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SUMMARY:Head to Stevens Point for the 2024 Wisconsin Water Week convention
DESCRIPTION:April 10-12\, 2024\, in Stevens Point\, Wisconsin \nThis is a well-done annual conference that is put on by a well-established partnership of government\, higher education\, and lake groups. While some sessions will pertain to Wisconsin’s specific governance\, most of the sessions will be highly relevant to Minnesota’s lakes and rivers. \nThis statewide convention brings together professionals\, students\, community members\, and businesses who love water. The 2024 event will feature plenary speakers\, as well as interactive workshops and content-rich concurrent sessions with time for speakers to address participants’ questions. \nThis event is a collaboration of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources\, the Extension Lakes Program within the College of Natural Resources at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point\, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension\, and the statewide organization of lake groups\, Wisconsin Lakes. They are a partnership of people caring for our legacy of lakes\, rivers\, and watersheds through science\, education\, and citizen involvement. \nOfficial Convention registration will be available in mid-late January 2024. Check their conference website for more details. And if you have the interest\, submit a proposal for presentation at the conference (see More information for details). \n\n\n\nWhat is the Wisconsin Lakes and Rivers Convention? \nThis statewide convention brings together professionals\, students\, community members\, and businesses who love water. We have been meeting annually for over 40 years and hope that you can continue to contribute to this legacy. The 2024 event will feature plenary speakers\, as well as interactive workshops and content-rich concurrent sessions with time for speakers to address participants’ questions. \nWednesday\, April 10 will include interactive half- and full-day workshops. Wednesday evening will feature the Wisconsin Lakes and Rivers Partnership Welcome Reception where appetizers and beverages will be served in a relaxed environment ideal for networking. \nThursday\, April 11 will feature a welcome session and kickoff keynote event\, multiple concurrent sessions\, educational and business exhibits\, a round of lightning talks\, and a poster session. On Thursday evening\, we’ll be celebrating award winners at the Wisconsin Lake Stewardship and Volunteer Stream Monitoring Awards Ceremony and Banquet. \nFriday\, April 12 will consist of multiple concurrent sessions\, educational and business exhibits\, and a keynote speaker and closing luncheon. Friday afternoon will include interactive mini-workshops. \nWe invite you to attend and build new and enhance past relationships so we can better collaborate and cooperate around our lakes\, rivers\, watersheds\, and across Wisconsin. With over 100 presenters\, 18 workshops\, keynotes\, exhibits\, and over 70 concurrent sessions\, you won’t want to miss it! Keep an eye on the Lakes and Rivers Convention – Wisconsin Water Week website for additional information as it is released.\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nSubmit a Presentation Proposal \nOpen call for presentations includes: \n\nConcurrent Sessions (deadline: Oct. 1\, 2023) – There will be 5 rooms with sessions occurring simultaneously. Presentations can be as short as 20 minutes in length or up to 60 minutes. We encourage presenters to build in time for Q&A at the end of their presentation.\nWorkshops (deadline: Oct. 1\, 2023) – We plan to schedule half-day workshops (2-3 hours) on Wednesday morning\, Wednesday afternoon\, and Friday afternoon. Full-day workshops (6 hours) are also possible on Wednesday. Workshops are more interactive and/or hands-on and are meant to engage participants in in-depth conversations\, problem solving\, planning\, and exploring.\nLightning Talks (deadline: March 1\, 2024) – These quick\, 5-minute (or less) presentations are meant to introduce a topic/share a success\, with the goal of exposing attendees to multiple topics in a short amount of time. There will not be time for Q&A after lightning talks; however\, we encourage Lightning Talk presenters to also present a Poster\, which is where further conversations can take place.\nPosters (deadline: April 1\, 2024) – Posters will be on display all day Thursday through Friday at 2:00 p.m. Poster presenters are required to be with their poster during the Poster Session on Thursday from 4:30-5:30 p.m.\n\nSubmit a Presentation Proposal\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nThis event is a collaboration of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources\, the Extension Lakes Program within the College of Natural Resources at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point\, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension\, and the statewide organization of lake groups\, Wisconsin Lakes. We are a partnership of people caring for our legacy of lakes\, rivers\, and watersheds through science\, education\, and citizen involvement. \nOfficial Convention registration will be available in mid-late January\, 2024.
URL:https://mncola.org/event/head-to-stevens-point-for-the-2024-wisconsin-water-week-convention/
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SUMMARY:Climate change effects on fisheries - April 23
DESCRIPTION:Researchers from Minnesota\, Wisconsin and Missouri talk about their work in quantifying the impacts of climate change on fish growth and production using the largest-ever database of Midwest glacial lakes fisheries surveys to enable sustainable management. \nClimate change is causing inland lake water temperatures to rise\, ice durations to shorten\, and stratification regimes to shift. These habitat changes are creating novel challenges for freshwater fish and the productive fisheries they have long supported. We assessed shifts in habitat availability\, bioenergetic needs and capacity\, fish growth\, and fishery productivity using simulated water temperature data and fisheries monitoring data compiled from across the Midwest. \nMajor findings include: \n\nOn average\, species preferring colder temperatures lost more preferred habitat than was gained by species favoring warmer temperatures between 1980-2021.\nWhile warm-water species’ productivity has generally benefited from warming\, cooler-water species have generally lost productivity. These losses in productivity can be exacerbated by fishing in exploited populations.\nMany cool- and coldwater fish will experience increasing energetic challenges as the climate warms\, but thermal refuges will likely persist in larger and deeper lakes.\nThe growth patterns of fish can be influenced by temperature–and theory allows us to predict what these patterns look like\, but do fish actually follow these predictions? We explore this as a product of methodological and ecological mechanisms.\nThe effects of temperature on fish growth differ depending on fish size and age. Rising temperatures may accelerate early life growth for some species\, but slow growth and increase mortality for older life stages.\n\nCollectively\, this can result in complicated responses of fish growth across the diverse landscape of Midwestern lakes. Together\, these projects provide an actionable set of findings for managing fisheries under climate change.
URL:https://mncola.org/event/climate-change-effects-on-fisheries-april-23/
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