Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

NCERA-148 Meeting Minutes Blacksburg, VA Virginia Tech University October 20-21, 2009 Tuesday, October 20 Opening Business Thanking of organizing committee and chair, Dr. David Schmale III Participants agreed to post presentations on the NCERA-148 website (http://ncera148.psu.edu/index.htm) Administrative Advisors report (Rick Meyer and Bill Ravlin) Rick Meyer presented an update regarding the switch from CSREES to the National Institute for Food and Agriculture. The director of the agency will be a political appointee. Rick also discussed the changes in the goals and priorities of NIFA and how this group could attract possible funding through workshops and conference grants. Bill Ravlin concurred with Rick, and offered suggestions on how to seek funding. Assignment of ad hoc nomination committees for officer and meeting site (Magarey, Michel). Keynote Presentation: Patrick Tobin- The ecology, geopolitics, and economics of area-wide management of invading gypsy moth populations. Dr. Tobin discussed the history of the Slow the Spread program for control and management of the Gypsy Moth invasion. State reports (Most presentations have been uploaded to the NCERA-148 website): Theme 1  Pathogens IA: Nutter, F. Balloon/spore trap platforms to quantify the strength of the source of spores that escape the plant canopy VA: Schmale III, D. Monitoring the spread of the potato late blight pathogen in the lower atmosphere NY: Shields, E. Developing tools for aerial sampling -Theme 2  Arthropods TX: Westbrook, J. Attraction of dispersing boll weevils from surrounding habitats relative to simulated pheromone diffusion from traps IA: Sappington, T. Comparative flight performance of Bt-resistant and Bt-susceptible European corn borer IA: Jiang. Ecological, physiological, hormonal, genetic, and molecular regulation of migration in the Oriental armyworm, Mythimna separata (Walker) IL: Spencer, J. Australia: Weiss, J. Real time spatial - temporal modeling of pest insect dispersal: Can TOPS improve predictions? Australia: Feutrill, C. (via Weiss, J.). Establishing a tall suction trap network in south eastern Australia. FL: Meagher R. and R. Nagoshi. Fall armyworm: male attraction to commercial pherormone lures. PA: Fleischer S. Alates moving CMV, Lepidopterans, and mapping with excessive zeros. Theme 3  Population Genetics IA: Sappington T.W., K.S. Kim and N.J. Miller. Gene flow and population structure in western corn rootworm. IA: Jiang. Insect migration in China: Evidence from molecular genetic markers FL: Nagoshi R. and R. Meagher. Fall armyworm migration. OH: Michel, A. Soybean aphid population genetics and rapid expansion of molecular tools -Theme 4 Information Systems for Aerobiology and Biosecurity PA: Isard S. and N. Dufault. Comparison of IAMS spore deposition predictions and SBR spore collections. VA: Ross: Atmospheric transport barriers: analysis and visualization tool for geographically constraining the population structure of airborne microorganisms NC: Magarey, R. Update on biosecurity cyberinfrastructure and international collaboration Wednesday, October 21 Graduate student presentation Laszlo Techy, Ph.D. Candidate, Virginia Tech University. Unmanned aerial vehicle coordination and path planning for aerobiological sampling applications Committee elections and selections : David Schmale III was nominated, selected and confirmed as new Secretary-Treasurer. Rick Meyer and Roger Magarey were chosen to organize the 2010 in Washington, D.C. -Open discussion: How can NCERA-148 foster international and industry collaborations, attract funding, and extend knowledge to the scientific community, and general public? R. Magarey, discussion leader. -Discussion was focused on the long term goal of an international Migration and Dispersal international workshop for 2012, with the inclusion of teaching modules. Short term goals and benchmarks were discussed, including planning for future meetings (AZ in 2011, and D.C. in 2012 to host the conference). R. Magarey, A. Michel, D. Schmale II, S. Isard and S. Fleischer were chosen to help organize the future meetings. Full details can be found on the NCERA-148 website. Closing Business Adjournment of Meeting Tour of Virginia Techs Kentland Farm and Demonstration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.