All,
I am pleased to announce that registration for the tenth Annual Meeting
of the Society for Ecological Restoration's Midwest-Great Lakes (SER
MWGL) Chapter is now open. This year's Annual Meeting is being held in
Stevens Point, Wisconsin from April 20 to April 22, 2018 and is being
held in conjunction with the 40th Annual Wisconsin Lakes Partnership
Convention and Water Action Volunteer Symposium. Our meeting goal is to
explore how to promote the call to expand restoration efforts and
partnerships beyond the typical site scale to larger spatial scales
encompassing multiple ecosystem types. We have an exciting three days
planned that includes a keynote presentation by Stephen Carpenter; a
plenary presentation by Tracy Hames, a special Plenary Session on
“Applied Learning Through Practice, Research and Reflection: Engaging
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point College of Natural Resources
Students in Meaningful Ecological Restoration in Central Wisconsin”; two
symposia; four Workshops; three field trips; three volunteer work day
opportunities; and 59 contributed oral and poster presentations with
presenters from the midwestern United States and adjacent states. More
details about our annual meeting can be found on our annual meeting
webpage listed below:
http://bit.ly/2oY5LRv
We encourage interested attendees to register by March 21, 2018 to get
the discounted early bird registration prices. Additionally, Chapter
members receive discounted meeting registration prices as well as the
benefits of a member of the SER MWGL Chapter and its international
parent society SER. Interested attendees may register online for the
meeting using the webpage listed below:
https://www.uwsp.edu/cnr-ap/UWEXLakes/Pages/programs/convention/registrationSER.aspx
Additionally, we are seeking continuing education credits from the
International Society of Arboriculture, Society of American Foresters,
and the Society for Ecological Restoration. Once we receive approval to
offer continuing education credits we will post the available credits
offered on our Annual Meeting Webpage and will provide a meeting
passport for tracking attendance and independently seeking professional
development hours from other organizations.
We are grateful for the generous support of this year's meeting host
(University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point’s Lakes Extension and College of
Natural Resources) and our meeting sponsors (Cindy Crosby-Northwestern
University Press, Ernst Seeds, Environmental Consulting & Technology,
Grand Valley State University, Landscapes of Place, Partnership for
River Restoration and Science in the Upper Midwest, University of
Wisconsin-Green Bay, University of Northern Iowa Tallgrass Prairie
Center, Wisconsin Office of The Nature Conservancy, Wisconsin Wetlands
Association).
Please feel free to pass this information on to your colleagues who you
think would be interested in attending and participating in our upcoming
Chapter meeting. Hope to see you in Stevens Point, Wisconsin in April.
Sincerely,
Rocky Smiley
At-Large Representative/Annual Meeting Chair
SER Midwest-Great Lakes Chapter
Email: smiley...@osu.edu
