# Presentation: 931676

## Mississippi State University’s Invasive Species Program:Relation to ISFS/NIISS

**John D. Madsen**
**GeoResources Institute**
**Mississippi State University**
**www.gri.msstate.edu**

## Sponsors

**USGS BRD**
**NBII**
**NASA**
**USDA NRCS**
**MS DAC**
**MS FWPD (pending)**
**Regional and County Gov’t  **
**Private industry**

**Dr. John Byrd of MSU discusses controlling cogongrass at the 2004 Invasive Species Tour**

## Mississippi State University Investigators

**Mississippi State University Investigators**

-  Richard Brown, Entomology & Plant Pathology
-  Lori Bruce, Electrical & Computer Engineering
-  John Byrd, GeoResources Institute and Plant & Soil Sciences
-  Eric Dibble, Wildlife & Fisheries
-  Gary Ervin, Biological Sciences
-  James Fowler, Electrical & Computer Engineering
-  John Madsen, GeoResources Institute and Plant & Soil Sciences
-  David Shaw, GeoResources Institute and Plant & Soil Sciences

- James H. Miller – Chinese Privet (www.invasives.org)

## Agency Collaborators

**Agency Collaborators**

**Collaborators**
** *****National Aeronautics and Space Administration***
*** ******US Army Corps of Engineers***
*** ******US Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Research Service***
*** ******US Geological Survey, Biological Resources Discipline***
**Individuals**
** ****Jacoby Carter, **USGS NWRC** **
** ****Kurt Getsinger**, USACE (ERDC) Vicksburg, MS
-  **James Grace**, USGS NWRC
-  **Annie Simpson**, USGS-NBII
-  **David Spencer**, USDA-ARS, Davis, CA
-  **Tom Stohlgren**, USGS
-  **Randy Westbrooks**, USGS

## General Components

**General Components**

-  Research
-  Management-oriented efforts on invasive aquatic and terrestrial plants and invasive invertebrates
-  Extension and Outreach
-  Rapid dissemination of information in a web-based format
-  Regional Coordination
-  State and Mid-South Invasive Species Alliances

- Unk-European frog-bit

## ISFS Process

**Data Input**
- Remote Sensing
- Directed Surveys
- P/A Input

**Models**
- GARP
- SEM
- GIS models
- Spatially-explicit models
- Life history models

**Predictions and Output**
- Publications
- Outreach
- Web

**Implement-ation**
- Mgmt research
- Demonstra-tions
- Extension and outreach
- Regional coordination

## Data Inputs

**Remote sensing**
**Directed Survey**
**P/A by volunteers**
**Resource Managers**
**Master Gardeners**
**Other studies**

**Giant salvinia in a private pond, Leaf Co., MS**

## Remote Sensing

**Seasonal reflectance of invasive and native plant species**
**Spectral, spatial and temporal interpretation of satellite imagery (L. Bruce)**
**Fixed wing and UAV**

**Kudzu delineation from classified fix-wing hyperspectral data (L. Bruce)**

## Development of Hyperspectral-Multitemporal 

***Feature Extraction Techniques***

**8 dates between 8****th**** April and 1****st**** September**

**Waterhyacinth**

**Juncus**

***L. Bruce***

## Ground Data

**Directed Surveys**
**Locations of cactus and cactus moth in the southeast**
**Invasive aquatic and terrestrial plants**
**Presence/Absence**
**Resource managers**
**Volunteers**
**Master Gardeners**
**Locations of cactus and cactus moth**

**Chris May of Grand Bay NERR deploying a cactus moth pheromone trap**

##  Assist in developing an EDRR assessment method, and test on roundleaf toothcup, tropical spiderwort, and other species. 

**Plant Population Assessment**
**John Madsen, John Byrd, Randy Westbrooks**

-  Evaluate field based quantification methods versus remote sensing methods
-  Provide recommendations to resource managers on assessing invasive plant problems.
-  Assist in developing an EDRR assessment method, and test on roundleaf toothcup, tropical spiderwort, and other species.

- Rotala rotundifolia, Source:  USGS Florida Science Center, NAS Website

## Data Input

**Data input from Web Database and IPAQs**

## Models

**GARP for cactus locations (G. Ervin)**
**SEM for invasive plants (G. Ervin with Jim Grace, NWRC)**
**Enhancement of NWRC spatially-explicit model (J. Fowler with Jacoby carter of NWRC)**
**Others**

**Empire phase IV is a 1038 processor computing cluster (“My cluster is bigger than your cluster”)**

## Predictions -- Products

**Peer-reviewed literature**
**Outreach and extension products**
**Web page and web products**
**Workshops and short courses**
**Tours and interaction**

**www.gri.msstate.edu**

**MS Master Gardeners learn about cactus moth issues at their 2005 annual training program**

## Implementation

**Management research**
**Evaluations**
**Demonstrations**
**Extension and outreach **
**Recommendations**
**Regional coordination**
**MISA, MSISA**

- Cody Gray treats a tank of parrotfeather and Eurasian watermilfoil  as part of an evaluation of the herbicide Stingray

## Regional Coordination

**Regional Coordination**

-  Mississippi Invasive Species Alliance (Shaw, Byrd, Madsen)
-  Mid-South Invasive Species Alliance [AL, AR, LA, MS, TN] (Shaw, Byrd, Madsen)
-  ISA approach – Three-tiered
-  Technical Steering Committee
-  Executive Council
-  Advisory Council

- From the John Byrd Archives – We still control plants the old fashioned way in Mississippi (Caterpillar Corp. photo)

## David Shaw, John Byrd, John Madsen 

**Mississippi Invasive Species Alliance**
**David Shaw, John Byrd, John Madsen**** **

-  Develop a coordinating body for invasive plant issues for the State of Mississippi.
-  Through Extension Service activities above, develop workshops on identification and management of invasive plant species.
-  Coordinate efforts of both professionals and volunteers in management efforts

- R. Michael Stewart – Hydrilla in Lake Guntersville, AL

##  Coordinate efforts of both professionals and volunteers in management efforts once states have joined. 

**Mid-South Invasive Species Alliance**
**David Shaw, John Byrd, John Madsen**

-  Organize a preliminary meeting for a coordinating body for invasive plant issues for the region.
-  Through Extension Service activities above, develop workshops on identification and management of invasive plant species available to the region.
-  Coordinate efforts of both professionals and volunteers in management efforts once states have joined.

- Madsen – Waterchestnut rosette from New York

## Conclusion

**Conclusion**

-  Management goal is maintenance of low invasive plant population with diverse native plant community at most economical cost

- Before management of invasive plant

- After management of invasive plant

## Contact:

**Dr. John D. Madsen**
**Mississippi State University**
**GeoResources Institute**
**Box 9652**
**Mississippi State, MS 39762-9652**
**Ph: 662-325-2428    **
**Fax: 662-325-7692**
**E-mail: jmadsen@gri.msstate.edu**
**www.gri.msstate.edu**