In the middle of January, the California Weed Science Society celebrated its 75^th anniversary with a meeting in Monterey, California. We had a good number of attendees with nearly 550 people registering and attending our conference. There were lots of great presentations made during the sessions. As well as much good discussion in between the breaks, and around the bar.

We had an excellent showing of students who presented during the meeting. We had two undergraduate poster presentations, seven graduate poster presentations, and five graduate students competing in the oral section! Additionally, there were two graduate students who were the invited speakers for our breakout sessions and a handful of students who attended the conference but did not present.

Overall this was fantastic participation and representation.

Photo One: UC Davis Students. From left to right: Stephen Chang, Emily Chou, Liberty Galvin, Aaron Bercerra-Alvarez, Andres Contreras, Deniz Inci, Guelta Laguerre and Matthew Lombardi

Photo Two: Fresno State Students and CWSS Past president Professor Anil Shretha, From left to right: Robert Wilmont, Kelsey Galvan, Anil Shrestha, Kiera Searcy and Margaret Fernando

I would like to thank all of our students for attending, the judges who scored the competition, and all of the members of the society who engaged and listened to the students.

We look forward to learning about all of their hard work in weed science at next year's conference!

Winners

Undergraduate Student Poster:

• 1^st place Kiera Searcy - Fresno State -Weed Control in Nursery Container Lathe House

Graduate Student Poster:

• 1^st Place- Robert Willmott - Fresno State - Cover Crops used in conjunction with Strip Tilling to reduce Herbicide usage in Silage Corn
• 2^nd Place- Deniz Inci - UC Davis - Cattail, Typha L., Control in Delta Rice with Florpyrauxifen-benzyl, Loyant® CA
• 3^rd Place- Aaron Becerra-Alvarez - UC Davis -Spot treatment of clethodim for control weedy rice

Photo Three: Student Poster Winners. From left to right: Aaron Becerra-Alvarez (3^rd), Robert Willmott (1^st), Kiera Searcy (1^st undergrad), and Deniz Inci (2^nd)

Graduate Student Oral Session:

• 1^st Place- Matthew Fatino - UC Davis - Evaluating in-season management strategies for branched broomrape control in California processing tomatoes.
• 2^nd Place- Guelta Laguerre - UC Davis - Evaluation of weed control efficacy and crop safety of the new PPO-inhibiting herbicide, tiafenacil in California orchard cropping systems
• 3^rd Place- Kelsey Galvan - Fresno State - Germination of Common Waterhemp (Amaranthus tuberculatas) Seeds as Influenced by Soil Environmental Factors and Tolerance to Common Post Emergence Herbicides and Soil Salinity.

Photo Four: Student Paper winners. From left to right: Kelsey Galvan (3^rd) and Guelta Laguerre (2^nd). Matthew Fatino (1^st) not pictured as he presented virtually.