Northeast Region IPM Grants Projects Funded, FY 2005

The FY 2005 Northeast Regional IPM Grants Program has funded seven different proposals for extension, research, and research/extension. All involve multi-state cooperation of collaborators and the results of all of these projects should be useful in numerous states. More information.

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The table below provides information about the funded proposals.

2005 Research Projects

2 proposals funded

Title	State	Project Directors & Co-PDs	Crop/ Setting	Award	Duration (months)	More Information
Leveraging Biologicals into the Turfscape: Combining Controls and Exploiting Synergisms for White Grub Management	New York	Daniel Peck	Turf	$15,000	12	Summary of Proposal Final Report
Site-specific Management of Resistance (SMOR) in the Control of Apple Scab; Final Phase of Development and Implementation	New York	Wolfram Koeller	Apple	$177,785	36	Summary of Proposal 2006 Progress Report

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2005 Extension Projects

1 proposal funded

Title	State	Project Directors & Co-PDs	Crops or Focus area	Award	Duration (months)	More Information
IPM in and around the home: Northeast guidelines	New York	Jennifer Grant, Carolyn Klass	Home and Community	$49,997	24	Summary of Proposal 2006 Progress Report

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2005 Research and Extension Projects

4 proposals funded

Title	State	Project Directors & Co-PDs	Crops or Focus area	Award	Duration (months)	More Information
Long-term Evaluation and Improvement of Golf Turf Management Systems with Reduced Chemical Pesticide Inputs	New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island	Jennifer Grant; Peck, Daniel; Rossi, Frank; Buckley, Richard; Clarke, Bruce; Murphy, James A.; Mitkowski, Nathaniel	turf for golf courses	$93,535	36	Summary of Proposal 2005 Poster 2005 Background Info 2006 Progress Report
Promoting IPM Implementation in Greenhouses: Banker Plants, Grower Education and an Assessment of Consumer Attitudes	Vermont	Margaret Skinner; Michael Brownbridge	Greenhouse	$86,743	36	Summary of proposal Progress Report Sep. 2006
Field Testing of Resistant Tomato Lines to Control Late Blight and Early Blight in Conventional and Organic Growing Systems	New York, Pennsylvania	Martha Mutschler, Thomas A. Zitter, Charles Bornt, Majid R. Foolad, Alan A. MacNab	Tomato	$122,364	36	Summary of proposal 2006 Progress Report
Perimeter Trap Cropping in Butternut Squash: A Systems Approach to Control Striped Cucumber Beetle and Enhance Pollination and Yield	Massachusetts	Lynn Adler	Squash	$59,180	24	Summary of proposal 2006 Progress Report

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About the Northeast IPM Competitive Grants program:

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

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

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

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