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:
http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=ubvoh9lab&oeidk=a07e6x…
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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Norsk institutt for skog og landskap
Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute
Pb 115, NO-1431 Ås
M (+47) 9951 6013
T (+47) 64 94 90 90
F (+47) 64 94 80 01
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Hi All-
We are looking for a PhD student to work on a fully funded project
looking at the effects of even and uneven aged forest management.
This project will take place in Northern Sweden at SLU.
Details of the post can be found at:
http://www.slu.se/en/education/postgraduate-studies/new-phd-student/read-mo…
If you would be so kind as to pass it on to all interested candidates,
we would be grateful-
Tim Work (Université de Québec à Montréal)
Joakim Hjalten (SLU)
From: Britton, Kerry -FS
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Subject: IUFRO Work Unit on Invasive Species in International Trade meeting late Oct 2013 in China
Dear colleagues -
The IUFRO Work Unit on Invasive Species in International Trade will meet Oct 23-Nov 1 in Qingdao, China. Our meeting will overlap with the 2nd International Congress on Biological Invasions and the International Forestry Quarantine Research Group (IFQRG). The dates above include all three meetings. This overlap will allow for extended opportunities for networking, topnotch presentations, and for participating in IFQRG, which has the opportunity to influence the policies of the International Plant Protection Convention. It's a golden opportunity!
See attached file for more information on the sessions that are planned, and please let me know if you would like to be put on the Conference mailing list, to receive more information once hotel and registration costs are known.
Kerry Britton
Dr. Kerry O. Britton
National Pathologist for
U.S.D.A. Forest Service
Research & Development
1601 N. Kent Street, RPC-4
Arlington, VA 22209 phone: 703-605-4170
FAX: 703-605-5133
email: kbritton01(a)fs.fed.us<mailto:kbritton01@fs.fed.us>
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Dear all,
Please don't forget to send your abstract for the scientific workshop on "Vulnerability and Risk Management in Planted Forests" to be held from 16-18 May 2013 in Bordeaux, France. The deadline for abstract submission is 31 January.
The workshop will cover a range of topics including vulnerability of exotic tree plantations to various disturbance issues, susceptibility of tree monocultures, exposure of planted forests to invasive pests, development of integrated risk analyses and management systems adapted to plantation forests.
Abstracts for oral or poster presentations can be submitted online until 31 January 2013 at:
http://www.efiatlantic.efi.int/portal/2013_icpf/abstract_submission/
Registration is now open at:
http://www.efiatlantic.efi.int/portal/2013_icpf/registration/
Apologies for cross-posting.
We look forward to seeing you in Bordeaux.
Hervé Jactel
Email: Herve.Jactel(a)pierroton.inra.fr
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~~Meeting Announcement~~
WP 7.03.05 - Ecology and Management of Bark and Woodboring Insects
WP 7.03.07 - Population Dynamics of Forest Insects
Banff, Alberta, Canada
September 16 - 19, 2013
A website with registration, abstract submission and lodging information will be available very soon!
For additional information please contact:
Bill Riel bill.riel(a)NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca
Allan Carroll allan.carroll(a)ubc.ca
Barbara Bentz (Coordinator, 7.03.05) bbentz(a)fs.fed.us
Rich Fleming (Coordinator, 7.03.07) rich.Fleming(a)NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca
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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