Meeting Information

2010 Meeting: Jan 12-15
Annapolis, Maryland

• Information Letter
• Registration Form
• Abstract Guidelines
• Agenda
• Poster Instructions
• Loews Annapolis Hotel
• City of Annapolis
• Proceedings Archive

 

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Background

The USDA Forum on Invasive Species is an annual meeting that began in 1990 as the "USDA Interagency Gypsy Moth Research Forum". The purpose was to coordinate research on the European and Asian gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar L., among USDA agency scientists and their university cooperators by facilitating the exchange of information and data and encouraging their collaboration. This assured a degree of accountability and minimized the duplication of effort among the many scientists who conduct research on this serious forest pest. This meeting gained added stature when scientists from Europe, Asia, and elsewhere in North America learned of this meeting and began to attend and participate. The involvement of foreign scientists from countries where gypsy moth and related species have been native pests for centuries has added a different perspective to the meeting and has enhanced international cooperation, particularly in the use of biologically based technologies.

Consequently, beginning with the 1996 meeting, the scope of the Interagency Research Forum was broadened and the Program Committee has devoted a significant portion of the agenda to highlight the threat of select nonnative invasive species. In recent years, a complex of nonnative species (NIS) including the Asian Longhorned beetle, large-pine shoot moth, hemlock woolly adelgid, cedar emerald ash bores and Asian gypsy moth have been introduced into North American and collectively threaten our North American forest and urban ecosystems. Additionally, pathogens (e.g. Beech Bark Disease, sudden oak death, and butternut canker) and exotic weeds(e.g. mile-a-minute weed and kudzu) contribute to our management problems.

General Topics include:

• Invasive Plants and Their Impacts
• Gypsy Moth Research
• Risk Assessment for Invasive Species
• Exotic Wood Boring Insects
• Biological Control
• Alien Forest Pathogens
• International Forest Insects and Disease Reports

Archive of Proceedings from USDA Research Forum on Invasive Species

Gottschalk, K.W.; Twery, M.J.; Smith, S.I., eds. 1991.
Proceedings, U.S. Department of Agriculture
interagency gypsy moth research review 1990; 1990
January 23-25; East Windsor, CT. Gen. Tech. Rep.
NE-146. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station.
152 p. www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/6356

Gottschalk, K.W.; Twery, M.J., eds. 1992. Proceedings,
U.S. Department of Agriculture interagency
gypsy moth research forum 1991; 1991 January
14-17; Annapolis, MD. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-167.
Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest
Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 54 p.
www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/6406

Gottschalk, K.W.; Twery, M.J., eds. 1992. Proceedings,
U.S. Department of Agriculture interagency gypsy
moth research forum 1992; 1992 January 13-16;
Annapolis, MD. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-170. Radnor,
PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service,
Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 64 p.
www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/6409

Fosbroke, S.L.C.; Gottschalk, K.W., eds. 1993.
Proceedings, U.S. Department of Agriculture
interagency gypsy moth research forum 1993;
1993 January 19-22; Annapolis, MD. Gen. Tech. Rep.
NE-179. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station.
127 p. www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/6423

Fosbroke, S.L.C.; Gottschalk, K.W., eds. 1994.
Proceedings, U.S. Department of Agriculture
interagency gypsy moth research forum 1994;
1994 January 18-21, Annapolis, MD. Gen. Tech. Rep.
NE-188. Radnor, PA. U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station.
97 p. www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/6438

Fosbroke, S.L.C.; Gottschalk, K.W., eds. 1995.
Proceedings, U.S. Department of Agriculture
interagency gypsy moth research forum 1995;
1995 January 17-20; Annapolis, MD. Gen. Tech.
Rep. NE-213. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of
Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest
Experiment Station. 133 p. www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/6475

Fosbroke, S.L.C.; Gottschalk, K.W., eds. 1997.
Proceedings, U.S. Department of Agriculture
interagency gypsy moth research forum 1996;
1996 January 16-19; Annapolis, MD. Gen. Tech. Rep.
NE-230. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station.
91 p. www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/6501

Fosbroke, S.L.C.; Gottschalk, K.W., eds. 1997.
Proceedings, U.S. Department of Agriculture
interagency gypsy moth research forum 1997;
1997 January 14-17; Annapolis, MD. Gen. Tech. Rep.
NE-240. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station.
97 p. www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/6477

Fosbroke, S.L.C.; Gottschalk, K.W. 1998. Proceedings,
U.S. Department of Agriculture interagency gypsy
moth research forum 1998; 1998 January 20-23;
Annapolis, MD. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-248. Radnor,
PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service,
Northeastern Research Station. 72 p.
www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/5982

Fosbroke, S.L.C.; Gottschalk, K.W., eds. 1999.
Proceedings, U.S. Department of Agriculture
interagency research forum on gypsy moth and other
invasive species 1999; 1999 January 19-22;
Annapolis, MD. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-266. Radnor,
PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service,
Northeastern Research Station. 82 p.
www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/5967

Fosbroke, S.L.C.; Gottschalk, K.W., eds. 2000.
Proceedings, U.S. Department of Agriculture
interagency research forum on gypsy moth and other
invasive species 2000; 2000 January 18-21;
Annapolis, MD. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-273. Newtown
Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest
Service, Northeastern Research Station. 81 p.
www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/5951

Fosbroke, Sandra L.C.; Gottschalk, Kurt W., eds.
2001. Proceedings, U.S. Department of Agriculture
interagency research forum on gypsy moth and other
invasive species 2001; 2001 January
16-19; Annapolis, MD. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-285.
Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station. 150 p.
www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/6590

 

Fosbroke, Sandra L.C.; Gottschalk, Kurt W., eds.
2003. Proceedings, U.S. Department of Agriculture
interagency research forum on gypsy moth and other
invasive species 2002; 2002 January 15-18;
Annapolis, MD. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-300. Newtown
Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest
Service, Northeastern Research Station. 116 p.
www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/6613

Gottschalk, Kurt W., ed. 2004. Proceedings: XIV U.S.
Department of Agriculture interagency research
forum on gypsy moth and other invasive species
2003; 2003 January 14-17. Annapolis, MD. Gen.
Tech. Rep. NE-315. Newtown Square, PA: U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Forest Service,
Northeastern Research Station. 78 p.
www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/6661

Gottschalk, Kurt W., ed. 2005. Proceedings, XV U.S.
Department of Agriculture interagency research
forum on gypsy moth and other invasive species
2004; 2004 January 13-16. Annapolis, MD. Gen.
Tech. Rep. NE-332. Newtown Square, PA: U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Forest Service,
Northeastern Research Station. 98 p.
www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/7431

Gottschalk, Kurt W., ed. 2005. Proceedings, 16th U.S.
Department of Agriculture interagency research
forum on gypsy moth and other invasive species
2005; 2005 January 18-21; Annapolis, MD. Gen.
Tech. Rep. NE-337. Newtown Square, PA: U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Forest Service,
Northeastern Research Station. 107 p.
www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/7547
Gottschalk, Kurt W., ed. 2006. Proceedings 17th U.S.
Department of Agriculture interagency research
forum on gypsy moth and other invasive
species, 2006; 2006 January 10-13; Annapolis,
MD. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-10. Newtown Square,
PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service,
Northern Research Station. 117 p.
www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/2330

Gottschalk, Kurt W., ed. 2008. Proceedings, 18th
U.S. Department of Agriculture interagency
research forum on gypsy moth and other
invasive species 2007; 2007 January 9-12;
Annapolis, MD. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-28.
Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of
Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research
Station. 99 p. www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/5874

McManus, Katherine A; Gottschalk, Kurt W., eds. 2009.
Proceedings. 19th U.S. Department of Agriculture
interagency research forum on invasive species
2008; 2008 January 8-11; Annapolis, MD. Gen.
Tech. Rep. NRS-P-36. Newtown Square, PA: U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Forest Service,
Northern Research Station. 100 p.
www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/9223

McManus, Katherine A; Gottschalk, Kurt W., eds. In
Press. Proceedings. 20th U.S. Department of
Agriculture interagency research forum on
invasive species 2009; 2009 January 13-16;
Annapolis, MD. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-36.
Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of
Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research
Station. 114 p.