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Print Friendly2006 Albury-Wodonga Congress
The 45th ASL Congress will be held from Monday 25 to Friday 29 September 2006, at the Albury Convention & Performing Arts Centre (ACPAC) in Central Albury.
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Program at a glance
| Date | Academic Schedule | Social Schedule |
| Monday 25 | Registration | Postgraduate Mixer Registration Mixer Free evening |
| Tuesday 26 | Registration Welcome and Opening: The Rt Hon Ian Sinclair, Dr Sabine Schreiber Plenary Sessions: Prof Jim Thorp, Dr Klement Tockner Concurrent Sessions: 1A Northern Basin; 1B Environmental Flows; 1C Macroinvertebrates 2A Drought; 2B Fish; 2C Plants/Wetlands 3A Microbes/Monitoring; 3B Fish; 3C Macroinvertebrates |
BBQ at La Trobe University Wodonga Tour of MDFRC (optional) |
| Wednesday 27 | Plenary Session: Dr Alison King, Dr Darren Baldwin Concurrent Sessions: 4A Zooplankton/Processes; 4B Fish/Macroinvertebrates; 4C Memories/Macroinvertebrates ½ day Field Trips |
Free Evening |
Thursday 28 |
Plenary Sessions: 2005 ASl Medal Winner, Prof Andrew Boulton Concurrent Sessions: 5A Nutrients; 5B Assessment; 5C Primary Production Poster Session AGM Student Awards Committee Meeting |
Congress Dinner at bettyandmuriel's of Adamshurst, Albury |
| Friday 29 | Concurrent Sessions: 6A Environmental Flows; 6B Fish/Publishing; 6C Macroinvertebrates Session 7: eWater CRC - Dr Peter Wallbrink National Water Commission - Dr Colin Chartres Water for a Healthy Country - Dr Sarah Ryan |
Full Academic Timetable
Monday 25 September
| 16:30 - 19:00 |
Registration
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Foyer, ACPAC
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| 17:30 - 18:30 |
Postgraduate Mixer
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The New Albury Hotel
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| 18:30 - 20:30 |
Registration Mixer (Sponsored By Albury City Council)
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Banquet Room, ACPAC
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Tuesday 26 September
| 8:00 |
Registration
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Foyer
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| 9:00 | Welcome: Dr Sabine Schreiber - ASL President
Official Opening: The Right Honourable Ian Sinclair - MDBC President |
Theatre |
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| 9:30 |
Plenary Sessions: (Chair: Sabine Schreiber) Professor Jim Thorp Dr Klement Tockner |
Theatre
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| 10:30 |
Morning Tea
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Banquet Room
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11:00 to13:00 Session 1
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| 1a Northern Basin (Chair: Terry Hillman) - Theatre |
1b Environmental Flows (Chair: Barry Hart) - Theatrette |
1c Macroinvertebrates (Chair: John Hawking) - Elizabeth Room 1 |
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| 11:00 | C. James - Diversity and dynamics of vegetation in a dryland floodplain wetland. | P. Alexander - Uniqueness of wetland plant communities. | R. Norris - River health assessment in Australia: A national approach. |
| 11:20 | S. Rayburg - Physical complexity in floodplain wetlands. | A. Jensen - Where have all the seeds gone? (S) | E. Harrison - Can a catchment-scale sediment model be used to understand stream biota condition? (S) |
| 11:40 | M. Thoms - The changing complexity of floodplain wetland ecosystems - an example of the Narran Ecosystem. | H. Robertson - Evaluating the impact of alternative environmental water allocations on wetland vegetation. (S) | A. Brooks - The response of macroinvertebrate assemblages to the first environmental flows to the Snowy River. |
| 12:00 | M. Reid - The importance of connectivity between patches in riverine landscapes: an example from the lower Macintyre River, Murray-Darling Basin. | T. Bowen - Community engagement in monitoring environmental condition. | O. Arnaiz - Relationships between riparian condition and aquatic macroinvertebrate community composition over fine spatial scales in an agricultural catchment in south-eastern Australia. (S) |
| 12:20 | M. Webb - How significant is connectivity for macrophyte assemblages and structural complexity in billabongs along the lower Macintyre River – a rapid assessment approach. | R. Barrett - The relationship between vegetation, water regimes and wetland type in wetlands of the Murray River floodplain. (S) | B. Downes - Trade-offs and reversals in the abundance-environment relationships of stream insects. |
| 12:40 | J. Boulos - Spatial mosaics of floodplain aquatic habitats: the impact of water resource development on the Lower Macintyre River, Australia (S) | I. Growns - Bioregional classifications of aquatic plants, macroinvertebrates, fish and frogs for NSW rivers. | H. Jones - Survey designs for detecting and quantifying the distribution of freshwater mussels in coastal streams. (S) |
| 13:00 |
Lunch
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Banquet Room
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14:00 to 15:40 Session 2
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| 2A Drought (Chair: Martin Thoms) - Theatre |
2B Fish (Chair: Paul Humphries) - Theatrette |
2C Plants/Wetlands (Chair: Judy Frankenberg) - Elizabeth Room 1 |
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| 14:00 | M. Tomlinson - Desiccation resistance in groundwater fauna. (S) |
A. Conallin - Slackwaters in a fast flowing creek: how important are they for resident fish and crustaceans? |
J. Groves - The use of sediment transport modelling in predicting hydrochory, and the changes in vegetation: the Warragamba catchment (NSW). (S) |
| 14:20 | P. Rose - The Effect of Drought on River Health in Victoria. |
B. Zampatti - Cod love dead Red Gums: An ecological investigation of fish assemblages in the Chowilla Anabranch system, South Australia. |
J. Chambers - Strategies for invasion: Life history, growth and nutrient dynamics make the difference between a ‘pro’ (Typha orientalis) and the native species (Baumea articulata). |
| 14:40 | J. Morrongiello - Effects of drought on regional fish assemblages in Victoria. |
S. Leigh - A larval fish’s perspective on habitat, recruitment and water management in the Chowilla Anabranch system. |
P. Feehan - Modelling the Spread of Arrowhead (Sagittaria graminea). |
| 15:00 | J. Davis - Is rainfall the ultimate driver of macroinvertebrate richness in wetlands of the Swan Coastal Plain, WA? |
C. Sharpe - Hydrological drivers of golden perch reproduction in the Darling River. (S) |
B. Sommer - Drying and re-wetting of organic wetland sediments: geochemistry and implications for wetland management. (S) |
| 15:20 | C. Maxwell - Lagoon of Islands, Tasmania: drivers, alternative states and prognosis for recovery. (S) | J. Koehn - Habitat selection by Murray cod. | D. Mitchell - The role of wetlands in the conservation and distribution of water resources in southern Australia. |
| 15:40 |
Afternoon Tea
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Banquet Room
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16:00 to 17:20 Session 3
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| 3A Microbes/Monitoring (Chair: Garth Watson) - Theatre |
3B Fish (Chair: John Koehn) - Theatrette |
3C Macroinvertebrates (Chair: Rochelle Petrie) - Elizabeth Room 1 |
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| 16:00 |
G. Rees - Sediment microbial community structure: drought changes everything. |
I. Ellis - Reproductive biology of the threatened Murray hardyhead in two deflation basin systems in North-West Victoria, Australia. |
S. Maxwell - Invertebrate flow preferences, trophic linkages and responses to environmental flows in the upper Hunter River, NSW. |
| 16:20 | J. MacGregor - Floodplain soil microbial community structure and function: The role of inundation and cattle grazing. (S) | S. Kaminskas - Diet and development of Murray cod larvae in an Australian lowland river. (S) | R. Veal - Associations between invertebrate assemblages and flow at the rock-scale in regulated and unregulated sections of the Nymboida River, northern NSW. (S) |
| 16:40 | T. Kobayashi - Emergence of a microbial community in a floodplain wetland following artificial inundation: a short-term in situ incubation study. | J. Macdonald - Using chemical signatures in post-larval carp otoliths to estimate the contribution of recruitment sources in the mid-Murray River. | M. Peat - Benthic community response to disturbance in a regulated river. (S) |
| 17:00 | J. McLeod - Monitoring Rivers for sustainable irrigation management | D. Crook - Fish assemblage structure and recruitment in the lower Goulburn River, Victoria. | S. Lee - Low-flow bypass trial in the Marne catchment, S.A. (S) |
| 17:20 |
Finish Talks
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| 17:30 |
Buses depart to La Trobe University, Wodonga
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Swift St - outside ACPAC
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| 18:00 - 18:30 |
Tour of new MDFRC facilities (optional)
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| 18:00 |
BBQ at La Trobe University
(Sponsored by GHD) |
Student Association Building
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| 21:00 |
Buses return to Albury
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Wednesday 27 September
| 9:00 |
Plenary Sessions: (Chair: Ben Gawne) Dr Alison King Dr Darren Baldwin |
Theatre |
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| 10:00 |
Morning Tea
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Banquet Room |
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10:30 to 12:50 Session 4
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| 4A Zooplankton/Processes (Chair: Helen Gigney) - Theatre |
4B Fish/Macroinvertebrates (Chair: Brenton Zampatti) - Theatrette |
4C Memories/Macroinvertebrates (Chair: Michelle Bald) - Elizabeth Room 1 |
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| 10:30 |
N. Kerp - Will salinisation affect the macroinvertebrate egg banks of ephemeral jarrah forest streams? (S) |
M. Vogel - The impact of low-flows on two-spined blackfish in the upper Ovens River catchment. |
M. Hart - My Murray - My view. |
| 10:50 | N. Ning - Evaluation of a new technique for characterising resting stage zooplankton assemblages. (S) | W. Koster - Play all night, sleep all day - the life of a river blackfish. | S. Loo - Freshwater invasions: using historical data to estimate spread. (S) |
| 11:10 | R. Petrie - Changes to planktonic microinvertebrate communities in response to environmental watering of a floodplain forest. | J. Pritchard - Hanging on by fintips? Fragmented populations of Macquarie perch in the Goulburn-Broken. | B. Timms - Clam Shrimp Extravaganza…….On Yeah! |
| 11:30 | D. Smith - Development of zooplankton comunities along a decreasing salinity gradient. (S) | K. Pitman - Past and present distributions of Dwarf Galaxias in the West Gippsland region, Victoria. | M. Brainwood - Do large impoundments or smaller weirs impact mussel distribution in the Hawkesbury-Nepean River, New South Wales? (S) |
| 11:50 | D. Burrows - Assessing the dissolved oxygen status of aquatic habitats in Australia’s dry and wet-dry tropics. | S. Kopf - Not all cyprinids are bad: native and endangered fishes of a Midwestern U.S. prairie river. | A. Richardson - Comparative reproductive attributes of caridean shrimps in lowland rivers. |
| 12:10 | R. Thompson - Food webs in space and time. | R. Lester - Wood to water: effects of the re-introduction of wood to streams in agricultural environments as a biodiversity enhancement tool. (S) | J. Hawking - Ecological strategies of invertebrates in Murray River Wetlands. |
| 12:30 | Cancelled | M. Dahm - Snags, bugs and microhabitats in the regulated lowland Hunter River, NSW. (S) | K. Ryan - The movement patterns of the Murray River crayfish, Euastacus armatus (Decapoda: Parastacidae) in the Murrumbidgee River, ACT. (S) |
| 12:50 |
Lunch - ALL delegates to collect boxed lunch
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Banquet Hall
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| 13:00 |
Buses depart for Field Trips
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Swift St - outside ACPAC |
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| 17:00? |
Expected return from field trips
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Free evening
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Thursday 28 September
| 9:00 |
2005 ASL Medal Winner: (Chair: Sabine Schreiber) Professor Andrew Boulton |
Theatre
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| 10:00 |
Morning Tea
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Banquet Hall
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10:30 to 12:50 Session 5
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| 5A Nutrients (Chair: Trish Bowen) - Theatre |
5B Assessment |
5C Primary Production |
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| 10:30 |
R. McIntrye - Highs and lows: nutrient and microbial dynamics in two intermittently flooded Pilbara streams. (S) |
J. Roberts - Limitations to desk-top analyses: an example from Cotter Reservoir of water regime and emergent macrophytes. | J. Clapcott - Small stream patches in the landscape: functional vs. structural delineation. (S) |
| 10:50 | J. Howitt - Following changes to dissolved organic matter using excitation-emission spectroscopy. | P. Murray - How does one assess wetland quality when they are dry? | P. Pollard - Resolving the Heterotrophy Paradox of Freshwater Ecosystems. |
| 11:10 | S. McDonald - Bioavailability of dissolved organic carbon and fulvic acid from an Australian floodplain river and billabong. (S) | B. Young - Application of Multiple Lines and Levels of Evidence (MLLE) for addressing ecological questions of causality. | A. Posselt - Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii and low phosphate combine for reservoir domination. (S) |
| 11:30 | K. Hall - Extent of sulfidic sediments in inland wetlands of the Murray-Darling Basin. | P. Suter - Habitat Profiles of Selected Australian Aquatic Insects: Linking species distribution and ecological data using the National River Health Collections. | S. Mika - Buried wood: An experiment integrating fine-scale geomorphic, chemical and algal responses to logs spanning riffle zones in the Hunter and Williams Rivers, NSW. (S) |
| 11:50 | J. Kerr - The partitioning of nitrogen and phosphorus within contrasting reaches of a sub-tropical river system. (S) | O. Scholz - The Living Murray Initiative: Monitoring within the Mallee CMA region. | H. Gigney - Barmah-Millewa Forest Floodwater in the Murray and Edward Rivers. |
| 12:10 | A. Majimbi - An assessment of the nutrient stripping function in constructed wetlands of the Swan-Canning River catchment using physicochemical and biological indicators. (S) | L. Merrin – River and Wetland Health for the National Water Initiative: first level of assessment. | M. Burford - Can productivity in a waterhole post-flooding be driven by fish? |
| 12:30 | A. Wilson - Assessing remediation works in a severely degraded reach of Umbango Creek, NSW. | Cancelled | V. Matveev - Relationships between flow velocity, fish biomass and primary production in the Murray River. |
| 12:50 |
Lunch
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Banquet Hall
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| 14:00 |
Poster Session
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Banquet Hall
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| 15:00 |
Afternoon Tea
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Banquet Hall
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| 15:30 |
AGM
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Theatre
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| 17:00 - 18:00 |
Student Awards Committee Meeting
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Board Room
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| 19:00 |
Congress Dinner (Sponsored by NECMA, CSIRO Land and Water, eWater CRC, SKM and MDBC)
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betty and muriel's
603 David Street, Albury |
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Friday 29 September
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9:30 to 12:50 Session 9
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6A Environmental Flows |
6B Fish/Publishing |
6C Macroinvertebrates |
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| 9:30 | S. Schreiber - Testing the effectiveness of environmental flows - a state-wide policy perspective. | P. Humphries - Environmental degradation and the acquisition of knowledge: fish in the Murray-Darling Basin. | S. Nichols - Biological assessment of streams in Kosciuszko National Park - 1: Long-term trends. |
| 9:50 | M. Stewardson - Monitoring and assessing the effects of environmental flows. | J. Harris - The distribution, ecological impacts and management of stream impoundments in the Murray-Darling Basin. | F. Tingle - Biological assessment of streams in Kosciuszko National Park - 2: Determining the effects of a large carpark on water quality and biological integrity of Perisher Creek. |
| 10:10 | C. Fox - Testing the effectiveness of environmental flows - a regional environmental water manager’s perspective. | D. Burrows - Distribution and management of native and exotic fishes of northern Australia. | C. Davies - Biological assessment of streams in Kosciuszko National Park - 3: Impacts of the 2003 bushfires on the biological health of Thredbo River. |
| 10:30 | K. Ward - Supplying the Barmah-Millewa wetlands with an Environmental Water Allocation in 2005/06. | D. McGlashan - Publish or perish: Developments in scientific publishing. | N. Saintilan - Initiatives in the management of NSW floodplain wetlands. |
| 10:50 |
Morning Tea
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Banquet Hall
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11:20 to 13:00 Session 7: (Chair: Ben Gawne)
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| 11:20 |
eWater CRC - Dr Peter Wallbrink |
Theatrette
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| 11:40 | National Water Commission - Dr Colin Chartres | ||
| 12:00 | Water for a Healthy Country - Dr Sarah Ryan | ||
| 12:20 |
Discussion and Farewell |
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| 1:00 |
Congress Close |
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