SPARC

2025 SPARC Annual Meeting (Day 2)
2025-11-13 08:30 - 13:30 UTC
The 2025 SPARC annual meeting will be held virtually and will include project investigators, stakeholders, and scientific advisors.

2025 SPARC Annual Meeting (Day 1)
2025-11-12 08:30 - 13:30 UTC

Talk at ASHS: Heat Stress Responses in Fruit Crops: Physiological Impacts and Innovative Strategies for Mitigation
2025-07-30 08:00 - 10:00 UTC
Join Lee Kalcsits at ASHS for his talk, Heat Stress Responses in Fruit Crops: Physiological Impacts and Innovative Strategies for Mitigation
The session is from 8 AM to 10 AM CDT.

2nd Annual LOF Apple Socials with Mario Miranda Sazo (NY)
2025-07-24 18:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Yates Town Park, 938-966 Morrison Road Ext., Lyndonville, NY, 14098, United States
Join Mario Miranda Sazo to learn more about SPARC!
Please join us at this casual networking event for all apple industry folks from Western NY, proudly sponsored by Valent. There will be a brief introduction of the Lake Ontario Fruit Program. Attending specialists will share their programming areas, along with their current research and extension projects (3 minutes per person). The goal is to get folks meeting one another in a more casual environment than structured educational programs.
We encourage young/new growers, processing growers, and folks who may not be very familiar with Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Lake Ontario Fruit Program to join us.
Food and beverages will be available.
Come when you can, stay as long as you’d like!
Pre-registration not required, but it helps for food & beverage estimates. Please preregister at the link here: https://lof.cce.cornell.edu/event.php?id=2093

Fresh and Processed Pear Committee Research Review
2025-02-20 08:00 - 17:00 UTC
Ashley Thompson will be representing the SPARC team and will provide an overview on the project and promote our grower survey that will guide applied strategies that we will test as part of the project.

International Tree Fruit Association Annual Meeting in Rochester, NY
2025-02-17 - 2025-02-19
Lee Kalcsits will present an overview of SPARC to attendees and Dr. Jason Londo will present his research on rootstock cold hardiness. Drs. Gennaro Fazio, Lailiang Cheng, and Terence Robinson will all present tree fruit research that is separate from SPARC
