Tuesday, 29th November Australian Freshwater Sciences Society Conference 2022
Welcome to Country
9:00AM - 9:30AM
Tuesday, 29th November
Yuin Theatre
Plenary Session 1 Welcome
9:30AM - 9:40AM
Tuesday, 29th November
Yuin Theatre
Chair: Alisha Steward
Biaime Lecture
9:40AM - 10:40AM
Tuesday, 29th November
Yuin Theatre
Chair: Bradley Moggridge
Morning Tea
10:40AM - 11:10AM
Tuesday, 29th November
Yuin Theatre Lobby
Concurrent Session 1 - Wetlands, intermittent and ephemeral systems
11:10AM - 12:50PM
Tuesday, 29th November
Yuin Theatre
Chairs: Jenny Davis & Tasha James
- Game of Tones - Listening to a wetland’s response to environmental water 24/7 - Jo-Anne M Geddes
- The effects of fire on microinvertebrate eggbanks in three vegetation communities in the Gwydir wetlands, northern NSW - Ivor Growns
- Climate, Carbon and The Great Cumbung: How Water Regimes Influence the Growth of Phragmites australis - Tasha James
- Addressing a critical knowledge gap: characterising the freshwater ecosystems of the Beetaloo region, Northern Territory. - Jenny Davis
Concurrent Session 2 - Environmental flows
11:10AM - 12:50PM
Tuesday, 29th November
Studio
Chairs: Thomas Job & Xiaoying Liu
- Outcomes of delivery of environmental water from irrigation escapes in ephemeral creeks on the instream productivity in the southern Murray-Darling Basin, Australia - Xiaoying Liu
- A field experiment to buffer slackwater habitats against negative effects of high flows in a regulated river - William D Bovill
- Suitability of Flow-Ecology Models to Support E-Flows Decision Making - Meghan L Mussehl
- Quantifying the expected ecosystem benefit to relaxed flow delivery constraints - Samantha Dawson
- Assessing environmental risks posed by raised flow limits for the delivery of water for the environment - Thomas A Job
Concurrent Session 3 - Catchment and riparian science
11:10AM - 12:50PM
Tuesday, 29th November
Workshop Rooms
Chairs: Simon Linke & Scott McKendrick
- Investigating the contribution of geomorphic complexity and flow to instream vegetation - Scott A McKendrick
- The positives and negatives of terrestrial dissolved organic matter on primary production and water quality - Michele A Burford
- Understanding decision-making for environmental outcomes of irrigation water delivery in Australia. - Peta Zivec
- Integrated data science for freshwater research and management - Simon Linke
Lunch
12:50PM - 1:50PM
Tuesday, 29th November
Yuin Theatre Lobby
Concurrent Session 4 - Response to environmental change
1:50PM - 3:50PM
Tuesday, 29th November
Yuin Theatre
Chairs: Alana Cormican & Rodney Ubrihien
- Realised thermal niches of odonata projected to contract in response to climate change. - Alana L Cormican
- Why isn't Flood Ecology a thing...and should it be? - Paul Humphries
- Drought and death on the Barwon-Darling River: impacts of the extreme hydrological drought of 2017-2020 on populations of the endemic river mussel, Alathyria jacksoni - Fran Sheldon
- The 'gnarly' Naas: a case of multi-disciplinary science rescuing a river and its community - Mikayla Hyland-Wood
- Historical lake phytoplankton data analysis reveals signs of trophic state change linked to hydrological regime shifts. - Huy A Luong
- Seasonal and perennial-water populations of an endemic crayfish differ in metabolic and behavioural responses to drying. - Holly E. Emery-Butcher
Concurrent Session 5 - Environmental flows
1:50PM - 3:50PM
Tuesday, 29th November
Studio
Chairs: Heather McGinness & Fiona Dyer
Sponsored by:
- Weir Pool Manipulation: An important management tool in the e-water toolkit - Nathan L Creeper
- Nesting cycles, foraging patterns and habitat use of GPS satellite tracked ibis and spoonbills - Heather M McGinness
- Monitoring Ecological Outcomes of Environmental Flows: Lateral connectivity - Jessica Heath
- Using modelled hydrological timeseries to predict the occurrence of hypoxic blackwater under different water for the environment regimes - Benjamin Wolfenden
- Monitoring aquatic health along the upper Murrumbidgee River- Australia's most regulated unregulated upland stream. - Antia Brademann
- Exploring the disconnect: Flow, barriers, and basin-scale fish connectivity across regulated river systems - Danial Stratford
Concurrent Session 6 - Population and community ecology
1:50PM - 3:50PM
Tuesday, 29th November
Workshop Rooms
Chairs: Jason Nicol & Bridget White
- Potential impact of short-term flooding on fringing reservoir vegetation brought about by the change in flood mitigation function of the dam - Jason M Nicol
- Using Manipulative Field Experiments to Study the Effects of Pulse Disturbances on Functional Recovery among Cleared and Uncleared Catchments. - Sean T Atkinson
- Effects of land use change on stream macroinvertebrate communities - Bridget White
- Identifying conditions for ex-situ incubation of freshwater turtle (Chelodina oblonga) eggs to optimise hatching success - April Sturm
- Location of sites within dendritic river networks affects population densities - Yiwen Xu
Afternoon Tea and Poster Session
3:50PM - 5:10PM
Tuesday, 29th November
Yuin Theatre Lobby
- Effect of flow variation on zooplankton communities - Kishor Maharjan
- Stream frogs and flow: using traits and functional groups to develop flow requirements - Daniel W Coleman
- The influence of Dissolved Organic Matter on the phytoplankton community. - Lucas Morais
- The wall between us: How season and environmental factors affect the activity and movements of a population of freshwater turtles (Chelodina oblonga) separated by a weir - Kiera Gordon
- Turtle tracking - using baited remote underwater videos to monitor freshwater turtles - Rebecca Wood
- How to survey vegetation in a very wet wetland? - Alica Tschierschke
- Legacy arsenic contamination from historical gold mining on the floodplains of South Eastern Australia rivers - francesco colombi
- How does peatland stream biofilm community composition respond to a storm event driven pulse of dissolved organic matter? - Oliviah Lines
Break
5:10PM - 6:30PM
Tuesday, 29th November
Student Dinner and Trivia
6:30PM - 9:00PM
Tuesday, 29th November
Starfish Waterfront
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Dine and Networking Evening
6:30PM - 9:00PM
Tuesday, 29th November