Tuesday, 27th September Australian Society for Limnology Conference 2016
Registration Desk Open
7:30AM - 5:00PM
Tuesday, 27th September
Convention Centre Pre Function
Welcome to Country/Conference Opening Address
8:30AM - 8:50AM
Tuesday, 27th September
Convention Centre Part 1
Chair: Peter Gell
Keynote Address 1: Prof Will Steffen
9:00AM - 9:45AM
Tuesday, 27th September
Convention Centre Part 1
Chair: Peter Gell
Keynote Address 2: Prof Leroy Poff
9:45AM - 10:30AM
Tuesday, 27th September
Convention Centre Part 1
Chair: Ben Gawne
Morning Tea
10:30AM - 11:00AM
Tuesday, 27th September
Convention Centre Pre Function
S1: Climate Change & Waterways
11:00AM - 1:10PM
Tuesday, 27th September
Convention Centre Part 1
Chair: Jane Chambers
- Managing freshwater values in a year of climate extremes - Carolyn Maxwell
- Macroinvertebrate assemblage changes along a gradient of water temperature in a thermal-spring fed stream as an analogue for the impacts of climate change - Peter Negus
- Predicting climate change effects on dormant aquatic invertebrates in intermittent rivers - Sylvia Hay
- Freshwater invertebrate life history traits for surviving desiccation - Scott R Strachan
- Temporal shifts in littoral fish assemblages from shallow lakes following prolonged drought - Bryce Halliday
- Facilitating on-the-ground climate change adaptation for aquatic ecosystems: what role scientists? - Jane Chambers
S2: Long Term Intervention Monitoring
11:00AM - 1:10PM
Tuesday, 27th September
Convention Centre Part 2
Chair: Ben Gawne
- Evaluating Basin-scale significance of area scale outcomes of environmental flows - Ben Gawne
- Hydrological Outcomes of Commonwealth Environmental Watering actions across the Murray-Darling Basin - Michael J Stewardson
- Vegetation outcomes of Commonwealth Environmental Watering actions across the Murray-Darling Basin: consideration of scale and level of organisation - Cherie J Campbell
- LTIM – If it ain’t wet, it doesn’t help – Findings from Year 1 Stream Metabolism Measurements - Mike Grace
- Effects of the Chrysosporum ovalisporum bloom on water quality in the Edward-Wakool system- comparison with Long Term Intervention Monitoring data. - Julia Howitt
- Evaluating the population-dynamic consequences of fishes to flow within LTIM - Rick Stoffels
S3: Paleolimnology for Management
11:00AM - 1:10PM
Tuesday, 27th September
Conservatory Room
Chair: Jessica Reeves
Sponsored by:
- Knowledge of past climatic and hydrological events for a better management of water resources - Patrick De Deckker
- A 7500 Year Rainfall Reconstruction for Drought-Prone South-East Queensland Indicates we haven't seen the worst of it - Jon Marshall
- Salinity - An intermittent feature of the Holocene landscape inferred from lake/wetland sediments in South-west Western Australia - Annabel Morris
- Size, shape, spatial position and sensitivity. Do billabong morphology and position in the landscape control resilience to the effects of land use and hydrological change? - Michael Reid
- Water quality changes in Murray River wetlands – a neglected driver of condition decline? - Peter Gell
- Extending memory - providing long-term environmental change from palaeo-records of estauries to inform more appropriate management. - Jessica Reeves
Lunch
1:10PM - 1:50PM
Tuesday, 27th September
Convention Centre Pre Function
S1: Climate Change & Waterways
1:50PM - 3:30PM
Tuesday, 27th September
Convention Centre Part 1
Chair: Peter Gell
- Understanding the effects of direct and indirect pathways of climate change on Tasmanian Cladocera - Kristen K Beck
- How unusual is the Big Dry? Evidence from the Victorian Lakeland - Peter A Gell
- Rehabilitating wetlands and their carbon sequestration capacity - Jan L Barton
- Carbon sequestration by wetlands: vulnerability and opportunity - Paul E Carnell
- The effects of climate change on cryptic biomass in temporary lakes - Claire Sives
S4: Environmental Flows
1:50PM - 3:30PM
Tuesday, 27th September
Convention Centre Part 2
Chair: Paul Humphries
- Vegetation outcomes: what are we seeking and why? - Cherie J Campbell
- The decline of Pseudoraphis spinescens (Moira Grass) grasslands at Barmah Forest, Victoria: current distribution and implications for floodplain conservation - Lyndsey Vivian
- Watering requirements of iconic floodplain vegetation species of the Lower Balonne Floodplain. - Bill Senior
- Does floodplain watering improve understorey vegetation response to natural flooding? - Jason M Nicol
- Understanding the mid-Goulburn River: are cold flows a problem? - Claudette Kellar
S5: Riparian & Wetland Habitats
1:50PM - 3:30PM
Tuesday, 27th September
Conservatory Room
Chair: Daryl Nielsen
- Improving environmental water delivery to degraded wetlands - Nicola Logan
- Upper Ovens River low flow planning: Increasing understanding of aquatic habitat under extreme low flows with the use of an interactive river depth map - Joshua Hale
- Evaluation of Moira Grass seed bank from Barmah Forest floodplain - Daryl Nielsen
- Depositional zones for seeds within river channels - Rebecca Littler
- Long-term inundation regimes drive floodplain wetland persistence at the landscape scale: informing environmental water management - Rachael F Thomas
Afternoon Tea
3:30PM - 4:00PM
Tuesday, 27th September
Convention Centre Pre Function
S4: Environmental Flows
4:00PM - 5:00PM
Tuesday, 27th September
Convention Centre Part 2
Chair: Paul Humphries
- Optimising flows in Gunbower Creek to enhance survival of juvenile Murray cod (Maccullochella peelii). - Kathryn Stanislawski
- Avoiding the “Hunger Games” risks of freshwater fish monitoring in northern Australia - Amy George
- A conceptual synthesis of flow-recruitment relationships for riverine fishes - Paul Humphries
S5: Riparian & Wetland Habitats
4:00PM - 5:00PM
Tuesday, 27th September
Conservatory Room
Chair: Daryl Nielsen
- Return of the Lignum dead: resilience of an arid floodplain shrub to drought - Fiona Freestone
- The effect of temperature on germination and viability of four semi-aquatic plant species - Jade E Dessent
- Habitat modelling of key submergent macrophytes within the Lower Lakes, South Australia - Matthew M Linn
S6: Food Webs
4:00PM - 5:00PM
Tuesday, 27th September
Convention Centre Part 1
Chair: Simon Mitrovic
- Allochthonous carbon utilisation by zooplankton of coastal rivers during a high flow period - Simon Mitrovic
- The roles of Murray cod (Maccullochella peelii peelii) and Gambusia (Gambusia holbrooki) in structuring the community composition of emerging zooplankton - Kendal Krause
- Individual trait effects in aquatic food webs: a case study of behavioural traits in an arid-adapted fish - Nicholas P Moran
Poster Session
5:00PM - 6:00PM
Tuesday, 27th September
Convention Centre Pre Function
Chair: Peter Newall
- Critical thresholds in aquatic ecosystems: a case study of Tasmanian diatom community response to regional and local environmental change - Kristen K Beck
- Improving Nutrient Monitoring Outcomes using Representative Data Collected with Novel Time Integrated Sampling Techniques. - Nicholas Doriean
- Slow Wetland Response to Hydrological Change - Press Response or Regime Shift - Peter A. Gell
- Impacts of climate change on water quality of water supply reservoirs - Neeraj Mall
- Nutrient pathways and processing in urban streams: implications for rehabilitation in a flat sandy landscape - Jen Middleton
- Evaluating and applying indicators of ecosystem degradation for effective ecosystem management and conservation of biodiversity - Jessica A Rowland
Lungfish Lecture – Terry Hillman
6:00PM - 7:00PM
Tuesday, 27th September
Convention Centre Part 1
Chair: Lance Lloyd