NMCA 49th Annual Meeting

NMCA PROGRAM

49th ANNUAL MEETING

REVISED 21-NOV-03

NORTHEASTERN MOSQUITO CONTROL ASSOCIATION, INC.
Cape Codder Resort & Spa
Hyannis, MA

December 1-3, 2003

_{SUNDAY - NOVEMBER 30, 2003}

_{5-7:00 P.M.} _{Executive Board meeting}

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_{MONDAY - DECEMBER 1, 2003}

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_{7:00 A.M.} _{Exhibitors Set Up}

_{8:00 A.M.} _{Registration Table opens}

_{9:00 A.M.} _{Exhibit Area Opens}

_{Session A}

_{Moderator - Timothy Deschamps}

_{9:00 AM} _{National Anthem & Pledge of Allegiance}
_{Chief John P. Jenkins, West Barnstable Fire Chief}
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_{9:05 AM} _{NMCA Presidential Address}
_{Curtis Best, NMCA President}
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_{9:15 AM} _{AMCA Regional Directors Address}
_{Dan Markowski, AMCA North Atlantic Regional Rep.}
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_{9:30 AM} _{NJ Surveillance Summary 2003}
_{Robert Kent, NJ Office of Mosquito Control Coordination & Wayne Crans, Dept. of Entomology, Rutgers University}
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_{9:45 AM} _{MA Surveillance Summary 2003}
_{Barbara Werner, MA Dept. of Public Health}
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_{10:00 AM} _{Coffee Break - Exhibitors Room}

_{Session B}

_{Moderator - Walter Montgomery}

_{10:30 AM} _{VT Surveillance Summary 2003}
_{Jon Turmel, VT Department of Agriculture}
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_{10:40 AM} _{RI 2003 Surveillance Results}
_{Tara Perry, Al Gettman & Jennifer Dacey, RI Mosquito Abatement Coordination}
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_{11:00 AM} _{NH Surveillance Summary 2003}
_{Tom Marsh, NH Dept. of Health & Human Services}
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_{11:10 AM} _{NY Surveillance Report 2003}
_{Dominick Ninivaggi, Suffolk County (NY) Div. of Vector Control}
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_{11:20 AM} _{CT Surveillance Summary 2003}
_{Ted Andreadis, CT Agricultural Experiment Station}
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_{11:45 AM} _{Welcome Address}
_{Senator Robert O'Leary, Mass. State Senate}
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_{12:00 noon} _{Lunch (on your own)}
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_{Session C}

_{Moderator - Dave Lawson}

_{1:30 PM} _{ME Surveillance Summary}
_{Mike Morrison, Municipal Pest Management Services, Inc.}
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_{1:40 PM} _{Northeast Mass. Mosquito Control & Wetlands Management District 2003 Surveillance Summary}
_{Walter Montgomery, Jack Card, Robyn Januszewski, Emily Sullivan & Esteban Cuebas-Incle, Northeast Mass. Mosquito Control & Wetlands Management District}
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_{1:55 PM} _{Arbovirus Activity in Bristol and Norfolk Counties, Massachusetts in 2002-2003}
_{Wayne Andrews, Bristol County (MA) Mosquito Control Project}
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_{2:10 PM} _{Four Years of Mosquito and West Nile Virus Surveillance at the East Middlesex Mosquito Control Project}
_{Doug Bidlack, East Middlesex (MA) Mosquito Control Project}
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_{2:25 PM} _{Mosquito & Amphibian Associations}
_{Kristen Bartlett, Dept. of Entomology, Rutgers University (NJ) - 2002 NMCA Jobbins Scholarship Recipient}
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_{2:45 PM} _{New Jersey State Surveillance Program, 2003}
_{Lisa Reed, Dept. of Entomology, Rutgers University (NJ)}
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_{3:00 PM} _{Coffee Break - Exhibitors Room}

_{Session D}

_{Moderator - Dave Henley}

_{3:30 PM} _{Evaluation of Efficacy of Linalool Candles as Spatial Repellents Against Natural Populations of Mosquitoes}
_{Susan McKnight, CT Agricultural Experiment Station}
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_{3:50 PM} _{Classification of Mosquito Life Cycle Types Revisited}
_{Wayne Crans, Dept. of Entomology, Rutgers University (NJ)}
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_{4:20 PM} _{NMCA Joins AMCA in EPA's PESP, But What Does It Mean?}
_{Gabrielle Sakolsky, Cape Cod Mosquito Control Project}
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_{4:30 PM} _{Poster Session - Sandwich Room}
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_{5:00 PM} _{NMCA Business Meeting}
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_{6:30 PM} _{President's Reception}

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_{TUESDAY - DECEMBER 2, 2003}

_{8:00 AM} _{Exhibit Area opens}

_{8:00 AM} _{NMCA Continental Breakfast and Exhibitors Presentations}
_{Moderator - Gabrielle Sakolsky}
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_{Session A}

_{Moderator - Ellen Bidlack}

_{9:00 AM} _{Catch Basin Larviciding Utilizing Kawasaki Mule}
_{Mike Morrison, Municipal Pest Management Services, Inc.}
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_{9:20 AM} _{Catch Basin Conditions that Produce _Culex_Mosquitoes}
_{Ellen Bidlack, Plymouth County (MA) MCP}
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_{9:35 AM} _{Effects Of Methoprene On Catch Basin Communities}
_{Mari Butler, University of Rhode Island, 2002 McColgan Grant-in-Aid recipient}
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_{10:00 PM} _{WNV & Meteorological Factors}
_{Paul Epstein, Harvard Medical School}
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_{10:20 AM} _{Coffee Break - Exhibitors Room

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_{Session B}

_{Moderator - Bob Kent}

_{10:50 AM} _{Dry Ice Sublimation & Trapping Considerations}
_{Scott Crans, Rutgers University}
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_{11:20 AM} _{Saltmarsh Restoration in ME & NH}
_{Mike Morrison, SWAMP, Inc.}
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_{11:45 AM} _{Lunch (on your own)}
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_{Session C}

_{Moderator - Sarah MacGregor}

_{1:00 PM} _{Bombardier to "Bombadump"}
_{Bill Mehaffey & Emily D. W. Sullivan, Northeast Mass. Mosquito Control & Wetlands Management District}
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_{1:20 PM} _{An Assessment of Tidal Salt Marsh Restoration on Birds, Fish and Macroinvertebrates in Connecticut}
_{Roger Wolfe, Chris Samor & Paul Capotosto, CT DEP - WHAMM Program and Min Huang, CT DEP Wildlife Division, Migratory Bird Program}
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_{1:40 PM} _{A Comparison of Five All-Terrain Vehicles for Mosquito Control in NJ}
_{Bob Kent & Claudia O'Malley, NJ State Mosquito Control Commission}
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_{2:00 PM} _{Rhode Island's Virtual Saltmarsh Excavator}
_{Al Gettman, RI Mosquito Abatement Coordination}
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_{2:15 PM} _{An Examination of Environmentalist's Claims About Pesticides}
_{Angela Logomasini, Competitive Enterprise Institute}
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_{2:35 PM} _{Coffee Break - Exhibitors Room}
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_{Session D}

_{Moderator - Emily Sullivan}

_{3:00 PM} _{Rift Valley Fever - the Next West Nile-like Scenario?}
_{George Saperstein, Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine}
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_{3:15 PM} _{2003: The Most Active Arbovirus Year in North Carolina History, and Why}
_{Nolan Newton, NC Dept. of Environment & Natural Resources}
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_{3:40 PM} _{An Overview of Pyrethroids - Pyrethroids 101}
_{Steve Antunes-Kenyon, Mass. Pesticide Bureau}
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_{4:30 PM} _{Poster Session - Sandwich Room}
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_{6:30 PM} _{Banquet Reception}
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_{7:30 PM} _Banquet

_{Photo Salon}
_Awards

_{David W. Scott Memorial Award}
_{Robert L. Armstrong Award}
_{Daniel M. Jobbins Scholarship}
_{John J. McColgan Grant-in-Aid}

_{Installation of Officers}
_{Silent Auction Winners}

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_{WEDNESDAY - DECEMBER 3, 2003}

_{8:00 AM} _{Exhibit Area opens}
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_{Session A}

_{Moderator - Paul Capotosto}

_{9:00 AM} _{Evaluation of ULV Droplet Spectrum; A Comparison of Two Methods}
_{Tadhgh Rainey, Hunterdon County (NJ) Health Dept. & Scott Crans, Rutgers University (NJ)}
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_{9:15 AM} _{Anvil Trails in Cape May County, NJ - 2003}
_{Peter Bosak, Ed Sokoria, Mat Diem, Christine Frame, Cape May County (NJ) Mosquito Extermination Commission}
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_{9:30 AM} _{Emergency Mosquito Control in North Carolina after Hurricane Isabel}
_{Nolan Newton, NC Dept. of Environment & Natural Resources}
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_{9:50 AM} _{Emergency Aerial Spray for WNV in Larimer County, CO}
_{Fran Krenick, Clarke Mosquito Control Products, Inc.}
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_{10:05 AM} _{The Massachusetts Military Reservation Mosquito Control Project}
_{William Keto, Senior Environmental Corps of Cape Cod & the Islands}
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_{10:20 AM} _{Coffee Break - Exhibitors Room}
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_{Session B}

_{Moderator - John J. Smith}

_{10:50 AM} _{Efficacy of Insecticidal Aerosols Against Culex Mosquitoes}
_{Michael Reddy, Harvard School of Public Health, Timothy Lepore, David Henley, East Middlesex (MA) Mosquito Control Project, Duane Gubler, Andrew Speilman, Harvard School of Public Health, Paul Reiter, Centers for Disease Control}
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_{11:10 AM} _{Overwintering _{Culex pipiens}_{in New Jersey}}
_{Ary Farajollahi, Dept. of Entomology, Rutgers University (NJ)}
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_{11:30 AM} _{GIS and Mosquito Control}
_{Dave Lawson & Nate Boonisar, Norfolk County (MA) Mosquito Control}
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_{11:50 AM} _{Closing Remarks}
_{Curtis Best, NMCA President}

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_{SUNDAY - NOVEMBER 30, 2003}

	_{5-7:00 P.M.}	_{Executive Board meeting}
_.
_{MONDAY - DECEMBER 1, 2003}
_.
	_{7:00 A.M.}	_{Exhibitors Set Up}
	_{8:00 A.M.}	_{Registration Table opens}
	_{9:00 A.M.}	_{Exhibit Area Opens}
_{Session A}
_{Moderator - Timothy Deschamps}
	_{9:00 AM}	_{National Anthem & Pledge of Allegiance} _{Chief John P. Jenkins, West Barnstable Fire Chief} _.
	_{9:05 AM}	_{NMCA Presidential Address} _{Curtis Best, NMCA President} _.
	_{9:15 AM}	_{AMCA Regional Directors Address} _{Dan Markowski, AMCA North Atlantic Regional Rep.} _.
	_{9:30 AM}	_{NJ Surveillance Summary 2003} _{Robert Kent, NJ Office of Mosquito Control Coordination & Wayne Crans, Dept. of Entomology, Rutgers University} _.
	_{9:45 AM}	_{MA Surveillance Summary 2003} _{Barbara Werner, MA Dept. of Public Health} _.
	_{10:00 AM}	_{Coffee Break - Exhibitors Room}
_{Session B}
_{Moderator - Walter Montgomery}
	_{10:30 AM}	_{VT Surveillance Summary 2003} _{Jon Turmel, VT Department of Agriculture} _.
	_{10:40 AM}	_{RI 2003 Surveillance Results} _{Tara Perry, Al Gettman & Jennifer Dacey, RI Mosquito Abatement Coordination} _.
	_{11:00 AM}	_{NH Surveillance Summary 2003} _{Tom Marsh, NH Dept. of Health & Human Services} _.
	_{11:10 AM}	_{NY Surveillance Report 2003} _{Dominick Ninivaggi, Suffolk County (NY) Div. of Vector Control} _.
	_{11:20 AM}	_{CT Surveillance Summary 2003} _{Ted Andreadis, CT Agricultural Experiment Station} _.
	_{11:45 AM}	_{Welcome Address} _{Senator Robert O'Leary, Mass. State Senate} _.
	_{12:00 noon}	_{Lunch (on your own)} _.
_{Session C}
_{Moderator - Dave Lawson}
	_{1:30 PM}	_{ME Surveillance Summary} _{Mike Morrison, Municipal Pest Management Services, Inc.} _.
	_{1:40 PM}	_{Northeast Mass. Mosquito Control & Wetlands Management District 2003 Surveillance Summary} _{Walter Montgomery, Jack Card, Robyn Januszewski, Emily Sullivan & Esteban Cuebas-Incle, Northeast Mass. Mosquito Control & Wetlands Management District} _.
	_{1:55 PM}	_{Arbovirus Activity in Bristol and Norfolk Counties, Massachusetts in 2002-2003} _{Wayne Andrews, Bristol County (MA) Mosquito Control Project} _.
	_{2:10 PM}	_{Four Years of Mosquito and West Nile Virus Surveillance at the East Middlesex Mosquito Control Project} _{Doug Bidlack, East Middlesex (MA) Mosquito Control Project} _.
	_{2:25 PM}	_{Mosquito & Amphibian Associations} _{Kristen Bartlett, Dept. of Entomology, Rutgers University (NJ) - 2002 NMCA Jobbins Scholarship Recipient} _.
	_{2:45 PM}	_{New Jersey State Surveillance Program, 2003} _{Lisa Reed, Dept. of Entomology, Rutgers University (NJ)} _.
	_{3:00 PM}	_{Coffee Break - Exhibitors Room}
_{Session D}
_{Moderator - Dave Henley}
	_{3:30 PM}	_{Evaluation of Efficacy of Linalool Candles as Spatial Repellents Against Natural Populations of Mosquitoes} _{Susan McKnight, CT Agricultural Experiment Station} _.
	_{3:50 PM}	_{Classification of Mosquito Life Cycle Types Revisited} _{Wayne Crans, Dept. of Entomology, Rutgers University (NJ)} _.
	_{4:20 PM}	_{NMCA Joins AMCA in EPA's PESP, But What Does It Mean?} _{Gabrielle Sakolsky, Cape Cod Mosquito Control Project} _.
	_{4:30 PM}	_{Poster Session - Sandwich Room} _.
	_{5:00 PM}	_{NMCA Business Meeting} _.
	_{6:30 PM}	_{President's Reception}
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_{TUESDAY - DECEMBER 2, 2003}
	_{8:00 AM}	_{Exhibit Area opens}
	_{8:00 AM}	_{NMCA Continental Breakfast and Exhibitors Presentations} _{Moderator - Gabrielle Sakolsky} _.
_{Session A}
_{Moderator - Ellen Bidlack}
	_{9:00 AM}	_{Catch Basin Larviciding Utilizing Kawasaki Mule} _{Mike Morrison, Municipal Pest Management Services, Inc.} _.
	_{9:20 AM}	_{Catch Basin Conditions that Produce _Culex_Mosquitoes} _{Ellen Bidlack, Plymouth County (MA) MCP} _.
	_{9:35 AM}	_{Effects Of Methoprene On Catch Basin Communities} _{Mari Butler, University of Rhode Island, 2002 McColgan Grant-in-Aid recipient} _.
	_{10:00 PM}	_{WNV & Meteorological Factors} _{Paul Epstein, Harvard Medical School} _.
	_{10:20 AM}	_{Coffee Break - Exhibitors Room .}
_{Session B}
_{Moderator - Bob Kent}
	_{10:50 AM}	_{Dry Ice Sublimation & Trapping Considerations} _{Scott Crans, Rutgers University} _.
	_{11:20 AM}	_{Saltmarsh Restoration in ME & NH} _{Mike Morrison, SWAMP, Inc.} _.
	_{11:45 AM}	_{Lunch (on your own)} _.
_{Session C}
_{Moderator - Sarah MacGregor}
	_{1:00 PM}	_{Bombardier to "Bombadump"} _{Bill Mehaffey & Emily D. W. Sullivan, Northeast Mass. Mosquito Control & Wetlands Management District} _.
	_{1:20 PM}	_{An Assessment of Tidal Salt Marsh Restoration on Birds, Fish and Macroinvertebrates in Connecticut} _{Roger Wolfe, Chris Samor & Paul Capotosto, CT DEP - WHAMM Program and Min Huang, CT DEP Wildlife Division, Migratory Bird Program} _.
	_{1:40 PM}	_{A Comparison of Five All-Terrain Vehicles for Mosquito Control in NJ} _{Bob Kent & Claudia O'Malley, NJ State Mosquito Control Commission} _.
	_{2:00 PM}	_{Rhode Island's Virtual Saltmarsh Excavator} _{Al Gettman, RI Mosquito Abatement Coordination} _.
	_{2:15 PM}	_{An Examination of Environmentalist's Claims About Pesticides} _{Angela Logomasini, Competitive Enterprise Institute} _.
	_{2:35 PM}	_{Coffee Break - Exhibitors Room} _.
_{Session D}
_{Moderator - Emily Sullivan}
	_{3:00 PM}	_{Rift Valley Fever - the Next West Nile-like Scenario?} _{George Saperstein, Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine} _.
	_{3:15 PM}	_{2003: The Most Active Arbovirus Year in North Carolina History, and Why} _{Nolan Newton, NC Dept. of Environment & Natural Resources} _.
	_{3:40 PM}	_{An Overview of Pyrethroids - Pyrethroids 101} _{Steve Antunes-Kenyon, Mass. Pesticide Bureau} _.
	_{4:30 PM}	_{Poster Session - Sandwich Room} _.
	_{6:30 PM}	_{Banquet Reception} _.
	_{7:30 PM}	_Banquet _{Photo Salon} _Awards _{David W. Scott Memorial Award} _{Robert L. Armstrong Award} _{Daniel M. Jobbins Scholarship} _{John J. McColgan Grant-in-Aid} _{Installation of Officers} _{Silent Auction Winners} _.

_{WEDNESDAY - DECEMBER 3, 2003}
	_{8:00 AM}	_{Exhibit Area opens} _.
_{Session A}
_{Moderator - Paul Capotosto}
	_{9:00 AM}	_{Evaluation of ULV Droplet Spectrum; A Comparison of Two Methods} _{Tadhgh Rainey, Hunterdon County (NJ) Health Dept. & Scott Crans, Rutgers University (NJ)} _.
	_{9:15 AM}	_{Anvil Trails in Cape May County, NJ - 2003} _{Peter Bosak, Ed Sokoria, Mat Diem, Christine Frame, Cape May County (NJ) Mosquito Extermination Commission} _.
	_{9:30 AM}	_{Emergency Mosquito Control in North Carolina after Hurricane Isabel} _{Nolan Newton, NC Dept. of Environment & Natural Resources} _.
	_{9:50 AM}	_{Emergency Aerial Spray for WNV in Larimer County, CO} _{Fran Krenick, Clarke Mosquito Control Products, Inc.} _.
	_{10:05 AM}	_{The Massachusetts Military Reservation Mosquito Control Project} _{William Keto, Senior Environmental Corps of Cape Cod & the Islands} _.
	_{10:20 AM}	_{Coffee Break - Exhibitors Room} _.
_{Session B}
_{Moderator - John J. Smith}
	_{10:50 AM}	_{Efficacy of Insecticidal Aerosols Against Culex Mosquitoes} _{Michael Reddy, Harvard School of Public Health, Timothy Lepore, David Henley, East Middlesex (MA) Mosquito Control Project, Duane Gubler, Andrew Speilman, Harvard School of Public Health, Paul Reiter, Centers for Disease Control} _.
	_{11:10 AM}	_{Overwintering _{Culex pipiens}_{in New Jersey}} _{Ary Farajollahi, Dept. of Entomology, Rutgers University (NJ)} _.
	_{11:30 AM}	_{GIS and Mosquito Control} _{Dave Lawson & Nate Boonisar, Norfolk County (MA) Mosquito Control} _.
	_{11:50 AM}	_{Closing Remarks} _{Curtis Best, NMCA President}