International Weed Science Society president - A. Fischer from UCD

The International Weed Science Society meets every four years to discuss weed science issues on a global level.  This past June (2012) the IWSS met in Hangzhou, China and, for the next four years, will be led by the new president Dr. Albert Fischer from UC Davis.  Congratulations Albert!  You can see Albert's presidential address to the IWSS here: http://www.iwss.info/president.php

Several UC Weed Science folks (Fischer, Fennimore, Wright, Hanson) attended the meeting this year.  This was my first time at this meeting and I found it really interesting to interact with weed scientists from so many countries.  Many weed issues are similar among vastly different cropping systems yet some are incredibly different!

The next IWSS meeting will be held in Prague, the Czech Republic in 2016 - hopefully I'll be there!

Brad