NZPPS news

On February 12th 2009, the University of Auckland's School of Biological Sciences is hosting a one day symposium to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of the origin of species and Darwin's 200th birthday. This is a free event, with a series of seminars from New Zealand and international speakers.

New book, Surveillance for Biosecurity: Pre-Border to Pest Management, is now available, and contains papers from the 2008 symposium on Surveillance for Biosecurity.

Now available: Future Challenges in Crop Protection: Repositioning New Zealand's Primary Industries for the Future, containing papers from the 2007 symposium.

New Zealand Plant Protection 61 (2008) is now available with full pdfs of articles.

The New Zealand Plant Protection Medal, awarded for exceptional services to plant protection in New Zealand, was awarded to Arthur Healy.

Coming up...

12 Feb 09:	University of Auckland's Darwin symposium (see above).
15 Feb 09:	Abstracts for New Zealand Plant Protection 62, and the 2009 Conference are due.
15 Apr 09:	Deadline for submission of papers to the editor.
30 Apr 09:	Entries for the Most WeedWise Nursery close.
1 May 09:	Entries due for CAWS Annual Student Travel Award.
1 May 09:	Entries due for CAWS Annual Early Career Weed Scientist Travel Award.
15 May 09:	Deadline for poster titles and abstracts to the editor.
15 May 09:	Applications for the NZPPS Conference Travel Grant for Students close.
1 Jul 09:	Nominations for the NZPPS Plant Protection Medal close.
Aug 09:	The 2009 Conference is to be held in Dunedin.
1 Oct 09:	Applications for the NZPPS Research Scholarship close.
1 Oct 09:	Applications for the Dan Watkins Scholarship in Weed Science close.

Nominations for the CAWS Medal for Leadership, awarded for outstanding contributions to weed management in Australasia, are accepted any time.