Wednesday, 4th December AFSS/NZFSS Joint Conference 2019
Welcome
8:45AM - 9:00AM
Wednesday, 4th December
Torquay Room
Plenary Session 3: The Hillary Jolly Address and ASL Medal Presentation
9:00AM - 10:30AM
Wednesday, 4th December
Torquay Room
Chair: Michael Reid
Morning Tea Networking Break
10:30AM - 11:00AM
Wednesday, 4th December
Main Foyer
Session 6A - Historical Ecology
11:00AM - 12:30PM
Wednesday, 4th December
Torquay Room
Chair: Michael Reid
- Indigenous research methodologies in an Australian water management context - Bradley Moggridge
- The challenge is clear: mitigating sediment flux for wetland restoration - Peter Gell
- Patching knowledge gaps in Coorong ecosystem function, since European colonisation - Faith Coleman
- Fishing with stuffed fish: exploring the potential of taxidermy Murray cod as records - Matthew CG O'Connell
- A matter of life and death: Taphonomic effects on macroinvertebrate assemblages of temporary and permanent floodplain wetlands - Dale Campbell
- What can palaeoecology tell us about declining connectivity of floodplain habitats on the Upper Danube? - Michael A Reid
Session 6B - Science Communication
11:00AM - 12:30PM
Wednesday, 4th December
Anglesea Room
Chair: Siwan Lovett
- Expanding our ideas about ‘knowledge’ for effective science communication - Siwan E Lovett
- Making the case for investment in waterway health outcomes - Amber Clarke
- Water for the environment is making the grade - Gillian Whiting
- Why sometimes you have to be the story - Andy Lowes
- Evaluating and reporting on complex environmental programs with IMPACT: using a science communication and performance story reporting approach. - Gina Newton
- Are you speaking water-ish? Lessons for science communication from research on community knowledge on environmental flows - Sarina Loo
Session 6C - Wetlands and Groundwater
11:00AM - 12:30PM
Wednesday, 4th December
Paraparap Room
Chair: Peter Hancock
- Key factors in stygofauna distribution and diversity in groundwater: a meta-analysis - Peter Hancock
- Impact of flow regulation and environmental watering on phytoplankton dynamics in the Hattah lake system - Sewwandi Wijesuriya
- Groundwater productivity and stygofaunal assemblages; importance of function related to urban development in Blue Mountains peat swamps - Lorraine Hardwick
- Cataloging stygofaunal assemblages in Victorian groundwater - Patrick Pickett
- The detection of threatened alpine stoneflies - Julia Mynott
- Tips and tricks for understanding shallow groundwater-surface water interactions - Wendy Timms
Session 6D - Intermittent and Ephemeral Systems
11:00AM - 12:30PM
Wednesday, 4th December
Bellbrae Room
Chair: Russ Shiel
- Cladocera in Australian inland waters: the current state of species diversity and taxonomy - Russ Shiel
- Influence of flood frequency and duration on egg bank composition in dryland river floodplain sediment - Nipa Chaki
- Measuring flow intermittency and its ecological effects at fine scales: a case study from the Swiss Alps - Andre R Siebers
- Gnammas---some deserts do have -em! - Brian Timms
- Dissolved organic matter and metabolic dynamics in dryland lowland rivers - Aleicia Holland
Networking Lunch
12:30PM - 1:45PM
Wednesday, 4th December
Main Foyer
AFSS AGM
12:45PM - 1:45PM
Wednesday, 4th December
Torquay Room
Chair: Michael Reid
NZFSS AGM
12:45PM - 1:45PM
Wednesday, 4th December
Anglesea Room
Chair: Kate McArthur
Session 7A - Population and Community Ecology 2
1:45PM - 3:45PM
Wednesday, 4th December
Torquay Room
Chair: Andrew Brooks
- Pharmaceutical contaminants alter diatom community composition - Stephanie Robson
- Effects of dams on oviposition habitat and egg supply of caddisflies in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area - Handoko Wahjudi
- Trees and the first nations people - Christine Adbulla
- Just add water. Rapid assembly of new communities below decommissioned diversion weirs, and limited long-distance effects on existing communities - Andrew Brooks
- Sink or swim? The intersecting roles of hydrochory and structural connectivity in shaping floodplain metacommunities - Kaylene Morris
- Explaining species diversity in a fractal world - Rebecca Lester
- ‘Damsels in excess’ a plant-arthropod interaction between damselflies and a freshwater swamp lily: Ottelia ovalifolia - Chris Madden
- Long-term monitoring of kōura (freshwater crayfish) populations in Lake Rotoiti, North Island New Zealand, and the possible effects of invasive brown bullhead catfish - Ian A Kusabs
Session 7B - Environmental Water Knowledge Research
1:45PM - 3:45PM
Wednesday, 4th December
Anglesea Room
Chair: Paul McInerney
Sponsored by:
- EWKR Foodweb Theme - Paul McInerney
- Waterbird recruitment and movements: New information for water and wetland managers - Heather M McGinness
- Vegetation responses: challenges predicting outcomes to flow and other drivers - Cherie J Campbell
- Fish recruitment drivers in the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB): outcomes of EWKR Fish theme research - Paul Humphries
Session 7C - Peter Tyler: Celebrating a Life in Limnology
1:45PM - 3:45PM
Wednesday, 4th December
Paraparap Room
Chair: Carolyn Maxwell
- Interactive effects of multiple drivers on ecosystem metabolism in a large-scale lake enclosure experiment - Darren P Giling
- Quantify nutrient adsorption to augment monitoring in oligotrophic waters - Leon A Barmuta
- Diatom cell size distributions as a signal of lake ecosystem response to agricultural land use - Rose Gregersen
- An ecosystem services perspective of Lake Wairarapa: Insights from the past, present, and toward the future - Sky Halford
- Mud Chronicles: using environmental DNA to explore the impact of historical land-use changes on lake health - Maïlys Picard
- Seasonal variation in nutrient concentrations in a shallow lake three decades after nutrient input reduction - Piet Verburg
- Sedimentary DNA for molecular analysis: how does medium-term storage impact DNA quality and quantity? - Katie Brasell
- Just add biologists - Carolyn Maxwell
Session 7D - Fish Behaviour and Movement
1:45PM - 3:45PM
Wednesday, 4th December
Bellbrae Room
Chair: Brien Roberts
Sponsored by:
- Bold-shy personality traits of Murray cod and invasive common carp - Ellie R Sales
- Drifting through life: an experimental investigation of dispersal and retention of fish larvae in a lowland river - Paul Humphries
- Move it or lose it: Movement history influences growth of freshwater fish - Joshua Barrow
- Effect of juvenile growth rate and migration history on the age of protandrous sex change in barramundi (Lates calcarifer) - Brien H Roberts
- Movement patterns of whole fish communities throughout a wet-dry tropical river in northern Queensland - Michael Venarsky
- Risky business: influence of eye-flukes on use of “risky” microhabitats and conspicuousness of a fish host - Brandon Ruehle
- Using behavioural information to inform conservation of the threatened dwarf galaxias - Robin Hale
Afternoon Tea Networking Break
3:45PM - 4:00PM
Wednesday, 4th December
Main Foyer
Lungfish Lecture
4:00PM - 5:00PM
Wednesday, 4th December
Torquay Room
Chairs: Jane Chambers & Jenny Davis
Delegate Free Time
5:00PM - 6:15PM
Wednesday, 4th December
Buses Depart to Conference Dinner
6:15PM - 6:20PM
Wednesday, 4th December
Conference Dinner: Luncheon of the Boating Party
6:30PM - 10:30PM
Wednesday, 4th December
Barwon Edge Boathouse