Northeastern
Mosquito Control Association
2012 Tentative Program – updated November 28,
2012 07:49:26
Note: this is a
running list; dates and times
will not be finalized until sometime
in late November – please
check back often for revisions. Abstracts are included if they have been received by the
NMCA Editor.
PAPER PRESENTATIONS:
«
Pledge of Allegiance: Color Guard: Lieutenant Commander Robert Smith, Sea
Cadets
«
Welcome Address
Susan K. Whalen, CT. Dept. of Energy & Env.
Protection
«
Presidential
Address
Roger Wolfe, President
NMCA
«
AMCA Regional Report
Paul Capotosto, AMCA North Atlantic
Regional Director
«
AMCA Update
Tom Wilmot, President AMCA
Abstract
«
Pesticide
Environmental Stewardship Program
Update
Gabrielle Sakolsky-Hoopes,
Cape Cod Mosquito
Control Project
Abstract
«
Connecticut and the
War of 1812
Edward Baker, Executive
Director, New London
County Historical Society
Abstract
«
Global Climate Change and Mosquito-Borne
Diseases
Theodore G. Andreadis, CT Agricultural Experiment Station
Abstract
«
Arbovirus
Activity in Connecticut:
2012
John J. Shepard, CT
Agricultural Experiment Station
Abstract
«
New Hampshire Arboviral
and Mosquito Update, 2012
Abigail Mathewson DVM, MPH, NN Division
of Public Health Services
Abstract
«
Maine Arboviral
and Mosquito Update
Megan Saunders, Maine
CDC/University of Southern Maine
Abstract
«
Rhode Island Arbovirus Summary, 2012
Sinead Grabbert, Rhode Island DEM
Abstract
«
2012 Arbovirus
Surveillance in Vermont
Alan C. Graham, Vermont
Agency of Agriculture
Abstract
«
Vector and Adult Mosquito
Surveillance in New Jersey, 2012
Lisa
Reed, Rutgers University
Abstract
«
Pennsylvania Arboviral
Update 2012
Jacquelyn A. Hakim, Pocono
Tick & Skeeter Control
Abstract
«
Arbovirus
Activity in Massachusetts: 2012 Season Summary
Cindy Stinson, Massachusetts
Dept. of Public Health
Abstract
«
2012 A Year for the Record Books
in Southeastern
Massachusetts
Ellen P. Bidlack, Plymouth County Mosquito
Control
Abstract
«
Evaluation of an area-wide, truck mounted application
of FFAST Bti in Monmouth
County,
Sean Healy, Monmouth County Mosquito
Extermination Commission
Abstract
«
Tracking EEE Virus
Evolution, Overwintering, and Spread in North America
by Phylogenetic Analysis
Phillip Armstrong, CT Agricultural Experiment Station
Abstract
«
Vector-Host
and Transmission of Arboviruses in the United States
Goudarz Molaei, CT Agricultural Experiment Station
Abstract
«
GIS Software Solutions
for Managing Mosquito Control
Operations
Ryan Pierson, Electronic Data Solutions
Abstract
«
Possible Extirpation of a Species
Thomas
Wilmot, Midland County
Mosquito
Control
Abstract
«
Agricultural Ditch Maintenance, Bolton
Flats Wildlife Mgmt. Area
Katrina Proctor, Central Mass Mosquito
Control Project
Abstract
«
The Restoration
of Allyn Brook in Durham, CT
Paul Capotosto, CT DEEP WHAMM Program
Abstract
«
Collaboration
Norwood University Ave Project NW
Caroline E. Haviland,
Norfolk County Mosquito District
«
Integrated Marsh
Management at Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge, Long Island
New York
Dominick Ninivaggi, Division of Vector Control, Suffolk County, NY,
DPW
Abstract
«
A Structured Decision
Making Approach to Mosquito Control
on FWS Refuges
Susan
C. Adamowicz, US Fish & Wildlife
Service
«
Innovations
in Soil Stabilization
Pete Hanrahan, CPESC, EJ Prescott Inc.,
«
Compliance with the Hazard Communication Standard and
the New GHS
Jennifer R. Tetreault, HazCommpliance, LLC
«
Pesticide
Storage
Taryn LaScola, Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources
Abstract
«
Workshop:
Sentinel GIS and Field Seeker Data Collection Options
(concurrent session)
«
Emergency West
Nile Virus Aerial Response in
Metro Dallas,
TX
Clark Wood, Clarke Inc.
Abstract
«
Fighting a Legislative
Ban against Mosquito
Control Pesticides
Mark Newberg, Central Life
Sciences
Abstract
«
Efficacy of Spheratax SPH WSP and FourStar 45 Day
Briquets against
Culex spp.
Larvae in Massachusetts Catch Basins
Doug Bidlack, East Middlesex Mosquito
Control Project
«
Comparison
of Synergized and Non-Synergized Adulticides
Jeff
O’Neil, Central Life Sciences
Abstract
«
Insecticide
Resistance
Management
Jack Petersen, Rutgers
University
Abstract
«
Parasites: What a Way To Make A Livin’
Joe Conlon, AMCA Technical
Advisor
Abstract
«
Anatomy of Mosquito
Larvae from a Submariners Perspective
Herbert Nyberg, New Mountain
Innovations
Abstract
«
Pyrethroid Cumulative Risk
Assessment
Study
Charles
Smith, US
EPA
Abstract
«
US EPA, NPDES
Pesticide Usage
Reporting
Andrea Szylvian, US EPA, Toxics and Pesticides Unit of EPA Region 1.
«
Closing
Remarks
Timothy McGlinchy, NMCA President
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Mosquitoes
and Rain Gardens/Bioretention
Basins
Aya Obara, Boston University School of Public Health
CMMCP and
Westford Living Lab: Synergy in the
Classroom
Curtis Best
and Julianna Miller, Central Mass Mosquito
Control
An
Innovative Use of and Old Idea
– From Salt Hay Farming to Debris
Removal
Paul
Capotosto, Frank
Shaw, and Roger Wolfe, CT DEEP WHAMM Program
Development
of Alternative Carbon Dioxide Source,
Frank Cornine III and John Prohaska,
Central Mass
Mosquito Control & Blackstone Photonics
Invasion of the Bloodsuckers: A
traveling exhibit on loan from the Yale Peabody Museum
of Natural History