GSARP Spring 2012 Meeting

GULF & SOUTH ATLANTIC REGIONAL PANEL ON AQUATIC INVASIVE SPECIES
RENAISSANCE MOBILE RIVERVIEW PLAZA HOTEL
MOBILE, AL
APRIL 2-4, 2012

Monday, April 2, 2012

1:00 Leave Hotel and Travel to Cogongrass Site

1:45 Tour Cogongrass Site

2:30 Travel to Village Point Park

3:00 Tour Village Point Park

4:40 Travel Back to Hotel

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

8:30 Call to Order – Leslie Hartman

• Introductions
• Public Comment

8:40 Review and Adoption of Agenda – Leslie Hartman

8:50 Review and Approval of Minutes (10/4-5/2011 Austin, TX) – Leslie Hartman

9:00 Apple Snail Control/Sampling in Langan Pond and Three Mile Creek – Dave Armstrong

10:00 BREAK

10:30 Impacts and Control of Cogongrass in the Southeast – Nancy Loewenstein

11:15 Zebra Mussels in Texas: Implications for Southern States – Robert McMahon

12:00 LUNCH

1:30 Update – Reproductive Sterility as a Tool for Prevention/Control of AIS – John Teem

2:00 Update – Trojan Y Chromosome Eradication of Invasive Fish Project – John Teem

2:30 Final Report on the AIS Traveling Trunk Project – Herb Kumpf

3:00 BREAK

3:30 Update on Penaeus monodon activities – Peter Kingsley-Smith

4:00 National Invasive Lionfish Prevention and Management Plan Update – James Ballard

4:15 AFS Southern Division Resolution on AIS State Plan and Panel Funding – Dennis Riecke

4:30 Discussion of Coast Guard’s Final Rule on Ballast Water – ALL

4:55 Public Comment

RECESS