Lucid Key:

Pests and diseases of palms cultivated in the US and Caribbean.

Project Description:Developing Commodity-Based Identification Resources for Plant Protection and Quarantine: Cultivated Palm Resource

Purpose of Palm Resource
To develop a Lucid internet-based identification resource to cultivated palm pests and diseases of the United States and Caribbean so that the resource is:
• scientifically accurate, easily accessible, and user friendly
• designed and developed as a screening aid to support domestic responsibilities associated with survey and
detection
• comprehensive, including keys, images, illustrations, and documentation on existing and potential new
palm pests and diseases
• delivered in pre-defined logical stages

FLREC Faculty: Drs. Monica Elliott and Tim Broschat, Ft. Lauderdale Research & Education Center, University of Florida

Project Status: Production in progress / beta testing / beta deliverable ready 10/09

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Africanized Honey Bee - DVD

Project Description: Production of an educational DVD focusing on many aspects of the Africanized Honey Bee is South Florida.

Project Status: Rough edit complete

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15 minute Powerpoint Presentations for TREC & FLREC

Project Description: Development of 2 breif PowerPoint presentations for TREC & FLREC. The Senior Center for TREC & FLREC director will use these presentions a various venues to introduce both centers.

Project Status: TREC presention complete and currently in review.

FLREC presentation in development completed by 5/30/07

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FLREC & TREC website migration

TREC website: http://trec.ifas.ufl.edu		FLREC website: http://flrec.ifas.ufl.edu
Before/After		Before/After

Project Description: The FLREC and TREC website will be migrated to the Solutions for Your Life web template.

This effort is being coordinated by the SFLY team:

Jennifer Hugus, Web Developer / Trainer ,

Erin K. McKenna, Web Writer / IT Specialist,

Elizabeth (Liz) Felter, Assoc. Dir. IFAS Marketing

Ian Maguire, Coordinator Educational Media Communications - Multimedia Specialist TREC/FLREC

Mike Ryabin, IT & A/V Support Specialist, Fort Lauderdale REC

Project Status:

FLREC website migration complete updated weekly and upon request.

TREC website migration complete updated weekly and upon request.

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FLREC Trial Garden website

website: http://flrectrials.ifas.ufl.edu

Project Description:The FLREC Trial Garden website will be:

1. FLREC Trial Garden URL : http://flrectrials.ifas.ufl.edu requested for easy of use.

2. Website update training for program technician (Contribute software).

Solutions for Your Life web template used for this website.

Project Status: Site migrated with FLREC website

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FRUITSCAPES website

website: http://fruitscapes.ifas.ufl.edu

Project Description: Development of web for FRUITSCAPE extension program for temperate, subtropical, tropical fruit trees in the Florida home landscape.

Solutions for Your Life web template used for this website.

Project Status: Soft Launch of FruitScapes - Site available for access and updated regularly

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Tropical Fruit Production and Handling Workshop website (TFPHW)

website: http://tfphw.ifas.ufl.edu

Project Description: Dr. Tom Davenport at TREC organized a 3 day workshop (TSTAR - Tropical Fruit Production and Handling Workshop - TFPHW) in Miami, Florida in July 2006.

1. Request of URL and server space: http://tfphw.ifas.ufl.edu

2. Conversion of all Powerpoit presentations to Adobe PDF files and placed on teh server for download.

3. Conversion of the TFPHW proceeding to Adobe PDF with links to presenations.

4. Soft launch of website

Solutions for Your Life web template used for this website.

Project Status: Soft Launch of TFPHW - Site available for access and updated regularly

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
for Natural Resource Assessment

website: http://uav.ifas.ufl.edu

Project Description: Development of web landing page for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) project. This will be a content rich page for information on our use of UAVs for natural resource surveys and for marketing of our UAV proposals.

The page will include aerial video, powerpoint presentation(s), lots of still images, and text. Text divides into 3 areas 1- what we're doing now, 2- what the UAV is capable of, 3- specific topics (plane and navigation specs, mosaicing, image processing...)

THe program is advancing rapidly, and so the web page(s) should be easily modified to change images, presentations, and text (keep structure and content separate and provide mechanisms for updating easily).

Solutions for Your Life web template used for this website.

Project Status: Soft Launch of UAV - Site available for access and updated regularly

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MINIGRANT PROPOSAL FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF INSTRUCTION

College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
University of Florida
2007F

Project Title: Virtual Field Trips (VFT)

PI: Kimberly Moore, Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center

Project Description: The development of Virtual Field Trips (VFT) using DVD video as a course aid would enable those students that do not have the flexibility to attend daytime fieldtrips to watch well produced and informative videos.  The VFT would be distributed to students who are not able to attend the field trips.

Project Status: Approved for funding

Initial production stage started

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Photo Shoots / Events

Visit of The Honorable He Kang, Retired Minister of Agriculture, China to TREC & FLREC

* TREC - Vist - Tuesday, November 7, 2006 - Photos Click Here

* FLREC Visit - Thursday, November 16, 2006 - Photos Click Here

* Hurricane House Visit by Alphonso Jackson, Sec. of Housing and Urban Development. 11/25/06

TREC
BULLETIN BOARD

Project Description: The Bulletin Board at the RECs are an important resource for visitors and employees.  Two days were designated for photographing Faculty, Staff, Students, Visiting Scientists, and Interns. . Click on images to see a larger view.

Project Status: Complete (revisions every 3 months)

FLREC
BULLETIN BOARD

Project Description: The Bulletin Board at the RECs are an important resource for visitors and employees.  Two days were designated for photographing Faculty, Staff, Students, Visiting Scientists, and Interns.

Project Status: Complete (revisions every 3 months)

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Project Title
Diagnose, Inform, & Manage (DIM) - IPM Resources for South Florida

Participants: Dr. Aaron Palmateer, Ian Maguire, Henry Mayer

Project Description:
South Florida has a diverse agricultural community with over 1600 ornamental nurseries in Miami-Dade County alone.  Establishing a successful IPM program in the nursery must begin with the proper diagnosis of diseases and disorders. The Florida Extension Plant Diagnostic Clinic (FEPDC) located at the Tropical Research and Education Center (TREC) in Homestead is committed to helping clients properly diagnose plant diseases and disorders, and inform growers of effective management strategies.  Our goal is to increase awareness of the FEPDC among the South Florida growing community by promoting the availability of our resources in English and Spanish with the use of traditional advertising methods (print material) and emerging technology (Internet based video, blogs, DVD/CDROM, etc.).  Materials produced throughout this project will be disseminated via World Wide Web, local industry trade shows, and agricultural areas of interest to South Florida growers.  With a steady increase of housing and development urban agriculture is on the rise making it more important than ever to practice environmentally sound disease and pest management strategies.

Solutions for Your Life web template used for this website.

Project Status: Funded (development of phase 1 - TREC-CLINIC website Feb-April 2007)

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