Friday, September 28, 2007

National Invasive Species Council Advisory Committee Meeting Oct 1 - 3, 2007

Having heard nothing but silence about topics you think the National Invasive Species Council should hear from its advisory committee (ISAC), I thought that I should take the opportunity to post the agenda for the meeting which starts Monday October 1st, here in Prince George’s County, Maryland, at the Los Alamos of Agricultural Research, the Henry A. Wallace national Agricultural Research Center in Beltsville, usually referred to as BARC of which the National Arboretum in Washington DC is a part.

I again ask you to send me your topics and ideas. What should the National Government be focusing its resources and attention on in the matter of invasive species? Write me at jpeter@behnkes.net or reply to this posting.

I note the earlier posting for those of you who have not kept up to what BARC really means ( and don’t forget your National Agricultural Library when you are making requests of the tooth fairy or godmother or congressional lobbyist:
Invasive Species Complexities: A Wicked Inconvenience
Invasive Species (Kudzu) Meets Fox News
National Agricultural Research Center; Invasive Species, Climate Change & Poison Ivy
BARC: Funding for Research Continues to Fall
BARC-National Agricultural Research Center Alliance NARAB
Homeland security; E. coli, and diminished funding & BARC

This 2007 fall meeting will include the following presentations. Do not doze off, the presentations are actually much more interesting than the titles and I promise to translate your ideas into federal inside-the-beltway speak at no charge:

IUCN Report on Improving Biosecurity at U.S. Ports of Entry - Jamie Reaser, ISAC

Climate Change & CO2: Opportunities and Challenges: Biofuels, Human Health & the Environment –Lewis Ziska, USDA BARC

Ballast Water Issue Update - Dean Wilkinson, DOC Policy Liaison

Effects of Climate Change on Aquatic Invasive Species and Implications for Management Research - Britta Bierwagen, USEPA

University of Georgia Bugwood Network - G. Keith Douce, University of Georgia

NRCS Plant Materials Centers for Restoration Materials – Tim Carlson, ISAC

APHIS Revisions to PPQ Regulation Q-37: Propagative Plant Material - John Randall and Faith Campbell. The Nature Conservancy

Invasive Plant Atlas of New England (IPANE) Project - Les Mehrhoff, University of Connecticut

BIOCONTROL OF CANADA THISTLE: A bacteria that weakens or kills Canada thistle, and a mite that feeds on it – John Lydon, BARC

REMOTE SENSING TO DETECT LEAFY SPURGE: Remote sensing methods can detect the extent of infestation of leafy spurge over a large area, thus identifying where control methods are needed. Potentially, this could be modified and extended to other invasives. - Ray Hunt, BARC

NATIONAL ANIMAL PARASITE COLLECTION - Eric Hoberg, Animal Parasitic Diseases Lab, BARC

KEEPING OUT INVASIVE INSECTS: URGENT IDENTIFICATINS FOR PORTS OF ENTRY AND STATE DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE - Various Scientists, Systematic Entomology Lab (SEL), BARC

LOOKING FOR BIOCONTROL AGENTS FOR PROBLEM PLANTS AND INSECTS - Various Scientists, SEL and Invasive Insect Behavior and Biocontrol Lab (IIBBL), BARC

DEVELOPING ATTRACTANTS AND OTHERPHEROMONES TO TRAP OR MONITOR INVASIVE INSECTS - Various Scientists, IIBBL. BARC

INVASIVE FUNGI – KARNAL BUNT, SOYBEAN RUST, et al. - Systematic Mycology and Microbiology Lab

A NEW POTATO NEMATODE IN IDAHO WHERE DID IT COME FROM? - Dave Chitwood, Nematology Lab

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