| Preliminary Agenda |
Thursday, October 22, 2009 |
| 8:00 am - 8:30 am |
Registration and Refreshments |
| 8:30 am - 8:45 am |
Opening Session
Neil
Conklin, Farm Foundation
Christine Zakarka, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA
Mary Bohman, Economic Research Service, USDA
Moderator
Craig
Osteen, Economic Research Service, USDA |
8:45 am - 10:15 am |
Panel Discussion: Pandemic Influenza
and Agriculture
Influenza 101: The Virus and its Epidemiology
in Swine
Jürgen
Richt, Kansas State University
Influenza Virus Threats to Swine Agriculture Workers:
What Do We Know?
Gregory
Gray, University of Iowa
Influenza Surveillance in Swine: Issues and Opportunities
John
Korslund, Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service, USDA
Moderator: Sarahelen (Sally) Thompson, Economic Research
Service, USDA |
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am
|
Break |
|
Session I |
10:30 am - Noon |
Cost-Sensitive Machine Learning Algorithms for
Invasive Species Decision Support, Risk Analysis,
and Policy: Genus Level Patterns
John Drake, University of Georgia |
| Strategic Agent Behavior with an Invasive Weed
Janie Chermak, University of New Mexico |
Controlling Invasive Species in an Urban-Wildland
Interface
George Frisvold, University of Arizona |
Moderator: Jan Lewandrowski, Global Change
Program Office, USDA
Discussant: Marisa Zansler, Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service, USDA |
Noon - 12:40 pm |
Lunch |
| 12:40 pm - 1:30 pm |
Luncheon Address
Current Status of Ug99 Stem Rust and Plans to
Mitigate the Threat to Wheat Production Losses
Ravi
Singh, International Maize and Wheat Improvement
Center (CIMMYT)
Moderator: Kay
Walker Simmons, Agricultural Research Service, USDA
|
1:30 pm - 1:40 pm |
Break |
|
Session II |
1:40 pm - 3:10 pm |
Towards More Efficient Regulatory Design for
Ecosystem Management in the Great Basin: Private
Ranchers, Public Rangeland, and the Control of Invasive
Weeds
Kimberly Rollins, University of Nevada-Reno |
Weed Treatment Planner (WTP) - A Spatial Decision
Support System for Invasive Weed Management
Woodam Chung, University of Montana
Greg
Jones, U.S. Forest Service |
Bioinvasions as Spatial-dynamic Processes: Characteristics
of Optimal Policies
James
Wilen and Rebecca
Epanchin-Niell, University of California-Davis |
Moderator: Fen Hunt, National Institute of
Food and Agriculture, USDA
Discussant: Anton Bekkerman, Montana State University
|
| 3:10 pm - 3:30 pm |
Break |
|
Session III |
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm |
Bioeconomics of the Emerald Ash Borer Invasion
in Ohio and Michigan
Jon Bossenbroek University of Toledo |
Market-Based Instruments for the Optimal Control
of Invasive Insect Species: B. Tabaci in Arizona
Tim Richards, Arizona State University |
Efficient Management of White Pine Blister Rust
in High Elevation Ecosystems
Craig Bond, Colorado State University |
Moderator: Linda Abbott, Office of Risk Assessment
and Cost Benefit Analysis, USDA
Discussant: Trang Vo, Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service, USDA |
Friday, October 23, 2009 |
8:00 am - 8:20 am |
Refreshments |
|
Session IV |
8:20 am - 10:10 am |
The Effectiveness of Government Indemnification
in Encouraging Poultry Integrators to Contract with
Bio-secure Producers
Keith Coble and Andrew Muhammad, Mississippi
State University |
Economic Impacts of Foot and Mouth Disease on
North America and Australia
Tom Marsh, Washington State University |
Risk Factors for Invasive Pest Introductions
in Commodity Imports
Erik Lichtenberg, University of Maryland |
Moderator: Alison Neeley , Animal Plant Health
Inspection Service, USDA
Discussant: Ben Gramig, Purdue University
|
| 10:10 am - 10:30 am |
Break |
|
Session V |
10:30 am - Noon |
Integrated Epidemic-Economic Modeling and Analysis
of Preparedness and Response to Hypothetical Avian
Influenza Outbreak in Texas
Aklesso
Egbendewe-Mondzozo, Texas A&M and Levan Elbakidze,
University of Idaho |
Incentives for Individual and Cooperative Management of a Mobile Pest: The Olive Fruit Fly in California
Rachael Goodhue, University of California-Davis and
Kelly Cobourn, Boise State University
|
A Bioeconomic Model to Predict Livestock Disease Movement
Chris Wolf, Michigan State University |
Moderator: Parveen Setia, Animal Plant Health Inspection Service,
USDA
Discussant: Mark Eiswerth
, University of Northern Colorado |
| Noon - 1:00 pm |
Lunch |
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm |
Panel Discussion: Experiences
of PREISM Project Collaborators and Users
Twists and Turns in Mapping Emerald Ash Borer in
Ohio
T. Davis
Sydnor, Ohio State University
How an Economist Manages an Invasive Entomologist,
My Experience
Frank Zalom, University of California-Davis
Providing Economic Impact Estimates for Livestock
Disease Outbreaks
Ann
Seitzinger, Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service, USDA
Moderator: William Hahn, Economic Research Service, USDA |
