2022 Meeting Highlights

45th Annual Meeting
Meeting Information
March 10-11, 2022, online via the Whova Platform.

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The 45th Annual Meeting was once again held online using the Whova platform. We had 195 online attendees watching 61 talks on a wide variety of water quantity and quality issues. There were plenary talks from Steve Vavrus, co-director of the Wisconsin Initiative of Climate Change Impacts and Senior Scientist at UW-Madison, discussing impacts on Wisconsin from climate change; Katie Hein from the WI DNR discussing climate adaptation strategies for protecting Wisconsin’s waters; and Nadia Vogt from the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District discussing investing in social, environmental, and economic resilience in local communities.

Board Elections took place during the business meeting, and Paul Dearlove was elected as Director-at-Large, Brent Brown was re-elected as Secretary, Aaron Pruitt was elected as President-Elect, Megan Haserodt was elected as Vice President.

Paul McGinley earned the Distinguished Service Award for his long and distinguished career working on nutrient loading and surface water quality. Paul’s nominators noted not only his abundant scientific contributions, but also for his mentorship and support for his students and colleagues.

Student Awards:
​Max Beal, “Large Scale Seasonal Forecasting of Algae Abundance for Inland Lakes across the Midwest and Northeast U.S.”
Sarah Peterson, “A New Approach for Shoreline Delineation to Characterize Beach Erosion/Accretion in Lake Michigan”
AnnaBeth Thomas “Examining the Effect of Increasing Manganese(III) Content on the Oxidative Transformation of As(III) by Manganese Oxides”,
Richard Perschon “Biosolids Land Application and the Occurrence, Fate, and Mitigation of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances and Nitrate”