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Copyright © 2007 Conrad Bérubé, site design, concept and scripting.
All rights reserved worldwide.
Skills synopsis and career highlights
Technical
- Provide technical and regulatory support (review scientific data relevant to applications to discharge waste under the restrictions of provincial regulations, write waste discharge permits, ensure compliance to permits and regulations pertinent to waste discharge) in the administration of the Environmental Management Act and other pertinent provincial legislation for the BC Ministry of Environment.
- Conducted needs and capacity
assessment for rural apicultural delopment, produced training materials
and conducted extension and training appropriate for rural Haitian, Guinean and Ghanaian
farmers.
- Conducted needs and capacity assessment and developed integrated pest management (IPM) program for the parasitic weed Striga in maize, produced training materials and conducted extension and training appropriate for rural Ghanaian farmers.
- Provided technical and regulatory support (reviewed scientific data relevant to applications to use pesticides under the restrictions of provincial regulations, wrote pesticide use permits, ensured compliance to permits and regulations pertinent to pesticide use, proctored and evaluated pesticide certification exams, provided extension information on pesticide use and integrated pest management to professionals and the lay public) in the administration of the pesticide control act and other pertinent provincial and federal legislation for the BC Ministry of Environment.
- Conducted seasonal monitoring/consulting programs in integrated pest management for potatoes, berry crops (cranberries and strawberries) and field crops (carrots and cole crops).
- Conducted surveys of mortality factors of the jumping gall wasp, Neuroterus saltatorius, on Garry oak (Quercus garriana) for Forestry Canada.
- Conducted collections of Yellowjackets (Paravespula vulgaris, Paravespula germanica, and Dolichovespula maculata ) for the preparation of pharmaceutical products and of their natural enemies for use in the biological control of wasps.
- Gathered ground-truthing and rotation data for GIS (digitized computer mapping) crop database for the British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
- Compiled data on biological control and integrated pest control for IPMIS on-line database.
- Conducted diet-incorporation and foliar bioassays with Bacillus thuringiensis microbial insecticide.
- Reared insects (Stagmomantis californica, Encarsia spodoptera exigua ) for scientific research and biological control program.
- Experienced apiculturalist, familiar with all common large scale apicultural systems for tropical, subtropical and temperate zone honeybee management.
- Acquainted with most common analytical laboratory equipment.
- Experienced in information retrieval and library research.
- Published technical illustrations and graphics in internationally distributed magazines and journals.
- Practiced user of IBM, MS-DOS, CPM, and MacIntosh micro-computers and software
Training/teaching
- Conducted
numerous training courses (in the
- Developed and instructed a community college continuing education course in introductory beekeeping.
- Provided extension services (in apiculture or forestry) to local rural farmers in Haiti, Guinea, Ghana, Nepal, Guatemala, Paraguay, Ecuador and Tunisia through NGO's, Peace Corps or host national agencies.
- Designed and facilitated sessions in upper-division entomology course (Entomology 111 : insects and human affairs; University of California/Davis)
- Tutored
English to host country medical personnel in
- Trained the staff of various organizations in the use of IBM equivalent desk-top computers and programs.
Communication
- Produced extension materials (in English and/or Spanish), for development or regulatory agencies, on various aspects of integrated pest management, tropical beekeeping and forestry for distribution in U.S., Canada, Guinea, Ghana, Guatemala, Haiti, Paraguay, Ecuador and Tunisia.
- Wrote numerous articles for technical and general publications with international distribution.
- Participated in organizing and delivering numerous presentations and symposia on various aspects of apiculture and forestry.
- Conducted all recruitment and interviewing activities for prospective Peace Corps volunteers on the University of California/Davis campus.
- Writing Once Upon a Hive;
Bees and Beekeeping as Illustrated by Folktales from Around the World
a book (in progress) regarding bees in fact and folklore.
