Coordination and Leadership Teams
IPM Coordinating Committee
The IPM Coordinating Committee is a steering committee for the Arizona Pest Management
Center made up of UA faculty and stakeholders from across the state. For more information
contact Peter Ellsworth.
Agronomic IPM Leadership Team
The Agronomic IPM Leadership Team serves as a steering committee to guide the development
and implementation of IPM programs for field crops in Arizona. For more information
contact Peter Ellsworth.
Community IPM Leadership
Team
The Community IPM Leadership Team serves as an executive committee that provides
direction to the urban components of our Extension IPM Program. For more information
contact Al Fournier.
Vegetable IPM Leadership Team
The Vegetable IPM Leadership Team serves as a steering committee to guide the development
and implementation of IPM programs for vegetable crops in Arizona. The team is located
in the center of one of the world’s most productive regions for leafy vegetables,
brassicas, and melon crops in Yuma, AZ and helps coordinate the activities of the
Assistant in Extension for Vegetable CropsAl
Fournier.
IPM Assessment Leadership Team
The IPM Assessment Leadership Team serves as an executive committee that provides
direction to assessment and evaluation of our Extension IPM Programs.
For more information contact Al Fournier.
University of Arizona Working Groups
Cross-commodity Research & Outreach Program (CROP).
The CRThe CROP working group addresses the need for timely communication of scientific
information that spans across both crops and disciplines. Our goal is to anticipate
and proactively resolve the problems unique to cross-commodity interactions by engaging
agricultural stakeholders to identify and discuss key issues and to provide input
on research and education needs. For more information contact
Al Fournier.
Integrated Crop Management
Team (Team)
The Cotton Team is now the Integrated Crop Management Team. The goal of the team
is to facilitate statewide communication and program planning for agricultural research
and outreach. For more information contact
Al Fournier.
Program Evaluation Working Group
The program Evaluation Research and Support (PERS) Working Group is made up of UA
faculty who have an interest in developing resources and support for effective program
planning and evaluation. Our goal is to develop and share resources, provide educational
opportunities for faculty and to boost awareness and support for program evaluation
efforts in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. For more information contact
Al Fournier.
Soil Fumigant
Education Team
This working group is developing education materials and trainings to teach fumigant
applicators about new EPA requirements. For more information contact
Randy Norton.
Statewide Noxious & Invasive
Plant Working Group
The purpose of this working group is to improve communication among entities, such
as Weed Management Areas, for sharing of pertinent information, research findings
and educational strategies. For more information contact
Larry Howery.
Regional Working Groups
Arid Southwest IPM Network
The Arid Southwest IPM (ASIPM) Network is a multi-state, multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary
Information Network sponsored by the Western IPM Center. The ASIPM Network was created
to enhance pest management communication and cooperation among partner organizations,
centered in the low desert region of the Southwest. Partners include the University
of Arizona, the University of California (Riverside), University of Nevada (Reno),
New Mexico State University and the Western IPM Center. For more information contact
Al Fournier
Crop Pest Losses and Impact Assessment
Working Group
The Crop Pest Losses and Impact Assessment Working Group was established with Western
IPM Center funding in 2003 to facilitate the collection of real world
data
on insect losses in key crops in the low deserts of Arizona and Imperial Valley
California. We currently collect data on cotton, head lettuce, watermelon and cantaloupes
through a face-to-face survey process. In 2008, the process was expanded to include
other pest types (plant diseases, weeds) and their impact on crop yields, grower
economics and pesticide use. For more information contact
Al Fournier.
Mexicali Cotton IPM Project
This EPA-funded project is part of pollution prevention efforts along the U.S.-Mexican
Border. The program is designed to help Mexican growers improve their integrated
pest management programs in cotton in the Mexicali and San Luis Valley areas through
an Extension program that includes field trainings, Spanish-language publications
and other communications, other education, and grower-cooperator field research
and demonstrations. The project is guided by an advisory committee made up of local
entomologists, growers and industry representatives. Information regarding this
Mexicali - San Luis Valleys Cotton IPM Project is within the guidelines of the Border
2012 Program funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and administered
by BECC. For more information contact Peter
Ellsworth.
SE Arizona - SW New Mexico
Noxious Weeds Working Group
The Southeast Arizona - Southwest New Mexico Noxious Weeds Working Group was organized
to identify stakeholder needs and solicit input on the development of a strategic
plan to address noxious weeds issues in southeaster Arizona and southwestern New
Mexico. For more information contact Kim McReynolds.
Western School IPM Implementation
and Assessment Working Group
The Western Region School IPM Implementation and Assessment Work Group provides
a focal point for interactive communication and collaboration by school IPM stakeholders
and change agents throughout the West. We stimulate and facilitate collaboration
between university, state agencies, federal agencies, industry, advocacy groups,
and school based staff working to encourage and enhance successful implementation
of IPM in schools in the western region. For more information please contact
Dawn Gouge.