ITAC Extension Meetings

This year’s annual ITAC extension meeting will be held Wednesday, January 15 and Thursday, January 16, 2025
The meeting will be held on-line with no fee. Pre-registration is, however, required.

Please see agenda here and register for each day using the following links:

ITAC Day 1 Registration – January 15th 8:00am – 4:00pm

ITAC Day 2 Registration – January 16th 8:00am – 12:00pm

For further information, please contact Katherine Spencer, RPF, ITAC Chair at Katherine.Spencer at gov.bc.ca

Agenda: ITAC Extension Mtg Agenda Jan 17-18, 2024

Day 1 – Presentations

1 – Kevin Astridge – Tree Seeds and Services Regulation

2 – Bains and Yurkewich – Forest Health Update

3 – Jean-Marie Sobze – Native Plant Propagation N Alberta

4 – Derek Sattler – Formulating climate sensitive yield projections using transfer functions

5 – Larry McCulloch – Climate Adapted Species Trials

6 – Tom Booker, UBC, Understanding the evolution of local adaptation in forest trees

7 – Dave Kolotelo – Tree Seed Centre Update

Day 2 – Presentations

1 – Sebastian Ibarra Jimenez – Resistance Breeding

2 – Marie Vance – Cw and Py (video link to YouTube)

3 – Nick Ukrainetz – Pine Breeding

4 – Greg ONeill – Climate Change Adaptation Research

5 – Trevor Doerksen – Sx Fdi Lw

6 – Francesco Cortini Interior Budget ITAC Jan 2024

7 – FGC Update Barber ITAC Jan 18 2024

8 – VSOC Update ITAC 2024

9 – SelectSeed Update ITAC 2024

ITAC Extension Mtg Agenda 2023 Jan 10-11.

Presentations

1 – Stephen Joyce – Whitebark Pine Orchards Update

2 – Adam Gilewski – Physiological and Transcriptomics Responses to Drought in Ponderosa Pine

3 – Omnia Gamal El-Dien – Cedar Polycross: Genomics to Increase Breeding Efficiency

4 – Hayley Tumas – Landscape-level Genetic Diversity Project Update

5 – Mario Lanthier – Pesticide Efficacy Trials for Seed Orchards and Seedling Nurseries

6 – Neil Hughes – Interior Broadleaf Working Group: A New Approach.

8 – Sabina Donnelly – Forestry Suite of Applications and Upcoming SPAR Changes

9 – Dave Kolotelo – 2023 Tree Seed Centre Updates

10 – Sebastian Ibarra-Jimenez – Interior Forest Health breeding update

11 – Marie Vance – Ponderosa Pine and Interior Redcedar Breeding Programs

12 – Nick Ukrainetz – Lodgepole Pine, Western White Pine and Hardwoods Breeding Programs

13 – Greg ONeill – Climate Change and Adaptation Research

14 – Trevor Doerksen – Interior Spruce, Interior Douglas-fir and Western Larch Breeding Programs

ITAC Extension Meeting Agenda Jan 19 2022

1 – Astridge Donnelly CF Standards ITAC 2022

2 – Cochrane Realizing GW ITAC 2022

3 – MacKenzie CCISS Update ITAC 2022

4 – Aitken CoAdapTree ITAC 2022

5 – Bullington Pw microbiome ITAC 2022

6 – Hughes State of Reforestation ITAC 2022

7 – Vance Cw Py ITAC 2022

8 – Doerksen Sx Fdi Lw ITAC 2022

9 – Ukrainetz Pli Pw Ep ITAC 2022

10 – ONeill CC Adaptation Research ITAC 2022

11 – Jimenez Forest Health ITAC 2022

ITAC Extension Mtg Agenda Jan 20 2021

ITAC Extension Meeting Agenda – January 22-23, 2020

ITAC Mini-Meeting Agenda – September 23, 2020

January 2020 ITAC Presentations

ITAC Extension Meeting Agenda – February 5 & 6, 2019

CBST Implementation Operational Issues – Breakout Session Summary

Presentations

ITAC_ Extension_Mtg Agenda_Jan2018

Presentations

ITAC Business Meeting Minutes

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