Managing and Analyzing Pesticide Use Data for Pest Management, Environmental Monitoring, Public Health, and Public Policy

Dr. Minghua Zhang is a professor at University of California, Davis in the Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, and a research scientist at the California Department of Pesticide Regulation. Her main research interests include GIS applications and watershed modeling to address questions in pest management and environmental impacts of pesticide use, especially in water quality. Dr. Zhang has published over 160 peer-reviewed articles. For her careercontributions to agricultural science, Dr. Zhang was honored as a Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy and Soil Science Society of America.Dr. Scott H. Jackson is a Senior Manager for Valent LLC in Dublin California. He has worked in Industry for more than 30 years in various technical capacities. In his role in the Stewardship group, he has focused on stewardship questions that involve exposure modeling, environmental fate, and analytical chemistry. Dr. Jackson is active member of the American Chemical Society and currently serves asthe AGRO Division Chair. He has organized many ACS symposia on topics ranging from environmental fate and exposure to application technology. Scott acts as a reviewer for several journals and has authored/coauthored more than 30 refereed publications.Dr. Mark Robertson earned a PhD in Molecular Biology & Genetics from the University of Oregon, Institute of Molecular Biology and the Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France studying insect immunology and later received research appointments in insect vector biology and pest management from the USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Laramie WY, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, and the University of California, Riverside, CA. Dr. Robertsonhas since been working for the Department of Pesticide Regulation for 13 yearssupervising the IPM Research and Alliance grant programs which develop andpromote adoption of integrated pest management systems.Dr. Michael Zeiss has a Ph.D. in entomology and a lifelong interest in reducing therisks of pesticide use. For most of his career, he worked in support of small farmers in Africa, Asia, and Central America. This included two years with Peace Corps in Mauritania; four years as Associate Professor at Escuela Agrícola Panamericana in Honduras; and consultancies in Vietnam, Laos, and Nicaragua. After returning to California, he worked for ten years for theCalifornia Department of Pesticide Regulation, including three years as Food Safety Coordinator.