Managing and analyzing pesticide use data for pest management, environmental monitoring, public health, and public policy

Description

Content: Legal authority and administration of pesticide use reporting. History of pesticide use reporting in California -- The infrastructure of California's pesticide use reporting program -- Data quality assessment within the pesticide use database -- The maintenance and use of California's school pesticide use report -- Integrated analyses of pesticide use trends and pest management. Pesticide use reporting data in pesticide regulation and policy: the California experience -- The extensive use of pesticide use report (PUR) data in scholarly scientific research -- Patterns of fumigant use in California grapes -- Recent developments in the registration and usage of botanical pesticides in California -- Spatio-temporal analyses of pesticide use on walnuts and potential risks to surface water in California -- The impact of integrated pest management and regulation on agricultural pesticide use in California -- Employing California pesticide use data for evaluating integrated pest management programs and informing pesticide policy and regulation -- Integrated analyses of pesticide use impacts. Implementing pesticide use data and GIS to improve treated area estimates in agricultural and residential exposure assessments -- Refined processing of pesticide use reports for use in data analysis conducted by the California department of pesticide regulation's air program -- Methodology for prioritizing pesticides for surface water monitoring in agricultural and urban areas of California -- Applications of the California pesticide use reporting database in more than 25 years of U.S. Geological Survey hydrological studies -- Tiered approaches in analyzing rice field pesticide fate and transport for ecological risk assessment -- Potential pesticide use risks to honeybees during almond pollination in California -- A simplified approach to using pesticide use reporting to prioritize pesticide risk in California's national parks -- Pesticide use data and the distribution of acute illness episodes: the promise and challenges of geoinformatics -- Economic and pest management analysis of proposed pesticide regulations -- Available tools for data query, mapping and risk assessment. PURwebGIS: a web application for query and analysis of pesticide use report (PUR) data -- Pesticide use risk evaluation (PURE), a self-evaluation tool of pesticide use -- Comparisons of analytic methodologies for correct analysis of pesticide use data -- Recommendations for future improvements to the pesticide use data and database integration.