NBII Represented at International Symposium on Invasive Plants

NBII's Northeast Information Node (NIN) manager Marcia McNiff attended "Invasive Plants in the Northeast of Asia and America: Trading Problems, Trading Solutions," an international symposium on invasive plants sponsored by and held at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT on August 10-12, 2009. The invited participants included scientists from the U.S., Japan, South Korea, China and far eastern Russia, with interests in both pure and applied research related to invasive species biology. Selected scientists and policy makers from U.S. and Asian government agencies were also invited. A number of scientific papers and posters presented at the symposium featured research conducted using data from the Invasive Plant Atlas of New England (IPANE), a partner organization of NBII’s Northeast Information Node (NIN) and Invasive Species Information Node (ISIN).

(Photo: Japanese barberry (Berberis thunbergii ). Photographer, Leslie J. Mehrhoff, Director of IPANE)