Using AgRadar to Help Manage Apples in a Changing Climate
About the Event
AgRadar is a management support tool for apple growers. Join us to learn how it uses weather forecasts and data to inform apple production decision-making for service providers and growers alike.
Speakers:
Glen Koehler is an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Associate Scientist in University of Maine Cooperative Extension. His work helps growers address both the immediate challenges caused by weather, and longer term issues developing due to climate change caused by continued greenhouse gas emissions. Koehler focuses primarily on IPM of tree fruits (primarily apple) and weather-based predictive crop, pest timing and severity models. He also contributes to the Northeastern IPM Center and the Maine Climate Council Scientific and Technical Subcommittee.
Sean Birkel is an Assistant Extension Professor at the University of Maine with a joint appointment to Cooperative Extension and the Climate Change Institute. Birkel is also the Maine State Climatologist, a role in which he provides climate and weather information to Maine stakeholders to facilitate decision-making and planning. Birkel also serves on the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the Maine Climate Council. As a researcher, Birkel is interested in climate variability and modeling, and he is the developer of a widely used data visualization website, ClimateReanalyzer.org.