On February 25, 2009, several members of the Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) Board of Directors along with Kurt Getsinger, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) and Jill Schroeder, Professor of Weed Science, New Mexico State University, met with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) headquarters staff to discuss regulatory issues pertinent to weed science. Dr. Getsinger serves as the aquatic weed subject matter expert in the EPA Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) Registration Division (RD) and Dr. Schroeder serves in a similar capacity as WSSA’s terrestrial weed subject matter expert to EPA. One of the outcomes of this meeting was a fact-finding field tour for key EPA headquarters staff to gain a better understanding of how aquatic pest management decisions involving pesticides are regulated, applied and monitored by state and federal authorities.  Read the full report here (PDF).