Due to it’s popularity, a second installment of ROD Webinars are in swing! Please see information below.

·         Wednesday June 10: “Can we successfully plant ʻōhiʻa in Ceratocystis affected forests?” by Stephanie Yelenik and Jeff Stallman, USGS Pacific Islands Ecosystem Research Center.

·         Wednesday June 17: “Development and implementation of the suspect ROD trees management tracking system” by Brian Tucker, UH Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit.

·         Wednesday July 1: Detection and Management of ROD on Kaua’i by the Kaua’i Invasive Species Committee and Kaua’i Division of Forestry and Wildlife

These webinars will be via Zoom. Each webinar will be given at noon, Hawai’i Standard time, and reprised again at 6:00 pm.

**To receive the event links, please sign up on the ROD e-mailing list at rapidohiadeath.org or email ohialove@hawaii.edu to request the links directly.

Since we are not able to have our annual ROD symposia this year, the UH College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR) has developed a webinar series to keep the community up to date on advances in our understanding and management of the disease.

We have scheduled the following webinars:

• Wednesday April 22nd ROD Distribution and Abundance on Hawai’i Island (William Stormont, DLNR/DOFAW Hawai’i Island, and William Buckley, Big Island Invasive Species Committee)
• Wednesday April 29th Impact of ROD on Forest Stands (Ryan Perroy, Timo Sullivan, and  Eszter Collier, SDAV lab, University of Hawai’i at Hilo)
• Wednesday May 13th Importance of Beetles in Spreading ROD (Kylle Roy and Robert Peck, USGS Pacific Ecosystems Research Center)
• Wednesday May 20th Tree and Wood Treatments (Marc Hughes, USDA Forest Service Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry)
• Wednesday May 27th Community Member Actions to Manage ROD (J.B. Friday, University of Hawai’i Cooperative Extension Service)

These webinars will be via Zoom. Each webinar will be given at noon, Hawai’i Standard time, and reprised again at 6:00 pm.

**To receive the event links, please sign up on the ROD e-mailing list at rapidohiadeath.org or email ohialove@hawaii.edu to request the links directly.