The US Forest Service, Forest Health Protection office in Coeur d'Alene, ID is advertising for a GS-9/11/12 Plant Pathologist. The announcements opened today on usajobs.gov. These positions are for US citizens.
The Merit announcement closes on 04/08/2015. The DEMO vacancy announcement closes on 04/03/2015.
Following are the USAJOBS links for this position:
Merit: 15-01-119048G-SGA https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetail/398877100
Demo: 15-01-119048DP-SG https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetail/398876900
Read the entire vacancy announcement, particularly the REQUIRED DOCUMENTS section. If all required documents are not submitted, applicants will not be referred for consideration.
Also as stated in the Announcement, transcripts are required at the time of application for this professional position. A copy of a diploma does NOT meet this requirement.
If you have questions about the application process, there is contact information in the announcement. Do not contact me about how to apply. I can answer questions specific to the job responsibilities.
Gregg
[USFS]
Gregg DeNitto
Forest Pathologist/Group Leader
Forest Service
Northern and Intermountain Regions
Forest Health Protection
Missoula Field Office
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Please note deadlines, and pass along to colleagues working on aspects of resistance to insects or pathogens in forest trees
DEADLINE APPROACHING
This is a reminder that the deadline for abstract submission is very close (April 1st 2015)
5th International Workshop on the Genetics of Tree-Parasite Interactions, Orléans, France, 23-28 august 2015
An event organized by
<http://www6.val-de-loire.inra.fr/uragpf>
and sponsorized by
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Dear Colleague,
If you do not want to miss the opportunity to present your work, please submit your abstract online as soon as possible
https://colloque.inra.fr/tree-parasite-interactions2015%20/Abstract-submiss…
Please note that you can submit a very short abstract at this stage and that you will be able to submit a more detailed one once your submission gets a first approval from the Scientific Committee.
What matters is to let organizers know that you are willing to present something.
Also, if you are willing to attend but not willing to submit an abstract by the end of this week (because you are still waiting for funding or administrative approval), would you be kind enough to create a user account on the conference's website ?
https://colloque.inra.fr/tree-parasite-interactions2015%20/user/register
This will allow organizers to know how many participants might attend. Many thanks !
Remember that deadline for early bird registration is April 15th 2015
For any question on accommodation, registration fees, accompanying persons ... please find answers on the website :
https://colloque.inra.fr/tree-parasite-interactions2015%20/Practical-inform…
or email to tpi2015(a)orleans.inra.fr<mailto:tpi2015@orleans.inra.fr>
If you know some candidates in developing countries working on related topics you might notify them that funding is available to support up to two scientists : https://colloque.inra.fr/tree-parasite-interactions2015/Who-is-who/IUFRO.
If your group would like to consider sponsorship for graduate student : http://www.evoltree.eu/index.php/8-news/news-left/78-ten-grant-initiative<http://www.evoltree.eu/index.php/8-news/news-left/78-ten-grant-initiative.>.<http://www.evoltree.eu/index.php/8-news/news-left/78-ten-grant-initiative.>
We are still building our mailing list for scientists (and managers) working on this topic. Please forward the notice of this international workshop to colleagues.
Please note that registration fees not only include full access to the scientific program and all conference material but also the following :
* a welcome cocktail reception (Sunday evening)
* the following meals: Monday (Lunch+Diner), Tuesday (L+D), Thursday (L+D)
* coffee breaks: Monday (2), Tuesday (2), Thursday (2), Friday (1)
* Field trip + picnic basket + reception diner (Wednesday)
which means that participants will have very little additional expenses except travelling and lodging.
--
Véronique Jorge
Unité Amélioration, Génétique et Physiologie Forestières,
Centre INRA Val de Loire, site d'Orléans,
2163 avenue de la Pomme de Pin,
CS 40001 - Ardon
45075 ORLEANS CEDEX 2
France
Tel : +33 (0) 2 38 41 78 28
Fax : +33 (0) 2 38 41 48 09
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http://www6.val-de-loire.inra.fr/uragpf/Personnel/Permanents/Veronique-JORGEhttps://colloque.inra.fr/tree-parasite-interactions2015
Dear All,
On behalf of Matteo Garbelotto, please have a read through the article that outlines an important issue in South American forests. By clicking on the title, the full text is expanded and at the bottom of the full text there is a link to an article by Greslebin, Vélez and Garbelotto.
You can provide feedback on the website and directly to Matteo at: matteog(a)berkeley.edu<mailto:matteog@berkeley.edu>
Regards, Tod
Jolanda, Tod and Ecki
Can you share this link with the IUFRO community, we do need some feedback by March 30th to show it is something important
Once you log onto the URL just click on title to see the full article
https://gsdr2015.wordpress.com/?s=austrocedrus
Thanks
Matteo
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Matteo Garbelotto Ph.D.
Director U.C. Berkeley Forest Pathology and Mycology Laboratory
Statewide U.C. Forest Pathology Extension Specialist
Adj.Professor, Department of ESPM
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Dear all:
Submissions are invited for a special issue of the *International Journal
of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services & Management*, entitled *Synergies
between biodiversity and management for high-value timber species*. This
issue is based on a technical session at IUFRO 2014, but the issue is open
to authors who did not participate in the session. The deadline has been
extended to April 15, 2015.
This Special Issue examines the scientific basis for managing to create a
positive synergy between biodiversity and high-value timber species.
Management to conserve biodiversity and management for the production of
high-value timber species can be in conflict with each other. The
increasing need to conserve biodiversity and the ongoing demand for
high-value timbers prompt the goal to integrate these management objectives.
Therefore papers are requested for a Special Issue that explores positive
interactions between biodiversity and high-value timbers. This Special
Issue aims for a global scope, including tropical and temperate high-value
timbers. Possible topics include:
- How biodiversity can protect high-value species from pests and
pathogens
- How biodiversity, as an indicator of more intact ecosystems, can
sustain production of high-value species
- How high-value species in restoration and plantations can reestablish
or conserve biodiversity
- How high-value species in enrichment plantings or natural forest can
help maintain intact forests and their biodiversity
- How high-value species themselves are examples of biodiversity in need
of conservation
For more information, please see:
http://explore.tandfonline.com/pages/cfp/tbsm-themed-paper-aug-2014
If you have any questions, please contact Sheila Ward at:
sheila.emily.ward(a)gmail.com
Sheila Ward
Coordinator, IUFRO 1.02.04
Dear IUFRO entomologists and pathologists,
My name is Joey Hulbert and I am a forest pathologist in training. I
recently completed a MS at Oregon State University and now I am prepping
to move to South Africa for a PhD with Dr. Micahel Wingfield at FABI
<http://www.fabinet.up.ac.za/>.
For my PhD, we plan to survey the indigenous forests of South Africa for
*Phytopthora* species with the help of the public. *Phytophthora* are a
group of microorganisms well known as plant pathogens (i.e. sudden oak
death, potato late blight, Port-orford cedar root rot). We want to create a
citizen science program that teaches the public about forest health and
invites them to help sample the trees in forests near their communities.
The PhD will be funded but we are trying to raise support for starting the
citizen science program (it is a side project). To do this we have launched
a crowdfunding campaign.
I am reaching out to you with hope that you will share this project with
your social networks and anyone who may see the value in this project.
Please help us spread the word!
The below link will take you to the project. There is a 5-minute video that
I put together to summarize the scope and value.
https://experiment.com/projects/discovering-plant-destroyers-in-south-afric…
I have also created a few complimentary open-access lab notes as listed
below:
- SIX Reasons to Back this Research: https://experiment.com/u/Lc1E7w
- What is Citizen Science? https://experiment.com/u/WETOKA
- A recent excursion into Sudden Oak Death infected lands (lots of
photos)! https://experiment.com/u/22omNA
Please let me know if you have any feedback or suggestions. I would greatly
appreciate your help spreading the word about this project.
Thank you!
Sincerely,
Joey Hulbert
Admitted PhD Student, University of Pretoria
Forestry and Agriculture Biotechnology Institute, South Africa
Current Crowdfunding Project:
https://experiment.com/projects/discovering-plant-destroyers-in-south-afric…
Yesterday I visited a stand on the Clearwater NF where it appears that H. irregulare is killing ponderosa and lodgepole pine. Expanding infection centers of pole to mature pines around large resinous pine stumps that look like they are about 50 years since cutting, pine decay, white/tan ectotrophic mycelium on roots of affected pines while Douglas-fir and grand fir ingrowth are unaffected by root disease fits well with this guess. I could not find any conks but will be attempting some isolations from the wood and ectotrophic mycelium to see what comes out.
The district silviculturist had been planning a regeneration harvest and regenerating by planting western larch/western white pine. Does anyone have any recent references on which Heterobasidion species and what severity can be expected on western white pine? I seem to recall that western white can act differently than hard pines but I haven't been able to pull much information together yet.
Thanks!
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Plant Pathologist
Forest Service
Region 1 Forest Health Protection, Coeur d'Alene Field Office
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Subject: IUFRO-Working Party 7.02.01 “Root and Butt rot of Forest Trees"
Dear colleagues,
We added some more information to our webpage! You are welcome to have a look...
http://ormanweb.sdu.edu.tr/iufro2015/
Kind regards!
On the behalf of organising comittee
Dear Colleagues -
Katherine Tubby is asking if there are any recent observations of problems with sycamore (Platanus) in the USA??
There are reports in the literature of Splanchnonema platani, the cause of Massaria disease, but please let me and Kath know if you are familiar with any work in the USA in last 20 years. (The pathogen used to be called Macrodiplodiopsis desmazieresii/Massaria platani.)
She is also interested in US reports of Ceratocystis platani.
Info on Massaria and other sycamore problems in the UK may be found at http://www.forestry.gov.uk/fr/infd-8tvbq4
Katherine's contact info:
Dr Kath Tubby, Forest pathologist, Forest Research, Alice Holt Lodge, Farnham, Surrey (Katherine.Tubby(a)forestry.gsi.gov.uk<mailto:Katherine.Tubby@forestry.gsi.gov.uk>).
- Susan
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Susan Frankel
Plant Pathologist
Forest Service
Pacific Southwest Research Station
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For planning purposes, if interested attending, please send an email to
Veronique JORGE (Veronique.Jorge(a)orleans.inra.fr<mailto:Veronique.Jorge@orleans.inra.fr>)
Arnaud DOWKIW (Arnaud.Dowkiw(a)orleans.inra.fr)
**Please pass along to those that work with resistance and Tree-Parasite Interactions
Also, if your group would like to be a Sponsor, see website for details
Genetic Resistance to Diseases and Insects in Forest Trees Workshop 2015
5th International Workshop on the Genetics of Tree-Parasite Interactions
Hello!
At the 2011 excellent workshop in Eugene, Oregon (proceedings at http://www.fs.fed.us/psw/publications/documents/psw_gtr240/)
it was decided to have the next international workshop on this topic in France.
the 5th International Workshop on the Genetics of Tree-Parasite Interactions
that will be held in Orléans, France, from 23 to 28 August 2015.
Please see the email from Arnaud Dowkiw (below) for some details and the website:
https://colloque.inra.fr/tree-parasite-interactions2015
This important topic is even more relevant today, as several additional insect and disease epidemics have taken place.
Also, note – there may be some funding available for 1 or 2 scientists: some of the requirements (see website for details):
· Scientists from developing countries (according to World Bank List of Economies: low income countries and lower middle income countries (http://data.worldbank.org/country)
· Preference given to scientists working in IUFRO member institutions
We hope to see you in France for the talks, the discussions, and the continued friendships and collaborations.
Best regards,
Richard
IUFRO 2.02.15 Coordinator
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Center Geneticist
Forest Service
Dorena Genetic Resource Center
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From: Arnaud Dowkiw [mailto:Arnaud.Dowkiw@orleans.inra.fr]
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 10:06 AM
Subject: You have expressed interest in attending the 5th Tree-Parasite Interactions Congress in Orleans - France
Dear Colleague,
You have expressed interest in attending the 5th International Symposium on the Genetics of Tree-Parasite Interactions that will be held in Orléans, France, from 23 to 28 August 2015.
We know that there are many other scientific meetings that you could attend in 2015, but YOU selected the best one :-)
For those who experienced the previous editions of this workshop, you know that they are always very interesting, very rich, not only because of the diversity of the attendees (phytopathologists, breeders, entomologists, physiologists, evolutionary biologists ...) but also because they are always organized in a way that most of the attendees have an oportunity to present their work and in a format that fosters discussions.
Also, compared to many other meetings, the registration fees are not so high. It is 600 € for early bird registration (1 April) and only 500 € for graduate students. These fees include all the meals (lunches + diners) + field tour and conference diner.
Last but not least, some of you are project leaders, group coordinators or in the process of building a project. We have negociated some extra free meeting rooms where you will be able to gather your troops, so think seriously about this opportunity.
Now is time to think seriously about confirming your participation to this event ! There is a brand new website waiting for you with lots of information to help you organize your trip and your presentation :
https://colloque.inra.fr/tree-parasite-interactions2015
Although registrations to the meeting will open 2nd of February, online abstract registration is now open !
Please circulate this information around you and think about other colleagues or students in your lab who maybe interested (think also that France still is a good place for summer holidays, either before or after the meeting !!).
[cid:part1.08000603.02070607@orleans.inra.fr]
We look forward to seeing you in Orleans !
The local organizing team
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