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: How are water drawdowns affecting nest survival of marsh birds?
Hear about how nest cameras helped researchers to explore the impact of water drawdowns on predator access to and survival of marsh bird nests.
Wetland Coffee Break: Population status of Wisconsin’s endangered/threatened amphibians and reptiles
Join conservation biologist Rori Paloski to learn about the current population status of Wisconsin’s endangered and threatened wetland herptiles.
Wetland Coffee Break: New field guide to amphibian egg masses and larvae
Ever wonder what that tadpole is? Need to better identify wetland indicators on your wetland delineations? The new “Field Guide to Amphibian Eggs and Larvae of the Western Great Lakes” can help.
Wetland Coffee Break: Protecting the “Bayou of the North”
At the mouths of the Kakagon and Bad Rivers along Lake Superior in Ashland County lie some of the most extensive and highest-quality coastal wetlands in the Great Lakes.
Wetland Coffee Break: The Chiwaukee Prairie
50+ years of conservation and partnerships to protect coastal wetlands.
Wetland Coffee Break: A decade since the Ramsar designation of the Upper Mississippi River
Take a photographic journey of this incredibly diverse and magnificent landscape, including the prehistoric snails who call it home and the arctic visitors it entices.