Transportation Research Board - Invasive Species Workshop
Sunday January 9, 2005
Title: Invasive Species and Transportation - Issues and Challenges
Purpose:
To provide background information about invasive species, present solutions for invasive species management and to address future opportunities for the air, water and land transportation communities to work together on invasive species issues.
Sponsoring Committees
ADA40T Task Force on the Transportation Needs for National Parks and Public Lands
ADC10 Environmental Analysis in Transportation
ADC30T Task Force on Ecology and Transportation
AFB30 Low-Volume Roads
AFB40 Landscape and Environmental Design
AHD10 Maintenance and Operations Management
AHD50 Roadside Maintenance
AW010 Ports and Channels
AW030T Marine Environmental Task Force
- Chair
- Carlos
Braceras, Deputy Director and Chief Engineer, Utah Department of Transportation, Chair AASHTO Subcommittee on Maintenance.
- Moderators
- Arnold Konheim, Senior Policy Analyst, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Transportation
- Lynne Irwin, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, Director, Cornell Local Roads Program
- Gordon Brown, Department of the Interior Invasive Species Coordinator and Liaison to the National Invasive Species Council
- Speakers
- Al F. Cofrancesco, PhD, Research Entomologist, Waterways
Experiment Station, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- Faith Campbell, PhD, The Nature Conservancy
- Ed Frantz, Environmental Specialist, New York Department of Transportation
- Bonnie Harper-Lore, Restoration Ecologist, Federal Highway Administration
- Arnold Konheim, Senior Policy Analyst, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Transportation
- David McCormick, Assistant Regional Administrator, Northwest Region, Washington State Department of Transportation
- Kathy J. Metcalf, Director, Maritime Affairs, Chamber of Shipping of America
- James H. Miller, PhD, Research Forest Ecologist, U. S. Forest Service
- Kathleen Moore, CDR, Chief, Environmental Standards Division, and Aquatic Nuisance Species Program Manager, U.S. Coast Guard
- Gummada Murthy, Director of Maintenance and Operations, Washington State Department of Transportation
- Alan V. Tasker, PhD, Federal Noxious Weed Program Manager, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
- Patricia White, Director, Habitat & Highways Campaign, Defenders of Wildlife
Welcome
Gordon Brown, Organizing Committee
Introduction
- Carlos Braceras, Workshop Chair
- Arnold Konheim, Moderator,Invasive Species Background
- Lynne Irwin, Moderator,Solutions Shared
- Gordon Brown, Moderator, Future Opportunities
Invasive
Species Background
- Arnold Konheim, Moderator
- Faith Campbell, History of invasive species pathways (PowerPoint file 72.8 MB)
- Jim Miller, Socio-economic and ecological costs of invasive species (PowerPoint file 14 MB)
- Alan V. Tasker, National and Global efforts to meet the invasive species challenge (PowerPoint file 760 KB)
- Arnold Konheim, What is and isn't being done with air, land, water
Solutions Shared
- Lynne Irwin, Moderator
- Terri Killeffer, Identifying the worst and which to tackle first (PowerPoint file 5 MB)
- Gummada Murthy and David McCormick, Public awareness and partnerships (PowerPoint file 7.7 MB, Word file 40 KB)
- Kathy Moore, Ballast water regulation and technology (PowerPoint file 1.4 MB)
- Al F. Cofrancesco, Risk Reduction in Shipment of Military Equipment (PowerPoint file 49.6 MB)
Future Opportunities
- Gordon Brown, moderator
- Kathy Metcalf, Ballast water management (PowerPoint file 116 KB)
- Patricia A. White, Future opportunities for transportation and conservation (PowerPoint file 15.5 MB)
- Bonnie Harper-Lore, State solutions, working together to meet a common need (PowerPoint file 11.7 MB)
- Ed Frantz, The Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program and the Importance of Restoration (PowerPoint file 40.3 MB)
Summation – Looking to the Future – Opportunities for Intermodal Coordination
- Carlos Braceras, Workshop Chair
- Arnold Konheim, Moderator
- Lynne Irwin, Moderator
- Gordon Brown, Moderator