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.
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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
IUFRO Joint Meeting
WP 7.03.05 (Ecology and Management of Bark and Woodboring Insects) and 7.03.07 (Population Dynamics of Forest Insects)
Banff, Alberta, Canada
September 16 - 19, 2013
For more information visit:
http://popecol.forestry.ubc.ca/iufro-altered-biotic-disturbances-in-a-warmi…
Barbara J. Bentz
Research Entomologist
USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station
860 N. 1200 East
Logan, UT 84321
435-755-3577
435-890-3186 (mobile)
bbentz(a)fs.fed.us<mailto:bbentz@fs.fed.us>
www.usu.edu/beetle
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Registration URL:
http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=ubvoh9lab&oeidk=a07e6x…
This year, the Northeast Forest Health Workshop is being held jointly with
the spring meeting for the New England Society of American Foresters on
Wednesday through Friday, May 15-17, at the Sunday River Resort near
Bethel, Maine . The full conference is entitled, "What's in Your Woods?"
The program will start with a joint session from 1 pm to 3 pm, and then
we’ll have our own indoor session from 3:30 to 5 pm. People who have agreed
to give talks at this time include Nicholas Brazee (wood-inhabiting fungi),
Don Davis (fungal biocontrol of tree-of-heaven), Dale Bergdahl (butternut
health), Shawn Kenaley (fungal pathogens of hardwood plantations), and a
group presentation on ash health and the Emerald Ash Borer. After dinner
on our own, we can return for station reports from 7 to 9 pm.
On Thursday, an all-day field trip is planned. In the morning, Isabel Munck
(USFS, Durham) and William Ostrofsky (Maine Forest Service) will host a
tour of white pine needle damage/defoliation and Sirococcus shoot blight of
eastern hemlock and red pine.
In the afternoon, Bill Livingston (UMaine), Kara Lorion (UMaine), Colleen
Teerling (Maine Forest Service), and Nate Siegert (USFS, Durham) will host
a tour involving ash dieback/decline and monitoring for the emerald ash
borer, including hands-on demonstrations for girdling EAB trap trees.
We are also talking with the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance to have
representatives attend the meeting, and they would discuss the use of ash
from their perspective and the need to conserve healthy brown ash (=black
ash) with basket-quality wood.
Thursday evening will have a bar-b-q that's included in the registration
cost.
Friday morning will include another field trip. We'll travel on our own
from Sunday River Resort to Wolfe's Neck State Park on the coast near
Freeport, Maine. Alison Kanoti (Maine Forest Service) has arranged a tour
in the region to view a winter moth infestation, a browntail moth
infestation site where a BTM virus has been released, and a hemlock woolly
adelgid infestation where predatory beetles have been released. The tour
will end around noon after which LL Bean and factory outlets await you.
Early-bird registration cost is $99 including field trip transportation and
all meals on Thursday and breakfast & box lunch on Friday. After March 15,
registration increases to $120. Student registration is $70. Registration
rates go up after April 15.
Hotel rooms will be $79 per night at a nearby inn or $94 per night at the
Summit Resort which has the meeting rooms. To make reservations contact the
Reservation Department directly: (800) 207-2365. Please request the NESAF
room rate for the "NESAF 93 Annual Meeting 2013"
The group rates are available until April 15, 2013.
More program information is on NESAF web site: http://nesaf.org/
Registration is done on line at:
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Be sure to select Tour 6 and Friday Tour 3.
Let me know if you have any questions, and I hope to see you in May!
Bill
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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/
Thousand Cankers Disease Webinar--Hosted by the US Forest Service
Thursday, March 28 starting at 10 AM EDT
Please join us for an upcoming webinar on Thousand Cankers Disease, hosted by the US Forest Service, on Thursday,March 28 starting at 10 AM EDT. This seminar series on thousand cankers disease is for landowners, extension educators, and natural resource professionals. Everyone is welcome to participate in the live webinar.
Click here to link to meeting<https://gomeet.itap.purdue.edu/tcdmar13/>
Agenda: (all times eastern)
10:00: TCD--Geosmithia morbida: the cause and basic biology – Simeon Wright, Forest Health Specialist, MDC, Columbia, MO
10:30: TCD--Walnut Twig Beetle: the vector and basic biology – Andrew Graves, Entomologist, Region 3 FHP, Albuquerque, NM
11:00: TCD the National Report – Bruce Moltzan, National Program Leader, FHP, Washington, DC
11:15: APHIS/Farm Bill National Report/Guidelines – Julie Spaulding, APHIS PPQ, Riverside, MD
11:30-Noon: Break
State TCD updates
12:00: Pennsylvania – Dana Rhodes, PA Department of Agriculture
12:30: Virginia – Norm Dart, VA Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
1:00: Tennessee and North Carolina – Paul Merten, USFS Forest Health Protection
1:15: Ohio – Dan Kenny, OH Department of Agriculture
1:30: Webinar ends
To participate live, click the above link. You will need a high-speed Internet connection and sound. Participation in the web seminar does not require any special software. If you want to test your ability to join an Adobe Connect webinar in advance, go to http://na1cps.adobeconnect.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm.
The entire webinar is scheduled across several hours, but if you are not interested in attending all of it, feel free to come into the meeting when a topic of interest to you is scheduled. Recorded seminars will be available for viewing athttp://www.thousandcankers.com/webinars.php after the event.
Future seminars are scheduled for April 25 (TCD surveys and implementation, ID what to look for in the field, FHTET (Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team) demo on TCD database entry) and May 30 (research and methods update and outreach plans and needs).
This seminar series is brought to you by the following partners:
USDA Forest Service State & Private Forestry and Forest Health Protection, Hardwood Tree Improvement & Regeneration Center at Purdue University, Purdue University Department of Entomology, and Walnut Council.
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Matthew D. Ginzel, PhD • Associate Professor • Departments of Entomology and Forestry & Natural Resources • Hardwood Tree Improvement and Regeneration Center • Purdue University • 901 W. State Street • West Lafayette, IN 47907-2089 • 765.494.9369 • www.entm.purdue.edu/forest
On behalf of the organizers, Imperial College London, Forest Research UK, the Food and Environment Research Agency (FERA) and other partners, we invite you to electronic conference:
"Pathways Into Policy: International knowledge exchange on biosecurity governance and implications for tree pest introductions and spread"
which will run until 13th March 2013.
The e-conference focuses on the knowledge gaps and research priorities and will be organized around three themes:
Theme 1: Defining key pathways and assessing their significance
Theme 2: Comparing approaches to pathway management and tree pest and disease prevention
Theme 3: Exploring underlying justifications for pathway management and tree pest and disease outbreak prevention
We invite you to submit a contribution (no more than 300 - 500 words (approximately one page)). All major contributors will appear as co-authors on the report to Living with Environmental Change program (LWEC). Informal comments are also welcome.
To subscribe to the e-conference, please go to http://pathwaysintopolicy.forumotion.co.uk.
In case of any difficulties subscribing, please contact Emily Porth, emilyfp(a)gmail.com.
This project is funded by Living with Environmental Change (LWEC) Tree Health and Biosecurity Initiative, please go to http://www.lwec.org.uk/ for further details.
We do hope you can join us.
Sincerely,
Mariella Marzano, Norman Dandy and Emily Porth - Forest Research, UK
Clive Potter and Helen Bayliss -Imperial College London
Emily Porth, Project Researcher, Social and Economic Research Group, Forest Research
Susan Frankel, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station
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Postdoc/Researcher at Skog og landskap (Norway) to study spruce bark beetle transcriptomics/genomics
The Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute (located in Ås just south of Oslo) has an open position for a post-doctoral fellow/researcher (bioinformatics/transcriptomics). This is part of a Norwegian Research Council FRIMEDBIO project. There are three organisms of interest in this project; Norway spruce, the spruce bark beetle (which attack spruce) and its mutualistic blue stain fungus Ceratocystis polonica. The project aims to elucidate the tripartite nature of the tree colonization process of the beetle-fungus complex, particularly when conifer defences are induced or primed by prior treatments. Next Generation Sequencing of the beetle, the fungus and the host tree transcriptome will be used to generate a molecular ecological portrait of the mutualistic tree colonization process by the tree-killing bark beetle-fungus complex, and to explore how this process can defeat plant defences.
The position is open from summer 2013 (1 August or earlier). The application deadline is 17 March, 2013.
Below are the official links to the advert
http://www.skogoglandskap.no/stillinger/postdoctoral_fellow_genome_and_tran…
Here is the direct link to the WebCruiter
https://www.webcruiter.no/wcmain/advertviewpublic.aspx?oppdragsnr=169514117…
Paal Krokene
Professor & Senior Researcher
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Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute
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