Wednesday, 2nd July Australian Society for Fish Biology & Australian Society for Limnology 2014 Joint Congress
Registration Open
8:00AM - 5:00PM
Wednesday, 2nd July
Ground Floor Foyer
Introductions & Housekeeping
8:30AM - 8:45AM
Wednesday, 2nd July
Waterfront Plenary Room
Plenary - Stan Lui
8:45AM - 9:20AM
Wednesday, 2nd July
Waterfront Plenary Room
Chair: David Crook
Plenary - Bo Carne
9:20AM - 9:55AM
Wednesday, 2nd July
Waterfront Plenary Room
Chair: David Crook
Plenary- Phil Duncan
9:55AM - 10:30AM
Wednesday, 2nd July
Waterfront Plenary Room
Chair: David Crook
Morning Tea
10:30AM - 11:00AM
Wednesday, 2nd July
Ground Floor Foyer
Special Session - Fish and Flows (1)
11:00AM - 12:30PM
Wednesday, 2nd July
Waterfront Plenary Room
Chair: Alison King
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- Are native fish populations in the Murray River energy limited? - Nick Bond
- Knowledge of age and provenance is fundamental to understanding flow-related reproductive response, recruitment and population dynamics in freshwater fish - Brenton P Zampatti
- Multi-decadal biochronologies indicate species-specific responses to environmental change/variability in the River Murray estuary - Bronwyn Gillanders
- Investigating fish growth responses to flows in temperate floodplain rivers - Zeb Tonkin
- Understanding fish behaviour and life history is critical to developing effective environmental flow regimes for native fish: a case study of Australian grayling - Wayne Koster
- Responding to McArthur River flows: How environmental flows are driving an adaptive management program for sustainability of aquatic fauna. - Dean Thorburn
Wetlands (1)
11:00AM - 12:30PM
Wednesday, 2nd July
Meeting Room 2
Chair: Jason Nicol
- Seed banks on semi-arid floodplains in the northern Murray Darling Basin: Skippy is doing his bit. - Stephen R Balcombe
- Soil seedbanks in a restoring floodplain wetland - Samantha Dawson
- South lake: I know what you did last summer! - Scott R Strachan
- How efficient is wetland vegetation at trapping suspended sediment and bedload on Magela Creek in Northern Australia? - Wayne Erskine
- The influence of urbanisation on wetland invertebrate biodiversity - Teresa J Mackintosh
- Wetland Management in an Agricultural Landscape - Sarah Ning
Freshwater Ecology (2)
11:00AM - 12:30PM
Wednesday, 2nd July
Meeting Room 3
Chair: Kathryn Hassell
- Is Salinity the Key Driver of Fish Species Assemblage in Finke River Waterholes? - Angus Duguid
- Effect of salinity on the ecosystem function, leaf decomposition: dryland salinity vs. salinity from a coal mine - Felix Sauer
- Habitat requirements for aestivation of Galaxiella nigrostriata during the dry phase of seasonal wetlands. - Dave Galeotti
- Potential impacts of water temperature on fish habitat in riverine waterholes in northern Australia. - Jim Wallace
- Resistance of two fishes with contrasting lifestyles to hypoxia: Links between metabolic and behavioural traits - Simon Mom
- Water quality fish passage barriers caused by aquatic weed infestation and black water flow events on a tropical floodplain impacted by irrigated agriculture - Jim Tait
Rehabilitation and Restoration (1)
11:00AM - 12:30PM
Wednesday, 2nd July
Meeting Room 4
Chair: Shane Penny
- Burnett River riparian stabilisation – practical examples of reducing sediment loads to the Great Barrier Reef - Emily Maher
- Channel bank stability (or lack of), the implications and rehabilitation options for the Mid Brisbane River. - Morag Stewart
- A Case Study for Measuring Outcomes from Large Management Interventions on Fishes: The Murray River Resnagging Experiment - Jarod Lyon
- Strengthening science to policy outcomes for waterways protection at a local level in the Kimberley, WA - Amber L Briggs
- Monitoring and evaluating the outcomes of Commonwealth environmental water - Ben Gawne
- Research into the efficacy of fish screens in the Murrumbidgee to Googong water transfer scheme - Rhian Clear
Lunch & ASFB AGM
12:30PM - 2:00PM
Wednesday, 2nd July
Ground Floor Foyer
Special Session - Fish and Flows (2)
2:00PM - 3:15PM
Wednesday, 2nd July
Waterfront Plenary Room
Chair: Brenton Zampatti
- Vulnerability of Western Australian fishes to changing flow - Stephen Beatty
- Shock, stress or signal? Implications of freshwater flows for a top-level estuarine predator - Matt D. Taylor
- Understanding the influence of flow on spawning and recruitment in freshwater fishes: importance of life history, antecedent conditions and long-term data sets - Alison King
Indigenous Partnerships (1)
2:00PM - 3:15PM
Wednesday, 2nd July
Meeting Room 2
Chair: Michael Douglas
- Working together for ecosystem health in Darwin harbour - Robyn Henderson
- Collaborative research partnerships inform monitoring and management of freshwater habitats by traditional custodians - Christy Davies
- Ways of 'seeing' floodplain country: maintaining customary use of freshwater resources amongst competing uses. - Emma Ligtermoet
- Participation of Aboriginal communities in wetland management in the Natural Resources SA Murray-Darling Basin region. - Irene Wegener
Threatened species (1)
2:00PM - 3:15PM
Wednesday, 2nd July
Meeting Room 3
Chair: Mark Lintermans
- Extinct habitat, extant species: lessons learned fromconservation recovery actions for the Pedder galaxias(Galaxias pedderensis) in south-west Tasmania, Australia - Rob Freeman
- Twenty years of conservation management of threatened upland galaxiids (Galaxiidae): blood, sweat, tears… and a little joy. - Tarmo A Raadik
- Predation rates of two threatened species by trout - Ben T Broadhurst
- The low down on threatened paragalaxiids: interactions between fish ecology, habitats and hydrology are critical to population viability - Scott A Hardie
- Macro-ecological patterns and processes in the distribution and conservation status of Australian freshwater fishes. - Matthew C Le Feuvre
Bioassessment / Monitoring (1)
2:00PM - 3:15PM
Wednesday, 2nd July
Meeting Room 4
Chair: David Mossop
- Fish and pools: Sampling 101 for ecologists - Paul Brown
- Benthic diatoms as indicators of herbicide toxicity in rivers. - Rebecca J Wood
- Biomonitoring in Victorian estuaries using the Eastern blue spot goby, Pseudogobius sp. - Kathryn Hassell
- Factors affecting egg-laying responses of the freshwater snail, Amerianna cumingi, deployed in wet season toxicity monitoring of water quality - Mark Ellis
- Identifying the primary factors influencing aquatic ecosystem health in the Maribyrnong River - Claudette Kellar
Afternoon Tea
3:15PM - 3:45PM
Wednesday, 2nd July
Ground Floor Foyer
Wetlands (2)
3:45PM - 5:00PM
Wednesday, 2nd July
Waterfront Plenary Room
Chair: Adam Kerezsy
- Climate change impacts on changes in flow regime and hydrological connectivity of floodplain wetlands - Fazlul Karim
- Soil and water impacts following wildfire: current and past biogeomorphology of Dunphy Lake in the Warrumbungle National Park, NSW - Tsuyoshi Kobayashi
- Effects of hypoxic blackwater events on microinvertebrate and aquatic plant communities emerging from wetland sediments - Nathan Ning
- The eradication and management of European carp from two large freshwater lakes in Tasmania - Jonah Yick
- How do widespread generalist fish species persist in the extreme arid environment of the Lake Eyre Basin, central Australia - Ashley Murphy
Indigenous Partnerships (2)
3:45PM - 5:00PM
Wednesday, 2nd July
Meeting Room 2
Chair: Thor Saunders
- Capacity building and science mentorship for Indigenous communities - Jonathan Taylor
- Aboriginal cultural fishing in coastal far northern NSW - Stephan Schnierer
- Coastal aquaculture in British Columbia: Perspectives from three indigenous communities - Kathryn E Tebbutt
- Victorian Traditional Owner involvement in waterway management - Amber Clarke
- Increasing the science capability of Indigenous Marine Rangers - Simon Xuereb
Threatened species (2)
3:45PM - 5:00PM
Wednesday, 2nd July
Meeting Room 3
Chair: Scott Hardie
- The Kimberley Ark: assessing and conserving freshwater fish biodiversity in Australia’s last pristine river systems - James Shelley
- Conservation of an endangered fish species Murray hardyhead (Craterocephalus fluviatilis) in the upper South Australian Murray-Darling Basin region - Lara Suitor
- Spawning dates of the endangered Macquarie perch in the regulated upper Murrumbidgee River - Mark Lintermans
- Understanding natural spawning behaviors to enhance captive breeding success of endangered Macquarie perch (Macquaria australasica). - Prudence McGuffie
- The ecology of juvenile Largetooth Sawfish Pristis pristis in the Adelaide River, Northern Territory: movement patterns and habitat use. - Kate Buckley
ASFB Award Talks
3:45PM - 5:00PM
Wednesday, 2nd July
Meeting Room 4
Chair: Gary Jackson
Deck Chair Cinema
6:00PM - 9:00PM
Wednesday, 2nd July
Deckchair Cinema
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