Thursday, 3rd July Australian Society for Fish Biology & Australian Society for Limnology 2014 Joint Congress

• The Lake Condah restoration: combining traditional knowledge and science to reactivate Australia’s oldest and largest traditional aquaculture system - Denis Rose

• Talking together, working together, walking together - Michael Douglas

Open session??

• Connecting land and water: understanding vertebrate fauna diversity in river floodplains and riparian zones - Heather M. McGinness
• Groundwater as a key driver of freshwater water ecosystem responses to drought  - Jarrod Kath
• ‘Darwin River Reservoir and Manton River Reservoir, Northern Territory; the role of hydrodynamic transport processes in risk assessment for the Darwin water supply’ - Kevin Boland
• Long-term trends in condition of flow-dependent ecosystems of the Murray-Darling Basin - Matthew J Colloff
• Utility of Unmanned Aerial Systems for environmental monitoring of wetlands - Renee Bartolo

• Dams in Northern Australia – An Example of the Limnology of the Burdekin Falls Dam and its Effect on Downstream Environments - Damien Burrows
• Ecological responses to changes in environmental flow release strategies for a temperate river system in NSW - Jamie L Corfield
• Opening the flood gates: the compromises necessary to achieve environmental flow releases - Rebecca E Lester
• The effects of altered flow and bed sediment on benthic macroinvertebrates in stream mesocosms - Ivor Growns
• Benthic algal biomass and assemblage changes following environmental flow releases and unregulated tributary flows downstream of a major storage - Simon Mitrovic

• The impact of feral camels on remote waterholes in the Katiti Petermann Aboriginal Land Trust. - Glenis McBurnie
• Gold mining contamination 150 years on: Using spatial analysis to identify ‘hotspots’ for a bioaccumulation study - David Mossop
• On the development of a new weighted average biotic index of water quality for Singapore’s freshwater reservoirs - Yakuta Bhagat
• How do we assess the health of rivers when they are dry? – Solutions using a novel approach - Alisha L Steward
• Quantifying changes in tropical wetland vegetation using time series high resolution satellite imagery - Tim Whiteside

• Victorian Fishways- past, present, future - Justin O'Connor
• A multi-antennae passive integrated transponder (PIT) tag array improves fishway passage assessments in a vertical slot fishway - Kris S Pitman
• Defining downstream fish passage guidelines for the protection of fish in the Murray-Darling Basin - Craig A Boys
• Mulloway movement within the Glenelg River Estuary within Southwest Victoria - Jason Lieschke

• Revitalising Australia's Estuaries - Colin Creighton
• Shellfish – more than just an entrée: history and potential for restoration of the lost shellfish beds of Port Phillip Bay - Paul Hamer
• Threats to the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area concomitant with an expanding coastal urban and industrial seascape - Nathan Waltham
• The effects of drought and anthropogenic activities on ecosystem state cycling and the fish fauna of Africa’s largest estuarine lake - D P Cyrus
• Fifty shades of flow: catadromous fish migration in a regulated river - Doug Harding
• Coastal floodplains, wetlands and weeds: a bigger problem than commonly envisaged. - Paul I Boon

• Environmental  Outcomes – Can We Substitute Infrastructure For Environmental Water? - Steve Nicol
• An Introduction to the Murray-Darling Basin Environmental Water Knowledge and Research Project - Christine Reid
• Regulated recruitment: native and alien fish responses to widespread floodplain inundation in the Macquarie Marshes, arid-Australia. - Tom Rayner
• Spatio-temporal variability of native flow-cued spawning fish larvae in association to environmental water in the lower River Murray - Juan P Livore
• Testing/evaluating the use of fish habitat availability for monitoring the anthropogenic impact on dry season flows in the Katherine River, tropical Australia. - Simon Townsend
• Environmental flows for Australian lungfish: From push-net to release valve - Tom Espinoza

• A social license to care: the challenges of involving recreational fishers in fish habitat rehabilitation - Liz Baker
• A coordinated national data collection for recreational fishing in Australia: what's changed since the last national survey? - Shane Griffiths
• Assessing the effectiveness of harvest tags in managing the recreational catch of snapper in Shark Bay, Western Australia - Gary Jackson
• Meeting the requirement of recreational fisheries data for Integrated Fisheries Management - Karina Ryan
• Sand flathead in Port Phillip Bay – story of a recreational fishery in decline - Alastair Hirst

• Making sense of all the monitoring. Why the synthesis of monitoring information is a key step in adaptive management and how it is being done for The Living Murray initiative.   - David B Hohnberg
• Setting and evaluating ecologically relevant water quality targets for the Great Barrier Reef – progress in the Burnett-Mary region - Geoff Park
• The global need to recognise and manage intermittently flowing rivers and streams - Jonathan Marshall
• Managing Inland NSW Aquatic Habitats – past, present and future planning tools - David Ward
• Prioritizing management of dynamic threats in protected areas: a decision support tool for Kakadu National Park - Vanessa M Adams
• Fish parasites: just another tool for water planners working on a shoestring budget - Susie Williams

Chaired by Jenny Davis & Jane Chambers

• Murray-Darling Basin Plan – My Involvement and Experiences - Barry Hart

• Modelling population growth of river red gum and black box communities in relation to water availability - Justine Murray
• Lakes sensitivity to climate change and nutrients availability: a coupled hydrodynamic ecological modelling study - Anna Rigosi
• At The Coalface: Developing A Decision Support Tool To Assess Hydro-Ecological Risks To Lake Eyre Basin Rivers - Ryan Hooper

• A mark-recapture method using tissue genotyping for estimating the number of  narrow-barred Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus commerson) - Rik C Buckworth
• A novel field method to reliably distinguish between the cryptic carcharhinid sharks, Carcharhinus tilstoni and C. limbatus - Grant J Johnson
• Standards for the effective management of fisheries bycatch - David S Kirby

• Fine scale distribution of two lowland rainbowfish species in north-eastern Queensland. - Keith Martin
• Biodiversity discovery expedition to the Hindenburg Wall region, Papua New Guinea: Fishes, Frogs and Odonates - Michael Hammer

Buses depart from DCC 5:45pm