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René
I. Alfaro, research scientist involved in forest
entomology research with the Canadian Forestry Service conducts
research aimed at quantifying the damage caused by pests to the
forests of Canada, as well as research on genetic resistance to
pests. Pacific Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service
Victoria, BC, Canada, V8Z 1M5. Ralfaro@pfc.forestry.ca |
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Eric
Allen is a research scientist with the Canadian Forest
Service in Victoria, British Columbia. Trained as a forest
pathologist, he has studied stem rusts, root diseases, and stem
decays. For the past five years he has worked extensively on
nonindigenous species: their biologies, their movement with
international trade, and the assessment of mitigation measures. http://www.pfc.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/profiles/
allen-e.htm
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Jon Bell
has enforced and developed national and international
quarantines for the last 28 years. He has been actively involved
in numerous quarantine eradication actions and exotic pest
emergency simulations. Currently, is responsible for designing
insect and disease surveys for the four Western Canadian
Provinces and is located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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Hugh R. Bigsby is a forest economist, currently managing a
forestry business programme at Lincoln University in New
Zealand. His research includes the development of economic
components in quarantine risk assessment. He has done quarantine
risk assessment work with the FAO and the New Zealand Ministry
of Agriculture and Forestry, as well as participating in
quarantine risk assessment training workshops in India and
Malaysia. bigsbyh@lincoln.ac.nz
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Clive
Brasier is a research forest pathologist at Forest
Research, an Agency of the UK Forestry Commission. He has been
Chair of the IUFRO Working Group on vascular wilts and is
currently the co-chair of IUFRO Phytophthora Working Group. He
is a specialist on the population biology, taxonomy and
international spread of Dutch elm disease and Phytophthora
pathogens, and on the biocontrol of forest pathogens with fungal
viruses.
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Kerry Britton is a forest pathologist with the USDA Forest Service
in Athens, GA, and chair of this online workshop.
kbritton01@fs.fed.us
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Roddie
Burgess is head of Plant Health for the Forestry
Commission of Great Britain in Edinburgh, Scotland. He has been
with the Commission since 1972, and has specialized in the
phytosanitary sector since 1987. He sits on the EC’s Standing
Committee on Plant Health. roddie.burgess@forestry.gsi.gov.uk
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R.
Scott Cameron has worked with forest industry for 6
years and currently is the Forest Health Manager for
International Paper's Forest Resources, Forest Research and
Biotechnology group, located in Savannah, GA. Previously, he
worked for 19 years with the Pest Control Section of the Texas
Forest Service in Lufkin, TX, and has worked in Latin America on
a variety of forest pest management related assignments.
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John
W. Clarke is Director of the Center for Unit Load Design
at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
(Virginia Tech). The Center uses systems-based design procedures
to research interactions between packaging, pallets, and
material handling equipment. The goal is to design unit load
systems that meet performance requirements at a lower cost. One
of his responsibilities has been to assist the users and
manufacturers of solid wood packaging materials in adjusting to
the various pest reduction regulations implemented over the past
few years. jwclarke@vt.edu
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Sue
Cohen. Dr. Cohen has been a plant pathologist for 11
years with Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, U. S.
Department of Agriculture, Riverdale, Maryland, USA.and
specializes in issues related to exotic forest pathogens.
Regulatory responsibilities include review of pest risk
assessments, development of geospatial techniques for pest risk
analysis and the design of risk information systems and pest
risk analysis methods. susan.d.cohen@aphis.usda.gov
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ppd/ras.htm
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Marcel
Dawson has been working as a plant health regulatory
officer for 16 years with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency
(previously the Food Inspection and Production Branch of
Agriculture Canada). He specializes in policy and standards
development, and in the design of plant health programs. Mr.
Dawson is currently serving as chairperson of the North American
Plant Protection Organization (NAPPO) Forestry Panel and is the
Canadian regulatory representative on the International Plant
Protection Convention (IPPC) Wood Packing Standard Working
Group. mdawson@em.agr.ca
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Roger
Day has been at the International institute of
Biological Control, Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau
International, African Regional Centre, Kenya for 10 years (roger.day@cabi.org)
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L.
D. Dwinell has conducted research on the pinewood
nematode and its vectors for 17 years. His other research
responsibilities include pitch canker disease and alternatives
to methyl bromide for managing pests in forest tree nurseries.
He is a research plant pathologist with the USDA Forest Service
(Southern Research Station) in Athens, GA 30602. ldwinell@fs.fed.us
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M.
Dubensky is director of Forest Environment for the
American Forest & Paper Association in Washington D.C. He
represents private forest landowners on a variety of regulatory
legislative and policy issues including water quality, wetlands,
air, forest inventory, global climate change, and resource
assessment.
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Dr
Hugh Evans is Head of Forest Entomology research at
Forest Research, an Agency of the UK Forestry Commission. He is
particularly concerned with Pest Risk Analysis for exotic
organisms in relation to European forests. He was Chair of the
European Union Technical Team on pinewood nematode and is a
current member of the EPPO Panel on Quarantine Pests in
Forestry. He can be contacted by phone (+44 1420 526231) or
e-mail hugh.evans@forestry.gsi.gov.uk
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Stephen
Fraedrich has conducted research on seed and seedling
disease problems of pines since 1987. He currently serves as a
Research Plant Pathologist for the USDA Forest Service (Southern
Research Station) in Athens, GA.
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Jean-Claude
Grégoire is a research scientist at the Belgian National Fund
for Scientific Research and a lecturer at the Université Libre
de Bruxelles jcgregoi@ulb.ac.be
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Robert
Griffin is a Senior Officer in the Agricultural Plant
Protection Service of FAO, Rome, Italy, serving, since 1997, as
Coordinator for the Secretariat of the International Plant
Protection Convention (IPPC). He oversees the staff and
activities of the Secretariat including the elaboration of
international standards for phytosanitary measures. Robert
worked for 20 years with the USDA in the Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service (APHIS) prior to joining FAO. robert.griffin@fao.org
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Everett
Hansen is professor in the Department of Botany and
Plant Pathology at Oregon State University where he teaches,
directs graduate students, and conducts research in forest
pathology. Particular interests include native and exotic Phytophthora
species in forests and the biology, ecology, and management of
root decay fungi.
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Dennis
Haugen has been a forest entomologist with the USDA
Forest Service at the St. Paul, Minnesota, Field Office since
1993. Recent projects include the eradication of Asian
longhorned beetle in Chicago, biological control of Sirex
noctilio in Brazil, and pest risk assessment for importation
of solid wood packing materials into the United States. Dennis
also assisted with the S. noctilio control program in
South Australia during 1987-1991.
dhaugen@fs.fed.us
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Tia
Heeley is a cooperative student working with Rene Alfaro
on the white pine weevil and the European pine shoot moth.
Pacific Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Victoria, BC, Canada,
V8Z 1M5. heeley00@camosun.bc.ca |
Thomas
Hofacker has been staff entomologist for the USDA Forest
Service, Forest Health Protection, for many years. In this
capacity he has dealt with many exotic forest insect and disease
issues, including Asian gypsy moth, pine shoot beetle, and Asian
longhorned beetle. He has also worked closely with the North
American Plant Protection Organization to develop standards for
regulating movement of solid-wood packing material.
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Leland
M. Humble, entomologist working within the Forest
Biodiversity Network of the Canadian Forestry Service, maintains
an active role in the curation and development of arthropod
reference collections at PFC in support of forestry, research,
and quarantine diagnostics. Pacific Forestry Centre, Canadian
Forest Service Victoria, BC, Canada, V8Z 1M5. lhumble@pfc.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca |
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Dr.
Rich Hunt has been a forest pathologist for 30 years. He
currently works on tomentosus root disease and resistance traits
in white pines to blister rust at the Pacific Forestry Research
Centre of the Canadian Forestry Service, Natural Resources
Canada. Rhunt@pfc.forestry.ca |
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Edson
Tadeu Iede is a forest entomologist with the Empresa
Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (EMBRAPA), Brazil, and has
been with the National Center of Forest Research since 1979.
Recent projects include the integrated pest management of Sirex
noctilio, Cinara pinivora and Cinara atlantica
in Brazil. Edson works on quarantine forest pests, as a member
of the working group in forest health of the Comite de Sanidade
Vegetal do Cone Sul - COSAVE.
iedeet@cnpf.embrapa.br
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Barbara
Illman has been a research forest pathologist for 14
years. She currently serves as project leader for the
Biodeterioration of Wood Research Unit at the USDA Forest
Service, Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, WI, and as an
adjunct professor in the Entomology Department, University of
Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA. billman@facstaff.wisc.edu
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R.
C. Kellison is manager of Transition Projects, at
International Paper Company. Before his employment with
International Paper, he served as Director of Forest Technology
for Champion International Corporation for 5 years, and as
Professor of Forestry at North Carolina State University for
over 30 years. His area of expertise is forest genetics,
silviculture, and wood properties.
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Shigeru
Kaneko has been a forest pathologist and mycologist for
25 years. He currently serves as leader of the Forest
Microbiology Section, Forestry and Forest Products Research
Institute in Tsukuba, Japan. skaneko@ffpri.affrc.go.jp
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Göran
Kroeker works in the Plant Protection Service of
the Swedish Board of Agriculture, based in Jönköping in the
south of Sweden. He directs work aimed at preventing the spread
of quarantine and regulated pests through import and production
controls, and has responsibility for international relations, in
particular contacts with the European Union and the European and
Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization. goran.kroeker@sjv.se
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Gaston
Laflamme has been working as a forest pathologist for 25
years. He is currently conducting research on fungal diseases of
conifers in plantations for the Canadian Forest Service at the
Laurentian Forestry Centre in Quebec City, Canada.
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Andrew
Liebhold is a forest entomologist who has worked with
the USDA Forest Service Northeastern Research Station,
Morgantown, WV, for 13 years. His research focus is primarily on
the population ecology of native and introduced forest insects. aliebhlold@fs.fed.us
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Marc
Linit is an entomologist with the Department of
Entomology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO. linit@missouri.edu
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