The following preliminary schedule has been assembled for the EAS 2004 Main Conference:
Wednesday Aug 11 |
1:10 pm | Welcome PA Secretary Agriculture Dennis Wolff; Response Jim Bobb, EAS President |
1:15 pm | Marla Spivak, U. Minnesota - Genetics and hygienic behavior |
1:50 pm | Maryann Frazier, Penn State U. - 100 years of Beekeeping - the World and PA |
2:30 pm | Break |
3:15 pm | Mike Stangellini, Rutgers Univ. - Bees and crop pollination |
4:00 pm | Update on Homeland security & honey quality (speaker to be announced) |
4:30 pm | Jim Tew, ATI, Ohio State U. - Some Useless Equipment Every Beekeeper Should Have |
7:00 pm | EAS Ice Cream Social |
8:00 pm | Cliff Sunflower, EAS MB & ’94 EAS Divelbiss awardee - Dancin’ with the Honey Bees |
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Thursday Aug 12 |
Concurrent Session #1 - Meeting beekeeping challenges |
8:30 am | Dennis vanEngelsdorp, Pa Apiary Insp - Varroa mite thresholds for the time deprived,
penny pinching beekeeper |
9:00 am | John Skinner, U of Tennessee - Southeast Varroa Management Project |
9:30 am | Mike Embrey, U of Maryland - Using queen replacement for IPM control of Varroa mites |
10:00 am | Break |
10:30 am | George Clutter, WV Apiary Inspector - Beekeeping in WV |
11:00 am | Nancy Ostiguy, Penn State Univ. - Why we count & what numbers mean |
11:30 am | Tiffany Crum, PA Dept Agric - Under the Microscope: "A Lab Technician Speaks Out" |
11:45 am | Speaker Q & A session |
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Concurrent Session #2 - All about bees |
8:30 am | Jeff Pettis, USDA Beltsville - How to wash away your mite problems - why the microwave won't help! |
9:00 am | EAS Student Award winner presentation - to be announced |
9:30 am | Diana Cox-Foster, Penn State Univ - A Bee's defense: More than a stinger! |
10:00 am | Break |
10:30 am | Wayne Yoder, Frostburg State Univ - Using what they have: Bees and others |
11:00 am | Heather Mattila, Univ of Guelph - To feed or not to feed: supplementing colonies in the spring |
11:30 am | Speaker Q & A session |
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Afternoon | Workshops |
Evening | Barbarque and Auction |
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Friday Aug 13 |
General Session |
8:30 am | Marcus Denis, St Lucia - Beekeeping Caribbean style |
9:00 am | Kimberly Winter, NAPPC Coordinator, U of MD - Pollinator Protection Campaign |
9:30 am | Julio Ledo, Univ Mayor San Simon (Bolivia) & Dewey M. Caron, U of Del. - Why Africanized bees don’t die from varroa |
10:00 am | Break |
10:30 am | Jennifer Berry, U of Georgia - Three State Varroa IPM Project: The Georgia Component |
11:00 am | Kathy Summers, AI Root Co - What is in store for Ohio 2005 EAS |
11:15 am | EAS Business Meeting |
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Special Session |
8:30 am- 12:00 noon | A.I. Root Distinguished Lecture Series on marketing varietal honey |
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Afternoon | Workshops |
Evening | Annual Banquet |