The meeting will be held at the DeVos Place convention center and it is organized by the Consortium of Aquatic Science Societies (CASS), which includes:

• American Fisheries Society
• Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography
• Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation
• Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society
• International Association for Great Lakes Research
• North American Lake Management Society
• Phycological Society of America
• Society for Freshwater Science
• Society of Wetland Scientists