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108th
Annual Meeting
April 29 - May 2, 2012 at the
Hilton Nashville Downtown Hotel
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Meeting Registration
Pre-registration closed on
April 13, so those not pre-registered will need to register on-site.
Registration fees will be $475 for members and $650 for
non-members. Non-members may consider
joining
AWPA to take advantage of members-only discounts.
Click here for online registration (CLOSED)
Click here to
download a printable registration form
Getting to Nashville
Nashville is served by the Nashville International
Airport (BNA), which offers hundreds of commercial flights per day
on all major airlines from 28 non-stop destinations. Make your reservations
early to get the best fares, although our experience has been that
the lowest fares tend to be available between 21 and 28 days prior
to your expected travel date. The airport is located 8 miles
east of the hotel. Rental cars, taxicabs, and other ground
transportation options are also available at the airport.
For those of you driving to Nashville you can get there via I-65
or I-40.
Hotel Reservations
The meeting will take place at the Hilton
Nashville Downtown Hotel, located at 121 4th Ave S, in the heart
of downtown Nashville. This year’s meeting promises something for everyone. The
group rate for the meeting is $179 single/double. Other room
types and plans may be available at other rates.
The cut-off date is Tuesday, April 3, 2012 or until the room
block/hotel is sold out, whichever comes first, so please reserve
a room early to ensure availability. You may also make reservations by telephone by calling 1-615-620-2150. Be sure to tell the reservations agent that
you are attending the American Wood Protection Association
meeting.
NOTE: The hotel is nearly sold out and
they can only offer rooms on certain nights at higher rates.
The entire downtown area is practically sold out on Friday and
Saturday nights, so if you're arriving then, you may need to stay
near the Nashville Airport or Opryland those two nights. For
downtown accommodations Sunday through Wednesday nights, there is
a Marriott Courtyard three blocks away, a DoubleTree five blocks
away, and a Holiday Inn Express seven blocks away.
Spouse/Guest Program
This year's Spouse/Guest program will wow you with a peek at
Nashville's classy side...and its trashy side! On Monday,
the group will go to Belle Meade Plantation for a tour of the
historic mansion and grounds. Previously a farm for thoroughbred
horses, this huge Old South plantation is home to an impressive
Greek Revival mansion. Also on Monday, participants will board the
famous pink bus for the 'trash-tastic' Nash Trash tour. Fun and
laughter are guaranteed. On Tuesday, everyone will enjoy breakfast
at the hotel then walk across the street to the Country Music Hall
of Fame and Museum for a tour and song writer session. A
professional song writer will lead the group in writing and
recording their own original music and lyrics. We've left plenty
of time in the schedule for you to do whatever you'd like to do.
Whether that's shopping, touring the city, visiting one of the
area's many museums, indulging in a spa treatment, or doing a bit
of sightseeing, it's totally up to you!
The Hacker's Classic - our 2012 Golf Event
Golf Digest rates
it in the Top 10 Golf Courses in the State of Tennessee. The
Nashville Scene Magazine calls it the “Best Public Golf Course”.
The Tennessee Conservation League awarded it the “Land and Soil
Conservationist of the Year Award”. Other than that,
the Hermitage Golf Course is a pretty darn good golf course; and
that is why AWPA has chosen it to host the 2012 Hackers Classic.
The tournament will be held on the
General’s Retreat Course, on Sunday morning, April 29th,
as part of the AWPA 108th Annual Meeting. The
course was artfully designed by George Roger Baird, with a
combination of woodlands, lagoons and picturesque fairways, set
along the Cumberland River. Our golfers will be challenged
to avoid the bunkers and water hazards. It is clearly
a risk-reward golf course. Once again, the Hackers Classic
will feature a scramble format, with plenty of awards and prizes.
Pickler's Prance 5K Fun Run/Walk
The 2012 Pickler’s Prance 5K Fun Run/Walk will take
participants on a tour of downtown Nashville. The event will begin on the morning of Sunday,
April 29. There is no charge for the event, but you must register to participate.
Suppliers Showcase
The Suppliers Showcase is a great way to make potential
customers aware of your products and services at a very reasonable
price. The Suppliers Showcase is normally held in
conjunction with coffee breaks for a more comfortable, inviting
interaction with potential sales contacts. We intentionally
limit the number of spaces to maximize your opportunities to meet
the people who need your products and/or services, so if you are
interested, please be sure to inquire soon.
Please note that registration includes full
meeting registration for one person, member or non-member.
Current Suppliers Include:
Ametek Process
Instruments
Applied Rigaku Technologies
C.S.
Industries, LLC
Eco
Chemical, Inc.
Field and
Technical Services
FMC Adventus
Oxford Instruments
Ryan Forest Products
Things to See and Do in Nashville
Recently named #1 in US destinations on the
rise, you'll love Nashville.
Because of its rich history, abundant nightlife, its status as the capital
of country music, abundant nightlife, casual chic
dining, and abundant nightlife, there's plenty to see and do...did
we mention the abundant nightlife? For more information
on what to do in Nashville, go to the Nashville Convention &
Visitor’s Bureau website:
http://www.visitmusiccity.com/visitors/
General Chair: Stan Lebow
General Vice Chair: Jeff
Morrell
Program Chair:
Chris Barber
Saturday, April 28, 2012
9:00 am -
Committee on Committees Meeting
9:30 am -
Executive Committee Meeting
1:00 pm to 5:00 pm -
Registration Desk Open
1:00 pm - Treated Wood Council Meeting
Sunday, April 29, 2012
7:30 am - Golfers meet at General's Retreat Course for 8 am
start of the 2012 Hackers Classic
8:00 am to 5:00 pm - Registration Desk Open
8:00 am - Pickler's Prance 5k Fun Run/Walk (Meet in the Hotel
Lobby at the Main Entrance)
Task Group Meetings - Track 1:
Task Group
Meetings - Track 2:
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10:00 am
to 11:00 am - P-9 Chemical Modification of Wood Task Group
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11:00 am
to 12:00 noon - P-1 Performance Enhancing Additives Task Group
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1:00 pm
to 2:00 pm - P-6 Minimum Data Quality Task Group
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2:00 pm
to 3:00 pm - Antisapstain Field Test Task Group
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3:00 pm
to 5:00 pm - T-7 Quality Control Task Group
Task Group
Meetings - Track 3:
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm - Workshop - Statistical Thinking in Wood
Protection
Presented by Kevin White, Applied Statistics Group Leader, Eastman
Chemical Company (click
here for workshop description)
3:00 pm to 5:00 pm - Railway Tie Association R&D Committee Meeting
6:00 pm to 7:30 pm - President's Reception
Monday, April 30, 2012
8:00 am to 5:00 pm - Registration Desk Open
8:30 am to 10:15 am - Opening Session
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Welcome
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Award of
Merit Recognition: Dick Jackson, Pacific Wood Preserving
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Recognition of Sponsors
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General
Committee Reports
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President
and Vice President Address
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Keynote
Address - White Oak and Whiskey: A Tennessee Tradition,
presented by Bob Russell, Brown-Forman
10:15 am to
10:30 am - Business Session
10:30 am to
10:45 am - Coffee Break / Supplier's Showcase
10:45 am -
Technical Session I: General Topics, Moderated by Adam Taylor,
University of Tennessee -
(click here for abstracts)
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The Wood
Protection Industry and Interaction with Regulatory Agencies -
Jeffrey Ellis, Consultant
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Wood
Treatments Using Ester Compounds as Recoverable Carrier Fluids - Frank
Frazer, Frazer Consulting
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Dip-diffusion Treatment of Railway Crossties with
High-concentration Borate - Adam Taylor*, University of
Tennessee; Jae-Woo Kim, University of Tennessee; Coskun Kose,
Istanbul University; Jeffrey D. Lloyd, Nissus Corp;
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AWPA or
ICC-ES Listing: Which Way Do I Go? - Craig McIntyre,
McIntyre Associates and Mike Freeman*, Independent Wood
Scientist
12:00 noon to
1:30 pm - Lunch (on your own)
1:30 pm to 5
pm-
Technical Session II: Colley/Hartford Memorial Lecture and
Research Symposium, Moderated by Christoph Schauwecker, Viance -
(click here for abstracts)
The 2012 Colley/Hartford Memorial Lecture is
entitled: 'Illegal Logging and Associated
Trade: An Overview of the Global Problem and
what you need to know about the Policies
Designed to Prevent it', Presented by Fiona
Mulligan, Environmental Investigation Agency
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Accelerated and Quantitative Soil Bed Testing - Ed Nichenko,
Arch Wood Protection, A Lonza Company
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Pilot
Scale Demonstration of CCA-, ACQ-, CA-treated Wood Wastes
Recycling Process - Lucie Coudert*, Jean-Francois, Blais, Guy Mercier,
INRS-Eau; Paul Cooper, Amelie Janin, and Nicholas Reynier,
University of Toronto; Paul
Morris, FPInnovations; Louis Gastonguay, Institut de recherche
d'Hydro-Quebec
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Seven-year Full Size Field Tests of Fixed Borate Systems -
Craig McIntyre*, McIntyre Associates and Michael A. Lake
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Evaluation of AWPA PEM-07: Antisapstain Field Test Method for
Green Lumber - Adnan Uzunovic and Rod Stirling*, FPInnovations
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Developmental Test Method to Assess the Performance of Decking
Products - Christoph Schauwecker, Alan Preston* and Andy
Zahora, Viance
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Methods for Determining Corrosion Rates of Metal in Contact
with Treated Wood [AWPA E12-08 and PEM-06(2007)] - Jay
Hilsenbeck*, Chris Jones, Roger Fox, Steve Shields, and Susan
Thomason, Arch Wood Protection, A Lonza Company
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Fire Retardant Treated Oriented Strandboard - JM Hill and HM
Barnes*, Mississippi State University
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A Brief Review of the Treatability and Efficacies of
Commercial Copper Preservatives - Tor Schultz* and Darrel
Nicholas, Mississippi State University
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Determination of MEA in Treated Wood by HPLC
Analysis - Paul Walcheski*, Lehong Jin and
Alan Preston, Viance
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Remedial Treatment of Wood Used in Covered
Bridges - Jeff Morrrell, OSU and Stan Lebow*,
FPL
5:00 pm -
6:00 pm Technical Forum Poster Session and Reception - Coordinated by
Grant Kirker, USDA Forest Products Lab (Student posters are marked
with **)
(click here for abstracts)
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**Termite
Resistance of Modified Steam Pressed Scrim Lumber - Weiqi Leng
and H.M. Barnes, Mississippi State University
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**Leaching of PCP in Soil and Wood Treated with Diesel Versus
Biodiesel - Saeed Keshani Langroodi, Hamid Borazjani, Darrel
D. Nicholas, Lynn Prewitt, Susan Diehl and Shane Kitchens,
Mississippi State University
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**Optimization of ACQ-, CA-, MCQ-treated Wood Wastes
Remediation Using a Box Behnken Design - Lucie Coudert,
Jean-Francois Blais, Guy Mercier, Paul Cooper, Paul Morris,
Louis Gastonguay, Amelie Janin and Nicolas Reynier
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**Fire Retardant Treated Oriented Strandboard - J.M. Hill and
H.M. Barnes, Mississippi State University
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**Gene Expression of the Brown Rot Fungus Fibroporia
radiculosa on Wood Treated with a Copper-based
Preservative - Juliet Tang, Andy Perkins, Darrel Nicholas and
Susan Diehl, Mississippi State University; Tad S. Sonstegard
and Steven G. Schroeder, USDa ARS Bovine Functional Genomics
Laboratory
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***Fungal Communities on Flooded Building Materials - Frederick Skrobot III and Susan V. Diehl, Mississippi State
University; Heshmat Aglan, Tuskegee University
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Evaluating Specific Genes Associated with Oxalate Production
in Fibroporia radiculosa Isolates - Katie M. Jenkins,
Susan Diehl, Carol Clausen and Rick Green, Mississippi State
University
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Enhanced Aerobic Biodegradation of Creosote
and Pentachlorophenol Compounds in
Groundwater Using Soy-based Co-metabolic
Techniques - Bench and Field-Scale
Evaluations - Amy Kerschner, Don Blackert,
David Kerschner, and John Mitsak
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Durability of Impregnated Paulowina Wood
with Nano-silver and Nano-copper Against
White Rot Fungus - Maliheh Akhtari, Islamic
Azad University; Darrel
Nicholas and Hamid Borazjani, Mississippi
State University; Mehdi
Arefkhani, Technical and Vocational Training
Organization
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Laboratory and Field Studies to Determine
the Efficacy of Different Treatments to
Minimize Mold Growth After High-water
Events, Shane Kitchens, Terry L. Amburgery,
Gary B. Lindsey and Todd E. Johnson,
Mississippi State University
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Observed Color Phenomena and Behavioral
Abnormalities of Reticulitermes
sp. in AWPA E1-09 Standard Laboratory
Termite Test, Todd E. Johnson, Shane C.
Kitchens and Terry L. Amburgery,
Mississippi State University
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Phytosanitation of Wood Packaging: Are
there Opportunities to Providing Residual
Organism Control?, Todd E. Johnson and
Shane C. Kitchens, Mississippi State
University
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
7:30 am to
8:00 am - P-4 Reaffirmation Task Group for CX-A
8:00 am to
5:00 pm - Registration Desk Open
8:30 am -
10:30 am - Technical Session III: Accelerated Testing of Durable Wood
Products, Moderated by Grant Kirker, FPL
(click here for abstracts)
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Comparison of Efficacies of Commercial Preservatives using the
Standard E7 and E8 Methods Versus Accelerated E7, Accelerated
E8 and the Harsh Soil Block Tests - Tor P. Schultz* and Darrel
D. Nicholas, Mississippi State University
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Accelerated Laboratory and Above-Ground Tests Including
Employing Strength Measurements to Definitively Determine
Extent of Decay - Darrel D. Nicholas* and Tor P. Schultz,
Mississippi State University
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E1-09
Termite Choice Test-What is it Good For? - Green II, F.*; Kartal,
S. N; Lebow, P.K; Arango, R.A., FPL and Istanbul University
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Principle
Component Analysis of Microbial Community Data from an
Accelerated Decay Test - Kirker, G.T.* and P.K. Lebow - FPL
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Accelerated Colorimetric Micro-assay for Screening Mold Inhibitors - C.A.
Clausen* and Vina Yang, FPL
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Rate My
Stake: Interpretation of Ordinal Stake Ratings - Lebow, P.K.*,
and G.T. Kirker, FPL
10:30 am to
10:45 am - Coffee Break
/ Supplier's Showcase
10:45 am to
noon - Technical
Session IV: Durability and Service Life of Treated Wood Products,
Moderated by Stan Lebow, Forest Products Laboratory -
(click here for abstracts)
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Documenting the Durability and Service Life of Treated Wood
Products - Stan Lebow*, Bessie Woodward and Patricia Lebow,
Forest Products Laboratory
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Durability of Canadian Treated Wood - Paul Morris and Rod
Stirling*, FP Innovations
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Long Term
Durability of Posts at the OSU Starker Post Farm - Jeff Morrell*
and Camille Freitag, Oregon State University
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Addressing the Need for Service Life Estimates for Newer
Preservatives - Craig McIntyre*, McIntyre Associates; Mike
Freeman, Independent Wood Scientist; Roger F. Fox, Lonza; Jun
Zhang, Osmose
12:00 noon to
1:30 pm - Lunch (on your own)
1:30 pm to
3:15 pm - Technical
Session V - Utility Issues, Moderated by Dave D'Hooge, Com Ed -
(click here for abstracts)
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An
Inspection, Assessment and Remediation of Carpenter Ant
Infestation of Electrical Transmission Structures Located on
the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska - Andy Kudick, INTEC Services
Inc.; Rob Nelson, EDM International; and Tony Limon, Homer
Electric Association
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Effect of
Preservative Type on Gaff Penetration of Commercially Treated
Poles - Todd Shupe*, Louisiana State University; Mike Freeman,
Independent Wood Scientist
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The Dual
Treated ePole: An Opportunity to Eliminate Internal Decay,
Future Fumigation and Extend Pole Service Life - Mike
Freeman*, Independent Wood Scientist and Jeff Lloyd, Nisus
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Douglas
Fir: A Critical Review of an Exemplary Species Well Suited for
Transmission Poles - Mike Freeman*, Independent Wood Scientist
and Dick Jackson, Pacific Wood Preserving
3:15 pm to
3:30 pm - Coffee Break
/ Suppliers Showcase
3:30 pm to 5
pm - Technical
Session VI - Remediation / Disposal, Moderated by Jim Rouse,
Acuity Environmental Solutions
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In-situ Remediation of Hexavalent Chromium, Antimony
and Nickel by Nanoscale Ferrous Sulfide Slurry - Richard H.
Christensen, Jr.*, Jim V. Rouse and Steven R. Irvin
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Rapid
Recovery of Metals in CCA-treated Wood - Todd
Shupe* and Chung Hse, Louisiana State University
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Re-use of
Railroad Ties - Terry Amburgey and Shane Kitchens*
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Remedial
Strategies for Managing PCP-impacted Soil, Sediment and Ground
Water at Wood Treating Sites - James Mueller*, Alan Seech and
Philip Block
* - indicates person presenting when
multiple authors are listed.
6:30 pm to
10:00 pm - Reception, Awards, Banquet and Entertainment
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
8:00 am to
1:00 pm - Registration Desk Open
9:00 am to
11:00 am - Technical Committee Meetings
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9:00 am
to 9:15 am - Committee T-1: Treatments Coordination
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9:15 am
to 10:00 am - Committee T-7: Quality Control and
Inspection
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10:00 am
to 11:00 am - Committee
T-4: Poles and Posts
1:00 pm to
5:00 pm - ANSI Accredited Standards Committee O5
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