A Joint Meeting of the Gulf, South Atlantic and Western Regional Panels
September 17-19, 2014
Crowne Plaza Downtown
Houston, Texas USA

Program Agenda

Day 1 Wednesday September 17, 2014

7:30 am Registration – Foyer

8:00 am Welcome – Blue Bonnet Ballroom

8:00 am Address from GSARP – Pam Fuller, USGS – Chair GSARP

8:05 am Address from WRP – Elizabeth Brown, CO Parks and Wildlife – Chair WRP

8:10 am Bring meeting to order, review agenda, introductions

Session: AIS Issues of Texas
Moderator: Pam Fuller

8:25 am Current status of dressenids in Texas – Earl Chilton – Texas Parks and Wildlife

8:45 am Zebra mussel: shifting environmental thresholds – Bob McMahon – University of Texas at Arlington

9:05 am Overview of salvinia work in Texas – Earl Chilton – Texas Parks and Wildlife

9:25 am Hello Invasives, Goodbye Texas Campaign – Damon Waitt -Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

9:45 am Discussion

9:55 am Break – Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission

Session: Control of AIS
Moderator: Elizabeth Brown

10:15 am Using Harvest Incentives to Control AIS – Susan Pasko NOAA or Jason Goldberg USFWS

10:35 am New developments with herbicides/pesticides/ integrated pest management – Don Schmitz – Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission

10:55 am Control of marine algae species Sonia Gorgula – Hawaii Department of Natural Resources

11:15 am Control of giant salvinia with an endocide – Shiyou Li – Stephen F. Austin State University

11:35 am Discussion

11:45 – 1:00 pm Lunch on your own

Session: Contributed Papers
Moderator: Beth Bear, Wyoming Game and Fish

1:00 pm Developing outreach that promotes behavior change – Bob Wiltshire – Invasive Species Action Network (60 minutes)

2:00 pm Discussion on behavior change

2:10 pm Wildland Firefighting as a vector Cynthia Tait – USDA Forest Service

2:20 pm Authority of Federal Land Management Agencies to Restrict Movement of Watercraft – Stephanie Showalter-Ot t- Sea Grant Law Center

2:40 pm Asian Carp – impacts on native fish, and ecosystem impacts – Kevin Irons – Illinois Department of Natural Resources

3:00 pm Break – Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission

3:20 pm Coastal vector management in western states/Invasive Tunicates Workshop recap – Sonia Gorgula Hawaii Department of Natural Resources (30 min)

3:50 pm Changes to the Panama Canal/ AIS influences on the Gulf ecology – Leslie Hartman, Texas Parks and Wildlife (30 min)

4:20 pm Discussion

4:55 pm Public Comment

5:00 pm Adjourn

 

GULF & SOUTH ATLANTIC REGIONAL PANEL ON AQUATIC INVASIVE SPECIES
Crowne Plaza Downtown
Houston, TX
September 18th, 2014

Thursday, September 18th, 2014

8:00 Call to Order – Pam Fuller

• Introductions
• Public Comment

8:15 Review and Adoption of Agenda – Pam Fuller

8:20 Review and Approval of Minutes (4/8-9/2014 Gulfport, MS) – Pam Fuller

8:30 Building a Consensus on Lionfish in the Western Gulf of Mexico – Read Porter

9:10 Final Report – Reproductive Sterility for Control and Prevention of AIS – John Teem

9:35 The Invasiveness of Chaetomorpha Alga Used in the Aquarium Trade – Linda Walters

10:00 BREAK

10:15 Update on the Invasive Parasite (A. crassus) of the American Eel – Peter Kingsley-Smith

10:50 Update on New Introductions – Pam Fuller/Matt Cannister

11:00 Update on the USFWS Region 4 AIS Small Grants Program – James Ballard

11:10 Discussion of the 2015-2019 GSARP Guidance Document – All

11:20 Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force Update – Craig Martin

11:30 LUNCH

1:00 State Reports / Members Forum

2:30 BREAK

2:45 State Reports / Members Forum

3:20 Discussion of ANSTF Recommendations – All

3:45 Other Business

• Next Meeting, Time and Place
• Public Comment

ADJOURN

4:00 Reconvene Joint Meeting to Discuss Possible Joint Panel Recommendations