PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS
Dear fellow SWS’ers, I hope all of you are healthy, happy, and able to apply yourselves effectively towards your goals (including wetlands!). I want to start my first message with a round of thanks to our Program Committee for an excellent Annual Meeting last month! With so many opportunities for innovation, sharing knowledge and learning to use Gregory B. Noe, Ph.D. new tools, I’m sure many of us are a mixture of exhilarated, Florence Bascom exhausted, and energized for Geoscience Center, whatever will come this year. U.S. Geological It certainly won’t be a repeat of Survey last year! Loretta Battaglia, our SWS President Immediate Past President, as well all of our leaders, have put an incredible energy and focus to ensure SWS weathered the worst of COVID impacts. We move now into a window of opportunity afforded by COVID-derived flexibility to reassess how our Society operates. I see three focus areas that I can help SWS achieve in the next year: improved Ethics, Operations, and Building the Future. These represent ongoing needs we’ve identified and begun to address. The solutions will be complex, int twined, and prepare us to move forward. This will require engaging with all parts of our organization, from committees, sections, chapters, to all of the willing. Like many of our long-standing institutions, it is clear that our Society needs to make substantive change on issues of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). (Continued on next page.)
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Wetland Science Practice PRESIDENT / Gregory Noe, Ph.D. PRESIDENT-ELECT / William Kleindle, Ph.D. IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT / Loretta Battaglia, Ph.D. SECRETARY GENERAL / Leandra Cleveland, PWS TREASURER / Lori Sutter, Ph.D. EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATOR / Suzanna Hogendorn CONSULTING DIRECTOR / Michelle Czosek, CAE WETLAND SCIENCE & PRACTICE EDITOR / Ralph Tiner, PWS Emeritus CHAPTERS ASIA / Wei-Ta Fang, Ph.D. CANADA / Susan Glasauer, Ph.D. CENTRAL / Tim Fobes, PWS CHINA / Xianguo Lyu EUROPE / Matthew Simpson, PWS INTERNATIONAL / Ian Bredlin, Msc; Pr.Sci.Nat and Tatiana Lobato de Magalhães, Ph.D., PWS MID-ATLANTIC / Jason Traband, PWS, PMP, CBLP NEW ENGLAND / Dwight Dunk, PWS NORTH CENTRAL / Casey Judge, WPIT OCEANIA / Phil Papas PACIFIC NORTHWEST / Josh Wozniak, PWS ROCKY MOUNTAIN / Rebecca Pierce SOUTH ATLANTIC / Brian Benscoter, Ph.D. SOUTH CENTRAL /Jodi Murray Burns, PWS, Med, MS WESTERN / Richard Beck, PWS, CPESC, CEP SECTIONS BIOGEOCHEMISTRY / Beth Lawrence, Ph.D. EDUCATION / Darold Batzer, Ph.D. GLOBAL CHANGE ECOLOGY / Wei Wu, Ph.D. PEATLANDS / Bin Xu, Ph.D. PUBLIC POLICY AND REGULATION / John Lowenthal, PWS RAMSAR / Nicholas Davidson, Ph.D. STUDENT / David Riera WETLAND RESTORATION / Andy Herb WILDLIFE / Andy Nyman, Ph.D. WOMEN IN WETLANDS /Jennifer Karberg, Ph.D. COMMITTEES AWARDS / Siobhan Fennessy, Ph.D. EDUCATION AND OUTREACH / Jeffrey Matthews, Ph.D. HUMAN DIVERSITY / Kwanza Johnson and Jacoby Carter, Ph.D. MEETINGS / Yvonne Vallette, PWS MEMBERSHIP / Leandra Cleveland, PWS PUBLICATIONS / Keith Edwards WAYS & MEANS / Lori Sutter, Ph.D. WETLANDS OF DISTINCTION / Roy Messaros, Ph.D. Bill Morgante, Steffanie Munguia and Jason Smith, PWS REPRESENTATIVES PCP / Scott Jecker, PWS WETLANDS / Marinus Otte, Ph.D. WETLAND SCIENCE & PRACTICE / Ralph Tiner, PWS Emeritus ASWM / Jill Aspinwall AIBS / Dennis Whigham, Ph.D.
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