What’s New?

Start making plans to join in the live stream of the National Forum on Climate and Pests from Washington, DC. Listen, watch, or even pose a question to a group of the world’s experts as they present and discuss the latest research on climate change and the shifting dynamics of diseases, insects, and weeds.

Why Participate?

The Northeastern Integrated Pest Management Center, sponsored by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture and located at Cornell University, is a leading provider of science-based information on topics related to variations in climate and pest populations, distributions, effects, risks, and pressures in agriculture, forestry, and human-wildland interfaces in the United States.

We expect the National Forum on Climate and Pests to attract online participants with a global representation. A group of approximately 40 invited experts will gather and present live from the National Academies in Washington, DC.

Our goal is to bring those in the fields of climate and biological sciences together in one location to share the latest, science-based information with an online audience and also to think strategically about how to plan for the creation of more adaptable and resilient agriculture and forestry ecosystems being threatened by pests related to climate change. We will draw expertise from pest managers, regulatory agencies, policy makers, scientists and faculty, not-for-profit groups, and information multipliers including communicators and cooperative extension staff.

The forum will include two days of climate and pest research, spanning a range of topics:

• Shifting plant hardiness zones
• Increasing resilience of diseases, insects, and weeds
• Adapting pest biology that could make management more difficult
• Changing cycles
• Growing impacts on the environment, economies, and society and culture
• Climate models and applications
• Extreme weather events and impacts

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Invited Speakers

Sonia Altizer University of Georgia Matt Ayres Dartmouth College Barbara Bentz U.S. Forest Service Elizabeth R. Blood NSF Ecosystem Science Cluster, NSF MacroSystems Biology Donn Branton Grower Nancy Cavallaro USDA NIFA Division of Global Climate Change Parag Chitnis USDA NIFA Institute of Food Production and Sustainability Ben Cook NASA GISS, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University Nancy Cusumano Northeastern IPM Center Keith Dixon NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab, Princeton University Jeff Dukes Purdue University Steve Frank North Carolina State University Karen Garrett University of Florida Mark Gleason Iowa State University, Midwest Weather Working Group Jeff Hicke University of Idaho Mike Hoffmann Cornell University, Cornell Institute for Climate Change and Agriculture

Scott Isard Penn State, iPIPE project Paul Jepson Oregon State University Andrew Knepp Monsanto Rattan Lal Ohio State University Ken Linthicum USDA Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology Walt Mahaffee USDA ARS Horticultural Crops Research, Weather Systems Working Group Nathan Mueller Harvard University Sonny Ramaswamy USDA NIFA Samara Sit CALS Communications Susan Solomon MIT Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Jim Stack Kansas State University Jean Steiner USDA ARS Grazinglands Research Laboratory Phil Wege Syngenta UK Chonggang Xu Los Alamos National Laboratory Steve Young Northeastern IPM Center Lew Ziska USDA ARS, Beltsville, Maryland

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Free, live online streaming begins at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 4, 2016 and continues through October 5.

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Slide show photo credits: Pest and weed photos from Bugwood.org — Common Ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia) by John D. Byrd, Mississippi State University; Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (Halyomorpha halys) by Gary Bernon, USDA APHIS; Potato Leafhopper (Empoasca fabae) by Steve L. Brown, University of Georgia; Pea Leafminer (Liriomyza huidobrensis) by Plant Protection Service. All other photos from Morguefile.com.