SWS North Central Chapter Meeting
Indiana Dunes
September 28-30, 2012
Friday, September 28
4:00-6:00 Sign-in, pick up meeting materials, late registration
6:00-8:00 pm Social and dinner
Plenary talk: Dr. Deborah Goldberg
Saturday, September 29
8:00-9:00 Breakfast
9:00-10:00 Business meeting
10:00-10:10 Break
10:10-10:20
Welcome Remarks
Loretta Battaglia, Current President North Central Chapter
Joy Marburger, Indiana Dunes Great Lakes Research and Education Center
Oral Presentations
10:20-10:40
The wetland continuum: a conceptual model of biophysical functions supporting production of ecosystem
services
David M. Mushet and Ned H. Euliss, Jr.
U.S. Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, Jamestown, ND
10:40-11:00
Exploring interwoven cause and effect in nutrient cycling, plant size, and invasion success in a wetland
community-ecosystem model
William S. Currie1, Deborah E. Goldberg2 and Jason P. Martina1,2
1
University of Michigan, School of Natural Resources and Environment, Ann Arbor, MI;
2
University of Michigan, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ann Arbor, MI
11:00-11:20
The interaction between litter, N loading, and allocation requirement determines invader success in a
simulated clonal wetland ecosystem
Jason P. Martina1,2, William S. Currie1 and Deborah E. Goldberg2
1
School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, 2 Department of Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
11:20-11:40
Comparison of nutrient pools and denitrification rates in native and non-native strains of Phragmites
australis in freshwater wetlands
Lisa A. Volesky and Pamela Geddes, Department of Biology, Northeastern Illinois University
11:40-12:00
Potential effects of exotic species on organic accretion in a subsiding swamp ecosystem
Brooklyn Krings, Loretta L. Battaglia
Southern Illinois University, Department of Plant Biology, Carbondale, Illinois, USA
12:00-1:30 Lunch (included in regular registration)
1:30-1:50
Does translocation influence growth or invasiveness of clonal cattail (Typha) species?
Kenneth Elgersma, Radka Wildova and Deborah E. Goldberg
University of Michigan, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Ann Arbor, MI
1:50-2:10
How adjacent land use impacts ostracod community structure and composition in northwest Iowa fen
wetlands
Joshua C. Abel and Sean Jenkins
Western Illinois University, Department of Biological Sciences, Macomb, IL
2:10-2:30
Use of amphibian translocation as a tool in wetland restoration
David A. Mifsud
Herpetological Resource and Management, LLC, P.O. Box 110, Chelsea, MI
2:30-2:50
Climate change and assisted migration of coastal species
Loretta L. Battaglia
Southern Illinois University, Department of Plant Biology, Carbondale, IL
2:50-3:10
Cowles Bog wetland complex: glory, demise, resuscitation
Dan Mason
Great Lakes Research and Education Center, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Porter, IN
3:10-4:10 Poster Session
Comparison of sediment transport & sediment storage in reservoirs in agriculturally dominated
watersheds during a drought year, McLean County, IL
Laura A. Hanna and Catherine M. O’Reilly
Illinois State University, Department of Geography & Geology, Normal, IL, 61790
Seed bank diversity in Great Lakes coastal wetlands invaded by Phragmites australis
Lily Glaeser*1, Penelope Richardson-Bristol1,2 and Kristi E. Judd1
1
Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI. 2Current address: Fish & Wildlife Service, Detroit River
International Wildlife Refuge, Large Lakes Research Station, 9311 Groh Road, Grosse Isle, MI
Impact of Bt corn leaf detritus on aquatic macroinvertebrates
Jennifer R. Heim, John J. Killpack, and Melinda A. Coogan
Buena Vista University, Storm Lake Iowa
Linking wetland research and education in Great Lakes National Parks: 2004-2012
Joy E. Marburger
Great Lakes Research and Education Center, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Porter, IN
6:00-7:00 Dinner (included in regular registration)
Sunday, September 30
8:00-9:00 Breakfast (included in regular registration)
9:30-2:30 Tour of Cowles Bog and Great Marsh wetlands (box lunch included in regular registration)