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RRWA's Annual Conference: "Life in the Raccoon River - Our Natural Capital

Apr9
  • Date: April 9, 2022
    Time: 9:00am - 1:00pm
    Location: Des Moines Area Community College, Urban Campus
    1100 7th St
    Des Moines, IA 50314
Contact:
(info@raccoonriver.org)

Agenda

9:00 am Welcome—President Chris Henning
9:05 am Future of Iowa: Soil, Soul, Spark—Pat Boddy, Bob Riley
9:30 “The Land Remains”— Neil Hamilton. Emeritus Professor, Drake Ag Law Center
10:00 am “Enhancing Biodiversity to Improve Environmental Quality and Crop Production”—Emeritus Professor Matt Liebman, ISU
10:30 am Break
10:45 am Pursuing Polluted Waters through Empowering Watershed Coalitions: From Citizen-Scientists to Certified Water Quality Labs—Emeritus Professor Dr. Laura Merrick, Agronomy, ISU
11:15 am Recreational risks in the Raccoon: do E. coli concentrations accurately represent pathogen risk?—Professor Peter Levi and Taylor Vroman, Drake University
11:45 am A Floristic assessment of
Tipton Prairie—Professor Thomas Rosburg, Drake University
12:15 pm Photo Competition Awards
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Attend in-person or online via Zoom. Please register for both.

Register here.