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Technical Session 1:  
Tuesday Morning, June 30th
(subject to change)

Confirmed Presentations

  • An Evaluation Forced Aeration Composting Complimented with a Grinder/Mixer System for managing Swine, Poultry and Dairy Mortality - Bobby Clark

  • Animal Welfare as a Biosecurity Strategy: Evaluating Vaccination Compliance and Movement Control in Livestock Markets and Cross-Border Trade within the East African Community - Ambrose Otachi

  • Assessing above ground burial as a swine mortality management strategy in Canada - Vanessa Matten

  • AVMA Humane Endings: An Update - Cia Johnson

  • Comparison of Deep Burial and Trench Composting for Degradation of Market-Weight Pig Carcasses - Teng Lim

  • Demonstration of Efficient Mass Swine Carcass Management Using Tub Grinder Mixer Wagons - Dale Rozeboom

  • Effective strategies for animal mortality management in Nigeria - Adegbite Opeyemi Isaac

  • Emergency mortality disposal using forced air composting in plastic ag bags - Brett Ramirez presenting on behalf of Patrick Murphy, PhD

  • EMERGENCY RESPONSE: Virus Elimination of Infected Material with Silage Bags During an Avian Influenza Outbreak - Dr Nicholas Edelman

  • Enhancing Biosecurity in Swine Operations: Assessing viral environmental contamination and investigating wildlife interactions on mortality management structures of swine farms - Rafael Medeiros de Avila Melo

  • Frozen Assets: Effects of staging conditions on swine carcass degradation under freeze-thaw conditions - Zoe Ehlers

  • HPAI as an Example of the Importance for Wildlife Biosecurity - David Marks

  • Improving the efficiency of cattle handling for mass depopulation procedures in animal health emergencies - Dr. Jan Shearer

  • One Health Insights into Endemic African Swine Fever as an Environmental Challenge: A Mixed-Methods Study of Veterinarian and Hog Raiser Perspectives - Jesper Chia-Hui Hsu

Technical Session 2:  
Tuesday Afternoon, June 30th
(subject to change)

Confirmed Presentations

  • Accelerating Swine Mortality Composting with Compost Turners: A Proof of Concept - Gary Flory

  • Achieving Bio-Security, Profitability, and Sustainability with all Animal Mortality Disposal - Joe Busby

  • Dairy Mortality Composting - Margaret Ross

  • Delivering Large Scale HPAI Mortality Composting Skills and Coordinating an SME Team  - J. Craig Williams

  • Evaluating ambient alkaline hydrolysis combined with anaerobic digestion for disposal of cattle hides and poultry mortalities - Asma Sabir

  • Evaluating On-Site Static Pile Composting as an Alternative Method for Mammalian Mortality Management - Jodi Aceves

  • Evaluation of Factors Impacting Potential Disease Transmission Risks for Swine Carcass Disposal via Static Composting and Shallow Burial with Carbon - Amy Schmidt

  • Fate of Euthanasia Agents (Ketamine and Xylazine) in an Active Mortality Compost Windrow - Mark King

  • Lab-scale evaluation of staging swine carcasses  - Brett Ramirez

  • Management of multiple infected Premises - Leslie Chandler

  • Outbreak Preparedness and Response Planning for Foreign Animal Disease in Wildlife: A case study of African swine fever - Dana Cole & Scott Stopak

  • Remote Monitoring and Digital Data Collection of Composting Piles with Wildlife - Sashti Balasundaram

  • The AVMA Veterinary First Responder Certificate Program - Mike Murphy (AVMA) on behalf of Dr. Hess

  • Using Nitrogen for Poultry Depopulation with the Whole House Gassing Method - Lucia Hunt & Jeff Hill

Technical Session 3: 
Wednesday Morning, July 1st 
(subject to change)

Confirmed Presentations

  • Aerosolization of New Castle Virus Particles During Pre-compost Carcass Breakdown and Mixing Using a Vertical Mixer - Zac Williams

  • Biosecurity Controls in Modern Disease Management  - Rachael O'Brien

  • Chronic Wasting Disease in Captive Red Deer - Carissa Braun

  • Composting of Chronic Wasting Disease: A Case study examining prion deactivation potential - Alex Thomas

  • Enhancing the Valorisation Potential of Slaughterhouse By-Products using an innovative combination of technological and eco-friendly approaches - Catherine Bélanger, PhD

  • Impacts of Swine Carcass Preparation and Carbon Material on Effectiveness Of Shallow Burial with Carbon (SBC) - Bobby Clark presenting on behalf of Bob Peer

  • Investigating the Environmental Impact of Composting Livestock and Poultry - Dr Michael Payne

  • Manual to measured: proven remote compost monitoring to scale  - Doug Crawford

  • Optimizing on-farm routine animal mortality composting for pathogen reduction and biosecurity: Broilers Part 1 - Josh Payne

  • Optimizing on-farm routine animal mortality practices for pathogen reduction and biosecurity: Part 2  - Zoe Ehlers

  • Pilot Project for continuing education and advancement of Compost SMEs - Lucia Hunt

  • Practical Disposal Methods for Shell Eggs during a High Consequence Disease Response - Jean Bonhotal

  • Science-Based and Operationally Feasible Carcass Management Strategies During Transboundary FMD Outbreaks: Evidence from the Pakistan–Afghanistan Border Region - Abdul Kabir

  • Ultra-Rapid Composting for Animal Mortality Management: Field Observations from a Heat- and Enzyme-Assisted System Demonstrated in Brazil - Gary Flory

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