ASETS researchers are cooperating with researchers from Michigan Technological University and federal and state  land managers on a project targeting the regional mitigation of EAB. U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) has secured more than $1 million dollars in federal funding for competitive grant program targeting the 58 communities effected by the EAB infestation in Illinois. [...]

Michigan sees another invasive pest enter the state. The Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (BMSB) is an arthropod pest that feeds on can be a serious pest of a variety of fruits, vegetables, field crops, and ornamental plants. Here are some links to currently available information regarding BMSB: Press release from the Michigan Department of Agriculture. [...]

Let the setup of the GeTac units for the SLAM project begin! Travis Perkins begins the process of assembling the GeTac field kits for distribution to the three SLAM project sites. We first had to charge the 25 units and that took all the strip outlets we could borrow. Then it was onto the assembly [...]

ASETS has developed a new Flex based data viewer for the Michigan Invasive Species Information Network (MISIN). This new viewer was built using the ESRI Adobe Flex API and provides viewing of the state wide distribution of reported invasive terrestrial plants in Michigan. Users are able to select a single species from the “View Species” [...]