Wednesday, 9th December
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Local Session - New South Wales 2
9:45AM - 11:15AM
Wednesday, 9th December
Chair: Ivor Growns
Water for the Environment across the NSW Northern Murray Darling Basin
Working with Community and Commonwealth to achieve positive outcomes
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David Preston
Confirming the production of BMAA and its isomers by freshwater cyanobacteria and understanding the factors affecting their production by cyanobacterial isolates.
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Huy A Luong
Applying Bayesian Belief Networks to palaeoecological records to improve understanding of floodplain wetland ecosystem change
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Michael A Reid
Effects of inundation on invertebrates in the Gwydir wetlands
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Ivor Growns
Treed Swamps of the Paroo, northwestern NSW --- what drives their diversity and communiality?
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Brian V Timms
National Live Stream 5 - South Australia
10:00AM - 11:15AM
Wednesday, 9th December
Chairs: Jason Nicol & Sally Maxwell
Using diatoms to measure lake response to human activities in Canterbury (NZ).
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Julia Short
Sediment records from World Heritage-listed K'gari/Fraser Island lakes (sub-tropical eastern Australia) highlight their sensitivity to drying
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John Tibby
Environmental Water Requirements are not being Met
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Anne E Jensen
15 years of vegetation monitoring on the Chowilla Floodplain
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Jason M Nicol
Freshwater Science needs to Speak UP!
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Anne E Jensen
Live Stream Break
11:15AM - 11:45AM
Wednesday, 9th December
Local Session - Australian Capital Territory 2
11:45AM - 1:00PM
Wednesday, 9th December
Chairs: James Hitchcock & Rodney Ubrihien
Acoustic monitoring to evaluate environmental watering responses in the Koondrook-Perricoota Forest
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Simon Linke
Identification, characterisation and management of refuge habitat across the Murray-Darling Basin
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Joanne M Bennett
Applying population models to inform policy and management for the protection of water, wetlands, and waterbirds
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Britt McDonald
Towards upscaling and forecasting the effects of flow on river primary productivity with a mechanistic model
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Darren P Giling
Sustainability, certainty and reconciliation: key challenges for water management in inland Australia.
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Ross Thompson
Overview of the 2020 Evaluation of the Basin Plan
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Ben Gawne
National Live Stream 6 - Western Australia
11:45AM - 1:00PM
Wednesday, 9th December
Chair: Adrian Pinder
How much species diversity can you lose?
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Sean T Atkinson
Effects of climate and landscape change on endemic freshwater macrocrustacean persistence in south-western Australia.
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Holly E. Emery-Butcher
Movement strategies of adult female turtles during wet-dry cycling of an urban wetland complex
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Anthony Santoro
Using environmental DNA to conduct monitoring of rakali (Hydromys chrysogaster) in the SW of Western Australia
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Josephine Hyde
How do Australian urban landscapes affect distribution and diversity of Odonata in wetlands?
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Belinda J Robson
Live Stream Break
1:00PM - 1:30PM
Wednesday, 9th December
Local Session - New South Wales - Mock Environmental Court
1:30PM - 2:30PM
Wednesday, 9th December
National Live Stream 7 - Northern Territory and Tasmania
1:30PM - 2:15PM
Wednesday, 9th December
Chair: Erica Garcia
Development of downstream passage options for shortfinned eels; the Trevallyn dam downstream eel bypass project
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David N Ikedife
Development of flow release rules to mitigate against elevated water temperatures in a northern Tasmanian river system.
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Andy AT Taylor
Stream restoration at a snail's pace? How species traits may influence resistance to restoration efforts.
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Bridget E White
Live Stream Break
2:15PM - 3:00PM
Wednesday, 9th December
National AGM
3:00PM - 4:00PM
Wednesday, 9th December
National Plenary Session
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Wednesday, 9th December
Chairs: Michael Reid & Catherine Leigh
The end of the past: Facing the new crisis for freshwater biodiversity.
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Peter A Gell
Water connects us
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Bernadette Proemse
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