Deadline is, Saturday, August 10th (11:59pm PT)
for:
· Regular registration
Deadline is Friday, August 10th for:
· Hotel room reservations at government rate
· Special Papers (spots still available!)
· Poster submissions
· Graduate Student Flash-n-Dash
· Committee meetings presentations
Deadline is, July 27th for:
Outstanding Achievement Award
nominations
As always, you can also visit
www.wifdwc.org
for
more information.
Registration
Register online by August
10th
at:
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/westerninternationalforestdiseaseworkconferencewifdwc
$400 regular registration*
$200 student registration*
$200 retiree registration*
Note: Registration will be open until September 9th, but
will include a late fee of $100
after August 10th.
* Registration includes the full-day field trip with transportation,
boxed lunch, and snacks. Committee meeting meals and the banquet must be
purchased separately. If you need to pay for meals separately from the
registration fee, please select the Meals Only Registration and then pick the
committee meeting meals you'd like to attend. Guests are welcome to join the
field trip and banquet. Guest registration is free, but tickets for the
full-day field trip and banquet must be purchased with member
registration.
Location
Santa Fe, the oldest state capitol in the United States (also the
highest in elevation), is nestled between the volcanic Jemez Mountains and the
southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains, the southernmost subrange of the Rockies.
The Santa Fe National Forest and Jemez Mountains host a diversity of
ecosystems including large portions of spruce-fir, montane grasslands,
riparian, aspen forests and woodlands, and an array of forest pathogens.
Lodging & Conference Location (same venue!)
1501 Paseo de Peralta
Santa Fe, NM 87501
Phone: (855) 825-9876
**Reserve your rooms before
August 10th
and ask for the ‘WIFDWC hotel block’ to get the
Federal per diem Government Rate ($162/night). Also, if the hotel asks for a
deposit, please let them know that it is supposed to be waived for our group
**
Travel Options
Airports serving Sonoma County include the following:
·
Santa Fe Regional Airport (SAF), 14.5 miles southwest of the
conference location, hosts American and United airlines.
·
Albuquerque International Sunport
(ABQ)
is 65 miles southwest of the conference location and is served by multiple
airlines.
·
The Santa Fe Regional Airport does not offer shuttle services, but
does have rental car companies located in the airport and is served by multiple
taxi companies. Transportation services for the Santa Fe Regional Airport can
be found
here
.
·
Groome Transportation
provides airport shuttle
service to and from Albuquerque International Sunport.
·
Hotel Santa Fe does not offer airport shuttle service but does
provide shuttle service within one mile of the hotel.
·
For those that wish to rent a car, ride-share from the airport can
be coordinated using the form provided when you register.
Additionally, the
Santa Fe Trails
bus system offers a
comprehensive service for navigating the city, and the
Rail
Runner Express
is New Mexico's commuter rail system connecting Santa Fe and
central New Mexico.
USFS Registration Specifics
·
WIFDWC is listed on the annual Conference Plan.
·
USFS employees should express interest in attending to Supervisors
and ROs.
·
Gregory Reynolds (
gregory.j.reynolds@usda.gov
) has
collected USFS employee information for the Attendance Cost Spreadsheet. If you
would like to change your role, please contact Greg.
Agenda (still evolving)
·
Monday, September 5: Afternoon pre-meeting hike/field
trip, registration, and welcome social.
·
Tuesday, September 6: Registration, graduate student Flash-n-Dash,
three panels, two committee meetings, graduate student special papers, and an
evening poster session / ice cream social / silent auction.
·
Wednesday, September 7: All-day field trip, one committee meeting, and
an evening banquet with the Outstanding Achievement Award and presentations
from previous recipients.
·
Thursday, September 8: Three committees, three panels, two special
paper sessions, and a special presentation.
·
Friday, September 9: One committee, a special paper session, business
meeting, and adjourn by 11:30 am.
Papers (contributed and special)
·
Note : “
Contributed papers
”
are those panel organizers invite speakers to present. “ Special papers
”
are those given by people requesting a non-panel time slot.
·
Please contact Danny Norlander (
danny.norlander@odf.oregon.gov
) if you
would like to present a special paper
on a forest pathology
subject matter. Send a title and brief description of your proposed paper by Friday
August 9th.
·
If more requests are received than we have time for, we will
review the date of receipt and titles, in order to select papers for
presentation. Authors will be notified before closing of early registration.
·
As an alternative, remember that brief presentations (as arranged
with the committee chair) may be given during committee meetings.
Posters
·
You are invited to submit a title and a brief description for the
poster session. Posters may address any forest pathology-related topic.
·
Email abstracts to Patrick Bennett (
patrick.bennett@usda.gov
) by
Friday Friday
August 9th
to reserve a
space for your poster.
Graduate Student Introductions (“Flash-n-Dash”)
·
All graduate student attendees are asked to give a brief
introduction (five minutes) of you and your research program.
·
Students should contact Brad Lalande (
bradley.lalande@usda.gov
) by Friday August 9th
with their
name, university, and project title.
·
Graduate students are also encouraged to present more details on
their work in either the poster session (see below) or as a paper (see above).
Committee Meetings
The following committees are scheduled to meet. Please contact the
moderator by Friday
August 9th
if you wish to have time on the agenda for
a short presentation.
| Day/Time |
Committee |
Moderator(s) |
|
| Tuesday, September 10th 7:00-8:30 AM |
Dwarf Mistletoes |
Brent Oblinger |
|
| Tuesday, September 10th 12:00-1:30 PM |
Foliage and Twig |
Adam Carson |
|
| Wednesday, September 11th 7:00-8:30 AM |
Nursery |
Anna Leon |
|
| Thursday, September 12th 7:00-8:30 AM |
Root Disease |
Patrick Bennett |
|
| Thursday, September 12th 12:00-1:30 PM |
Rust |
Jane Stewart |
|
| Thursday, September 12th 7:00-9:00 PM |
Climate Change |
Susan Frankel, Alex Woods, Terry Shaw, Danny Norlander |
|
| Friday, September 13th 7:00-8:30 AM |
Hazard Tree |
Kristen Chadwick |
Silent Auction
The WIFDWC silent auction raises $1,000+ per year to support
student travel. Betsy Goodrich (
anne.goodrich@usda.gov
) will be helping organize the
auction. Start thinking about what you can donate and bring to the meeting for
the auction. Ideas include: handmade items, books, rare journal articles,
photos, jewelry, tree and fungi swag, or WIFDWC swag from years past!
Outstanding Achievement Award
·
Congratulations to Blakey
Lockman
for receiving the Outstanding Achievement Award in 2023!
·
Nominations for the 2024 WIFDWC Outstanding Achievement Award are
now open and will remain open until July
27th
. See the
Call for
Nominations webpage
for details.
·
Questions should be directed to Kristen Chadwick (
Kristen.Chadwick@usda.gov
).
Student Travel Awards
·
Travel awards are available for qualified graduate students to
subsidize travel-related expenses. Interested graduate students should visit
the ‘Graduate Student Travel Award’ web page at
www.wifdwc.org
for
more information and the application form.
·
The application deadline is Friday July 5
th
.
·
All graduate students that receive this award are expected to
participate in the Graduate Student Introduction (Flash-n-Dash) and are also
encouraged to present an oral or poster presentation.
·
Questions should be directed to Betsy Goodrich (
anne.goodrich@usda.gov
).
Pre-meeting Field Trip
(Monday afternoon)
·
Arriving over the weekend or Monday morning? Join us for a
pre-meeting field trip on Monday from 1 pm to 5 pm (exact times may change).
·
The pre-meeting field trip will be on the Sangre de Cristo
side of the Santa Fe National Forest and will highlight aspen cankers and root
diseases in mixed conifer and spruce-fir stands.
·
There is no registration fee, so:
o
Participants will need to bring their own food and water.
o
Carpooling from Hotel Santa Fe will be required.
·
If interested, please contact Greg Reynolds (
gregory.j.reynolds@usda.gov
)
Field Trip (Wednesday)
·
Join us on Wednesday from 9 am to 5 pm for a field tour focusing
on local forest pathology issues.
·
The all-day field trip will loop through the Jemez Mountains and
will highlight local tribal forestry concerns, riparian cottonwood forest along
the Rio Grande (the bosque), southwestern dwarf mistletoe of ponderosa pine,
and fire history of the Valles Caldera National Preserve.
·
Transportation and lunch for this field trip is included in
your registration costs.
·
Transportation will be via coach, not school buses, and bathroom
stops are planned!
WIFDWC Planning Committee Contacts
·
Chairperson, Lori Winton (
loretta.winton@usda.gov
,
907-717-5736)
·
Program Chair, Danny Norlander (
danny.norlander@odf.oregon.gov
,
503-945-7310)
·
Treasurer, Holly Kearns (
holly.kearns@usda
.gov
, 503-668-1475)
·
Secretary, Adam Carson (
adam.carson@oregonstate.edu
,
541-737-3826)
·
Local Arrangements: Greg Reynolds (
gregory.j.reynolds@usda.gov
,
612-275-6087) & Nick Wilhelmi (
nwilhelmi@fs.fed.us
,
928-556-2075)