Tuesday, 3rd December Australian Freshwater Sciences Society Conference 2024

This is an opportunity to build connections across universities/agencies and form friendly faces between established and early career members. This is open to members with an established career willing to meet with a student or early career scientists over a coffee and croissant before conference proceedings, and students or early career scientists who wish to have a chat with someone more established in their field.

Mentors and mentees will be matched prior to coffee hour. Complimentary coffee & pastry provided for attendees.

• Beyond stationarity: forecasting river futures in an era of extremes - Jonathan Tonkin

• Testing a Method to Quantify Structural Redundancy in Ecological Communities. - David Dodemaide
• Changes in wetland vegetation during and after inundation in temporary wetlands: implications for vegetation monitoring - Lyndsey Vivian
• Two independent mechanisms for recruitment limitation in aquatic insect populations - Jill Lancaster
• Network topology drives population temporal variability in experimental habitat networks - Yiwen Xu
• How does plant functional trait and taxonomic diversity vary in stream channels with contrasting hydrogeomorphology? - Scott A McKendrick
• Catchment ridge-lines as “insect superhighways” that shape species diversity across landscapes - Barbara J Downes

• What happens when the flow stops? Fragmentation on the Barwon-Darling River, Australia - Mark Southwell
• Identifying the sounds of freshwater streams: A novel approach to ecoacoustic analysis - Katie Turlington
• The use of drones and machine deep learning to monitor coverage of Duma florulenta (Tangled Lignum) and its response to environmental water - Alica Tschierschke
• AquaWatch – Converting Earth Observations to End User Products  - Timon Sotiropoulos
• Using citizen science to monitor aquatic biodiversity across a million square kilometers  - Bronwyn Ayre
• AquaWatch – Making Analysis Ready Data for Waterbodies from Earth Observations  - Leo Lymburner

• On the Border - Silent Whispers - Sonia Cooper

• From streams to screens: Mapping threats to platypus to inform management decisions and support population recovery - Sally Hladyz
• Optimising the detection of Southern toadlets (Pseudophryne semimarmorata): A Comparative Study of eDNA and Conventional Survey Methods - Elizabeth A Hamshaw
• Avian influenza and other zoonoses in waterbirds of the Murray-Darling Basin: awareness, movements and risk - Heather M McGinness
• Restoration of floodplain wetlands: A systematic, global review of restoration activities, their outcomes and development of principles for success. - Sally Maxwell
• Ameliorating the freshwater biodiversity crisis in a global biodiversity hotspot. - Belinda J Robson
• Extinction risk of freshwater mammals and the habitat and hydrological requirements of a native semi-aquatic specialist. - Emmalie P Sanders
• Risk of altered flows towards the sustainable management of the trans-boundary Limpopo River Basin and its vulnerable human communities, southern Africa - Gordon GC O'Brien

• Gas and grub: methane from natural gas macro-seeps fuels river food web - Paul J McInerney
• The influence of hydrology on basal resource quality in a floodplain wetland - Lindsey Frost
• Shrimply the best: The food-web role of freshwater decapods during prolonged high flow events. - Alana Cormican
• Stream rehabilitation mitigates gene-flow impacts of channelisation - Jia-Huan Liew
• Priority actions and costs to repair Australia's inland waters - Samantha J Capon
• A BACI approach to studying the effects of willow removal and riparian revegetation on low order streams in southern Victoria - Mariah J. Sampson

• Identification of suitable translocation sites for Yarra pygmy perch in the Deep Creek catchment - Gemma Walker
• Greenhouse Gas Dynamics in Australian Alpine Peatlands: An Exploration of CO₂ and CH₄ Fluxes in the Bogong High Plains - Elly J Longley
• The importance of forest fragments to leaf breakdown in streams across agricultural landscapes - Larissa Corteletti da Costa
• The effect of diet quality on the growth rate of omnivorous freshwater decapods. - Gideon Hallam-Walsh
• Biodiversity patterns in wetlands due to a rapidly drying climate. - Zachary Kayll
• Enhancing Holistic Freshwater Management Through Continuous Water Quality Monitoring: A Case Study from Whatipū, New Zealand - Eoin Conroy
• A collaborative approach to managing stormwater during urban development. - Angus Macdonald
• Long-term broad-scale datasets from the Great Barrier Reef catchments' freshwater wetland condition monitoring program - Catherine Leigh
• Agricultural activities affect the size structure and density of a typical insect shredder (Phylloicus) in streams - Karoline Victor Serpa

Enjoy a woodfired pizza, cooked outdoors within Hovel Tree Park! This is a chance to relax with fellow delegates, friends and sponsors.