Grant, Jennifer Ann
Senior Extension Association
Jennifer Grant is an assistant director with the NYS Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Program. The mission of this program is to develop and deliver sustainable ways to manage pests, helping people use methods that minimize environmental, health, and economic risks. Grant is also the Coordinator for the Community IPM effort that reduces risks posed by pests and pest control methods in urban, suburban and rural areas. Grant’s specialty is extending and researching low-impact pest management practices for turfgrass. She also overseas and helps coordinate programs in school IPM, and structural and wildlife pest management.
research
research and scholarship focus
Grant researches low-impact pest management practices for turfgrass, and how IPM systems work on golf course, school grounds and home lawns.
primary investigator of
- GOLF TURF MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS WITH REDUCED CHEMICAL PESTICIDE INPUTS | Research Grant
research areas
- adult and extension education | collaborative research area (CALS)
- biodiversity | collaborative research area (CALS)
- biological control | collaborative research area (CALS)
- conservation biology | collaborative research area (CALS)
- crop management or crop science | collaborative research area (CALS)
- ecology | collaborative research area (CALS)
- entomology | collaborative research area (CALS)
- environmental sciences | collaborative research area (CALS)
- horticultural sciences | collaborative research area (CALS)
- integrated crop management | collaborative research area (CALS)
- integrated pest management | collaborative research area (CALS)
- landscape ecology | collaborative research area (CALS)
- organic agriculture | collaborative research area (CALS)
- pathogens | collaborative research area (CALS)
- pesticide management | collaborative research area (CALS)
- pest management | collaborative research area (CALS)
- plant pathology | collaborative research area (CALS)
- plant sciences | collaborative research area (CALS)
- risk analysis and assessment | collaborative research area (CALS)
- soil health | collaborative research area (CALS)
- sustainable agriculture | collaborative research area (CALS)
- sustainable development | collaborative research area (CALS)
- urban environment | collaborative research area (CALS)
- weed science | collaborative research area (CALS)
- wildlife management | collaborative research area (CALS)
submitted impact statement
- Community IPM: Reducing risk across New York State | 2007 Impact statement
- Community IPM: Reducing risk across New York state | 2006 Impact statement
- Community IPM | 2005 Impact statement
- Community Integrated Pest Management (IPM) | 2004 Impact statement
affiliations
academic staff in
- Entomology at Geneva | Geneva department
- New York State Integrated Pest Management Program (NYS IPM) | research and extension institute
service
outreach focus
Grant extends information on low-impact pest management practices for turfgrass, and how IPM systems work on golf course, school grounds and home lawns.
current professional activities
- Entomological Society of America, 1984-present
- Society of Invertebrate Pathologists, 1996-present
- NY State Turfgrass Assoc. Educational Committee, 2000-present
- Cornell University Program Work Team (PWT) Member for:
- IPM, 2001-forward
- Landscape Horticulture, 2001-forward
- Waste Management, 2001-forward
- Community IPM Coordinating Council member, 2001-forward
- IPM Operating Committee member, 2000-present
- Organizing team member, IPM Protocols for Golf Courses in the Northeast Conference, 1/2001, regional conference held in New Brunswick, NJ.
- Organizing team member, Turfgrass Entomology 2000 Conference, 2/2000, National Conference held in Geneva, NY.
- Co-organizer of ESA Eastern Branch Symposium on Field Applications of Pathogens for Insect Management, 2000.
- Entomopathogenic Nematode Discussion Group, Co-founder and organizer, Cornell University, 1997-1999
background
educational background
- Ph.D., (Entomology), Cornell University, 2000
- M.S., (Entomology), University of Vermont, 1989
- B.S., (International Agriculture), University of Vermont, 1983
- Ornamentals IPM Specialist, NYS IPM Program, 1989-1996
awards and distinctions
- Excellence in IPM Award, 1997
Keywords: entomology, environmental impact, IPM, plant pathology, turfgrass management, weed science, wildlife management