--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISCONSIN WETLANDS ASSOCIATION - 17TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE URBAN WETLANDS
Date:February 22 - 23, 2012 Location: Lake
Geneva, Wisconsin.
The Wisconsin Wetlands
Association will convene members of the regional wetland community in Lake
Geneva, WI to discuss the latest in wetland science, management, restoration,
and protection issues around the conference theme, Urban Wetlands.
This
2-day conference, from February 22 - 23, 2012, will include topical oral
sessions; a poster session; working groups; a banquet with speaker; and wetland
field trips to Lake Geneva-area wetlands.
Following more than a decade-long
tradition, we anticipate that this year's conference will contribute to a
growing regional collaboration for protecting and conserving Wisconsin's
wetlands.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - WATERSHED MODELING
The University of Minnesota will be having a watershed
modeling for BMP effectiveness workshop on March 13-14 2012.
Location: Carlson School of Management, Room 2-215 321 19th Avenue S Minneapolis MN 55455
This
class will train participants on how to model a watershed and evaluate
stormwater management practices using free P8 software. This class is
appropriate for people interested in modeling, but also those responsible for
reviewing models and making decisions using modeling output.
This workshop is a 2-day course that will introduce you to the fundamentals of water quality modeling with a focus on P8 Urban Catchment Model. P8 is a water quality model for simulating pollutant generation and treatment in urban areas. This course will provide presentations, and hands-on exercises that will introduce you to the Windows version of the P8 model. The course will cover model assumptions, limitations, and application. You will learn how to review the results of water quality models such as P8.
Laptops are required and the P8 modeling software should be installed prior to the workshop. The software is available free at http://wwwalker.net/p8/.
Who should attend? Public works staff, engineers, water resources engineers & managers, designers, planners, and public officials.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - WATER RESOURCES SCIENCE
The University holds a series of seminars on water resources topics. Upcoming topics include:
Feb 3
John Gulliver, Dept of Civil Engineering,
UMN Innovations in Stormwater Treatment
Feb 10
Bill Arnold, Dept of Civil Engineering,
UMN Pesticide Processing Potential of Prairie
Potholes
Feb 17
Chris Ellison, USGS The Past, Present, and Future of
Fluvial Sediment Monitoring by the U.S. Geological Survey
Feb 24
Peter Sorensen, Dept of Fisheries, Wildlife, and
Conservation Biology, UMN Effects of invasive common
carp on water quality in Minnesota's
lakes
Dr. Sorenson's work (Feb. 24th) includes work that he did on Eden Prairie Lakes!
Mar 2
Paula Guetter, WRS Student,
UMN
Mar 9
Bruce Wilson, Dept of Bioproducts and
Biosystems Engineering, UMN Self-Sustaining Agricultural Drainage
Ditches
Mar 23
Mark Kanazawa, Carleton College, Dept of
Economics Economic Issues in the Definition of Surface Water
Rights
Apr 13
Heidi Peterson, Dept of Bioproducts and
Biosystems Engineering, UMN Assessing Hydrologic Changes Using
Regionalization Where:
University of Minnesota - St. Paul Campus 375 Borlaug
Hall (unless otherwise noted)
When: Fridays, 3:00-3:50 pm
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HAMLINE UNIVERSITY'S CENTER FOR GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION (CGEE) - Continuing Studies
CGEE offers a number of courses that are environmentally based. This includes seminars such as "Identifying Minnesota's Trees & Shrubs: Tricks, Tips & Techniques", "Civic Action & Legislating for Environmental Solutions","MN Forest Ecology", "Geology of the Twin Cities" and "Spring Flora" among others. For more course descriptions and registration information, visit www.cgee.hamline.edu. For information about this and other CGEE courses, email Brenda Erickson at berickson08@hamlineedu.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY - STREAM RESTORATION PROGRAM
NC State University offers a variety of erosion control, infiltration and stream restoration educational opportunities. These include a series of professional development workshops on a series of stream restoration, invasive species control, stream assessment, modeling, aquatic taxonomy, rain garden certification, stormwater monitoring and many others. Although on the east coast, a number of these courses sound very interesting. Most are limited to about 32 students and include hands-on time with instructors. Courses are in the Asheville and Raleigh, North Carolina areas, with a few others scattered around in Illinois and others.
