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Program Outline

All program items are being held at MPAC unless otherwise stated.

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Monday 29 September

Time Program

3:00pm

3:30pm

5:00pm

5:30pm

Afternoon tea for students

Student workshop

Student Mixer & Congress Registration

Welcome Event

Tuesday 30 September

Time Program
8:00am Registration
8:30am Plenary Session 1: Aquatic management - local & national perspectives.
Welcome
Prof. Stuart Bunn, President ASL
Congress Opening
The Hon. David A Templeman MLA
Former Minister for the Environment; Climate Change & Peel
Member for Mandurah
9:00am Dr Tom Rose
Coordinator, Cockburn Sound Management Council
A Peel-Harvey journey: A sense of place with environmental lessons learnt and forgotten
9:30am Mr Matt Kendall
General Manager, Water Science Group, National Water Commission
Challenges for aquatic sciences and environmental management under the NWI.
10:00am Morning Tea
10:30am

Plenary Session 2: Climate change & environmental flows
Prof. Stuart Bunn
Climate change, water resources and biodiversity
11:10am

Concurrent Sessions

1A:  Climate change and environmental flows
1B:  Fish ecology I
12:30pm Lunch
1:30pm Plenary Session 3: Acid Sulfate Soils
Dr Jes Sammut
Impact of Acid Sulfate Soils on aquatic ecosystems.
2:10pm

Concurrent Sessions

2A:  ASS & acidity in aquatic ecosystems I
2B:  Impacts on faunal assemblages
2C:  Environmental flows I
3:30pm Afternoon tea
4:00pm

Concurrent Sessions

3A:  ASS & acidity in aquatic ecosystems II
3B:  Management & monitoring I
3C:  Environmental Flows II
5:20pm Poster Session
Come and enjoy beer from the Edith Cowan University brewery.

Wednesday 1 October

Time Program
8:30am

Concurrent Sessions

4A:  Macroinvertebrates I
4B:  Management & monitoring II
10:30am Morning Tea
11:00am

Plenary Session 4: Tributes to limnologists
ASL 2008 Medallist: Prof. Stuart Bunn
Sources and fate of organic carbon in Australian streams and rivers
Tribute to Peter Cullen
Early Career Excellence Award Winner: Chris Walsh
Stream ecology as a driver of change towards sustainable management of our cities and their water.
12:30pm Lunch
1:30pm

Concurrent Sessions

5A:  Macroinvertebrates II
5B:  Wetland plants
2:30pm Afternoon tea
2:50pm

Concurrent Sessions

6A:  Ecosystem function
6B:  Stream health
4:15pm AGM
Announcement of 2009 ASL Medalist and Early Career Excellence Award Winner.
6:00pm Ferry leaves for Mandurah Quays
6:30pm Congress Dinner at Mandurah Quays

Thursday 2 October

Time Program
9:00am Plenary Session 5: Ecosystem Science: Beyond Limnology
Prof Sam Lake
Meeting the challenge of ecosystem-based research and management for Australia’s freshwater systems.
Panel discussion with Michael Coote, DECC
10:30am Morning Tea
11:00am

Concurrent Sessions

7A:  Iconic limnological issues and topics
7B:  Fish & management
7C:  Hydrologic processes
1:00pm Lunch
2:00pm

Concurrent Sessions

8A:  Ramsar wetland ecology I
8B:  Native crayfish & invasive fish I
8C:  Ecological processes
3:20pm Afternoon tea
3:50pm

Concurrent Sessions

9A:  Ramsar wetland ecology II
9B:  Native crayfish & invasive fish II
5:00pm Closing Plenary Session
Presentation of Student Awards and Door Prize
Discussion
5:30pm BBQ at MPAC

Friday 3 October

Time Program
8:30am Field Trips
Buses leave MPAC
1:00pm Field Trip 3 returns to MPAC
5:00pm Field Trip 1 drops people at Perth Airport & railway station before returning to Mandurah