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Laura Blackburn

Title: Operations Research Analyst
Unit: Ecology and Management of Invasive Species and Forest Ecosystems
Address: Northern Research Station
180 Canfield Street
Morgantown, WV 26505
Phone: 304-285-1522
E-mail: Contact Laura Blackburn

Online Publications

Blackburn, Laura M.; Leonard, Donna S.; Tobin, Patrick C. 2011. The use of Bacillus thuringiensis kurstaki for managing gypsy moth populations under the Slow the Spread Program, 1996-2010, relative to the distributional range of threatened and endangered species. Res. Pap. NRS-18. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 20 p.
Tobin, Patrick C.; Van Stappen, Julie; Blackburn, Laura M. 2011. Visitation rates to the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore and the introduction of the non-native species Lymantria dispar (L.). In: McManus, Katherine A; Gottschalk, Kurt W., eds. 2010. Proceedings. 21st U.S. Department of Agriculture interagency research forum on invasive species 2010; 2010 January 12-15; Annapolis, MD. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-75. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 134.
Tobin, Patrick C.; Diss-Torrance, Andrea; Blackburn, Laura M.; Brown, Brian D. 2011. What does "local" firewood buy you? Managing the risk of invasive species introduction. In: McManus, Katherine A; Gottschalk, Kurt W., eds. 2010. Proceedings. 21st U.S. Department of Agriculture interagency research forum on invasive species 2010; 2010 January 12-15; Annapolis, MD. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-75. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 135.
Tobin, Patrick C.; Van Stappen, Julie; Blackburn, Laura M. 2010. Human visitation rates to the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore and the introduction of the non-native species Lymantria dispar (L.). Journal of Environmental Management. 91: 1991-1996.
Tobin, Patrick C.; Diss-Torrance, Andrea; Blackburn, Laura M.; Brown, Brian D. 2010. What does "local" firewood buy you? Managing the risk of invasive species introduction. Journal of Economic Entomology. 103(5): 1569-1576.
Hajek, Ann E.; Tobin, Patrick C.; Blackburn, Laura; Hannam, Joshua J.; Diss-Torrance, Andrea; Raffa, Kenneth; Nielsen, Charlotte. 2009. Dispersal of gypsy moth pathogens to newly established host populations. In: McManus, Katherine A; Gottschalk, Kurt W., eds. 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: 32.
Tobin, Patrick C.; Hajek, Ann E.; Blackburn, Laura M.; Hannam, Joshua J.; Diss-Torrance, Andrea; Raffa, Kenneth F.; Nielson, Charlotte. 2009. Space-time interactions between gypsy moth and associated entomopathogens in newly established populations. In: McManus, Katherine A; Gottschalk, Kurt W., eds. 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: 81.
Tobin, Patrick C.; Blackburn, Laura M. 2008. Long-distance dispersal of the gypsy moth (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae) facilitated its initial invasion of Wisconsin. Environmental Entomology 37(1):87-93
Tobin, Patrick C.; Thorpe, Kevin W.; Blackburn, Laura M. 2007. Multi-year evaluation of mating disruption treatments against gypsy moth. In: Gottschalk, Kurt W., ed. Proceedings, 17th U.S. Department of Agriculture interagency research forum on gypsy moth and other invasive species 2006; Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-10. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 98-99.
Thorpe, Kevin W.; Tcheslavskaia, Ksenia S.; Tobin, Patrick C.; Blackburn, Laura M.; Leonard, Donna S.; Roberts, E. Anderson. 2007. Persistent effects of aerial applications of disparlure on gypsy moth: trap catch and mating success. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata. 125: 223-229.
Tobin, Patrick C.; Blackburn, Laura M. 2007. Slow the Spread: a national program to manage the gypsy moth. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-6. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 109 p.

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