I am the Fruit IPM Coordinator for the NY State IPM Program. My work addresses current disease, insect, weed and vertebrate management issues facing the tree fruit, berry and grape industries of NY. I work closely with Cornell Cooperative Extension personnel, faculty, legislators, the fruit industry, consultants, and growers. From 1981-1988, I directed the Plant Disease Clinic at Cornell. While diagnoising over 1500 clinic samples per year, I developed the Cornell 4H plant pathology program, contributed to the American Phytopathological Society`s K-12 outreach programs and authored a monograph for high school biology teachers. My research has covering Dutch elm disease, maple decline, wheat spindle streak mosaic virus, potato virus Y, carrot leaf blights, grapevine powdery mildew, bacterial canker of cherry, blueberry canker diseases, tarnished plant bug on strawberry, spotted wing drosophila, and bird damage in fruit. We demonstrated improved management of bacterial canker of sweet cherry using post-harvest, stub-pruning in lieu of copper sprays. My work in blueberry fields helped uncover viral diseases as major limiting factors in crop yield. I invented Trac Software, a pesticide record-keeping and reporting program for fruit farmers to meet market traceability requirements and federal and state pesticide safety requirements. I lead the Network for Environment and Weather Applications (NEWA), a weather mesonet, that provides weather information and IPM forecasts at newa.cornell.edu.