Speaker:
Mary Kay Malinoski and David L. Clement, University of Maryland Home and Garden Information Center
Abstract:
The Home and Garden Information Center (HGIC) is committed to assisting Northeast residents in solving their pest, plant and landscape problems. The Center’s approach to this mission has been the development of web-based self-help diagnostic tools and a gardening question submission service. Recently HGIC received a USDA IPM Special Projects Grant to expand the Q&A service to serve all of the Mid-Atlantic States. USDA sees this partnership as a successful regional example of E-extension. HGIC has developed another successful partnership with the Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA). HGIC screens all possible Sudden Oak Death samples for MDA and will expand this service to cover Soybean Rust and Brown Marmorated stink bug in the spring.
Biography:
David L. Clement serves as the Director and Regional Specialist in Plant Pathology for the University of Maryland’s Home and Garden Information Center. He and Mary Kay Malinoski work together in development of web-based plant problem diagnostic tools and on a series of landscape diagnostic field guides. He earned his M.S. from Rutgers University in Plant Pathology and PhD from Purdue University also in Plant Pathology.
Mary Kay Malinoski serves as a Regional Specialist in Entomology/IPM and Web/IT Coordinator for the University of Maryland’s Home and Garden Information Center. She and David L. Clement work together in development of web-based plant problem diagnostic tools and on a series of landscape diagnostic field guides. She earned a B.S. in Entomology from the University of Delaware and M.S. in Pest Management from the University of California, Riverside.