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| Conference
Sponsors .................................................................................................... |
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| Table
of Contents .......................................................................................................... |
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| Agenda
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1 |
| Advisory
Committee and Contributors .......................................................................... |
6 |
| Exhibitors
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7 |
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Speaker
Biographies ....................................................................................................
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Invited
Presentation Articles, presenter (in order of
presentation)
The Importance of Spray Drift Management around the World,
Dr. Frank Hall ........................
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20 |
| Session
1: Incentives for Drift Management |
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Spray
Drift and Human Health Incidents, Barbara Morrissey
............................................. |
28 |
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Measuring
Human Exposures from Spray Drift, Dr. Kai Elgethun ...................................... |
33 |
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Impacts
of U.S. Court Cases on Application Technology, Dr. Allan
Felsot ......................... |
53 |
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Protecting
Aquatic and Riparian Areas from Pesticide Drift, Dr. Tom
Wolf ......................... |
59 |
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Balancing
Drift Management With Biological Performance and Efficacy,
Dr. Reinhard Frießleben .................................................................................................................. |
72 |
| Session
2: Regulatory Issues |
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Australia:
Regulatory Goals and Approaches, Dr. David Loschke ..................................... |
80 |
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U.S.
EPA Approach to Spray Drift Management, Jay Ellenberger
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83 |
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Canadian
Regulatory Goals and Proposed Approach to Buffer Zones, Ted
Kucknicki ......... |
84a-n |
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German
Regulation – Drift Modelling, Dr. Peter Kaul ........................................................ |
85 |
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Aspects
to Consider for Vector Control, Mark Latham ..................................................... |
97 |
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Association
of American Pesticide Control Officials’ Perspectives
on Management
of Drift and Secondary Movement, Paul Liemandt ............................................................ |
102 |
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State-Specific
Drift Rules to Provide for Protection and Enforceability,
Dave Scott .............. |
105 |
| Session
3-A: Drift Mitigation Technologies |
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Nozzles
for Drift Management, Dr. Robert Wolf ............................................................... |
106 |
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Ground
Field Sprayers for Drift Management, Dr. Robert Wolf .......................................... |
107 |
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Sprayer
Adjustment and Vine Canopy Parameters Affecting Spray Drift:
The Italian Experience, Dr. Paolo Balsari ........................................................................ |
109 |
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Prevention
Is Better Than Cure - Reducing Drift From
Vineyard Sprayers, Dr. Andrew Landers ......................................................................... |
116 |
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Tower
Sprayers Target Canopy to Reduce Drift, Dr. Gary R. Van
Ee ................................. |
125 |
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Precision
Agriculture and Drift Management, Dr. D. Ken Giles ......................................... |
127 |
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Pesticide
Chemistry and Adjuvants, Dr. Andrew Hewitt .................................................... |
132 |
| Session
3-B: Drift Mitigation and Vector Control |
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Mosquito
Adulticide Efficacy Data and EPA Insecticide Registration:
A Global Perspective, Dr. Kevin Sweeney ....................................................................... |
136 |
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Technical
and Regulatory Perspectives for Mosquito Control Practices
and Product Labeling, Dr. Norman Birchfield ................................................................... |
139 |
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Application
Considerations for Mosquito Control, Mark Latham ......................................... |
143 |
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Sampling
and Optimization in Mosquito Control, Dr. Jane Barber ..................................... |
150 |
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An
Industry Perspective on Atomizers and Chemicals, William
Jany ................................. |
155 |
| Session
4: Environmental Conditions |
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Meteorological
Concepts in the Drift of Pesticide, Dr. Harold Thistle
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156 |
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Hedgerow
Filtration and Barrier Vegetation, Dr. Jan van de Zande
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163 |
| Session
5: Drift Research and Management |
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Regional
Off-Target Movement of Auxin-Type Herbicides, Dr. Vincent
Hebert ..................... |
178 |
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Characterization
of Propanil Prune Foliage Residues as related to Propanil
Use Patterns in the Sacramento Valley, California, Dr.
Terrell Barry .................................. |
184 |
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Establishing
Buffers: Protocols and Toxicological Benchmarks, Dr. Allan
Felsot ................ |
199 |
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U.S.
EPA’s Research Proposal for Encouraging the Use of Spray
Drift
Reduction Technologies, Dr. Gregory Sayles .................................................................. |
204 |
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An
Attempt to Relate Drop Size to Drift Risk, Dr. Alvin. Womac
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210 |
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Australian
Developments in Spray Drift Management, Dr. Nicholas Woods
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224 |
| Session
6: Applicator Education |
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How
to Monitor Meteorology in Support of Pesticide Application,
Dr. Harold Thistle ............ |
232 |
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Nozzle
Selection Guidelines for Optimum Efficacy and Drift, Dr.
Tom Wolf ........................ |
241 |
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Information
Transfer Disconnect: Technology, Labels, and Applicators,
Carol Ramsay ........ |
246 |
| Session
7: Best Management Practices Workshop: Resource Documents |
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Excerpts
from US National Pesticide Safety Education Core Manual ................................ |
250 |
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DRAFT
Best Management Practices for Boom Spraying (PM-23 ad hoc
committee) .......... |
254 |
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DRAFT
Best Management Practices for Airblast/Air-assist Treatment
of
Tree/Vine/Bush Crops .................................................................................................. |
262 |
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DRAFT
Best Management Practices for Aerial Application of Pesticides
........................... |
264 |
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US
EPA Draft Pesticide Registration (PR) Notice 2004 –xx:
Labeling Statements
on Products Used for Adult Mosquito Control .................................................................. |
270 |
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| Poster
Abstracts (alphabetically by title) ........................................................................... |
280 |
| Poster
Schedule for authors to be present at their poster .................................................. |
293 |
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| Poster
Articles that were submitted (alphabetically by title) |
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Best
management practices for orchard spraying: protecting water
quality
in the Hood River Basin of Oregon, USA .........................................................................
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295 |
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Combining
spray drift and plant architecture modelling ..................................................... |
297 |
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Cotton
response to simulated drift rates of seven hormonal-type herbicides
....................... |
302 |
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Drift
characteristics of boom sprayer nozzles measured in a wind
tunnel ........................... |
309 |
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Drift
hazard assessment using CART – cumulative agrichemical
residue tracking .............. |
316 |
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DRIFTSIM
-- A user-friendly computer program to predict drift distances
of droplets ............ |
317 |
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Droplet
sizing and imaging of agricultural sprays using particle/droplet
image
analyses ..................................................................................................................... |
324 |
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Educating
and training pesticide applicators in Australia .................................................. |
330 |
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Effect
of a herbicide and additives on spray particle sizes and size
distribution .................. |
333a-e |
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Effect
of drift control adjuvants on efficacy and spray patterns
of Roundup D-pak™
and Roundup Weather Max™ applied with extended tange
spray nozzles ......................... |
334 |
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Effect
of Sprayer Speed on Spray Drift ........................................................................... |
339a-j |
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Evaluation
of upwind/downwind boom switching and propeller direction
on drift of
aerially applied spray .................................................................................................... |
340 |
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Field
test comparisons of drift reducing products for fixed wing
aerial applications .............. |
348 |
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Influence
of reference nozzle choice on spray drift classification ....................................... |
359 |
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Interactive
effects of spray quality, air induction and herbicide mode
of action on
weed control ................................................................................................................ |
366 |
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Modelling
canopy interactions for drift mitigation ............................................................. |
370 |
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Modelling
wind tunnel drift measurements ...................................................................... |
378 |
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Reducing
drift and improving deposition in orchards ......................................................... |
380 |
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Reducing
drift and improving deposition in vineyards ........................................................ |
385 |
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Reducing
driftable fines in aerial application of pesticides by controlling
nozzle
environment ................................................................................................................. |
392 |
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Regional
pesticide recommendations of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
for
protection of threatened and endangered species ............................................................ |
408 |
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Research
to reduce potential damage from spray drift loss by the USDA-ARS
Application Technology Research Unit ........................................................................... |
414 |
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Results
from field scale trials comparing air induction & standard
flat fan nozzles
at reduced volumes ...................................................................................................... |
422 |
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Risk
assessment of malathion drift to home gardens in the boll
weevil eradication
program ...................................................................................................................... |
427 |
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Simulated
drift of glyphosate and imazamox on winter wheat ........................................... |
430 |
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Yield
and physiological response of nontransgenic cotton to simulated
glyphosate
drift ............................................................................................................................. |
438 |
| Deposition
Modeling for Risk Assessment and Decision Support |
| Modeling
Workshop Abstracts (in order of presentation) |
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Overview:
Deposition Modeling for Risk Assessment and Decision Support
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444 |
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AgDRIFT
/ AGDISP Model Capabilities .......................................................................... |
444 |
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Recent
Additions to the AGDISP Aerial Dispersion Modeling System
............................... |
446 |
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Atomization
Models ..................................................................................................... |
446 |
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AgDRIFT
for Ground and Orchard Applications ................................................................ |
447 |
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German
Drift Model for Field, Orchard and Aircraft ........................................................... |
450 |
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AgDRIFT
/ AGDISP Ground Modeling ............................................................................ |
451 |
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DRIFTSIM
-- A User-Friendly Computer Program to Predict Drift Distances
of
Droplets ...................................................................................................................... |
452 |
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Modelling
Canopy Interactions with Orchard Sprayers ..................................................... |
452 |
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Spray
Advisor .............................................................................................................. |
453 |
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Demonstration
of SPRAYTRAN: A GIS-Based Atmospheric Dispersion Model for
Estimating Spray Drift .................................................................................................. |
453 |
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A
Numerical Study of Near-Field Dispersion within and above
Forest Canopies .................. |
454 |
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IDEFICS
......................................................................................................................
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455 |
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IMAG
Drift Calculator .................................................................................................... |
456 |
| Appendices
for Fact Sheets |
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What’s
new with nozzles – 2004 ................................................................................... |
458 |
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Nozzle
types for boom sprayer applications of crop protection products
............................ |
464 |
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Making
sense of new nozzle choices ............................................................................. |
468 |
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Equipment
to reduce spray drift ..................................................................................... |
474 |
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Choosing
drift-reducing nozzles ..................................................................................... |
478 |
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Effectiveness
of Turbodrop® and Turbo Teejet® nozzles in drift reduction
.......................... |
486 |
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New
nozzles for spray drift reduction .............................................................................. |
488 |
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Effect
of major variables on drift distances of spray droplets ............................................. |
492 |
| Participant
List .............................................................................................................. |
504 |
