[MAIPC] FW: 2017 USDA Interagency Research Forum on Invasive Species

[Marc Imlay]

The Forum will be held at the Loews Annapolis Hotel, Annapolis, Maryland, January 10-13, 2017.

 

Dear Biological Control research advocates and Lyme disease control advocates,

 

Please Note: 

 

WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 11, 2017

9:15 a.m. Tamarix biocontrol: The importance of science in setting a path out of regulatory 

dysfunction. Tom Dudley, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

 

 

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 11, 2017 

Northeast Biocontrol Regional Project (NE-1332): Honoring 27 years of Leadership by Dick Reardon in Research and Implementation of Biological Control of Forest Pests

Moderator: 

Scott M. Salom 

Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA 

 

1:00 p.m. Biological control of the winter moth in the Northeastern US. Joseph Elkinton, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 

1:15 p.m. The long term perspective of emerald ash borer biocontrol: Can introduced natural 

enemies protect North American ash in the aftermath forests of invasion?, Jian Duan, 

USDA ARS, Newark, DE 

1:30 p.m. TBA . Ann Hajek, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 

1:45 p.m. The biological control effort for hemlock woolly adelgid: No one said that it would be 

easy. Scott Salom, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA

2:00 p.m. Global progress in the biological control of weeds. Mark Schwazlander, University of 

Idaho, Moscow, ID

2:15 p.m. Biological control for invasive knotweeds (Fallopia spp.) in North America. Fritzi 

Grevstad, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 

2:30 p.m. A decade of using Verticillium nonalfalfae as a biocontrol of the invasive Ailanthus 

altissimus in the eastern US. Matt Kasson, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 

2:45 p.m. Outrunning the invasive species treadmill: Integrating biological control and other 

management techniques to restore invaded sites. Ellen Lake and Judy Hough-Goldstein, 

University of Delaware, Newark, DE

 

THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 12, 2017

 

10:30 a.m. Does multiflora rose invasion amplify tick-borne disease risk? Solny 

Adalsteinsson. Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO

 

 

Marc Imlay, PhD, Chair, MAIPC Biological control working Group Conservation biologist, 

Park Ranger Office, Non-native Invasive Plant Control coordinator.  <mailto:Marc.Imlay at pgparks.com> Marc.Imlay at pgparks.com

(301) 442-5657 cell  Natural and Historical Resources Division

The  Maryland-National   Capital   Park  and Planning Commission            

 

 

 

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From: Diaz-Soltero, Hilda - APHIS <Hilda.Diaz-Soltero at aphis.usda.gov <mailto:Hilda.Diaz-Soltero at aphis.usda.gov> >
Date: Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 11:17 AM

Dear Colleagues,

 

I have attached the cover letter and draft agenda for the 2017 meeting.  Additionally, links to the registration site, lodging, local transportation, and poster abstract guidelines can be found at the meeting website : 

 

http://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/disturbance/invasive_species/interagency_forum/ 

 

Poster titles must be submitted online at   http://sites.udel.edu/frame/poster/.  

 

Regards,

 

Mike McManus




 

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Jason Goldberg

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Branch of Aquatic Invasive Species

Ph: 703-358-1866

Cell: 240-687-8213

 

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