High Visibility Pesticide Incidents

Draft Agenda

Hosted by the New Mexico Department of Agriculture

Las Cruces, New Mexico

May 7-11, 2007

[updated 4/26/07]

 

         

Monday
May 7, 2007

Overview
&
ICS Intro

Tuesday
May 8, 2007

ICS 300

Wednesday
May 9, 2007

ICS 300 Exercise
~
Disaster Impacts and Tools

Thursday
May 10, 2007

High Visibility
Incident Panels
~
Field Trip

Friday
May 11, 2007

Homeland Security & Other High Visibility Pesticide Considerations

8:00
Registration

8:15
Welcome, Course Overview

8:45
Icebreaker & Intro. Exercise

9:45
Break

10:00
ICS 300
Max Johnson, consultant

12:00
Lunch

1:00
Group Photo

1:15
ICS 300, cont'd.

3:00
Break

5:30
Adjourn & bus pick-up

8:00
ICS 300, continued

10:00
Break

12:00
Lunch

1:00
ICS 300, continued

3:00
Break

5:30
Adjourn & bus pick-up

8:00
ICS 300 Tabletop Exercise at NMSU

12:00
Lunch

1:00
Psychological Impacts of a Disaster
Grady Bray, CEO, Bray Associates

2:30
Break

2:45
TBA

3:45
Breakout Sessions & Presentation Instructions

5:30
Adjourn & bus pick-up

8:00
Natural Disaster Panel
Bobby Simoneaux, director, Louisiana Department of Agriculture & Forestry, Pesticide & Environmental Programs;
Rick Yabroff, manager, Environmental and Regulatory Services, United Agri Products
Steve Vargo, associate division director, U.S. EPA, Region 6

10:00
Break

10:15
High Visibility Incidents & Lab Coordination

bullethow labs and programs handle analytical demands of large scale or emergency incidents

Kevin Armbrust, Mississippi State Chemist

11:30
Lunch

12:30
Depart for Field Trip
Pecan Production & Processing

bullet2 major pests: black aphid and pecan nut casebearer

4:30
Load bus and return to hotel

8:00
Homeland Security Framework
Kate Perry, Senior policy advisor, U.S. EPA, Office of Homeland Security

8:30
Avian Flu & Pandemic Flu
Curtis Snook, medical officer, U.S. EPA, National Decontamination Team

9:30
Break

9:45
Avian Influenza Response
Michael McDole, veterinarian, USDA-APHIS 


11:00
National Decontamination Team Assessment
Larry Kaelin, Chemist & environmental scientist, U.S. EPA, National Decontamination Team

12:00
Lunch

1:00
Breakout reports

2:00
Break

2:15
Breakout reports, continued

3:30
Wrap-Up
John Ward

4:00
Adjourn & bus pick-up for hotel

5:00
Bus pick-up at hotel; depart for Old Town Mesilla, Las Cruces

5:30
on your own

6:15
Graduation Dinner
Double Eagle, Old Town Mesilla, Las Cruces

8:15
Load bus and return to hotel