Experiment Station

Open House

NEW HAVEN — The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station will hold a free “Spring 2006 Open House” program for the public at 1 pm on Thursday, April 20. The program will be in the Donald F. Jones Auditorium, 123 Huntington Street.

Visitors will hear talks, participate in tours, and have an opportunity to bring soil samples for testing and submit plant and insect specimens for identification.

Speakers for the event will be Dr David Stilwell and Craig Musante on “CCA Pressure-Treated Wood in the House and Garden,” Dr Walter Krol and Terri Arsenault, “Pesticide Residues in Food — Keeping Current with New Products”; and Dr Mary Jane Incorvia Mattina, “Safeguarding the Nation’s Food Supply — and More.”

Kenneth Welch and Gale Ridge will answer questions about insects, Dr Sharon Douglas and Mary Inman will answer questions about plant problems and diseases, and Gregory Bugbee will answer questions about soils.

There will be demonstrations in the station’s laboratories and tours of the 14th Connecticut National Guard Civil Support Team mobile laboratory; Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection mobile laboratory; Department of Analytical Chemistry headed by Dr Mary Jane Incorvia Mattina; and the Biosafety Level 3 Laboratory supervised Dr John F. Anderson.

Dr Robert Marra and Dr Sharon Douglas will describe the newly renovated Molecular Plant Diagnostics Laboratory.

For directions or other information call 203-974-8500 or 877-855-2237, or visit caes.state.ct.us.