If invasive species interest you, here are some vacancy announcements:

Job and Funding Announcements
 
Lake Champlain Basin Program seeking boat launch stewards for 2018 season. The Lake Champlain Basin Program (LCBP) is hiring up to twelve boat launch stewards to work at New York and Vermont public boat launch access areas during the steward program’s 12th season. The stewards help to reduce the spread of aquatic invasive species by identifying high-risk boats for courtesy inspection and providing information about invasive species spread prevention. For more information about the boat launch steward program contact Meg Modley at the Lake Champlain Basin Program (802) 372-3213. Applications are due to the New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission by Friday, March 9, 2018. Follow this link to submit an application: http://www.lcbp.org/about-us/careers/ 

Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board's (MPRB) Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) Program has an open position for an Aquatic Invasive Species Program Administrator. This work is accomplished to ensure the needs and interests of diverse communities are met while exhibiting cultural proficiency in meeting the needs and interest of underserved and under-represented communities. Closes March 9, 2018. For additional information click HERE. 

Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation Reclamation and Development Grants Program offers state-funded grants for the prevention and control of aquatic invasive species (AIS). The goal of the grants is to protect the natural resources of Montana from severe and unacceptable damage from aquatic invasive species. Eligible Activities: Activities include but are not limited to aquatic invasive species: (1) outreach and education; (2) prevention; (3) surveying and monitoring; (4) control; (5) treatment demonstration, research or design; or (6) other related actions. Who is Eligible: AIS grants are available to state, city, county, tribal governments, or other local government subdivisions within the state. Grant applications must be submitted via email or postal mail by close of business  March 15, 2018. For additional information click HERE
 
Tahoe Regional Planning Agency is releasing a Request for Proposals (RFP), seeking proposals from qualified professionals to develop an aquatic plant monitoring plan that will allow for consistent replication plant surveys throughout Lake Tahoe, including tributaries and marinas, utilizing multiple techniques and methodologies. In addition, the selected party will implement a complete survey utilizing identified methods to provide a current status of existing aquatic plant species within Lake Tahoe, its tributaries, and marinas. eadline for submittal of completed bid: 5pm PST, March 16, 2018. For additional information click HERE.

Mississippi River Basin Panel is releasing a Request for Proposals (RFP), seeking proposals from qualified professionals to perform analyses to determine the state of the live bait industry in the Mississippi River Basin and identify the administrative processes that control it. Through the Live Bait Pathway Analysis, the MRBP strives to achieve a greater understanding of these markets within the Mississippi River Basin to make better recommendations to decision makers. The ultimate goal is to take information provided from the Live Bait Pathway Analysis to develop more consistent industry and regulation standards within the Mississippi River Basin, thereby reducing the risk of introducing nonindigenous species and making regulation compliance easier for industry partners and users. Yhe RFP has a deadline of submittal of March 30, 2018. Questions should be directed to Jimmy Barnett at  [log in to unmask].

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Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force
Announcements and News 
Week of February 26, 2018
Recent ANS Announcements

Its National Invasive Species Awareness Week!
Check out the great line-up of events this week! https://www.nisaw.org.
Be on the look-out for the roll-out of new informational resources this week, too, such as the new NPS webpages on invasive species, https://www.nps.gov/subjects/invasive/index.htm. 
Reminders for ANS Task Force Members and Regional Panels

Members and Regional Panels: Submit FY 17 accomplishment reports by March 15, 2018. (email sent February 7; revised form sent February 8)
Upcoming Meetings

February 26 - March 3, 2018
Participate in Events across the Nation
 
February 26 - March 1, 2018
Cleveland, Ohio
 
February 27-28, 2018
Spokane, Washington
 
February 28-March 1, 2018
Minneapolis, Minnesota
 
March 7, 2018
Lakeville, MA
 
March 7 -8, 2018
State College, Pennsylvania
 
March 13 – 15, 2018
Devens. MA
 
April 12-13, 2018
Burlington, Vermont. (tentative)
 
May 21-24, 2018
Anchorage, Alaska
 
June 18-22, 2018
University of Toronto Scarborough
 
July 12, 2018
Amherst, MA
 
July 15 – 18, 2018
Buffalo, New York
 
July 17 – 19. 2018
Alexandria, Virginia
 
October 15 – 18, 2018
Rochester, Minnesota
 
October 24-26, 2018
Tacoma, Washington
 
January 8-10, 2019
Albany, New York
Job and Funding Announcements
 
Lake Champlain Basin Program seeking boat launch stewards for 2018 season. The Lake Champlain Basin Program (LCBP) is hiring up to twelve boat launch stewards to work at New York and Vermont public boat launch access areas during the steward program’s 12th season. The stewards help to reduce the spread of aquatic invasive species by identifying high-risk boats for courtesy inspection and providing information about invasive species spread prevention. For more information about the boat launch steward program contact Meg Modley at the Lake Champlain Basin Program (802) 372-3213. Applications are due to the New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission by Friday, March 9, 2018. Follow this link to submit an application: http://www.lcbp.org/about-us/careers/ 

Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board's (MPRB) Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) Program has an open position for an Aquatic Invasive Species Program Administrator. This work is accomplished to ensure the needs and interests of diverse communities are met while exhibiting cultural proficiency in meeting the needs and interest of underserved and under-represented communities. Closes March 9, 2018. For additional information click HERE. 

Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation Reclamation and Development Grants Program offers state-funded grants for the prevention and control of aquatic invasive species (AIS). The goal of the grants is to protect the natural resources of Montana from severe and unacceptable damage from aquatic invasive species. Eligible Activities: Activities include but are not limited to aquatic invasive species: (1) outreach and education; (2) prevention; (3) surveying and monitoring; (4) control; (5) treatment demonstration, research or design; or (6) other related actions. Who is Eligible: AIS grants are available to state, city, county, tribal governments, or other local government subdivisions within the state. Grant applications must be submitted via email or postal mail by close of business  March 15, 2018. For additional information click HERE
 
Tahoe Regional Planning Agency is releasing a Request for Proposals (RFP), seeking proposals from qualified professionals to develop an aquatic plant monitoring plan that will allow for consistent replication plant surveys throughout Lake Tahoe, including tributaries and marinas, utilizing multiple techniques and methodologies. In addition, the selected party will implement a complete survey utilizing identified methods to provide a current status of existing aquatic plant species within Lake Tahoe, its tributaries, and marinas. eadline for submittal of completed bid: 5pm PST, March 16, 2018. For additional information click HERE.

Mississippi River Basin Panel is releasing a Request for Proposals (RFP), seeking proposals from qualified professionals to perform analyses to determine the state of the live bait industry in the Mississippi River Basin and identify the administrative processes that control it. Through the Live Bait Pathway Analysis, the MRBP strives to achieve a greater understanding of these markets within the Mississippi River Basin to make better recommendations to decision makers. The ultimate goal is to take information provided from the Live Bait Pathway Analysis to develop more consistent industry and regulation standards within the Mississippi River Basin, thereby reducing the risk of introducing nonindigenous species and making regulation compliance easier for industry partners and users. Yhe RFP has a deadline of submittal of March 30, 2018. Questions should be directed to Jimmy Barnett at  [log in to unmask].
Recommended Publications

Seebens, Hanno, Tim M. Blackburn, Ellie E. Dyer, Piero Genovesi, Philip E. Hulme, Jonathan M. Jeschke, Shyama Pagad, Mark VAN Kleunen, Wayne Dawson, Franz Essl, 2018. Global rise in emerging alien species results from increased accessibility of new source pools. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). ISSN 0027-8424. eISSN 1091-6490.
  • Abstract: Our ability to predict the identity of future invasive alien species is largely based upon knowledge of prior invasion history. Emerging alien species—those never encountered as aliens before—therefore pose a significant challenge to biosecurity interventions worldwide. Understanding their temporal trends, origins, and the drivers of their spread is pivotal to improving prevention and risk assessment tools. Here, we use a database of 45,984 first records of 16,019 established alien species to investigate the temporal dynamics of occurrences of emerging alien species worldwide. Even after many centuries of invasions the rate of emergence of new alien species is still high: One-quarter of first records during 2000–2005 were of species that had not been previously recorded anywhere as alien, though with large variation across taxa. Model results show that the high proportion of emerging alien species cannot be solely explained by increases in well-known drivers such as the amount of imported commodities from historically important source regions. Instead, these dynamics reflect the incorporation of new regions into the pool of potential alien species, likely as a consequence of expanding trade networks and environmental change. This process compensates for the depletion of the historically important source species pool through successive invasions. We estimate that 1–16% of all species on Earth, depending on the taxonomic group, qualify as potential alien species. These results suggest that there remains a high proportion of emerging alien species we have yet to encounter, with future impacts that are difficult to predict.

Holbech H., Pedersen K.L. (2018) Ballast Water and Invasive Species in the Arctic. In: Vestergaard N., Kaiser B., Fernandez L., Nymand Larsen J. (eds) Arctic Marine Resource Governance and Development. Springer Polar Sciences. Springer, Cham
  • Abstract: Ship’s ballast water has been a vector for the spreading of nonindigenous invasive species (NIS) around the globe for more than a century and has had devastating impact on aquatic ecosystems in many regions. Due to the harsh climate, shipping activities in Arctic waters have been limited compared to many parts of the world but will increase in the coming years due to climate changes. This will potentially affect the pristine Arctic marine ecosystems by introduction of NIS. In this chapter, we present the international ballast water regulations that have entered into force and the specific challenges of ballast water management in relation to the Arctic environment and marine ecosystems. We discuss the risk of NIS affecting the Arctic marine ecosystems including the impact of increased shipping activity, changes in living conditions of marine organisms because of climate changes and lack of knowledge of the eco-physiological boundaries and distributions of Arctic marine species. It is concluded that at present only a few marine NIS have been recorded in the Arctic area. Despite the existing and planned ballast water regulations, NIS establishment in the region will increase with an unknown magnitude due to lack of biological data.
ANS… In the News

  • Posted February 26, 2018
  • But while we humans react slowly to the problem at hand, evidence suggests that animals are on the move- on land, sea, and in the air. And in the cold Arctic, invasive species are drawn to regions where they could not previously have survived.
  • Posted February 24, 2018
  • The Asian amphibians arrived just 10 years ago. Now in their millions, they threaten the island’s unique wildlife… how the invasion could have been eradicated for $5,000 (£3,600) if the toads had been detected at the border a decade ago. Even a year or two later, they could have been destroyed for $500,000. Today, elimination is considered impossible and it would cost several million dollars even to control the spread.
  • Posted February 24, 2018
  • When ecologists realized that a marsh near Fort Wayne, Ind., could be the Asian carp’s back door into the Great Lakes, they rushed to close it. Rainfall amounts as high as 7 inches in parts of northern Indiana last week did not pose a threat to the 1.7-mile berm completed in late 2015 to separate the Midwest's so-called continental divide through the Eagle Marsh. But the floods did serve as a reminder that the berm was needed and reinforced that the path's discovery came just in time.
  • Posted February 24, 2018
  • International scientists who attended a two-day conference in Nairobi on tackling invasive species in Africa have developed a roadmap aimed at minimizing the spread and impact of the menace.
  • Posted February 22, 2018
  • Health experts are warning the public about a rare type of tick that was recently discovered in the United States.
  • Posted February 22, 2018
  • Scientists are calling on the Australian authorities to review their decision to introduce the carp herpes virus as a way to combat the common carp having colonized the country's rivers. They not only believe that this measure will be ineffective but that it also represents a risk to ecosystems.
  • Posted February 21, 2018
  • Spot the Jellyfish and Spot the Alien Fish smart phone apps will soon be launched through an ongoing collaboration between Alan Deidun from the Department of Geosciences at the University of Malta, who coordinates the two campaigns, and students from Mcast who developed the apps as part of their final year projects.
  • Posted February 20, 2018
  • Last week, news broke that the bloody red shrimp, an aquatic invasive species, was found in Lake Superior. Alliance for the Great Lakes Vice President for Policy Molly Flanagan issued the following statement…
  • Posted February 20, 2018
  • The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and other environmental groups such as Trout Unlimited, the River Alliance of Wisconsin and the Sugar River Watershed Association are working together to educate trout anglers about “clean angling” so that they do not become vectors for the spread of New Zealand mudsnails.
  • Posted February 20, 2018
  • A Washington senator says he wants to see British Columbia join the state in phasing out ocean-based Atlantic salmon farms when the province decides whether to renew farm leases in June.
  • Posted February 19, 2018
  • The U.S. government is offering the six-figure prize for the best suggestion on how to stop their relentless and destructive spread because scientists say they are stumped
  • Posted February 18, 2018
  • U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins wants Louisiana's Department of Wildlife and Fisheries to create a bounty program for Asian carp, an invasive fish species.
  • Posted February 16, 2018
  • A Westfield (Vermont) man has been charged with a wildlife violation after a water monitor lizard and a dwarf caiman were found on his property. Raymond J. Barlow, 29, was charged with illegally importing wildlife and faces fines up to $722.
  • Posted February 16, 2018
  • The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife responded to claims by a local environmental group that escaped Atlantic salmon were infected with a highly contagious virus, saying not a single study supports evidence that the virus is transferable or dangerous to native fish.
  • Posted February 16, 2018
  • The first-ever case of whirling disease in trout has been discovered in two East Tennessee tailwaters.
  • Posted February 15, 2018
  • Two lakes in Central Texas have received upgraded classifications as a result of an aggressive zebra mussel infestation.
  • Posted February 15, 2018
  • Sea lamprey control embraces the concept of integrated pest management and is often touted as the best example of aquatic invasive species management in the world. Program components include assessment, lampricide control, risk management and alternative controls.
  • Posted February 13, 2018
  • The good intentions of the BWMC are indisputable. However, as things currently stand, the measure is posing more questions than answers for shipowners, as well as management system developers and manufacturers.

       
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