My position is as an academic specialist for outreach, and I am the Program Coordinator for Michigan State University’s Enviroweather, which is a network of over 100 research-grade, automated weather stations that collect data which are transmitted to a central database in the Department of Geography Environment and Spatial Sciences. These data are used to predict the risk of crop damaging insect pests and diseases through predictive models that are freely accessible on the web at alpha.enviroweather.msu.edu. Stakeholders for multiple green industries, including agriculture (fruit, vegetable and field crops) consumer horticulture (nursery, landscape and greenhouse) and livestock use the information provided by Enviroweather with assist in making management decisions. Enviroweather is a collaborative project between the Michigan Climatological Resources Program and the MSU Integrated Pest Management Program and is supported by Project GREEEN, MSU AgBioResearch, MSU Extension, private donors, and collaborative grants with multiple MSU departments including Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, Plant, Soil, and Microbial Sciences, Entomology, Forestry, Geography and Horticulture. Enviroweather works very closely with MSU Extension, and actively participates in educational programming for agricultural producers across all crops and commodities. My presentations involve how to get and use the weather-based information on Enviroweather for integrated pest management.


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Project Contact:

  • Keith Mason
  • Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences
  • College of Social Science



Partners

  • Michigan Vegetable Council
  • Michigan State Horticultural Society
  • Michigan Blueberry Commision
  • Michigan Vegetable Council




Report of calendar year 2020 activity.