The Brown Treesnake Technical Committee Meeting Will Be Held in Honolulu

October, 2006 – Report on Upcoming International Invasive Species Meetings

Richard Orr Assistant Director for International Policy and Prevention National Invasive Species Council U.S. Department of the Interior Office of the Secretary (OS/SIO/NISC) Physical and Fedex location: 1201 Eye St. N.W. 5th floor Room 79 Washington, DC 20005 Mailing address: 1849 C Street, NW Washington, DC 20240 Work Phone (202) 354-1882 Fax (202) 371-1751 email address: [email protected]

I. SELECTED WEBSITES WITH INVASIVE SPECIES INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITY LISTINGS:

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service http://www.aphis.usda .gov Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation http://www.apec.org/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/ Commission for Environmental Cooperation (NAFTA) http://www.cec.org/home/index.cfm?varlan=english Convention on Biological Diversity http://www.biodiv.org/default.shtml Global Invasive Species Programme http:// www.gisp.org International Civil Aviation Organization http://www.icao.int/ International Maritime Organization http://www.imo.org/index.htm International Plant Protection Convention http ://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm National Invasive Species Council http://www.invasivespecies.gov/ National Plant Board (U.S.A) http://nationalplantboard.org/ North American Plant Protection Organization http://www.nappo.org/ North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES) http://www.pices.int Pacific Region Environmental Programme http://www.sprep.org.ws/ The World Conservation Union http://www.issg.org/ Trilateral Committee for Wildlife & Ecosystem Conservation and Management http://www.trilat.org/ World Aquaculture Society http://www.was.org/main/Default.asp World Organization for Animal Health http://www.oie.int/eng/en_inde x.htm

II. FUTURE INTERNATIONAL INVASIVE SPECIES ACTIVIES:

2-6 October, 2006 – IPPC Strategic Planning and Technical Assistance – Rome, Italy – Contact: http ://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm

9-11 October, 2006 -- OIE Global Conference on Aquatic Animal Health – Bergen, Norway – Contact: http://www.oie.int/eng/en_inde x.htm

9-13 October, 2006 – IPPC WTO-SPS Committee informal meeting – Geneva, Switzerland – Contact: http ://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm

9-13 October, 2006 – IMO Meeting of Marine Environment Protection Committee -- http://www.imo.org/index.htm

1 13-22 October, 2006 – North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES) Annual Meeting – Yokohama, Japan – Contact: http://www.pices.int

15-October, 2006 – NAPPO Executive Committee Meeting – Fort McDowell, Arizona-USA – Contact: http://www.nappo.org/

16 October, 2006 – NAPPO Phytosanitary Alert System Panel Meeting – Fort Collins, Colorado – Contact: http://www.nappo.org/

16-20 October, 2006 – 30th NAPPO Annual Meeting – Fort McDowell, Arizona, USA – Contact: Julie Aliaga [email protected]

23 October, 2006 – Marine Invasive Species Workshop – Boston, MA, USA – Contact: Charles Hernick [email protected]

26-27 October, 2006 – NAFTA-CEC Risk Analysis workshop on Invasive Aquatic Species – Orlando, Florida, USA – Contact: Richard Orr [email protected]

30 October to 3 November, 2006 – IPPC IPP Capacity Building Workshop – Russian speaking countries – Prague, Czech – Contact: http ://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm

1-8 November, 2006 -- Sixth Working Group Meeting of Animal Movement Management and Zoning Approach for Foot and Mouth Disease Control in the Upper Mekong Basin – Asia – Contact: http://www.oie.int/eng/en_index.htm

5-8 November, 2006 – Biological Crisis Management in Human and Veterinary Medicine: Emerging Diseases: Preparedness and Implementation Issues – Lyon, France – Contact: http://www.oie.int/eng/en_inde x.htm

5-8 November, 2006 – 60th Annual Southeastern Association of fish and Wildlife Agencies Conference – Norfolk, Virginia, USA – Dianne Waller [email protected]

6-10 November, 2006 – IPPC Standards Committee Working Group meeting – Rome, Italy – Contact: http ://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm

9-12 November, 2006 – ESSP Global Environmental Change Open Science Conference – Beijing, China – Contact: www.essp.org/ESSP2006

12-15 November, 2006 – Carnivores 2006 – St. Petersburg, Florida, USA – Contact: www.carnivorecongerence.org

13-17 November, 2006 -- IPPC Standards Committee meeting – Rome, Italy – Contact: http ://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm

13-17 November, 2006 – CBD Workshop on the Application of the Ecosystems Approach to Protected Areas in Small islands – Bangkok, Thailand – Contact: http://www.biodiv.org/default.shtml

13-17 November, 2006 – IPPC 2nd IPP Capacity Building Workshop – Asia – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – Contact: http ://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm

20-21 November, 2006 – CBD Meeting of the Coordination Mechanism for the Global Taxonomy Initiative – Montreal, Canada – Contact: http://www.biodiv.org/default.shtml

20-23 November, 2006 – CBD Regional Synergy Workshop for Latin American and the Caribbean on the Biological Diversity of Dry and Sub-Humid Lands and Agricultural Biodiversity – Bolans Village, Antigua and Barbuda – Contact: http://www.biodiv.org/default.shtml

25-26 November, 2006 – Meeting of OIE Laboratories of Reference – Brazil – Contact: http://www.oie.int/eng/en_inde x.htm

3-5 December, 2006 – First International Conference of OIE Reference Laboratories and Collaborating Centers – Florianopolis, Brazil – Contact: http://www.oie.int/eng/en_inde x.htm

2 26-28 February, 2007 – CBD Third Coordination Meeting for Governments and Organizations implementing and/or funding Biosafety Capacity-building Activities – Lusaka, Zambia – Contact: http://www.biodiv.org/default.shtml

26 February – 2 March, 2007 – World Aquaculture Society: Aquaculture 2007 - San Antonio, Texas, USA – Contact: http://www.was.org/meetings/WasMeetings.asp

1-2 March 2007 – CBD Fourth meeting of the Liaison Group on Capacity-building for Biosafety – Lusaka, Zambia – Contact: http://www.biodiv.org/default.shtml

21-22 March, 2007 – IPPC 5th meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Dispute Settlement – Rome, Italy – Contact: http ://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm

26-30 March, 2007 – IPPC Commission on Phytosanitary Measures – 2nd Session – Rome, Italy – Contact: http ://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm

27-31 March, 2007 – Rats, Humans, & Their Impacts on Islands: Integrating Historical and Contemporary Ecology – An Interdisciplinary Conference – University of Hawaii, Hawaii, USA – Contact: Don Drake and Terry Hunt [email protected]

15-20 April, 2007 – 3rd Global Botanic Gardens Congress – Wunan, China – [email protected]

17-20 April, 2007 – Brown Treesnake Technical Meeting – Tumon Bay, Guam – Contact: Earl Campbell ([email protected]).

23-27 April, 2007 - XIIth International Symposium of Biological Control of Weeds - Montpellier, France – Contact - [email protected] or www.cilba.agropolis.fr/symposium2007.html.

20-25 May, 2007 – 13th International Colloquium on Amphipoda – Tihany, Hungary – Contact: www.blki.hu/13thICA

21-24 May, 2007 – 5th International Conference on Marine Bioinvasions – Cambridge, Massachusetts – Contact http://mit.edu/seagrant or http://massbay.mit.edu

23-25 May, 2007 (tentative) – International Pacific Invasive Ant Conference – Hawaii, USA – Carol Russell [email protected]

18-21 June, 2007 – 14th European Weed Research Society Symposium – Hamar, Norway – Contact: P. Barberi, Mailto:[email protected], http://www.ewrs.org

21-24 June, 2007 – 21st Pacific Science Congress (symposia on Invasive Species) – Okinawa, Japan – Contact: Sponsored by the Science Council of Japan (no contact info at this time).

1-5 July, 2007 – 21st Annual Conference of the Society for Conservation Biology – Port Elizabeth, South Africa – Contact: Ms. Margot Collett [email protected]

2-6 July, 2007 – CBD 12th meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advise (SBSTTA-12) – Paris France – Contact: http://www.biodiv.org/default.shtml

23-27 July, 2007 – Non-Native Fishes: Integrated Biology of Establishment Success and Dispersal -- Fisheries Society of the British Isles International Symposium Exeter – University of Exeter, British Isles – Contact: Tricia Ellis-Evens [email protected] also http://www.fsbi.org.uk

August, 2007 – Pacific Invasive Learning Network Annual Meeting (SPREP) – American Samoa – Contact: http://www.sprep.org.ws/ 7-9 August, 2007 – Managing Vertebrate Invasive Species – An International Symposium – Fort Collins, Colorado, USA – Contact: Dr. Kathleen Fagerstone [email protected]

17-21 September, 2007 -- 9th International Conference on the Ecology and Management of Alien Plant Invasions (EMAPI9) – Perth, Australia – Contact: http:// www.congresswest.com.au/emapi9/

October, 2007 -- 21st Asian Pacific Weed Science Society (APWSS) Conference – Colombo, Sri Lanka – Contact: http://peaches.nal.usda.gov/insp/conf.asp

3 1-4 October, 2007 – International Invasive Sea Squirt Conference – II – Brudenell River, Prince Edward Island, Canada – Contact: Mary Carman, [email protected]

15-18 October, 2007 -- Sixteenth International Plant Protection Congress – Glasgow, UK – Contact: http://www.bcpc.org

28-October to 2-November, 2007 – 12th World Lakes Conference – Jaipur, India – Contact: http://www.taal2007.org

29-October to 2-November, 2007 – IPPC Standards Committee Working Group meeting – Rome, Italy – Contact: http ://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm

5-9 November, 2007 – IPPC Standards Committee meeting – Rome, italy – Contact: http ://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm

26 October to 4-November, 2007 -- North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES) Annual Meeting – Victoria, BC, Canada – Contact: http://www.pices.int

18-22 February, 2008 – CBD 13th meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA-13) – Rome, Italy – Contact: http://www.biodiv.org/default.shtml

May – Ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP-9)—Germany – Contact: http://www.biodiv.org/default.shtml

19-23 May, 2008 -- World Aquaculture 2008 - Busan, Korea – Contact: http://www.was.org/meetings/WasMeetings.asp

16-26 October, 2008 -- North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES) Annual Meeting – Dalian, China – Contact: http://www.pices.int

28-October to 4-November, 2008 – Ramsar Convention Wetlands’ 10th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties – Contact: RAMSAR Convention Secretariat [email protected]

15-19 February, 2009 -- World Aquaculture Society: Aquaculture America 2009 - Seattle, Washington, USA – Contact: http://www.was.org/meetings/WasMeetings.asp