<div dir="ltr">Making sure you all see this:<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Conferences and Short Courses</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:csco@psu.edu">csco@psu.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Sep 7, 2022 at 8:00 AM<br>Subject: Invitation to the 2023 International Conference on Pollinator Biology, Health and Policy<br>To: Sarah Woodard <<a href="mailto:hollis.woodard@ucr.edu">hollis.woodard@ucr.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div class="msg-3305227591633752256"><u></u>
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<td style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-size:16px;color:#0b4f6c;line-height:20px;text-align:center;font-style:normal;word-break:break-word;padding:6px 0"> <span style="color:black">The conference is scheduled for June 3-6, 2023, at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center on Penn State’s University Park campus.</span> <a href="https://web.cvent.com/event/c21acf50-b587-4d7c-b0bc-55cbecd97098/summary" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="color:black">The conference website can be found here</span></a><span style="color:black">. </span> <span style="color:black">.</span> </td>
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<td style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-size:16px;color:#0b4f6c;line-height:20px;text-align:center;font-style:normal;word-break:break-word;padding:6px 0"><span style="color:black">The theme for the 2023 conference is understanding and leveraging networks to support pollinator health, including gene networks, plant-pollinator networks, ecological community networks and scientific networks.</span> <span style="color:black">The conference will have six sessions, spanning disease ecology, integrated pollinator and pest management, developing biodiverse habitats, understanding the impacts of climate change, tools for monitoring and mapping biodiversity, and education, outreach and policy initiatives. </span></td>
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<td style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-size:16px;color:#0b4f6c;line-height:20px;text-align:center;font-style:normal;word-break:break-word;padding:6px 0"><span style="color:black">The conference will begin in the evening of June 3, 2023, with a welcome reception and keynote talk by May Berenbaum, of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Other keynote speakers during the event will be Michelle Flenniken, Montana State University; David Inouye, University of Maryland and Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory; and Alexandra Klein, University of Freiburg.</span> </td>
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<td style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-size:16px;color:#0b4f6c;line-height:20px;text-align:center;font-style:normal;word-break:break-word;padding:6px 0"><span style="color:black">Additional confirmed speakers include Rufus Isaacs, Michigan State University; Jane Stout, Trinity College London; Scott Loarie, iNaturalist and California Academy of Sciences; Hien Ngo, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; Michael Simone-Finstrom, USDA Agricultural Research Service; Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman, USDA-ARS; Benjamin Risse, University of Muenster; Elizabeth Hill, USDA Office of the Chief Scientist; Elfatih M. Abdel-Rahman, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology; Christine Taliga, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service; and Matt Forister, University of Nevada, Reno.</span></td>
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<img src="https://www.cvent.com/api/email/dispatch/v1/open/q46mld67gqfn5m/v65v9y4w/transparent.gif"></div></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p><b style="font-size:12.8px"><font size="2">Dr. S. Hollis Woodard</font></b><br></p><p><font size="2">Associate Professor<br>Department of Entomology<br></font>University of California, Riverside<br>368 Entomology Building<br>Riverside, CA 92521<br>Office: (951) 827-5761<br>Lab: (951) 827-5762<br>Email: <a href="mailto:hollis.woodard@ucr.edu" target="_blank"><font color="#0b5394">hollis.woodard@ucr.edu</font></a><br>Lab website: <a href="http://woodardlab.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#0b5394">woodardlab.com</font></a><br><font color="#000000">Lead PI, US National Native Bee Monitoring Network RCN: </font><a href="http://usnativebees.com" target="_blank"><font color="#0b5394">usnativebees.com</font></a></p></div></div></div></div>