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The Program Schedule is in flux and this page is currently being used for planning the final schedule.

The schedule will not be firm/final until July 2008.

 

Evening Ad Hoc Meetings / Workshops

Topic Organizer Time Venue
The Next North American Prairie Conference: Timing & Host Dr. Bruno Borsari Tuesday Aug 5, 2008
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm
 
       
       

 

Monday August 4, 2008

Event

Speaker/
Moderator
Time Venue
Registration and Social   5:00 pm - 9:00 pm Science Laboratory Center (SLC) Atrium
       
       
       

 

Tuesday August 5, 2008

Event

Speaker/
Moderator

Time Venue
A Gathering   8:00 am - 8:20 am Somsen Auditorium Reception Area (SO 214)
Opening Remarks & Introductions Dr. Bruno Borsari 8:20 am - 8:25 am  
Welcome Dr. Judith Ramaley,
President,
Winona State University
8:25 am - 8:30 am  Somsen Auditorium
(SO 214)
Keynote Address: From Brome, Beans & Bovine to Bluestem, Blazing Star & Bison Dr. Pauline Drobney,
Land Management and Research Demonstration Biologist, Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge
8:30 am - 9:30 am Somsen Auditorium
(SO 214)

Break

  9:30 am - 9:45 am  
Concurrent Session: (Title)   9:45 am - 11:30 am  
       

 

     
Concurrent Session: (Title)   9:45 am - 11:30 am  
       

Lunch (on your own)

  11:30 am - 1:30 pm  
Concurrent Session: (Title)   1:30 pm - 3:00 pm  
       

Break

  3:00 pm - 3:15 pm  
Concurrent Session: (Title)   3:15 pm - 5:00 pm  
Concurrent Session: (Title)   3:15 pm - 5:00 pm  

Dinner (on your own)

     
Conference Meeting:
The Next North American Prairie Conference: Timing & Host
Dr. Bruno Borsari 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm  
       

 

Wednesday August 6, 2008

Event

Speaker/
Moderator
Time Venue
A Gathering & Boarding of Busses   7:40 am - 8:00 am  
Field Trip: 1: Houston Nat. Ctr ++   8:00 am - 4:00 pm  
Field Trip: 2: Weaver Dunes ++   8:00 am - 4:00 pm  
Field Trip: 3: Prairie Moon Nurs ++   8:00 am - 4:00 pm  
Field Trip: 4 :Alt. Energy P&P ++   8:00 am - 4:00 pm  
Field Trip: 5: Whitewater Mgmt. ++   8:00 am - 4:00 pm  
Field Trip: 6: Chester Woods C.P.   8:00 am - 4:00 pm  
Field Trip: 7: Great River Bluffs S.P.   8:00 am - 4:00 pm  
Field Trip: 8: Trempealeau Nat.Ref.   8:00 am - 4:00 pm  
Field Trip: 9: Holland Sand Pr. ++   8:00 am - 4:00 pm  
Field Trip: 10: Effigy Mounds Nat. M   8:00 am - 4:00 pm  
Field Trip: 11: MS River. Excursion
Field Trip: 12: MS River. Excursion
Field Trip: 13: MS River. Excursion
Field Trip: 14: MS River. Excursion
  8:00 am - 10:00 am
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
WSU River Explorer
N Johnson Street and Front Street, Levee Park, Winona

Break

   

WINONA MAP

Field Trip Rendezvous   5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Lake Park JC Pavilion, Franklin Street by Lake Park Dr. and Lake Winona
Barbecue Dinner   6:00 pm - ? Lake Park JC Pavilion

 

Thursday August 7, 2008

Event

Speaker/
Moderator
Time Venue
A Gathering   8:00 am - 8:20 am Somsen Auditorium Reception Area (SO 214)
Opening Remarks & Introductions Dr. Bruno Borsari 8:20 am - 8:25 am Somsen Auditorium
Plenary Address: Kurschskaya Kosa (Curonian Spit) as an UNESCO object and its potential as a zone of ecotourism Prof. Dr. Viktor Dedkov,
Dean of Bioecology,
Immanuel Kant State University of Russia
8:25 am - 9:20 am Somsen Auditorium

Break

  9:30 am - 9:15 am  
Concurrent Session: (Title)   9:15 am - 11:30 am  
Concurrent Session: (Title)   9:15 am - 11:30 am  

Lunch (on your own)

  11:30 am - 1:30 pm  
Concurrent Session: (Title)   1:30 pm - 3:00 pm  
Concurrent Session: (Title)   1:30 pm - 3:00 pm  

Break

  3:00 pm - 3:15 pm  
Concurrent Session: (Title)   3:15 pm - 5:00 pm  
Concurrent Session: (Title)   3:15 pm - 5:00 pm  

Break

     
Convivial Soirée   5:30 pm - 6:00 pm Lourdes Hall,
WSU West Campus
Banquet Dinner   6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Awards   7:00 pm  

 

Friday August 8, 2008

Event

Speaker/
Moderator

Time Venue
A Gathering   8:30 am - 9:15 am Science Laboratory Center Atrium
Concurrent Session: (Title)   9:15 am - 10:45 am  
Concurrent Session: (Title)   9:15 am - 10:45 am  
       
       
       
       
       

Break

  10:45am - 11:00 am  
Keynote Address: The Prairie Meets The Farm
 
Dr. Wes Jackson,
President,
The Land Institute
11:00 am - 11:55 am Somsen Auditorium
SO 214
Concluding Comments and Farewell Dr. Jeff Anderson,
Interim Dean of Science and Engineering,
Winona State University
11:55 am Somsen Auditorium
SO 214
Book Autographing by Dr. Calvin Fremling   12:00 pm - ? Somsen Auditorium Reception Area

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