Colleagues,
For those of you attending the meetings in Denver next week please
consider coming to the Seventh ICASA Open Forum. The meeting is open to
anyone interested in crop or system modeling, or systems applications.
A draft agenda is pasted in below. Please feel free to suggest additional
topics or contact me with other questions or comments.
Best regards,
Jeff White
Jeffrey W. White, Plant Physiologist
Environmental and Plant Dynamics Research
U.S. Water Conservation Laboratory, USDA-ARS
4331 E Broadway Rd
Phoenix, AZ 85040-8834
phone 602-437-1702 ext. 268; fax 602-437-5291
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Seventh ICASA Open Forum on Crop Modeling and Decision Support Systems
ASA-CSSA-SSSA 2003 Annual Meetings, Denver, Colorado
Date/time: Monday, 3 Nov. 2003, 7:30-9:30 PM
Location: Adams Mark Hotel, Governor's Square 11 (concourse level)
Suggested Agenda
Introductions
Report from the ICASA Board - Jim Jones, UF
· Open membership policy
· The "reinvention process"
· Membership status, board composition
Upcoming Events (details at ICASA web site)
· ICASA Symposium - Applying Agricultural Models in Natural
Resources Management: Advances in Models and Methods. 4 Nov.
· Simulating Effects of Tillage and Residue Management for
Conservation Tillage. 5 Nov.
· DSSAT 4 training workshop at Chiang Mai University, 1-12 Dec.
2003.
· Workshop on Modeling Tillage and Residue Management. CIMMYT,
Mexico. 8-11 Dec. 2003.
· 34th Biological Systems Simulation Conference, Gainesville,
Florida from March 8-10, 2004
· DSSAT 4 training workshop at Univ. Georgia, Griffin, GA. 17-26
May, 2004.
· Etc.
New Initiatives Under ICASA
· Background on initiatives - Jeff White, USWCL
· Tillage and residue management - Rolf Sommer, CIMMYT
· Livestock - Phil Thornton, ILRI
· Applets corner -- J. Mauricio Fernandes, EMBRAPA Trigo
· Others -
o Sugarcane?
o Global change?
o Climatic risk?
o Data & software sharing vs. Intellectual Property
The new ICASA web site http://www.icasa.net
· ORYZA 2000
· Tillage
· Data Exchange ...
Software news
· DSSAT 4 release - Gerrit Hoogenboom
· CSM
· Others (CropSyst? APSIM? ...)
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