Member Symposium: Future Needs for Biological Control Teaching and Outreach

Sunday, November 10, 2013: 1:15 PM-5:15 PM
Meeting Room 18 A (Austin Convention Center)
Organizers:
Jim Nechols
Parwinder Grewal


1:15 PM
Introductory remarks
Jim Nechols, Kansas State University
1:25 PM
Current and future teaching needs for biological control
John Obrycki, University of Kentucky ; Jim Nechols, Kansas State University
1:50 PM
Pedagogy and modern teaching methods in biological control
Parwinder Grewal, The University of Tennessee
2:15 PM
Uffda!  Selling biological control to Norwegian bachelor farmers in the Upper Midwest
Kelley Tilmon, South Dakota State University ; Matthew E. O'Neal, Iowa State University
2:40 PM
Break
2:50 PM
Bridging the gap: bringing biological control to the world through distance education
John Ruberson, Kansas State University ; Kris Braman, University of Georgia
3:15 PM
Future educational needs and challenges in conservation biological control
Jonathan Lundgren, USDA Agricultural Research Service
3:40 PM
Defining biological control: an ecological interactions approach
George Heimpel, University of Minnesota ; Nick Mills, University of California, Berkeley
4:05 PM
Discussion
4:20 PM
Concluding remarks
Parwinder Grewal, The University of Tennessee
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