Student Presentations -- March 24, 2009

Ecology Session -- Moderator: Andris Eglitis

Amy Carroll - University of Idaho
"Examining the relationship between host monoterpenes and Douglas-fir tussock moth"

Melissa Fischer - Northern Arizona University
"The Characteristics of Ponderosa Pine Associated with Attack by the Roundheaded Pine Beetle"

David Jack - University of British Columbia
"Some surprising results when two isolates of a mountain pine beetle symbiotic fungus are tested on the same or different trees"

Fraser McKee - University of Northern British Columbia
"Don't like your neighbours? Move! Evidence of reduced natural enemy assemblages for mountain pine beetle that colonize spruce vs. pine hosts"

Seth Davis - Northern Arizona University
"Trait mediated interactions between mutualist fungi from sympatric and allopatric herbivore populations"

Technology Session -- Moderator: Rob Flowers

Jordan Koopmans - University of Northern British Columbia
"Take Me to Your Leader: Does Early Successional Nonhost Vegetation Spatially Inhibit Pissodes strobi (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)?"

Lisa Lumley - University of Alberta
"New developments and rediscoveries in the quest to identify spruce budworm species in western North America"

Honey-Marie de la Giroday - University of Northern British Columbia
"Invasion of the Peace River region of British Columbia by Dendroctonus ponderosae: What do infestation patterns tell us about dominant dispersal mechanisms?"

Sam Coggins - University of British Columbia
"Improvement of forest inventory variable estimates with ancillary data supplied by multi-source high-spatial resolution remotely sensed data"

Kishan Sambaraju - University of Northern British Columbia
"Occurrence of mountain pine beetle infestations in western Canada: Impact of effective temperature, elevation, and past infestations"

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