Bethany Bradley (UMass Amherst) welcomes participants to the 2023 symposium of the RISCC Management network.

Cascade Sorte (University of California Irvine) presents a big picture overview with examples from California invasions, evasions, and expansions.

Presentation Session 1: Early Detection Tools & Techniques

Moderated by Annette Evans (UMass Amherst), the first presentation session featured the following speakers:

• Arden Blumenthal (NYNJ Trail Conference), "Early Detection of Invasive Species in the Lower Hudson Using Conservation Detection Dogs"

• Tonya Bittner (NYS Hemlock Initiative), "Utility of eDNA Analysis for Early Detection and Monitoring of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (HWA) and Biological Control Insects"

• Sean Duffey (Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management), "Monitoring Marine Invasive Species in New England"

• Wes Daniel (USGS Wetland and Aquatic Research Center), “Future Aquatic Invaders of the Northeast U.S.: How Climate Change, Human Vectors, and Natural History Could Bring Southern and Western Species North”

Panel Session 1: Building Habitat Resiliency in a Changing Climate

Moderated by Matt Brincka (NY State Office of Parks), the first panel session featured the following speakers:

• Molly Hassett (NYS DEC - Climate Forestry & Carbon Section), "Climate Change, Forest Pests, and Carbon Impacts on Forest Management"

• Sarah Bois (Linda Loring Nature Foundation), "Invasive Pine Management to Restore Sandplain Grasslands; Increasing Resilience of a Globally Rare Habitat"

• Robert Smith (TNC - SLELO PRISM), "Encouraging Climate-Resilient Forests Through Restoration"

• Dave Spiering (NYS Parks & Historic Site), "Coastal Wetlands and Shoreline Restoration"

Special Update: Community Action Award!

Presented by Ayodele O’uhuru (UMass Amherst), to recognize:

• Bobbi Wilson (Caldwell, NJ) for passion and leadership in improving the community of support for invasive species action in a changing climate

Day 1 Closing Remarks

Presented by Toni Lyn Morelli (USGS NE CASC)

Workshop: Culturally Important Species: Lessons in Protecting Brown Ash in Wabanakik

Moderated by Marissa Weiss (USGS NE CASC), this workshop covered the cultural importance of brown ash, current research on management, the importance of seed collection, and insights learned from organizing a cross-cultural collaboration to protect brown ash, featuring the following speakers:

• John Daigle (University of Maine)

• Tyler Everett (University of Maine)

• Emily Francis (University of Maine)

• Ella McDonald (University of Maine)

Presentation Session 2: Forest Invasives and Climate Change

Moderated by Caroline Marschner (Cornell University), the second presentation session featured the following speakers:

• Gary Fish (Maine Dept. of Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry), "Is Climate Change Affecting Invasive Forest Pest Ranges in Maine?"

• Emma Hudgins (Carleton University), "Invasive Forest Pest Impacts and Mitigation Tactics for Urban Wellbeing in a Changing Climate"

• Andrew Liebhold (U.S. Forest Service), "Impacts of Forest Insect and Disease Invasions on Loss of Live Carbon and Potential Impacts on Climate Change"

• Dustin Bronson (Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science), "Restoration of Lowland Ash When Considering Climate Change: Evaluation of 23 Potential Tree Species for Enriching Planting"

Panel Session 2: Managed Relocation as a Restoration Tool

Moderated by Jenica Allen (UMass Amherst), Audrey Barker Plotkin (UMass Amherst & Harvard Forest), Caroline Marschner (Cornell University), the second panel session featured the following speakers:

• Jacquelyn Gill (University of Maine), “Move, Adapt, Persist: How Recent Fossil Perspectives Can Inform Plant Conservation in a Warming World

• Mark Schwartz (University of California Davis), “Whose Decision is Assisted Migration and How Should They Decide?”

• Peter Clark (University of Vermont), “Opportunities and Barriers for Operationalizing Assisted Migration in Northern Forests”

NE RISCC Research Lightning Talks

Closing Remarks

Moderated by Audrey Barker Plotkin (UMass Amherst & Harvard Forest), the final presentation session provided research updates from the following RISCC leadership team members:

• Annette Evans (UMass Amherst & USGS NECASC), "Biocontrol in a Changing Climate"

• Aly Putnam (PhD Candidate, UMass Amherst), "Impact Assessment of Marine Range Shifting Invertebrates and Algae"

• Dan Buonaiuto (Postdoctoral Research Associate, UMass Amherst), "Can Evolutionary History Help us Anticipate New Invaders?"

• Matt Fertakos (PhD Candidate, UMass Amherst), “Creating a Climate Smart Horticultural Industry

• Toni Lyn Morelli (USGS NE CASC), “Invasive Species and Climate Change Management Networks: Spreading Across the Country”

Jenica Allen (UMass Amherst) wraps up the 6th annual RISCC symposium with closing remarks.

Toni Lyn Morelli (USGS Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center) welcomes participants to the 5th annual symposium of the RISCC Management network.

Stas Burgiel (DOI National Invasive Species Council Executive Director) gives an overview of invasive species management through the lens of climate change and discusses different approaches for moving forward.

Presentation Session 1: Marine Invasives in a Changing Climate

Moderated by Aly Putnam (UMass Amherst), the first presentation session featured the following speakers:

• Jeremy Miller (Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve), "Marine Invasions in a rapidly warming Gulf of Maine"

• Jim Carlton (Williams College), "Changes in Marine Bioinvasions of New England"

• Jenn Dijkstra (University of New Hampshire), "Marine Community Responses to Climate Change in the Gulf of Maine"

Presentation Session 2: Management Stories of Success (and Failure) in Invasive Species and Climate Change

Moderated by Annette Evans (UMass Amherst), the second presentation session featured the following speakers:

• Mike VanClef (Friends of Hopewell Valley Open Space), "Examples from New Jersey - Not range expansion, but growing populations of plant invaders"

• Elizabeth Spinney (VT Dept. Forests, Parks & Recreation), "Building Forest and Community Resilience to Invasive Species through Proactive Management"

• Amanda Mahaffey (Forest Stewards Guild), "Ten Recommendations for Managing Ash in the Face of Emerald Ash Borer and Climate Change"

• Caroline Marschner (Cornell University), "Hemlock Woolly Adelgid in a Changing Climate"

• Jess Canciellere (NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation), "Managing the Expansion of Southern Pine Beetle into Northeastern Forests"

• Nancy Pau (USFWS, Parker River NWR) and Hannah Grinnell (Climate Cafe), "Climate Change inspires local youth to spend summers pulling invasive plants”

Panel Session 1: Managing Across Scales to Reduce Invasive Species and Climate Change Impacts

Moderated by Carrie Brown-Lima (Cornell University), the first panel session featured the following speakers:

• Jesse Wheeler (Acadia National Park), "Community-based Management to preserve Natural Communities at Acadia National Park"

• Laura Mattei (Sudbury Valley Trustees), "Complicated Decision Making for Invasive Control"

• David Gregg (Rhode Island Natural History Survey), "Invasives management in Rhode Island, a state with no invasives statute"

• Sarah Rang and Emily Posteraro (Invasive Species Centre), "The Invasive Species Centre’s Emerging Work on Climate Change"

Panel Session 2: Carbon Consequences of Climate Change and Invasive Species Management

Moderated by Meghan Graham MacLean (UMass Amherst), the second panel session featured the following speakers:

• Meghan Graham MacLean (UMass Amherst), "Interactive effects of management and invasive species in New England forests"

• Brendan Quirion (Cornell University), "Insect and Disease Disturbances Correlate With Reduced Carbon Sequestration in Forests of the Contiguous United States"

• Audrey Barker Plotkin (Harvard Forest & UMass Amherst), "Carbon consequences of invasive insects on hemlock and oak forests in New England"

Panel Session 3: Managing Across Organizations—Floodplain Forest Restoration

Moderated by Julie Richburg (The Trustees of Reservations), the third panel session featured the following speakers:

• Christian Marks (UMass Amherst)

• Jess Torro (Native Habitat Restoration)

• Tom Lautzenheiser (Mass Audubon)

• Karen Lombard (The Nature Conservancy)

• Tony D'Amato (University of Vermont)

NE RISCC Research Lightning Talks

Moderated by Will Pfadenhauer (UMass Amherst), the RISCC Research Lightning Talks portion features work from the following speakers:

• Aly Putnam (UMass Amherst), "Sea Squirts, Shrimps, and Seaweeds, Oh My! Gulf of Maine Invaders and Who to Watch Out For"

• Will Pfadenhauer (UMass Amherst), "Where Did You Come From, and Where Did You Go?: The Cotton Eye Joe of Invasive Plants"

• Bianca Lopez (American Association for the Advancement of Science), "How do invasions interact with environmental change to affect ecosystems?"

• Eve Beaury (UMass Amherst), "Ornamental invaders in a warming climate"

• Ayodelé O'Uhuru (UMass Amherst), "Identifying the sleeper species of future invading plants in the face of climate change"

• Justin Dalaba (Cornell University), “Communications: A Walk-through of RISCC Resources"

National Perspective

Closing Remarks

Moderated by Bethany Bradley (UMass Amherst), the final presentation session provides updates from the following Regional RISCCs:

• Kathryn Braddock (Northwest RISCC), "Northwest RISCC Network"

• Chelsea Nagy (North Central RISCC), "Interactions between invasive plants, wildfire, and climate in the North Central US"

• Heather Kerkering (Pacific Islands RISCC), "Endemic vs. invasive species: Unique management challenges in changing island climates"

Bethany Bradley (UMass Amherst) gives an overview of RISCC activities in 2022 and wraps up the 5th annual RISCC symposium with closing remarks.

Plenary: Addressing invasive species and climate change through translational research and partnerships

Carrie Brown-Lima (NY Invasive Species Research Institute) gives an overview of Northeast Regional Invasive Species & Climate Change (RISCC) Management Network activities over the last five years at the 2021 RISCC Symposium.

Nuisance Natives: Guidelines for Assessing Range Shifters

Forest pests and their management in the Anthropocene

Host Overwintering Phenology and Climate Change Influence the Establishment of Tetrastichus planipennisi, a Larval Parasitoid of the Emerald Ash Borer

Climate change exacerbates the damage of invasive weed species through reduced herbicide efficacy

Interactions between invasive species and its biocontrol agent alter ecological and evolutionary responses to climate change

Workshop 1: Building Proactive Weed Risk Assessments

Introduction (partially truncated) to the weed risk assessment workshop at the 2021 RISCC Symposium. Speakers Emily Fusco, Deah Lieurance, and Bethany Bradley discuss ways to make invasive species risk assessments more climate smart.

Workshop 2: Exploring Resilience in Native Habitats

Introduction and summary report-backs from the resilience workshop at the 2021 RISCC Symposium. Workshop led by Eve Beaury, Bianca Lopez, and Nancy Olmstead.

Manager Perspectives: Successes and Lessons Learned in Managing Invasive Species in a Changing Climate

Lightning talks about ways climate change is interacting with invasive species management presented at the 2021 RISCC Symposium. Speakers are David Wong, Brian Colleran, Nina Coleman, Karen Lombard, Andrew Zepp, and Terri Hogan. The lightning talks conclude with a panel discussion.

Closing Remarks

Toni Lyn Morelli closes the 2021 RISCC Symposium with an overview of the topics discussed at the conference.