Association for Communication Excellence (ACE)
Cheryl Wilen, Tunyalee Martin, and Chinh Lam with California Invasive Plant Council (Cal-IPC) partners Jutta Burger and Doug Johnson were awarded a Gold Award for WeedCUT in the Information Technology: Website category from the Association for Communications Excellence.
Petr Kosina, Cheryl Reynolds, Tunyalee Martin, Kimberly Steinmann, Brad Hanson, and Kassim Al-Khatib won an award from the Association for Communication Excellence. In the Information Technology: Instructional Design for a Non-Academic Public Online Course category, they won a Gold Award for Diagnosing Herbicide Injury.
California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR)
Siavash Taravati, Niamh Quinn, Andrew Sutherland, and Karey Windbiel-Rojas—UC IPM’s urban IPM dream team were awarded a 2021 Integrated Pest Management Achievement Award. UC IPM’s urban IPM team has a mission for all Californians to adopt IPM practices. Their research, educational trainings, and publications assist everyone to solve their “real-world” pest problems. Examples of recent work include organic herbicides, bedbugs, rodent and coyote management, and bait-only cockroach management programs.
With California Invasive Plant Council (Cal-IPC) partners, Thomas Getts, Chinh Lam, Tunyalee Martin, and Cheryl Wilen developed and were awarded a 2021 Integrated Pest Management Achievement Award for WeedCUT. This decision support tool provides land managers with guidance on a range of methods for managing invasive plants in wildlands using non-chemical approaches exclusively, for situations when use of herbicides is restricted or not desired.
10th International IPM Symposium
Andrew Sutherland received the International IPM Award of Excellence in the Academic IPM Practitioner category for his work as an urban IPM advisor. Did you know he was the first one in California? Serving since 2012, Sutherland has developed a robust IPM extension program serving structural, industrial, and household pest control operators; retail garden store staff; housing and lodging managers; and childcare providers. Notable projects include remediation and reduced-risk pest management in childcare facilities and low-income multi-unit housing. Sutherland also created and maintains an online resource for bed bug prevention and management.
David Haviland, as part of the California Almond IPM Team, received the International IPM Award of Excellence in the IPM Team category. For more than 10 years, the Almond IPM Team has conducted research on key almond pests and developed a strong foundation for an IPM program in almond. For example, they moved the IPM practice of mating disruption from applied research to demonstration plots to extending the results of their trials and finally to adoption.