Thursday, 5th December Australian Freshwater Sciences Society Conference 2024

• A tale of two programs: reflections on Ecohealth and Flow-MER, two long-term programs monitoring catchment-scale patterns and process to guide management priorities - Sarah Mika

• Western science meets Aboriginal Traditional Owner knowledge: a white fella talking some small steps - Paul Frazier
• Culture, Fish and Flows: Collaboration with the Gomeroi community to inform native fish and water management - Stephanie McCaffrey
• EPBC-listed plant species and ecological communities in the Murray-Darling Basin: Challenges defining 'water-dependence'. - Cherie J Campbell
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives in drinking water policy - Margaret Fono
•   On the Border Line: Revitalizing the Forgotten River   - Siwan Lovett
• Mapping biodiversity through the Budj Bim Cultural Landscape using environmental DNA - Harry Coleman

• Machine learning and open data reveal the habitat preferences of international migratory birds. - Rupert Mathwin
• Increasing temperatures leads to faster development: a temperature study of an Australian alpine trichopteran. - Ualani S Miller
• Development and validation of environmental DNA assays to detect two putative species of freshwater mussels from the Murray-Darling Basin. - Elka Blackman
• Ammonia as a contaminant of concern influencing adverse ecological effects in low-dilution stream settings - Colin Besley
• Effects of flow variability and habitat patches on zooplankton communities - Kishor Maharjan
• Zooplankton in the Darling-Baaka River: current community structure and implications for river health - Tsuyoshi Kobayashi

• Drivers of waterbird breeding in the Macquarie Marshes – implications for water management - Sophie C Hewitt
• Has building it increased the chance the plants will come to Hattah Lakes?  - Ben Gawne
• Managing environmental water in the Lachlan River, NSW, Australia - Fiona Dyer
• Small fish in drying floodplain wetlands, where will they go? - Saúl González Murcia
• Capturing turtle Strava PBs while investigating environmental watering infrastructure as a barrier to turtle movement. - Richard Walsh

• From microbes to vertebrates: developing a taxon-independent index for the biomonitoring of wetlands - Angus D Lawrie
• Increasing the understanding of groundwater resources and groundwater dependent ecosystems in northern Australia - Jenny Davis
• Large-scale biodiversity assessments using aquatic eDNA metabarcoding: The Great Australian Wildlife Search as a case study. - Will Webster
• Seeing the unseen: Deciphering mechanisms of copper toxicity in zebrafish larvae - Sarah Green
• A novel method for detecting Giant dragonfly (Petalura gigantea): integrating water balance modelling to enhance catchment management. - Joe Cairns
• AquaWatch - Integrated ground-to-space water quality monitoring - Janet Anstee
• Continuous Water Quality Monitoring - The Smart Approach to Water Resource Management - Eoin Conroy

• Environmental flows are critical for sediment and seed supply in regulated rivers - Joe Greet
• Assessing the performance of environmental watering - Nick Marsh
• Flow optimisation benefits fish and crayfish in refuge pools - Bryce Halliday
• Benchmarking river ecosystem metabolism to evaluate flow management outcomes - Darren Giling
• Next Generation eDNA monitoring of ecosystem-wide responses - Alan Cooper

• Exploring how eDNA can be integrated into Murray Darling Basin fish monitoring programs - Dale G McNeil
• Unravelling drivers of temperature and dissolved oxygen variability in dryland rivers  - Ryan Shojinaga
• When is a knowledge gap filled in environmental monitoring? - Xiaoyan Dai
• Quantifying the effect of climate change on aquatic ecosystems - Zach Marsh
• Native fish population persistence - Spatially explicit meta population models of the Darling (Baaka) River system - Luke M McPhan
• A spatial framework for vegetation monitoring and evaluation integrating drone imagery, LiDAR and machine learning method - Rui Liu

Join us for a night at La Maison with great food and people to wrap up the AFSS 2024 conference! Tickets include 2 course meal and beverages.