UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia)

A position announcement I shared in October (http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=22336) was re-released last week. The new search ends on April 18, 2017. Job announcement for the Associate Director / Field Research Coordinator for the Western Region IR-4 Program.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), poisoning is the number one cause of injury-related death in the United States, and 1073 people in California were poisoned by pesticides in 2014 alone.

From Cal-IPC's Doug Johnson: Dear Stakeholders, Cal-IPC is proposing additions to our California Invasive Plant Inventory and we are soliciting input during a 60-day comment period. I would appreciate your help in distributing this widely to your interested colleagues.

RECRUITMENT PERIOD Open date: February 3, 2017 Next review date: March 31, 2017. Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee. Final date: July 1, 2017.

June 25-30, 2017 Asilomar Conference Center // Pacific Grove, California http://www.wcpp14.org You are warmly invited to the 14th World Congress on Parasitic Plants.