Wetland Coffee Break
The Wetland Coffee Break series helps keep our community of wetland lovers connected and learning about wetlands throughout the year, from anywhere! Bring your coffee and learn about wetlands, the plants and animals that call them home, and the many natural benefits they provide to our communities. Sessions are held on Zoom and feature time for audience Q&A.
See below for a list of upcoming presentations and to register. Once you register, you’ll receive an automatic email including the URL link and password you’ll need to access the meeting. We record and post each presentation so you can watch any that you missed live. You’ll find links to these recordings below, and you can also find them on our Facebook page.
We are grateful to all of the presenters for sharing their knowledge and expertise and to everyone interested in learning more about wetlands! If you are interested in giving a Wetland Coffee Break presentation, or if you have a wetland topic you’d like to see covered, please contact Katie.Beilfuss@wisconsinwetlands.org.
We are now able to provide attendance verification to Wetland Coffee Break audience members who attend the live sessions and request this service. We created this mechanism in response to requests from members of the Wetland Coffee Break audience who would like to apply their Wetland Coffee Break learning to their continuing education or certification requirements. Learn more about how to receive attendance verification here.
Register for a Wetland Coffee Break
The Wetland Coffee Break is on winter break, back in 2026. Check back in later this winter for upcoming programs, and subscribe to our every-other-week Wetland News email to get our calendar of events, which includes Wetland Coffee Break episoded. Meanwhile, consider attending the 2026 Wetland Science Conference, happening Feb. 24-26 in Baraboo/Wisconsin Dells, for more great information about wetlands.
Watch previous presentations
Click “Older Entries” below to see more past presentations, or view our Google Sheet index of past presentations here.
Wetland Coffee Break: Opportunities to accelerate watershed-scale runoff management: A law and policy perspective
Tune in to hear environmental attorney Paul Kent and WWA’s Erin O’Brien describe how watershed-scale runoff management makes sense from both resource management and environmental policy perspective.
Wetland Coffee Break: Spectacular sedges in Wisconsin’s wetlands
Have you ever wanted to know more about the plant diversity that lurks in green wetland meadows and marshes? Dr. Mandy Little will share her knowledge of sedges, a plant family that dominates healthy Wisconsin wetlands.
Wetland Coffee Break: So you want to manage your wetland. Where to start?
Landowners Penny and Gary Shackelford answer the questions: How to get advice? How to get help? How to get the money? How to keep enjoying it all?
Wetland Coffee Break: Whooping crane conservation in Wisconsin
Join Whooping Crane Outreach Coordinator Stephanie Schmidt to learn about the International Crane Foundation’s whooping crane reintroduction and community building efforts in Wisconsin and beyond.
Wetland Coffee Break: Toward more effective invasive species management: Part 2
Part 2: How a system dynamics approach works in practice Note: This presentation will be more technical than many of the talks in the Wetland Coffee Break series State and transition models of community dynamics predict that feedback processes and synergistic...
Wetland Coffee Break: Toward more effective invasive species management: Part 1
Part 1 introduces concepts from state and transition models and systems approaches to invasive species management.