Eleanor Burkett presented a poster Sustaining Our Shores: New Research, Demonstration and Education Through University of Minnesota Extension Service Shoreland Education Program, Erosion Control for Property Owners at the Association of Natural Resource Extension Professionals conference held May 14 - 17, 2006, in Park City, Utah.

Barb Liukkonen presented two papers at the same conference: Does Arsenic in Drinking Water Affect Dairy Products? and Preventing the Spread of Aquatic Invasive Species from Water Gardening.

Also at the conference, Barb and Eleanor received the national Gold Award for Educational Materials for the posters, tip cards, and plant sticks we produced to prevent the spread of invasive aquatic species from water gardening.

Doug Jensen, aquatic invasive species program coordinator for Minnesota Sea Grant, gave a presentation, Habitattitude Baseline Survey Shows that Aquarists and Water Gardeners Can Be The Problem and Solution to Aquatic Invasive Species Spread, at the 14th International Aquatic Invasive Species Conference, in Key Biscayne, Florida, during May.

Doug also gave a presentation, Habitattitude: A Program Update, at the Great Lakes Sea Grant Network Conference in Alpena, MI, June 13, and gave a joint presentation with Marie Zhuikov, Minnesota Sea Grant communications coordinator, and Marco Yzer, assistant professor with the University of Minnesota, Integrating Audience Perspectives into Sea Grant Programming at that conference.

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