Wednesday, 30th November
Australian Freshwater Sciences Society Conference 2022
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Plenary Session 2 Welcome
8:45AM - 9:00AM
Wednesday, 30th November
Yuin Theatre
Chair: Ross Thompson
Plenary Session 2
9:00AM - 10:00AM
Wednesday, 30th November
Yuin Theatre
Chair: Ross Thompson
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Avril Horne
Morning Tea
10:00AM - 10:30AM
Wednesday, 30th November
Yuin Theatre Lobby
Concurrent Session 7 - Science communication, citizen science and partners
10:30AM - 12:10PM
Wednesday, 30th November
Yuin Theatre
Chairs: Siwan Lovett & Darren Giling
Communicating in Covid constrained times
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Siwan Lovett
How did we carry out engagement activities during COVID-19?
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LUCIANA BUCATER
How scientists, artists and marketers came together to share the latest environmental water research findings
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Andy G Lowes
Turning science into action: Saving Our Snake-necked Turtle citizen science program rapidly addresses identified urban turtle population declines
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Jane Chambers
Predicting the resilience of riverine biota to low flows
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Fran Sheldon
Concurrent Session 8 - Wetland, intermitent and ephemeral systems
10:30AM - 12:10PM
Wednesday, 30th November
Studio
Chairs: Michael Reid & Erica Garcia
Do constructed wetlands provide suitable resources for the platypus?
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Adele Romagnano
Seed bank trials suggest declining diversity of wetland plant communities in the Koondrook-Perricoota Forest, Murray River, NSW
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Michael Reid
Can we define the bounds of resilient variability in dynamic wetland systems? A conceptual case study using non-woody vegetation responses
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Cherie J Campbell
Patterns in plant responses to inundation in semi-arid floodplain wetlands, western NSW, Australia
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Fiona Dyer
Freshwater macroinvertebrate biodiversity patterns across four catchments in the Beetaloo region, Northern Territory.
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Erica A Garcia
Concurrent Session 9 - Assessment and monitoring
10:30AM - 12:10PM
Wednesday, 30th November
Workshop Rooms
Chairs: Tanya Doody & Jarrod Walton
Beyond engagement – insights from 27 years of water quality monitoring in the Upper Murrumbidgee catchment
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Isobel Booksmythe
Does flow and thermal stratification induce cyanobacterial blooms in the large regulated Murray River, Australia?
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Jarrod Walton
Refining visual survey methods to improve platypus population estimates
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Woo O'Reilly
The long game: Insights from two decades of macroinvertebrate monitoring
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Ann-Marie Rohlfs
Advancing aquatic ecology monitoring in Nepal to mitigate against environmental change
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Tanya M Doody
Lunch
12:10PM - 1:10PM
Wednesday, 30th November
Yuin Theatre Lobby
AFSS AGM
1:10PM - 2:10PM
Wednesday, 30th November
Yuin Theatre
Break for Non-Members
1:10PM - 2:10PM
Wednesday, 30th November
Concurrent Session 10 - Wetland, intermittent and ephemeral systems
2:10PM - 3:10PM
Wednesday, 30th November
Yuin Theatre
Chairs: Lori Gould & Will Higgisson
Characterising habitat cover in wetlands through remotely sensed data
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Michael Shackleton
The Importance of Wetlands for Latham's Snipe
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Lori A Gould
Concurrent Session 11 - Other
2:10PM - 3:10PM
Wednesday, 30th November
Studio
Chairs: Ross Thompson & Vita Summers
Identification of Macrophytes with Potential for Use as Management Tools for Control of Cyanobacterial Blooms.
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Anne E Colville
Australia’s environmental protections: fit for purpose?
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Ross Thompson
Post-translocation movements of the southwestern snake-necked turtle (
Chelodina oblonga
)
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Vita Summers
Concurrent Session 12 - Urban water science
2:10PM - 3:10PM
Wednesday, 30th November
Workshop Rooms
Chairs: Rodney Ubrihien & Joseph O'Connell
Characterising Nutrient Concentrations in Runoff from Urban Impervious Surfaces in Canberra, Australia
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Joseph O'Connell
An assessment of land use on nutrient loading in urban catchments
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Rodney Ubrihien
Response of cyanobacteria,
Chrysosporum ovalisporum,
and its toxins to changing temperature and salinity.
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Eliza Williams
Afternoon Tea
3:10PM - 3:40PM
Wednesday, 30th November
Yuin Theatre Lobby
Concurrent Session 13 - Assessment and monitoring
3:40PM - 4:20PM
Wednesday, 30th November
Yuin Theatre
Chairs: Edward Tsyrlin & Leah McIntosh
The old, new and well-forgotten species of the iconic
Austrogammarus
amphipod.
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Edward Tsyrlin
Ecosystem Metabolism in Response to Environmental Flows in the Warrego and Darling Rivers
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Leah McIntosh
Concurrent Session 14 - Fishy business
3:40PM - 4:20PM
Wednesday, 30th November
Studio
Chairs: Brenton Zampatti & Ross Thompson
Regional and inter-regional fish movement responses to river discharge
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Brenton Zampatti
Weir - the infrastructure of flow
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Ross Thompson
Concurrent Session 15 - Foodwebs and ecosystem ecology
3:40PM - 4:20PM
Wednesday, 30th November
Workshop Rooms
Chairs: Paul McInerney & Tegan Dedman
Invasive species in the Anthropocene: Help or hindrance?
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Paul J McInerney
Experimental effects of saltwater intrusion on freshwater wetland communities of Northern Australia
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Tegan Dedman
Lungfish Lecture
4:20PM - 5:20PM
Wednesday, 30th November
Yuin Theatre
Science to inform sustainable water management
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Stuart Bunn
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