2015 Spring Newsletter - Canadian Weed Science Society

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Newsletter
Spring 2015
Message from the President
Inside this issue:
Check page 2 for the
index of this newsletter
Eric Johnson
Our appreciation to
the following companies for their
support:
Greetings everyone! I hope everyone
enjoyed the holiday season and have
been able to escape from the winter
blues in some shape or form.
As many of you know, I resigned from
AAFC on January 31. I am now on a
brief hiatus until mid-March when I
will join Chris Willenborg’s program at
the University of Saskatchewan as a
Research Assistant.
First off, a number of thank-you’s.
Thanks to Hugh Beckie, the person
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that I am replacing, for the excellent
job he did in leading the Society in
2014. He spearheaded a number of
initiatives including a new Strategic
Plan. It will be a challenge to meet the
high standards set by Hugh and our
previous Presidents. The new BOD will
do its best to carry on the past momentum and ensure that we maintain
a healthy, relevant, and viable society
BASF Canada
Bayer CropScience
Dow AgroSciences
Canada Inc.
DuPont Canada
Monsanto Canada
Syngenta Canada
Inc.
FMC
Nufarm
NovaSource
(Tessenderlo
Group)
AgQuest
Arysta LifeScience
Valent
.
Also, thank-you to those Board members whose term was completed this
past November. They include David
CWSS-SCM Newsletter—Spring 2015
President’s Message continued
Inside this issue:
1-2
President’s Message
Payment of 2015 CWSS-SCM Membership Available
3
CWSS-SCM 2015 Photo Contest
3
Board and Graduate Students Meet
4
2014 Montreal CWSS-SCM Annual
Meeting Begins
4
Plenary Session Begins
5
Plenary Session Speakers
6-7
Fellow Award - Diane Lyse Benoit
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Excellence In Weed Science Award David Clements
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Excellence in Weed Extension Award
Winner — Tom Wolf
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Poster Session
11
Graduate Student Award Winners
12
Poster Awards
13
14-17
Graduate Student Presentations
Professional Workshops
18
Graduate Student Presentation Awards
19
Thanks to the 2014 Montreal Local
Arrangements Committee
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20-21
2015 Annual Meeting The Westin Edmonton Alberta
Plant Canada, Edmonton—July 25 - 29,
2015
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THE INVADER NEWSLETTER
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20145—Changes to CWSS-SCM Board
of Directors
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Biology of Australian Weeds
23
Upcoming Meetings
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CWSS-SCM Facebook and Twitter
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2014 CWSS-SCM Board of Directors
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Clements, Past-President; Stephen Darbyshire, Publications Director;
Allan Kaastra, Member-At-Large, East; and Gavin Graham, Provincial
Representative. Hugh Beckie, Rob Nurse, Meghan Moran, and Chris
Neeser have replaced them in their respective positions. We also welcome Linda Hall to the position of 2nd Vice-President.
Time to reflect on the Annual Meeting in Montreal. I want to extend a
big thank-you to Diane Benoit and her LAC for their time and effort in
organizing a wonderful meeting. It was definitely challenging considering the fact we had our 2013 meeting only 10 months earlier! The
accommodations were great, the plenary session was stimulating, and
the hospitality and networking were second to none. As always, the
graduate students excelled in their presentations, making those of us
approaching “senescence” look pretty ordinary. My personal highlight
was finally winning an award in the Photo Contest! I am sure I hold
the record for most consecutive years of submitting photos without
winning. I still stay awake at nights wondering if it was a pity award!
Fast-forward to the upcoming year. Rory Degenhardt and the Edmonton LAC are formulating an outstanding program for the 2015 Annual
Meeting that will be held at the Westin Hotel from Nov. 23 to 27. The
plan is to have a joint meeting with the Alberta Invasive Species Council, which should help increase attendance and networking opportunities. The theme of the plenary session is NEXT, which will include a
retrospective on herbicide resistance, as well as highlight future
“game-changing” technologies in weed science.
On another note, I want to mention that Elizabeth Simpson is the new Editor
of the Weed Science Society of America newsletter. Elizabeth works as a
Dekalb Agronomist with Monsanto in Brandon so she will definitely be an
asset in enhancing communication between the two societies.
I hope you enjoy the newsletter. Any suggestions or ideas, feel free to contact me. My new email address is
[email protected].
- Eric Johnson
The 2015 November CWSS-SCM Annual Meeting will be
held at the Westin in Edmonton, Alberta,
from November 23 to 27, 2015
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JOIN OUR SOCIETY
If you have not paid your membership dues for 2015, you can now do so online. If you attended our Montreal meeting, your fees for 2015 were included in the meeting fees. If you weren’t able to attend you can
become a member or renew your membership by the online link: http://www.regonline.ca/
canadianweedsciencemembership .
Regular: (Educators, extension agents, government employees, growers, commercialization agents, regulators, researchers) - $100
Student in an International University: - $50
Retired: (Any person who has been a member of CWSS-SCM and has retired) - $0
Student in a Canadian University with signature of supervisor: - $0, please send in a copy of the registration form signed by your supervisor. Send in a copy of our membership form.
CWSS-SCM 2015 Edmonton Photo Contest
Start collecting photos for the Edmonton Photo Contest. The objective of our photo contest is to encourage
CWSS-SCM members to hone their photographic skills and to make excellent weed and weed management
images available for use by CWSS-SCM members and in CWSS-SCM publications.
The three best photos submitted in each of three categories will be recognized. The winning photos will be
selected by a panel of judges selected by the Photo Contest Co-ordinator. For more information on submission of Photo Contest entries, see the Photo Contest section of the Annual Meeting notice on the CWSS-SCM
webpage.
The photo categories for 2015 (for the Edmonton meeting—2015 November) will be
 Category 1: Agriculture and Forestry: Individual botanical subject is not the prime theme of the image.
For example, production (seeding, spraying, cutting...) or general views (landscape)
 Category 2: Weeds: Pictures of plants (patches, whole individual or parts) considered as weeds. Images
should demonstrate morphological characteristics and/or weed invasion/competition. For example, dandelion seeds transported by wind, vetch on evergreen, soybean field with common ragweed...
 Category 3: Research in action: Pictures of research activity whether it be in the lab, or in the field. For
example, canola breeding greenhouse, plot seeding, hand spraying…
DEADLINE—September 30, 2015: Send photos to [email protected] or upload them to the meeting
registration site. (The latter will be ready when fees and program are finalized.)
Prizes: 1st - $100, 2nd - $50, 3rd - $25 in each of three categories. There will also be a People’s Choice
Award.
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2014 Montreal CWSS-SCM Board and Graduate Students
On Monday evening , the Graduate
students met with
the CWSS-SCM
Board of Directors.
At the start of the
event, the members of the Board of
Directors introduced themselves,
and indicated their role on the Board and
briefly described their job. Similarly, the
graduate students introduced themselves
and briefly described their research projects.
The new graduate students or students newto –the-society had a chance to meet their
fellow students and to meet with the CWSSSCM Board of Directors.
2014 Montreal CWSS-SCM Annual Meeting
Hugh Beckie, President of CWSS-SCM
for 2014, greets the
participants of the
Annual Meeting.
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– Plenary Session
Danielle Bernier of MAPAQ, Québec, provides an introduction to the plenary session: Audit on integrated weed management / Audit de la lutte intégrée aux mauvaises herbes. To ensure that all members of the audience were able to understand the plenary session, simultaneous
translation was available.
Local Arrangement Chair, Diane Lyse
Benoit of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec, made the introductory announcements. (on the left).
Marie-Édith Cuerrier of CEROM, SaintMathieu-de-Beloeil, Québec, introduces
more speakers at the Plenary Session.
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– Plenary Session Speakers
Pierre-Antoine Thériault of MAPAQ, Québec, Québec—
L’indicateur intégrée de gestion des cultures / Integrated indicator for crop management (photos to the right)
François Tardif of Guelph University , Guelph, Ontario, - Nouvelles
biotechniques et lutte intégrée /
New technologies and IWM
(photos to the left and below)
Alan Watson of McGill University -, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue,
Québec—Les bioherbicides et la lutte intégrée / Bioherbicides
and IWM (photos below and to the right)
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– Plenary Session Speakers (continued)
Gale West of Université Laval, Québec, - La confiance des producteurs québécois par rapport aux
pratiques de la lutte intégrée pour contrôler les
mauvaises herbes / Québec producer confidence
in IPM practices for weed control
(photos to the left and below)
Sébastien Angers from
Saint-Monique, Québec—
Comment trouver l’équilibre en régie bio, quand les
plantes ont toujours le dernier mot! Finding the right
equilibrium the organic
way when plants always
have the last say!
(photos to the left and
right)
Photo contest winners and photos
will be displayed in the newsletter.
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2015 CWSS-SCM Montreal Fellow Award Winner
Diane Lyse Benoit
Diane Lyse Benoit received a B.Sc. in horticulture from McGill
University in 1977 and completed her Master thesis in weed science in 1980 under the supervision of Dr. Alan Watson from
McGill University (Weed control in flue-cured tobacco). She pursued her studies and in 1986 obtained her Ph.D. in weed ecology
from the University of Western Ontario with Dr. Paul Cavers. The
focus of her expertise was the population dynamics of weed seed
banks in agricultural systems. She started her research career
with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in 1984 at the Horticultural Research and Development Centre in Saint-Jean-surRichelieu, Québec. Her research initially concentrated on the
impact of reduced cultural practices on weed seed banks in the
soil and has worked for several years in close collaboration with
Dr. Anne Légère. She has worked on the biology, ecology and
control of nodding beggarticks (Bidens cernua L.) in carrots. Dr.
Benoit has also coordinated a 10-year study on the reproduction
of yellow nutsedge (Cyperus esculentus L.) in organic soil and the
potential of integrated weed management practices for the suppression of this weed in vegetable production. She has been involved in the evaluation of mechanical weeders, green manure
and cover crops as complementary weed control methods for
Diane Lyse Benoit vegetable production. Her research team is presently studying
the impact of climate change on the reproductive output and
population dynamics of common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.). She is working in close association
with l’Agence de la santé et des services sociaux de la Montérégie and la Table québécoise sur l’herbe à
poux on the impact of community mobilisation on ragweed abundance and pollen concentrations in urban
and rural settings. She has published 27 scientific papers over her career. Dr. Benoit has set up the GLP
site for personnel of the Pest Management Centre in Saint-Jean and
was GLP site manager from 2002-2007. She was among the first active
female member of the Expert committee on weeds – Eastern section in
1979 and was project summarizer for peas, cole crops, table beet,
parsnip, radish, spinach and fine herbs and was chairman for the research appraisal for weed ecology and weed management studies for
ECW. She has served as eastern research representative, chair of database & website committee, chair of physical weed control working
group for the Canadian Weed Science Society and has participated in
local organizing committee in Montréal (1988, 1995) and MontTremblant (2007). She has been involved in the Commission de phytoprotection du CRAAQ and has organized several times the Journées en
phytoprotection (weed tours) in Québec. She is an active member of
Anne Légère speaking on Diane
several scientific societies such as WSSA, EWRS, CBA and SPPQ. She is
Lyse Benoit’s accomplishments
presently vice-president of the SPPQ and will be president in 2012CWSS-SCM Newsletter—Spring 2015
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Diane Lyse Benoit continued
2013. She was technical editor for the scientific journal Phytoprotection from 1988 to 1994 and acted as
associate professor of McGill University and Laval University. Dr. Benoit has supervised six master students
over the years and presently co-supervises a master student and a Ph.D. student. Dr. Benoit remains active
and will organized the 2014 CWSS-SCM meeting in Montréal.
2015 CWSS-SCM Montreal Excellence In Weed Science
Award Winner — David Clements
David was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan and I hold Canadian
and U.S. citizenship. He is married to Deb and they have four
boys aged 15-23. He enjoys long-distance running (and trying
to keep up to his kids), hiking, birding and other outdoor pursuits. He also thrives on spending quality time with his university students, especially on field courses taught on Salt Spring
Island (B.C.), Whidbey Island (Washington) and Hawai’i.
David is a Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies at
Trinity Western University, Langley, B.C., Canada (1994present); co-coordinator of Environmental Studies, teaching
courses in plant biology
and ecology (promoted
to full professor in 2006)
. Clements researches
invasive plants in natural
systems, such as the
Garry oak ecosystem,
David Clements
one of Canada’s most
threatened ecosystems.
He conducts research on Salt Spring Island, where Trinity Western
operates a 72 acre ecological research site that includes some prime
Garry oak ecosystem habitats.
David has published 12 articles in the Biology of Canadian Weeds series in the Canadian Journal of Plant Science and served as editor of
the series from 2004 to 2009. This inspired Clements to foster a new
series in the Pacific Science journal entitled “Biology and Impacts of
Invasive Species of the Pacific Islands” and Clements has served as editor of the series since 2007. He also contributed one article to the
Pacific Science series on Verbesina encelioides and is currently working on a second on Mikania micrantha. The series has now covered
more than a dozen species, many of them with which have serious
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David Clements accepting
award from Don Hare
2015 CWSS-SCM Montreal Excellence in Weed Extension
Award Winner — Tom Wolf
Tom Wolf grew up on a grain farm in southern Manitoba
and maintains strong ties to the farming community. He
obtained his BSA and M.Sc. at the U of M, and his Ph.D. at
Ohio State University. Tom was a research scientist with
Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada for 17 years before forming AgriMetrix, an agricultural research company that he
now operates in Saskatoon. In 2014 alone, he conducted
over 100 presentations throughout the country, reaching
over 3500 people.
During his career, Tom has studied herbicide and fungicide performance with low-drift nozzles, spray drift quantification and modelling, and pesticide product performance
as a function of application technique.
Tom uses a number of extension techniques to get his
message out. Tom loves speaking publicly and is a
speaker in high demand nationally and internationally. In
addition, he uses tools such as Twitter, along with print, radio, and web-based media. He is a regular contributor to
the farm publication, “Farming for Tomorrow”, co-writing a
quarterly article called “Those Wiley Weeds”. He has also
worked with Real Agriculture to develop a video series called “Spray Tips with Tom Wolf”. Recently, Tom has designed and produced several agricultural apps through a grant provided to the Saskatchewan Soil Conservation Association. In his career, Tom has reached over 7000 people
through presentations and personal contact and has had a major impact on the economic and environmental sustainability of agriculture regionally, nationally,
and internationally.
Tom sits on the Board of the
Saskatchewan Soil Conservation Association, is an active
member of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological
Engineers and is a member and
past president of the Canadian
Weed Science Society. He and
his wife, Heather have two sons,
Oscar and Henry.
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Poster Session
WEED COMMUNITY DYNAMICS IN COVER CROPBASED, ORGANIC ROTATIONAL NO-TILL SOYBEAN.
Caroline Halde*1, Steven B. Mirsky2, Matthew R.
Ryan1; 1Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 2Agricultural
Research Station - Beltsville, MD, Beltsville, MD
(left)
GROUND COVER SPECIES SELECTION TO MANAGE
COMMON RAGWEED (AMBROSIA ARTEMISIIFOLIA L.)
IN ROADSIDE EDGE OF HIGHWAY. Jichul Bae*1,
Chaeho Byun1, Alan K. Watson1, Diane L. Benoit2;
1McGill University, Ste. Anne de Bellevue, QC, 2Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saint-Jean-sur Richelieu, QC
(above)
THE CRITICAL WEED-FREE PERIOD IN
GRAIN AMARANTH AND QUINOA. Robert
E. Nurse*1, Eric R. Page2, Kristen Obeid3;
1Agriculture Canada, Harrow, ON, 2Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Harrow, ON,
3OMAFRA,
Harrow, ON
(right)
HERBICIDE RESISTANCE IN QUÉBEC: MORE
SUSPECTS, MORE CASES. Marie-Josee
Simard*1, Danielle Bernier2; 1Agriculture and
Agri-Food Canada, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC,
“IS THERE A COST TO GLYPHOSATE RESISTANCE IN KOCHIA?” Leshawn Benedict, Connie A. Sauder, Tracey James, Hugh J. Beckie, and
Sara L. Martin; Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada,
Ottawa, ON
Quebec, QC
(below)
(below)
SYMBIOTIC ASSOCIATION WITH NEORHIZOBIUM GALEGAE LIMITS THE DISPERSAL OF
GALEGA OFFICINALIS (GOAT’S RUE) IN CANADA. Stephen Darbyshire1, Eden Bromfield1,
Sylvie Cloutier1 and Catherine Robidas1,2,
1
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, ECORC,
Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0C6, 2La Cité, Baccalauréat en technologie appliquéeBiotechnologie (right)
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2MAPAQ,
DEVELOPING A METHOD TO ESTIMATE POD
DROP IN CANOLA. Andrea Cavalieri*1, Angelena
Syrovy2, Steven J. Shirtliffe3, Robert H. Gulden4;
1
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, 2University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, 3University
of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, 4University of
Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB (above)
2014 CWSS-SCM Montreal Graduate Student Award Winners
1st Place Award for Ph.D. Student Provided
by Monsanto
Joe Vink of Monsanto Canada Inc. presents the
1st Place Award for Ph.D. student to Breanne
Tidemann, University of Alberta (photo on the
left)
2nd Place Award for Ph.D. Student Provided by
Dow AgroSciences Inc.
Laura Ford of Dow AgroSciences presents the
2nd Place Award to CCharles Geddes, University of Manitoba (photo on the right)
3rd Place Award for Ph.D. Student Provided by
CWSS-SCM
Chris Willenborg, Chair of the Awards Committee, CWSS-SCM, presents the 3rd Place Award
for Ph.D. student to Andrew McKenzie-Gopsill,
University of Guelph (photo on the left)
1st Place Award for M.Sc. Student Provided by
Monsanto
Joe Vink of Monsanto Canada Inc. presents the
1st Place Award for M.Sc.. student to Andrea
De Roo, University of Saskatchewan
(photo on the right)
2nd Place Award M.Sc. Student Provided by
Syngenta
Greg Wilson of Syngenta presents the 2nd Place
Award to Katherine Stanley, University of Saskatchewan (photo on the left)
3rd Place Award M.Sc. Student Provided by
CWSS-SCM
Chris Willenborg, Chair of the Awards Committee, CWSS-SCM, presents the 3rd Place Award
for Ph.D. student to Annemarie Van Wely, University of Guelph (photo on the right)
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2014 CWSS-SCM Montreal—Poster Awards
Jeff Bertholet of BASF Canada presents the poster
awards for the meeting.
(photo left)
Chris Willenborg presents
the 2nd place poster award
plaque to Sara Martin for
Leshawn Benedict, (“IS THERE A
Chris Willenborg presents the 2nd place poster
award plaque to Rob
Nurse (THE CRITICAL WEED-FREE
PERIOD IN GRAIN AMARANTH
AND QUINOA. Robert E. Nurse*1,
Eric R. Page2, Kristen Obeid3; 1Agriculture Canada, Harrow, ON,
2
Agriculture and Agri-Food Cana-
Chris Willenborg presents the
1st place poster award plaque
to Stephen Darbyshire (SYMBIOTIC
ASSOCIATION WITH NEORHIZOBIUM GALEGAE LIMITS THE DISPERSAL OF GALEGA OFFICINALIS
(GOAT’S RUE) IN CANADA. Stephen Darbyshire1, Eden Bromfield1,
Sylvie Cloutier1 and Catherine
Robidas1,2, 1Agriculture and AgriFood Canada, ECORC, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0C6, 2 La Cité, Baccalauréat en technologie appliquéeBiotechnologie )
COST TO GLYPHOSATE RESISTANCE
IN KOCHIA?” Leshawn Benedict,
Connie A. Sauder, Tracey James,
Hugh J. Beckie, and Sara L. Martin;
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada,
Ottawa, ON)
Meeting Participants enjoy coffee breaks during Poster sessions.
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CWSS-SCM Graduate Student Presentations
Sonhita Chakraborty - Assessing the
cultivation potential of oilseed crops
Euphorbia lagascae and Centrapalus
pauciflorus in Southern Ontario
Breanne Tidemann - Potential for
Harvest Weed Seed Control as
Evidenced by Weed Seed Rain
Ali Moussavi - Studying the practical
field establishment of Taraxacum Koksaghyz (TKS) from seed
Andrew McKenzie-Gopsill - Light,
weeds and carbon partitioning – how
does a neighbour do it?
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Reece Lawrence - Exergy, a candidate
for precision agriculture
Katherine Stanley - The potential for
inter-row cultivation in organic pulse
production
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HaeWon Kim - Thiamethoxam enhances soybean competitive ability with
weeds
Scott Ditschun - Control of Glyphosateresistant Conyza canadensis [L.] Cronq.
with isoxaflutole and metribuzin
Charles Geddes - To Till, or Not to Till:
Soil disturbance after canola
harvest
Andrea De Roo - Molecular discrimination of Catchweed Bedstraw (Galium
aparine L.) and False Cleavers (Galium
spurium L.) in Western Canada
Ian Epp - Evaluating the response of
Galium species and populations to
herbicides
Amy Mangin - Optimizing Efficacy of
Pyroxasulfone on Wild Oat
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David Miville - Evaluation of Hairy
Vetch (Vicia villosa Roth.) and Winter
Rye (Secale cereale L.) Mulch as Cover
Crops to Control Weeds in Cucurbits
Annemarie Van Wely - Control and Distribution of Glyphosate Resistant Common Ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia
L.) in Ontario
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Jessica Weber - Improving kochia control in Oats (Avena sativa L.)
Ethan Bertholet - Evaluation of new
and existing desiccants in lentil
Professional Workshops from 2014 Annual Meeting Montreal
Introduction to R Daniel Cloutier
using RStudio
Institut de malherbologie,
Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue,
Québec
Professional use
of social media
Émmanuelle Arès Communications
Émmanuelle
Arès
How to review a
manuscript for a
scientific journal
Robert
Nurse
AAFC, Harrow
Ontario & editor in
chief for Canadian
Journal of Plant
Science
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Graduate Student Best Presentation Awards
3
2
Alan Kaastra of Bayer CropScience (upper left) with Chris Willenborg
presents the Award winners of the Student Presentations to Breanne
Tidemann (1st Place), Andrea De Roo (2nd Place) and Katherine
Stanley (3rd Place).
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Thanks to the 2014 Montreal Local Arrangements Committee
Thanks to the CWSS-SCM Local Arrangements Committee for all their work: Diane Lyse Benoit (LAC Chair
and Hotel Arrangements), Marie-Edith Cuerrier (Plenary Session Chair) Danielle Bernier (Programme Committee Chair), Maryse Leblanc (Continuing Education Sessions Chair), François Tardif (Program Concurrent
Section Liaison), Marie Josée Simard (Moderators & Food Cantering), Pierre-Antoine Thériault (AV Equipment), Eric Page (Poster Session), Gilles Leroux (Graduate Student Presentations), Michel Tremblay
(Industry Reception), Sébastien Brière (Commercial Displays & Local Sponsorship), Romain Néron
(Photography Contest), Chris Willenborg (Scholarships & Awards) Marie-Édith Cuerrier (Pre-Conference
Tour), and Anne Légère (Awards Banquet & Media contact).
Thanks to Sam Chauvette for all his photos in this issue. All photos were taken by Sam unless noted otherwise.
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Our CWSS-SCM 2015 Annual Meeting
November 23—27, The Westin
Edmonton Alberta
Mark your calendars for November 23 to 27, 2015, for the CWSS-SCM Annual Meeting. It will be held at the Westin
in Edmonton, Alberta. This
Meeting will be chaired by
Rory Degenhardt.
Check out more on the hotel at
http://
www.thewestinedmonton.com/
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CWSS-SCM Symposium (Edmonton) Nov. 24, 2015
Plenary Theme: NEXT
Tentative Symposium Outline
Time
Topic
Speaker
8:00 - 8:05
(Actual Titles are Subject to Change)
Introduction
Linda and Rob
8:05 – 8:10
Brief retrospective
TBA
8:10 – 9:10
RNAi techniques for weed control
Doug Sammon, Monsanto
9:15 – 10:15
Todd Gaines, Colorado State
10:15 – 10:30
Molecular Weed Science – Down the rabbit hole of big data
Morning coffee
10:15 – 11:00
New Biologicals
To be confirmed
11:00 – 12:00
Remote sensing of weeds/ information for
variable rate application of herbicides
Kevin Price, Roboflight
Speaker Biographies:
Todd Gaines ; http://bspm.agsci.colostate.edu/people-button/faculty-new/todd-gaines/
Doug Sammons: http://www.herbicideresistanceconference.com.au/Speakers/Doug-Sammons
Kevin Price: http://www.k-state.edu/geography/people/faculty/kprice.html
Awards and Scholarships
Take the time and review our latest information on 2015 CWSS-SCM Awards And Scholarship Information . The 2015
deadline for the nominations and applications for the Annual Meeting in Edmonton is September 30, 2015.
•Graduate Student Scholarships
•CWSS-SCM Outstanding Industry Member Award
•Dow AgroSciences Canada Inc. Excellence in Weed Science Award
•CWSS-SCM Fellow
•CWSS-SCM Meritorious Service
•Excellence in Weed Extension Award
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Plant Canada
Edmonton—July 25 - 29, 2015
Botany 2015, a Joint International Conference between Plant Canada and several other societies, will be
held in Edmonton, Alberta from July 25 - 29, 2015. CWSS –SCM is participating as a member of Plant Canada. The theme of the meeting this year is “Science and Plants for People” and the keynote speaker is Dr. Ken
Thompson of the University of Sheffield. Thompson is a world renowned plant ecologist who has published
extensively on seed biology, and is founder of the International Society of Seed Science.
BULLETIN OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CANADA
BULLETIN DE LA SOCIÉTÉ D'ENTOMOLOGIE DU CANADA
Table of Contents /
Table des matières : Volume 47(1), March /
mars 2015
Up front / Avant-propos ............................................1
The student wing / L’aile étudiante ...........................5
People in the news / Gens qui font les manchettes.
Jeremy McNeil - Order of Canada .......................9
Joint Annual Meeting / Réunion annuelle conjoint .. 10
Special feature / Article spécial:
A Tale of Two Stinkies (Bekka Brodie) ............ 12
In memory / En souvenir de
Dean Struble (Bob Byers) .................................. 16
Ron Harris (Cynthia Scott-Dupree) ................... 17
Book review / Critique de livre
The Bee: A Natural History
(Christopher Dufault)…………………………. 18
Books available for review /
Livres disponibles pour critique…………………...20
Society business / Affaires de la Société
65th Annual General Meeting (JAM 2015)…... 22
Call for Nominations…………………………. 22
11th Annual Photo Contest …………………... 23
Announcements / Annonces……………………….25
Meeting Announcements / Réunions futures………26
Officers of affiliated societies /
Dirigeants des sociétés associées…………………. 28
The last word / Le dernier mot …………………… 29
Governing board /
Conseil d’administration …………. inside back cover
This issue may be accessed at: http://esc-sec.ca/
bulletin/bulletin_mar_2015.pdf
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Eric Johnson (left) takes over the gavel as the President of CWSS-SCM for 2015 from Hugh Beckie
(right). Eric presents Hugh with a plaque for his term as President of CWSS-SCM for 2014.
The Board also thanks Stephen Darbyshire (Publications), Allan Kaastra (Member-At-Large (East)),
Gavin Graham (Provincial Extension Representative) and David Clements (Past-President) for their
work on the Board of Directors. At the same time we welcome the following to Board:
Provincial Extension Representative................. Chris Neeser
Member-At-Large (East)……………………….Meghan Moran
Publications Director ............................................. Rob Nurse
2nd Vice-President................................................. Linda Hall
We also welcome the 2015 LAC Chair, Rory Degenhardt. Rory and his team is already well on
their way in developing the meeting for Edmonton in November 2015.
Biology of Australian Weeds (Groves and Panetta 2014)
acknowledge inspiration and encouragement for starting and developing the series
from Paul Cavers and Jack Alex
Richard Groves and Dane Panetta have recently published a paper on the 35-year history of the series of papers under
the banner Biology of Australian Weeds (Groves and Panetta 2014). In the introduction they acknowledge inspiration
and encouragement for starting and developing the series from Paul Cavers and Jack Alex, who were both key figures in
establishing the Biology of Canadian Weeds series about 5 years earlier (Cavers et al. 2013).
Groves and Panetta succinctly describe the impact of the series, “A sound biological understanding of more than 60
Australian weeds or weed groups – both agricultural and environmental – has been provided on which to build future
research programs.” Our Canadian series (both Biology of Canadian Weeds and Biology of Invasive Alien Plants in Canada) now number their contributions at over 160.
While part of the goal of these reviews is to foster future research planning by summarizing current knowledge and
identifying gaps, many other immediate and long-term benefits are also attained. For example, the distribution history
and (specimen based) current state provides information on dispersal patterns and a time sample useful in future analyses as plant distribution responds to environmental change. Dispersal of weeds is partly dependant on the plant’s
biology, but also dependant on its interaction with the vicissitudes of the human “footprint”.
Autecology is not a fashionable pursuit these days, but without knowing how the parts work, is there any hope of
attaining more than a superficial knowledge of the incorporating systems?
Cavers, P.B., Darbyshire, S.J. and Mulligan, G. A. 2013. History of the series on the Biology of Canadian Weeds. Canadian Journal of Plant Science 93: 351–361.
Groves, R.H. and Panetta, F.D. 2014. The Biology of Australian Weeds - a short history of the series. Plant Protection
Quarterly 29(4): 127–130.
Thank you to Stephen Darbyshire for submitting this article.
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Upcoming Meetings
July 25 - 29, 2015
Plant Canada, Edmonton, Alberta
November 8-11 2015
Joint Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of Canada and the Entomological Society of Quebec (Entomology in the Anthropocene) - Montreal, Quebec, http://seq.qc.ca/activites/reunions/SEQ-ESC_2015/index2.asp
November 23-27, 2015
CWSS-SCM Annual Meeting at The Westin in Edmonton, Alberta
December 7-10, 2015
The NORTH CENTRAL WEED SCIENCE SOCIETY meeting will be held in Indianapolis, IN, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel
February 8 – 11, 2016
Weed Science Society of America Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico
June 19-25, 2016
7th International Weed Science Congress will be held at Clarion Congress Hotel Prague, Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC
November 22-24, 2016
CWSS-SCM Annual Meeting at Delta Beausejour in Moncton, NB
February 2017
Weed Science Society of America Annual Meeting, Tucson, Arizona
CWSS-SCM Facebook and Twitter
Remember to regularly check out our CWSS-SCM social media tools for the membership. We hope these
tools will help our membership connect and help distribute information on weed science throughout the
year. The hyperlinks are listed below and the links are also posted on our main website, www.weedscience.ca.
Please follow, like and tweet about these tools! CWSS-SCM Facebook Page ,
CWSS-SCM Graduate Students Page (Login to Facebook required) and CWSSAnita Drabyk
SCM Twitter . We post timely information on abstract submissions, job
CWSS – SCM, Executive Assistant
P.O. Box 674
postings and other information on these sites.
Articles for Newsletter
Articles, photos, letters and news items for the newsletters can be emailed to
[email protected] at any time. The deadline for the next submissions for the newsletters will be June 1, 2015.
Pinawa, Manitoba R0E 1L0
Telephone: (204) 205-0297
or (204) 753-2915
Fax: (204) 753-2363
E-mail: [email protected]
President .......................................................... Eric Johnson
Research Representative ............................ Chris Willenborg
Past President…………………….. .................... Hugh Beckie
CropLife Canada Representative (West)............ Joe McNulty
1st Vice-President ............................................ Jeff Bertholet
CropLife Canada Representative (East)............. Greg Wilson
2nd Vice-President .................................................Linda Hall
Provincial Extension Representative ................. Chris Neeser
Treasurer ........................................................Frances Boddy
Member-At-Large (East).................................Meghan Moran
Secretary ................................................................ Don Hare
Member-At-Large (West).................................. Ken Sapsford
Regulatory Representative ............................ Michael Downs
Graduate Student Representative ............. Katherine Stanley
Regulatory Representative ................................. Wendy Asbil
Local Arrangements (2015) ........................ Rory Degenhardt
Publications Director ............................................ Rob Nurse
Executive Assistant to the Board ....................... Anita Drabyk
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