Tuesday, 3rd December AFSS/NZFSS Joint Conference 2019

• Where do aquatic insects come from? How population dynamics can be influenced by oviposition behaviours and oviposition habitat requirements - Jill Lancaster
• NAILSMA Archer Presentation - Ricky Archer

• Managing environmental flows in real time – Southern Spring Flow - Adam Sluggett
• Effects of Commonwealth Environmental Water (CEW) to macroinvertebrate diversity and abundance: A case study in the Goulburn River - Claudette Kellar
• Coordination is king: a one river approach to environmental flow planning - Janet Pritchard
• First Peoples water interests - Melissa White
• Development of the Murihiku cultural water classification system - Roger Young
• Supporting the development of the Aboriginal water officer network in Victoria - Ben Muir
• First Peoples of the River Murray & Mallee region engagement in Department for Environment and Water projects - Fiona Giles

• Critical flow needs of the Mitchell River - Ben Stewart-Koster
• Keeping the pilot light lit - creating energy refuges to fuel floodplain wetland food webs using environmental water - Lindsey Frost
• Does the amino acid composition of food webs affect growth and nutrient cycling of a freshwater carnivore? - Georgia Dwyer
• Combined impacts of global warming and pollution: impacts on food web structure and ecosystem function - Ross Thompson
• Unravelling long term ecosystem change of regulated wetlands of the two large river systems in Australia and China by an integration of palaeocology, and palaeo- and-contemporary food webs - Giri Kattel
• Freshwater food webs in Earth’s tropics: spatial and conceptual gaps in our understanding of their ecology and management - Ryan M Burrows

• Benefits and challenges of incorporating spatially-explicit quantitative modelling and action prioritisation in Melbourne’s Healthy Waterways Strategy  - Chris J Walsh
• Potential impacts of future urban growth and climate change on platypus and priorities for management in greater Melbourne - Rhys A Coleman
• Effects of urbanisation and hydrological change on a freshwater turtle - Anthony Santoro
• Leaf it up to the microbes? Unravelling litter decomposition in urbanised streams - Jen A Middleton
• Maintaining and improving the natural capital: assessing the ecological health of Wellington’s urban streams - Evan Harrison
• Factors controlling abundance and community composition of blue-green algae in an urban lake - Rodney Ubrihien
• Streams in urban catchment: An assessment of the ecohydraulics to inform management - Desmond Anim

• The Outback Water Project: Combining citizen science & isotope hydrology to identify future aquatic refugia - Jenny Davis
• Using stable isotope techniques to trace the sources and fate of nitrogen in the Derwent Estuary, Tasmania - Bernadette C Proemse
• Global patterns and predictors of trophic position in freshwater fishes      - R Keller Kopf
• A stable isotopes perspective on the sources and sinks of nitrate and nitrous oxide from the catchment to coast continuum   - Wei Wen Wong
• Characterising the natural character of wetlands of Gunbower Forest, Murray Darling Basin, Northern Victoria, Australia - A Ramsar Site - Neeraj Mall
• Within stream processes of intermittent and ephemeral streams (IRES) - connecting hydrology and ecosystem functioning across scales - Pauline Grierson
• Ecological connectivity in the Murray River: The influence of riverine management decisions - Nina Welti

• Quantifying links between discharge, temperature and recruitment dynamics of Murray cod to inform flow management in the southern Murray-Darling Basin - Zeb Tonkin
• Effects of water abstraction for irrigation on benthic macroinvertebrates in Manuherikia River, New Zealand - Megha Sethi
• Using dry season fish habitat preferences to inform water decision making in a tropical river - David Crook
• 30 years of advice on protecting low flows in the Barwon-Darling river system – and where are we now? - Fran Sheldon
• Valuing water differently: Translating Ngarrindjeri Yannarumi into water resource risk assessment - Grant Rigney
• Striking gold at Third Reedy Lake - Dion Iervasi
• Cultural science and western science collaboration - can/do they co-exist? - Phil Duncan

• Influence of historical inundation frequency on soil microbes in semi-arid floodplain wetlands - Tsuyoshi Kobayashi
• Analysis of spatial and temporal variations in bacterial community dynamics within stream biofilms - Anju Gautam
• Maximising carbon offset opportunities in freshwater wetlands of southeastern Australia - Paul Carnell
• Stream metabolism in environmental flow management: The long term monitoring project in Australia   - Mike Grace
• Subtle variability in water quality structures diatom communities in Cape York wetlands - Peter M Negus
• Water velocity and groundwater upwelling control benthic algal biomass in an intermittent tropical river: implications for water resource development - Ryan Burrows
• Rehabilitating freshwater wetlands and their carbon sequestration capacity - Paul Carnell

• The entangled knowledges of a historical fish collection - Tiffany Shellam
• Genetic structure of bony herring (Nematalosa erebi) in the Barwon-Darling River - Leah McIntosh
• Spatio-temporal variation in species composition of New Zealand’s whitebait fishery - Michael JH Hickford
• Dietary selection and diversity of a small-indigenous fish chela (Salmophasia bacaila) from the Dhepa River, Bangladesh - Md Afzal Hossain
• Indigenous anagement of freshwater eels in Waikato, Aotearoa (New Zealand) - Erina Watene-Rawiri
• Proof is in the pudding (or pi): Integrating microprocessors, cameras and citizen science in environmental monitoring programs - Travis Howson

• BEMPP - Barwon Estuary Monitoring Pilot Project - Deirdre Murphy
• The use of CBT kits to assess drinking water suitability by non-expert individuals - Marlese Fairgray
• Bridging troubled waters - Assessing the health of the Werribee River  - Teresa J Mackintosh
• The National waterbug blitz: How did it go? - John Gooderham
• Upper Murrumbidgee waterwatch – realising the value of citizen science data - Woo O'Reilly
• Developing a national quality assurance framework for volunteer-based monitoring initiatives - Juliet R Milne
• Bottom end of the river: Indigenous management, a Kowanyama perspective - John Clark

• Multiple benefits of floodplain engagement for riparian forests: evidence from a field-based trial - Joe Greet
• Associations between hydrology and tree growth characteristics and regeneration in a temperate swamp forest - Sarah Fischer
• Evaluating the effects of selective harvesting on organic matter dynamics and community composition in subtropical streams - Rob Rolls
• Management of riparian fire: ecological consequences for the stream/riparian interface and beyond - Neil E Pettit
• Investigating the impact of nitrate-enriched waters on receiving stream and pool ecosystems with reference to the Pilbara Region, WA - Dallas R Campbell
• Prioritisation of catchment rehabilitation actions to enhance resilience to environmental change using a multi-objective simulation model - David Hamilton

• A synopsis of long term monitoring data in New River Estuary: an estuary under pressure - Keryn Roberts
• How does stream biofilm respond to small environmental flow releases? - Krista Bonfantine
• Plant species and soil interact to determine characteristics of dissolved organic matter leached into waterways from riparian leaf litter - Hannah M Franklin
• Algal biofilm responses to commonwealth environmental flows: A case study in the Goulburn River  - Jackie H Myers
•   Improved techniques for linking catchment nutrient inputs with aquatic ecosystem responses   - Michele Burford
• Development of algal blooms in dammed rivers---a case study in Three Gorges Reservoir, China - Lei Zhang

• Spatial and temporal scale: critical for describing hydro-geomorphic character of riverine landscapes - Munique C Reid
• What’s life history got to do with it? Macroinvertebrate responses to drying flow regime in headwater streams of Southwestern Australia - Nicole Carey
• Water and Society: Exploring government data assets to understand the relationships between water, society and the environment - Carmel Pollino
• Destruction and reconstruction: is freshwater offsetting achieving no net loss of biodiversity values? - Chloe Price
• Functional indicators for assessing health in New Zealand streams: organic matter decomposition and ecosystem metabolism - Nuwan De Silva
• Delivering sediments and seeds in a regulated river: Implications for flow management and ecology - Joe Greet

As part of the response to the fish mortality events that occurred in the lower Darling River, and other parts of the Murray-Darling Basin during the 2018-19 summer, the Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources announced $5 million of joint government (state and Commonwealth) money towards the development of a Native Fish Management and Recovery Strategy. Development of the Strategy, and its implementation, rely on robust multi-disciplinary scientific input as well as the need to recognise, complement and leverage current native fish recovery initiatives and capacity.  Ensuring genuine community engagement and ownership is also fundamental to the Strategy’s development and future success. This session will discuss progress with respect to the Strategy, including the development process and principles, stakeholder engagement, investment options, governance, key challenges and opportunities.

• Murray-Darling Basin native fish management and recovery strategy - Meera Joyce
• Aboriginal values and the NFMRS - Phil Duncan
• Recovery: moving beyond fish kills in the Murray-Darling Basin - John Koehn

• Emerging organic contaminants and antimicrobial resistance - Izzie Alderton
• Insitu propagule availability and future development of novel riparian ecosystems in urban SEQ - Emma J Henderson
• Modelling the influence of environmental and disturbance spatial structure on trait trade-offs in freshwater fish communities - Finnbar Lee
• Utilising microbial indicators for the health of aquatic systems - Jen A Middleton
• Nutrient concentrations and ratios in lakes: A national survey - Piet Verburg
• Spatial and temporal variation of microbial communities, faecal indicators and physicochemical parameters: characterising a mixed-use agricultural catchment in Sydney, Australia - Emily White
• Impact factors of non-point source pollution and pollution control scheme in Pengxi River Basin, Three Gorges Reservoir - Duan Zeng