Title: The Bugwood Network and The SPDN Regional Project List
1The Bugwood Network and The SPDN Regional
Project List
G. Keith Douce Professor of Entomology David
Moorhead Professor of Forestry Chuck Bargeron
Technology Coordinator Joe LaForest IPM and
Forest Health Specialist The Bugwood Network
The University of Georgia College of
Agricultural Environmental Sciences and
Warnell School of Forestry Natural
Resources Tifton, Georgia USA
2The Bugwood NetworkAddressing Invasive Species,
Forest Health and Agriculture Issues
- Began development in 1994
- Now operate 15 web sites
- Received 118 million hits in 2006
- Operate our own servers
- Integrate Information Technology with Biology
- work at the state, regional, national and
multi-national level
3Cooperators
- USDA-Forest Service
- Forest Health Protection (FHP)
- Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team (FHTET)
- USDA, Animal Plant Health Inspection Service
(APHIS) - - Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey Program
(CAPS) - - CPHST and Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ)
- USDA, Cooperative States Research and Extension
Education Service (CSREES) - - SR-IPM
- - Southern Region / National Plant Diagnostic
Network
4Cooperators (cont.)
- State Departments of Agriculture and Forestry
- University IPM programs
- National and Regional Exotic Pest Plant Councils
- National Park Service
- National Biological Information Infrastructure
(NBII) - Many International Cooperators
5- Develop educational resources on emerging issues
including bulletins, publications, posters,
CD-ROMs and presentations - Provide training and support for landowners,
farmers, industry and natural resource
professionals and managers, and the public - Develop and administer fifteen educational web
systems - Seek and archive digital images in four
topic-based web systems to support education - Support activities of professional organizations
such as Exotic Pest Plant Councils, Entomology
Societies, Forestry Organizations, etc.
6- Manage the Georgia Cooperative Agricultural Pest
Survey Program and Georgia Invasive Species Task
Force - Develop and implement policy and protocols for
early detection and rapid response of invasive
species - Develop and administer the Southeastern U.S.
Invasive Plant Mapping program - Develop web versions of USDA Forest Service
Forest Health Protection and Forest Health
Technology Enterprise Team publications - Provide image and database support for the
Southern Plant Diagnostic Network, Exotic Forest
Pest Information System, Global Pest and Disease
Database and National Invasive Species
Information Center
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9A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
10Images are tools around which users can build
applications We do not want to limit the user
by the way and manner we store images
11Bugwood Image Systems
- Started from a focus on forest health issues but
expanded to cover forestry, IPM and natural
resource related topics - International in focus
- Integrate images and information
12All images in Bugwood systems can be used for
educational uses with no royalties or fees as
long as credit is given to the photographer and
to the website from which it was downloaded
Commercial use requires permission of
photographer / image rights holder and The
Bugwood Network
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14Image Archives Contain High-Quality /
High-Resolution Images
- Featuring over 55,000 images from over 1,200
photographers covering 9,000 species taken in 80
countries
15Images are used in
- Web Pages
- PowerPoint Presentations
- Newsletters
- Newspaper articles
- Posters
- Magazines
- Full-page Color Prints
- Diagnostic Keys
- Journals
- Text Books
16Database Structure
- Taxonomically Correct Subject Database
- Linked to Images
- Linked to Publications
- Linked to Web Resources
- Linked to Distribution and Survey Information
(Possible) - Includes FIA damage agents, ESA common names, US
invasive plants, regulated pests - Handles non-biological subjects
- Linked to other major systems PLANTS, ITIS,
GPDD, EXFOR, NAPIS, others
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21Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey (CAPS)
program
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28International Union of Forestry Research
Organizations IUFRO WP 7.03.10 Methodology of
Forest Insect and Disease Survey in (Eastern and)
Central Europe
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31Hungarian Publication by G. Csoka A Source of
Non-US Native Organism Images
All Images are In Forestry Images Publication on
Bugwood
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35Building Awareness of Invasives Requires a TEAM
effort
- Develop partnerships with other agencies
- Co-sponsor programs
- Tap into their clientele training opportunities
- All of the partners take credit
- Look for partnerships to develop, support
deliver programs - Utilize the web, field days, news outlets, etc.
to spread the word!
36Building Awareness of Invasives
- Train the Trainer Provide training to Extension
Agents, other state agency personnel,
professional resource consultants/managers - Develop programs for farmers, landowners the
public in general - Provide new information on the web
37Image and Datasystem Future
- Expand repertoire and scope of images
- Provide more complete coverage of current species
- Build and improve taxonomy with subfamily, tribe,
etc. as well as references - Easier user submission of images
- As technology and web capabilities change adapt
and take advantage of these changes - Such as XML, Web Services, Flash and AJAX
38To Acquire Images to Support Identification
Needs Working with
- USDA-APHIS-PPQ National Identification Services
-NIS - USDA-APHIS-CPHST LUCID Key Cooperators
- USDA CAPS Program Cooperators
- UGA FL DPI Taxonomists PEET and NSF-links
- USDA-ARS ScaleNet (Beltsville)
- SPDN Training and Education Committee (Current
CSREES Project) - Outlining Future Projects with Great Plains
Network (NPDN) CSU MSU - Taxonomists at Cornell, UGA, Museums of Victoria
(Australia) - USDA Forest Service, ED/RR Team
- Building Linkages with GBIF ITIS
- Many international cooperators
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48SPDN Vegetables
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51LUCID Keys
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53yellow bristlegrass Liliopsida gt Cyperales gt
Poaceae Setaria pumila pallidifusca
(Schumacher) B.K. Simon Julia Scher, USDA APHIS
PPQ
54Regional Bark Beetle LUCID Key That Amanda Hodges
just reported on, and others
These are all GREAT projects, but we believe that
the images and information generated by them has
much more usefulness Our question is then, how
to extend this information and images to others
for other applications and uses ?
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65Ips sexdentatus (Boerner) Jim Stimmel,
Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture
66Ips calligraphus (Germar) J.R. Baker S.B.
Bambara, NCSU
67Ips sexdentatus (Boerner) Jim Stimmel,
Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture
68Ips sexdentatus (Boerner)
Pest and Diseases Image Library, Ken Walker,
Museum Victoria, Australia
69lt Ips sexdentatus (Boerner) Jim Stimmel, PA
Dept Ag
Ips calligraphus (Germar) J.R. Baker S.B.
Bambara, NCSU
lt Ips sexdentatus (Boerner) PDILibrary Ken
Walker, Museum Victoria, Australia
70- We are striving to make this resource and these
archives more useful - We need images for many species that are
important to SPDN, CAPS to US Homeland Security - We need you and your colleagues help to do it !
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72Providing tools and information that users,
clientele and educators can use to address
current and emerging problems
73Database Structure
- Taxonomically Correct Subject Database
- Linked to Images
- Linked to Publications
- Linked to Web Resources
- Linked to Distribution and Survey Information
(Possible) - Includes FIA damage agents, ESA common names, US
invasive plants, regulated pests - Handles non-biological subjects
- Linked to other major systems PLANTS, ITIS,
GPDD, EXFOR, NAPIS, others
74Images are used in
- Web Pages
- PowerPoint Presentations
- Newsletters
- Newspaper articles
- Posters
- Magazines
- Full-page Color Prints
- Diagnostic Keys
- Journals
- Text Books
75The Bugwood Network is Becoming
- The Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem
Health
76Mission
- The Centers mission is to serve a lead role in
development, consolidation and dissemination of
information and programs focused on invasive
species, forest health, natural resource and
agricultural management through technology
development, program implementation, training,
applied research and public awareness at the
state, regional, national and international
levels.
77Thank You
- Visit our Web Sites
- www.bugwood.org
- www.invasive.org
- www.forestryimages.org
- www.IPMImages.org
- www.InsectImages.org
- www.forestpests.org
- www.barkbeetles.org
- And more