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Fall 2010 ISG 8001 Discussions in risk assessment and risk analysis. Join us 8:00-9:00 am Wednesdays in room B30 of Classroom Office Building.

Date
Topic (with link to readings)
Leader
9/16/2009
Minnesota Invasive Species Plan
Frances Homans & Ruth Shaw
9/23/2009
Discussion of the Symposium on Wild Rice, August 25-28
David Andow
9/30/2009
Organizational session
Frances Homans & Ruth Shaw
10/7/2009
Discussion of the petition to reclassify Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM)
Frances Homans & Rob Venette
10/14/2009
Discussion of the petition to reclassify Light Brown Apple Moth (cont'd)
Frances Homans & Rob Venette
10/21/2009
Student presentation of research plans
Jake Osborne
10/28/2009
Discussion of the response by APHIS to the LBAM reclassification petition
Ruth Shaw, Rob Venette & Frances Homans
11/4/2009
Compatibility of management options for the invasive soybean aphid
Thelma Heidel
11/11/2009
Impacts of non-native earthworms on ground-nesting songbirds in northern hardwood forests
Scott Loss
11/18/2009
Discussion of the NAS report on the APHIS response about LBAM
Rob Venette, Frances Homans & Ruth Shaw
11/25/2009
Maximinzing Welfare through Cooperative Invasive Species Risk Management in a Dynamic System with Public & Private Components
David Smith
12/2/2009
A qualitative framework for assessing likelihood of invasion by graminoid species into Minnesota prairie potholes given projected climate change impacts
Shelby Flint
12/9/2009 Comparison of National Approaches to Living Modified Organism Risk Assessment, Using the Cartagena Protocol Annex III as an Outline IGERT Trainees
12/16/2009
Recapitulations and suggestions of future topics
Frances Homans & Ruth Shaw

Spring 2009 seminar series