A reminder that the annual South Wide Forest Disease Workshop will be
held 29 June-2 July 2009 in Greenville, South Carolina at the Hyatt
Regency Greenville hotel.
Please visit the SWFDW website
(https://fp.auburn.edu/sfws/enebak/swfdw/swfdw.html) and be sure to
make your hotel reservation as soon as possible. We have a block of 25
rooms set aside for the group until 8 June, please make your
reservations by this date. Room rates are $92.00 (USD) per night plus
tax for single occupancy (add $10 for each additional room occupant).
Here are the details:
Date: 29 June -2 July 2009
Place: Hyatt Regency Greenville, 220 North Main Street, Greenville,
South Carolina 29601
Phone reservation: (864) 235-1234 or 800-233-1234.
Ask for the "South Wide Forest Disease Workshop" group rate. Visit
http://greenville.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/index.jsp for hotel
information.
Registration fees:
Professional: $195 per person; student: $175 per person.
Deadline for registration is 23 May 2009 and a late fee of $50 will be
added after this time.
Registration fees include Monday mixer, meeting room costs, snack and
coffee breaks, and the field trip, lunch, and banquet on Wednesday.
Abstracts and Posters:
Call for Paper Presentation and Poster Session. If you are interested
in making a paper presentation or participating in the poster session,
please send your abstract to Bill Jones (wejones(a)fs.fed.us) by 30 April
2009. Please see website for mailing address.
Outstanding Forest Pathology Paper Awards:
Two awards for outstanding forest pathology papers will be awarded; one
for RESEARCH and one for EXTENSION. Authors should provide a reprint
for material published January 2008 through June 2009, labeled for
category of entry; Research or Extension. The papers will be posted on
the web and voted on by the SWFDW membership. Papers to be considered
must be received no later than April 30, 2009. email reprints to Scott
Enebak at enebasa(a)auburn.edu
An exciting field trip is planned for Wednesday, 1 July. This field
trip will highlight several pathology issues in upstate South Carolina
such as screening hybrid chestnut seedlings and the role of fire on
plant diseases, just to name a few issues.
Please feel free to forward this information to others who might be
interested in attending.
Hope to see you in Greenville on 29 June!
Dr. Lori G. Eckhardt
Assistant Professor & Director
Forest Pathology & Entomology
Forest Health Dynamics Laboratory
Forest Health Cooperative
3301 School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences Bldg
Auburn University, AL 36849-5418
Phone: (334) 844-2720 Lab: (334) 844-1058 Fax: (334) 844-1084
Email: eckhalg(a)auburn.edu
Website: https://fp.auburn.edu/sfws/eckhardt/
"A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by
encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discoveries are among them, as
comets amongst the stars..." Linnaeus
The Industry pest management group in Western Australia has a 3 year
fixed term position available for a research scientist in plantation
health of Eucalyptus globulus. The successful candidate will be employed
by Murdoch University and will be working within the Forestry CRC and
with industry partners and Murdoch University. There will be strong
direction from the Plantation Industry members of the IPMG.
The candidate will spend the majority of their time within the
plantation estate in Western Australia with opportunities for links with
Green Triangle (SW Victoria & SE South Australia) based IPMG members and
staff. The preference for location is Albany Western Australia, but
negotiation for location elsewhere in southwest WA is an option.
Application procedures and a position description with detailed
selection criteria are available from the University's web site at
http://jobs.murdoch.edu.au/ All applicants should address the selection
criteria within their application.
Dr Treena Burgess
Forest Pathologist
Murdoch University
Western Australia, 6150
ph. +61 89360 7537
fax. +61 89360 6303
mobile. 0438121531
http://path.murdoch.edu.au <http://path.murdoch.edu.au/>
Hi Margaret, I sent off the job announcement.
To subscribe to the IUFRO forest pathology list, please visit:
http://www.iufro.org/science/iufro-mailing-lists/list-management/rg-702-for…
One way to tell if you are still subscribed is to see if you've gotten any
notes from Bill Livingston on the upcoming Northeastern Forest Health
Workshop (formerly the NE Forest Pathology Workshop). If not, you're not
on the list!
Thanks,
Kevin.
Kevin T. Smith, Ph.D.
Plant Physiologist and Project Leader, Research Work Unit NRS-10
USDA Forest Service
271 Mast Road, Durham, NH 03824, USA
Voice: 603.868.7624 Fax: 603.868.7604
Cell: 207.351.5671
Email: ktsmith(a)fs.fed.us
Greetings!
Please see attached job announcement for a plant pathologist position with
the Northeastern Area of State & Private Forestry, USDA Forest Service.
For more information, please contact Michael Bohne, listed in the trailing
message.
Thanks!
Kevin.
Kevin T. Smith, Ph.D.
Plant Physiologist and Project Leader, Research Work Unit NRS-10
USDA Forest Service
271 Mast Road, Durham, NH 03824, USA
Voice: 603.868.7624 Fax: 603.868.7604
Cell: 207.351.5671
Email: ktsmith(a)fs.fed.us
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Michael Bohne/NA/USDAFS
04/08/2009 05:44 PM
To
Michael Bohne/NA/USDAFS@FSNOTES
cc
Subject
OUTREACH NOTICE - Plant Pathologist GS-0434-11/12, Durham NH
****Please distribute widely****
USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Area, Forest Health Protection is
looking to fill a GS-0434-11/12 Plant Pathologist position. This is a
permanent position stationed at the Durham Field Office in Durham, NH.
This employee will serve as part of a team providing technical advice,
assistance and guidance on various forest health and forest pathology
issues to state, tribal and federal cooperators in New York and New
England. The position combines technology transfer, various field surveys
and interactions with diverse stakeholders. This is an exciting and
challenging opportunity to provide leadership in the coordination and
development of a wide variety of new and existing forest pathology
projects in northeastern forests. Please view the attached document for
the full outreach notice.
To express interest in this position, please respond by May 8, 2009 via
email to Michael Bohne, Forest Health Group Leader at mbohne(a)fs.fed.us.
For more information about this position, please contact Michael Bohne at
603.868.7708.
Hello Colleagues,
I am forwarding this at the request of our clinician, Nancy Taylor.
If you have an answer, please reply to her (taylor.8(a)osu.edu) with a
copy to me (bonello.2(a)osu.edu)
Thanks!
Enrico
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>Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:00:29 -0400
>To: bonello.2(a)osu.edu
>From: "Nancy J. Taylor" <taylor.8(a)osu.edu>
>Subject: Stigmina on Spruce
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>Newsletter?
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> http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/trees/whatnew/Tree_Talk_Newsletter.htm
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>Nancy J. Taylor, Director
>C. Wayne Ellett Plant and Pest Diagnostic Clinic
>110 Kottman Hall, 2021 Coffey Road
>Ohio State University
>Columbus, OH 43210-1087
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Pierluigi (Enrico) Bonello, Assoc. Professor
Dept. of Plant Pathology
The Ohio State University
201 Kottman Hall
2021 Coffey Road
Columbus, OH 43210
Tel: (614) 688-5401
Lab: (614) 688-5409
Fax: (614) 292-4455
http://plantpath.osu.edu/faculty-and-staff/faculty-directory/bonello-pierlu…
Environmental Science Graduate Program (ESGP)
http://esgp.osu.edu/
Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Program (PMBB)
http://pmbb.osu.edu/
Northeast Forest Health Field Workshop (formerly the Northeast Forest
Pathology Workshop) June 2-5, Winter Harbor, Maine, USA. Second Notice.
The Northeast Forest Health Field Workshop will be held on June 2-5 at the
Schoodic Educational and Research Center (http://acadiapartners.org/)
Winter Harbor, Maine.
More information on registration and lodging is available at:
http://www.forest.umaine.edu/education/livingston/NFHFW/NFHFW09.html
Registration and lodging reservations are due May 1, 2009. Late submissions
will be considered on a space-available basis.
Check-in will begin Tuesday evening, June 2, and continue at 7:30 am on June
3. The theme for Wednesday's field trips is "Using Silviculture to Reduce
Risk from Pests" and will focus on spruce/fir, American beech, and eastern
white pine forest types. Thursday's field trips will examine the "Forest
Health of Acadia National Park" on Mount Desert Island and will focus on
invasive species, air pollution damage, and forest health monitoring. There
will also be time available in the evenings and Friday morning for activity
reports from the attendees.
Come and spend a few days in the forest and along the spectacular coast of
Maine!
--
Dr. William H. Livingston
Associate Director of Undergraduate Programs
School of Forest Resources
University of Maine
5755 Nutting Hall, rm 201b
Orono, ME 04469-5755
USA
ph: 207-581-2990
fx: 207-581-2875
Email: WilliamL(a)maine.edu
Web: http://www.forest.umaine.edu/
2009 IUFRO Diseases and Insects in Forest Nurseries Meeting
Last call for Papers
Please join us for the 7th meeting of IUFRO Working Party 7.03.04: Disease
and Insects in Forest Nurseries to be held July 12-17 in Hilo Hawaii, USA
at the Hilo Hawaiian Hotel. The objective of this working party is to
provide a forum for scientist and students around the world to exchange
information on diseases and insects that impact forest nurseries.
Highlights :
Visit nurseries in and around the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park!
See the effects of koa wilt and the efforts to determine the causes and
controls.
Special panel: Non-native diseases and insects: implications for forest
nurseries and native flora
Deadlines:
The May 1 deadline to register for the 7th meeting of the IUFRO Working
Party: Diseases and Insects in Forest Nurseries at the regular rate is
approaching fast. The meeting registration costs increases after May 1,
2009. The deadline for abstracts are June 1, 2009. Full papers for the
proceedings are not due until August 31, 2009. Registration can be done
on-line, fax, or mail:
Register on-line at www.westernforestry.org
or mail registration and payment to: Phone:
1-(503)-226-4562
Western Forestry and Conservation Association Fax: 1-(503)-226-2515
4033 SW Canyon Rd.
Michele(a)westernforestry.org
Portland, OR 97221 USA
Please see these enclosed documents for forms and details.
Michelle Cram
Plant Pathologist
USDA Forest Service-FHP
320 Green Street
Athens GA 30602
(706) 559-4233 Phone
(706) 559-4245 Fax
mcram(a)fs.fed.us
The Insects, Diseases and Invasive Plants unit of the Southern Research
Station will soon be advertising for a new research entomologist.
Please give the attached outreach notice wide distribution.
Thanks - Kier
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Kier Klepzig
Assistant Director for Research
Southern Research Station, USFS
200 WT Weaver Blvd.
Asheville, NC 28804
(828)257-4307
kklepzig(a)fs.fed.us
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Forwarded message from David Shaw:
Pacific Northwest Research Station
USDA Forest Service
OUTREACH NOTICE
Managing Disturbance Regimes Program
Behavioral Chemistry and Ecology of Insects and Disease Team (BCEID)
Pacific Northwest Research Station
Research Plant Pathologist
GS 434 12/13
The Behavioral Chemistry and Ecology of Insects and Disease Team (BCEID) of the Pacific
Northwest Research Station anticipates advertising for a permanent, full-time Research
Plant Pathologist GS-434-12/13 position, centered at the Forestry Sciences Laboratory,
Corvallis, Oregon.
The specific research objectives assigned to this position will be: 1) determine what
factors of forest pathogens contribute to the severity of their pathogenicity in host
trees; 2) develop tools and techniques that can be used to reduce the level of
pathogenicity expressed by forest pathogens; 3) determine what factors in host trees
contribute to their resistance of forest pathogens; and, 4) develop tools or techniques
for increasing the resistance of host trees to forest pathogens. The overall goal is to
provide resource managers with new tools they can use to maintain resilient, sustainable,
and productive forest ecosystems. The studies will be directed at native and invasive
pathogens currently impacting, or with the potential to significantly impact (such as
sudden oak death) forest ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest, including Alaska.
It is expected that the contributions from this personal assignment will modify existing
theories with a series of significant additions to the scientific and forest management
literature. This scientist is expected to develop an aggressive research program,
including a combination of independent and cooperative studies with other scientists in
the Team, Program, Station, other government agencies, or universities.
FOREST SERVICE EMPLOYEES ON THE WORKFORCE REDUCTION PLACEMENT SYSTEM LIST WILL RECEIVE
PRIORITY CONSIDERATION AND CTAP/ICTAP CANDIDATES WILL RECEIVE THE APPROPRIATE
CONSIDERATION
Interested applicants, or those desiring further information should contact Rick Kelsey,
(541-750-7368, rkelsey(a)fs.fed.us) or complete the attached form and return by March 31,
2009.
--
David Shaw
Extension Forest Health Specialist and Director, Swiss Needle Cast Cooperative
Department of Forest Engineering, Resources and Management (Assistant Professor)
College of Forestry, Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon 97331
Phone: 541.737.2845
Fax: 541.737.4316
dave.shaw(a)oregonstate.edu
Swiss Needle Cast Cooperative: <http://www.cof.orst.edu/coops/sncc/>
http://www.cof.orst.edu/coops/sncc/
Supervisory GS?14/15 Research Entomologist/Ecologist/Pathologist
414/408/434
Location: Athens, GA, or Starkville, MS, or Pineville, LA.
The Southern Research Station announces the opening of a vacancy for a
GS14/15 Research Scientist. The scientist will serve as a supervisory
research entomologist, pathologist or ecologist (invasive plants) within
SRS-4552: Insects, Diseases, and Invasive Plants.
To apply for this position, visit usajobs.gov and past the appropriate
position number into the search box:
Internal applicants: TA09-SRS-IDIP-0054G (R-EB)
External applicants: TA09-SRS-IDIP-0054DP (R-EB)
SRS-4552 is comprised of three primary teams based in Athens, GA;
Starkville, MS; and Pineville, LA: (1) Southern Pine Beetle and Invasive
Insects; (2) Termites and Wood-Destroying Insects; (3) Diseases and
Invasive Plants.
The scientist will be responsible for conceiving, planning, organizing,
designing, implementing, interpreting, and reporting personal research.
At the discretion of the Station Director, the scientist may also serve as
Project Leader for the unit. In this capacity, the scientist will be
responsible for the unit?s: research direction, budget, performance
evaluations, writing and executing cooperative agreements, and possibly
obtaining funding (internal and/or external), to carry out the unit
mission. The scientist may supervise several unit scientists,
technicians, and administrative support, and will be supervised by an
Assistant Director for Research.
Successful applicant can choose from one of the following duty stations:
Athens, GA: Unit is located on the campus of the University of Georgia,
in a metropolitan area with a population of over 100,000. Athens is a
vibrant city, a college town and event destination. The city offers a
unique blend of Southern heritage and contemporary entertainment.
Atlanta?s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, is 1.5 hours by
automobile.
Starkville, MS: Unit is located on the campus of Mississippi State
University. A college town for more than a century, Starkville is a city
with small town friendliness and high-quality educational, cultural and
recreational opportunities. Located in Northeast Mississippi, some 30
miles west of the AL State Line and 115 miles south of the TN State line,
Mississippi State University is the largest university in the state. The
location is served by Golden Triangle Regional Airport.
Pineville, LA: Unit is located at the Alexandria Forestry Center, a
unique field situation with all three branches of the Forest Service
(National Forest System, Forest Health, and Research) located together.
The Center is a fully equipped laboratory complex located just across the
Red River from Alexandria in the geographic center of the state.
Pineville-Alexandria is a full-service community with a population of
60,000 and two 4 year colleges. The location is served by Alexandria
international airport (AEX) with connections to Atlanta, Memphis, Houston
and Dallas.
For more information on this position, contact Assistant Director of
Research, Kier Klepzig: kklepzig(a)fs.fed.us
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Kier Klepzig
Assistant Director for Research
Southern Research Station, USFS
200 WT Weaver Blvd.
Asheville, NC 28804
(828)257-4307
kklepzig(a)fs.fed.us
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