ESCOP's PMSS MAD Report to the Experiment Station Committee on Organization & Policy (ESCOP) Pest Management Strategies Subcommittee (PMSS) on the Working Group's meeting on Movement and Dispersal (MAD) in Rosemont, IL, 25 October 1996 Working Group Composition Administrators: Michael Chippendale (AES) Bob Riley* (CSREES) Technical Members: Don Aylor (plant pathology, Connecticut) David Byrne* (entomology, Arizona) James Coppedge (entomologist, ARS) Stuart Gage* (entomology/GIS, Michigan) Tom Holtzer (entomology, Colorado) Mike Irwin* (entomology, Illinois) Scott Isard* (geography/meteorology, Illinois) Seth Johnson (entomology, Louisiana) Charlie Main* (plant pathology, North Carolina) Elson Shields* (entomology, CES/AES, NY, chair) Jim Venette (plant pathology, North Dakota) Technical Advisory Network: Alliance for Aerobiology Research (AFAR) NCR-148 (Migration and Dispersal) Robert Hedlund* (US-AID) Casey Hoy* (Ohio) Gail Kampmeier* (Illinois, 1995 secretary) John Westbrook* (Texas) present at 1996 meeting Vision The MAD Working Group is concerned with all aspects of the aerial migration and dispersal of agriculturally important biota, regardless of spatial scale. The long-range goals of the MAD working group are to promote and ensure: awareness of the importance of migration and dispersal of agriculturally important biota among ESCOP, PMSS, and the other PMSS working group members, consideration of migration and dispersal in any IPM effort and particularly in areawide research programs, support for quality research on migration and dispersal of agriculturally important biota, and collaboration between AES, CSREES, ARS, and other agencies to foster and support movement and dispersal research and implement the resulting information and technology. Objectives for FY97* Publish the set of manuscripts from the symposium on "Movement and Dispersal and IPM" held during the 2nd National IPM Workshop. The compendium of manuscripts from the symposium contains critical information on the importance of understanding movement to implement IPM strategies. This set of manuscripts is currently being edited for publication in The American Entomologist. Irwin and Isard will add a summary and Gage will draft vision of the future statement to add to the manuscripts. Update "home page" on migration, movement, and dispersal of biota on the World Wide Web. A directory to MAD-sponsored and related aerobiology activities has been implemented on the World Wide Web that is now available to users worldwide, including AES, USDA, and private sector institutions. This site was created in 1995 and will undergo major revisions in 1997. Next MAD working group meeting. Convene and conduct the fourth MAD Working Group meeting of technical members, administrators, and affiliated scientists in October or November 1997 in Wooster, OH. It will be held in conjunction with NCR-148 annual meeting to minimize travel costs. Elson Shields remains chair for 1997. History and Accomplishments The North Central Regional Committee on Migration and Dispersal of Insects and Other Biota (NCR-148) was formed in the mid-1980s to coordinate aerobiology research at Agricultural Experiment Stations throughout the region. The first participants were primarily entomologists, meteorologists, and plant pathologists. Subsequently, NCR-148 expanded to include aerobiologists working in other disciplines, from the ARS and the CES, and from all regions of the United States and Canada. In 1990, at the request of NCR-148, PMSS established Movement and Dispersal (MAD) as an Ad-hoc Working Group. In 1992, under the auspices of NCR-148 and the PMSS ad-hoc MAD Working Group, the Alliance for Aerobiology Research (AFAR) was founded at an international workshop to advance the understanding of aerobiology and improve the capability to predict the atmospheric movement of biota. The workshop was supported by grants from USDA-CSRS, USDA-ARS, and all four of the USDA Regional IPM Grant Programs. Scientists and outreach specialists from agriculture, medicine, meteorology, engineering, physics, environmental science, and systems science discussed the principles of long-distance atmospheric transport of biota and formulated strategies to share diagnostic technologies and information systems (Isard 1993). The founding members of AFAR developed a set of generic foci and scientific hypotheses to serve as guidelines to conceptualize and direct research in aerobiology, made recommendations for linking biological, atmospheric, and other environmental monitoring networks to increase the ability to forecast aerobiology events, for utilizing existing electronic networks to link scientists with agencies and institutions with interest in, and needs for, aerobiology information, and for developing an information database on an electronic communications network to facilitate access to aerobiology information, and established an organizational structure to foster collaboration and coordination of research efforts in aerobiology. MAD, NCR-148, and AFAR have worked in concert to enhance communications and education within the North American aerobiology community over the last few years. Symposia on movement and dispersal of aerial biota have been held in conjunctions with the International Congress on Biometeorology, the American Meteorological Society, and the Pan-American Aerobiology Association. In 1993, Movement and Dispersal achieved working group status within PMSS. MAD organized a session on Movement and Dispersal and Integrated Pest Management at the Second National IPM Workshop jointly sponsored by ESCOP and ECOP, the proceedings from which will be published in the American Entomologist. Update from 1997 Meeting in Wooster, OH
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ESCOP's PMSS MAD

Report to the Experiment Station Committee on Organization & Policy (ESCOP) Pest Management Strategies Subcommittee (PMSS) on the Working Group's meeting on Movement and Dispersal (MAD) in Rosemont, IL, 25 October 1996

Working Group Composition

Administrators:

Michael Chippendale (AES)
Bob Riley* (CSREES)

Technical Members:

Don Aylor (plant pathology, Connecticut)
David Byrne* (entomology, Arizona)
James Coppedge (entomologist, ARS)
Stuart Gage* (entomology/GIS, Michigan)
Tom Holtzer (entomology, Colorado)
Mike Irwin* (entomology, Illinois)
Scott Isard* (geography/meteorology, Illinois)
Seth Johnson (entomology, Louisiana)
Charlie Main* (plant pathology, North Carolina)
Elson Shields* (entomology, CES/AES, NY, chair)
Jim Venette (plant pathology, North Dakota)

Technical Advisory Network:

Alliance for Aerobiology Research (AFAR)
NCR-148 (Migration and Dispersal)
Robert Hedlund* (US-AID)
Casey Hoy* (Ohio)
Gail Kampmeier* (Illinois, 1995 secretary)
John Westbrook* (Texas)

*present at 1996 meeting

Vision

The MAD Working Group is concerned with all aspects of the aerial migration and dispersal of agriculturally important biota, regardless of spatial scale. The long-range goals of the MAD working group are to promote and ensure:

awareness of the importance of migration and dispersal of agriculturally important biota among ESCOP, PMSS, and the other PMSS working group members,
consideration of migration and dispersal in any IPM effort and particularly in areawide research programs,
support for quality research on migration and dispersal of agriculturally important biota, and
collaboration between AES, CSREES, ARS, and other agencies to foster and support movement and dispersal research and implement the resulting information and technology.

Objectives for FY97

Publish the set of manuscripts from the symposium on "Movement and Dispersal and IPM" held during the 2nd National IPM Workshop. The compendium of manuscripts from the symposium contains critical information on the importance of understanding movement to implement IPM strategies. This set of manuscripts is currently being edited for publication in The American Entomologist. Irwin and Isard will add a summary and Gage will draft vision of the future statement to add to the manuscripts.

Update "home page" on migration, movement, and dispersal of biota on the World Wide Web. A directory to MAD-sponsored and related aerobiology activities has been implemented on the World Wide Web that is now available to users worldwide, including AES, USDA, and private sector institutions. This site was created in 1995 and will undergo major revisions in 1997.

Next MAD working group meeting. Convene and conduct the fourth MAD Working Group meeting of technical members, administrators, and affiliated scientists in October or November 1997 in Wooster, OH. It will be held in conjunction with NCR-148 annual meeting to minimize travel costs. Elson Shields remains chair for 1997.

History and Accomplishments

The North Central Regional Committee on Migration and Dispersal of Insects and Other Biota (NCR-148) was formed in the mid-1980s to coordinate aerobiology research at Agricultural Experiment Stations throughout the region. The first participants were primarily entomologists, meteorologists, and plant pathologists. Subsequently, NCR-148 expanded to include aerobiologists working in other disciplines, from the ARS and the CES, and from all regions of the United States and Canada. In 1990, at the request of NCR-148, PMSS established Movement and Dispersal (MAD) as an Ad-hoc Working Group.

In 1992, under the auspices of NCR-148 and the PMSS ad-hoc MAD Working Group, the Alliance for Aerobiology Research (AFAR) was founded at an international workshop to advance the understanding of aerobiology and improve the capability to predict the atmospheric movement of biota. The workshop was supported by grants from USDA-CSRS, USDA-ARS, and all four of the USDA Regional IPM Grant Programs. Scientists and outreach specialists from agriculture, medicine, meteorology, engineering, physics, environmental science, and systems science discussed the principles of long-distance atmospheric transport of biota and formulated strategies to share diagnostic technologies and information systems (Isard 1993). The founding members of AFAR

developed a set of generic foci and scientific hypotheses to serve as guidelines to conceptualize and direct research in aerobiology,

made recommendations for linking biological, atmospheric, and other environmental monitoring networks to increase the ability to forecast aerobiology events, for utilizing existing electronic networks to link scientists with agencies and institutions with interest in, and needs for, aerobiology information, and for developing an information database on an electronic communications network to facilitate access to aerobiology information, and

established an organizational structure to foster collaboration and coordination of research efforts in aerobiology.

MAD, NCR-148, and AFAR have worked in concert to enhance communications and education within the North American aerobiology community over the last few years. Symposia on movement and dispersal of aerial biota have been held in conjunctions with the International Congress on Biometeorology, the American Meteorological Society, and the Pan-American Aerobiology Association. In 1993, Movement and Dispersal achieved working group status within PMSS. MAD organized a session on Movement and Dispersal and Integrated Pest Management at the Second National IPM Workshop jointly sponsored by ESCOP and ECOP, the proceedings from which will be published in the American Entomologist.

Update from 1997 Meeting in Wooster, OH