[APWG] Please distribute: Save the Date! MAIPC Conference July 28th & 29th

[Marc Imlay]

MAIPC members and friends,

 

Registration for MAIPC's 2014 Biological Control Workshop is now open.

 

The workshop, titled Managing Invasive Plants: Beyond Pull, Cut, and Spray
will be on Tuesday, July 29, at the Rock Creek Nature Center, 5200 Glover
Road NW Washington, D.C. 20015 

 

Go here  <http://www.maipc.org/Workshop2014/>
http://www.maipc.org/Workshop2014/ to access the registration page, agenda,
speaker bios, and information about lodging and field trips.  The field
trips will be in the afternoon on Monday, July 28. 

 

 

You can also go directly to the form to register:
<http://www.maipc.org/Workshop2014/registration.html>
http://www.maipc.org/Workshop2014/registration.html  

 

 

The workshop is free to MAIPC members and non-members alike, but we
encourage everyone to join or renew their membership (
<http://www.maipc.org/join.html> http://www.maipc.org/join.html).

 

 

 

Thank you,

Damien Ossi

President

Mid-Atlantic Invasive Plant Council Board of Directors

 

Get in on the fun and sign up for  <http://dclibrary.org/summerreading>
Summer Reading at  <http://dclibrary.org/> DC Public Library. All ages are
welcome. Kids and teens can win tickets to a Washington Nationals baseball
game. Sign up today at  <http://dclibrary.org/summerreading>
http://dclibrary.org/summerreading 



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Workshop - Tuesday, July 29 (8:30am-4:30pm) 


	8:30am -- Registration & Coffee 

	9:00am -- Welcome & Introductions 
Damien Ossi, President, & Marc Imlay, Advisory Committee, Mid-Atlantic
Invasive Plant Council

	9:15 am -- Keynote Address 
The Larger Picture: Invasive Species - What Everyone Needs to Know 
Dan Simberloff, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Univ. of
Tennessee & Editor in Chief, Biological Invasions

	10:15am -- Mile-a-minute weed and weevil response to varying
moisture and temperature conditions, Purple Loosestrife 
Judy Hough-Goldstein <http://canr.udel.edu/faculty/hough-goldstein-judy/> ,
Professor, Dept. Entomology & Wildlife Ecology University of Delaware 
Presentation Description Blurb

	10:50am -- TAG, Technical Advisory Group for Biological Control
Agents of Weeds 
Robert Tichenor, National Policy Manager Biological Control USDA APHIS PPQ
Plant Health Programs

	11:00am -- Break

	11:15am -- Beneficial Plant Pathogens for Biological Control of
Weeds 
William L. Bruckart III, Research Plant Pathologist, USDA, ARS, Foreign
Disease-Weed Science Research Unit (FDWSRU)

	11:55pm -- Lunch

	12:55pm -- Tree of Heaven 
Matthew T. Kasson, Forest Pathologist/Research Scientist, Virginia Tech
Dept. of Plant Pathology, Physiology, and Weed Science 

	1:10pm -- Ecological Traps and Native Butterflies: Can Weed
Biocontrol Save the Monarchs and Native Pierids? 
Richard Casagrande The University of Rhode Island Biological Control Lab

	1:35pm -- The effects of insects promoted for biocontrol of weedy
thistles on a threatened native thistle. 
Kay Havens, Plant Science and Conservation, Chicago Botanic Garden

	1:50pm -- Thistle Management and Biological Control in Future
Climates. 
Joe Keller, Pennsylvania State University

	2:05pm -- Break

	2:120pm -- Hemlock Woolly Adelgid, mile-a-minute local perspective,
and yellow toadflax 
Susan Parker and Tim Tomon, West Virginia Dept. of Agriculture

	2:50pm -- The Importance of Rigorous Host-Specificity Testing before
Releasing Biological Control Agents: Lessons Learned from Invasive Thistle
Biocontrol. Update on Japanese Knotweed and Garlic Mustard. 
Mike Sowers, Entomologist and Invasive Species Ecologist

	3:15pm -- Panel Discussion 
Susan Parker, Tim Tomon, Kay Havens, Joe Keller, Richard Casagrande, Mike
Sowers 

	3:45pm -- Common Questions 
William Bruckart, Judy Hough-Goldstein

	4:00pm -- Mid-Atlantic Invasive Plant Council Annual Business
Meeting 
Damien Ossie, MAIPC President

	4:30pm -- Adjourn

 

 

	  
	
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