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CSHS Annual Conferences
The CSHS also prioritizes travelling around the country for its annual meetings. Due to the
Covid19 pandemic, the CSHS held a virtual student conference on August 27, 2020 and a
virtual Joint tri-societies (CPS-CSA-CSHS) conference on July 5-9, 2021. These meetings were
followed by a first post-pandemic in-person conference in Halifax on August 18-20, 2022,
chaired by Dr. Fofana and was a real success. This past year, the CSHS held its conference in
Ottawa, Ontario, as part of the Tri-Society Conference with the Canadian Phytopathological
Society and the Canadian Society of Agronomy, from June 17-21, 2023. The conference
covered the topic “Agroecosystem resiliency under changing climate”,and was chaired by Dr
Guillaume Bilodeau. CSHS organized and chaired a symposium on controlled environment
agriculture, a concurrent session on disease management of horticultural crops, and its
members presented at and chaired many other sessions. Dr. Fofana actively contributed to the
Scientific Paper Worshop organized by the Canadian Journal of Plant Science for students.

CSHS – Halifax 2022

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