Applying technologies such as GIS and remote sensing and manipulating large databases are our expertise. We collaborate with California commodity boards, California State Water Resources Control Board, US Environmental Protection Agency, California State Department of Pesticide Regulation, UC Cooperative Extension specialists and farm advisors, non-profit organizations such as Community Alliance with Family Farmers, Coalition for Urban and Rural Environmental Stewardship (CURES) and local growers... The AGIS Lab has developed a PUR-GIS application, an interface between GIS and MySQL as well as a few open source software, to manipulate the pesticide use report database (PUR), landuse, and soil databases. This program greatly increased the efficiency of analyzing pesticide use data in an accurate and user friendly format. This capability enables us to spatially examine pesticide use in a specific county, or watershed, or the entire state; creating maps where fields that have had a..