2011 Meeting Highlights

35th Annual Meeting - "Wisconsin's Role in Great Lakes Restoration"

Meeting Information
March 3 - 4, 2011 at the Radisson Paper Valley Hotel, 333 W. College Avenue, Appleton WI 54911

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Meeting Highlights
This year's theme was "Wisconsin's Role in Great Lakes Restoration", and we had excellent technical sessions on great lakes topics, as well as surface water and groundwater issues throughout Wisconsin. Our plenary provided national, state and local perspectives on how the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative is providing policy and funding momentum to clean up contaminated sediment, expand fish spawning habitat, control invasives species, and make our beaches safer. Dinner speaker Greg Summers provided a thought-provoking history lesson about environmentalism in the Fox Valleys that generated plenty of philosophical discussion about "all or nothing" environmental debates.

Distinguished Service Award
The Wisconsin Section of AWRA is pleased to award the Distinguished Service Award to Roger Bannerman of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (pictured below). Roger has worked tirelessly to solve urban and rural nonpoint source pollution problems for many years, producing nationally recognized research and mentoring many young water resource scientists. Roger is also serving as Vice President of the Wisconsin Section of AWRA. Thank you, Roger, and congratulations!

Student Presentation Awards
AWRA encourages student participation in its annual meeting by recognizing the best student oral presentation, best student poster, and undergraduate excellence in either the oral or poster categories. This year’s competition featured oral presentations by twelve graduate students and posters by five graduate and three undergraduate students.

Best Student Oral Presentation Award went to Nathan C. Magnusson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for Assessing the Effect of Pleistocene Glaciation on the Water Supply of Eastern Wisconsin (pictured below).

Best Student Poster Award went to Stephanie G. Prellwitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison for Biological Systems Engineering, Soil Stability within Wetland Treatment Swales for Urban Runoff (pictured below).

Undergraduate Excellence Award went to Caren J. Ackley, University of Wisconsin-Parkside for Geosciences Department, Removal of Arsenic and Chromium from Water Using Fe-Exchanged Zeolite (pictured below).