DPR Brown Bag Lunch Series
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The DPR Brown Bag lunch series are periodic events that showcase programs and activities related to the department's mission: Protecting human health and the environment by regulating pesticide sales and use; and encouraging reduced-risk pest management through research, grants and recognition.
August 26, 2020 "Maintaining School Sites with IPM in 2020"
In this Zoom webinar, learn about navigating school and child care disinfecting recommendations, maintaining school facilities for insect prevention, and engaging stakeholders in unconventional IPM settings. One hour of CE CREDIT is available. Registration in advance is required for participating with this event.
February 5, 2020 "Pollinator Protection: A California Update"
Speakers include DPR Director Val Dolcini, who oversees all DPR programs; DPR Senior Environmental Scientist Peggy Byerly, on enforcing pesticide laws to protect pollinators; California Food and Agriculture Bee Safe Program Environmental Scientist Patricia Bohls, on working with California agricultural producers to protect bees; San Joaquin County Agricultural Commissioner Tim Pelican, on enforcing regulations and ensuring hive registration; and Pollinator Partnership Director of Program and Operations Kelly Rourke, who manages the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign (NAPPC), National Pollinator Week, www.pollinator.org, and P2 grants and scholarships.
March 14, 2019 "Pests, Pesticides and IPM"
September 18, 2018 Agenda, PDF (459 kb) "Environmental Justice and Pesticide Safety"
October 4, 2017 Agenda, PDF (194 kb) "California's Healthy Schools Act and Manteca Unified School District's Gopher Trapping Program"
May 3, 2017 Agenda, PDF (387 kb) "County Agricultural Commissioner Pesticide Enforcement"
January 25, 2017 Agenda, PDF (528 kb) "Endangered Species and Pesticides: California's Endangered Species Protection Project"
November 2, 2016 Agenda, PDF (377 kb) "Integrated Vector Management in Placer County: Using New Tools to Tackle Mosquitoes in the Foothills."
August 17, 2016 Agenda, PDF (478 kb) "Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour" organizer Kathy Kramer will discuss the free, self-guided garden tour she organizes every year in May, attracting more than 6,000 people. Kramer, an IPM Innovator Award winner, will discuss how the tour educates participants about reducing pesticide use, planting for pollinators and beneficial insects, and conserving water.
March 23, 2016 Agenda, PDF (112 kb) "Human Health Assessment: How to Evaluate Pesticide Risk." The Department of Pesticide Regulation's Human Health Assessment Branch manages the risk-assessment process (hazard identification, dose-response assessment, exposure assessment and risk characterization), with environmental fate reviews by the Environmental Monitoring Branch and supporting information from other branches.
October 26, 2015 Agenda, PDF (306 kb) "Monitoring Urban Waterways: DPR's Surface Water Protection Program." The Department of Pesticide Regulation's (DPR) Surface Water Protection Program protects human health and the environment by preventing pesticides from adversely affecting our surface waters, by addressing both agricultural and nonagricultural sources of pesticide residues in surface waters. At this special presentation, environmental scientists Yuzhou Luo, Robert Budd and Michael Ensminger provided updates on recent findings in urban waterways.
- Presentation: Monitoring Urban Waterways, DPR's Surface Water Protection Program, PDF (2.4 mb)
- Video: Surface Water Protection Program (Urban Monitoring) Brown Bag Lunch Presentation
- Poster: Pesticides and Urban Waterways, PDF (4.4 mb)
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