ROBERT I. GARA

TITLE:

Professor of Forest Entomology, College of Forest Resources, AR-10, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195

EDUCATION:

B.S., Forest Management, Utah State University, Logan, UTAH, 1953

M.S., Entomology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, 1962

Ph.D., Entomology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, 1964

POSITIONS:

Senior Scientist and Project Leader, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc., Beaumont Forest Experiment Station, Texas, 1960-1966

Assistant/Associate Professor, State College of Forestry, Syracuse, New York, 1966-1968

Associate/full Professor, College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, Washington, 1968-Present.

HONORS:

Lecturer of the Year Award, Forest Entomology, College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, 1980.

Burlington Northern, Faculty Achievement Award, College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, 1990.

SELECTED GRANTS & CONTRACTS:

Ford Foundation Grant, Biology and Impact of the Mahogany Shoot Borer, Hypsipyla grandella, 1972-1975.

National Science Foundation, DEB-7513945, Host Selection Behavior of the Mahogany Shoot Borer, Hypsipyla grandella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) in Costa Rica, 1975-1978.

National Science Foundation, DEB-8022133 and DEB-8309813, Fire-insect-disease relationships of a lodgepole pine ecosystem, 1980-1985.

National Research Initiative Competitive Grant 52342, Effects of Fungal Pathogens of Lodgepole pine on Mountain Pine Beetle Activity, 1987-1990.

U.S. Agency for International Development, Office of the Science Advisor, PSCT, DHR-5600-G-0090, Natural Compounds to Manage a Serious Tropical Pest, 1990-1994.

FIELD EXPERIENCE:

In charge of 400-acre forest research station and its research program on the integrated pest management of the southern pine beetle in East Texas, 1963-1966; course coordinator for OTS course in tropical forestry held in Hon duras and Costa Rica, 3 months, 1970; field research projects on the host selection behavior of tropical insects (including aquatic insects), Costa Rica, 1970-1979; member of biological survey team in North Central Alaska, National Park Service, 3 months, 1973, 2 months, 1974, 1 month 1975 (including collecting, preparing and identifying aquatic insects); developed forest protection program (entomology and pathology ) for Chile, UN/FAO, 1977-1978; made survey of forest insect pests in Viet Nam, UN/FAO, 19 90; many long-standing field research programs on the host selection behavior of forest insects of Western North America, and taught lecture and field class in aquatic entomology, 1992; survey and inventory, southern Kuril Islands, July-August 1994.

PUBLICATIONS:

About 85 scientific and applied publications in the areas of forest entomology, pesticide management, general forestry, project review team publications, a forest entomology text book in Spanish, and educational materials for cla sses in aquatic entomology.

Five tiles most relevant to the present proposal:

• GARA, R. I. 1967. Studies on the attack behavior of the southern pine beetle. I. The spreading and collapse of outbreaks. Contrib. Boyce Thompson Inst., 23: 349-354.

• GARA, R. I., and J. E. Coster. 1968. Studies on the attack behavior of the southern pine beetle. II. Response to attractive host material. Contrib. Boyce Thompson Inst., 24: 69-76.

• Geiszler, D. R., R. I. GARA, C. H. Driver, V. F. Gallucci, and R. E. Martin. 1980. Fire, fungi and beetle influences on a lodgepole pine ecosystem of south-central Oregon. Oecologia, 46: 239-243.

• GARA, R. I., W. R. Littke, J. K Agee, D. R. Geiszler, J. D. Stuart, and C. H. Driver. 1985. pp. 155-162, In: Lodgepole Pine: The Species and its Management. Symposium, Washington State University, Pullman Washington.

• Warkentin, D. L., D. L. Overhulser, R. I. GARA, and T. M. Hinckley. 1992. Relationships between weather patterns and susceptibility of Sitka spruce, Picea sitchensis, to infestations of the tip weevil, Pissodes strobi. Can. Jour. F or. Res., 22:542-549.