2009 Maine Water Conference
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Holiday Inn, Portland, Maine

The Call for Abstracts for the 2009 Maine Water Conference is now open. Please note that because this is a combined conference with NEGSA, submission procedures will differ from the usual MWC process. If you have any questions regarding the Call for Abstracts, please contact Ruth Hallsworth at 207/581-3196.

Information for students submitting abstracts to the MWC juried poster competition is available at: http://www.umaine.edu/waterresearch/mwc/poster_09.htm.

Deadlines: (Submit to only one of these)

• Submission deadline to NEGSA ($10 fee):
  December 16th, 2008, 11:59pm Pacific Time
  Abstract submission completed online at NEGSA Web site

OR

• Submission deadline to MWC (waived fee) - for submission to MWC theme sessions only.
  December 15th, 2008, 4pm Eastern Time.
  Abstract submission completed via email as a Word attachment to umgmc@maine.edu

Preparing your submission:

• Determine under what theme session your paper best fits.
• Select your preferred mode of presentation: Oral, Poster, or Either (no preference).
• Title and Keywords
  (1) Pick a title for your paper.
  (2) Select up to five keywords.
• Include the name and contact information for all of the authors. (Include their email addresses, please.). No more than 10 authors may be listed on a paper. Group names will not be accepted as an author.
• Write the body of your abstract.
  Please keep it to 2000 characters or less, not counting spaces.
  If you want to include a table,with your abstract, you can. But understand that the table might reduce the number of words allowed in your abstract. Taken together, the words and tables should take up no more space than would be occupied by a simpler abstract of 2000 characters alone.