Wisconsin Wetlands Association thanks everyone who contributed to and participated in our 2009 conference, Wetland Connections with partners the International Society of Wetland Scientists and the Wetland Biogeochemistry Symposium. Special thanks to all the speakers, presenters, sponsors, exhibitors, attendees, and everyone else who helped make this joint meeting a great success! View conference photos below.

Visit the joint conference website to download abstracts and read more about this event.

CONFERENCE PHOTOS
Thanks to photographers Mark Baumgartner, Sarah Kriesel, Vanessa Tobias and Katie Beilfuss for sharing the photos below.

THEME: WETLAND CONNECTIONS
Wetland Connections is a deliberately broad and inclusive theme for the 2009 conference. Although wetlands cover only 5% of the earth's surface, they maintain essential links between land and water -- in inland lakes and streams, arctic muskeg, and where the inland waters meet the ocean in estuaries, salt marshes, and mangroves. They provide essential services in storm water control, water purification, carbon storage, and wildlife habitat. Even "isolated" wetlands provide these functional connections. For all these reasons, wetlands are essential for building a sustainable global future, and for connecting scientists, policy makers, managers, farmers, politicians, judges and lawyers, and the general public. We encourage abstract submissions across this vast array of wetland-relevant topics.

The connections theme also portrays this year's joint meeting of three groups that collectively represent the surprising breadth of wetland endeavors. The Society of Wetland Scientists covers the full range of wetland topics, including basic research, application and management. The Wetland Biogeochemistry Symposium is a biennial event with a 20-year history of spotlighting cutting edge research, and it is now an activity of the new Biogeochemistry Section of SWS. Wisconsin Wetlands Association is a science-based outreach and advocacy organization focused on wetland conservation and protection that has held regional wetland science conferences for 13 years.

Finally, the primary purpose of the conference is to exchange information and connect people. Keep your connections current by attending the 2009 meeting and participating in one or more of the activities of the conference.

> Wetland Connections conference website

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