ESPM Seminar Spring 2020
4/30/20 Lorenzo Rosa – “Global Water Challenges of Food and Energy Systems in the 21st Century.” – PowerPoint – Rosa, et. al. 2020, Science Advances – Rosa, et. al. 2020, Nature Sustainability
4/23/20 David Thau – “Machine learning and the Sustainable Development Goals.” – Zoom Meeting Recording
4/16/20 Ken Alex – “What do we do with climate solutions?” – Zoom Meeting Recording
4/9/20 Dr. Michael Polson – “Whose Rural? Cannabis Policing, Activism and Political Ecology in Exurban California” – Zoom Meeting Recording
Ecology and Impacts of Emergent Forest Diseases in California
Class Schedule:
1st meeting: Thursday 10/18, 3pm – 5 pm Wellmann 410
2nd meeting: Saturday 10/20, 9am – 5 pm VLSB 3030
3rd meeting: Sunday 10/21, 9am – 5 pm, Lake Anza trailhead 9 am*, then 3030 VLSB
4th meeting: Thursday 10/25, 3pm – 5 pm Wellmann 410
2nd meeting: Saturday 10/20, 9am – 5 pm VLSB 3030
3rd meeting: Sunday 10/21, 9am – 5 pm, Lake Anza trailhead 9 am*, then 3030 VLSB
4th meeting: Thursday 10/25, 3pm – 5 pm Wellmann 410
5th meeting (not mandatory) Class Recap: Thursday November 15th 3-5 pm Wellmann 410
Exam online either November 19th or November 20th (TBD by class)
* transportation may be offered upon request
The course is organized in 8 parts:
- Part 1: Pest Risk Assessment: modeling, predictions, laws and regulations
- Part 2: Introduction to tree diseases and their causal agents
- Part 3: Ecology of forest diseases, differences between native and non-native diseases
- Part 4: Principles of Biological Invasions and diseases caused by off-site hosts or by forestry practices
- Part 5: Emergent diseases in California caused by exotic fungi
- Part 6: Emergent diseases in California caused by exotic oomycetes
- Part 7: Newest threats
- Part 8: Molecular diagnostics in Forest Pathology
Recommended Readings
Lectures in PDF Format
Audio Visual Links:
PCR Animation
