Forest Health Monitoring Workshop

5 March 2020
9:30 until 3:30

Jones Auditorium CT Agricultural Experiment Station
123 Huntington St. New Haven, CT 06504

Agenda

Time	Speaker	Topic
9:30-9:40	Vicki Smith	Welcome and Housekeeping
9:40-10:00	Claire Rutledge	Progress in Emerald Ash Borer Biological Control
10:00-10:30	Megan Linske	New Ticks Rising: Developments in Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases
10:30-11:00	BREAK
11:00-11:30	Jeff Ward	Drought, Defoliation, and Death
11:30-12:00	Everyone	Defoliation, Drought, Insects, Climate Change--Whither Our Forests?
12:00-12:40	BROWN BAG LUNCH
12:40-1:00	Yonghao Li	Notifiable Tree Diseases
1:00-1:45	Carole Cheah	Recovery of Eastern Hemlock in Connecticut
1:45-2:15	Bob Marra	Beech Leaf Disease: Now in Connecticut
2:15-2:30	SEVENTH INNING STRETCH
2:30-3:00	Scott Williams	Connecticut Oak Mast Drives Tick, Disease Reservoir, and Bird of Prey Abundances
3:00-3:20	Vicki Smith	New Players in 2019
3:20-3:30	WRAP UP

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Last Edited: April 6, 2026

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