Sessions and topics
(provisional)
1 Social and economic aspects
- Wetland ecosystem services
- Human impacts on wetlands
- Management and planning
- Turquoise infrastructure in urban society
- Indigenous communities and wetlands
- Rights of wetlands
- Military activity and wetlands
Conveners
Monica Palta, Pace University, NY, USA
Shona Myers, Environment Court of New Zealand, Auckland
Gillian T. Davies, Tufts University, MA, USA
Matthew Simpson, Society of Wetland Scientists Europe, UK
2 Biogeochemistry
- Material and energy flows
- Greenhouse gases and other gaseous fluxes
- Heavy metals
- Emerging contaminants
- Biogeochemistry modelling
Conveners
Claire Trait, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Klaus-Holger Knorr, University of Münster, Germany
Mohit Masta, University of Tartu, Estonia
3 Hydrology
- Monitoring & modelling
- Wetlands and climate
- Extreme events
Conveners
Björn Kløve, University of Oulu, Finland
Julien Tournebize, INRAE, Antony, France
Ain Kull, University of Tartu, Estonia
4 Wetlands ecology and biodiversity
- Biodiversity and wetlands
- Environmental microbiology of wetlands
- Conservation biology of wetlands
Conveners
Tuula Larmola, LUKE, Finland
Laura Lehtovirta-Morley, University of East Anglia, UK
Tiina Nõges, Estonian University of Life Sciences
Mikk Espenberg, University of Tartu, Estonia
5 Tropical wetlands
- Swamp forests
- Floodplains
- Coastal wetlands
- Restoration
Conveners
Angela Gallego-Sala, University of Exeter, UK
Lulie Melling, Sarawak Tropical Peat Institute, Malaysia
Jaan Pärn, University of Tartu, Estonia
6 Use of wetland ecosystems
- Agricultural ecosystems on wetland soils
- Wetland forest ecosystems and functioning
- Coastal wetlands
- Constructed wetlands for water treatment
Conveners
Margit Kõiv-Vainik, Tartu University, Estonia
Marinus Otte, North Dakota State University, USA
7 Wetland restoration
- Restoration pathways
- Technology of restoration
- Projects and case studies on restoration
Conveners
Gerald Jurasinski, University of Greifswald, Germany
R. Eugene Turner, Lousiana State University, USA
Ming Jiang, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Marko Kohv, University of Tartu, Estonia
8 Wetlands monitoring
- Remote sensing in wetlands
- Extent, state and change of wetlands
- State-of-the-art tools for wetlands assessment
Conveners
Jaan Parks, Aalto University, Finland
Evelyn Uuemaa, University of Tartu, Estonia
Tauri Tampuu, KappaZeta, Estonia
9 Peatlands
- Boreal peatlands
- Tropical peatlands
- Peat and paleorecords
Conveners
Annalea Lohila, University of Helsinki, Finland
Matthew Saunders, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Kaido Soosaar, University of Tartu, Estonia
