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Conference Schedule
(subject to minor changes...) Our
Schedule Wednesday,
July 20 Pre-conference workshops
Project
WET, Discover a Watershed
MH106B
Monarchs in the classroom and Nature Center
PC117
(Lunch served in the hallway at noon)
Journeys with Lewis and Clark – Susan Fowler
-- 1:00 - 4:30
MH107
Alternative
Energy Comes Full Circle – 1:00 - 4:30
PC
118
Evening: Registration/Social
5:00
Registration opens
Gym
hallway 5:00
– 8:00 “Appetizers
and Advertisers”
Gym
displays, vendors, wild game
and local hors
D’oeuvres 6:30
Showing of the film
“America’s Lost Landscape – the Tallgrass Prairie” with Dr. Daryl Smith,
University of Northern Iowa
Muse
Norris Center 7:00
-9:00 Vendor
Hall open
Gym 7:30
Meeting for Drake Graduate
Credit or CEU’s
Muse
Norris Center Karen Sievers and Jim Pease, respectively 7:30
– 10:30 Folk music/cash bar --
Joe
Paulik
Auditorium
hallway
Wednesday evening: “Music
for your spirit!” Join us in the “coffee shop” area outside the vendor hall for one of our favorite northwoods fellows. Joe comes to us from northern Minnesota where he is a frequent attraction in the Grand Marais/Tofte/Lutsen area. He has written more than 100 songs, many with an environmental theme, and he is a master of hundreds of covers from the the 60's, 70's and 80's. His six and twelve-string acoustic magic and mellow voice will have you longing for more. Joe lives in a handmade 1-room cabin in the Superior National Forest. He excels at wilderness skills, as well as music! Joe often helps with classes at the Tom Brown Tracker School in New Jersey. You'll want to find time to visit with him! Welcome, Joe, to the 2005 Midwest Environmental Education Conference! Thursday,
July 21
Good
morning! 7:30 Registration
open
Gym
hallway 8:30 Welcome
Muse
Norris Center
Dr. Michael
Morrison, President, NIACC
Craig Meyers, Co-chair, ICEC
8:40 Keynote
Speaker – Dr. Pete Myers, Our Stolen Future
Muse
Norris Center
“A tipping
point for environment and health”
Book signing immediately after
the presentation
9:30
Break – Vendor Hall open
Gym (See concurrent
descriptions on pages 14-21)
10-10:45 Concurrents
-- Facilitated discussion with
Dr. Myers
Discussion
with Pete Myers
Muse
Norris Center (s)
Sustainable
Living Simplified
Muse
Norris Center (s)
It’s
More Than Elementary – Service Learning for Life
MH106B
Kindernature
(90 minutes) MH105
Mountain
Lions in Iowa
MH106C
Junior
Solar Sprint Workshop (90 minutes) $10 for materials
PC118
Southern
Africa adventure
MH107
Population
(90 minutes)
PC117
11:00
– 11:45 Concurrents
Food and
Farming
MH108B
Water
Quality at Wolf Creek in Kappa, Illinois MH113A
Great
Books with Environmental Messages
MH106B
Iowa’s
Venomous Snakes MH107
Citizen
Science
MH106C
Iowa’s
County Conservation Boards
MH108A 11:45
- 1:15 Lunch with entertainment options
The lunch line will begin in the gym hallway
and from
there you may take your tray to one of the designated
presentation areas: Herbal
Mysteries
Revealed
with Deborah Lee
Muse
Norris Center Ecotourism with
Lisa Kivirist and John Ivanko
Muse
Norris Center Whitetails with Larry
Stone
AC106 Stories to
live by with
Susan
Fowler
AC101 If you did not select a
program, there should still be space available. Or, if you’d prefer, enjoy
your meal in the lovely Activity Center eating area. Good
Afternoon
1:30
- 2:15 Keynote –Lisa Kivirist and John
Ivanko
Muse
Norris Center
“Living
the Good Life”
A book
signing following the program
2:30 - EE
symposium starts – Weathering
the Winds
of Change: The Future of EE Muse Norris Center
Ken
Finch, Laura Downey, Gary Forrester
Facilitated by Jean Eells and Mike Havlik
(2:30-3:30)
2:30 - 3:15 Concurrents:
Restoration,
Management and Permanent Land Protection
MH106C Nab
the Aquatic Invader MH105
Career
Opportunities in Sustainable Energy Resources
MH106A
Ecophobes
or Ecophiles
MH104G
Life
on the Prairie
PC117
K-12
Energy Education
MH108A
Where
Does It All Go?
PC118
Young
Children and the Natural World
MH106B 3:15
Break – check out the
silent auction
and vendors!
Gym 3:45-5:15 Symposium
continues –
open spaces
technology
led by Jean Eells
Muse
Norris Center
Concurrents continue: All concurrents below
are 90 minute sessions
Family
Farm Forecast
MH104G
Field Computers and GPS
MH106B
Park
Packs
PC117
Tracking My Species in the Great Outdoors
MH106C
Food, Land, and People
MH108B
The
Great Depression
MH107
Putting the “R” in Recycling
PC118 Good
evening! 5:30 Cash
bar and Social
Activity
Center 6:30 Dinner
Activity
Center 7:30 Tim
Palmer “Lifelines:
the Case
for River Conservation” Beem Center
book-signing following the program
9:00 Cash
bar and socializing continues with
open mike -- join in the fun!Activity Center Friday,
July 22
Field trips – off-site 7 am – 5 pm. 7
am: Canoe
Bike 8
am: Nature
Centers Alternative
Energy 8:15 Wild Edibles Landscapes of
Iowa w/water
quality and Farming for the Future 9:30 Clear Lake
Outdoor classroom Recycling and
Reclamation Rockford
Fossil Center Vendor
Hall opens
at 4 Check out the silent auction items!!
Gym
6:00 Bar
B Que
Dormitory
cafeteria 7:45 John
Muir (John Wallace, a living history)
Beem
Center 9:00 Carter
and Connelley, Illinois’ preeminent
folk warriors
Gym
hallway Check
your bids on
silent auction items!
10:00
Silent auction ends
Gym
Saturday, July 238:30-
9:15 Concurrents
NatureMapping
MH105
People
Count! – Population Activities (90 minutes)
MH106B
So
You Want to Start a Science Club
MH108A
Hawk
Identification (90 minutes)
MH106C
A
Darling Look at Advocacy and Partnerships
PC117
Insight
on the Trail of Tears
MH104G
Alternative
Energy Answers
MH107 9:00 Vendors
open 9 – 11
Gym 9:30
– 10:15 Concurrents
Land
Protection Isn’t Just for Land Trusts
MH107
Teaching
about Big River Systems
MH108A
Iowa
Wildlife: A Checkered History
PC117
University
of Iowa School of the Wild
PC118
Environmental
Building Design
MH106A
10:15 Break – a
final visit with the vendors
Gym 10:30 Concurrents
and (open spaces – follow-up on
the Future of EE symposium)
Symposium
follow-up
Muse
Norris Center Iowa Natural
Heritage
PC118
Sustainability: Australia and
the Midwest
PC117 Music with aMessage
MH107
Three
E’s in Honeybees
MH106C
Pioneer
Experiences
MH106B
Superconductivity
MH104G
11:30 Chad
Pregracke!!! – Living Lands and
Waters’ founder “Coming to
a River
Near You!”
Muse Norris Center 12:30 Lunch
Activity
Center 1:30
Post conference options: Clean up a river with Chad
A Fen
Foray – Becky’s fen, Fayette, Iowa Sign up for these opportunities at the
registration
desk, please. Bird-watching: Also be sure to sign up if you’d like to go bird-watching on Thursday, Friday or Saturday. Our local experts suggest long sleeves and plenty of bug spray. Vehicles will leave the east parking lot at 6:30 sharp and travel to Lime Creek Nature Center for a walk on the prairie and also the woods. You’ll return to campus by 8 am, for participation in the day’s activities. (Note some field trips leave before 8, so check your schedule!) Please
be sure to have your nametag and event tickets with you at all times!!
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