It's time to register for the 2013 Southern Forest Insect Work Conference, 23-26 July 2013, JW Marriott New Orleans, in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA!
The 2013 SFIWC registration form is available exclusively online through Eventbrite again this year. Go to http://sfiwc2013.eventbrite.com to register. The registration fee is $270 ($170 for students and retired members), which includes a ticket to the Wednesday night banquet for the registrant. Extra banquet tickets for guests are $45. Banquet tickets for kids 12 and under are $15. Registration receipts and banquet tickets will be distributed at the registration table.
Pre-registration on the Eventbrite website will be accepted until July 12, 2013. After this date, only on-site registration will be available.
IMPORTANT!!!: If you choose, you can now pay your registration fee online at the Eventbrite website (http://sfiwc2013.eventbrite.com) with a credit card prior to the meeting! Please be aware that the deadline for paying via credit card is July 12, 2013. Credit card payments will NOT be accepted after this date! Credit card payments will NOT be accepted "at the door!"
IMPORTANT!!!: If you are not paying your registration fee with a credit card, please go to Eventbrite website (http://sfiwc2013.eventbrite.com) to fill out the registration form, indicating your payment preference. There are options on the online registration form for paying via mailing a check to me or using a check or cash "at the door." Instead of pressing the "Register" button (to pay via credit card), press the "Show other payment options" and then "Pay Offline" buttons to select one of these additional payment choices.
Please be aware that an additional $8.00 fee applies to all Canadian and other non-U.S. checks.
This year's banquet will be a plated dinner with your choice of entrees: Grilled Gulf Fish (with a Tomato Coulis Sauce over Mushroom Rice) or Seared Chicken Breast over Boudin. Vegetarian plates (Vegetable Napoleon - Roasted Zucchini, Yellow Squash, Spinach and Portobello Mushroom & layered with Mozzarella Cheese) also are available; please be sure to mark your preference on the registration form. One banquet ticket (for yourself) is included in your registration fee. This year, children 12 and under will have the following menu choices: Chicken Strips with Fries or Hot Dog with a Bag of Chips. Extra banquet tickets for adult and child guests can be purchased using the online registration form. If you do not want to pay for your extra banquet ticket(s) using a credit card, please select the number of tickets you want and then choose your preferred method of payment. If you are paying for your extra banquet ticket(s) separately from your registration fee, please fill out separate online forms for your registration fee and ticket(s).
Remember to reserve your room at the JW Marriott New Orleans no later than June 28. It is very important that everyone planning to attend this year's meeting reserve their room(s) before this deadline, so that we meet our room occupancy obligation with the hotel. Please use the group code "FTW" when booking your hotel reservation by phone (1-877-622-3056), or go online (https://resweb.passkey.com/Resweb.do?mode=welcome_ei_new&eventID=10292420) to get the special rate of $101.00 per night plus tax. Remember, this low rate is valid only for the first 80 rooms (first 30 on Monday, July 22). Please go to http://www.sfiwc.org//2013/index.html<http://www.sfiwc.org/2013/index.html> for details.
Parking is valet only and costs $28.00 per day plus tax ($31.36 total per day).
Meeting details are available on http://www.sfiwc.org//2013/index.html<http://www.sfiwc.org/2013/index.html>.
I hope to see you in New Orleans!
William P. Shepherd, SFIWC Secretary-Treasurer
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A Joint Meeting of IUFRO WP 07.03.05 (Ecology and Management of Bark and Wood Boring Beetles) and 07.03.07 (Population Dynamics of Forest Insects) will be held September 16-20, 2013 at the Banff Centre in Banff National Park, Banff, Alberta, Canada. The Banff Centre is a world-class conference facility and hotel located in the Rocky Mountain Region of Alberta, and boasts some of the most dramatic and beautiful landscapes in North America.
Call for oral and poster presentation abstracts is now open. Visit http://popecol.forestry.ubc.ca/iufro-altered-biotic-disturbances-in-a-warmi… for more information or email IUFROBanff2013(a)outlook.com<mailto:IUFROBanff2013@outlook.com>.
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Dear colleagues
I would like to draw your attention to a special issue of the journal 'Forests' devoted to the interactions between bark beetles and forests. More information you may find at http://www.mdpi.com/journal/forests/special_issues/Bark_Beetles. It would be great if some of you could contribute to this issue. The deadline is 1 November.
Best regards
Beat Wermelinger
Guest Editor 'Forests'
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Dr. Beat Wermelinger
Entomologe
Eidg. Forschungsanstalt WSL
Forschungseinheit Walddynamik
Postfach
CH-8903 Birmensdorf
Schweiz
Tel: +41-44-739 22 58
Fax: +41-44-739 22 15
E-mail: beat.wermelinger(a)wsl.ch
http://www.wsl.ch/personal_homepages/wermelin
Dear colleagues,
Andrea Battisti (Univ. Padova) and myself are organizing a session
entitled "*Tree vulnerability to pests in relation to climate change*"
during the next *ClimTree Conference* to be held in Zürich, CH, 1-5
September 2013.
The session will address the relationships between climate change and
the populations of insects and pathogens of forest trees at three
levels, i. how tree susceptibility can be modified by climate change,
ii. how insects and pathogens respond to changes through range and
performance shifts, iii. how natural enemies may react to changes in the
lower trophic levels and to the climate change as well. The session
welcomes contributions on talks specifically addressing one of the
identified levels or considering all of them in specific temperate
forest ecosystems. Impacts of climate change on communities of
organisms, and their interactions, will be also considered. Talks on the
effects of climate variables other than an increase in temperature, eg.
change in rainfall regime or in frequency of climate anomalies, are
encouraged. The session is open to both synthesis papers and
presentation of experimental results, provided that they are related to
important tree species of temperate ecosystems.
*There are still some rooms available for talks and posters. So, we
invite you to register if you are interested. The deadline for
registration has been extended to 29 April, 2013. T*he last congress
circular is attached.
Best regards
Alain
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Dr. Alain ROQUES
Directeur de Recherches
INRA- Zoologie Forestiere
Centre de recherche d'Orléans
2163 Avenue de la Pomme de Pin
CS 40001 ARDON
45075 ORLEANS Cedex 2
FRANCE
Tel: (33)0238417858
Fax : (33)0238417879
Mail : alain.roques(a)orleans.inra.fr
Dear IUFRO RG 7.03 FORENT researchers:
Do you have studies showing how biodiversity helps to manage high-value
species (such as the Meliaceae) or how high value timbers help to conserve
biodiversity? Below is an idea for a technical session for the IUFRO 2014
World Congress relating high value tropical timbers and biodiversity. Any
suggestions would be most welcome, including reorientation of this
potential session. Collaboration with a unit of Divison 7 on this session
would be great. If you would like to participate in the session, could you
please send me a draft title for your contribution? Please also send this
on to anyone else who might be interested. Please send any ideas by April
20, since session proposals are due April 30.
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*How does biodiversity help to manage high-value timber species, and
vice-versa?*
*Valuable tropical timbers, such as many Meliaceae, remain in high demand,
casting a shadow over prospects for these species and their forests.
However, management of high-value tropical timber species may help conserve
the biodiversity of the forests they inhabit. Conversely, biodiversity may
contribute to the health of individual trees and populations of these
species. This session seeks to explore positive, reciprocal relationships
between biodiversity and high-value timber species (including in
plantations).*
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Thanks!
Sheila Ward
Deputy Coordinator
1.02.04 – Sustainable management and genetic resources in Meliaceae
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Hello friends and colleagues,
The final deadline of 30 April for submission of session proposals for
the 2014 IUFRO World Congress is rapidly approaching. The Congress
will be held 5-11 October, 2014 in Salt Lake City, USA. We are lucky
that one of the Congress themes has been designated as "Forest Health
in a Changing World". The Congress organizers are encouraging
proposals that focus on topics that are both interdisciplinary and
international in scope and have an international representation of
speakers. Proposals should include a tentative list of speakers and
can be submitted by following directions at
http://iufro2014.com/scientific-program/session-proposals . If you
have an idea for organizing a session that intersects entomological
topics, I encourage you to contact me before submitting a final
proposal so that I can give you advice and avoid topics for which
proposals have already been submitted.
Organizing a session at the IUFRO Congress is a unique opportunity for
generating discussion and novel insight into scientific topics that
are interesting to you and others.
--
Andrew Liebhold http://sandyliebhold.com
Coordinator, IUFRO Research Group 7.03 "Forest Entomology"
Northern Research Station 304-285-1512
USDA Forest Service 304-285-1505 FAX
180 Canfield St. 724-317-8668 mobile
Morgantown, WV 26505 USA
Graduate Research Assistantship - Thousand Cankers Disease
Contingent on available funding, a Master's-level Graduate Research Assistantship at the University of Tennessee will be available in 2013. The project is focused on aspects of the control of thousand cankers disease (TCD) of walnut. TCD is caused by a fungus (Geosmithia morbida) that is vectored by the walnut twig beetle (Pityophthorus juglandis). TCD is recently established in the eastern US and has prompted quarantines on the movement of black walnut wood products. For more information: http://www.fs.fed.us/r8/foresthealth/forestpests/tcd/index.shtml.
The project involves collaboration with the USDA Forest Service and APHIS. Research topics include:
* Phytosanitary standards development
* Beetle and fungus host preference
* Infestation potential and persistence of the insect and fungal pathogen in trees, logs and wood products
* Prevalence of G. morbida in forest environments
The appointment will be in the Department of Forestry, Wildlife & Fisheries (FWF) at the Knoxville campus of the University of Tennessee. Two years of support includes an annual stipend of approximately $17,500 plus tuition and benefits. Information on graduate studies in FWF is available at http://fwf.ag.utk.edu/Academics/msprogram.htm.
For additional information, please contact:
Adam Taylor
Associate Professor
Department of Forestry, Wildlife & Fisheries
University of Tennessee
AdamTaylor(a)utk.edu<mailto:AdamTaylor@utk.edu>
865-946-1125
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Dear colleague,
herewith I like to inform you about the upcoming IUFRO Pine Wilt Disease unit symposium which will be held in Braunschweig/Germany from 15th to 18th October 2013.
The symposium PWD 2013 is a joint action of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) unit 7.02.10 Pine Wilt Disease (PWD) and the group of the EU-research project REPHRAME "Development of improved methods for detection, control and eradication of pine wood nematode" in cooperation with The German Scientific Society for Plant Protection and Plant Health and the Julius Kühn-Institut, Federal Research centre for cultivated plants.
Since the last IUFRO Symposium in Nanjing/China in 2009, several expert groups in the whole world - among other things - worked intensively on the following topics:
· Impact on the international trade as well as economic consequences in the infested areas including corresponding modeling of outbreak scenarios and pathways,
· Pathway analysis and modeling/predicting of pine wilt expression across eco-climatic zones taking account of latency ,
· Biology of Bursaphelenchus xylophilus and other Bursaphelenchus species including their interaction with bacteria and fungi and their impact on host trees,
· Diagnostic methods aimed to a fast and reliable determination of PWN in pure culture and in plant tissue as well as in laboratory and under field conditions,
· Examinations on the tree physiology and resistance characteristics of host trees,
· PWN and vector association, vector dispersal capacity and strategies for vector control,
· Behavior and population dynamics in infested trees,
· Non-vector transmission and treatment options for wood and wood products,
· Management strategies for PWD.
The aim of the symposium is to bundle the actual research progress and the management of the pine wood nematode and its vector beetles and to enhance the scientific exchange and thus to present the research results to a broad interested group of scientists, disease managers and decision makers. You are invited to submit papers for oral presentations as well as for posters covering all aspects around Pine Wood Nematode and Pine Wilt Disease.
All information including registration is available at: http://dpg.phytomedizin.org/de/pwdc2013/.
The deadline for abstract submission is 30. June 2013. Early bird fee payment is until 31 July 2013.
The organization committee would be grateful if you could share this email with people you think could be interested to participate. Thank you!
I hope to see you in Braunschweig!
With best regards
for the local organizing board
Thomas Schroeder
Dr. Thomas Schroeder
Julius Kühn-Institut, Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants
Institute for National and International Plant Health
Messeweg 11-12
D-38104 Braunschweig
Germany
Tel.: +49 531 299 3381
Fax: +49 531 299 3007
Email: thomas.schroeder(a)jki.bund.de<mailto:thomas.schroeder@jki.bund.de>
URL: http://pflanzengesundheit.jki.bund.dehttp://www.jki.bund.de
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Hello my friends,
For you reading pleasure, the March 2013 IUFRO Forest Entomology (RG
7.03) newsletter can be downloaded at:
http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-7/70000/70300/newsletters
This issue contains various items of interest for people engaged with
forest insects around the world.
-Sandy
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Andrew Liebhold http://sandyliebhold.com
Northern Research Station 304-285-1512
USDA Forest Service 304-285-1505 FAX
180 Canfield St. 724-317-8668 mobile
Morgantown, WV 26505 USA
