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Welcome to the Contributors Page
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Bjørn
Økland is an entomologist of the Norwegian Forest
Research Institute, Division of Ecology, Aas, Norway. His main
research activities are within biodiversity and pest management.
bjorn.okland@nisk.no
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Christer
Magnusson is a nematologist and head of nematology at
The Norwegian Crop Research Institute, Plant Protection Centre,
Aas, Norway. One of his many research topics concerns the
occurrence, biology, and regulation of the pine wood nematode. christer.magnusson@planteforsk.no
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Ian
McDonell, Executive Director, NAPPO, joined the Canadian
Department of Agriculture in 1982 and has spent the majority of
his career in Plant Protection. He has been on a leave of
absence from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) since
October of 1997 to perform the duties of Executive Director of
the North American Plant Protection Organization. He is also the
current Chairperson of the Interamerican Coordinating Group in
Plant Protection. Prior to joining NAPPO, Ian was Associate
Director for International Phytosanitary Issues, responsible for
the preparation and negotiation of bilateral phytosanitary
agreements, and for representing Canada as a member of the NAPPO
Working Group from 1992-1997. Ian was an active participant in
the negotiations leading to a revised International Plant
Protection Convention in 1997 and is a past member of the
Committee of Experts on Phytosanitary Measures of the FAO.
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David
McNamara was born in Dublin, Ireland and has worked in
nematology research, including forest nematology, in a number of
European countries (Ireland, UK, Germany, Norway). For the past
13 years, has been based in Paris, France as the Assistant
Director of the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection
Organization, with responsibilities for, among other things,
managing expert panels on pest risk analysis, quarantine pests
for forestry, and pine wood nematode. mcnamara@eppo.fr
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Jeff
Morrell is a professor in the Department of Forest
Products, Oregon State University, where he specializes in the
degradation of wood and its prevention by preservative
treatments. Jeff.morrell@orst.edu
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M.
Mota is an assistant professor and nematologist. He has
done nematological research for the past nine years, with
interests in taxonomy, biological control, and forest nematology
(cork oak and pinewood). For the last three years, his main
interest has been the pinewood nematode. He teaches in the
Biology Department of the University of Évora, 7000 Évora,
Portugal. mmota@uevora.pt
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Mike
Ormsby has worked in plant biology and pathology for 10
years and has been working in biosecurity at the New Zealand
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry for the last 3 years. He is
currently the National Adviser in the Forest Biosecurity group
responsible for all aspects of forest import standard
development.
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Mike
Ostry has been a research plant pathologist with the
USDA Forest Service, North Central Research Station, St. Paul,
MN, for 32 years. mostry@fs.fed.us
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Alain
Roques has been a forest entomologist working with cone
and seed insects for 27 years. He was leader of the IUFRO
Working Party “Cone and Seed Insects” from 1986 to 1994. He
currently serves as Program Leader for Forest Entomology at the
National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), Station de
Zoologie Forestière, Orléans, France. Alain.Roques@orleans.inra.fr
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Borys
M. Tkacz is Forest Pathologist with the Forest Health
Protection staff in the National Headquarters of the USDA Forest
Service in Washington, DC. Prior to joining the National
Headquarters staff in 1999, he served as a Forest Pathologist in
Ogden, Utah for seven years and Zone Leader for Forest Health in
Flagstaff, Arizona for ten years. In 1991 he served as Team
Leader for the joint USDA FS and APHIS CoreTeam conducting a
pest risk assessment of the importation of logs from Siberia and
the Russian Far East. The pest risk assessment involved over 70
experts in the fields of pathology, entomology, forestry and
economics in the United States and Canada and paved the way for
subsequent assessments for New Zealand and Chile. Since
September 1995, he has led the nationally-chartered Wood Import
Pest Risk Assessment and Mitigation Evaluation Team of the
Forest Service. This team has recently completed a pest risk
assessment of the importation of pine and fir logs from Mexico
into the United States and the importation of Eucalyptus
from South America.
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Joan
Webber is the principal pathologist based at Forest
Research, the research Agency of the UK Forestry Commission. She
is involved in research on tree and wood pathology, directs
graduates students, and advises on quarantine issues related to
tree and forest pathogens. Particular interests include the
population biology and management of forest pathogens, and
insect transmission of sapstain and vascular wilt diseases. She
can be contacted by e-mail at joan.webber@forestry.gsi.gov.uk
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Mike
Wingfield has been a forest pathologist at Forestry and
Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of
Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa (www.up.ac.za)
in South Africa for nearly 20 years. mike.wingfield@fabi.up.ac.za
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Ross
Wylie has been a forest entomologist for 34 years and
has worked extensively in the tropics and subtropics of Asia,
the Pacific, and Australia. He is currently program leader
forest protection at the Queensland Forestry Research Institute
in Brisbane, Australia. wylie@qfslab.ind.dpi.qld.gov.au |
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