Wednesday, 4th December Australian Freshwater Sciences Society Conference 2024
Welcome
8:45AM - 9:00AM
Wednesday, 4th December
Banquet Room 1 and 2
Plenary Lecture
9:00AM - 10:00AM
Wednesday, 4th December
Banquet Room 1 and 2
Morning Tea
10:00AM - 10:30AM
Wednesday, 4th December
Banquet Room 3 and Elizabeth Room 4
Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Processes
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Wednesday, 4th December
Banquet Room 1 and 2
Chair: Erica Garcia
- Long-term impact of the 2019 – 2020 Black Summer Bushfires on water quality in Lake Hume from the Upper River Murray Catchment. - Darren S Baldwin
- The impacts of the 2019 – 2020 Black Summer Bushfires on water quality and Lake Hume Dam operations from 2020 to 2024 - Kris Kleeman
- 2022: A major springtime flood in the Goulburn River - effects on stream metabolism and food resources. - Mike Grace
- Leachate from the river red gum Eucalyptus camaldulensis (Dehn.) inhibits the emergence and subsequent growth of submerged and emergent wetland macrophytes. - Jean Dind
- Response of billabong dissolved oxygen and ecosystem metabolism to multiple Birrarung (Yarra River) connection events - Ryan M Burrows
- Effects of degradation and seasonality on the water quality in Australian mountain peatland pools - Charuni Jayasekara
Multi and Trans-disciplinary Research in River and Water Management
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Wednesday, 4th December
Elizabeth Room 5
Chair: Paul McInerney
- The discovery of the endangered olive perchlet in the lower Lachlan River: a multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional management response - Will Higgisson
- Making the most of historical datasets: techniques to accurately interpret historical long-term water quality monitoring - Vaughn Grey
- Next decade of science program to underpin environmental watering - Marcus Finn
- Polystyrene Microplastic as a Vector of Microcystin-LR in Eutrophic Freshwater and Estuarine Environments - Sadia Sharmin
- Community values in a water scarce future - Madeline Grupper
- Remediation of erosion and fish passage: accepted development in Queensland - Samantha Tonissoo
Lunch
12:00PM - 2:00PM
Wednesday, 4th December
Banquet Room 3 and Elizabeth Room 4
AFSS AGM
12:30PM - 2:00PM
Wednesday, 4th December
Banquet Room 1 and 2
Wetlands in Agricultural Landscapes
2:00PM - 3:00PM
Wednesday, 4th December
Banquet Room 1 and 2
Chair: Darren Baldwin
- Food for thought: Prioritising fish passage for human nutrition security is a new frontier. - Nicolette Duncan
- Landscape vegetation connectivity and invasive plants in freshwater wetlands of the Great Barrier Reef catchment area - Catherine Leigh
- Predicting future climate-driven impacts on the biodiversity of wetland threatened ecological communities in agricultural landscapes in Australia - David Deane
- Opportunities and informational barriers to improved riparian management in Tasmanian agricultural landscapes - Leon A Barmuta
The Ecology of River Networks
2:00PM - 3:00PM
Wednesday, 4th December
Elizabeth Room 5
Chair: Luke McPhan
- Satellite-tracking waterbird movements from the Murray-Darling Basin to inform water and wetland management - Heather M McGinness
- How to make fruit-salad out of pig sh*t: wringing success from a failed experiment - William Bovill
- Satellite-tracked post-natal movements of juvenile egrets from the Macquarie Marshes - Micha V Jackson
- Interactions between cyanobacterial blooms, organic matter dynamics, and river regulation: frequency and severity under climate change - Andre Siebers
Afternoon Tea
3:00PM - 3:30PM
Wednesday, 4th December
Banquet Room 3 and Elizabeth Room 4
Urban Freshwater Systems
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Wednesday, 4th December
Banquet Room 1 and 2
Chair: Darren Giling
- Nutrient contributions and load dynamics in the Lake Tuggeranong catchment - Manuja U Lekammudiyanse
- Heat island mitigation and phyto-remediation and through water sensitive urban design: A pilot study - Isobel Walcott
- The contribution of tree leaves to urban nutrient pollution using a realistic experimental design - Rodney Ubrihien
- Monbulk Creek Smart Water Network: Real-time monitoring and control of rainwater tanks and urban lakes for waterway health - Rhys Coleman
- Sustainable Urban Drainage System and stream rehabilitation – can they mitigate urbanization impacts on stream health in a tropical Asian catchment? - Yan Ling, Elaine Yuen
- The influence of dissolved organic matter on phytoplankton - Lucas Morais
Macroinvertebrate Ecology and Management
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Wednesday, 4th December
Elizabeth Room 5
Chair: Alison King
- Response of stream invertebrates to simulated wildfire temperature spikes using a mesocosm experimental design - Brendan Cox
- Exploring the Cross-Ecosystem Dynamics of Insect Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids: A Systematic Review - Sithara Sirimanna Arachchige
- Optimizing spatially-weighted forest measures for predicting in-stream macroinvertebrate assemblage responses is improved by an extended, high-resolution stream network map. - Thomas E Wilkins
- Slow recovery of stream invertebrates on subantarctic Macquarie Island after eradication of rabbits - Richard Marchant
- Effects of short-term disturbance on flow related trait distributions and functional diversity in streams impacted by long-term landscape disturbance. - Sean T Atkinson
- Impacts of short-term flow changes on macroinvertebrate communities in streams draining agricultural and uncleared catchments - Bridget White
Poster Session II
5:00PM - 5:30PM
Wednesday, 4th December
Banquet Room 3 and Elizabeth Room 4
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Lungfish Lecture
5:30PM - 6:30PM
Wednesday, 4th December
Banquet Room 1 and 2