1 Midwest Weather Working Group meeting - October 7, 2009 Indiana Hoosier Room - Wingate by Wyndham Hotel Intech Commons - Indianapolis, IN Meeting Agenda 8:30 am Mark Gleason, Iowa State University Welcome and introductions 8:45 am Carla Thomas, University of California-Davis Update from the Western IPM Weather Workgroup 9:10 am Martha Anderson, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD Modeling canopy microclimate using remote sensing 9:35 am Frank Forcella, USDA-ARS, Morris, MN Weeds and weather: local to regional daily simulations 10 am Damon Smith, Oklahoma State University Weather-based prediction of diseases of horticulture commodities in Oklahoma 10:25 am BREAK 10:45 am Rick Latin, Purdue University Using Enviro-data to ‘forecast’ turf disease outbreaks 11:10 am Larry Gut, Michigan State University Incorporating weather information into the insect pest management decision-making process 11:35 am Gene Takle, Iowa State University Climate change and emerging climate services for the Midwest 12:00 noon LUNCH (in hotel) 1:00 pm Brian Hornbuckle, Iowa State University Vegetation wetness: A potential problem (or possible opportunity) for microwave remote sensing 1:25 pm Tracy Rowlandson, Iowa State University Spatial variability of dew in a maize field, and establishing a protocol for use of leaf wetness sensors 1:50 pm Luis del Rio, North Dakota State University Development of a Sclerotinia stem rot warning system for North Dakota 2:15 pm Kathleen Baker, Western Michigan University Cyber-infrastructure challenges to regional weather forecasting for disease-warning systems 2 2:40 pm BREAK 3:00 pm Karen Garrett, Kansas State University Adapting disease forecasting models to coarser scales: global potato late blight prediction 3:25 pm Ed Luschei, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1) Landscape models of a weather-driven process: the case of a wind dispersed Conyza canadensis seed; AND 2) WeedML and the cooperative development of applied bioclimatic models 3:50 pm Mark Gleason Assessing portability of leaf wetness duration estimation models 4:15 pm Opportunities for collaborations and joint publications (general discussion) ~4:30 pm ADJOURN 6:30 PM Dinner (restaurant to be named) List of attendees Name Contact Martha C. Anderson USDA-ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory 104 Bldg. 007, BARC-West, Beltsville, MD. Phone: 301-504-6616 Email: martha.anderson@ars.usda.gov Jeffrey A. Andresen Department of Geography, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Phone: 517-355-0231 ext 107 Email: andresen@msu.edu Kathleen M. Baker Geography Department, Western Michigan University, 3238 Wood Hall, Kalamazoo, MI. Phone: (269) 387-3345 Email: kathleen.baker@wmich.edu Janna L Beckerman Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. Phone: (765) 494-4628 E-mail: jbeckerm@purdue.edu Beth A. Bishop Enviro-weather Coordinator, Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI Phone: (517) 432-6520 Email: bishopb@msu.edu Luis Del Rio Department of Plant Pathology, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND Phone: 701-231-7073 Email: Luis.delRio-Mendoza@ndsu.edu Frank Forcella USDA-ARS North Central Soil Conservation Research Laboratory, Morris, MN. Phone: 320-589-3411 ext. 127. Email: Frank.Forcella@ars.usda.gov 3 Karen A. Garrett Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS Phone: 785-532-1370 Email: kgarrett@ksu.edu Amanda J. Gevens Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608) 890-3072 Email: gevens@wisc.edu Mark L. Gleason Department of Plant Pathology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011. Phone: 515-294-0579 Email: mgleason@iastate.edu Larry L. Gut Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Phone: 517) 353-8648 Email: gut@msu.edu Brian K. Hornbuckle Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA Phone: (515) 294-9868 Email: bkh@iastate.edu Laura H. Jesse Plant and Insect Diagnostic Clinic, 351 bessey Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA Phone: 515-294-0581 Email: ljesse@iastate.edu Richard X. Latin Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN Phone: (765) 494-4639 E-mail: rlatin@purdue.edu Donald R. Lewis Department of Entomology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA Phone: 515-2941102 Email: drlewis@iastate.edu Ed C. Luschei Department of Agronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI Phone: 608-263-7436 Email: ecluschei@wisc.edu. Gary P. Munkvold Department of Plant Pathology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 294-7560 Email: munkvold@iastate.edu Phone: 515- Forrest W. Nutter, Jr. Department of Plant Pathology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011 Phone: 515-294-8737 Email: fwn@iastate.edu Pierce A. Paul Department of Plant Pathology, Ohio State University/OARDC, Wooster, OH Phone: (330) 263-3842 Email: paul.661@osu.edu Tracy L. Rowlandson Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA Phone: 515294-9384 Email: trowlan1@iastate.edu Annemiek C. Schilder MI Hans Schmitz Department of Plant Pathology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Phone: (517) 353-8645 Email: schilder@msu.edu Orange County Extension, Purdue University, Paoli, IN Phone: 812-723-7107 Email: hschmitz@purdue.edu 4 Damon L. Smith Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK Phone: (405) 744-9960 Email: damon.smith@okstate.edu George W. Sundin Department of Plant Pathology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Telephone: (517) 355-4573 Email: sundin@msu.edu Eugene S. Takle Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State University, Ames, IA. Phone: 515-294-9871 Email: gstakle@iastate.edu S. Elwynn Taylor Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011. Phone: 515294-1923 Email: setaylor@iastate.edu Carla S. Thomas University of California, Davis, CA thomas@ucdavis.edu Phone: (530) 304-0689 E-mail: Stephen N. Wegulo Department of Plant Pathology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE. Phone: (402) 472-2559 Email: swegulo2@unl.edu Richard A. Weinzierl Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL Phone: (217) 244-2126 Email: weinzier@illinois.edu Kiersten A. Wise Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN Phone: (765) 496-2170 E-mail: kawise@purdue.edu