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| 1862s |
Land grant institutions established by the Morrill Act of 1862 (at least one in every state) |
| 1890s |
Land grant institutions of higher learning that are historically
black and were founded by the second Morrill Act, 1890 |
| 1994s |
Historically Native American institutions of higher learning |
| AA |
Administrative Advisor; an experiment station director who has been assigned to work with a multistate research project |
| AC |
Advisory Council (the Northeastern and Southern Regions have Advisory Councils) |
| AIMS |
Agriculture Internet Monitoring System |
| APHIS |
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service |
| AREERA |
Agricultural Research, Extension and Education Reform Act of 1998 (the
1998 Farm Bill) |
| ARS |
Agricultural Research Service; the in-house research unit within USDA |
| BATS |
Biological Analysis and Taxonomic Support |
| BEAD |
EPA's Biological and Economic Analysis Division |
| BOAA |
Board on Agriculture Assembly (the agricultural division of NASULGC) |
| BRAG |
Biotechonology Risk Assessment Research Grants |
| CABI |
Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau International |
| CAPS |
Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey |
| CAR |
Crops at Risk (section 406 grants program through USDA CSREES) |
| CARAT |
Committee to Advise on Reassessment and Transition (established by EPA
and USDA to advise on strategic approaches to planning, transition, and tolerance
reassessment for pesticides as required by the FQPA) |
| CES |
Cooperative Extension Service |
| CI |
Critical Issues |
| CIPM |
Center for Integrated Pest Management |
| COI |
eXtension - Community of Interest |
| COP |
eXtension - Community of Practice |
| CPHST |
Center For Plant Health Science Technology |
CRIS |
Current Research Information System (program within CSREES/USDA that tracks
research projects within land grant and USDA agencies |
| CREATE 21 |
Creating Research, Extension, and Teaching Excellence for the 21st Century |
| CSP |
Conservation Security Program (part of NRCS) |
| CSREES |
Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, USDA |
| CTV |
Citrus tristeza |
| CWG |
Commodity Working Group (now IPM Working Group) |
| ECOP |
Extension Committee on Organization and Policy (part of the BOAA in NASULGC) |
| EIPM |
Extension IPM |
| EIPMC |
IPM Cotton Program |
| EPA |
Environmental Protection Agency |
| EQIP |
Environmental Quality Incentives Program |
| ERS |
Economic Research Service |
| ESA |
Entomological Society of America |
| ESCOP |
Experiment Station Committee on Organization and Policy (part of the BOAA
in NASULGC) |
| ESS |
Experiment Station Section of the BOAA |
| FFY |
Federal fiscal year |
| FIPMCC |
Federal IPM Coordinating Committee |
| FQPA |
Food Quality Protection Act |
| FTE |
Full-time equivalent |
| FY |
Fiscal year |
| GAO |
General Accounting Office |
| GO-IPM |
Green house and Ornamentals IPM (a commodity working group with NEIPMC) |
| GPDD |
Global Pesticide Disease Database |
| GPRA |
Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 |
| Hatch Funds |
Federal funds administered by experiment stations. The Hatch Act
of 1887 established SAES and provided a mechanism for allocation federal support.
Hatch Funds are also known as Formula Funds |
| IFAFS |
Initiative for Future Agriculture and Food Systems (grants program through
USDA CSREES) |
| IN project |
Information Network Project (now State Network Projects) |
| INV |
Innovation Award |
| IOP |
Integrated Organic Program |
| IPM |
Integrated Pest Management |
| IPM1 |
National IPM Implementation Program: Phase 1 |
| IPM2 |
National IPM Implementation Program: Phase 2 |
| IS |
International Services |
| IR-4 |
Inter-regional Research Project Number 4 (provides regulatory clearances for pest management tools on minor crops |
| IRAC |
Insecticide Resistance Action Committee |
| IWG |
IPM Working Groups (formerly CWG) |
| LGU |
Land Grant University |
| MBT |
Methyl Bromide Transition Grant |
| MRP |
Multi-state Research Project, a coordinated research project between two
or more experiment stations that is partially supported by a designated portion
of Hatch Funds call Multi-state Research Funds |
| NAPIS |
National Agricultural Pest Information System |
| NASS |
National Agricultural Statistics Service |
| NASULGC |
National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges |
| NCIPMC |
North Central Integrated Pest Management Center |
| NCPMC |
North Central Pest Management Center (the original Center name, now IPM Center) |
| NCR201 |
North Central Regional IPM Committee |
| NEED |
Northeast Extension Directors |
| NEERA |
Northeast Education/Extension, and Research Activities |
| NEIPMC |
Northeastern Integrated Pest Management Center |
| NEPMC |
Northeastern Pest Management Center (the original Center name, now IPM Center)
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| NEPMNet |
New England Pest Management Network (information network project with NEIPMC) |
| NERA |
Northeast Research Association (of Agricultural Experiment Station Directors)
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| NEREAP |
Northeast Research, Extension and Academic Programs Committee |
| NEWA |
Northeast Weather Association |
| NFIPME |
National Foundation on IPM Education |
| NIMSS |
National Information Management and Support System |
| NIPMEG |
National IPM Evaluation Group |
| NJinPAS |
New Jersey Information Network for Pesticides and Alternative Strategies |
| NOFA |
Northeast Organic Farming Association |
| NPB |
National Plant Board |
| NPDN |
National Plant Diagnostic Network |
| NPL |
National Program Leader |
| NRCS |
Natural Resource Conservation Service |
| NRI |
National Research Initiative (grants program through USDA CSREES) |
| NSP |
National Special Project |
| OMB |
Office of Management and Budget |
| OPIS |
Offshore Pest Information System |
| OPMP |
Office of Pest Management Policy (part of USDA) |
| OPP |
Office of Pesticide Programs (part of EPA) |
| OPs |
Organophosphate pesticides |
| ORG |
Organic Grant Program |
| PAS |
Phytosanitary Alert System |
| PAT |
Pesticide applicator training (now PSEP) |
| PEAP |
Pesticide Education and Assessment Programs |
| PESP |
Pesticide Environmental Stewardship Program (a public-private partnership
connected to EPA) |
| PD |
Project Director) |
| PI |
Principle investigator |
| PIAP |
Pesticide Impact Assessment Program (coordinated through USDA and states;
established to promote informed regulatory decisions on registered pesticides) |
| PIPE |
Pest Information Platform for Extension and Education |
| PLB |
Potato Late Blight Program |
| PMAP |
Pest Management Alternatives Program (a grants program with USDA) |
| PMSP |
Pest Management Strategic Plan |
| PPQ |
Plant Protection and Quarantine |
| PSEP |
Pesticide Safety Education Program |
| RABID |
Risk Analysis Biological Informational Database |
| RAMP |
Risk Avoidance and Mitigation Program (section 406 grants program through
USDA CSREES) |
| RIPM |
Regional Integrated Pest Management |
| RFA |
Request for applications (formerly called RFPs; the federal government revised
the term to RFA in 2001) |
| RFP |
Request for proposals |
| RMA |
Risk Management Agency |
| SAES |
State Agricultural Experiment Station(s) |
| SAI |
Strategic Agricultural Initiative in EPA |
| SARE |
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program |
| SC |
Steering Committee (all four regions have steering committees) |
| SEC. 1473D |
Supplemental & Alternative Crops Grant Program |
| SERA003 |
Southern Extension and Research Activities-Information Exchange Group |
| SLA |
State Lead Agency |
| SNP |
State Network Projects |
| SPHD |
State Plant Health Director |
| SPRO |
State Plant Regulatory Official |
| SRG |
Special Research Grants |
| SRIPMC |
Southern Region Integrated Pest Management Center |
| SRPMC |
Southern Region Pest Management Center (the original Center name, now IPM Center) |
| SWAPA |
Soil, water, animals, plants, and air |
| SWOT |
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (a tool for program analysis/planning) |
| USDA |
United States Department of Agriculture |
| WERA-069 |
Coordination of Integrated Pest Management Research & Extension/Educational Programs for the Western United States & Pacific |
| WIPMC |
Western Integrated Pest Management Center |
| WPMC |
Western Pest Management Center (the original Center name, now IPM Center) |
