Invasive Pest Meeting - Maui 2025

Join us for a lively discussion on tackling invasive pests in Maui - it's time to protect our island paradise!

Agenda


🕑: 08:10 AM - 05:00 PM
Day 1 (August 12)

🕑: 08:10 AM - 08:40 AM
Registration

🕑: 08:40 AM - 08:50 AM
Program Briefing
Host: Dr. Roshan Manandhar

Info: CTAHR Extension, UH

🕑: 08:50 AM - 09:05 AM
Welcome Speech
Host: Dr. Jeremy Elliott-Engel

Info: Associate Dean Extension, UH Manoa

🕑: 09:05 AM - 10:05 AM
Keynote Presentation
Host: Dr. Jennifer Grenz

Info: University ff British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

🕑: 10:05 AM - 10:20 PM
Break (Refreshments)

🕑: 10:20 AM - 10:45 AM
Interagency MOU for high-priority pest response: coordinating LFA, CRB & Coqui
Host: Jack Reef

Info: Hawaii Invasive Species Council

🕑: 10:45 AM - 11:10 AM
Exploring the diverse efforts and actions to control CRB in Hawaii
Host: Keith Weiser

Info: Hawaii CRB Response

🕑: 11:10 AM - 11:35 AM
A lack of policy? Enacting collaborative and community-based action on invasiv
Host: Franny Brewer

Info: Big Island Invasive Species Committee

🕑: 11:35 AM - 12:00 PM
Partnerships & collaboration increase the capacity for preventing and managing
Host: Dr. Elliott Parsons

Info: Pacific RISCC, Pacific Islands Climate Adaptation Science Center

🕑: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Lunch
Host: In-house catering service

🕑: 01:00 PM - 01:25 PM
Special Remarks
Host: Dr. Parwinder Grewal

Info: Dean CTAHR, UH Manoa

🕑: 04:35 PM - 05:00 PM
Biocontrol of forest invaders
Host: Rob Hauff

Info: Hawaii DLNR, Division of Forestry and Wildlife

🕑: 01:25 PM - 01:50 PM
Kahoolawe restoration and fire response
Host: Paul Higashino

Info: Kahoolawe

🕑: 01:50 PM - 02:15 PM
Hazard analysis and critical control point planning for invasive species preve
Host: Dr. Leyla Kaufman

Info: US Fish and Wildlife Services

🕑: 02:15 PM - 02:40 PM
The flat, earthy, and misidentified: An update om "worms" in Hawaii
Host: Dr. Norine Yeung

Info: Bishop Museum

🕑: 02:40 PM - 03:05 PM
Will the real Melanoides tuberculata please stand up?
Host: Dr. Ken Haye

Info: Bishop Museum

🕑: 03:05 PM - 03:20 PM
Break (Refreshmnets)

🕑: 03:20 PM - 03:45 PM
Research updates on biological and chemical control of CRB in Hawaii
Host: Dr. Zhiqiang Cheng

Info: Department of Plant & Environmental Protection Sciences, UH Manoa

🕑: 03:45 PM - 04:10 PM
Top invasive W**d and insect pests in Hawaii and their potential biocontrol ag
Host: Dr. Mohsen Ramadan

Info: Hawaii Department of Agriculture

🕑: 04:10 PM - 04:35 PM
Using knowledge of resident natural enemy impacts on invasive insects to predi
Host: Dr. Mark Wright

Info: Department of Plant & Environmental Protection Sciences, UH Manoa

🕑: 08:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Day 2 (August 13)

🕑: 08:00 AM - 08:25 AM
Two-lined spittlebug, a pasture pest in paradise: Biology, ecology, and IPM
Host: Dr. Mark Thorne

Info: CTAHR Cooperative Extension, UH

🕑: 08:25 AM - 08:50 AM
Update on statewide Rapid Ohia Death response
Host: Robb Hauff

Info: Hawaii DLNR, Division of Forestry & Wildlife

🕑: 08:50 AM - 09:15 AM
Restoring Scalesia forests, conserving vermilion flycathers in the Galapagos
Host: Dr. Jorge Renteria

Info: Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Island

🕑: 09:15 AM - 09:40 AM
Axis deer management on Maui
Host: Lance Desilva

Info: Hawaii DLNR, Maui Division of Forestry and Wildlife

🕑: 09:40 AM - 09:55 AM
The ecological and economic challenges of wild ungulates across the Hawaiian i
Host: Derek Risch

Info: Department of Natural resources and Environmental Management, UH Manoa

🕑: 09:55 AM - 10:10 AM
Break (Refreshments)

🕑: 10:10 AM - 10:35 AM
Coming soon!!!

🕑: 11:35 AM - 12:00 PM
The nose knows: Integrating canine detection technique into MISC’s LFA eradica
Host: Trisha Dillenburg

Info: Maui Invasive Species Committee

🕑: 10:35 AM - 11:00 AM
Fire plays no favorites: managing fuels, restoration, and land stewardship
Host: Jordan Jokiel

Info: Haleakalā Ranch

🕑: 11:00 AM - 11:35 AM
Gathering ant-elligence, ant-icipating invasions and finding ant-swers:
Host: Monte Tudor-Long

Info: Maui Invasive Species Committee

🕑: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Lunch
Host: In-house catering Service

🕑: 01:00 PM - 01:25 PM
Special note: Monitoring of possible invasion of Helicoverpa armigera in Texas
Host: Dr. Megha Parajulee

Info: University of Texas A&M

🕑: 01:25 PM - 01:50 PM
Understanding and management of the coffee leaf rust infection and coffee berr
Host: Luis F. Aristizábal,

Info: Department of PEPS, UH Mānoa

🕑: 01:50 PM - 02:15 PM
Use of invasive tree ferns as a high-quality orchid substrate and import repla
Host: Dr. James Keach

Info: CTAHR Cooperative Extension, UH

🕑: 02:15 PM - 02:30 PM
Break (Refreshments)

🕑: 02:30 PM - 02:55 PM
Maui County revised organics handling and processing in response to CRB
Host: Cecile Powell

Info: Maui County

🕑: 02:55 PM - 03:20 PM
Maui Biosecurity

Info: Hawaii Department of Agriculture

🕑: 03:20 PM - 03:45 PM
Lānaʻi Biosecurity Plan
Host: Jonathan Sprague and Dr. Rachel Sprague

Info: Pūlama Lānaʻi

🕑: 03:45 PM - 04:10 PM
Collaborative biosecurity efforts at the Hawaiʻi Department of Agriculture
Host: Dr. Josiah Marquez

Info: Hawaiʻi Department of Agriculture

🕑: 04:10 PM - 04:20 PM
Closing Remarks
Host: R. Manandhar

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