Travel: Mark Silburn: Attend American Chemical Society (ACS) Agrochemicals Division International Research Award Symposium, "Don Wauchope and Friends - Reflections on the Future of Pesticide Environmental Chemistry" Washington, DC. And visit various USDA
Abstract
In pesticide science, research and modelling by private companies exceeds that carried out by public organisations (e.g. USDA & EPA in the USA) – e.g. Paul Hendley (Syngenta) presented or was a co-author on 10 papers at the ACS meeting. Also consulting firms (e.g. Waterborne Environmental, Inc) now are major providers of environmental research. Aerial movement of pesticides and non-active components of pesticide formulations (e.g. solvents) have become important areas of environmental assessment. Models (eg Pesticide Root Zone Model (PRZM), , Soil Water Assessment Tool (SWAT)) have become standard tools in risk assessments, evaluating management and in regulation.
Assessing water quality benefits of investments in improved land management (e.g. incentives to land holders) is a high priority (e.g. for USDA), just as is occurring in the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) catchments in Australia. Combined stream monitoring, catchment modelling and remote sensing are evolving as the preferred method, just as they are in the GBR catchments.Attend American Chemical Society (ACS) Agrochemicals Division International Research Award Symposium, ‚Don Wauchope and Friends--Reflections on the Future of Pesticide Environmental Chemistry‛ Washington DC and present a paper, and visit various USDA offices.
Publicise the outcomes of the LWA/CRDC/MDBC ‘Pesticides in the Riverine Environment’ program and the cotton industries BMP program, and learn about the state-of-the-art in pesticide science and modelling for application in Australia. Specifically:
- To attend & present an invited paper (‚What drives pesticide runoff: An empirical journey to a framework for pesticide runoff using some of Don's ideas‛) to the ACS Symposium,
- To attend a symposium at the ACS AGRO meeting on ‘Simulation modeling of pesticides in the environment’, in memory of US-EPA's Larry Burns.
- To visit & present seminars with USDA pesticide scientists at Beltsville Maryland and Tifton Georgia.
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