Threat Assessment Center Review Agenda
Monday, July 6, 2009
Southern Region Office, 1720 Peachtree Road, NW
8:00 AM Welcome and Introductions - Kier Klepzig, SRS Assistant Director
8:30 AM Overview of EFETAC history, administration and program - Danny Lee, EFETAC Director
9:15 AM Break
9:30 AM Overview of Southern Global Change Program - Steve McNulty, SGCP Team Leader
10:30 AM Overview of Forest Health Monitoring Research - William Bechtold, FHM Team Leader
11:15 AM Research to improve risk mapping of forest pests and diseases - Frank Koch, North Carolina State University
11:45 AM Lunch
12:45 PM Forest Incident Recognition and State Tracking System (FIRST) - William Hargrove, EFETAC
1:15 PM Remote Sensing Tools to Support Forest Monitoring - Joseph Spruce or Gerry Gasser, NASA Stennis Space Center
1:45 PM Data and Computational Infrastructure to Support Risk Assessment - James Fox, University of North Carolina Asheville's National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center
2:30 PM Research on Invasive Plants - Qinfeng Guo, EFETAC
3:00 PM Break
3:15 PM Research to Support Wildland Fire Planning and Assessment - Danny Lee and Steve Norman, EFETAC
3:45 PM Communications and Science Delivery - Perdita Spriggs and Stephanie Worley Firley, EFETAC
4:30 PM Feedback, discussion, questions
