Several M.S. and Ph.D. assistantships in forest entomology and ecology
are available at the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources at
the University of Georgia, Athens. Some (but not all) of the current
projects in the Forest Entomology laboratory are as follows: 1)
assessing interactions between prescribed fire, insects, and fungi in
pine stands; 2) development of host risk maps for European woodwasp in
southern pines; 3) survey and delineation of exotic bark and woodboring
beetles; and 4) landscape-level distribution patterns and effects of
land-area treatments on litter-dwelling arthropods.
The Forest Entomology laboratory works on a broad range of forest
health issues, insect species, and ecosystem-types. We are inviting
applications from highly self-motivated students who are genuinely
interested in working at the forefront of forest health issues.
Training in forest entomology will be provided. Prior experience in
forestry, entomology, and ecology will be an asset. Interested students
should contact Dr. Kamal JK Gandhi either at kgandhi(a)warnell.uga.edu or
706-542-4614.
The Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
(http://www.warnell.uga.edu/) is the oldest forestry school in the
south, has > 55 faculty working in diverse fields, and provides
exemplary training of students in the fields of forestry, ecology, and
conservation biology. The School is housed in a four-building complex
on campus, and has > 23,000 acres in the state for research, teaching,
and service activities. The University of Georgia (http://www.uga.edu/)
is a “land-grant and sea-grant university, and is also the state's
oldest, most comprehensive and most diversified institution of higher
education”. Its motto is: "to teach, to serve and to inquire into the
nature of things”.
Dr. Kamal J.K. Gandhi
Assistant Professor of Forest Entomology; Forest Health and Protection
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602
Office: 706-542-4614; Cell: 706-247-4025; Fax: 706-542-8356
Email: kgandhi(a)warnell.uga.edu
Website: http://www.warnell.uga.edu/warnell_bios/app/Public/ViewBio/63
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/>
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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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Katharine A Sheehan/R6/USDAFS
04/15/2009 10:33 AM
To
cc
Subject
Fw: Vacancy Announcements: GS-13/14 Entomologist, WO-S&PF-FHP
Dear WFIWC colleagues:
FYI, the trailing email contains links to 2 announcements (one for federal
employees, one for any US citizen) for one Entomologist position at the
USFS's national Forest Health Protection office. -Kathy S
Katharine A. Sheehan
Forest Health Protection, Pacific Northwest Region
USDA Forest Service
P.O. Box 3623, Portland, OR 97208-3623
office phone: (503) 808-2674; cell phone: (360) 907-5698 fax: (503)
808-2469
email: ksheehan(a)fs.fed.us
FHP website: www.fs.fed.us/r6/nr/fid/
WFIWC website: www.fsl.orst.edu/wfiwc/
FIDLs website: www.fs.fed.us/r6/nr/fid/wo-fidls/
The next best thing to knowing something
is knowing where to find it.
-unknown
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Doug Daoust/R6/USDAFS
04/14/2009 08:47 AM
To
Aaron L Smith/R6/USDAFS@FSNOTES, Alison S Nelson/R6/USDAFS@FSNOTES, Andris
Eglitis/R6/USDAFS@FSNOTES, Angel L Saavedra/R6/USDAFS@FSNOTES, Ben
Smith/R6/USDAFS@FSNOTES, Beth Willhite/R6/USDAFS@FSNOTES, Bruce
Hostetler/R6/USDAFS@FSNOTES, Carol Morehead/R6/USDAFS@FSNOTES, Cathleen A
Selby/R6/USDAFS@FSNOTES, Connie J Mehmel/R6/USDAFS@FSNOTES, Craig L
Schmitt/PNW/USDAFS@FSNOTES, Darci M Carlson/R6/USDAFS@FSNOTES, Diane
Hildebrand/R6/USDAFS@FSNOTES, Donald J Goheen/R6/USDAFS@FSNOTES, Donald W
Scott/PNW/USDAFS@FSNOTES, Doug Daoust/R6/USDAFS@FSNOTES, Ellen M
Goheen/R6/USDAFS@FSNOTES, Frank Betlejewski/R6/USDAFS@FSNOTES, Gregory M
Filip/R6/USDAFS@FSNOTES, Helen Maffei/R6/USDAFS@FSNOTES, Iral
Ragenovich/R6/USDAFS@FSNOTES, James S Hadfield/R6/USDAFS@FSNOTES, Julie L
Johnson/R6/USDAFS@FSNOTES, Katharine A Sheehan/R6/USDAFS@FSNOTES, Katrina
Mallams/R6/USDAFS@FSNOTES, Keith Sprengel/R6/USDAFS@FSNOTES, Kristen L
Chadwick/R6/USDAFS@FSNOTES, Lia Spiegel/R6/USDAFS@FSNOTES, Michael L
Simpson/R6/USDAFS@FSNOTES, Richard Sniezko/R6/USDAFS@FSNOTES, Robert W
Rock/R6/USDAFS@FSNOTES, Robert W Schroeter/R6/USDAFS@FSNOTES, Roy W
Magelssen/R6/USDAFS@FSNOTES, Shawna Bautista/R6/USDAFS@FSNOTES, Sundi K
Sigrist/R6/USDAFS@FSNOTES
cc
Subject
Fw: Vacancy Announcements: GS-13/14 Entomologist, WO-S&PF-FHP
*********************************************************
Douglas Daoust
Forest Health Protection Director, R6
USDA Forest Service, Portland, OR
Phone: 503-808-2913
email: ddaoust(a)fs.fed.us
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Larry Yarger/WO/USDAFS
04/14/2009 05:08 AM
To
pdl wo spf fhpdir@FSNOTES
cc
Subject
Vacancy Announcements: GS-13/14 Entomologist, WO-S&PF-FHP
Please provide wide distribution to those who you think would like to see
these vacancy announcements. The vacancy is announced government-wide and
Demo. One position will be filled. We are looking for candidates who
will help provide WO level leadership for various phases of forest
entomology activities within the Forest Health Protection program.
Individuals interested in this position can contact Rob (703-605-5340) or
me (703-605-5332) if they have specific questions.
Government-wide:
http://jobsearch.usajobs.gov/getjob.asp?JobID=80446694&AVSDM=2009%2D04%2D14…
Demo (open to all US citizens):
http://jobsearch.usajobs.gov/getjob.asp?JobID=80446725&AVSDM=2009%2D04%2D14…
Thanks,
Larry Yarger
Deputy Director, Forest Health Protection
USDA Forest Service
RPC-7
1601 North Kent Street
Arlington, VA 22209
703-605-5332
703-605-5353 (fax)
cell phone: 202-641-6456
e-mail: lyarger(a)fs.fed.us
web site: www.fs.fed.us/foresthealth
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/
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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Call for Papers and Posters
IUFRO Working Party 7.03.05 ?Integrated Control of Scolytid Bark Beetles?
IUFRO Working Party 7.03.07 ?Population Dynamics of Forest Insects?
"Forest Insects and Environmental Change"
28th September ? 2nd October 2009, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA
Please visit the website, www.usu.edu/beetle/IUFRO.htm, to upload your
oral presentation / poster title and abstract.
The program will accommodate 51 oral presentations and 24 poster
presentations. If the number of oral presentations exceeds the capacity
of the program, presentations will be accepted in the order received. Late
submitters will be asked if they would like to present a poster, if poster
slots are still available.
Two or three travel awards of up to a maximum of $1,500 (US) each will be
made available to graduate students attending the IUFRO meeting in Jackson
Hole, WY. Visit www.usu.edu/beetle/IUFRO.htm for application information.
Lodging information is available at www.usu.edu/beetle/IUFRO.htm
Are you interested in a pre-conference excursion focused on the natural
history and ecology of Yellowstone National Park? Contact Diana Six
diana.six(a)umontana.edu for additional details.
Registration information coming soon. Please check the website.
Barbara J. Bentz
Research Entomologist
USDA Forest Service
860 N. 1200 E. Logan, UT 84321
435-755-3577
435-755-3563 (fax)
bbentz(a)fs.fed.us
www.usu.edu/beetle/
Dear colleagues,
Several years ago we identified some candidate
sex pheromone components of Gilpinia socia and G.
frutetorum. However, we have not had the chance
to verify the behavioural activities of the
chemicals and we are now looking for places where
these species may occur in reasonable densities.
So, in case you have some useful information,
please let me know.
Kind regards,
Olle
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Olle Anderbrant, Prof. telephone +46 (0)46 2224997
Department of Ecology mobile +46 (0)70 3724997
Lund University
Sölvegatan 37 telefax +46 (0)46 2224716
SE-223 62 Lund e-mail Olle.Anderbrant(a)ekol.lu.se
Sweden
internet http://www.pheromone.ekol.lu.se/oa_homepage.html
Dear Colleagues--
Please see below for an advertisement for a postdoctoral scientist.
Thanks,
Jeff Hicke
Postdoctoral Scientist Opportunity
Carbon Cycle Modeling of Bark Beetle Outbreaks
University of Idaho/NCAR
The University of Idaho seeks a postdoctoral scientist to utilize land
surface modeling to quantify carbon budgets following bark beetle
outbreak disturbances. This DOE NICCR-funded project will incorporate
beetle outbreaks into the NCAR Community Land Model; assess effects of
recent outbreaks on the carbon cycle of the western United States; and
predict future patterns based on climate change projections. The ideal
candidate will have a strong quantitative background in
biogeochemistry, ecology, biology, entomology, geography, or a related
field, with experience in land surface or process modeling of the
carbon cycle and computer programming. The successful candidate will
have the opportunity to visit NCAR during extended periods. The grant
funding is pending but expected start date is April 2009. Funding is
for two years at $40,000-45,000 depending on experience. The UI
offers a competitive benefits package and is located near outstanding
outdoor recreational opportunities. To be considered, complete the
online application including a letter of research interests,
curriculum vitae, and letters from three references. Review of
applications will begin March 30, 2009 and will continue until a
suitable applicant is identified. For more details and to apply, visit www.hr.uidaho.edu
, Announcement #12508018318. Contact Dr. Jeffrey Hicke (jhicke(a)uidaho.edu
; 208-885-6240) for more information. AA/EOE
--
Jeffrey Hicke
Assistant Professor
Department of Geography
University of Idaho
McClure Hall Room 305D
Mailing Address:
Geography
University of Idaho
PO Box 443021
Moscow, ID 83844-3021
Phone: 208-885-6240
Fax: 208-885-2855
jhicke(a)uidaho.edu
www.uidaho.edu/~jhicke
The 52nd annual Southern Forest Insect Work Conference will be 28-31 July
2009 in Gulfport, Mississippi USA. The meeting starts on a Tuesday this
year to avoid the need for Sunday travel.
We have chosen the Courtyard by Marriott Gulfport Beachfront as our
meeting hotel. Although we soon will be updating the SFIWC website (
http://sfiwc.org) with this year's registration form, I encourage you to
make your hotel reservation as soon as possible. We have a block of 90
rooms set aside for the group until June 30, so make your reservations by
this date. Don't miss out on the special pricing!
Here are the details:
Date: 28-31 July 2009
Place: Courtyard by Marriott Gulfport Beachfront, 1600 E. Beach Blvd.,
Gulfport, Mississippi USA
Phone reservation: 228-864-4310. Ask for the "Southern Forest Insect Work
Conference" group rate.
Parking is FREE.
Visit http://www.marriott.com/gptcy for hotel information.
Room rates are $80.00 USD per night plus tax. Remember, this low rate is
valid only until June 30, and only for the first 90 rooms (first 30 on
Monday, July 27). Make your reservation right away!
And an update on the 2009 SFIWC Program from John Nowak (Program
Chairman):
I would like to receive ideas for concurrent session topics with either
volunteers for moderators or suggestions for moderators. I am also
looking for 2 willing graduate students to contact me in regards to
planning and moderating the student session which will run on Wednesday
afternoon. And lastly, we need someone to lead the task of gathering the
poster session submissions. I would like to have feedback by Feb. 21, if
possible. I would like to humbly remind people that the program is only
as good as the input from the conference participants. Therefore, I hope
that people will give some thoughtful consideration to submitting session
ideas that will lead to vigorous and interesting discussions. Please send
your responses to John Nowak at jnowak(a)fs.fed.us or 828-257-4326.
Hope to see you in Gulfport on July 28!
- Will
William P. Shepherd, SFIWC Secretary-Treasurer
USDA Forest Service SRS
2500 Shreveport Highway
Pineville, LA 71360 USA
Voice: 318-473-7256
FAX: 318-473-7222
E-mail: williamshepherd(a)fs.fed.us
SFIWC website: http://sfiwc.org
