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Formal Collaborations
Consultant to Landcare Crown Research Institute, Lincoln, NEW ZEALAND. Reviewed programs in
decision support systems for agricutlure and natural resources, with emphasis on sustainable
systems for pastoral farming. December 31, 1994 - February 2, 1995
Scientific & Technical Exchange with CSIRO, AUSTRALIA. Reviewed decision support systems
relating to agricultural systems in the semi-arid tropics as well as programs in information technology
relating to agriculture. January 11-26, 1996.
Consultant to ISNAR, The Hague, NETHERLANDS. Reviewed and made recommendations
concerning ISNAR's Information Strategy plan. January 2-9, 1999.
Facilitated establishment of a Master's degree program in Information Technology in Mumbai, India, in collaboration with the
College of Business and the interdisciplinary MIT program at Virginia Tech and with the S.P. Jain Institute of Management in Mumbai.
February 2003 - August 2004.
Through consultancies with US EPA and the United Nations FAO program, worked with scientists at CATIE in Turrialba and at Colorado
State University to develop a web-based decision support tool related to greenhouse gas mitigation in tropical silvopastoral systems.
November 2003 - March 2005.
Informal Collaboration
1986- Cooperation with Dr. Hannu Saarenmaa, Finnish Forest Research Institute, Helsinki, Finland. This ongoing, informal cooperation has resulted in one peer-reviewed paper and a joint presentation in an international conference in Barcelona, Spain. Dr. Saarenmaa has hosted me as a visiting scientist in Helsinki for a short visit in 1988, and he has travelled to the US on several occasions.
1986 Hosted Dr. Huang Belu, of the People's Republic of China in my laboratory as a Visiting Scholar for one year. She studied computer applications relating to cotton and sorghum IPM.
1987 Hosted Dr. Lucas Schaub, of Switzerland, as a Postdoctoral Fellow in my laboratory at Texas A & M. Dr. Schaub worked on the integration of cotton simulation models and expert systems. He now works for the Swiss Agricultural Research Service in Nyon, SWITZERLAND
Hosted Dr. Mohamed El-Adl, Visiting Scholar from Egypt, for a brief visit to Virginia Tech in 1992 related to research in cotton on pink bollworm and mating disruption strategies in cotton.
1990-92 Hosted Dr. Rosalind Buick of New Zealand in my laboratory as a Research Associate for two years. She worked on knowledge-based systems as applied to field corn IPM and farm-level planning.
Major Professor, supervising Dr. José López-Collado for his Doctoral research at Virginia Tech through a fellowship from Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Technologia (CONACYT). Dr. López-Collado is now Assistant Professor at Colegio de Postgraduados, Campus Veracruz, MEXICO.
Conferences
Chair - 1993: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence '93 Workshop: AI in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Environmental Sciences. Chambery, Savoie, France, August 29-September 3, 1993.
Program Committee - 1992: International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Workshop on Expert Systems in Agriculture, Huangshan,
P. R. China, August 12-14
Program Committee - 1998: Bio-Decision 98 Conference, From sensors to decision support systems in agriculture, food-industry, and environment. Montpellier-Narbonne, France, February 23-27, 1998.
Presentations
Invited
Stone, N.D. and H. Saarenmaa. 1988. Overview of expert systems in integrated pest management. Parasitis 88. Barcelona, SPAIN.
Stone, N.D. 1988. Perspectives on artificial intelligence in agriculture and natural resource management. The Finnish Forest Research Institute. Unioninkatu, Helsinki, FINLAND.
Stone, N.D. 1990. Individual-level simulation: new evidence for chaos in population biology. XIX World Congress of the International Union of Forestry Research Organizations. Montreal, CANADA.
Stone, N.D. 1999. Constructing information systems for agriculture at Virginia Tech. ISNAR, The Hague, The Netherlands, January 6.
Volunteered
Gillespie, J., N.D. Stone and A.F. Kydonieus. 1985. Pink bollworm management program using a heat unit based model and controlled release pheromone products. 12th Int. Symp. Bioactive Mat. Geneva, SWITZERLAND, Jul. 8-12.
Schaub, L.P. and N.D. Stone. 1989. Comparison of insect control strategies in cotton using a simulation model and an embedded expert system. ISEM-North America Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA, Aug. 6-10.
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