Progress 03/01/15 to 08/31/21
Outputs
Target Audience:During theiPiPE CAP, we engaged 28 Extension professionals located across the nation to coordinate Crop-Pest Programs (CPPs) and encourage stakeholders in specific crops/production regions to participate in the iPiPE. The crops and states that hosted the CPPs are listed in Table 1. The audiences that were informed of the iPiPE mission, goals, and outputs for stakeholders included Extension professionals, crop consultants, and growers. Table 1. iPiPE Crop-Pest Programs Crop State Crop State Alfalfa California Soybean Missouri Apple Massachusetts Soybean Iowa Citrus Florida Stone and Tree Fruit Oregon Cotton California Sunflower North Dakota Cotton Tennessee Sweet Corn Pennsylvania Grape Connecticut Tomato and Pepper Florida Hops Pennsylvania Tree Fruit West Virginia Cole Crops Michigan Tree Fruit Utah Peanut Virginia Urban Agriculture New Mexico Potato and Tomato North Carolina Vegetables Massachusetts Small Fruit Rhode Island Vegetables New York Small Fruit and Grape New Jersey Vegetables Utah Sorghum Texas Wheat Montana iPiPE partnered with the Illinois Area Wide Pest Monitoring program that provides management information for corn and soybean growers throughout the state and with the Northcentral Region Pollinator Survey Program participants. Social media, internet, and traditional means of communication were employed to engage stakeholders. In 2018, we initiated an iPiPE Newsletter featuring activities of and interns working in some of our Crop-Pest Programs. Monthly additions have been published and distributed via the internet. Ninety-nine undergraduate student summer interns, one high school student and 6 graduate students from these states were involved in iPiPE activities learning about food security and IPM. We reached out to Extension professionals and researchers through presentations on iPiPE at national meetings and the international IPM Symposiums explaining the iPiPE concept and recruiting collaborators for the CAP. To sustain the project's data bases, we transferred 100,000s of pest observations in the iPiPE system including historical observations from the soybean rust PIPE, ipmPIPE, and sister IT platforms with which we share data to the University of Georgia's EDDMapS IPM system. This enables researchers, extension professionals and other stakeholders to build and validate models for forecasting and managing populations of agricultural pests in future years. The combined database now contains more than 1.5 million observations on over 800 crop pest species. We also initiated the development of a pest risk modeling community of practice to use the iPiPE modeling platform that we built. Individuals in the community include pest risk modelers, students, Extension professionals, and other researchers interested in developing pest risk information products. The community includes entomologists and plant pathologists with practical experience in collecting field data and interpretation of pest forecasts. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?The iPiPE trained 99 undergraduate students, 1 high school student, and 6 graduate students in pest diagnostics and field collection protocols. Each year a series of webinars were conducted to introduce the students to iPiPE and our staff. Initially the students participated in an entry survey of expectations, completed the iPiPE educational modules, and some assisted in local diagnostic labs. As each of the growing seasons progressed, the students, Crop-Pest Program Coordinators and other Extension professionals began collecting pest observations by traditional methods and social media and entering them into the iPiPE database. During this period, both the students and Extension professionals interacted with a variety of stakeholders through personal contacts, extension meetings, social media, trade publications, and in some of the Crop-Pest Programs, they disseminated pest risk information products to stakeholders. The undergraduate interns shared their work experiences with each other throughout the summer using the iPiPE Intern Blog. Twice every other week during the growing season the interns and iPiPE coordinators held conference calls to discuss IPM and Food Security challenges. Student participation rate was generally high. An IPM or food security related question was distributed to participants prior to each call and interns submitted written answers via the blog. The interns' answers were discussed during the conference calls and a prize for the most enthusiastic participation/best submission was awarded after each call. At the end of their summer internships, students completed an exit survey providing information on outputs, outcomes, and the achievement of their expectations. Each year a majority of the student interns from the previous summer attended the annual meeting of iPiPE participants (iPMx) where they gained additional professional experiences making poster presentations on their summer activities and providing feedback on their efforts to engage stakeholders. At the end of each year, Crop-Pest Program Coordinators rated the increase in Intern's knowledge in each of the following areas: (i) pest diagnostics; (ii) crop-pest dynamics; and (iii) scouting protocols and techniques; (iv) IPM and food security; (v) IT and other advanced technologies; and (vi) extension resources for pest management. In general, the ratings in these areas each year were moderate to substantial. The vast majority of the students completed both the pre and post internship surveys, hereafter call entry and exit surveys. We asked the same set of questions to the cohorts of iPiPE interns over each of the past 5 years. The answers summarized for each of the intern cohorts were remarkably similar. Value of Internship. Student answers for the both the entry and exit survey were remarkably consistent on a set of sixteen questions that focused on the value of specific aspects of the internship (e.g., learning about IPM, making connections for future work, traveling, learning to use IT in agriculture...). On both entry and exit surveys, students rated all 16 aspects of the internship between "valuable" and "very valuable". Students also responded that they expected to "like" or "like very much" these 16 aspects at entry, and reported at exit that they did like them or liked them very much. This suggests that the experience was both valuable and fun and that the CPP Coordinators did an excellent job of mentoring the iPiPE summer interns. Opinions on iPiPE objectives. We asked a set of 15 questions directed at their opinions of the ease and benefits of data sharing in agriculture, the usefulness of pest models, of IPM, and the benefits of iPiPE to food security. Opinions were strongly positive on all topics. On almost all topics, the opinions of the interns were slightly less positive after the experience than before. Self-assessments of knowledge and skills. In both entry and exit surveys, interns completed a detailed self-assessment of their pre-internship knowledge and skills in identifying and sampling pests, knowledge of pest management strategies, skills at using pest recording technology, and food security issues. In both entry and exit surveys, interns were asked to assess their knowledge and skills at the beginning of the internship. In the entry survey, they also reported their expected knowledge and skills upon completion of the internship, and at exit, they assessed their acquired knowledge and skills. In the entry survey, they rated their pre-internship knowledge and skills as "low" to "moderate". After the internship they re-assessed their pre-internship knowledge and skills slightly downward in every case. In other words, students concluded after the internship their initial self-assessment may have been inflated. This re-calibration in itself suggests that their knowledge and skills did indeed increase as a result of their internship experiences. For all questions, expectations of post-internship knowledge and skills (entry survey) was slightly higher than their assessment of the level they reached by the end of the experience (exit survey). However, because of the downward re-assessment of their starting point, the progress they made was in all cases about as large or larger as expected, albeit from a lower starting point than they first thought. The results show clearly that on all topics, even though they did not reach quite as high as they expected, students learned as much or more than they expected. We asked a set of questions on knowledge of food security issues, pest data recording technology, and predictive models of target pest distributions to ascertain pre knowledge, post knowledge, and expected learning. Again, the students found that their initial assessment was inflated and that the expertise they attained was not as high as they expected initially. Answers to this set of questions are somewhat disturbing because they indicate that students did not progress as much as expected. Finally, we asked a short set of questions on knowledge gained from the educational modules on cataloging resources, IPM and food security that we provided. In each case, the value of the modules was rated positive by iPiPE student interns. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Crop-Pest Program Coordinators (CPPCs) reported that information about the iPiPE was presented at a total of 441 meetings/conference calls with roughly 12,267 stakeholders in attendance during the grant period. The iPiPE concept and participation in the project was also discussed with growers and crop consultants through approximately 498 one-on-one conversations. Twitter and blogs were used to communicate with and gather pest observations from stakeholders (383 tweets). Maps depicting pest distributions accompanied by commentary from Extension professionals were disseminated to growers/crop consultants in a number of the Crop-Pest Programs. Ninety-nine articles were printed in Extension publications and other agricultural media targeting growers, crop consultants and other stakeholders described the iPiPE concept reaching over 14,000 stakeholders. The iPiPE Newsletter was published and distributed monthly beginning in July 2018 with between 146-168 successful deliveries to subscribers per issue. The iPiPE was also presented to Extension professionals and IPM workers from around the world in a poster at the 8th International IPM Symposium and at a booth throughout the 9th International IPM Symposium. We held two focus group meetings with growers and consultants, presented iPiPE to Extension professionals in the Northeaster IPM Center's IPM Toolbox Webinar Series, and at annual meetings of the Western Great Lakes Ag Retailors, APS and ESA. During our market research efforts in 2018, growers, consultants, Extension specialist, Ag retailers, and crop protection company representatives were interviewed for 30-60 minutes. The general questions we sought to answer with an iPiPE Marketing Plan were: what are the best marketing approaches for public pest monitoring programs? What are the costs? What are alternative revenue models to fund them? More fundamentally, what role does sharing of pest observations and forecasting have in growers' pest management decisions, and how do the stakeholders who influence those decisions use public pest monitoring and forecasting to guide them? These questions are of interest well beyond the current CAP. To pursue these questions, a large market research study of iPiPE stakeholders was developed and conducted with the following objectives: (i) Define and understand current approaches, tools, systems, and partners that US Crop Growers use to gather pest information and make pest management decisions; (ii) Outline the role that various influencers (crop protection suppliers, retailers, crop consultants, and extension specialists) have on growers' pest management decisions; (iii) Define level of awareness of iPiPE on the part of growers and key influencers; (iv) Test current grower and influencer receptivity to contributing observations to and utilizing iPiPE; (v) Understand requirements for growers and influencers to more actively contribute observations to and utilize iPiPE; and (vi) Support the development of business and marketing strategies to maximize the adoption and use of iPiPE. Six interview guides were developed for and delivered to six groups of stakeholders. Interviews were conducted with 14 CPPCs, 140 growers of 8 commodities, crops or groups of crops, 20 extension specialists, 15 suppliers of crop protection products, 20 ag retailers, and 20 independent crop consultants. These data were summarized, and the resulting recommendations presented to the iPiPE Advisory Board prior to the start of Year 5. Highlights of the iPiPE Marketing Plan, and outputs and outcomes of the Crop-Pest Programs for each year are described and quantified on the iPiPE Education and Outreach website (http://ed.ipipe.org/cpp-outputs-and-outcomes). During the NCE to the grant period, we built the iPiPE open-source cloud-based modeling platform to provide ready access to state-of-the-art pest risk modeling tools, our pest database and a variety of other data streams including historical weather.We initiated a small pest risk modeling community of practice training researchers and student to use the platform. Online model platform training sessions were conducted with participants from Penn State University, University of Georgia, and North Carolina State University. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?
Nothing Reported
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
The iPiPE CAP served food security and IPM by creating a national infrastructure of private and public professionals who routinely monitored crop health and pest incidence then translate this knowledge to a shared platform enabling rapid dissemination of mitigation measures to limit crop loss. In short, iPiPE initiated twenty-eight Crop-Pest Programs (CPPs) over the past 5 years dispersed across the country. Together the CPPs and iPiPE platform component teams (IT, Education, Research and Evaluation) engaged and educated stakeholders and undergraduate students, expanded and improved the IT infrastructure to share pest observations, enlarged a suite of operational pest risk assessment models on the IT platform to create valuable information products for stakeholders, built a modeling platform to allow researchers to create and validate pest risk assessment models using the iPiPE data base, and created and delivered survey and evaluation instruments for assessing progress toward our goal. During the CAP, iPiPE undergraduate student intern program provided 99 young agricultural stakeholders from around the country (30 institutions) with extensive hands-on training in pest diagnostics and field collection protocols. iPiPE PIs published 14 manuscripts in refereed journals including 2 articles describing the iPiPE CAP, 1 book chapter; 40 conference presentation; 6 websites; 20 Newsletter issues; 16 other publications; 8 set of data/research materials; 5 databases; 7 evaluation instruments; 52 operational pest forecast models; 2 Apps; 5 APIs; 2 Survey instruments; and 2 sets of educational aids/curricula. Approximately 1 million observations of agricultural pests and beneficial insects have been submitted to the iPiPE platform. At the beginning of February in Years 1-5, the PDs, PIs, Crop-Pest Program Coordinators, undergraduate student interns and iPiPE Advisory Board members have gathered at the iPiPE Participant Mixer (iPMx) in Raleigh, NC. The iPiPE vision of progress through sharing is reinforced and promoted at these gatherings. Participants focused their discussions on: (i) organizational issues; (ii) strategies for engaging stakeholders in the iPiPE; (iii) refining metrics for evaluating the Crop-Pest Programs and the iPiPE Platform components; (iv) feedback from CPP Coordinators and student interns; and (v) progress toward achieving the iPiPE goals of enhanced food security, IPM adoption, and farm profitability. Undergraduate student interns receive professional opportunities, and these have been recognized with cash award for their presentations of posters on their efforts during the previous summer to engage stakeholders in the iPiPE and their outstanding participation in iPiPE educational programs such the Intern Blog. Each year at the iPMx and on conference call in between meetings, the iPiPE Advisory Board has met to evaluation and revise the iPiPE long term Strategic Plan. Board members worked with professional consultant firms to create an iPiPE Marketing Plan and an iPiPE Business Plan to help sustain the iPiPE after termination of USDA NIFA funding. Over the years, iPiPE has focused on changing the culture in American agriculture to one of sharing crop pest observations and derivative information for the benefit of all stakeholders. iPiPE has partnered with other monitoring programs such as the Illinois Area Wide Pest Monitoring program, the North Central Region Pollinator, and ag retailers in the Western Lake Erie Basin to improve pest management outcomes by using the iPiPE observation-sharing platform. We have partnered with BASF to transfer the iPiPE platform (code and data bases) to an open-source environment in the Amazon cloud. We integrated the iPiPE computer code and database with the University of Georgia's EDDMapS IPM system. The combined database contains over 1.5 million observations on over 800 crop pest species allowing researchers, extension professionals and other stakeholders to build and validate models for forecasting and managing populations of agricultural pests once the current grant period is over. Near the end of the grant period, we built the iPiPE open-source cloud-based modeling platform to provide ready access to state-of-the-art pest risk modeling tools, the pest iPiPE/EDDMapS database and new data streams. FAIR principles have been employed to enrich the scalable data infrastructure of the platform. We have initiated a pest risk modeling community of practice training researchers and student to use the platform. Feedback from these virtual workshops have led to enhancement of the platform through the addition of new model templates, pest models, data sets, and model validation tools.
Publications
- Type:
Websites
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2021
Citation:
iPiPE modeling website; https://model.ipipe.org/
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Progress 03/01/20 to 02/28/21
Outputs
Target Audience:Researchers, extension professionals and other stakeholders who build and validate models for forecasting and managing populations of agricultural pests were the target audience during the iPiPE NCE. We initiated the development of a pest risk modeling community of practice to use the new iPiPE modeling platform. Individuals participating in this community include pest risk modelers, students, Extension professionals, and other researchers interested in developing pest risk information products. The community includes entomologists and plant pathologists with practical experience in collecting field data and interpretation of pest forecasts. It includes individuals with experience in pest forecasting system design but who do not have programming skills. Changes/Problems:The iPiPE/Ag IO Pest Risk Assessment Modeling workshop scheduled to be held in October 2020 as part of the iPiPE CAP was cancel due to COVID-19. In spring 2020, shortly after the start of the iPiPE NCE, we realized that we could not hold the workshop as scheduled and applied to and obtained a six-month COVID-19 extension to the iPiPE CAP NCE from USDA NIFA. Our plan at that time was to hold the workshop in April 2021, once the epidemic had subsided. In December 2020, we concluded that holding a workshop in April was not feasible since the epidemic in the US was accelerating and was not likely to be over by spring 2021. Consequently, we changed our plans for training members of the pest risk modeling community of practice to use the iPiPE/Ag IO Pest Risk Assessment Modeling Platform. We initiated a series of remote meetings with small groups of community members in which we provide hands on training on the modeling platform and receive feedback on future improvements. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?The iPiPE Internship Program ended at the iPMx6 annual meeting immediately prior to the NCE period. Ten undergraduate student interns participated in the workshop presenting posters on their efforts the previous summer to engage stakeholders to participate in iPiPE. iPiPE has now provided 99 young agricultural stakeholders from around the country (undergraduates from 30 institutions) with extensive hands-on training in pest diagnostics and field collection protocols. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Direct contact with growers and crop consultants through the Crop-Pest Program Coordinators and iPiPE student interns ended prior to the NCE period. However, we continued to publish the iPiPE Newsletter monthly until the end of 2020. The iPiPE Newsletter made between 146-168 successful deliveries to subscribers each month. These newsletters are also published on the iPiPE Education and Outreach website (http://ed.ipipe.org/cpp-outputs-and-outcomes). Members of the modeling community of practice have received hands-on training on the iPiPE/Ag IO Pest Risk Assessment Modeling Platform. We initially planned to provide this opportunity at a workshop during the NCE. Forty-one individuals from 30 universities, government agencies and private industries had indicated their intention to attend before we had to cancel the workshop due to COVID-19. In place of the workshop, we are now conducting a series of remote training sessions with small groups of these individuals. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?The work plan for the COVID-19 extension to the NCE period is to strengthen pest risk modeling community of practice as part of the larger goal of sustaining the iPiPE concept of sharing past the end of the CAP. The community includes scientists, students, and researchers from industry and government agencies. Most members have training in either entomology or plant pathology. The plan is to discuss the mission, goals, objectives, and future activities of the community of practice and use these ideas to improve the iPiPE/Ag IO Pest Risk Assessment Modeling Platform.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
The iPiPE CAP continued to work towards its goal to serve food security and IPM by creating a national infrastructure of private and public professionals who routinely monitor crop health and pest incidence then translate this knowledge to a shared platform enabling rapid dissemination of mitigation measures to limit crop loss. As part of our goal to sustain the mission of the project, the iPiPE CAP was refocused as Ag IO, the National Monitoring and Forecasting Service for Agriculturally Important Organisms, to include not only crop pests but organisms beneficial to agriculture as well. Approximately 2000 new pest observations were entered into the iPiPE/Ag IO system. During iPiPE CAP no-cost extension period (March 2020-February 2021), we have integrated the 100,000s of pest observations in the iPiPE system (including historical observations from the soybean rust PIPE, ipmPIPE, and sister IT platforms with which we share data) into the University of Georgia's EDDMapS IPM system. The combined database contains more than 1.5 million observations on over 800 crop pest species. Over the past months, we have also constructed the iPiPE/Ag IO Pest Risk Assessment Modeling Platform connected to this database, NWS weather data feeds, and other environmental datasets that allows researchers, extension professionals and other stakeholders to build, validate, and/or operate existing models for forecasting and managing populations of agricultural pests. On 5-6 February 2020, prior to the start of the NCE, the PDs, PIs, Crop-Pest Program Coordinators, undergraduate student interns and iPiPE Advisory Board members gathered at the sixth and final iPiPE Participant Mixer (iPMx6) in Raleigh, NC. The iPMx6 reinforced and promoted the iPiPE vision of progress through sharing. Participants focused their discussions on sustainability issues. Ten undergraduate student interns were recognized with cash award for their presentations of posters on their efforts during the previous summer to engage stakeholders in the iPiPE. One intern was acknowledged for their outstanding participation on the iPiPE Intern Blog and 4 for creating literature to engage stakeholders in iPiPE. Over the past year, we have built the iPiPE/Ag IO open-source cloud-based modeling platform that provides ready access to state-of-the-art pest risk modeling tools and new data streams. FAIR principles have been employed to enrich the scalable data infrastructure of the current Ag-IO platform. Members of the pest risk modeling community of practice have been trained to use the platform. Feedback from these virtual workshops have led to enhancement of the platform through the addition of new model templates, pest models, data sets, and model validation tools.
Publications
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Brazier M., S. Pate, R. Guyer, and H. Kelly. 2020. Detection of Rhizoctonia solani in cotton seedlings. iPiPE Participant Mixer (student intern presentation at workshop), Raleigh, NC. February 4, 2020. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4Ojc4NThlNjllNGY0NWFkNzY
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Cooke C., R. Akinrinlola., and H. Kelly. 2020. Detection of Soybean Cyst Nematodes Across Tennessee and Kentucky. iPiPE Participant Mixer (student intern presentation at workshop), Raleigh, NC. February 4, 2020. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjJiZTVhZjYwMjI2YTMxNzg
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
: Cotter A., R. Callahan, M. Kersten, A. Skidmore. 2020. Effects of Flower Coverage and Green Space on Urban Beneficial Insect Populations. iPiPE Participant Mixer (student intern presentation at workshop), Raleigh, NC. February 4, 2020. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjFhMjIwM2RhMzVhNDFhN2M
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Dong A. and N. Dufault. 2020. A Survey of Florida's Potato Stakeholder Engagement Year 2: Testing a modified online survey with agricultural professionals. iPiPE Participant Mixer (student intern presentation at workshop), Raleigh, NC. February 4, 2020. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjUzNTliZGI1OGViN2JmM2I
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Mars M.G., and P.V. Oudemans. 2020. Using Drone Imagery to Detect and Monitor Fairy Ring Growth in Southern New Jersey Cranberry Bogs. iPiPE Participant Mixer (student intern presentation at workshop), Raleigh, NC. February 4, 2020. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjFhMDZjYWNhNzRiODI4MTc
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Dubois, J-J. and S.A. Isard. 2020 Summary of iPiPE Student Intern Experiences 2015-2019 (iPiPE Education and Evaluation Teams). iPiPE Participant Mixer, Raleigh, NC. February 4, 2020. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjI0NTQ3NjBmZDMxNWEyYmQ
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Larson A., E. Nickels, A. De La Cruz, K. Adams and T. Green. 2020. IPM Elements.
iPiPE Participant Mixer, Raleigh, NC. February 4, 2020. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjFiYzdmN2FiOTlhODQ3Mjk
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
LaForest, J. 2020. Overview of iPiPE 2020 including discussion of transition to EDDMaps. iPiPE Participant Mixer, Raleigh, NC. February 4, 2020.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UVDagvIFADTSwSXg-VceiH6s_w1HJcaCLy4z0ASfHA8/edit#slide=id.p
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Larson A., J. Golod and T. Green. 2020. IPM Elements 2020 and Beyond. iPiPE Participant Mixer, Raleigh, NC. February 4, 2020. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjFhZGE3OWRkODJmMjU4ZTQ
- Type:
Websites
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
iPiPE Portal; http://www.ipipe.org/ - revised
- Type:
Websites
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
: iPiPE Outreach Website; http://ed.ipipe.org/ - revised
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Progress through Sharing; iPiPE Newsletter January 2020; https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjI2MWNiYWNmMTNlZDFmYTg
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Progress through Sharing; iPiPE Newsletter February 2020; https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjY1MTVlNWIzNzA3YmIxY2M
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Progress through Sharing; iPiPE Newsletter March 2020; https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjZhMGNkODNmYWM2MzdmOTY
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
: Progress through Sharing; iPiPE Newsletter April 2020; https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjQ2NmFiNmFhNWE5ZDE3Yzk
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Progress through Sharing; iPiPE Newsletter May 2020; https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjQ2NmFiNmFhNWE5ZDE3Yzk
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Progress through Sharing; iPiPE Newsletter June 2020; https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjQ2NmFiNmFhNWE5ZDE3Yzk
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Progress through Sharing; iPiPE Newsletter July 2020; https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjQ2NmFiNmFhNWE5ZDE3Yzk
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Progress through Sharing; iPiPE Newsletter August 2020; https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjQ2NmFiNmFhNWE5ZDE3Yzk
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Progress through Sharing; iPiPE Newsletter September 2020; https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjQ2NmFiNmFhNWE5ZDE3Yzk
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Progress through Sharing; iPiPE Newsletter October 2020; https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjQ2NmFiNmFhNWE5ZDE3Yzk
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Progress through Sharing; iPiPE Newsletter November 2020; https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjQ2NmFiNmFhNWE5ZDE3Yzk
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Progress through Sharing; iPiPE Newsletter December 2020; https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjQ2NmFiNmFhNWE5ZDE3Yzk
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Model documentation has been developed to guide the coding of published model. i) Programmed models as described above; ii) CART leaf wetness model (Kim, K.S., Taylor, S.E., Gleason, M.L. and Koehler, K.J., 2002. Model to enhance site-specific estimation of leaf wetness duration. Plant Dis, 86(2): 179-185); ii) Generic infection model (Magarey, R.D., Sutton, T.B. and Thayer, C.L., 2005. A simple generic infection model for foliar fungal plant pathogens. Phytopathology, 95(1): 92-100); iii) logistic regression model (Willbur, J.F. et al., 2017. Weather-Based Models for Assessing the Risk of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum Apothecial Presence in Soybean (Glycine max) Fields. Plant Dis, 102(1): 73-84); and iv) simple insect population model (Blum, M. et al., 2018. Predicting Heliothis (Helicoverpa armigera) pest population dynamics with an age-structured insect population model driven by satellite data. Ecological Modelling, 369: 1-12).
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Progress 03/01/19 to 02/29/20
Outputs
Target Audience:In Year 5 of the iPiPE CAP, we engaged 14 Extension professionals located across the nation to coordinate Crop-Pest Programs and encourage stakeholders in specific crops/production regions to participate in the iPiPE. The audiences that were informed of the iPiPE mission, goals, and outputs for stakeholders in 2019 included Extension professionals, crop consultants, and growers of: (i) sorghum in Texas and Louisiana; (iii) apples in Massachusetts; (iv) beans and peppers in Florida; (v) vegetables in Utah; (vi) cotton in Tennessee; (vi) peanuts in Virginia; and (viii) urban farmers in New Mexico, (ix) vegetables in Massachusetts, (x) grapes in Connecticut, (xi) potatoes in southeast U.S., (xii) small fruits in New Jersey, (xiii) potatoes and tomatoes in the eastern U.S., (xiv) sunflowers in North Dakota, and (xv) cole crops in Michigan. In 2019, iPiPE partnered with the Illinois Area Wide Pest Monitoring program that provides management information for corn and soybean growers throughout the state and with the Northcentral Region Pollinator Survey Program participants. Social media, internet, and traditional means of communication were employed to engage stakeholders. In 2019, we published the iPiPE Newsletter each month featuring activities of and interns working in some of our Crop-Pest Programs. Twenty-eight undergraduate student summer interns from these states were involved in iPiPE activities learning about food security and IPM. Changes/Problems:There will be no major changes in approach during the no-cost extension period. Essentially, we are finishing up our work on the original objectives as outlined in the answer to the question above: What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?With the onset of the 2019 growing season, 14 undergraduate student interns from 7 states were hired and began training in pest diagnostics and field collection protocols. A series of webinars were conducted to introduce the students to iPiPE and our staff. Initially the students participated in an entry survey of expectations, completed the iPiPE educational modules, and some assisted in local diagnostic labs. As the season progressed, the students, Crop-Pest Program Coordinators and other Extension professional began collecting pest observations by traditional methods and social media and entering them into the iPiPE. During this period, both the students and Extension professionals interacted with a variety of stakeholders through personal contacts, extension meetings, social media, trade publications, and in some of the Crop-Pest Programs, they disseminated pest risk information products to stakeholders. The undergraduate interns shared their work experiences with each other throughout the summer (13 students initiated 53 post which elicited many responses) using the iPiPE Intern Blog. Twice every other week during the growing season the interns and iPiPE coordinators held conference calls to discuss IPM and Food Security challenges. The participation rate was high. A question was distributed to participants prior to each call and interns submitted written answers via the blog. The interns' answers were discussed during the conference call and a prize for the most enthusiastic participation/best submission was awarded after each call. At the end of their summer internships, students completed an exit survey providing information on outputs, outcomes, and the achievement of their expectations. The following student knowledge outcomes were listed by Crop-Pest Program Coordinators (CPPCs) in their annual reports. The option regarding increase in Interns' knowledge in the survey were None, Small, Moderate, Substantial and Superlative. CPPCs rated the increase in Intern's knowledge as moderate to substantial in each of the following: (i) pest diagnostics, (ii) crop-pest dynamics, and (iii) scouting protocols and techniques areas as substantial and moderate in the areas of (iv) IPM and food security, and (v) extension resources for pest management. We asked the CPPCs how much they relied on interns for completing their program's goals and tasks. CPPCs relied heavily on their interns, especially for data collection and reporting. Ten of the students that ended their internship by October 2019 completed both the pre and post internship surveys, hereafter call entry and exit surveys. In summary, these ten students have between two and five years of undergraduate education, eight of them majoring in either the biological sciences or agriculture-related fields. Three of the students are from families involved in agriculture and eight are involve in agriculture through school, with three interns involved in agriculture through both family and school. Nine had worked in agriculture before. Only four had worked in integrated pest management before their internship. Given the small sample size, statistical inferences about the impact of the internship on student knowledge and values and about the relationship between their expectations and experiences are not possible. Statistical summaries are nonetheless informative with respect to assessment and planning for the educational objective of the iPiPE CAP. They are presented below. We have asked the same set of questions to the cohorts of iPiPE interns over each of the past 4 years. The answers summarized for each of the intern cohorts are remarkably similar. Value of Internship. Student answers for the both the entry and exit survey were once again remarkably consistent on a set of sixteen questions that focused on the value of specific aspects of the internship (e.g., learning about IPM, making connections for future work, traveling, learning to use IT in agriculture...). On both entry and exit surveys, students rated all 16 aspects of the internship between "valuable" and "very valuable". Students also responded that they expected to "like" or "like very much" these 16 aspects at entry, and reported at exit that they did like them or liked them very much. This suggests that the experience was both valuable and fun and that the CPPCs did an excellent job of mentoring the iPiPE summer interns in 2019. Opinions on iPiPE objectives. We asked a set of 15 questions directed at their opinions of the ease and benefits of data sharing in agriculture, the usefulness of pest models, of IPM, and the benefits of iPiPE to food security. Opinions were strongly positive on all topics. On almost all topics, the opinions of the interns were slightly less positive after the experience than before. Self-assessments of knowledge and skills. In both entry and exit surveys, interns completed a detailed self-assessment of their pre-internship knowledge and skills in identifying and sampling pests, knowledge of pest management strategies, skills at using pest recording technology, and food security issues. In both entry and exit surveys, interns were asked to assess their knowledge and skills at the beginning of the internship. In the entry survey, interns rated their pre-internship knowledge and skills as "low" to "moderate". After the internship they overwhelmingly re-assessed their pre-internship knowledge and skills slightly downward but made more progress from that lower baseline than they had expected. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Crop-Pest Program Coordinators reported that information about the iPiPE was presented at a total of 43 meetings/conference calls with roughly 1117 stakeholders in attendance during 2019. The iPiPE concept and participation in the project was also discussed with growers and crop consultants through approximately 68 one-on-one conversations as well. Twitter and blogs were used to communicate with and gather pest observations from stakeholders (12 tweets), approximately 2738 people follow these accounts. Maps depicting pest distributions accompanied by commentary from Extension professionals were disseminated to growers/crop consultants in a number of the Crop-Pest Programs. Eight articles were printed in Extension publications and other agricultural media targeting growers, crop consultants and other stakeholders described the iPiPE concept reaching over 350 stakeholders. The iPiPE Newsletter was published and distributed monthly in 2019 with between 146-168 successful deliveries to subscribers. These outputs are described and quantified on the iPiPE Education and Outreach website (http://ed.ipipe.org/cpp-outputs-and-outcomes). What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Summary of Work for the No-Cost Extension Period; March 2020 - February 2021). The iPiPE CAP, funded by the USDA AFRI grant program for 5 years (March 1, 2015-February 29, 2020) has successfully worked to change the culture in American agriculture to one of sharing crop pest observations and derivative information for the benefit of all stakeholders. iPiPE contributes to our nation's infrastructure for food security, helps build local and regional capacity to respond to food security problems involving crop pests, provides valuable information to growers to reduce adverse environmental effects from pest management practices and thus has likely enhanced profitability for engaged growers. The no-cost extension for a sixth year (March 1, 2020-February 28, 2021) that we have received will enable us to significantly improve sustainability of the iPiPE, and thus its benefits to stakeholders, well beyond the termination of the CAP grant. We now have 100,000s of pest observations in the iPiPE system including historical observations from the soybean rust PIPE, ipmPIPE, and sister IT platforms with which we share data. It is critical that these data not be lost and that we are successful in sustaining the iPiPE platform. iPiPE PIs have worked over the past year with professional consulting firms to develop both Marketing and Business Plans for sustaining the iPiPE beyond the grant period. We have submitted a proposal to the AFRI FACT program with this goal and are in the process of developing proposals to other grant programs. As part of our sustainability plan, the iPiPE IT platform is being integrated into the University of Georgia's EDDMapS IPM system. The combined database will contain more than 1.5 million observations on over 800 crop pest species allowing researchers, extension professionals and other stakeholders to build and validate models for forecasting and managing populations of agricultural pests. The integration of these databases will be completed in the upcoming year. The University of Georgia's Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health (CISEH) has existed (under various names) for three decades (initiated in 1994). It continues today using a broad portfolio of funding sources. Their management of the iPiPE archive will provide sustainability of this component and its resulting benefits in virtual perpetuity. In 2017, ZedX Inc, the provider of iPiPE IT services, was purchased by BASF. This was an unanticipated but fortuitous circumstance for the iPiPE. The subcontract to ZedX was shifted to BASF with Dr. Joe Russo, an iPiPE CAP PI and former president of ZedX, maintaining leadership of the iPiPE IT component as a BASF employee. Over the subsequent two years, BASF matched iPiPE's grant funds in providing programming support for the platform and paid for the transfer of the iPiPE platform into the Amazon cloud. In Spring 2019, BASF completed the buyout of ZedX and released Dr. Russo. BASF also asked Penn State University to transfer the full IT subcontract for Year 5 ($250,000) to TechLords, an independent IT company for which Dr. Russo is president. The new subcontract between PSU and TechLords for the Year 5 IT development was not completed until June 2019 delaying the execution of the work plan. During summer 2019, Dr. Russo was hospitalized for pancreatitis; fortunately, he has recovered nicely. However, work on the TechLords subcontract is now four months behind schedule. It will be completed in the upcoming year. TechLords is developing an open-source cloud-based modeling platform as the primary component of its Year 5 iPiPE/no-cost extension work plan. This new component of the iPiPE system will allow participants to create pest risk maps and send them via text or email to stakeholders. Researchers from around the country will be able to develop their own models and then run them in the iPiPE system with real-time and historical weather data. The linkage of the tool to the iPiPE pest database will support model validation. The potential benefits of the tool are to increase the reliability of pest models and to decrease the costs for researchers to build pest models.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
The iPiPE CAP continued to build momentum in Year 5 towards its goal to serve food security and IPM by creating a national infrastructure of private and public professionals who routinely monitor crop health and pest incidence then translate this knowledge to a shared platform enabling rapid dissemination of mitigation measures to limit crop loss. Fourteen Crop-Pest Programs (CPPs) across the country, were active in 2019. Together the CPPs and iPiPE platform component teams (IT, Education, Research and Evaluation) engaged and educated stakeholders and undergraduate students, expanded and improved the IT infrastructure to share pest observations, expanded a suite of operational pest risk assessment models on the IT platform to create valuable information products for stakeholders, and created and delivered survey and evaluation instruments for assessing progress toward our goal. On 5-6 February 2019, prior to the start of Year 5, the PDs, PIs, Crop-Pest Program Coordinators, undergraduate student interns and iPiPE Advisory Board members gathered at the fourth iPiPE Participant Mixer (iPMx5) in Raleigh, NC. The iPMx5 reinforced and promoted the iPiPE vision of progress through sharing. Participants focused their discussions on: (i) organizational issues; (ii) strategies for engaging stakeholders in the iPiPE; (iii) refining metrics for evaluating the Crop-Pest Programs and the iPiPE Platform components; (iv) feedback from CPP Coordinators and student interns; and (v) progress toward achieving the iPiPE goals of enhanced food security, IPM adoption, and farm profitability. Twenty-two undergraduate student interns were recognized with cash award for their presentations of posters on their efforts during the previous summer to engage stakeholders in the iPiPE. One intern was acknowledged for their outstanding participation on the iPiPE Intern Blog and 4 for creating literature to engage stakeholders in iPiPE. Over the subsequent three months, the Education, IT Services, Research and Evaluation platform component teams interacted with Crop-Pest Program Coordinators to prepare for the 2019 growing season. The Crop-Pest Program Coordinators began disseminating information to stakeholders about the iPiPE at winter and spring meetings while the PDs and PIs disseminated iPiPE information at professional meetings and through journal publications. The Education team integrated information on the new Crop-Pest Programs into the iPiPE Outreach Website (ed.ipipe.org). Once again, they revised the student educational activities (Progress thru Sharing, Food Security and IPM, and IT training) using feedback from the interns gathered at the iPMx4. App forms were developed by the IT team for each of the new Crop-Pest Programs to enable efficient data entry. The iPiPE Participant and Extension websites were outfitted with new/updated tools to enable Crop-Pest Program Coordinators and their student interns to better reach out to stakeholders with information products and commentary. The IPM Element website was expanded incorporating an element associated with the new Crop-Pest Programs. The iPiPE Research team began constructing risk models for target pests with new Crop-Pest Program Coordinators. As a result, 2 new pest models were added to the operational models on the platform in 2019. At the iPiPE Advisory Board meeting on 6 February 2019 the results of our market research efforts were presented and discussed at great length. The report summarized 30-60 minute interviews with growers, consultants, Extension specialist, Ag retailers, and crop protection company representative. The general questions we sought to answer with an iPiPE Marketing Plan were: what are the best marketing approaches for public pest monitoring programs? What are the costs? What are alternative revenue models to fund them? More fundamentally, what role does sharing of pest observations and forecasting have in growers' pest management decisions, and how do the stakeholders who influence those decisions use public pest monitoring and forecasting to guide them? These questions are of interest well beyond the current CAP. To pursue these questions, a large market research study of iPiPE stakeholders was developed and conducted with the following objectives: (i) Define and understand current approaches, tools, systems, and partners that US Crop Growers use to gather pest information and make pest management decisions; (ii) Outline the role that various influencers (crop protection suppliers, retailers, crop consultants, and extension specialists) have on growers' pest management decisions; (iii) Define level of awareness of iPiPE on the part of growers and key influencers; (iv) Test current grower and influencer receptivity to contributing observations to and utilizing iPiPE; (v) Understand requirements for growers and influencers to more actively contribute observations to and utilize iPiPE; and (vi) Support the development of business and marketing strategies to maximize the adoption and use of iPiPE. Six interview guides were developed for and delivered to six groups of stakeholders. Interviews were conducted with 14 CPPCs, 140 growers of 8 commodities, crops or groups of crops, 20 extension specialists, 15 suppliers of crop protection products, 20 ag retailers, and 20 independent crop consultants. These data were summarized, and the resulting recommendations presented to the iPiPE Advisory Board prior to the start of Year 5. Highlights of the iPiPE Marketing Plan, and outputs and outcomes of the Crop-Pest Programs for each year are described and quantified on the iPiPE Education and Outreach website (http://ed.ipipe.org/cpp-outputs-and-outcomes). The Advisory Board decided that the results of the marketing study should provide a framework for subsequent business planning efforts that we were urged to undertake as soon as possible. It was decided that the purpose of the iPiPE Business Plan is to (i) provide a framework for capturing team knowledge and aligning priorities to help win new funding and new sources of revenue; (ii) define the long-term opportunity for a national crop pest monitoring system; (iii) provide business details for that opportunity (markets, competition, business models, potential partners, phased approaches); and (iv) define risks and countermeasures. In 2019, iPiPE partnered with (i) the Illinois Area Wide Pest Monitoring program that provides management information for corn and soybean growers throughout the state and (ii) the North Central Region Pollinator Program that monitored fields for beneficial insects. Extension professions associated with the former contributed 887 observations of insect pests of field crops to the iPiPE during the growing season. Another 16,947 field observations of pollinator insects were entered directly into the iPiPE by collaborators participating in the Northcentral Region Pollinator Survey Program. In 2019, we completed the transfer of the iPiPE platform code and data bases to an open source environment in the Amazon cloud. We have partnered with BASF in this work. We also initiated the integrating the iPiPE computer code and database with the University of Georgia's EDDMapS IPM system. The combined database will contain over 1.5 million observations on over 800 crop pest species allowing researchers, Extension professionals, and other stakeholders to build and validate models for forecasting and managing populations of agricultural pests once the current grant period is over. In 2019, a total of 19126 observations of insect pests and diseases in agricultural fields across the country were share by participants of the iPiPE. Forty-seven observers entered approximately 19126 field observations of insect pests and diseases directly into the system from 284 locations around the country.
Publications
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Nuhn D.C., M.G. Mars, D.M. Jones, J.R. Armitage, B.L. Carr, T.E. Besancon, and P.V. Oudemans. 2019. Use of Drone Imaging for Assessing Weed Control and Disease Pressure in Highbush Blueberry. iPiPE Participant Mixer (student intern presentation at workshop), Raleigh, NC. February 5, 2019. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjRjYWM5YTU2MTc4NTIxYWY
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Nuhn D.C., M.G. Mars, and P. Oudeman. 2019. Use of Drone Imaging for Detecting Fairy Ring Disease in New Jersey Cranberry Beds. iPiPE Participant Mixer (student intern presentation at workshop), Raleigh, NC. February 5, 2019. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjRjYWM5YTU2MTc4NTIxYWY
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Nuhn D.C., M.G. Mars, and P.V. Oudemans. 2019. Use of Drone Imaging for Detecting Stem Blight in Highbush Blueberries. iPiPE Participant Mixer (student intern presentation at workshop), Raleigh, NC. February 5, 2019. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjRjYWM5YTU2MTc4NTIxYWY
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Olanyk C., L. Ware, J. Clements, and E. Garofalo. 2019. A Growers Perspective on Data Sharing and IPM. iPiPE Participant Mixer (student intern presentation at workshop), Raleigh, NC. February 5, 2019. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjRjYWM5YTU2MTc4NTIxYWY
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Larson, A. E. Nickels, A. De La Cruz and T. Green. 2019. IPM Elements. iPiPE Participant Mixer, Raleigh, NC. February 5, 2019.
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Ariatti, A. 2019 The iPiPE Portal, iPiPE Participant Mixer, Raleigh, NC. February 5, 2019.
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Dubois, J-J., and S. A. Isard. 2019 Summary of the iPiPE Student Intern Experiences in Year 4, iPiPE Participant Mixer, Raleigh, NC. February 5, 2019.
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Ariatti, A. 2019 iPiPE Programs for Sharing Observations of Pests and Beneficial Organisms, iPiPE Participant Mixer, Raleigh, NC. February 5, 2019.
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Dubois, J-J and S.A. Isard. 2019 Products reported in the 2018 iPiPE NIFA REEport, iPiPE Participant Mixer, Raleigh, NC. February 5, 2019.
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Dubois, J-J. 2019 Highlights of 2018 Market Research by Beck AG, iPiPE Participant Mixer, Raleigh, NC. February 5, 2019.
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Dubois, J-J. 2018 Crop-Pest Program Coordinator Reports, iPiPE Participant Mixer, Raleigh, NC. February 5, 2019.
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Websites
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iPiPE IPM Elements Website http://elements.ipipe.org/ Revised 2019
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iPiPE Portal; http://www.ipipe.org/ Revised 2019
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iPiPE Participants Website; https://share.ipipe.org
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iPiPE Extension Website; http://ext.ipipe.org/ Revised 2019
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Noorlander M. 2019. Vegetable diseases and pests across the state of Utah. iPiPE Participant Mixer (student intern presentation at workshop), Raleigh, NC. February 5, 2019. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjRjYWM5YTU2MTc4NTIxYWY
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iPiPE Outreach Website; http://ed.ipipe.org/ Revised 2019
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iPiPE Student Intern Website; https://sites.google.com/site/ipipeed Revised 2019
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Progress through Sharing; iPiPE Newsletter January 2019; https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjI2MWNiYWNmMTNlZDFmYTg
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Progress through Sharing; iPiPE Newsletter April 2019; https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjQ2NmFiNmFhNWE5ZDE3Yzk
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Progress through Sharing; iPiPE Newsletter May 2019; https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjQ2NmFiNmFhNWE5ZDE3Yzk
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Progress through Sharing; iPiPE Newsletter June 2019; https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjQ2NmFiNmFhNWE5ZDE3Yzk
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Progress through Sharing; iPiPE Newsletter July 2019; https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjQ2NmFiNmFhNWE5ZDE3Yzk
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Progress through Sharing; iPiPE Newsletter August 2019; https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjQ2NmFiNmFhNWE5ZDE3Yzk
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Progress through Sharing; iPiPE Newsletter September 2019; https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjQ2NmFiNmFhNWE5ZDE3Yzk
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Progress through Sharing; iPiPE Newsletter October 2019; https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjQ2NmFiNmFhNWE5ZDE3Yzk
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Progress through Sharing; iPiPE Newsletter November 2019; https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjQ2NmFiNmFhNWE5ZDE3Yzk
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Progress through Sharing; iPiPE Newsletter February 2019; https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjY1MTVlNWIzNzA3YmIxY2M
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Progress through Sharing; iPiPE Newsletter March 2019; https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjZhMGNkODNmYWM2MzdmOTY
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Progress through Sharing; iPiPE Newsletter December 2019; https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjQ2NmFiNmFhNWE5ZDE3Yzk
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Callahan, R. and A. Cotter., Monitoring Beneficial Insects in New Mexico. Stakeholder Card
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Journal Articles
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2019
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Chappell, T. M., Magarey, R. D., Kurtz, R. W., Trexler, C. M., Pallipparambil, G. R., & Hain, E. F. (2019). Perspective: service?based business models to incentivize the efficient use of pesticides in crop protection. Pest Management Science, 75(11), 2865-2872.
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Magarey, R. D., Klammer, S. S., Chappell, T. M., Trexler, C. M., Pallipparambil, G. R., & Hain, E. F. (2019). Eco?efficiency as a strategy for optimizing the sustainability of pest management. Pest Management Science, 75(12), 3129-3134. https://doi.org/10.1002/ps.5560
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Magarey, R.D., Chappell, T.M., Trexler, C.M., Pallipparambil, G.R. and Ernie F Hain, (2019). Social Ecological System Tools for Improving Crop Pest Management, Journal of Integrated Pest Management, 10:2 https://doi.org/10.1093/jipm/pmz004
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R. Magarey iPIPE Research Update
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Cook G., A. Dong, and N. Dufault. 2019. A Survey of Florida's Potato Stakeholder Engagement: Understanding their willingness to share information. iPiPE Participant Mixer (student intern presentation at workshop), Raleigh, NC. February 5, 2019. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjRjYWM5YTU2MTc4NTIxYWY
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Cotter A. J., M. J. Wilkinson, M. L. Kersten, and A. B. Bennett. 2019. iPiPE in New Mexico: Urban Crop and Beneficial Insect Monitoring. iPiPE Participant Mixer (student intern presentation at workshop), Raleigh, NC. February 5, 2019. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjRjYWM5YTU2MTc4NTIxYWY
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Guyer R., S. Pate, and H. M. Kelly. 2019. Measuring Cotton Stakeholder Engagement with IPM Tools in West Tennessee. iPiPE Participant Mixer (student intern presentation at workshop), Raleigh, NC. February 5, 2019. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjRjYWM5YTU2MTc4NTIxYWY
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Jones, D., J.R. Armitage, and P. Oudeman. 2019. Prediction and Prevention of Solar Radiation Induced Damage in Cranberries. iPiPE Participant Mixer (student intern presentation at workshop), Raleigh, NC. February 5, 2019. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjRjYWM5YTU2MTc4NTIxYWY
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Conference Papers and Presentations
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Published
Year Published:
2019
Citation:
Lambert C. and E. Lentz. 2019. IPM Network Development. Identification,Management, and Information Sharing in Connecticuts Small Fruit Production. iPiPE Participant Mixer (student intern presentation at workshop), Raleigh, NC. February 5, 2019. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjRjYWM5YTU2MTc4NTIxYWY
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Progress 03/01/18 to 02/28/19
Outputs
Target Audience:In Year 4 of the iPiPE CAP, we engaged fifteen Extension professionals located across the nation to coordinate Crop-Pest Programs and encourage stakeholders in specific crops/production regions to participate in the iPiPE. The audiences that were informed of the iPiPE mission, goals, and outputs for stakeholders in 2018 included Extension professionals, crop consultants, and growers of: (i) sorghum in Texas and Louisiana; (ii) hops in Pennsylvania; (iii) apples in Massachusetts; (iv) beans and peppers in Florida; (v) vegetables in Utah; (vi) cotton in Tennessee; (vi) peanuts in Virginia; and (vii) sweet corn in Pennsylvania, (viii) urban farmers in New Mexico, (ix) vegetables in Massachusetts, (x) grapes in Connecticut, (xi) potatoes in southeast U.S., (xii) small fruits in New Jersey, (xiii) potatoes and tomatoes in the eastern U.S., (xiv) sunflowers in North Dakota, and (xv) cole crops in Michigan. In 2018, iPiPE partnered with the Illinois Area Wide Pest Monitoring program that provides management information for corn and soybean growers throughout the state and with the Northcentral Region Pollinator Survey Program participants. Social media, internet, and traditional means of communication were employed to engage stakeholders. In 2018, we initiated an iPiPE Newsletter featuring activities of and interns working in some of our Crop-Pest Programs. Four additions were published and distributed via the internet. Twenty-five undergraduate student summer interns from these states were involved in iPiPE activities learning about food security and IPM. Finally, we reached out to Extension professionals and researchers through presentations on iPiPE at national meetings and the international IPM Symposium explaining the iPiPE concept and recruiting collaborators for the CAP. Changes/Problems:There will be no major changes in the iPiPE CAP approach for Year 5. The work in 2018 by iPiPE Advisory Board on its strategic plan to sustain iPiPE beyond the NIFA-funded CAP has resulted in two important developments that we will expand on in 2019. First, BASF/ZedX is transferring the iPiPE platform to an open source environment on the Amazon cloud. As indicated above, this transfer should be complete before Year 5 begins. A high priority of the iPiPE IT team in 2019 will be to build a set of cloud-based modeling tools to increase access and utility of the iPiPE platform to serve the pest modeling needs of university extension and industry stakeholders. Second, the Advisory Board decided to re-orient the work of the iPiPE Evaluation component toward the collection of actionable data to support iPiPE's sustainability and the development of the project's long-term strategic plan. As originally planned in 2014, the foundation of the CAP final evaluation was to be a wide scale post-intervention survey of changes in IPM practices linked to the iPiPE. As became abundantly clear through pre-intervention surveys we developed and conducted in 2015 and 2016, several limitations make this plan unfeasible. They include extremely low response rates, the impossibility of establishing a causal connection between iPiPE and observed changes in IPM practices, and the lag between adoption of iPiPE and observed changes in practices being longer than the duration of the funding period. In addition, the value of a post-intervention survey is predicated on a much wider and more persistent adoption of the iPiPE than has been attained in the two years each CPP has been active. The Board therefore appointed an "iPiPE Strategic Planning Committee" charged with re-orienting the final evaluation toward the collection of actionable data to support iPiPE's sustainability and the development of the project's long-term strategic plan. The general questions we are seeking to answer with an iPiPE Marketing Plan are: what are the best marketing approaches for public pest monitoring programs? What are the costs? What are alternative revenue models to fund them? More fundamentally, what role does sharing of pest observations and forecasting have in growers' pest management decisions, and how do the stakeholders who influence those decisions use public pest monitoring and forecasting to guide them? These questions are of interest well beyond this particular CAP. To pursue these questions, a large market research study of iPiPE stakeholders was developed and conducted with the following objectives: (i) Define and understand current approaches, tools, systems, and partners that US Crop Growers use to gather pest information and make pest management decisions; (ii) Outline the role that various influencers (crop protection suppliers, retailers, crop consultants, and extension specialists) have on growers' pest management decisions; (iii) Define level of awareness of iPiPE on the part of growers and key influencers; (iv) Test current grower and influencer receptivity to contributing observations to and utilizing iPiPe; (v) Understand requirements for growers and influencers to more actively contribute observations to and utilize iPiPE; and (vi) Support the development of business and marketing strategies to maximize the adoption and use of iPiPE. Six interview guides were developed for and delivered to six groups of stakeholders. Thirty- to sixty-minute interviews were conducted with 14 CPPCs, 140 growers of 8 commodities, crops or groups of crops, 20 extension specialists, 15 suppliers of crop protection products, 20 ag retailers, and 20 independent crop consultants. These data are being summarized, and the resulting recommendations presented to the iPiPE Advisory Board prior to the start of Year 5. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?With the onset of the 2018 growing season, 26 undergraduate student interns from 11 states were hired and began training in pest diagnostics and field collection protocols. A series of webinars were conducted to introduce the students to iPiPE and our staff. Initially the students participated in an entry survey of expectations, completed the iPiPE educational modules, and some assisted in local diagnostic labs. As the season progressed, the students, Crop-Pest Program Coordinators and other Extension professional began collecting pest observations by traditional methods and social media and entering them into the iPiPE. During this period, both the students and Extension professionals interacted with a variety of stakeholders through personal contacts, extension meetings, social media, trade publications, and in some of the Crop-Pest Programs, they disseminated pest risk information products to stakeholders. The undergraduate interns shared their work experiences with each other throughout the summer (21 students initiated 164 post which elicited 100s of responses) using the iPiPE Intern Blog. Twice every other week during the growing season the interns and iPiPE coordinators held conference calls to discuss IPM and Food Security challenges. The participation rate was high. A question was distributed to participants prior to each call and interns submitted written answers via the blog. The interns' answers were discussed during the conference call and a prize for the most enthusiastic participation/best submission was awarded after each call. At the end of their summer internships, students completed an exit survey providing information on outputs, outcomes, and the achievement of their expectations. Outputs to which students contributed are listed in the Crop-Pest Program Output and Outcomes table available at http://ed.ipipe.org/cpp-outputs-and-outcomes. The following student knowledge outcomes were listed by Crop-Pest Program Coordinators (CPPCs) in their annual reports. The option regarding increase in Interns' knowledge in the survey were None, Small, Moderate, Substantial and Superlative. CPPCs rated the increase in Intern's knowledge in each of the: (i) pest diagnostics, (ii) crop-pest dynamics, and (iii) scouting protocols and techniques areas as substantial and moderate in the areas of (iv) IPM and food security, (v) IT and other advanced technologies and (vi) extension resources for pest management. Nineteen of the students that ended their internship by October 2018 completed both the pre and post internship surveys, hereafter call entry and exit surveys. In summary, these nineteen students have between one and four years of undergraduate education, seventeen of them majoring in either the biological sciences or agriculture-related fields. Nine of the students are from families involved in agriculture and fourteen are involve in agriculture through school, with seven interns involved in agriculture through both family and school. Sixteen had worked in agriculture before. Only four had worked in integrated pest management before their internship. Given the small sample size, statistical inferences about the impact of the internship on student knowledge and values and about the relationship between their expectations and experiences are not possible. Statistical summaries are nonetheless informative with respect to assessment and planning for the educational objective of the iPiPE CAP. They are presented below. We have asked the same set of questions to the cohorts of iPiPE interns over each of the past 4 years. The answers summarized for each of the intern cohorts are remarkably similar. Value of Internship. Student answers for the both the entry and exit survey were once again remarkably consistent on a set of sixteen questions that focused on the value of specific aspects of the internship (e.g., learning about IPM, making connections for future work, traveling, learning to use IT in agriculture...). On both entry and exit surveys, students rated all 16 aspects of the internship between "valuable" and "very valuable". Students also responded that they expected to "like" or "like very much" these 16 aspects at entry, and reported at exit that they did like them or liked them very much. This suggests that the experience was both valuable and fun and that the CPP Coordinators did an excellent job of mentoring the iPiPE summer interns in 2018. Opinions on iPiPE objectives. We asked a set of 15 questions directed at their opinions of the ease and benefits of data sharing in agriculture, the usefulness of pest models, of IPM, and the benefits of iPiPE to food security. Opinions were strongly positive on all topics. On almost all topics, the opinions of the interns were slightly less positive after the experience than before. Self-assessments of knowledge and skills. In both entry and exit surveys, interns completed a detailed self-assessment of their pre-internship knowledge and skills in identifying and sampling pests, knowledge of pest management strategies, skills at using pest recording technology, and food security issues. In both entry and exit surveys, interns were asked to assess their knowledge and skills at the beginning of the internship. In the entry survey, they also reported their expected knowledge and skills upon completion of the internship, and at exit, they assessed their acquired knowledge and skills. In the entry survey, they rated their pre-internship knowledge and skills as "low" to "moderate". After the internship they re-assessed their pre-internship knowledge and skills slightly downward in every case. Years 1-3 students had reported the same downward re-assessment of their original knowledge and skills. In other words, students concluded after the internship their initial self-assessment may have been inflated. This re-calibration in itself suggests that their knowledge and skills did indeed increase as a result of their internship experiences. For all questions, expectations of post-internship knowledge and skills (entry survey) was slightly higher than their assessment of the level they reached by the end of the experience (exit survey). These results were also consistent with those from Years 1 - 3 interns. However, because of the downward re-assessment of their starting point, the progress they made was in all cases about as large or larger as expected, albeit from a lower starting point than they first thought. The results show clearly that on all topics, even though they did not reach quite as high as they expected, students learned as much or more than they expected. We asked a set of questions on knowledge of food security issues, pest data recording technology, and predictive models of target pest distributions to ascertain pre knowledge, post knowledge, and expected learning. Again, the students found that their initial assessment was inflated and that the expertise they attained was not as high as they expected initially. Answers to this set of questions are somewhat disturbing because they indicate that students did not progress as much as expected. Finally, we asked a short set of questions on knowledge gained from the educational modules on cataloging resources, IPM and food security that we provided. In each case, the value of the modules was rated positive by iPiPE student interns. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Crop-Pest Program Coordinators reported that information about the iPiPE was presented at a total of 89 meetings/conference calls with roughly 2850 stakeholders in attendance during 2018. The iPiPE concept and participation in the project was also discussed with growers and crop consultants through approximately 106 one-on-one conversations as well. Twitter and blogs were used to communicate with and gather pest observations from stakeholders (31 tweets). Maps depicting pest distributions accompanied by commentary from Extension professionals were disseminated to growers/crop consultants in a number of the Crop-Pest Programs. Fifty-three articles were printed in Extension publications and other agricultural media targeting growers, crop consultants and other stakeholders described the iPiPE concept reaching over 14,000 stakeholders. The iPiPE Newsletter was published and distributed monthly beginning in Julye 2018 with between 146-168 successful deliveries to subscribers. The iPiPE was also presented to Extension professionals and IPM workers from around the world at a booth throughout the 9th International IPM Symposium. These outputs are described and quantified on the iPiPE Education and Outreach website (http://ed.ipipe.org/cpp-outputs-and-outcomes). What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?The following work plan for accomplishing the iPiPE goals for Year 5 is organized by objective. Objective 1. Engage extension professionals to encourage and facilitate stakeholders who collect data to submit observations to the iPiPE. The iPiPE will support the seven Crop-Pest Programs in Year 5 that were initiated in the previous year. Crop-Pest Programs that were initiated in Year 1 (crop-region-coordinator) are: (i) alfalfa-CA-Peter Goodell; (ii) small fruits-New England-Heather Faubert; (iii) sorghum-TX&LA-Raul Villanueva; (iv) soybean-MO-Moneen Jones; (v) tree fruits-UT-Lori Spears; (vi) tree fruits-mid-Atlantic-Mahfuz Rahman; and (vii) wheat-MT-David Weaver. Crop-Pest Programs that were initiated in Year 2 are: (i) citrus-FL-Philip Stansley; (ii) corn-Midwest&South-Carl Bradley; (iii) cotton-CA-Vonny Barlow; (iv) soybean-Northcentral US-Daren Mueller; (v) small and stone fruits-OR-Wei Yang; (vi) sunflower-ND&SD-Sam Markell; and (vii) vegetable-NY-Darcy Telenko. Crop-Pest Programs initiated in Year 3 are (i) apples-New England-Jon Clements; (ii) cotton-southeast-Heather Kelly; (iii) hop-PA-Beth Gugino; (iv) peanuts-VA-Hillary Mehl; (v) sweet corn-PA-Shelby Fleischer; (vi) tomato and beans - FL-Muhammad Haseeb; and (vii) vegetables-UT-Lori Spears. The tomato and beans Crop-Pest Program is hosted by Florida A&M University, a minority serving institution. These 21 Crop-Pest Programs will no longer be funded by the iPiPE CAP; however, they will be supported in that the CPP Coordinators will have access to all the tools, information products, and program support they have used over the past two years. Crop-Pest Programs initiated in Year 4 and funded again in the final year of the iPiPE CAP are: (i) grapes - New England - Mary Concklin; Vegetables-MA-Katie Campbell-Nelson; (iii) urban agriculture-NM-Ashley Bennett; potatoes-FL-Nick Dufault; berries-NJ-Peter Oudemans; cole crops-MI-Zsofia Szendrei; and potatoes and tomatoes-NC-Jean Ristaino. The TX- sorghum, UT-vegetable, TN-cotton, FL-tomato and pepper, MA-apple and ND-sunflower have iPiPE funds remaining and will continue to engage new stakeholders in 2019. Each Crop-Pest Program focuses on a suite of target diseases and insect pests that influence grower decision making. The Crop-Pest Programs are led by Extension professionals who coordinate extension and education activities in their production region for a single crop. They enlist assistance from other extension professionals and selected university, state, and federal employees throughout the production region. The Crop-Pest Program Coordinators will: (i) select and mentor two undergraduate summer interns in 2018; (ii) engage other stakeholders (including other extension specialists) to use the iPiPE; and (iii) update or create new pest management guidelines and commentaries as warranted. Objective 2. Recruit and train undergraduate student interns. Year 5 undergraduate interns, with Program Coordinator mentoring, will monitor daily pest observations submitted to the iPiPE and help develop and disseminate extension materials to stakeholders participating in CPPs. More specifically they will: (i) become familiar with the functionality of the iPiPE; (ii) identify in daily observations submitted by crop consultants and growers pests not endemic to a production region; (iii) detect errors in identification of endemic pest observations submitted; (iv) work with extension professionals to provide up-to-date pest management guidelines, commentary, and risk assessments; and (v) be exposed to IPM and food security concepts. It is expected that students will be engaged in iPiPE activities for about one-half of each work day. Interns will also assist in a local plant diagnostic laboratory (e.g. NPDN) where they will gain hands-on experience diagnosing plant diseases, weeds, and/or damage from insect pests and contribute to the lab's mission. Objective 3. Conduct research on targeted new, foreign, and emerging pests. The work during Year 5 will be focused on: (i) evaluating and improving iPiPE pest models developed in Years 1-4 for the earlier set of CPPs and (ii) constructing new pest models for the Crop-Pest Programs that are created in Year 4. This later task includes working with Crop-Pest Program Coordinators to select pest targets and determine the suitability of selected pest targets as modeling candidates. The work effort requires assessing the modeling status of each selected pest target from published literature and developing templates, identifying weather data sources, and specifying data formats for the model building process. Once constructed and validated, the output from the models is available to iPiPE participants on the iPiPE extension website. The Research team will continue to network with Extension professional not associated with iPiPE (e.g., "third parties") with the objective of providing them with the opportunity to run their pest risk models on the iPiPE platform and use the iPiPE platform as well as their own for disseminating results to stakeholders. Objective 4. Develop new and improved iPiPE IT tools. The IT Services component of the iPiPE, operated by BASF/ZedX will serve technical needs of the 28 Crop-Pest Programs, Research and Education platform components, and the Evaluation Team. By the beginning of Year 5, the iPiPE platform should be completely moved to the cloud. For Year 5, the IT Services component will have the following deliverables: (i) hosting and maintaining hardware, software, and communications for the iPiPE platform; (ii) data upload and database management; (iii) online and smart device data entry, data sharing, data backup, and data archiving; (iii) integration of the iPiPE and other third-party model products; and (iv) statistical analyses of iPiPE usage patterns stratified by tool, information product, and Crop-Pest Program. Objective 5. Create a national pest observation depository. The UGA, Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health (Bugwood) will continue to receive and maintain iPiPE pest databases transferred to them from ZedX Inc. In Year 5, it will also transfer appropriate pest observations received directly from stakeholders to iPiPE. Objective 6. Measure the impact of the iPiPE CAP. The iPiPE Evaluation team will continue to work to establish and administer a set of evaluation metrics for the iPiPE CAP in Year 5. The IPM Institute will work with the Coordinators of the new Crop-Pest Programs to develop/revise IPM Elements. The team will also conduct an "operational" assessment to address how well the iPiPE PDs and PIs are performing their responsibilities in Year 5. The Evaluation team will also lead the effort to reorient the focus of the project toward the collection of actionable data to support iPiPE's sustainability and the development of the project's long-term strategic plan.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
The iPiPE CAP continued to build momentum in Year 4 towards its goal to serve food security and IPM by creating a national infrastructure of private and public professionals who routinely monitor crop health and pest incidence then translate this knowledge to a shared platform enabling rapid dissemination of mitigation measures to limit crop loss. In short, we initiated seven new Crop-Pest Programs (CPPs) dispersed across the country, bringing the total number of iPiPE CPPs to twenty-eight. Together the CPPs and iPiPE platform component teams (IT, Education, Research and Evaluation) engaged and educated stakeholders and undergraduate students, expanded and improved the IT infrastructure to share pest observations, expanded a suite of operational pest risk assessment models on the IT platform to create valuable information products for stakeholders, and created and delivered survey and evaluation instruments for assessing progress toward our goal. On 6-7 February 2018, prior to the start of Year 4, the PDs, PIs, Crop-Pest Program Coordinators, undergraduate student interns and iPiPE Advisory Board members gathered at the fourth iPiPE Participant Mixer (iPMx4) in Raleigh, NC. The iPMx4 reinforced and promoted the iPiPE vision of progress through sharing. Participants focused their discussions on: (i) organizational issues; (ii) strategies for engaging stakeholders in the iPiPE; (iii) refining metrics for evaluating the Crop-Pest Programs and the iPiPE Platform components; (iv) feedback from CPP Coordinators and student interns; and (v) progress toward achieving the iPiPE goals of enhanced food security, IPM adoption, and farm profitability. Fifteen undergraduate student interns were recognized with cash award for their presentations of posters on their efforts during the previous summer to engage stakeholders in the iPiPE. Two interns were acknowledged for their outstanding participation on the iPiPE Intern Blog. Over the subsequent three months, the Education, IT Services, Research and Evaluation platform component teams interacted with Crop-Pest Program Coordinators to prepare for the 2018 growing season. The Crop-Pest Program Coordinators began disseminating information to stakeholders about the iPiPE at winter and spring meetings while the PDs and PIs disseminated iPiPE information at professional meetings and through journal publications. The Education team integrated information on the new Crop-Pest Programs into the iPiPE Outreach Website (ed.ipipe.org). Once again, they revised the student educational activities (Progress thru Sharing, Food Security and IPM, and IT training) using feedback from the interns gathered at the iPMx4. App forms were developed by the IT team for each of the new Crop-Pest Programs to enable efficient data entry. The iPiPE Participant and Extension websites were outfitted with new/updated tools to enable Crop-Pest Program Coordinators and their student interns to better reach out to stakeholders with information products and commentary. The IPM Element website was expanded incorporating 9 new elements associated with the new Crop-Pest Programs. The iPiPE Research team began constructing risk models for target pests with new Crop-Pest Program Coordinators. As a result, 2 new pest models were added to the 42 existing operational models on the platform in 2018. At the iPiPE Advisory Board meeting on 7 February 2018, a strategic planning committee was formed to revise the iPiPE long term Strategic Plan and to seek proposals from appropriate professional organizations to create iPiPE marketing and business plans. Board members Tom Green (chair), Scott Isard and Joseph LaForest were appointed to the subcommittee and Jean-Jacques Dubois, the iPiPE impact evaluator, was added to the subcommittee subsequently. The goal is to sustain the iPiPE after termination of USDA NIFA funding which will occur in February 2020. The Board requested that the subcommittee revise the Strategic Plan as soon as possible and present a marketing plan at their next in-person meeting. Over the next month, subcommittee members met weekly by conference call to revise the iPiPE Strategic Plan and seek out proposals to conduct market research for iPiPE. Committee members met with the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Poole College of ManagementCenter for Innovation Management Studies, NCSUDepartment of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Purdue University Center for Food and Agricultural Business, and Beck Ag, a nationally recognized market research, marketing and business advisory firm. The NCSU Poole College of Management Center for Innovation Management Studies, NCSU Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, and Beck Ag delivered proposals. On May 9th, the iPiPE CAP Advisory Board met by conference call. Board members approved the revised iPiPE Strategic Plan providing feedback that has subsequently been incorporated. They also approved contracting Beck Ag (http://beckag.com/) to construct a marketing plan for the iPiPE. We have been working closely with Beck Ag personnel over the past few months to ensure that the output from the contract serves iPiPE's needs and is completed by the February 2019 iPiPE Advisory Board meeting. Details of this work are provided below in the section on changes to the plan of work. In 2018, iPiPE partnered with (i) the Illinois Area Wide Pest Monitoring program that provides management information for corn and soybean growers throughout the state and (ii) the North Central Region Pollinator Program that monitored fields for beneficial insects. Extension professions associated with the former contributed 2121 observations of insect pests of field crops to the iPiPE during the growing season. Another 2121 field observations of pollinator insects were entered directly into the iPiPE by collaborators participating in the Northcentral Region Pollinator Survey Program. With the onset of the 2018 growing season, 26 undergraduate student interns from 11 states were hired and began training in pest diagnostics and field collection protocols. There activities are described in the section of opportunities for training and professional development. In 2018, we initiated a pilot project to train and support three ag retailers in the Western Lake Erie Basin to improve pest management outcomes by using the iPiPE observation-sharing platform. The long-term vision was to build a sustainable model for long-term ag retailer participation in and financial support of iPiPE. Results of our interactions with ag retailer were unanticipated, the general consensus was that iPiPE should partner with other available pest forecasting and mapping programs already in use. Many ag retailers already use a pest scouting and forecasting program that they are comfortable with and understand. They expressed a strong interest in expanding their ability to report vital weed or pest observations, but many felt the iPiPE app was best suited if attached to an existing and more user-friendly program on the market. A possible solution is for iPiPE to develop APIs with these existing systems so that data can be shared between programs. In October 2018, BASF/ZedX began transferring the iPiPE platform (code and data bases) to an open source environment on the Amazon cloud. The transfer should be complete by January 2019 and provide iPiPE with a more advanced platform for sharing pest observations, building new IT tools and collaborating on pest risk assessment model construction and operation. The move was financed by BASF/ZedX. In 2018, a total of 261,094 observations of insect pests and diseases in agricultural fields across the country were share by participants of the iPiPE. Ninety-four observers entered approximately 5000 field observations of insect pests and diseases directly into the system from 383 locations around the country.
Publications
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Journal Articles
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2018
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: Tait, G., Grassi, A., Pfab, F., Crava, C. M., Dalton, D. T., Magarey, R., . . . Anfora, G. (2018). Large-scale spatial dynamics of Drosophila suzukii in Trentino, Italy. Journal of Pest Science. doi:10.1007/s10340-018-0985-x
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Journal Articles
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Published
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2018
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Willbur, J., Fall, M., Bloomingdale, C. A., Byrne, A. M., Chapman, S., Isard, S.A., Magarey, RD, McCaghey, M, Mueller, B., Russo, J. and Schlegel, J. (in press) Weather-based models for assessing the risk of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum apothecial presence in soybean (Glycine max) fields. Plant Disease, 102:73-84
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Journal Articles
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Published
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2018
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Mueller, D.S., Sisson, A.J., Kempker, R., Isard, S., Raymond, C., Gennett, A.J., Sheffer, W., and Bradley, C.A. 2018. Scout, Snap, and Share: First Impressions of Plant Disease Monitoring Using Social Media. Plant Disease, 102(9):1681-1686. https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-11-17-1862-SR.
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Conference Papers and Presentations
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Published
Year Published:
2018
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R. Magarey and J. Russo. iPIPE Research update. iPMx4 Mixer, Raleigh, NC, February 7, 2018
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Conference Papers and Presentations
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Published
Year Published:
2018
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Ariatti, A. iPiPE Programs for Sharing Observations of Pests and Beneficial Organisms. 9th International IPM Symposium, March 19-22, 2018, Baltimore, MD.
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OmFmZDY2YmFlNjY0OGY0YQ
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Conference Papers and Presentations
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Year Published:
2018
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Haseeb, M., Parkins, A.J., Gordon, T.L., Harmon, D.S., Liburd, O.E., Legaspi, J.C. and Kanga, L.H.B. 2018. Developing and Implementing Effective Integrated Pest Management Strategies for Specialty Crop Growers in North Florida.
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjEzNTVhNjZkMzg1M2Q2OGE
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Conference Papers and Presentations
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2018
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Askew, L., C. Guilford, D. B. Langston, Jr., and H. L. Mehl. 2018. Virginia Carolina Peanut iPiPE: Data Sharing to Improve Disease Risk Models. iPiPE Participant Mixer (student intern presentation at workshop), Raleigh, NC. February 6, 2018. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjRjYWM5YTU2MTc4NTIxYWY
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Conference Papers and Presentations
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Published
Year Published:
2018
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Balko, H., 2018. Research with iPiPE: A Diverse Educational Experience. iPiPE Participant Mixer (student intern presentation at workshop), Raleigh, NC. February 6, 2018. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OmUyMDEyNmFlMzY5NDI3Ng
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Conference Papers and Presentations
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2018
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Brown, T., J. Perier and M. Haseeb. 2018. Identification and Diagnosis of Serious Pest Insects and Diseases of Tomatoes in Florida: Commodity-based Pest Information for Stakeholders and Clientele. iPiPE Participant Mixer (student intern presentation at workshop), Raleigh, NC. February 6, 2018. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjRmYjRjNmM0ZTkyMzcyOTk
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Conference Papers and Presentations
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Year Published:
2018
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Cannon, C., R. Spears, Z. Schumm, C. Holthouse, and D. G. Alston. 2018. Marmorated Stink Bug Monitoring in Utah Vegetables. iPiPE Participant Mixer (student intern presentation at workshop), Raleigh, NC. February 6, 2018. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4Ojc4OWRmMTc1MDY2MzFlMjg
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Conference Papers and Presentations
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Published
Year Published:
2018
Citation:
Foley, N., J. Clements, E. Garofalo and P. O'Connor. 2018. Innovating Apple Pest Incidence Data Collection. iPiPE Participant Mixer (student intern presentation at workshop), Raleigh, NC. February 6, 2018. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjJiNWI3ZjMxMmRlN2EzNTY
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Conference Papers and Presentations
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Published
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2018
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Ludwig D. and D. E. P. Telenko. 2018 Evaluation and Demonstration of Integrated Disease Management Options for Organic Tomato and Cucumber Production. iPiPE Participant Mixer (student intern presentation at workshop), Raleigh, NC. February 6, 2018. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjIzMDA0MDkyYTYxNDkzMWI
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Conference Papers and Presentations
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2018
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Okoroji, C., P. Wu and M. Haseeb. 2018. Commodity-based Pest Information on the Pepper Weevil, Anthonomus eugenii(Coleoptera: Curculionidae), a Serious Pest of Peppers in Florida. iPiPE Participant Mixer (student intern presentation at workshop), Raleigh, NC. February 6, 2018. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjRmYjRjNmM0ZTkyMzcyOTk
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Conference Papers and Presentations
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2018
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Pate, S., R. Guyer, T. Raper, and H. M. Kelly. 2018. The Use of iPiPE to Track Target Spot Incidence in West Tennessee Cotton. iPiPE Participant Mixer (student intern presentation at workshop), Raleigh, NC. February 6, 2018. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjRmNmIwZmRjZjI0YmUzYTc
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2018
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Published: 2018
Citation: Peterman, A., and W. Q. Yang. 2018. iPiPE and the Spotted Wing Drosophila. iPiPE Participant Mixer (student intern presentation at workshop), Raleigh, NC. February 6, 2018. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OmIxZWQ5ZDU1NzYyZWFm
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2018
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Raymond, C., W. J. Sheffer, D. S. Mueller, and C. A. Bradley. 2018. Keeping track of southern rust of corn using iPiPE and Twitter. iPiPE Participant Mixer (student intern presentation at workshop), Raleigh, NC. February 6, 2018. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjcwNDk2OTMxOWY5OWJmNjE
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2018
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Sekula, D., T. Barco, and A. Olguin. 2018. Observations of the sugarcane aphid Melanaphis sacchari in the Lower Rio Grande Valley 2016-2017. iPiPE Participant Mixer (student intern presentation at workshop), Raleigh, NC. February 6, 2018. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjE5ZGEyZTEzYzMzYTE5Mjc
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Conference Papers and Presentations
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2018
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Okoroji, C. M. Haseeb, P. Wu, A. Bolques, J.C. Legaspi and L.H.B. Kanga. 2018. Identification, monitoring and management of serious pest insects of peppers in Florida and transfer of technology to small scale growers. 2018 International Pepper Conference, Fort Myers, FL. November 4-6, 2018. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4Ojc3ZjU4ZDc2OTIyNThiZTM
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Conference Papers and Presentations
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Year Published:
2018
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Wu, P., M. Haseeb, W. Diedrick, R. Zhang, L.H.B. Kanga, and J.C. Legaspi. 2018. In vitro consumption patterns of pepper weevil, Anthonomus eugenii (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) on two commercial pepper cultivars in Florida. 2018 International Pepper Conference, Fort Myers, FL. November 4-6, 2018. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OmUwMjk4MTJiMzAyMTIxOQ
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2018
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Revised 2018 : iPiPE IPM Elements Website http://elements.ipipe.org/
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2018
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Revised 2018:: iPiPE Portal; http://www.ipipe.org/
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2018
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Revised 2018:iPiPE Participants Website; https://ipipe.zedxinc.com
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2018
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revised 2018: iPiPE Extension Website; http://ext.ipipe.org/
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2018
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Revised 2018:iPiPE Outreach Website; http://ed.ipipe.org/
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2018
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revised 2018:iPiPE Student Intern Website; https://sites.google.com/site/ipipeed
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2018
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Progress through Sharing; iPiPE Newsletter July 2018; https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjI2MWNiYWNmMTNlZDFmYTg
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2018
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Progress through Sharing; iPiPE Newsletter August 2018; https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjY1MTVlNWIzNzA3YmIxY2M
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2018
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Progress through Sharing; iPiPE Newsletter September 2018; https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjZhMGNkODNmYWM2MzdmOTY
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2018
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Progress through Sharing; iPiPE Newsletter October 2018; https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjQ2NmFiNmFhNWE5ZDE3Yzk
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2018
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Progress through Sharing; iPiPE Newsletter November 2018; https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjQ2NmFiNmFhNWE5ZDE3Yzk
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Other
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2018
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Stakeholder card: Lambert C. and Lentz E., iPiPE Progress Through Sharing
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2018
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stakeholder card: Jones, D., What is iPiPE
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Stakeholder card: Schmidt, E., Pest management for Pennsylvania Hops
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2018
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Stakeholder card: Askew, L. and Guilford, C., iPiPE Progress Through Sharing
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2018
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Stakeholder card: Halbrendt, N., Need Help Identifying Your Crop Issues
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Stakeholder card: Ware, L. and Olanyk C., iPiPE Progress Through Sharing
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Journal Articles
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2018
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Ryan, S.F., Adamson, N.L., Aktipis, A., Andersen, L.K., Austin, R., Barnes, L., Beasley, M.R., Bedell, K.D., Bidell, K., Briggs, S., Chapman, B., Cooper, C., Corn, J., Creamer, N.G., Delborne, J.A., Domenico, P., Driscoll, E., Goodwin, J., Hjarding, A., Hulbert, J.M., Isard, S., Just, M.G., Kar Gupta, K., L�pez-Uribe, M.M., OSullivan, J., Landin, j., Landis, E.A., McKenney, E.A., Madden, A.A., Nichols, L.M., Ramaswamy, S., Reading, B., Russell, s., Sengupta, N., Shell, L., Sheard, J.K., Shoemaker, D.D., Sorger, D.M., Starling, C., Thakur, S., Vatsavai, R., Weinstein, M., Wimfre, P., Dunn, R.R.,. The Role of Citizen Science in Addressing Grand Challenges in Food and Agriculture Research. Royal Society Journal Proceedings B, online. http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/285/1891/20181977.full?ijkey=J9Q6paszRp4JHrZ&keytype=ref
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2018
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Magarey, R., Newton, L., Hong, S.C., Takeuchi, Y., Christie, D., Jarnevich, C.S., Kohl, L., Damus, M., Higgins, S.I., Millar, L. and Castro, K., Comparison of four modeling tools for the prediction of potential distribution for non-indigenous weeds in the United States. Biological Invasions, pp.1-16.
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Progress 03/01/17 to 02/28/18
Outputs
Target Audience:In Year 3 of the iPiPE CAP, we engaged sixteen Extension professionals located across the nation to coordinate Crop-Pest Programs and encourage stakeholders in specific crops/production regions to participate in the iPiPE. The audiences that were informed of the iPiPE mission, goals, and outputs for stakeholders in 2017 included Extension professionals, crop consultants, and growers of: (i) sorghum in Texas and Louisiana; (ii) wheat in Montana; (iii) cotton in California; (iv) sunflower in North Dakota; (v) soybean in the North Central region; (vi) vegetables in New York; (vii) citrus in Florida; (viii) corn in the South and Midwest; (ix) small and stone fruits in Oregon, (x) hops in Pennsylvania; (xi) apples in Massachusetts; (xii) beans and peppers in Florida; (xiii) vegetables in Utah; cotton (xiv) in Tennessee; (xv) peanuts in Virginia; and (xvi) sweet corn in Pennsylvania. In 2017, iPiPE partnered with the Illinois Area Wide Pest Monitoring program that provides management information for corn and soybean growers throughout the state. Social media, internet, and traditional means of communication were employed to engage stakeholders. Seventeen undergraduate student summer interns from these states were involved in iPiPE activities learning about food security and IPM. Finally, we reached out to Extension professionals and researchers through presentations on iPiPE at national meetings and IPM Center webinars explaining the iPiPE concept and recruiting Crop-Pest Program Coordinators for the CAP. Changes/Problems:There will be no major changes in the iPiPE CAP approach for Year 4. The work in 2017 by iPiPE Advisory Board on its strategic plan to sustain iPiPE beyond the NIFA-funded CAP has resulted in three important developments that we will expand on in 2018. First, BASF has agreed to provide ZedX Inc., the iPiPE IT provider, with additional computer and personnel resources which should build out iPiPE Objective 4 beyond our original expectations. BASF purchased ZedX Inc. in 2017, and we anticipate that support from BASF for iPiPE will continue beyond the CAP. Second, as mentioned above, iPiPE has established new partnerships with a number of USDA NIFA-funded state Extension Implementation Programs (EIPs). The EIPs plan to adopt iPiPE observation collection tools and mapping products for their pest monitoring activities starting in 2018. In 2017, we pioneered a similar collaboration with the Illinois Area-Wide Pest Monitoring Program as proof of concept. The collaboration was a great success resulting in submission using iPiPE tools of approximately 2400 pest observations from 93 Illinois locations by 39 cooperators. State EIPs that plan to use iPiPE in 2018 include DE, IA, IL, MN, NM, and WI. Thirdly, the iPiPE will serve as the IT platform for North Central Pollinator Habitat Usage Survey in 2018. This exciting collaboration will expand iPiPE databases and services to programs that focus on organisms beneficial to food production and involve home gardeners. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Twenty eight undergraduate student interns from Fl, IA, KY, MA, MT, ND, OR, PA, TN, TX, UT and VA participated in the iPiPE during summer 2017. The students: (i) took an entry survey of their expectation for the internship, (ii) became familiar with the functionality of the iPiPE; (iii) cataloged Extension literature on target pests, (iv) received training in pest diagnostics, (v) collected pest observations in the field and entered them into iPiPE, (vi) interacted with Extension professionals and stakeholders at grower meetings and in one-on-one conversations during field collection trips (vii) receive training in IPM and food security concepts, and (viii) completed an exit survey at the end of their internship. Outputs to which student's contributed are listed in the Crop-Pest Program Output and Outcomes table available at http://ed.ipipe.org/cpp-outputs-and-outcomes . The following student knowledge outcomes were by Crop-Pest Program Coordinators in their annual reports: 1) Increase in Student Interns' knowledge of pest diagnostics No (0) barely (0) moderately (11) substantially (15) superlatively (2) 2) Increase in Student Interns' knowledge of crop-pest dynamics No (0) barely (0) moderately (5) substantially (15) superlatively (4) 3) Increase in Student Interns' knowledge of scouting protocols and techniques No (0) barely (2) moderately (19) substantially (5) superlatively (2) 4) Increase in Student Interns' knowledge of IPM and food security No (1) barely (8) moderately (12) substantially (7) superlatively (0) 5) Increase in Student Interns' knowledge of IT and other advanced technologies in agriculture through use. No (12) barely (6) moderately (4) substantially (4) superlatively (2) 6) Increase in Student Interns' knowledge of Extension resources No (0) barely (6) moderately (14) substantially (4) superlatively (4) Eighteen of the students that ended their internship by September 2017 completed both the pre and post internship surveys, hereafter call entry and exit surveys. In summary, these students have between one and four years of undergraduate education, all of them majoring in either the biological sciences or agriculture. Seven of the students are from families involved in agriculture and fourteen have taken agricultural courses in school, with five interns involved in agriculture through both family and school. Only five had worked in integrated pest management before their internship. Given the small sample size, statistical inferences about the impact of the internship on student knowledge and values and about the relationship between their expectations and experiences are not possible. Statistical summaries are nonetheless informative with respect to assessment and planning for the educational objective of the iPiPE CAP. They are presented below. Value of Internship. Student answers for the both the entry and exit survey were once again remarkably consistent on a set of sixteen questions that focused on the value of specific aspects of the internship (e.g., learning about IPM, making connections for future work, traveling, learning to use IT in agriculture...). On both entry and exit surveys, students rated all 16 aspects of the internship between "valuable" and "very valuable". Students also responded that they expected to "like" or "like very much" these 16 aspects at entry, and reported at exit that they did like them or liked them very much. This suggests that the experience was both valuable and fun and that the CPP Coordinators did an excellent job of mentoring the iPiPE summer interns in 2017. Opinions on iPiPE objectives. We asked a set of 15 questions directed at their opinions of the ease and benefits of data sharing in agriculture, the usefulness of pest models, of IPM, and the benefits of iPiPE to food security. Opinions were strongly positive on all topics. On almost all topics, the opinions of the interns were slightly less positive after the experience than before. Self-assessments of knowledge and skills. In both entry and exit surveys, interns completed a detailed self-assessment of their pre-internship knowledge and skills in identifying and sampling pests, knowledge of pest management strategies, skills at using pest recording technology, and food security issues. In both entry and exit surveys, interns were asked to assess their knowledge and skills at the beginning of the internship. In the entry survey, they also reported their expected knowledge and skills upon completion of the internship, and at exit, they assessed their acquired knowledge and skills. In the entry survey, they rated their pre-internship knowledge and skills as "low" to "moderate". After the internship they re-assessed their pre-internship knowledge and skills slightly downward in every case. Year 1 and 2 students had reported the same downward re-assessment of their original knowledge and skills. In other words, students concluded after the internship their initial self-assessment may have been inflated. This re-calibration in itself suggests that their knowledge and skills did indeed increase as a result of their internship experiences. For all questions, expectations of post-internship knowledge and skills (entry survey) was slightly higher than their assessment of the level they reached by the end of the experience (exit survey). Again these results were consistent with those from Year 1 and 2 interns. However, because of the downward re-assessment of their starting point, the progress they made was in all cases about as large or larger as expected, albeit from a lower starting point than they first thought. The results show clearly that on all topics, even though they did not reach quite as high as they expected, students learned as much or more than they expected. We asked a set of questions on knowledge of food security issues, pest data recording technology, and predictive models of target pest distributions to ascertain pre knowledge, post knowledge, and expected learning. Again, the students found that their initial assessment was inflated and that the expertise they attained was not as high as they expected initially. Answers to this set of questions was consistent with those from the 2015 and 2016 surveys and clearly are somewhat disturbing because they indicate that students did not progress as much as expected. Finally, we asked a short set of questions on knowledge gained from the educational modules on cataloging resources, IPM and food security that we provided. In each case, the value of the modules was rated positive by iPiPE student interns. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Crop-Pest Program Coordinators reported that information about the iPiPE was presented at a total of 130 meetings/conference calls with roughly 3700 stakeholders in attendance during 2017. The iPiPE concept and participation in the project was also discussed with growers and crop consultants through approximately 198 one-on-one conversations as well. Twitter and blogs were used to communicate with and gather pest observations from stakeholders (69 tweets). Maps depicting pest distributions accompanied by commentary from Extension professionals were disseminated to growers/crop consultants in a number of the Crop-Pest Programs. Twenty one articles were printed in Extension publications and other agricultural media targeting growers, crop consultants and other stakeholders described the iPiPE concept. The iPiPE was also presented to Extension professionals in the Northeastern IPM Center's The IPM Toolbox Webinar Series and the annual meeting of the Western Great Lakes Ag Retailors. These outputs are described and quantified on the iPiPE Education and Outreach website (http://ed.ipipe.org/cpp-outputs-and-outcomes). What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Summary of Work for Year 3 (March 2018 - February 2019). The following work plan for accomplishing the iPiPE goals for Year 4 is organized by objective. Objective 1. Engage extension professionals to encourage and facilitate stakeholders who collect data to submit observations to the iPiPE. The iPiPE will expand to include seven additional Crop-Pest Programs in Year 4. Crop-Pest Programs that were initiated in Year 1 (crop-region-coordinator) are: (i) alfalfa-CA-Peter Goodell; (ii) small fruits-New England-Heather Faubert; (iii) sorghum-TX&LA-Raul Villanueva; (iv) soybean-MO-Moneen Jones; (v) tree fruits-UT-Lori Spears; (vi) tree fruits-mid-Atlantic-Mahfuz Rahman; and (vii) wheat-MT-David Weaver. Crop-Pest Programs that were initiated in Year 2 are: (i) citrus-FL-Philip Stansley; (ii) corn-Midwest&South-Carl Bradley; (iii) cotton-CA-Vonny Barlow; (iv) soybean-Northcentral US-Daren Mueller; (v) small and stone fruits-OR-Wei Yang; (vi) sunflower-ND&SD-Sam Markell; and (vii) vegetable-NY-Darcy Telenko. These 14 Crop-Pest Programs will no longer be funded by the iPiPE CAP; however, they will be supported in that the CPP Coordinators will have access to all the tools, information products, and program support they have used over the past two years. Crop-Pest Programs initiated in Year 3 and funded for Year 4 as well are (i) apples-New England-Jon Clements; (ii) cotton-southeast-Heather Kelly; (iii) hop-PA-Beth Gugino; (iv) peanuts-VA-Hillary Mehl; (v) sweet corn-PA-Shelby Fleischer; (vi) tomato and beans - FL-Muhammad Haseeb; and (vii) vegetables-UT-Lori Spears. The tomato and beans Crop-Pest Program is hosted by Florida A&M University, a minority serving institution. Crop-Pest Programs initiated in Year 4 will be: (i) grapes - New England - Mary Concklin; Vegetables-MA-Katie Campbell-Nelson; (iii) urban agriculture-NM-Ashley Bennett; potatoes-FL-Nick Dufault; berries-NJ-Peter Oudemans; cole crops-MI-Zsofia Szendrei; and potatoes and tomatoes-NC-Jean Ristaino. Each Crop-Pest Program will focus on a suite of target diseases and insect pests that influence grower decision making. The Crop-Pest Programs are led by Extension professionals who coordinate extension and education activities in their production region for a single crop. They will enlist assistance from other extension professionals and selected university, state, and federal employees throughout the production region. The Crop-Pest Program Coordinators will: (i) select and mentor two undergraduate summer interns in 2018; (ii) engage other stakeholders (including other extension specialists) to use the iPiPE; and (iii) update or create new pest management guidelines and commentaries as warranted. Objective 2. Recruit and train undergraduate student interns. Year 4 undergraduate interns, with Program Coordinator mentoring, will monitor daily pest observations submitted to the iPiPE and help develop and disseminate extension materials to stakeholders participating in CPPs. More specifically they will: (i) become familiar with the functionality of the iPiPE; (ii) identify in daily observations submitted by crop consultants and growers pests not endemic to a production region; (iii) detect errors in identification of endemic pest observations submitted; (iv) work with extension professionals to provide up-to-date pest management guidelines, commentary, and risk assessments; and (v) be exposed to IPM and food security concepts. It is expected that students will be engaged in iPiPE activities for about one-half of each work day. Interns will also assist in a local plant diagnostic laboratory (e.g. NPDN) where they will gain hands-on experience diagnosing plant diseases, weeds, and/or damage from insect pests and contribute to the lab's mission. Objective 3. Conduct research on targeted new, foreign, and emerging pests. The work during Year 4 will be focused on: (i) evaluating and improving iPiPE pest models developed in Years 1-3 for the earlier set of CPPs and (ii) constructing new pest models for the Crop-Pest Programs that are created in Year 4. This later task includes working with Crop-Pest Program Coordinators to select pest targets and determine the suitability of selected pest targets as modeling candidates. The work effort requires assessing the modeling status of each selected pest target from published literature and developing templates, identifying weather data sources, and specifying data formats for the model building process. Once constructed and validated, the output from the models is available to iPiPE participants on the iPiPE extension website. The Research team will continue to network with Extension professional not associated with iPiPE (e.g., "third parties") with the objective of providing them with the opportunity to run their pest risk models on the iPiPE platform and use the iPiPE platform as well as their own for disseminating results to stakeholders. Objective 4. Develop new and improved iPiPE IT tools. The IT Services component of the iPiPE, operated by ZedX Inc., will serve technical needs of the 28 Crop-Pest Programs, Research and Education platform components, and the Evaluation Team. For Year 4, the IT Services component will have the following deliverables: (i) hosting and maintaining hardware, software, and communications for the iPiPE platform; (ii) data upload and database management; (iii) online and smart device data entry, data sharing, data backup, and data archiving; (iii) platform expansion to accommodate new Crop-Pest Programs; (iv) integration of the iPiPE and other third-party model products; and (v) statistical analyses of iPiPE usage patterns stratified by tool, information product, and Crop-Pest Program. Objective 5. Create a national pest observation depository. The UGA, Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health (Bugwood) will continue to receive and maintain iPiPE pest databases transferred to them from ZedX Inc. In Year 4, it will also transfer appropriate pest observations received directly from stakeholders to iPiPE. Objective 6. Measure the impact of the iPiPE CAP. The iPiPE Evaluation team will continue to work to establish and administer a set of evaluation metrics for the iPiPE CAP in Year 4. The IPM Institute will work with the Coordinators of the new Crop-Pest Programs to develop IPM Elements. These elements will be used by NCSU to develop stakeholder surveys that will be administered electronically and by Crop-Pest Program Coordinators at stakeholder meetings. The evaluation team will also conduct an "operational" assessment to address how well the iPiPE PDs and PIs are performing their responsibilities in Year 4 and suggest structural and process changes to better accomplish the project's goals.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
The iPiPE CAP continued to build momentum in Year 3 towards its goal to serve food security and IPM by creating a national infrastructure of private and public professionals who routinely monitor crop health and pest incidence then translate this knowledge to a shared platform enabling rapid dissemination of mitigation measures to limit crop loss. In short, we initiated seven new Crop-Pest Programs (CPPs) dispersed across the country, bringing the total number of iPiPE CPPs to twenty one. Together the CPPs and iPiPE platform component teams (IT, Education, Research and Evaluation) engaged and educated stakeholders and undergraduate students, expanded and improved the IT infrastructure to share pest observations, expanded a suite of operational pest risk assessment models on the IT platform to create valuable information products for stakeholders, and created and delivered survey and evaluation instruments for assessing progress toward our goal. As detailed above, during the third year of the iPiPE CAP, we published 4 manuscripts in refereed journals, 1 book chapter, presented 12 papers/posters at professional conferences (many of which were presented by undergraduate student interns), and revised the 7 iPiPE websites with feedback from stakeholders. Other outputs from the iPiPE CAP include Stakeholder cards created by iPiPE student interns (4), Data and Research Materials (2 types), Databases (3), Education Materials and Curriculum (1), Evaluation Instruments (7), Models (15 new with an additional 37 operated), and Software Products (7). On 31 January and 1 February 2017, prior to the start of Year 3, the PDs, PIs, Crop-Pest Program Coordinators, undergraduate student interns and iPiPE Advisory Board members gathered at the third iPiPE Participant Mixer (iPMx3) in Raleigh, NC. The iPMx3 reinforced and promoted the iPiPE vision of progress through sharing. Participants focused their discussions on: (i) organizational issues; (ii) strategies for engaging stakeholders in the iPiPE; (iii) refining metrics for evaluating the Crop-Pest Programs and the iPiPE Platform components; (iv) feedback from CPP Coordinators and student interns; and (v) progress toward achieving the iPiPE goals of enhanced food security, IPM adoption, and farm profitability. Twelve undergraduate student interns were recognized with cash award for their presentations of posters on their efforts during the previous summer to engage stakeholders in the iPiPE. Over the subsequent three months, the Education, IT Services, Research and Evaluation platform component teams interacted with Crop-Pest Program Coordinators to prepare for the 2017 growing season. The Crop-Pest Program Coordinators began disseminating information to stakeholders about the iPiPE at winter and spring meetings while the PDs and PIs disseminated iPiPE information at professional meetings and through journal publications. The Education team integrated information on the new Crop-Pest Programs into the iPiPE Outreach Website (ed.ipipe.org). Once again, they revised the student educational modules (Progress thru Sharing, Food Security and IPM, and IT training) using feedback from the interns gathered at the iPMx3. App forms were developed by the IT team for each of the new Crop-Pest Programs to enable efficient data entry. In response to feedback from Crop-Pest Program Coordinators and interns, a second simple app was developed so that other stakeholders could easily and quickly input their pest observations. The iPiPE Participant and Extension websites were outfitted with new/updated tools to enable Crop-Pest Program Coordinators and their student interns to better reach out to stakeholders with information products and commentary. The IPM Element website was revised incorporating feedback from Extension professionals attending the iPMx3 and the iPiPE Portal was revised to allow efficient navigation among iPiPE websites. The iPiPE Research team began constructing risk models for target pests with each of the new Crop-Pest Program Coordinators. As a result, 15 new pest models were added to the platform in 2017. In spring 2017, we developed and important collaboration with the Illinois AREA: IPM Partnerships in Wide-Area Pest Monitoring and Reporting Systems. Essentially, the iPiPE provided the platform for extension cooperators to collect and display pest observations. In response to the information dissemination needs of this program, the iPiPE IT team worked throughout the summer and fall to develop a new set of tools to enable program participants to create specialized maps for their stakeholders. The collaborations was a great success with over 2400 pest observations collected by 39 cooperators at 93 locations throughout the state. This pilot effort will be expanded in 2018 when the iPiPE will collaborate with IPM pest monitoring projects in 6 states (DE, IA, IL, MN, NM and WI) funded by the USDA-NIFA Crop Protection and Pest Management Competitive Grants Program Extension Implementation Program (EIP) Area. iPiPE will provide the EIPs with information technology (IT) and geographic information systems (GIS) tools, mobile device applications (apps), and protocols for the reception and dissemination of agricultural data and pest distribution maps. We will enable collaborators to view and edit their pest observations and to use them as input into models and other analysis tools to make products (e.g., maps) for their stakeholders in support of agricultural decision making. In late spring, the iPiPE issued a RFA for Year 4 iPiPE Crop-Pest Programs which was disseminated via the Regional IPM Centers. Applications were evaluated by the Center Directors and iPiPE PDs during early summer and seven Year 4 iPiPE Crop-Pest Programs were selected. With the onset of the 2017 growing season, 27 undergraduate student interns from 14 states were hired and began training in pest diagnostics and field collection protocols. A series of webinars were conducted to introduce the students to iPiPE and our staff. Initially the students participated in an entry survey of expectations, worked to catalog relevant extension publications, completed the iPiPE educational modules, and some assisted in local diagnostic labs. As the season progressed, the students, Crop-Pest Program Coordinators and other Extension professional began collecting pest observations by traditional methods and social media and entering them into the iPiPE. During this period, both the students and Extension professionals interacted with a variety of stakeholders through personal contacts, extension meetings, social media, trade publications, and in some of the Crop-Pest Programs, they disseminated pest risk information products to stakeholders. The undergraduate interns shared their work experiences with each other throughout the summer (123 conversations involving 21 participants) using the iPiPE Intern Blog. At the end of their summer internships, students completed an exit survey providing information on outputs, outcomes, and the achievement of their expectations. Throughout the 2017 growing season, the iPiPE IT team managed the flow of observations to the iPiPE as well as product generation and distribution. More than 14,000 pest observations from 17 Crop-Pest Programs/Area Wide Surveys were submitted. These data from 571 locations and 902 traps pertained to 69 different pests.
Publications
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Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Fischer, B., and E. Friesenhahn. 2017. Apps for Traps - Western Wheat. iPiPE Participant Mixer (workshop), Raleigh, NC. January 31, 2017. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BxSZFz6ZU8ntMi1UMGtESWFwTm8
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Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Gennett, A., and C. Raymond. 2017. Tracking Corn Diseases Across Kentucky in 2016. iPiPE Participant Mixer (workshop), Raleigh, NC. January 31, 2017. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BxSZFz6ZU8ntMi1UMGtESWFwTm8
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Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Jones, M., and K. Curry. 2017. IT Platform for Cotton Agriculture Pest in Missouri. iPiPE Participant Mixer (workshop), Raleigh, NC. January 31, 2017. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BxSZFz6ZU8ntMi1UMGtESWFwTm8
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Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Jones, M., and K. Curry. 2017. IT Platform for Soybean Agriculture in Missouri.
iPiPE Participant Mixer (workshop), Raleigh, NC. January 31, 2017. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BxSZFz6ZU8ntMi1UMGtESWFwTm8
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Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Keller, G., and J. Rushton 2017. Blueberry Maggott and Spotted Wing Drosophila Trapping and Reporting. iPiPE Participant Mixer (workshop), Raleigh, NC. January 31, 2017. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BxSZFz6ZU8ntMi1UMGtESWFwTm8
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Kempker, R. 2017. Real-time sharing of soybean disease information through Twitter.
iPiPE Participant Mixer (workshop), Raleigh, NC. January 31, 2017. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BxSZFz6ZU8ntMi1UMGtESWFwTm8
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Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Reyes, K., A. Van Vliet, and V. Barlow. 2017. Euschistus servus in California Cotton.
iPiPE Participant Mixer (workshop), Raleigh, NC. January 31, 2017. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BxSZFz6ZU8ntMi1UMGtESWFwTm8
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Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Seighworth G., and J. Callwood. 2017. The iPiPE Internship: An Opportunity to Promote Integrated Pest Management Practices. iPiPE Participant Mixer (workshop), Raleigh, NC. January 31, 2017. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BxSZFz6ZU8ntMi1UMGtESWFwTm8
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Websites
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
iPiPE IPM Elements Website revised; http://elements.ipipe.org/
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Websites
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Published
Year Published:
2017
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iPiPE Portal revised; http://www.ipipe.org/
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Websites
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
iPiPE Participants Website revised; https://ipipe.zedxinc.com
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Websites
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Published
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2017
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iPiPE Extension Website revised; http://ext.ipipe.org/
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Websites
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Published
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2017
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iPiPE Outreach Website revised; http://ed.ipipe.org/
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Websites
Status:
Published
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2017
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iPiPE Student Intern Website revised; https://sites.google.com/site/ipipeed
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Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Rachel Kempker, iPiPE Ad Card http://ed.ipipe.org/publications
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Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Rachel Kempker, iPiPE Twitter Card http://ed.ipipe.org/publications
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Journal Articles
Status:
Submitted
Year Published:
2018
Citation:
Mueller, D. S., A. J. Sisson, R. Kempker, S. Isard, C. Raymond, A. J. Gennett, W. Sheffer, and C. A. Bradley. Scout, Snap and Share: First Impressions of Plant Disease Monitoring Using Social Media. Plant Disease Special Report
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Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Donatelli, M., Magarey, R. D., Bregaglio, S., Willocquet, L., Whish, J. P. M., and Savary, S. (2017). Modelling the impacts of pests and diseases on agricultural systems. Agricultural Systems. 155:215-224
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Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Margarey, R. and S.A. Isard. 2016. A troubleshooting guide for mechanistic plant pest forecast models. Journal of Integrated Pest Management. 38: 17.
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Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Magarey, R., Newton, L., Hong, S.C., Takeuchi, Y., Christie, D., Jarnevich, C.S., Kohl, L., Damus, M., Higgins, S.I., Millar, L. and Castro, K., Comparison of four modeling tools for the prediction of potential distribution for non-indigenous weeds in the United States. Biological Invasions, pp.1-16.
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Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Willbur, J.F., M. L. Fall, C. Bloomingdale, A.M. Byrne, S.A. Chapman, S.A. Isard, R.D. Magarey, M.M. McCaghey, B.D. Mueller, J.M. Russo, J. Schlegel, M.I. Chilvers, D.S. Mueller, M.Kabbage, and D.L. Smith. 2017 Weather-based models for assessing the risk of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum apothecial presence in soybean (Glycine max) fields. Plant Disease DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-04-17-0504-RE
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Book Chapters
Status:
Awaiting Publication
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Orlandini, S., R. D. Magarey, E. W. Park, M. Sporleder, J. Kroschel 2017. Methods of Agroclimatology: Modeling Approaches for Pests and Diseases. In: J. L. Hatfield, M. V.K. Sivakumar, J. H. Prueger, editors, Agroclimatology: Linking Agriculture to Climate, Agron. Monogr. 60. ASA, CSSA, and SSSA, Madison, WI. doi:10.2134/agronmonogr60.2016.0027
Agroclimatology: Linking Agriculture to Climate. American Society of Agronomy, Madison, WI.
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Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Golod, J. and S. Isard, The integrated Pest Information Platform for Extension and Education or iPiPE What it is and Why You Should Care. Northeastern IPM Center, IPM Toolbox webinar series. September 13, 2017. http://www.northeastipm.org/ipm-in-action/the-ipm-toolbox/
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Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Isard, S.A. The Integrated Pest Information Platform for Extension and Education (iPiPE). What it is and Why you should care. Pennsylvania State University Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology seminar series, September 11, 2017. https://psu.app.box.com/s/58uej6l176fcirciayysh0llnoxcp7ta
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Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Walton, V. and R. D. Magarey. Population modeling and integration with iPiPE. Spotted Wing Drosophila SCRI 2017 Stakeholder Meeting, NCSU, Raleigh NC February 6, 2017.
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Progress 03/01/16 to 02/28/17
Outputs
Target Audience:In Year 2 of the iPiPE CAP, we engaged fourteen Extension professionals located across the nation to coordinate Crop-Pest Programs and encourage stakeholders in specific crops/production regions to participate in the iPiPE. The audiences that were informed of the iPiPE mission, goals, and outputs for stakeholders in 2016 included Extension professionals, crop consultants, and growers of: (i) alfalfa in southern California; (ii) tree fruits (apples, apricot, cherry and peach) in Utah; (iii) sorghum in Texas and Louisiana; (iv) soybean in Missouri; (v) small fruits (blueberries, strawberries and brambles) in New England; (vi) tree fruits (apple, pear, peach, plum apricot and cherry) in West Virginia; Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania; (vii) wheat in Montana; (viii) cotton in California; (ix) sunflower in North Dakota; (x) soybean in the North Central region; (xi) vegetables in New York; (xii) citrus in Florida; (xiii) corn in the South and Midwest; and (xiv) small and stone fruits in Oregon. Social media, internet, and traditional means of communication were employed to engage stakeholders. Twenty one undergraduate student summer interns from these states were involved in iPiPE activities learning about food security and IPM. Finally, we reached out to Extension professionals and researchers through presentations on iPiPE at national meetings of professional societies (e.g., APS Rust Symposium and International Entomological Congress) and via a referred publication (Journal of IPM) explaining the iPiPE concept and recruiting Crop-Pest Program Coordinators for the CAP. Changes/Problems:During Year 1, the Evaluation team realized that the IPM Elements, created to help evaluate the impact of iPiPE on IPM practice use among stakeholders, could also be a valuable resource for farmers and their consultants. IPM Elements are concise lists of IPM and related practices that are crop and region-specific. They are very efficient resources for determining which practices are recommended by the Crop-Pest Program Coordinators and their Extension colleagues. They can be used by growers: (i) to identify additional IPM and other conservation practices appropriate for crops in a growing region; (ii) as a self-assessment tool to measure how many of the available practices are in use on a specific farm or field; and (iii) to document the extent of IPM adoption to buyers or for NRCS incentive programs. At the beginning of Year 2, the Evaluation and IT teams began working together to convert the IPM Elements lists into interactive Internet programs that growers can access through the iPiPE. In addition, the Evaluation team worked with each of the new Crop-Pest Program Coordinators to develop IPM Elements. Those associated with select CPPs were transformed into stakeholder surveys to assess use of IPM practices. There will be one major change in the iPiPE CAP approach for Year 3. The original iPiPE proposal includes the design and administration of two surveys of IPM practices used by farm managers (growers and consultants) for each of the crops in the Crop-Pest Programs (CPPs). The intention was to survey managers pre- and post-iPiPE, and relate changes in the use of IPM practices during the duration of the funding period to managers' exposure to iPiPE. Two conditions are necessary to make this evaluation effort successful: a large proportion of all managers within each region and crop of interest respond to both pre- and post-iPiPE surveys, and a large proportion of managers are exposed to iPiPE. So far we have had difficulty engaging large proportions of farm managers associated with the CPPs to complete the pre-iPiPE survey. The surveys are valid social research instruments based on checklists of practices called IPM Elements. IPM Elements are created for every CPP by the IPM Institute of North America. The NCSU Center for Urban Affairs and Community Services (CUACS) was retained to create the surveys, program a web-accessible version, collect the data, format it and create basic analyses. When the first set of IPM Elements was delivered to CUACS, we found that CUACS's understanding of the subject matter was so limited that they were unable to convert the checklists into surveys on their own. Contrary to what was planned in the proposal, they have not been able to take iPiPE's input and deliver a product without a very large contribution from IPM Institute and the iPiPE Evaluator. Only five surveys have been open to growers so far. From the surveys that have been open to managers so far, it has become urgently clear that recruiting a number of respondents sufficient to assess the baseline state of IPM among all managers prior to the iPiPE is not feasible. Response rates have been extremely low despite promotion efforts by CPP Coordinators. Furthermore, the CPP Coordinators were unanimous in wanting to keep the survey anonymous. As a consequence, there would be no means to pair individual pre- and post-responses, and if we were able to survey a large number of managers, we would still only be able to assess changes in the use of IPM by the overall population of managers in a CPP area, without connection to the impact of iPiPE. Since we would not specifically target those managers who participate in iPiPE, and the number of respondents is very small, it is very doubtful that we would be able to assess how iPiPE impacts the use of IPM among those who participate in it vs. the general population of managers in a CPP area overall. Therefore we decided to alter our evaluation process to focus the recruiting of survey respondents on those managers who use iPiPE. This targeting is made possible by the large database we are accumulating of managers who participate in iPiPE (CPP affiliation and email addresses). By including retrospective questions in an anonymous post-program survey of those managers we believe that we can achieve our original objective "to survey managers pre- and post-iPiPE, and relate changes in the use of IPM practices during the duration of the funding period to managers' exposure to iPiPE". In addition, the survey itself would be shorter and simpler to administer. Thus this change would eliminate the need for CUACS involvement for survey development and administration. In the interest of streamlining and speeding up survey development, administration and analysis, we proposed to Dr. Robert Nowierski that the iPiPE Evaluation team be expanded using the funds in the proposed CUACS subcontracts for Years 3-5 ($208,000). Dr. Nowierski granted us permission to hire a support person, to be supervised by Dr. Dubois, to assist in the program's evaluation component. We have arranged to partner with the NCSU Center for IPM in this hire. We have made one minor changes to the work originally proposed. Dr. Raul Villanueva, Sorghum Crop Pest Program Coordinator (TX) in Year 1, accepted a position at the University of Kentucky at the beginning of Year 2. Extension IPM Agent, Dr. Danielle Sekula-Ortiz, who has experience working within the iPiPE Sorghum Pest Program, will assume his position as Coordinator. Unfortunately this transition of leadership was finalized too late to engage stakeholders to share sorghum pest observation during the 2016 growing season. As a result, the second year of the Sorghum Pest Program will occur during Year 3 of the iPiPE CAP. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Twenty twp undergraduate student interns from CA, FL, KY, IA, MO, MT, ND, NY, OR, RI, UT, and WV participated in the iPiPE during summer 2016. The students: (i) took an entry survey of their expectation for the internship; (ii) became familiar with the functionality of the iPiPE; (iii) cataloged Extension literature on target pests; (iv) received training in pest diagnostics; (v) collected pest observations in the field and entered them into iPiPE; (vi) interacted with Extension professionals and stakeholders at grower meetings and in one-on-one conversations during field collection trips; (vii) receive training in IPM and food security concepts; (viii) interacted with each other using social media; (ix) presented posters/earned awards at the iPMx2 meeting; and (x) 16 students completed an exit survey at the end of their internship. Outputs to which student's contributed are listed in the Crop-Pest Program Output and Outcomes table available at http://ed.ipipe.org/cpp-outputs-and-outcomes. The following student knowledge outcomes were specified by Crop-Pest Program Coordinators in their annual reports. Students: (i) Increased their knowledge of pest diagnostics; (ii) Increased their knowledge of crop pest dynamics; (iii) Increased their knowledge of scouting protocols and techniques; (iv) Increase their knowledge of IPM and food security; (v) Increased their knowledge of IT (apps) and other technologies (PCR) in agriculture through hand-on experiences; (vi) Increased their knowledge of Extension resources on target pests in the Crop-Pest Program; and (vii) Increased their knowledge of Crop-Pest Program Extension resources available to stakeholders for pest management decision making. Sixteen of the students that ended their internship in August 2016 completed both the pre and post internship surveys, hereafter call entry and exit surveys. In summary, 15 of these students have between one and five years of undergraduate education, majoring in either the biological sciences or agriculture. One student had not started college yet, and one was in graduate school. Nine of the students are from families involved in agriculture and eleven are involved in agriculture through school, with eight interns out of sixteen involved in agriculture through both family and school. Just six of the interns had more than just a little hands-on experience identifying pests, and only one had more than a little experience working with on-farm IT before the internship. Thirteen intend to work in agriculture after they have completed school, and eight intend to work in IPM, with four more considering it. Given the small sample size and the "across the board" small differences between student answers to the entry and exit surveys, statistical inferences are not possible about the impact of the internship on student knowledge and values, or about the differences between their expectations and actual experiences. However the data does inform educational planning for the following years of the iPiPE CAP. With respect to the amount of learning and skill improvement that the interns expected, and the amount they realized, results were strikingly similar to the results from the 2015 surveys. After one year of learning and training, students reassessed their pre-internship knowledge and skills downward, and achieved more progress than they had expected. Value of Internship. Student answers for the both the entry and exit survey were once again remarkably consistent on a set of sixteen questions that focused on the value of specific aspects of the internship (e.g., learning about IPM, making connections for future work, traveling, learning to use IT in agriculture...). On both entry and exit surveys, students rated all 16 aspects of the internship between "valuable" and "very valuable". Students also responded that they expected to "like" or "like very much" these 16 aspects at entry, and reported at exit that they did like them or liked them very much. This suggests that the experience was valuable and fun and that the CPP Coordinators did an excellent job of mentoring the iPiPE summer interns in 2016. Opinions on iPiPE objectives. We asked another set of 16 questions directed at their opinions of the ease and benefits of data sharing in agriculture, the usefulness of pest models, of IPM, and the benefits of iPiPE to food security. Opinions were very positive on all topics. On almost all topics, the spread of opinions among students was also very small. Self-assessments of knowledge and skills. In both entry and exit surveys, interns completed a detailed self-assessment of their pre-internship knowledge and skills in identifying and sampling pests, knowledge of pest management strategies, skills at using pest recording technology, and food security issues. In the entry survey, they rated their pre-internship knowledge and skills as "moderate", and after the internship they re-assessed their pre-internship knowledge and skills as "low". Year 1 students had reported the same downward re-assessment of their original knowledge and skills. After the internship, students concluded that their initial self-assessment had been inflated. This re-calibration in itself suggests that their knowledge and skills did indeed increase as a result of their internship experiences. In both the entry and exit surveys, interns also assessed their post-internship knowledge and skills using the same nine questions. For all but two of the questions, expectations of post-internship knowledge and skills (entry survey) was slightly higher than their assessment of the level they reached by the end of the experience (exit survey). Again these results were consistent with those from Year 1 interns. Since the expertise students attained was not as high as they expected initially, but by their own admission their initial assessment was inflated, was the progress they made about as large as expected, albeit from a lower starting point than they first thought? The results show clearly that on all topics, even though they did not reach quite as high as they expected, students learned as much or more than they expected. We asked a final set of questions on knowledge of food security issues, pest data recording technology, and predictive models of target pest distributions to ascertain pre knowledge, post knowledge, and expected learning. Again, the students found that their initial assessment was inflated and that the expertise they attained was not as high as they expected initially. Answers to this set of questions clearly are somewhat disturbing because they indicate that students did not progress as much as expected. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Crop-Pest Program Coordinators reported that information about the iPiPE was presented at a total of 176 meetings/conference calls with roughly 3600 stakeholders in attendance during 2016. The iPiPE concept and participation in the project was also discussed with growers and crop consultants through approximately 76 one-on-one conversations as well. Twitter and blogs were used to communicate with and gather pest observations from stakeholders (240 tweets). Maps depicting pest distributions accompanied by commentary from Extension professionals were disseminated to growers/crop consultants in a number of the Crop-Pest Programs. Twenty articles were printed in Extension publications and other agricultural media targeting growers, crop consultants and other stakeholders described the iPiPE concept. The iPiPE was also presented to Extension professionals at the annual APS meeting, the 8th International IPM Symposium and the annual National IPM Coordinators meeting. We also held two focus group meetings with growers and consultants in 2016 to gain feedback on our services. These outputs are described and quantified on the iPiPE Education and Outreach website (http://ed.ipipe.org/cpp-outputs-and-outcomes). What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Summary of Work for Year 3 (March 2017 - February 2018). The following work plan for accomplishing the iPiPE goals for Year 3 is organized by objective. Objective 1. Engage extension professionals to encourage and facilitate stakeholders who collect data to submit observations to the iPiPE. The iPiPE will expand to include seven additional Crop-Pest Programs in Year 3. Crop-Pest Programs that were initiated in Year 1 (crop-region-coordinator) are: (i) alfalfa-CA-Peter Goodell; (ii) small fruits-New England-Heather Faubert; (iii) sorghum-TX&LA-Raul Villanueva; (iv) soybean-MO-Moneen Jones; (v) tree fruits-UT-Lori Spears; (vi) tree fruits-mid-Atlantic-Mahfuz Rahman; and (vii) wheat-MT-David Weaver. These original 7 Crop-Pest Programs will no longer be funded by the iPiPE CAP; however, they will be supported in that the CPP Coordinators will have access to all the tools, information products, and program support they have used over the past two years. Crop-Pest Programs initiated in Year 2 and funded for Year 3 are: (i) citrus-FL-Philip Stansley; (ii) corn-Midwest&South-Carl Bradley; (iii) cotton-CA-Vonny Barlow; (iv) soybean-Northcentral US-Daren Mueller; (v) small and stone fruits-OR-Wei Yang; (vi) sunflower-ND&SD-Sam Markell; and (vii) vegetable-NY-Darcy Telenko. Crop-Pest Programs initiated in Year 3 will be (i) apples-New England-Jon Clements; (ii) cotton-southeast-Heather Kelly; (iii) hop-PA-Beth Gugino; (iv) peanuts-VA-Hillary Mehl; (v) sweet corn-PA-Shelby Fleischer; (vi) tomato and beans - FL-Muhammad Haseeb; and (vii) vegetables-UT-Lori Spears. The tomato and beans Crop-Pest Program is hosted by Florida A&M University, a minority serving institution. Each Crop-Pest Program will focus on a suite of target diseases and insect pests that influence grower decision making. The Crop-Pest Programs are led by Extension professionals who coordinate extension and education activities in their production region for a single crop. They will enlist assistance from other extension professionals and selected university, state, and federal employees throughout the production region. The Crop-Pest Program Coordinators will: (i) select and mentor two undergraduate summer interns in 2016; (ii) engage other stakeholders (including other extension specialists) to use the iPiPE; and (iii) update or create new pest management guidelines and commentaries as warranted. Objective 2. Recruit and train undergraduate student interns. Year 3 undergraduate interns, with Program Coordinator mentoring, will monitor daily pest observations submitted to the iPiPE and help develop and disseminate extension materials to stakeholders participating in CPPs. More specifically they will: (i) become familiar with the functionality of the iPiPE; (ii) identify in daily observations submitted by crop consultants and growers pests not endemic to a production region; (iii) detect errors in identification of endemic pest observations submitted; (iv) work with extension professionals to provide up-to-date pest management guidelines, commentary, and risk assessments; and (v) be exposed to IPM and food security concepts. It is expected that students will be engaged in iPiPE activities for about one-half of each work day. Interns will also assist in a local plant diagnostic laboratory (e.g. NPDN) where they will gain hands-on experience diagnosing plant diseases, weeds, and/or damage from insect pests and contribute to the lab's mission. Objective 3. Conduct research on targeted new, foreign, and emerging pests. The work during Year 3 will be focused on: (i) evaluating and improving iPiPE pest models developed in Years 1 and 2 for the initial set of CPPs and (ii) constructing new pest models for the Crop-Pest Programs that are created in Year 3. This later task includes working with Crop-Pest Program Coordinators to select pest targets and determine the suitability of selected pest targets as modeling candidates. The work effort requires assessing the modeling status of each selected pest target from published literature and developing templates, identifying weather data sources, and specifying data formats for the model building process. Once constructed and validated, the output from the models is available to iPiPE participants on the iPiPE extension website. The Research team will continue to network with Extension professional not associated with iPiPE (e.g., "third parties") with the objective of providing them with the opportunity to run their pest risk models on the iPiPE platform and use the iPiPE platform as well as their own for disseminating results to stakeholders. Objective 4. Develop new and improved iPiPE IT tools. The IT Services component of the iPiPE, operated by ZedX Inc., will serve technical needs of the 21 Crop-Pest Programs, Research and Education platform components, and the Evaluation Team. For Year 3, the IT Services component will have the following deliverables: (i) hosting and maintaining hardware, software, and communications for the iPiPE platform; (ii) data upload and database management; (iii) online and smart device data entry, data sharing, data backup, and data archiving; (iii) platform expansion to accommodate new Crop-Pest Programs; (iv) integration of the iPiPE and other third-party model products; and (v) statistical analyses of iPiPE usage patterns stratified by tool, information product, and Crop-Pest Program. Objective 5. Create a national pest observation depository. The UGA, Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health (Bugwood) will continue to receive and maintain iPiPE pest databases transferred to them from ZedX Inc. In Year 3, it will also transfer appropriate pest observations received directly from stakeholders to iPiPE. Objective 6. Measure the impact of the iPiPE CAP. The iPiPE Evaluation team will continue to work to establish and administer a set of evaluation metrics for the iPiPE CAP in Year 3. The IPM Institute will work with the Coordinators of the new Crop-Pest Programs to develop IPM Elements. These elements will be used by NCSU to develop stakeholder surveys that will be administered electronically and by Crop-Pest Program Coordinators at stakeholder meetings. The evaluation team will also conduct an "operational" assessment to address how well the iPiPE PDs and PIs are performing their responsibilities in Year 3 and suggest structural and process changes to better accomplish the project's goals. We anticipate an important additional development this year. In Year 2, we developed relationships with Extension specialists operating university based IT platforms that also collect pest observations. In two cases, we built Automated Programming Interfaces (APIs) to transfer pest observations back and forth in near real time between iPiPE and these other platforms. In 2017, we anticipate extending the sharing of pest observations to IT platforms operated by small private companies. These companies provide apps to individual growers and consultants for the collection and management of pest observations from their fields. We plan to provide these companies with iPiPE weather data and pest risk products to be delivered to their customers in return for the pest observations collected using the apps. Initially, we will work with ScoutPro, a small company with customers who manage pests in corn, soybean, and wheat.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
The iPiPE CAP continued to build momentum in Year 2 towards its goal to serve food security and IPM by creating a national infrastructure of private and public professionals who routinely monitor crop health and pest incidence then translate this knowledge to a shared platform enabling rapid dissemination of mitigation measures to limit crop loss. In short, we initiated seven new Crop-Pest Programs (CPPs) dispersed across the country, bringing the total number of iPiPE CPPs to fourteen. Together the CPPs and iPiPE platform component teams (IT, Education, Research and Evaluation) engaged and educated stakeholders and undergraduate students, expanded and improved the IT infrastructure to share pest observations, expanded a suite of operational pest risk assessment models on the IT platform to create valuable information products for stakeholders, and created and delivered survey and evaluation instruments for assessing progress toward our goal. As detailed above, during the second year of the iPiPE CAP, we published 2 manuscripts in refereed journals, presented 6 papers at professional conferences, published 2 articles describing the iPiPE CAP in other outlets that target stakeholders, and created 2 website and revised 4 iPiPE websites online for the project. Other outputs from the iPiPE CAP include Data and Research Materials (2 types), Databases (5), Education Materials and Curriculum (1), Evaluation Instruments (6), Models (20 new with an additional 21 operated), Software Products (8), and Survey Instruments (2). In February 2015, prior to the start of Year 2, the PDs, PIs, Crop-Pest Program Coordinators, undergraduate student interns and some iPiPE Advisory Board members gathered for 2 days at the iPMx2 in Raleigh, NC. The iPMx2 reinforced and promoted the iPiPE vision of progress through sharing. Participants focused their discussions on: (i) organizational issues; (ii) strategies for engaging stakeholders in the iPiPE; (iii) refining metrics for evaluating the Crop-Pest Programs, the iPiPE Platform components; (iv) feedback from CPP Coordinators and student interns; and (v) progress toward achieving the iPiPE goals of enhanced food security, IPM adoption, and farm profitability. Five undergraduate student interns were recognized with cash award for their presentations of posters on their efforts during the previous summer to engage stakeholders in the iPiPE. Over the subsequent three months, the Education, IT Services, Research and Evaluation platform component teams interacted with Crop-Pest Program Coordinators to prepare for the 2016 growing season. The Crop-Pest Program Coordinators began disseminating information to stakeholders about the iPiPE at winter and spring meetings while the PDs and PIs disseminated iPiPE information at professional meetings and through journal publications. The Education team integrated information on the new Crop-Pest Programs into the iPiPE Outreach Website (ed.ipipe.org). They revised the student educational modules (Progress thru Sharing, Food Security and IPM, and IT training) using feedback from the interns gathered at the iPMx2. Responding to student intern input they also created the iPiPE Intern blog to allow students to use social media tools to share their challenges and progress with each other during the summer. Apps were developed by the IT team for each of the new Crop-Pest Program to enable data entry. The iPiPE Participant and Extension websites were outfitted with new/updated tools to enable Crop-Pest Program Coordinators and their student interns to better reach out to stakeholders with information products and commentary. An IPM Element website was created (see below) and the iPiPE Portal was established to allow efficient navigation among iPiPE websites. The iPiPE Research team began constructing risk models for target pests with each of the new Crop-Pest Program Coordinators. In late spring, the iPiPE issued a RFA for Year 3 iPiPE Crop-Pest Programs which was disseminated via the Regional IPM Centers. Applications were evaluated by the Center Directors and iPiPE PDs during early summer and seven Year 3 iPiPE Crop-Pest Programs were selected. With the onset of the 2016 growing season, 22student interns from 13 states were hired and began training in pest diagnostics and field collection protocols. Initially the students participated in an entry survey of expectations, worked to catalog relevant extension publications, completed the iPiPE educational modules, and some assisted in local diagnostic labs. As the season progressed, the students, Crop-Pest Program Coordinators and other Extension professional began collecting pest observations by traditional methods and social media and entering them into the iPiPE. The iPiPE intern blog was used by a subset of students to share their work experiences. During this period, both the students and Extension professionals interacted with a variety of stakeholders through personal contacts, extension meetings, social media, trade publications, and in some of the Crop-Pest Programs, they disseminated pest risk information products to stakeholders. At the end of their summer internships, students completed an exit survey providing information on outputs, outcomes, and the achievement of their expectations. During the summer, the Research team began networking with Extension professional not previously associated with iPiPE (e.g., "third parties") with the objective of operationalizing their pest risk models on the iPiPE platform. One set of interactions has recently "paid off" with the "third party" Extension professional receiving an AFRI CARE grant in which an objective is to operationalize the target disease risk model on the iPiPE platform. During the summer, the Evaluation and Education teams worked together to organized focus workshops with blueberry growers in Rhode Island and with soybean growers and their consultants in Iowa to obtain feedback on the interactive IPM Elements from the potential user base. They also met with United Soybean Board (USB) directors to learn what the USB is currently doing related to IPM including marketing/promotion of US soybeans, and hear their feedback on utility of iPiPE and IPM Elements for the industry and the organization. Throughout the growing season, the iPiPE IT team managed the flow of observations from the 14 Crop-Pest Program as well as iPiPE product generation and distribution. They completed work on two Automated Program Interfaces that enable flow of pest observations from the Montana State University PestWeb server and University of Georgia Bugwood server. In addition, they developed a new set of mapping tools to facilitate display of quantitative pest data. Working with the Education team, they organized two visualization focus group meetings, the first with Crop-Pest Program Coordinators and the second with professional visualization programmers at Penn State University, to elicit feedback on the new analyst interface and visualization options for the maps. Evaluation and Education team members designed a web-based form to streamline the Year 2 reporting process for the CPP Coordinators and iPiPE platform component directors. Annual reports were filed by each of the fourteen CPP Coordinators and the four directors of iPiPE platform components describing the outputs and outcomes from their work during the second year of the iPiPE CAP. Detailed quantitative information on the outputs and outcomes of each of the Crop-Pest Programs is provided on the iPiPE Outreach website (http://ed.ipipe.org/cpp-outputs-and-outcomes).
Publications
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Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Cruz, C. D., Magarey, R.D., Christie, D.M., Fowler, G., Fernando, J.M.C., Bockus, W.W., Valent, B. and Stack, J.P. 2016. Climate suitability for Magnaporthe oryzae Triticum pathotype in the United States. Plant Disease 100:1979-1987
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Journal Articles
Status:
Awaiting Publication
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Magarey, R.D. and Isard, S.A. in press. A troubleshooting guide for mechanistic plant pest forecast models. Journal of Integrated Pest Management
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Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Isard, S. A. Perspectives of an extension and research network on sharing data. XXV International Congress of Entomology, September 28, 2016, Orlando, FL.
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Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Russo, J. M. Perspectives of Agribusiness Intelligence: Focus on Integrated Pest Management. XXV International Congress of Entomology, September 28, 2016, Orlando, FL.
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Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
iPiPE: Progress thru Sharing. Northeast IPM Coordinators Meeting, January 7, 2016.
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Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Isard, S. A. Integrated Pest Information Platform for Extension and Education (iPiPE) collaborative Agricultural Project. National IPM Coordinators Committee meeting, October 18, 2016.
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Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Isard, S. A. iPiPE: Progress thru Sharing. Organic and IPM Working Group meeting, April 5, 2016.
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Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Isard, S. A. iPiPE: Progress thru Sharing. American Phytopathology Society Rust Symposium, March 8, 2016.
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Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Arias, Miguel (iPiPE Student Intern), J. Golod, R. Magarey, D. Sekula, G. Esparza-Diaz, and R.T. Villanueva. 2016. My Experience in Applied Entomology Throughout Collaborative Efforts between the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service. iPiPE Participant Mixer (workshop), Raleigh, NC.
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Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Jesus Ceja (iPiPE Student Intern) and Peter B. Goodell. 2016. Using iPiPE Platform in California Alfalfa. iPiPE Participant Mixer (workshop), Raleigh, NC.
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Websites
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
iPiPE IPM Elements Website http://elements.ipipe.org/
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Websites
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
iPiPE Portal; http://www.ipipe.org/
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Websites
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
iPiPE Participants Website; https://ipipe.zedxinc.com; Revised 2016
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Websites
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
iPiPE Extension Website; http://ext.ipipe.org/; Revised 2016
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Websites
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
iPiPE Outreach Website; http://ed.ipipe.org/; Revised 2016
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Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Jaci Larson (iPiPE Student Intern), Erin Brennan (iPiPE Student Intern), Anna Fabiszak (iPiPE Student Intern) and Lori Spears. 2016. Introducing Utahs Fruit Growers to iPiPE Through Student Intern Monitoring and Outreach. iPiPE Participant Mixer (workshop), Raleigh, NC.
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Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Erin Young (iPiPE Student Intern) and Jamie Saunders (iPiPE Student Intern) 2016. Educational Experience from Mid-Atlantic Tree Fruit iPiPE. iPiPE Participant Mixer (workshop), Raleigh, NC.
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Websites
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
iPiPE Student Intern Website; https://sites.google.com/site/ipipeed; Revised 2016
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Progress 03/01/15 to 02/29/16
Outputs
Target Audience:In Year 1 of the iPiPE CAP, we engaged seven Extension professionals located across the nation to coordinate Crop-Pest Programs and encourage stakeholders in specific crops/production regions to participate in the iPiPE. The audiences that were informed of the iPiPE mission, goals and outputs for stakeholders in 2015 included Extension professionals, crop consultants, and growers of: (i) alfalfa in southern California, (ii) tree fruits (apples, apricot, cherry and peach) in Utah, (iii) sorghum in Texas and Louisiana, (iv) soybean in Missouri, (v) small fruits (blueberries, strawberries and brambles) in New England, (vi) tree fruits (apple, pear, peach, plum apricot and cherry) in West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania and (vii) wheat in Montana. We also engaged a diverse set of agricultural stakeholders through trade magazine articles that described the iPiPE. Finally, we reached out to Extension professionals through presentations on iPiPE at national meetings of professional societies (e.g., APS, International IPM Symposium) and via a referred publication (Journal of IPM) explaining the iPiPE concept and recruiting Crop-Pest Program Coordinators for the CAP. Changes/Problems:There have been no major changes in the iPiPE CAP approach to date. However, we have made three minor changes to the work originally proposed. Firstly, due to the decrease in budget from that proposed, we have cut the number of Crop-Pest Programs that are initiated annually by the iPiPE CAP from 8 to 7. Secondly, PD VanKirk has retired from NCSU and subsequently the NCSU PI was changed from VanKirk to Roger Magarey. This alteration was approved by NIFA. VanKirk will continue to provide leadership for the iPiPE CAP working as a consultant with Dr. Isard. Thirdly, we have increased (by $35,000) the amount of the ZedX Inc. subcontract for the Yr 2 budget above that originally proposed to take advantage of opportunities to collaborate and share data and models with other NIFA-funded CAPs and university-based IT platforms. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Fifteen undergraduate student interns from CA, MT, TX, UT, MO, RI, and WV participated in the iPiPE during summer 2015. The students: (i) took an entry survey of their expectation for the internship, (ii) became familiar with the functionality of the iPiPE; (iii) cataloged Extension literature on target pests, (iv) received training in pest diagnostics, (v) collected pest observations in the field and entered them into iPiPE, (vi) interacted with Extension professionals and stakeholders at grower meetings and in one-on-one conversations during field collection trips (vii) receive training in IPM and food security concepts, and (viii) completed an exit survey at the end of their internship. Outputs to which student's contributed are listed in the Crop-Pest Program Output and Outcomes table available at ed.ipipe.org\Yr1O&O. The following student knowledge outcomes were specified by Crop-Pest Program Coordinators in their annual reports. Students: (i) Increased their knowledge of pest diagnostics; (ii) Increased their knowledge of crop pest dynamics; (iii) Increased their knowledge of scouting protocols and techniques; (iv) Increase their knowledge of IPM and food security; (v) Increased their knowledge of IT (apps) and other technologies (PCR) in agriculture through hand-on experiences; (vi) Increased their knowledge of Extension resources on target pests in the Crop-Pest Program; and (vii) Increased their knowledge of Crop-Pest Program Extension resources available to stakeholders for pest management decision making. Eight of the students that ended their internship in August 2015 completed both the pre and post internship surveys, hereafter call entry and exit surveys. In summary, these students have between two and five years of undergraduate education majoring in either the biological sciences or agriculture. Four of the students are from families involved in agriculture and six have taken agricultural courses in school, with three interns involved in agriculture through both family and school. Less than half of the interns had hands-on experience identifying pests and working with on-farm IT before their internship. More than half intend to work in agriculture after they have completed school. Given the small sample size and the "across the board" small differences between student answers to the entry and exit surveys, we have no statistical basis to make inferences about the impact of the internship on student knowledge and values and the relationship between their expectations and experiences. Regardless we summarize them below because they inform future plans for the educational objective of the iPiPE CAP. Value of Internship. Student answers for the both the entry and exit survey were remarkably consistent on a set of sixteen questions that focused on the value of specific aspects of the internship (e.g., learning about IPM, making connections for future work, traveling, learning to use IT in agriculture...). On both entry and exit surveys, students rated all 16 aspects of the internship between "valuable" and "very valuable". Students also responded that they expected to "like" or "like very much" these 16 aspects at entry, and reported at exit that they did like them or liked them very much. This suggests that the experience was valuable and fun and that the CPP Coordinators did an excellent job of mentoring the iPiPE summer interns. Opinions on iPiPE objectives. We asked another set of 16 questions directed at their opinions of data sharing in agriculture, using pest models, IPM, and food security. The responses were highly varied between students, but positive. However, the informational value of the responses was probably limited by the fact that students did not have the anticipated experience of sharing pest observations with stakeholders and of using pest forecast model output. We expect that those opinion responses will be more informative in the subsequent years of the CAP once the complete set of IT tools is available to engage stakeholders. Self-assessments of knowledge and skills. We asked the interns to make a self-assessment of their pre-internship knowledge and skills regarding identifying and sampling pests in the field and lab (nine questions) in both the entry and exit surveys. They rated their knowledge and skills as "low" in the entry survey and after the internship they rated their pre-internship knowledge and skills as "very low". In other words, after the internship they thought that their initial self-assessment had been inflated. This re-calibration in itself suggests that their knowledge and skills did increase as a result of their internship experiences. In both the entry and exit surveys, we also asked the interns to make a self-assessment of their post-internship knowledge and skills using the same nine questions. Their expectations of post-internship knowledge and skills (entry survey) was slightly greater than their assessment of the level they reached by the end of the experience (exit survey). The two sets of self-assessments raise an interesting question. Since the expertise students attained was not as high as they expected initially and by their own admission their initial assessment was inflated, do the students think that their knowledge progressed as much as they expected, but from a lower starting point. In short, students learned as much or more than they expected. Students also felt that their knowledge and skills at identifying and sampling pests were lower at the start than they realized at the time. We asked another set of questions on knowledge of food security issues, pest data recording technology, and predictive models of target pest distributions to ascertain pre knowledge, post knowledge, and expected learning. Again, the students found that their initial assessment was inflated and that the expertise they attained was not as high as they expected initially. Answers to this set of questions clearly indicate that students did not progress as much as expected. This in part was attributed to not getting to use some of the IT tools and pest risk models that were under development during Year 1 of the iPiPE CAP. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Crop-Pest Program Coordinators reported that information about the iPiPE was presented at a total of 31 meetings/conference calls with roughly 1000 stakeholders in attendance during 2015. The iPiPE concept and participation in the project was also discussed with growers and crop consultants through approximately 50 one-on-one conversations as well. Maps depicting pest distributions accompanied by commentary from Extension professionals were disseminated to growers/crop consultants in a number of the Crop-Pest Programs. Five articles in magazines targeting growers, crop consultants and other stakeholders described the iPiPE concept. These outputs are described and quantified on the iPiPE Education and Outreach website (ed.ipipe.org/Yr1O&O). The iPiPE was also presented to Extension professionals at the annual APS meeting, the 8th International IPM Symposium and the annual National IPM Coordinators meeting. Finally, the iPiPE was the subject of refereed manuscript published in the Journal of IPM and is described in detail for the public on the iPiPE Education and Outreach website (ed.ipipe.org). What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Summary of Work for Year 2 (March 2016 - February 2017). The following work plan for accomplishing the iPiPE goals for Year 2 is organized by objective. Objective 1. Engage extension professionals to encourage and facilitate stakeholders who collect data to submit observations to the iPiPE. The iPiPE will expand to include seven additional Crop-Pest Programs in Year 2, bringing the total to fourteen. Crop-Pest Programs that were initiated in Year 1 (crop-region-coordinator) are: (i) alfalfa-CA-Peter Goodell, (ii) small fruits-New England-Heather Faubert, (iii) sorghum-TX&LA-Raul Villanueva, (iv) soybean-MO-Moneen Jones, (v) tree fruits-UT-Lori Spears, (vi) tree fruits-mid-Atlantic-Mahfuz Rahman, and (vii) wheat-MT-David Weaver. Crop-Pest Programs that will initiated in Year 2 are: (i) citrus-FL-Philip Stansley, (ii) corn-Midwest&South-Carl Bradley, (iii) cotton-CA-Vonny Barlow, (iv) soybean-Northcentral US-Daren Mueller, (v) small and stone fruits-OR-Wei Yang, (vi) sunflower-ND&SD-Sam Markell, and (vii) vegetable-NY-Darcy Telenko. Each Crop-Pest Program will focus on a suite of target diseases and insect pests that influence grower decision making. The Crop-Pest Programs are led by Extension professionals who coordinate extension and education activities in their production region for a single crop. They will enlist assistance from other extension professionals and selected university, state, and federal employees throughout the production region. The Crop-Pest Program Coordinators will: (i) select and mentor two undergraduate summer interns in 2016; (ii) engage other stakeholders (including other extension specialists) to use the iPiPE; and (iii) update or create new pest management guidelines and commentaries as warranted. Objective 2. Recruit and train undergraduate student interns. Year 2 undergraduate interns, with Program Coordinator mentoring, will monitor daily pest observations submitted to the iPiPE and help develop and disseminate extension materials to stakeholders participating in CPPs. More specifically they will: (i) become familiar with the functionality of the iPiPE; (ii) identify in daily observations submitted by crop consultants and growers pests not endemic to a production region; (iii) detect errors in identification of endemic pest observations submitted; (iv) work with extension professionals to provide up-to-date pest management guidelines, commentary, and risk assessments; and (v) be exposed to IPM and food security concepts. It is expected that students will be engaged in iPiPE activities for about one-half of each work day. Interns will also assist in a local plant diagnostic laboratory (e.g. NPDN) where they will gain hands-on experience diagnosing plant diseases, weeds, and/or damage from insect pests and contribute to the lab's mission. Objective 3. Conduct research on targeted new, foreign, and emerging pests. The work during Year 2 will be focused on (i) evaluating and improving iPiPE pest models developed in Year 1 for the initial set of CPPs and (ii) constructing new pest models for the Crop-Pest Programs that are created in Year 2. This later task includes working with Crop-Pest Program Coordinators to select pest targets and determine the suitability of selected pest targets as modeling candidates. The work effort requires assessing the modeling status of each selected pest target from published literature and developing templates, identifying weather data sources, and specifying data formats for the model building process. Once constructed and validated, the output from the models is available to iPiPE participants on the iPiPE extension website. Objective 4. Develop new and improved iPiPE IT tools. The IT Services component of the iPiPE, operated by ZedX Inc., will serve technical needs of Crop-Pest Programs (both existing (7) and continuing (7) Crop-Pest Programs), Research and Education platform components, and the Evaluation Team. For Year 2, the IT Services component will have the following deliverables: (i) hosting and maintaining hardware, software, and communications for the iPiPE platform; (ii) data upload and database management; (iii) online and smart device data entry, data sharing, data backup, and data archiving; (iii) platform expansion to accommodate new Crop-Pest Programs; (iv) integration of the iPiPE and other third-party model products; and (v) statistical analyses of iPiPE usage patterns stratified by tool, information product, and Crop-Pest Program. Objective 5. Create a national pest observation depository. The UGA, Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health (Bugwood) will continue to receive and maintain iPiPE pest databases transferred to them from ZedX Inc. In Year 2, it will also transfer appropriate pest observations received directly from stakeholders to iPiPE. Work at Bugwood in the upcoming year will focus on improving existing communications technologies (constructing automated programming interfaces (APIs)) for transferring pest data. Objective 6. Measure the impact of the iPiPE CAP. The iPiPE Evaluation team will continue to work to establish and administer a set of evaluation metrics for the iPiPE CAP in Year 2. The IPM Institute will work with the Coordinators of the new Crop-Pest Programs to develop IPM Elements. These elements will be used by NCSU to develop stakeholder surveys that will be administered electronically and by Crop-Pest Program Coordinators at stakeholder meetings. The evaluation team will also conduct an "operational" assessment to address how well the iPiPE PDs and PIs are performing their responsibilities in Year 2 and suggest structural and process changes to better accomplish the project's goals. Three additional developments are part of the iPiPE Year 2 work plan. The first involves developing the protocols and APIs with existing university-based IT platforms to share pest observations in real-time. This work will directly contribute to our goal to build a national network of similar platforms operated by various organizations focused on providing information to enhance IPM and food security. The second development stems from the realization that the IPM Elements created as part of Objective 6 above could be a valuable resource for farmers. IPM Elements are concise lists of IPM and related practices that are crop and region-specific. They are very efficient resources for determining which practices are recommended by the Crop-Pest Program Coordinators and their Extension colleagues. They can be used by growers: (i) to identify additional IPM and other conservation practices appropriate for crops in a growing region, (ii) as a self-assessment tool to measure how many of the available practices are in use on a specific farm or field and (iii) to document the extent of IPM adoption to buyers or for NRCS incentive programs. In Year 2, we will convert the IPM Elements lists into interactive Internet programs that growers can access through the iPiPE. The third development stems from interactions with researchers working within the AFRI NIFA CAP entitled "Advancing Innovative Technologies And Integrated Strategies For Sustainable Management Of Thrips-Transmitted Tospoviruses". In Year 2, we will collaborate with the PIs of this CAP to implement their thrip-tospovirus risk assessment model for peanuts on the iPiPE, thus making the model available for use by U.S. farmers.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
The iPiPE CAP built substantial momentum in Yr 1 towards its goal to serve food security and IPM by creating a national infrastructure of private and public professionals who routinely monitor crop health and pest incidence then translate this knowledge to a shared platform enabling rapid dissemination of mitigation measures to limit crop loss. In short, we initiated 7 Crop-Pest Programs across the country to engage and educate stakeholders and undergraduate students, built the IT infrastructure to share pest observations, operationalized a suite of pest risk assessment models on the IT platform to create valuable information products for stakeholders, and created survey and evaluation instruments for assessing our progress toward our goal. As detailed above, during the first year of the iPiPE CAP, we published 3 manuscripts in refereed journals, presented 3 papers at professional conferences, published 7 articles describing the iPiPE CAP in other outlets that target stakeholders, and created 2 website online for the project. Other outputs from the iPiPE CAP include Data and Research Materials (2 types), Databases (3), Education Materials and Curriculum (1), Evaluation Instruments (6), Models (multiple pests in 4 crops), Software Products (2 types), and Survey Instruments (2). In February 2015, prior to the start of the iPiPE grant, the PDs, PIs, Crop-Pest Program Coordinators, and some iPiPE Advisory Board members gather for 1.5 days at the iPMx in Raleigh, NC. The iPMx reinforced and promoted the iPiPE vision of progress through sharing. Participants focused their discussions on: (i) organizational issues, (ii) strategies for engaging stakeholders in the iPiPE, and (iii) refining metrics for evaluating the Crop-Pest Programs, the iPiPE Platform components, and progress toward achieving the iPiPE goals of enhanced food security, IPM adoption, and farm profitability. Over the subsequent three months, the Education, IT Services and Research platform component teams interacted with Crop-Pest Program Coordinators to prepare for the growing season. The Crop-Pest Program Coordinators began disseminating information to stakeholders about the iPiPE at winter and spring meetings while the PDs and PIs disseminated iPiPE information at professional meetings and through journal publications. The iPiPE Education and Outreach website (ed.ipipe.org) went online: (i) explaining the iPiPE CAP mission, objectives and organization, (ii) describing the Crop-Pest Programs, and (iii) providing undergraduate intern students with educational modules. Apps were developed for each Crop-Pest Program to enable data entry. The participant interface of the iPiPE Extension website was outfitted with new tools to enable Crop-Pest Program Coordinators to reach out to stakeholders with information products and commentary. The Research team began constructing risk models for target pests with each Crop-Pest Program Coordinator. With the onset of the 2015 growing season, 15 undergraduate student interns from seven states were hired and began training in pest diagnostics and field collection protocols. Initially the students participated in an entry survey of expectations, worked to catalog relevant extension publications, completed the iPiPE educational modules, and assisted in local diagnostic labs. As the season progressed, the students, Crop-Pest Program Coordinators and other Extension professional began collecting pest observations and entering them into the iPiPE. During this period, both the students and Extension professionals interacted with a variety of stakeholders through personal contacts, extension meetings, trade publications, and in some of the Crop-Pest Programs, they disseminated pest risk information products to stakeholders. During the second half of 2015, the evaluation team worked with each of the Crop-Pest Program Coordinators to develop IPM Elements. These Elements were transformed into stakeholder surveys that are currently being administered to assess use of IPM practices. Programming was initiated to convert the IPM Element lists into interactive Internet programs for stakeholder use. The IT Services team modified iPiPE software responding to feedback from the Crop-Pest Program Coordinators and student interns. Pest risk models were built, validated, and incorporated into the participant interface of the iPiPE Extension website. The public interface of the iPiPE Extension website went online after extensive feedback from Crop-Pest Program Coordinators. Automated programming interfaces (APIs) were initiated for exchanging pest data with other IT platforms and for archiving pest observations on UGA Bugwood. At the end of their summer internships, students completed an exit survey providing information on outputs, outcomes and the achievement of their expectations. In late summer, the iPiPE Governing Board met and an RFA for Year 2 iPiPE Crop-Pest Programs was disseminated via the Regional IPM Centers. Applications were evaluated and seven Year 2 iPiPE Crop-Pest Programs were selected. Subsequently, the iPiPE Evaluation, Research, and IT Services component teams interacted with the Year 2 Crop-Pest Program Coordinators to design IPM Elements, risk models, and IT tools for their use during the 2016 growing season. Annual reports were filed by each of the Year 1 Crop-Pest Program Coordinators and the directors of iPiPE platform components describing the outputs and outcomes from their work during the first year of the iPiPE CAP. Detailed quantitative information on the outputs and outcomes of each of the Crop-Pest Programs is provided on the iPiPE Education and Outreach website (ipipe.ed.org/Yr1O&O)
Publications
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2015
Citation:
Isard, S.A., Russo, J.M., Magarey, R.D., Golod, J., VanKirk, J.R. (2015) Integrated Pest Information Platform for Extension and Education (iPiPE): Progress Through Sharing. Journal of Integrated Pest Management 6(1): 15; DOI: 10.1093/jipm/pmv013
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Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2015
Citation:
Isard, S.A. and VanKirk, J.R. (2015) Integrated Pest Information Platform for Extension and Education (iPiPE). Poster presented at the 8th International IPM Symposium, March 23-26, 2015, Salt Lake City, UT.
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Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2015
Citation:
Isard, S.A. and Louws, F. (2015) Integrated Pest Information Platform for Extension and Education (iPiPE). Poster presented at the American Phytopathology Society Annual Meeting, August 1-5, 2015, Pasadena, California.
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Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2015
Citation:
Isard, S.A. (2015) University/Industry Efforts in Pest Forecasting: iPiPE. Presentation to the National IPM Coordinating Committee meeting. October 6 2015, USDA Waterfront Building, Washington DC.
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Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2015
Citation:
Jones, M. and Russo, J., (2015) An IT Platform for Agriculture, Soybean South, May, 2015, One Grower Publisher. 2 p.
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Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2015
Citation:
Jones, M. and Russo, J., (2015) IPIPE- A New Tool for Pest Management, Cotton Farming, July, 2015, One Grower Publisher. 1 p.
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Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2015
Citation:
Hallberg, R. (2015) ipmPIPEs give CCAs and growers a heads up on crop pests and diseases. Crop & Soils Magazine. American Society of Agronomy November-December. doi:10.2134/cs2015-48-6-1.
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Other
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Published
Year Published:
2015
Citation:
Spears, L. (2015) Integrated pest Information Platform for Extension and Education (iPiPE): A New Early Warning System for Invasive Fruit Pests in Utah. The Utah Pest News Quarterly Newsletter. Vol IX. http://utahpests.usu.edu/files/uploads/UtahPests-Newsletter-summer15.pdf
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Websites
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2015
Citation:
iPiPE CAP Education and Outreach Website (public and student interfaces): http://ed.ipipe.org
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Websites
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2015
Citation:
: iPiPE CAP Extension Website (public and participant interfaces): http://ipipe.org/
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Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2015
Citation:
iPiPE Trifold Brochure for Stakeholders https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpcGlwZWVkfGd4OjQxMDc2YmY0MGQ5M2MyNGM
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Journal Articles
Status:
Accepted
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Cruz, C. D, Magarey, R. D., Christie, D. N., Fowler, G. A., Fernandes, J. M., Bockus, W. W., Valent, B., Stack, J. P. 201X. Climate suitability for pathogen establishment and wheat blast outbreak in the United States. Phytopathology XX:XXX-XXX
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