News & Events
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WCMVCA Election of Officers (2010)
Board Member Winner Announced
The WCMVCA newest Executive Board Memeber is Janine Bennett.
Bio:
Janine Bennett, MS, REHS
I am currently an Environment Health Specialist II and the vector team leader with Tri-County Health Department in Colorado. The summer of 2007 I was a vector surveillance technician for Tri-County Health Department and monitored prairie dog colonies and conducted mosquito surveillance. The summers of 2003 through 2006 I worked as a surveillance technician for Colorado Mosquito Control. I earned my bachelors of science degree in environmental studies and human ecology, with minors in biology and sociology, from Regis University in 1999. I earned my masters of science degree in environmental health with a specialization in epidemiology from Colorado State University in 2008. My thesis was on mosquito abundance and infectivity as risk factors for human West Nile virus infection in Colorado, 2003-2006. I am an author for a publication, “New State Record for the Asian Tiger Mosquito, Aedes albopictus (Skuse)” that was published in the Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association.
___________________________________________Annual Meeting Call for Papers
Deadline: January 11, 2010
Title: 15 words or less
Duration of Presentation: __10 min __15 min __20 min
Author(s): Name, phone number, fax number, e-mail address, organization, mailing address, and audiovisual equipment needed. Note if you will bring a CD or other digital storage device.
Abstract: 200 word maximum. Abstracts will be printed in proceedings. Please be specific and informative.
Click Here: 2010 Call for Papers Submission Form
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Latest WCMVCA Newsletter Now Available
The WCMVCA Newsletter Volume 1/2 Fall 2009 is hot off the PDF presses.
Click here: WCMVCA Newsletter vol 1-2 Fall 2009
Previous Issues:
WCMVCA Newsletter vol 1-1 Summer 2009
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Edward Horvath is the new Newsletter Editor. If anyone has information to publish in the letter they can e-mail it to Ed. eshorvath@hotmail.com
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WCMVCA Election of Officers
John Pape has resigned his position on the Executive Board. The Executive Board now has two spots to fill for 2009.
And the winners are:
John Holick
Director, Teton County Mosquito Abatement Program
Education: Master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania in
Conservation Biology.
Current Position: Director Teton County Mosquito Abatement Program (WY).
Past Positions: Director, Sussex County mosquito Control (NJ), WNV
Coordinator PA Department of Environmental Protection.
Mosquito Control Associations: Wyoming Mosquito Management Association
Board, AMCA Board.
Past Associations: New Jersey Mosquito Control Association Trustee.
Achievements: One of the first counties (Teton County WY) to be awarded the
EPA's Pesticide Environmental Stewardship Program awards.
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Zane G. McCallister
Director, Grand River Mosquito Control District
Zane McCallister began working in the industry at the age of 15 out of desperation. The local mosquito control project lost its only employee half way through the summer, and needed someone that could step in quickly and fill the void. Zane didn’t have a driver’s license so he was hired along with his 16 year old sister. She drove, and they both spent the remainder of the summer killing mosquitoes, hiking in the Colorado River basin, and observing the Grand Valley from a perspective that most never know exists. For the next four summers Zane retained a position on the crew without his sister. During those summers Zane developed a deep appreciation for mosquito control and a love for biological sciences that would steer him toward a biology degree as an undergraduate and in science education in a masters program.
During his undergraduate studies, Zane returned to run the mosquito control program he had worked for as a high school student. He oversaw the expansion of the program to the town of Fruita Colorado, and put in place the framework for the expansion of the program into the rest of the Colorado River Corridor. While working towards a Masters Degree Zane also worked for four years managing the Ecolab Pest Elimination Division, in the Twin Cities. Two years ago, the mosquito control district that he grew up with called him back for a third time and gave him the opportunity to run the newly expanded program again.
At the point in Zane’s life when big decision needed to be made, and he wrestled with the idea of leaving the industry he grew up with, he compared every alternative he could think of, to the experience he has had in mosquito control. The mosquitoes, the people, the Colorado River Basin, and the public service, have made it impossible for Zane to choose any other line of work.
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