WHAT: ThermoFisher Scientific Forum – A Yahara Watershed Initiative.

WHO: Approximately 40 invited scientists, engineers, government representatives, and those invested in the cleaning of the Yahara Watershed will be in attendance, or participating, in the forum hosted by Clean Lakes Alliance and Stephan R. Carpenter, Director, and Stephan Alfred Forbes, Professor, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Center for Limnology.

WHEN: Friday, February 25, 2011, from 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM

WHERE: Edgewater Hotel, 666 Wisconsin Ave., Madison, WI 53703

WHY: To identify the highest priority needs, feasibility and cost effective steps needed to be taken to improve the water quality in the Yahara River Watershed. Identifying the steps will be the professionals who live and work in the community and regularly study the waterway.