Session: Protecting US Agriculture at Our Borders - The First Line of Defense Against Invasive Species (2010 ESA Annual Meeting (December 12-15, 2010))

Sunday, December 12, 2010: 8:30 AM-11:50 AM

Golden West (Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center)

Organizer :

Cheryle O'Donnell

8:30 AM

0030

Protecting US agriculture at our borders - The first line of defense against invasive species

Cheryle O'Donnell, USDA - APHIS

8:35 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:40 AM

0031

Invasive species: Detection, identification, and impacts on US agriculture

Cheryle O'Donnell, USDA - APHIS

Audio File

9:00 AM

0032

Canada, Mexico, maritime and airports: Pathways for invasive species

Joseph F. Cavey, USDA-APHIS; Cheryle O'Donnell, USDA - APHIS

Audio File

9:20 AM

0033

Who's who in plant protection quarantine: An introduction to identifiers, their taxonomic specialties, and current roles in safeguarding American agriculture

James Korecki, USDA - APHIS

Audio File

9:40 AM

0034

Pest risk assessment, pathways, commodities of concern for invasive species

Jason T. Botz, USDA-APHIS-PPQ; James Korecki, USDA - APHIS

Audio File

10:00 AM

0035

Beyond the border: Surveys, detection, and identification of new plant pests in the U.S

Joel P. Floyd, Domestic Diagnostics Coordinator USDA-APHIS-PPQ

Audio File

10:20 AM

Break

10:40 AM

0036

Interagency interactions: A collaboration in the detection of invasive species

Joseph F. Cavey, USDA-APHIS

Audio File

11:00 AM

0037

The bug stops here: Training eyes on the border to exclude agricultural threats

Jason T. Botz, USDA-APHIS-PPQ

Audio File

11:20 AM

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Identification at the speed of light

Patrick S. Haslem, USDA-APHIS-PPQ; David W. McCoy, USDA-APHIS-PPQ

Audio File

11:40 AM

0039

Area identifier's future role in detecting invasive species...National molecular database?

Cheryle O'Donnell, USDA - APHIS

Audio File

11:45 AM

Concluding Remarks

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