The Alaska Entomological Society invites members of the Alaska Entomological Society to submit a proposal to the annual Kenelm W. Philip Entomology Research Award.
Web page:
http://www.akentsoc.org/kenelm-w-philip-entomology-research-award
Announcement including details:
http://www.akentsoc.org/doc/AKES_KWP_Ento_Award_Announcement.pdf
The annual forest health conditions report provided by Forest Service R10, Alaska Region is available online (see link to pdf below). The conditions report contains, but is not limited to, information pertaining to forest insects in the state.
“The primary goal of this report is to summarize monitoring data collected annually by our Forest Health Protection team. The report helps to fulfill a congressional mandate (The Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978, as amended) that requires survey, monitoring, and annual reporting of the health of the forests. This report also provides information used in the annual Forest Insect and Disease Conditions in the United States report.”
Forest Health Conditions in Alaska-2014
http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprd3830191.pdf
Presentations from the 8th annual meeting are available via the links below.
We’re getting there: a first look at (cheap!) next-generation barcoding of bulked arthropod samples
Matt Bowser, USFWS Kenai National Wildlife Refuge.
Evaluation of Lure and Trap Design to Survey for Longhorned Beetles in Southeast Alaska
Elizabeth Graham and AM Ray, USDA Forest Service.
Patterns of terrestrial insect diversity on the Seward Peninsula and notes on an Elenchus sp. (Strepsiptera: Elenchidae) host interaction
Molly McDermott, UAF, IAB.
Alaska Lepidoptera Club
Kathryn Daly, UAM.
A preliminary phylogeny of the rove beetle genus Phlaeopterus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae)
Logan Mullen, UAF, UAM.
Hymenoptera assemblages in aspen-dominated and black spruce-dominated post-fire successional trajectories in boreal black spruce forest of interior Alaska
Alexandria Wennigner, UAF, UAM.
Analysis Challenges in Citizen Science Data
Greg Breed UAF, IAB.
Nicrophorus vespilloides (Coleoptera: Silphidae): One species or two?
Derek Sikes, UAF, UAM.
Microarthropod abundance and community structure across a boreal forest riparian chronosequence in Interior Alaska
Robin Andrews and Roger Ruess, UAF, IAB.
Kathryn Daly has set up a mailing list (URI below) for the Alaska Lepidoptera Club, a continuation of Ken Philip’s work on the Alaska Lepidoptera Survey.
https://lists.alaska.edu/mailman/listinfo/uaf-alaskalepidoptera-club
I was asked to write this article for the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge’s weekly column in the Peninsula Clarion.
Peninsula Clarion version (HTML):
Kenai National Wildlife Refuge version (pdf):