Tuesday, 25th September Australian Freshwater Sciences Society Conference 2018

• A Row’d Less Travelled By…Hilary Jolly Address - Jane Chambers
• Water for nature: Colorado River style - Karl Flessa
• Science, adaptive management and environmental watering - Jody Swirepik

• What constitutes “recovery” in variable ecosystems? - Leon A Barmuta
• Applying the Freshwater Health Index to the transboundary Sesan, Srepok and Sekong river basin - Nicholas J Souter
• Is the Basin Plan on track to deliver its predicted environmental outcomes? - Anne Jensen
• Spatial and temporal response of microinvertebrate to environmental water delivery in channel and wetland habitats of lowland rivers - Wing Tsoi

• Adaptive water resource planning and implementation in the upper Border Rivers - Katrina Cousins
• Case studies from Victoria and South Australia that illustrate a multi-faceted approach to wetland restoration and protection across public and private land  - Mark Bachmann
• Building a water Decision Support System for the Australian Capital Territory - Danswell Starrs
• Evaluating the construction of composite indicators for estuaries in New South Wales - Katrina Szetey

• Lake water levels affect habitat use by small-bodied fish - Bryce Halliday
• Comparison of two acoustic technologies with conventional survey techniques as a method for determining the biomass of carp within a small and large lake. - Joe Pera
• The Great Northern Connectivity: Fish, flows and dry time woes - Katrina Cousins
•  Using preference curves to assess potential changes in freshwater fishes from water resource development in northern Australia - Jackie L O'Sullivan

• Learning from Commonwealth environmental flows in the lower Lachlan:  when no two years are the same. - Fiona Dyer
• Looking for larvae in a stressed river system – is adding water enough?  - Amina Price
• Long-term (15+ years) monitoring of the effect of flow regulation on the Coxs River, Blue Mountains NSW - Daniel Pygas
• Trickles & Triumphs: Environmental water delivery to the Lower Lakes, Coorong and Murray Mouth - Adrienne Rumbelow
• Multiple restraints can limit long-term success in environmental watering - Ashley Macqueen
• Losing hydrological connectivity: impact of climate change and water resource development on wetland connectivity - Daryl Nielsen

• Using phenology cues to optimise use of available environmental water - Anne Jensen
• Citizen science in Australia’s waterways: Investigating linkages with catchment management and policy - Patrick Bonney
• Dragonflies and the Dry - Jenny A Davis
• Waterwatch in the SA Murray-Darling Basin: delivering robust data as well as community connections - Sylvia Clarke
• Maximising your chances of success with citizen science projects.  The National Waterbug Blitz, a case study in progress. - John Gooderham

3:40PM Discussion and Q&A

• A look under the hood of the National Carp Control Plan - Matt Barwick
• Possible dissolved oxygen and nutrient impacts from mass carp mortality - Justin Brookes
• CarpN Neutral: Recycling invasive fish for use in environmental initiatives - Josh Smith
• Some uncertainties in understanding about carp biocontrol using herpesvirus CyHV-3 - Jonathan C Marshall
• Simulating a carp virus release to quantify the impact of decaying fish on water quality and phytoplankton - Alec W Davie
• Rotting fish in the water - implications for water treatment and supply. - Leon van der Linden

• Early, late or constant - what are long-lived woody floodplain seedlings looking for? - Rebecca Durant
• Application of floodplain Eucalypt condition score systems to support environmental watering management decisions - Todd Wallace
• Environmental flow releases stimulate the upstream movement of diadromous fishes - Frank Amtstaetter

• Identifying critical basal resources for fish recruitment - Paul McInerney
• Semi-quantitative food-web models of the Coorong, South Australia - George G Giatas
• Assessment of river health based on a multi-stressor risk framework - Peter M Negus

• Zooplankton and physico-chemical conditions of Lake Werri Berri and Lake Nerrigorang in Thirlmere Lakes - Tsuyoshi Kobayashi
• Lower Murray zooplankton – flow-related spatio-temporal biodiversity - Russ Shiel
• Do zooplankton disperse readily in temperate lowland rivers? - Daryl Nielsen

• Seasonal use of waterholes by terrestrial vertebrate fauna in central Australia - Fiona Dyer
• Conservation of the red-finned blue-eye (Scaturiginichthys vermeilipinnis) - Pippa Kern
• Where did all the water go? Challenges modelling the water balance of an historic environmental flow. - Margaret Shanafield
• Effects of climate and landscape change on endemic freshwater macrocrustacean persistence in south-western Australia. - Holly E. Emery-Butcher
• Top-down effects of prey selection by Anisops sp. on a Southeast Australian zooplankton community. - Thomas Wilkins
• Who shreds in Perth? Leaf litter processing in formerly-perennial headwater streams. - Nicole Carey
• How do primary producers respond to small environmental flow releases? - Krista L Bonfantine
• Turtles Forever: Securing populations of Bell's Turtle (Myuchelys bellii) - Adrienne Burns
• Amino acids profile in tropical Chlorella sp. 12 responding to copper stress - Manisha Shakya
• When the river runs clear; the significance of groundwater to the Daly River's ecology (northern Australia) - Simon Townsend
• Predicting phytoplankton succession in a major drinking water reservoir - Ella M Middelhoff
• Australia's Rotifera revisited: species diversity and distribution - Russ Shiel
• Witjira Waru Pulka (Fire) Management Strategy 2018-2028 - Aidan Galpin
• The role of catchment landuse in measured stream water quality: case study from South-east Queensland - Ninh HNPW Phi-Wilson