CLRA Alberta Chapter Lunch and Learn Series (Webinar, CANCELLED)

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UPDATE

The Clubroot Management and Testing webinar postponed from March 30, 2020 is regrettably cancelled.

We will be issuing refunds to everyone who has registered for this event this week. If you have any questions, please reach out to us at info@clra.ca.

Thanks for your patience and understanding.

Topic: Clubroot Management and Testing – The Past, Present, and Future

Clubroot is caused by a microscopic, soil-borne plant pathogen called Plasmodiophora brassicae. Clubroot was first reported on broccoli, cabbage, and cauliflower in a few home gardens in the Edmonton area in the mid-1970s. In 2007, the Government of Alberta added Clubroot as a disease to Alberta's Agricultural Pests Act. Testing was always a significant issue, as the spores were not readily available from our usual suppliers for the purposes of positive controls during testing. So too were the lengths that oil and gas companies and environmental consultants had to go to so that contamination between fields was being mitigated.

At this time, requests for Clubroot testing went crazy. But then a Clubroot-resistant strain of seeds was developed, and requests for testing died quite out quite significantly…but it hadn’t gone away. From the laboratories’ perspective, it went from being a hot button topic to becoming inconsequential and exiguous. Fast forward to 2014 when the first instances of the pathogen adapting to and overcoming these resistant strains started occurring, and interest in it once again started increasing on the science and development side.

We explore the history of Clubroot in Alberta and the Prairies, the science behind the testing, best practices for management, and ongoing research. We will share the results of our studies where we determine the best methods of extermination and our ongoing research into a field-based prescreening technique. As it spreads outwards from the Prairies, this is an issue that requires attention across Canada.

Speaker Bio: Stephanie Hoeppner, B.Sc., MBA, Ph.D., Technical Scientific Advisor

Dr. Stephanie Hoeppner has 25 years of experience in the industry and has a very extensive network of colleagues and scientists from years of consulting and doing business development. Primarily, she is an analytical chemist, having worked for large private commercial environmental laboratories as a manager and executive, and primarily, as a toxicologist and epidemiologist (the study of medicine at a population level). Her primary area of study is “environmental determinants of chronic disease”, or in other words, what chemicals in the environment are making us sick, thus making environmental remediation relevant to Canada’s population. She has a B.Sc. in the Soil Sciences, an MBA, and a Ph.D. (in Epidemiology). Stephanie has experience doing human and environmental (animal and plants) bioassay testing for Risk Assessments, evaluations for oil spills and arson sites, all conventional environmental samples testing, consulting for sites involved in litigation, sampling and investigations for sites with complex histories, and novel product identification.

Stephanie has extensive regulatory knowledge for most soil, water, and air sampling requirements, across North America, but especially within Western Canada. Within AiM, Stephanie is the Air Emissions Specialist and helps Oil and Gas companies to be compliant with the ever-changing regulatory landscape. She also acts as a Technical Scientific Advisor for all other technical environmental work at AiM. She also teaches how to correctly document the sampling event, QA/QC procedures and requirements to properly assess the quality of the final data, as well as to ensure samples are not compromised during collection or in the laboratory during analysis. Additionally, she is a trained ISO auditor and has trained hundreds of consultants on how to sample properly.

NEW Venue & Schedule

The Bow
54th Floor, 500 Centre St S, Calgary, AB T2G 0E3 (View Map)

Presentation: 12:00 - 1:00 PM

*Note: you will receive instructions on how to join the webinar via email an hour prior to the presentation.

Registration Fees

Sponsor Fee

$400 (includes 1 registration)

Webinar Fees

Corporate/Individual Member*: $35
Retiree/Student Member: $15
Non-Member: $50

Registration Deadline: TBD

*Note: If your employer is a corporate member, you must log in to the corporate member portal or Corporate Membership account-holder may assign employee accounts to individuals within your organization to allow access to the member-exclusive rate. If you are unable to access your account or would like to activate your corporate member employee account, please contact us at info@clra.ca.

Sponsorship Opportunity Available!

Want to see your logo here? Sponsorship opportunities are available! Contact Betsy Chai to inquire about supporting the Calgary event or submit your sponsorship registration online.

Phone (403) 585-9368 or email betsy.chai@exova.com.