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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)
|
NEPMNet |
New England Pest Management Network (information network project with NEIPMC) |
NERA |
Northeast Research Association (of Agricultural Experiment Station Directors)
|
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) |