Sudden Oak Death Program
*SOD Blitz Results Meetings 2024*
Registration Link for all Fall 2024 meetings
2024 Online Webinar Meeting
Zoom Webinar Meeting – Tuesday 11/19/24 5-7pm – Abbreviated discussion focusing on the blitz results. Please register(above) for the online meeting and we will email you the Zoom link.
Save the data for these meetings with Matteo, the SOD Blitz organizers, and our lab!
Please forward this registration information to anyone who would be interested in the webinar.
2024 In-Person Meetings
Woodside – Tuesday 11/12/24 6-8pm – Woodside Town Hall, 2955 Woodside Rd, Woodside, CA
In-depth discussion on distribution of 2024 SOD outbreaks, management options, and time for questions. We will have specific information for peninsula residents about new findings in their communities. Please register (above) if you plan to attend this in-person meeting.
Sonoma – Wednesday 12/11/24 6-8pm – UCCE Extension Office, 133 Aviation Blvd #109, Santa Rosa, CA
In-depth discussion on distribution of 2024 SOD outbreaks, management options, and time for questions. Please register (above) if you plan to attend this in-person meeting.
UC Berkeley Forest Pathology and Mycology Laboratory and UCCE Sonoma present:
REGISTER HERE
*register no later than Friday, June 7th to receive packets by mail
*Este es un evento bilingüe*
Preguntas: Comuníquese con la Coordinadora del Programa de Muerte Súbita del Roble, Kerry kwininger@ucanr.edu
Thanks for attending the 2023 SOD Blitz Results Meetings
Hear blitz results from Dr. Matteo Garbelotto (UC Berkeley Forest Pathology & Mycology Lab) and get your questions answered! Links to blitz results & maps and information are on the SOD Blitz project site: www.sodblitz.org. Events were held as follows:
2023 SOD BLITZ RESULTS
Over 10,000 trees across the state were surveyed in 2023. SOD incidence increased in some parts of Sonoma County from 2022, while some areas of the southern Mendocino coast and Anderson Valley experienced outbreaks in areas where SOD was previously detected. See the full table of SOD Blitz Results here.
| Surveyed Trees | Symptomatic Oak Nearby | Sampled Trees | SOD Positive Sampled Trees | Estimated True Infection Rate | Symptomatic Trees Surveyed | |
| Mendocino | 266 | 3% | 67 | 1.5% | 0.3% | 21.2% |
| Sonoma-West | 541 | 6.1% | 114 | 3.5% | 1.8% | 52.6% |
| Sonoma-North | 44 | 6.7% | 15 | 6.7% | 2.8% | 42.6% |
| Sonoma-East | 762 | 0.9% | 134 | 13.4% | 5.4% | 40.1% |
Video: SOD in Sonoma County
SOD Results Map 2023
Full SOD Blitz Google Earth Map Overlay available here
SOD Program Posters
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