This years Annual Meeting of the Midwest-Great Lakes Chapter of the
Society for Ecological Restoration (SER MWGL) will be held in Stevens
Point, Wisconsin in April 2018
(http://chapter.ser.org/midwestgreatlakes/current-meeting/). The SER
MWGL Chapter serves the seven states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan,
Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa. Our Annual Meetings have
become known as excellent and exciting venues for ecological
restoration. Our past nine Annual Meetings have attracted between 98 to
233 attendees from 20 states (all seven chapter states and California,
Georgia, Kansas, Missouri, New York, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi,
Nevada, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Utah, West Virginia), one Canadian
province (Ontario), and Bogota, Columbia for this three day event. The
typical structure of our meeting included poster session/sponsorship
reception, dinner/keynote address, one to two plenary sessions, three to
four concurrent oral presentation sessions, a business meeting, and
offsite field trips. This year's meeting is being held in conjunction
with the 40th Annual Wisconsin Lakes Partnership Convention and Water
Action Volunteer Symposium
(https://www.uwsp.edu/cnr-ap/uwexlakes/pages/programs/convention/default.aspx)
and represents the first time that the Chapter has held a joint meeting
with another organization.
Our meeting theme is “Heeding the Call”, which represent our primary
goal of exploring how to promote the call to expand restoration efforts
and partnerships beyond the typical site scale to larger spatial scales
encompassing multiple ecosystem types.Our secondary goal is to bring
together all who are interested in ecological restoration and contribute
to advancing the field of ecological restoration.
We are soliciting workshop proposals, symposia proposals, and
contributed presentation abstracts for the meeting. We encourage the
submission of proposals and abstracts that are directly related to the
meeting theme and our meeting goal, as well as proposals involving any
topic related to ecological restoration.
*The deadline for submitting a workshop or symposia proposal is
11/1/2017*.Details on submitting a workshop or symposia proposal can be
found at the website below:
http://chapter.ser.org/midwestgreatlakes/current-meeting/call-for-workshop-and-symposia-proposals/
*The deadline for submission of abstracts for contributed oral and
poster presentations is December 1, 2017.*Details on submitting a
contributed presentation abstract can be found at the website below:
http://chapter.ser.org/midwestgreatlakes/current-meeting/call-for-abstracts/
In conclusion, we want to encourage everyone to Heed the Call and submit
a workshop proposal, a symposia proposal, or an contributed presentation
abstract.Additionally, please share this information with your
colleagues whom you think would be interested in contributing and
attending our upcoming annual meeting. Feel free to contact us
(mwgl....@gmail.com <mailto:mwgl....@gmail.com>) if you have questions
about our upcoming Annual Chapter Meeting.
Sincerely,
Rocky
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Dr. Rocky Smiley
Annual Meeting Chair/At Large Representative
Midwest-Great Lakes Chapter of the Society for Ecological Restoration
Email: smiley...@osu.edu
http://chapter.ser.org/midwestgreatlakes/
