Tour participants will depart from the KI Convention Center and take a short ride to the University of Wisconsin Green Bay (UWGB) campus to learn about natural history research and local fish, wildlife and water quality monitoring efforts. Tour stops will include the Richter Museum to explore how natural history collections can provide new insights and comparisons to contemporary data, the Cofrin Center of Biodiversity to learn about local efforts to monitor legacy contaminant impacts on fish-eating birds, and the Aquatic Ecology and Fisheries Laboratory and Boat Shed to learn about fisheries, benthic invertebrate, and water quality monitoring in Green Bay and its tributaries. Most of this tour will be indoors.
All field trips will take place on Monday March 10 and require add-on registration priced at a subsidized transportation cost. Unless driving conditions are impacted, field trips will run rain, snow or shine so dress accordingly. Some field trips may be canceled if minimum attendee sign-up is not met. All field trips have maximum limits. You will be placed on a waiting list if a field trip is fully registered.