| Monday, 14 August 2000 |
| 5:00 PM, Monday
Conference Registration (Freeborn Hall, located on the UC Davis Campus) |
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| Tuesday, 15 August 2000 |
| 7:30 AM, Tuesday
Conference Registration (Freeborn Hall, located on the UC Davis Campus) |
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| 9:00 AM, Tuesday
Joint Conference Introduction |
Organizer: Opening Address: Robert J. Serafin, AMS President-Elect and UCAR, Boulder, CO
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| 9:30 AM-12:30 PM, Tuesday
Session 1 Scientfic Challenges in Aerobiology for the 21st Century |
Organizer: Scott A. Isard, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
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| 9:30 AM | 1.1 | Aerobiology: no longer a hidden discipline
Paolo Mandrioli, CNR, Bologna, Italy |
| 10:00 AM | | Morning Coffee Break
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| 10:30 AM | 1.2 | Aerobiology, where are we and where are we going?: a Plant Pathologist's view
Alastair McCartney, Institute of Arable Crops Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom |
| 11:00 AM | 1.3 | Forecasting and visualization of atmospheric flows among North American ecological regions
Stuart H. Gage, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; and M. Colunga and S. A. Isard |
| 11:30 AM | 1.4 | Building statistical hypotheses from aerobiological data sets
Paul Comtois, University of Montreal, Montreal, PQ, Canada |
| 12:00 PM | 1.5 | Decision support systems for managing ecosystems impacted by aerobiota that move long distances
Scott A. Isard, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and S. H. Gage |
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| 12:30 PM-2:00 PM, Tuesday
Lunch Break |
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| 2:00 PM-4:30 PM, Tuesday
Session 2 Detection, Modelling, and Forecasting of Aerobiota |
| 2:00 PM | 2.1 | Detecting airborne plant pathogenic fungal spores by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays
Alastair McCartney, Institute of Arable Crops Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom; and C. Calderon, J. Freeman, and E. Ward |
| 2:30 PM | 2.2 | Bio-aerosol dispersal from Hog operations: Modeling and Measurement
Richard H. Grant, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN; and A. J. Heber, C. C. Wu, N. J. Zimmerman, P. Du, K. Fakhoury, T. T. Lim, and J. Q. Ni |
| 3:00 PM | | Afternoon Coffee Break
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|  | 2.3 | Influence of rain and target characteristics on splash dispersal of fungal spores
Laurent Huber, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Thiverval-Grigon, France; and I. Sache and L. Geagea |
| 3:30 PM | 2.4 | A Conceptual Framework for Connecting Biology with Meteorology in Predicting Atmospheric Transport of Biota
Gary L. Achtemeier, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA |
| 4:00 PM | 2.5 | Implementation of a regional wheat disease forecasting system
Leonard J. Francl, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND |
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| 5:00 PM, Tuesday
Sessions end for the day |
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| 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, Tuesday
Welcome Reception with Exhibits (Cash Bar) |
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| Wednesday, 16 August 2000 |
| 8:00 AM-5:30 PM, Wednesday
Conference Registration continues through Friday |
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| 9:00 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday
Poster Session 1 Aerobiology: Formal Viewing |
| | P1.1 | Long-range windborne migration of rice leaf roller, Cnaphalocrocis medinalis (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) in China
Liyang Zhou, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; and X. X. Zhang, D. M. Li, and C. W. Hoy |
| | P1.2 | Honeybees scavenge airborne bacteria from the atmosphere
Bruce Lighthart, Microbial Aerosol Research Laboratory LLC, Missoula, MT; and K. Prier, G. Loper, and J. Bromenshenk |
| | P1.3 | Mycospora: An interactive internet site for fungus spore identification
Beatriz Escamilla-Garcia, New York State Museum, Albany, NY; and J. H. Haines |
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| 10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Wednesday
Coffee Break |
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| 10:00 AM, Wednesday
Session 3 Panel Discussion on the Technical Challenges in Aeroibology for the 21st Century |
Organizers: Estelle Levetin, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK; John Westbrook, USDA-ARS, College Station, TX
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday
Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 PM-4:30 PM, Wednesday
Session 4 Aerobiology Curriculum Development |
Organizer: Paul Comtois, University of Montreal, Montreal, PQ Canada
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| 1:30 PM | 4.1 | Aerobiology teaching from a botanical perspective
Giuseppe Frenguelli, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy |
| 2:00 PM | 4.2 | Aerobiological teaching from a mycological perspective
Estelle Levetin, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK |
| 2:30 PM | 4.3 | Teaching aerobiology from an atmospheric science perspective
Paolo Mandrioli, CNR, Bologna, Italy |
| 3:00 PM | | Afternoon Coffee Break
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| 3:30 PM | 4.4 | Teaching aerobiology from a geographical perspective
Paul Comtois, University of Montreal, Montreal, PQ, Canada |
| 4:00 PM | 4.5 | The Potential of Distance Learning in Aerobiology
Scott A. Isard, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL |
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| 3:00 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday
Exhibit Hours |
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| 4:30 PM, Wednesday
Sessions end for the day |
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| Thursday, 17 August 2000 |
| 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, Thursday
Exhibit Hours |
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| 9:00 AM-10:00 AM, Thursday
Poster Session 2 Human Biometeorology: Formal Viewing of Poster Sessions P2 & P3 |
| | P2.1 | Daily children's hospital admissions for asthma, air pollution and meteorological conditions in Montreal, Canada
David B. Frost, Concordia University, Montreal, PQ, Canada; and K. M. Deschamps |
| | P2.2 | Atmospheric risk factors of human mortality in Toronto, Ontario
Daniel G. C. Rainham, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada |
| | P2.3 | Outer influences of atmospherics conditions during fronts passing against free radicals
Olivija Todorovic, Republic Hydrometeorological Institute, Skopje, Macedonia; and L. Markovska, T. Cepreganova, A. Mitrevski, and M. Cepreganov |
| | P2.4 | PRIMARY AND SECONDARY MAXIMUM OF THE NUMBER OF ASTHMA ATTACKS ON THE TERRITORY OF THE CITY OF BITOLA-MACEDONIA
Blagojce Mickovski, NMO, Bitola, Macedonia |
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| 9:00 AM-10:00 AM, Thursday
Poster Session 3 Vegetation Biometeorology: Formal Viewing of Poster Sessions P2 & P3 |
| | P3.1 | Free-air carbon dioxide enrichment (FACE): effects on sorghum evapotranspiration under well-watered and water stressed irrigation treatment
Matthew M. Conley, USDA/ARS, Phoenix, AZ; and B. A. Kimball, D. J. Hunsaker, M. J. Ottman, G. W. Wall, P. J. Pinter, N. R. Adam, R. L. LaMorte, A. D. Matthias, T. L. Thompson, S. W. Leavitt, T. J. Brooks, A. B. Cousins, and J. M. Triggs |
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| 10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Thursday
Coffee Break |
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| 10:30 AM-11:30 AM, Thursday
Session 5 Human Biometeorology |
| 10:30 AM | 5.1 | Comparison of Chicago heat deaths in the 1995 nad 1999 Midwestern US heat waves
Kenneth E. Kunkel, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and M. Palecki and S. A. Changnon |
| 11:00 AM | 5.2 | Decadal shifts in summer weather/mortality relationships in the United States by region, demography, and cause of death
Robert E. Davis, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and P. C. Knappenberger, W. M. Novicoff, and P. J. Michaels |
| | 5.3 | Synoptic evaluation of the urban heat island in Philadelphia
Jared M. Scott, University of Delaware, Newark, DE; and J. K. Glovier and L. S. Kalkstein |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Thursday
Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 PM-3:30 PM, Thursday
Exhibit Hours |
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| 1:30 PM-3:30 PM, Thursday
Session 6 Vegetation Biometeorology |
| 1:30 PM | 6.1 | Dew deposition across a longitudinal sand dune with biological crusting, Negev desert, Israel
Adrie F.G. Jacobs, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands; and B. G. Heusinkveld and S. Berkowicz |
| 2:00 PM | 6.2 | Effects of Short-Term Weather Events on Corn Yield
Steven E. Hollinger, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and T. P. Meyers |
| 2:30 PM | 6.3 | Micrometeorological estimates of carbon exchange in an old-growth forest
Kyaw Tha Paw U, University of California, Davis, CA; and M. Falk, T. H. Suchanek, S. L. Ustin, T. C. Hsiao, R. H. Shaw, T. King, R. D. Pyles, A. A. Matista, and J. Chen |
| 3:00 PM | 6.4 | The changing atmosphere, forest biodiversity and productivity in Ontario, Canada
Don C. MacIver, MSC, Downsview, ON, Canada; and H. Auld |
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| 3:30 PM, Thursday
Conference Ends |
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| 5:15 PM-6:00 PM, Thursday
1 Reception/Exhibits (Cash Bar) |
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| 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Thursday
Conference Banquet (Freeborn Hall) |
Organizer: Banquet Speaker: Terrance R. Nathan, University of California, Davis, CA, Presentation Title: "Meteorological Aspects of the Lewis & Clark Expedition"
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| Friday, 18 August 2000 |
| 9:30 AM-1:30 PM, Friday
Exhibit Hours |
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| 3:00 PM-6:00 PM, Friday
Exhibit Hours |
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