Thursday, 5th December Australian Society for Limnology Congress 2013

• Beyond bioassessment – Coupling predictive modeling of climate, stream temperature, flow regimes, and biota to assess biodiversity response to climate change in USA freshwater ecosystems. - Charles Hawkins
• Recent developments in RIVPACS: supporting the return of ecological integrity to European waters - J I Jones
• Objectively defining reference conditions for stream bioassessment programmes using generalised dissimilarity models - Peter M Rose
• An improved macroinvertebrate index of stream condition for the Melbourne region - Christopher J Walsh

A panel discussion will follow the presentations.

• How science contributes to environmental water management: a Victorian perspective. - Phil Mitchell
• The Victorian FLOWS method: using science to inform environmental water management - Simon Treadwell
• Estuary environmental flows assessment method (EEFAM): a "building block" approach. - Lance Lloyd
• Predicting ecological responses to environmental flows: making best use of the literature, expert knowledge, and monitoring data - Angus Webb
• Environmental Water Delivery in Practice – Adaptive Management in the Goulburn River - Geoff Earl

• Stygofauna in the 21st century: iron-ore mining, coal seam gas and water supply - Stuart Halse
• Just add water? Lessons from Pillicawarrina - Samantha Dawson
• Hydro Tasmania’s first dam removal: rehabilitation of Lagoon of Islands - Carolyn Maxwell
• Combining ecological knowledge and species distribution modelling in vulnerability assessment - Alex Bush
• From theory to practice: A Watercourse Assessment and Prioritised Rehabilitation Plan for Sutherland Shire - Caroline Forest
• Developing turbidity closure criteria for receiving surface waters at Ranger minesite - Amy George

• Re-thinking riverine bioassessment: lessons learnt in Victoria - Leon Metzeling
• The standard of stream living in the ACT - a long-term analysis of invertebrate communities in urban and rural streams - Evan Harrison
• Assessing the effect of salinity on stream macroinvertebrate communities: the case of the Hunter River Catchment, New South Wales? - Ben J. Kefford
• SO WHAT? FROM BIOASSESMENT TO ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION MAKING - Simon Linke
• A comprehensive suite of tools for managing ecological values and assets in rivers - Ralph W Ogden
• An evidence-based approach for flow management: optimization for ecology and consumptive use - Susan J Nichols

• Fix it, pipe it, or do nothing: Decision making through the application of reconciliation ecology to management of urban streams - Meredith Brainwood
• Policy development and stakeholder engagement for the Victorian Waterway Management Strategy - Amber Clarke
• Aquatic Ecosystem Conservation: the process, methodology and challenges of listing the first Australian river system under national environment law - Gina M Newton

• Warming temperature and eutrophication shaping predictions of Cyanobacterial development - Anna Rigosi
• Could irrigation development counter the effects of climate change in rivers in the Tasmanian Midlands? - Regina H Magierowski
• Climatic thresholds: the influence of increasing sediment temperature on aquatic biota - Daryl Nielsen
• Buffering our aquatic habitats from climate change: using riparian vegetation to reduce impacts on stream biodiversity and ecosystem function. - Ross Thompson

• a. The science behind river health policy - Jane Doolan
• Tapping into community knowledge for effective policy making - the New Zealand experience - Laurel Teirney
• From water science to water policy: experiences from two decades of watery CRCs - Gary J Jones

• Inter-annual variability in platypus diet: a potential role for drought? - Melissa Klamt
• Species hiding in plain sight: using population genetics to infer cryptic species and dispersal in Australian arid-zone freshwater insects - Amy Smith
• Anthropogenic water storages as refuge for macroinvertebrates in South-West Victoria. - David T Dodemaide

• c. Implementing water policy reform: An update from the MDBA - Jodie Swirepik
• b. Environmental Water Management in Australia – National Water Commission Perspective on Managing the Science and Policy Interface - Kerry Olsson
• a. Science policy interface from an APS policy adviser's perspective - Tony Slatyer
• d. The Science/ Policy nexus – learnings, roles and water science experiences - Kim Ritman

• Impacts of large-scale bushfire on the freshwater crayfish of the Grampians National Park - Kerrylyn Johnston
• Water resource infrastructure and its potential as an anthropogenic refuge - Bryce T Halliday
• Experimental evidence for impacts of an invasive herbivore (Camelus dromedaries) on arid zone freshwater pools - Glenis McBurnie
• Leaf breakdown and associated macroinvertebrates in the alpine streams of the Snowy Mountains, Australia - Lloyd Werry
• Multi-year delay in recovery of amphipod populations following cease-to-flow events in forested upland stream reaches - Samantha Imberger