a combination of distribution and monetary support. Maintenance of some elements will be distributed among RIPMCs (based on capability and interest). Payments from other RIPMCs to one or more RIPMCs maintaining particular components may be considered. If core RIPMC funding is lost concurrent with loss of IPM IS funding, we will offer the products to other non-commercial institutions (for instance, Bugwood), each arrangement contingent on NIFA approval. SIPMC will develop a final product to be delivered by termination date: a listing of orphaned IPM IS components and copies of all such programs delivered on whatever hardware media (CD, hard drive, USB) is current at that time.
Publications
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Websites
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2014
Citation:
Regional IPM Centers, A national umbrella site for the regional IPM centers. http://ipmcenters.org
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Progress 09/01/12 to 08/31/13
Outputs
Target Audience: Primary audience for the project this year comprised Regional IPM Centers and Regional IPM Program competition managers who used our Proposal and Project Management System (PPMS) to manage serveral grants competions; the many Land grant faculty and others who submitted proposals through the PPMS system and who served on review committees; IPM Coordinators, Project Directors and grant proposal writers nationally who utiltize the Logic Model examples database; regulatory agencies, researchers, educators, growers and other IPM users who utilized the Crop Profile and Pest Management Strategic Plan databases. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided? The project provided training on use of the PPMS system to grants managers from the 4 Regional IPM Centers as well as for the 4 RIPM programs. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?
Nothing Reported
What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? Our work during the next reporting period will focus on design and implementation of a new national website integrating the functions of the current sites ipmcenters.org and ipm.gov. This work is well underway, and we expect to have a working site released by January 2014. We will also continue discussions with IPM Centers and NIFA leadership on options to sustain key functions should EIPMDSS funding cease.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
The national website http://ipmcenters.org website was maintained, providing access by any user to logic model examples, the complete databases of crop profiles and PMSPs. A portal for logic model was provided and maintained. The Proposal and Project Management System, used to manage grants competitions and subsequent project reporting by IPM Centers, was significantly enhanced, providing important decision support in helping RIPM and IPM Center grants programs to address critical priorities. The crop profile and PMSP databases provide critical decision support for regulatory agencies and others. Numerous IPM-related databases were maintained or archived (when their usefullness was diminished.)
Publications
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Progress 09/01/11 to 08/31/12
Outputs
OUTPUTS: This project maintains the online databases for Crop Profiles, Pest Management Strategic Plans, the NIFA Contacts database, aggregated NASS pesticide use data and the Interagency IPM Projects Database. All Crop Profile and Pest Management Strategic Plan information is provided, where requested, via web services to all Regional Centers and the National Site. We have updated handling of Crop Profiles and Pest Management Strategic Plans to maintain archives of earlier versions of current profiles as a historical record. We created and maintain a database of state IPM elements (guidelines) accessible from the national website (www.ipmcenters.org/IPMelements). We continue to add to this database as new documents are developed and submitted, and make the contents available to the new search engines. We developed and maintain the (IPM) Logic Model website at http://www.ipm.gov/LogicModels/index.cfm. The Proposal and Project Management System used by Regional IPM Centers to manage grant competitions and subsequent project management has been completely overhauled. Data on web site use such as number of hits, number of visitors, number of unique visitors, etc. are routinely gathered and stored as part of our server software. The project has initiated a conversation with IPM Center directors and other stakeholders regarding transition of these programs should current funding cease. PARTICIPANTS: In addition to the Project Director and co-PI, key participants in this project are personnel associated with the Northeastern (Carrie Koplinka-Loehr), North Central (Lynnae Jesse, Mike Greifenkamp, Sue Ratcliffe) and Western (Linda Herbst, Rick Melnicoe, Joyce Strand) IPM Centers. TARGET AUDIENCES: The target audience includes any stakeholder interested in data addressing IPM in the US and internationally. In particular, Crop Profiles and Pest Management Strategic Plans are used heavily by EPA, USDA-OPMP, USDA-NIFA, and many Research and Extension scientists and educators across the country; Logic Model is especially useful to state IPM Coordinators and others planning and evaluating IPM programs; the IPM Interagency Database is useful to USDA, EPA and policymakers interested in the wide range of IPM programs. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: With the Sep 2012 renewal and additional funds, this project will refocus on redesign and appropriate integration of online IPM information currently displayed on the www.ipmcenters.org and the ipm.gov websites.
Impacts
The USDA Regional IPM Centers program has created a new focus and the need for a major shift in the operational aspects of PMDSS. EIPMDSS has refocused to meet the information and decision support needs of these Centers as they work toward developing the pest management strategies and systems that will fulfill the requirements of FQPA and the needs of IPM stakeholders in general. EIPMDSS now contains a majority of the aspects of the Centers' needs for a web-based national/regional information network. We have continued development of EIPMDSS to meet these needs and to serve as a repository for much of this information as a distributed network. The entire current EIPMIDSS is the result of on-going discussions with multiple stakeholders most notably through our National IPM Centers Coordinating Committee meetings 3 times each year. These sessions include Regional IPM Centers, USDA-CSREES, USDA Office of Pest Management Policy, EPA and other federal partners. In addition, each Regional IPM Center brings issues before their Steering and Advisory Committees. These Committees comprise numerous stakeholders from grower organizations, non-profits, the food and chemical industry, university research and extension personnel, and federal agency representatives.
Publications
- No publications reported this period
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