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Monday, May 1811:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Conference Theatre
Special Session: The past, present, and future of freshwater invasion ecology and management: A career retrospective for David M. Lodge 1.0 · Chairs: Matthew Barnes, John Drake
Room 102 AB
Special Session: Across ecosystem linkages: quantifying aquatic-terrestrial reciprocal connections to support resilient watersheds 1.0 · Chair: Amaryllis Adey
Room 201 ABC
Special Session: Biogeochemical cycling in human-made freshwaters 1.0 · Chairs: Audrey Goeckner, AJ Reisinger
Room 202 ABC
Special Session: The fire’s leading edge: Exploring the paradoxical effects of fire on freshwater ecosystems to support more resilient watersheds and communities 1.0 · Chairs: Maricela Alaniz, Jeremy Brooks
Room 203
Special Session: Building Resilience in Large Rivers of the Northwest 1.0 · Chairs: Lisa Kunza, Brooke Long-Fox
Room 205
Microbial Ecology 1.0 · Chairs: Michael Wulf, Isaac Schuman
Room 206 A
Special Session: Chew on This: The Role of Beavers in Building Resilient Landscapes 1.0 · Chairs: Camille McNeely, Sandra Clinton
Room 206 B
Invertebrates 1.0 · Chairs: Kaitlin Abell, Evan Hornig
Room 206 C
Remote Sensing & Sensor Technology 1.0 · Chairs: Etienne Fluet-Chouinard, Jenna Abrahamson
Room 207
Special Session: Contaminant Ecology 1.0 · Chairs: Jessica Brandt, Cailin Sinclair
Rooms 206 D
Special Session: The Changing Cryosphere and Its Impacts on Downstream Freshwaters 1.0 · Chairs: Matthew Dunkle, Holly Harris
11:00 AM
John M Drake|Modeling the spread of invasive species and emerging infectious diseases in heterogeneous environments
11:15 AM
Reuben Keller|Risk assessment for invasive species in the Laurentian Great Lakes Region
11:30 AM
William Perry|Going with the flow: morphological plasticity and performance of rusty crayfish ( Faxonius rusticus ) in different flow regimes.
11:45 AM
Lindsey S Reisinger|Pathogen accumulation and the collapse of the invasive rusty crayfish population in Trout Lake
12:00 PM
Eric R. Larson|Is the rusty crayfish (Faxonius rusticus) a transient invader?
12:15 PM
Romi L Burks|Being a successful role model (organism): Insights into diversity and distribution of apple snails ( Pomacea ) gained through field and molecular ecology
11:00 AM
Andrew A Ali|Emergent concentration-discharge (C-Q) relationship across nested subcatchments in a coastal plain watershed.
11:15 AM
Rich H Walker|That’s a mouthful: availability, feeding ecology, and life history variation of stream fishes during periodical cicada emergences
11:30 AM
Gary Lamberti|Oops…we did it again! Introduced fishes deliver both nutrient and contaminant subsidies to freshwater ecosystems.
11:45 AM
Christian Schuerings|Emergent aquatic insects link freshwater integrity to riparian bird communities at continental scales
12:00 PM
Giordano Jacuzzi|Urbanization stressors on avian invertivore assemblages mediated by aquatic macroinvertebrate diversity: Implications for multi-scale riparian restoration in an increasingly urbanized future
11:00 AM
AJ Reisinger|From swamps to stormwater ponds: Ecosystem functions lost (and gained?) due to reorganization of the waterscape
11:15 AM
Wilfred Wollheim|Urban stream syndrome at the river network scale in a Mediterranean watershed.
11:30 AM
Katherine X. Pérez Rivera|Ionic contributions to specific conductivity dynamics in an urbanized stream network
11:45 AM
Anika R Bratt|Redlined water bodies are smaller and more polluted
12:00 PM
Russell Conti|Tracking changes in dissolved N concentrations, retention, and export in a rapidly developing Mountain West community
12:15 PM
Allyson Marrs|Salinity affects carbon cycling in streams and the carbon use efficiency of sediment microbes
11:00 AM
Jeremy M Brooks|Investigating spatial and temporal dynamics in the “fire pulse” across 70 years of monitoring freshwater ecosystems
11:15 AM
Leah Simantel|Unraveling drivers of variation in riparian vegetation recovery following wildfire
11:30 AM
Audrey Thellman|A one-two punch: fire and hydrological effects on stream communities in coastal southern California
11:45 AM
Brian Bush|Linking Wildfire Disturbance to Patterns in Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Communities Using Spatially Diverse Biomonitoring Data
12:00 PM
Maricela N Alaniz|Combined effects of wildfire and historical mining on stream insect communities in Idaho
12:15 PM
Jacob D McArtor|Physiological Responses of Pteronarcys californica to Simulated Wildfire Ash Leachates
11:00 AM
Lisa Kunza|Building resilience in large rivers of the northwest: Linking Science, Management, and Collaboration
11:15 AM
Brooke Long-Fox|Wetland reconnection enhances food resource availability in the Kootenai River
11:30 AM
Kurt Chowanski|Ecosystem metabolism across a large oligotrophic river network
11:45 AM
Mehzabeen Mannan|Insights from long-term zooplankton and phytoplankton monitoring in a large, regulated, oligotrophic river
12:00 PM
Patrick K Kozak|Characterizing the distribution of macrophytes on the Kootenai River using unmanned aerial vehicles
12:15 PM
Brandon Diller|Nutrient Addition to Address Low Productivity in the Kootenai River
11:00 AM
Lydia P McGregor Bravo|Rapid phosphorus uptake and storage by aquatic hyphomycete fungi
11:15 AM
Cedar Mackaness|Where do fish get their gut bacteria?
11:30 AM
Noah W Grode|Current state of ballast water management in the Laurentian Great Lakes and challenges with microbial discharge standards
11:45 AM
Marilee C Hoyle|Effects of light availability on microbe-metal interactions in wetlands
11:00 AM
Lev Becker|Elevated carbon gases in beaver ponds: spatial and temporal trends across southern New England
11:15 AM
Sandra Clinton|Natural vs. Engineered Ponds: Divergent Water‑Quality Outcomes in Urban Watersheds
11:30 AM
Miles Milbrath|Do Beaver Dam Analogs Mimic Beaver Dams?: Effects on Food Webs, Structure, Function, and Water Quality in a Restored Stream
11:45 AM
Ben Colman|Examining the roles of beavers and time in promoting recovery following stream channel restoration
12:00 PM
Camille McNeely|Effects of beaver and beaver dam analogs on post-fire recovery of stream and riparian ecosystems
12:15 PM
Alexa Whipple|Beavers & People: Scaling Effective Stream Restoration & Rebuilding Watershed Resilience after Wildfire
11:00 AM
Rachel L Malison|Comparative vulnerability of riverine benthic and aquifer stoneflies in large alluvial river floodplains
11:15 AM
Audrey Lindsteadt|Two Extremes, One Park: A first look at the aquatic insects in Yellowstone’s glaciers and hot springs.
11:30 AM
Ezekiel Peterson|Testing an AI-Assisted Approach to Freshwater Macroinvertebrate Biomass Estimation
11:45 AM
Morgan Hrivnak|Exploring the relationship between sediment size and macroinvertebrate individual size distribution in North American freshwater streams
12:00 PM
Sithara Sirimanna|When temperatures change, nutrition follows:  Seasonality of insect emergence in Australian alpine headwaters in changing climates
12:15 PM
Andrew Rasmussen|Caddisflies of Florida: advancing larval taxonomy by leveraging a species-level inventory based on faunal survey of adults
11:00 AM
Geoffrey C Poole|The space-time discontinuum: correcting FLIR-derived temperature profiles to account for diel temperature variation.
11:15 AM
Eamonn Powers|Rapid GPU-Accelerated Fish Track Detection from Split-Beam Hydroacoustics for Riverine Lake Sturgeon Monitoring
11:30 AM
Patrick K Kozak|Applying remote sensing and GIS to assess hydrologic connectivity and potential riparian habitat development at a historic bentonite mining site
11:45 AM
Clark Jackson|Wetland Methane Fluxes: Sensor Development and Environmental Drivers
12:00 PM
Spencer Rhea|Clearing Blackwaters: Saltwater Intrusion Changes the Color of Southeastern Coastal Rivers.
11:00 AM
Camryn Middlebrooks|Mercury does not stop at the shoreline: terrestrial insects accumulate mercury in High Arctic pond food webs.
11:15 AM
Cailin Sinclair|The influence of an invasive wetland plant on mercury dynamics
11:30 AM
Samantha Davies|Biogeochemical drivers of mercury cycling and speciation in temperate ponds
11:45 AM
James J. Willacker|Refining fish-dragonfly mercury relationships to inform resource managers of potential risks to local anglers
12:00 PM
Collin Eagles-Smith|Linking Patterns of Atmospheric Mercury Deposition with Bioaccumulation in Aquatic Ecosystems at a National Scale
12:15 PM
Sandra Mingarelli|A Saltier Future for Europe’s Rivers: Continental-Scale Evidence of Freshwater Salinization
11:00 AM
Matthew Dunkle|Session Introduction
11:15 AM
Scott Hotaling|Vive la Résistance: Rock Glaciers Are Buffering Alpine Streams Against Climate Change
11:30 AM
Deb Finn|Habitat variability along a harsh-mild gradient to help determine potential climate refugia for cold-adapted taxa in alpine streams
11:45 AM
Anna Shampain|Meltwater Source as a Driver of Mountain Stream Biogeochemistry in the Western United States
12:00 PM
Daniel L Preston|Cryosphere change and alpine aquatic ecosystems in a high-elevation catchment of the Southern Rocky Mountains, Colorado, USA
12:15 PM
Lusha M Tronstad|Long-term monitoring of alpine streams in the Teton Range: biotic and abiotic trajectories vary among hydrologic sources
Monday, May 182:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Conference Theatre
Special Session: The past, present, and future of freshwater invasion ecology and management: A career retrospective for David M. Lodge 2.0 · Chairs: Eric Larson, Lindsey Reisinger
Room 102 AB
Special Session: Across ecosystem linkages: quantifying aquatic-terrestrial reciprocal connections to support resilient watersheds 2.0 · Chair: Amaryllis Adey
Room 201 ABC
Special Session: Biogeochemical cycling in human-made freshwaters 2.0 · Chairs: Jacqueline Gerson, Audrey Goeckner
Room 202 ABC
Special Session: The fire’s leading edge: Exploring the paradoxical effects of fire on freshwater ecosystems to support more resilient watersheds and communities 2.0 · Chairs: Jacob McArtor, Maricela Alaniz
Room 203
Large Rivers 1.0 · Chairs: Nick Aumen, Mark Lueders
Room 205
Molecular Ecology 1.0 · Chairs: Shannon O'Leary, Augustine Sitati
Room 206 A
Special Session: Swimming together: Successful freshwater collaborations across multiple organizations to generate actionable science 1.0 · Chairs: Audrey Huff, Erin Larson
Room 206 B
Invertebrates 2.0 · Chairs: Rachel Malison, Ryan McManamay
Room 206 C
Special Session: Operationalizing remote sensing for water security and freshwater ecosystem integrity in dryland regions 1.0 · Chairs: Erik Nati-Johnson, Colin Martin
Room 207
Special Session: Contaminant Ecology 2.0 · Chairs: Cailin Sinclair, Jessica Brandt
Rooms 206 D
Special Session: The Changing Cryosphere and Its Impacts on Downstream Freshwaters 2.0 · Chairs: Matthew Dunkle, Holly Harris
2:00 PM
Christopher L Jerde|Environmental DNA metabarcoding detection dynamics from evolving reference libraries: a decade of change
2:15 PM
Matthew A Barnes|Back to the future with environmental DNA: repurposing previously collected samples to study the history of a Texas freshwater jellyfish invasion
2:30 PM
Kristy Deiner|Utilizing environmental DNA analysis for monitoring invasive species from lakes and rivers
2:45 PM
Kara Andres|Multi-marker eDNA reveals contrasting biodiversity responses to watershed land use
3:00 PM
David M Lodge|A virtuous cycle of innovations in science, policy, and markets to manage invasions
2:00 PM
Quinn Weigel|Severe storm response in Central Appalachian streams: focusing on benthic macroinvertebrate community dynamics
2:15 PM
Madeline Hannappel|How does drought alter the synthesis and aquatic-terrestrial transfer of omega-3 fatty acids?
2:30 PM
Michelle A. Evans-White|Summer stream water specific-conductivity responses to a sodium-chloride salinization gradient and mode of delivery in experimental riparian-stream mesocosms.
2:45 PM
Natalie A Clay|Salinization impacts on terrestrial and aquatic decomposition, soil respiration, and photosynthesis
3:00 PM
Connor Foley|Analysis of Aquatic Invertebrate Diversity and Body Length Along a Sodium Gradient
3:15 PM
Maggie C Herrmann|Shifting Communities: How Salinization Alters Riparian Plant Diversity, Phytochemistry, and Litterfall into Streams
2:00 PM
Checo Colon Gaud|Functional and Community Responses to Climate‑Driven Drying in Human‑Made Pond Ecosystems
2:15 PM
Virginia M. Krause|Legacy Mercury, Modern Risks: Identifying Methylmercury Sources & Biogeochemical Processes in an Impaired California Reservoir
2:30 PM
Jacqueline Gerson|Moving beyond novel ecosystems: Biogeochemical cycling in de novo aquatic ecosystems
2:45 PM
Hana Esber|Diving in headfirst: Investigating inundation dynamics and nutrient cycling at a wetland restored on agricultural land
3:00 PM
Audrey Goeckner|How surface water modification alters carbon storage and flux in a protected savanna landscape
2:00 PM
Allison Myers-Pigg|Wildfire impacts on stream organic matter chemistry depend on hillslope-stream connectivity
2:15 PM
Gregory D Clark|Post-fire suspended-sediment and phosphorus attenuation in a central Montana headwater catchment.
2:30 PM
Heili Lowman|Fire effects on nutrient stores and transport in aridland watersheds
2:45 PM
Laurel Genzoli|High severity wildfire elevated turbidity and suppressed riverine metabolism for 1.5 years following rain-on-fire triggered debris flows on the Klamath River, CA, USA
3:00 PM
Sage Fletcher|The ripples of fire: sediment, carbon, nutrients and lake metabolism responses to fire in the northern Rocky Mountains
2:00 PM
Justin Murdock|Nutrient history and plankton succession can influence large river harmful algal bloom formation.
2:15 PM
Jacie Fabela|Seasonal Variability in Phytoplankton Growth and Microzooplankton Grazing Rates in the Lower Columbia River
2:30 PM
Kristine Alford|An Evaluation of the Mechanisms Driving Dissolved Oxygen Downstream of the Klamath Dam Removal
2:45 PM
Kelsey Wilbanks|Alpha, beta, and functional diversities of benthic macroinvertebrates within three habitats of a large floodplain -river corridor
3:00 PM
Nicholas Tufillaro|The  dynamic colors of the Klamath River and what they tell about the source and transport of sediments.
2:00 PM
Bruce Cahoon|An eDNA Approach to Mussel Diet Analysis: A preference for protists
2:15 PM
Sarah Baggett|Investigating the Impact of Behavioral Ecology on eDNA Particle Size Distribution for Two Gambusia Species
2:30 PM
Pedro Brandao Dias F Pinto|Estimating Organism Abundance Using Within-Sample Haplotype Frequencies of eDNA Data
2:45 PM
Leonce Ngirinshuti|Separating the wheat from the chaff: How sensitive are biodiversity surveys and ecological assessments to the bioinformatics pipelines used in eDNA metabarcoding
2:00 PM
Lauren E Kinsman-Costello|Wading in to wetland monitoring together: How cross-sector collaboration co-creates knowledge for better water quality
2:15 PM
Raissa Mendonca|Strategies and Challenges in the Data Stewardship Practices of a Highly Collaborative Wetland Monitoring Program
2:30 PM
Sarah Fancher|TealWaters: Bridging disciplines and communities to operationalize wetland mapping and function
2:45 PM
Diane Yeh|An alliance for cleaner waters: Source tracking fecal pollution in Poverty Bay, WA
3:00 PM
Matt Trentman|Fiveteen miles: Partnerships and management of the Rattlesnake Creek watershed from wilderness to downtown Missoula, MT.
3:15 PM
Erin Larson|From Data to Decisions: Coordinating Freshwater Temperature Monitoring and Action in Alaska
2:00 PM
Mack White|Flow reductions shape invertebrate communities in dryland river systems
2:15 PM
Peter O.L. Martin|Modeling multi-species assemblages of Lestes damselflies across a hydroperiod gradient
2:30 PM
Benjamin F Schwartz|Describing the diversity of Cirolanides spp. (Isopoda) in Texas, USA.
2:45 PM
Kaitlin Abell|Agricultural Impacts on Invertebrate Diversity in the Spokane River Watershed
3:00 PM
Pedro Brandao Dias F Pinto|Assessing Morphological, Developmental, and Genetic Responses of Hydropsychid Caddisflies to Cry1Ab Exposure
3:15 PM
Justin Sturtz|Interactive Effects of Invasive Riparian Litter and Rusty Crayfish on Detrital Processing and Nutrient Dynamics
2:00 PM
Steven Pestana|Operationalizing Wetland Intrinsic Potential (WIP) as a Foundational Layer for Mapping Wetlands and Their Functions
2:15 PM
Erik Nati-Johnson|Evaluating the contribution of wetland ecosystems to carbon storage in a dryland landscape using a data fusion model
2:30 PM
JUAN CAMILO Rojas-Lucero|Continental Mapping of Mesic Ecosystem Using Machine Learning: Effects of Training Dataset Size and Spatial Autocorrelation
2:45 PM
Colin Martin|Time series dynamics of remotely sensed mesic vegetation used to model shifts in macroinvertebrate communities across the Sagebrush Biome
3:00 PM
Pooja P Preetha|Assessing Surface Water–Groundwater Connectivity Using Remote Sensing–Enhanced Recharge Modeling
2:00 PM
Margot Grimmelpont|Relating Fish Ovary Selenium and Maturation Stage: Implications for Monitoring
2:15 PM
Memphis J Hill|Metal and Nitrogen Contamination in Poudre Lake and the Potential Impacts to Sediment Microbial Communities
2:30 PM
Christopher J Kotalik|Aquatic insect drift and emergence in response to metals exposure: accounting for emigration using stream mesocosms
2:45 PM
Jennoa E Fleming|Insect Emergence and Riparian Predator Abundance in Urban Ponds Across a Land Cover and Chemical Gradient
2:00 PM
Samantha Dilworth|Long-term water quality trends in the headwaters of the Snake and Green River Basins
2:15 PM
Matthew Dunkle|Landscape Drivers of Lake Thermal Structure in Southwest Alaska’s National Parks
2:30 PM
Lauren Yancy|Thawing ground and changing streams: rusting rivers in Arctic Alaska
2:45 PM
Abagael N Pruitt|Arctic rusting streams and rivers show spatial and temporal variability in dissolved metal concentrations from acid rock drainage
3:00 PM
Taylor G Evinger|Acid Rock Drainage in a Warming Arctic: Abrupt Onset and Persistent Downstream Effects in Rivers Across Alaska’s Brooks Range
3:15 PM
Jeffrey D Muehlbauer|Stream restoration in the Last Frontier: Restoring mined streams in Alaska
Monday, May 184:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Ballroom 100 ABC
Freshwater-Marine Connections & Estuaries 1.0 · Chairs: Mack White, Ian Barnes
Conference Theatre
Invasive & Non-Native Species 1.0 · Chairs: Corey Krabbenhoft, Susan Washko
Room 102 AB
Special Session: Across ecosystem linkages: quantifying aquatic-terrestrial reciprocal connections to support resilient watersheds 3.0 · Chair: Amaryllis Adey
Room 201 ABC
Organic Matter Processing 1.0 · Chairs: Mark O. Gessner, Spencer Rhea
Room 202 ABC
Algae & Aquatic Plants 1.0 · Chairs: Paula Furey, Michael Zampini
Room 203
Special Session: State of the science of the Spokane Valley Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer and its watershed 1.0 · Chair: Meg Wolf
Room 205
Molecular Ecology 2.0 · Chairs: Chris Caudill, Erasme Uyizeye
Room 206 A
Special Session: Swimming together: Successful freshwater collaborations across multiple organizations to generate actionable science 2.0 · Chairs: Audrey Huff, Erin Larson
Room 206 B
Freshwater Mussels 1.0 · Chairs: Leslie Rieck, Heili Lowman
Room 206 C
Intermittent and Ephemeral Systems 1.0 · Chairs: Amy Burgin, Eryl Austin-Bingamon
Room 207
Special Session: Contaminant Ecology 3.0 · Chairs: Jessica Brandt, Cailin Sinclair
Rooms 206 D
Special Session: The Changing Cryosphere and Its Impacts on Downstream Freshwaters 3.0 · Chairs: Holly Harris, Matthew Dunkle
4:00 PM
Mack White|Movement strategies dictate the spatial dynamics of consumer nutrient and energy fluxes
4:15 PM
Angelika L. Kurthen|Exploring relationships between river flows and multiple trophic levels in the San Francisco Estuary (California)
4:30 PM
Jessica Turner|Spatial Drivers of Soil Organic Carbon and Carbon Sequestration Rates within estuarine marsh plains along the California Coast.
4:45 PM
Champagne Cunningham|Shell Shocked: How Toxins and Salt Stir Up Oyster Microbiomes
4:00 PM
Flavien Garcia|Detecting spreading impacts of a persistent invasive predator across a wetland landscape.
4:15 PM
Arif Jan|Functional Structure of Native Community Explains Variation in Invasibility
4:30 PM
Isaac Owens|The impacts of an invasive aquatic plant on freshwater ecosystems: A study of Ludwigia peploides in ponds
4:45 PM
David Speth|Do spongy moth mating disruption treatments alter headwater stream ecological processes?
5:00 PM
Rachel Smith|Temporal dynamics of invasive dreissenid mussels in nearshore Lake Michigan
5:15 PM
Joshua Tellier|Investigating optimal detection strategies for and ecological impacts of invasive European Frog-bit ( Hydrocharis morsus-ranae ) in Michigan inland lakes
4:00 PM
Gisella DePiazza|From Riparia to Stream and Everything in Between: How Salinization Alters Decomposition Rates in Terrestrial and Aquatic Systems
4:15 PM
Lisa M. Tabor|Chasing Salt: Utilizing Community Science to Understand How Salt Stresses Riparian-Stream Ecosystems
4:30 PM
Sally A Entrekin|Surface mining increases the contribution of chlorophyll-a to aquatic insect food webs in central Appalachia.
4:45 PM
Megan Underwood|Evaluating organic matter decomposition in headwater streams across a mining-induced salinity gradient throughout the Central Appalachian Coalfields
5:00 PM
Amaryllis Adey|Disentangling seasonal and interannual drivers of macroinvertebrate community responses to flow and specific conductance in Central Appalachian streams.
5:15 PM
Amaryllis Adey|Focused Q&A & Discussion Block
4:00 PM
Carri J. LeRoy|Plant Matter at the Finest Scales: Importance of Phylogenetic History, Hybridization, and Dioecy in Riparian Systems
4:15 PM
Anna Mothersole|Leaf litter processing rates shift in response to human-modified land cover in freshwater ecosystems
4:30 PM
Alex Shelton|Microbial organic matter decomposition along a P-gradient in tropical streams
4:45 PM
Mourine Jesire Yegon|Does shredder size matter? Interspecific vs intraspecific effects on aquatic leaf litter decomposition
5:00 PM
Vamery González Hernández|Insect decline and ecosystem function in tropical streams in Costa Rica: A long-term comparison
5:15 PM
Krista Capps|Seasonality and Land Use Influence Organic Matter Processing Rates in Tropical Watersheds
4:00 PM
Hanna Innocent|Seasonality and disturbance: three years of diatom assemblages post-Hurricane Ian
4:15 PM
Paige M Kleindl|beyond phytoplankton and phosphorus: assessing trophic state in freshwater benthic ecosystems
4:30 PM
Audrey G Longan|Distribution and Diversity of Aquatic Macrophyte Taxa in the Carmel River Watershed
4:45 PM
James Wood|Using macroinvertebrate colonization of artificial Podostemum ceratophyllum (a swiftwater macrophyte) substrates to quantify restoration impacts
5:00 PM
Megan M Cunnison|Monitoring Starry Stonewort (Nitellopsis obtusa) Invasion in Chicago’s Lake Michigan Harbors Via SCUBA Surveys and the Development of an Environmental DNA Assay
5:15 PM
Michael Wulf|Effects of temperature on Cladophora ’s microbial assemblage, photosynthesis, and nitrogen fixation in a nitrogen limited river
4:00 PM
Seth Oliver|Overview and Introduction of the Spokane Valley Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer
4:15 PM
Meg Wolf|Overview of emerging research needs on the Spokane Valley Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer
4:30 PM
John J Porcello|Three Decades of Water Purveyors Advancing the Science and Stewardship of the Sole-Source Groundwater Supply for the Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Metropolitan Region
4:45 PM
Amy Sumner|20 Years and Counting: Long-term Monitoring of the Spokane Valley - Rathdrum Prairie (SVRP) Aquifer in Washington
5:00 PM
Jenny Gray|SVRP Aquifer Protection Efforts by Panhandle Health District in Kootenai County, Idaho
5:15 PM
Jeff Langman|Differentiating Recharge Zones and Pathways in the Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer
4:00 PM
Vladislav Gulis|Nutrient enrichment alters stream fungal communities: evidence from microscopy and next-generation sequencing
4:15 PM
Tobin J Davidson|DISTANCE: How do particle size and type interact with seasonal dynamics to impact the fate of DNA in a prairie stream?
4:30 PM
Christopher Cousins|Torrent salamanders and gene flow in an experimental watershed in the Pacific Northwest, USA.
4:45 PM
Camryn A Larson|Population genetic structure and connectivity of Allocapnia rickeri
5:00 PM
Nichelle M VanTassel|RAD-seq generated single nucleotide polymorphisms resolve patterns of genetic diversity and structure of the freshwater mussel Ptychobranchus fasciolaris across its distribution
4:00 PM
Lauren Emer|Understanding collaborative care of an urban river: An application of the Stewardship Mapping and Assessment Project and Environmental Stewardship Framework
4:15 PM
Benjamin Block|Comprehensive Toolkit for Assessing, Restoring, and Protecting River-Estuarine Ecosystems
4:30 PM
Audrey Huff|Assessing Stream Habitat Conditions across Alaska to Inform Future Restoration Efforts
4:45 PM
Elizabeth Anderson|La ruta de pesca : Fishers’ knowledge provides insight to ecology, conservation, and management of migratory catfishes in the Amazon
5:00 PM
Nicholas A Sutfin|A Partnership for Ecohydrologic Modeling of Headwater Habitat and Refugia for Stream-breeding Amphibian Species in Western Washington and Oregon
4:00 PM
Alexa Hershberger|Effect of dams and dam removals on freshwater mussels: a global meta-analysis
4:15 PM
Stefanie J Farrington|Identifying ecologically relevant host fishes across the Atlantic Slope
4:30 PM
Shay S. Keretz|Synthesis of native, freshwater mussel survey protocols in North America
4:45 PM
Tyler Schartel|Patterns in freshwater mussel community reassembly and composition relative to disturbance
5:00 PM
Brittany Perrotta|Using molecular and physiological approaches to support freshwater mussel conservation decisions in the Clinton River Watershed
4:00 PM
Walter Dodds|The importance of small streams
4:15 PM
Ailish S Collins|Characterizing spatiotemporal patterns in benthic algal assemblage responses to reduced flow in a Central Texas intermittent river
4:30 PM
Stephanie Webster|The Puzzle of “Broken” Streams: Linking Barrier Assessment to Fish Community Structure in Intermittent Streams of the Intermountain West
4:45 PM
Erin VanderJeugdt|Storm hydrologic connectivity in non-perennial streams and its influence on dissolved organic carbon
5:00 PM
Lydia H Zeglin|Intraseasonal covariation in autotrophic and heterotrophic microbial function in a non-perennial polar stream
4:00 PM
Brooke Long-Fox|Occurrence and spatial variability of PFAS in surface waters across the Northern Great Plains
4:15 PM
Diana Oviedo Vargas|Temporal dynamics of biosolids-derived PFAS across the terrestrial-aquatic continuum of agroecosystems
4:30 PM
William G McDowell|Finding a Fluorinated Fingerprint? Examining spatial variation in and correlations between different PFAS compounds in New Hampshire groundwater
4:45 PM
Mehzabeen Mannan|PFAS contamination in South Dakota: Insights from a statewide soil and water survey
5:00 PM
Daniele Miranda|Eat at your own risk: PFAS in Lake Michigan prey fish
5:15 PM
Alison Zachritz|A bridge not too far: Scaling PFOS toxicokinetics from lab studies to stream food webs
4:00 PM
Ryan Bellmore|Methane-derived carbon subsidizes freshwater food webs in glacier-fed Alaska watersheds
4:15 PM
Sophia M. Gomez|Organic Matter Composition and Turnover in Ephemerally Wetted Soils and Hyporheic Sediments of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
4:30 PM
David Herbst|Invertebrate community dynamics along a rock glacier outflow in the alpine zone of the Sierra Nevada (California) in years of high and low snowpack
4:45 PM
Katrina Heide|Between a rock and a cold place: Effects of rapid environmental warming on alpine stream communities
5:00 PM
Lindsey C McCulloch|It’s grow time! Seasonal and annual variability in juvenile salmonid growth within a glacierized watershed
5:15 PM
Matthew Dunkle|Focused Q&A and Discussion Block
Tuesday, May 1910:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Conference Theatre
Special Session: Sym-Poff-ium: A celebration of and reflection on the impact of N. LeRoy Poff’s career in riverine ecology science and practice 1.0 · Chairs: W. Chris Funk, Julian Olden
Room 102 AB
Land-Water Connections 1.0 · Chairs: Jeff Wesner, Madeline Hannappel
Room 201 ABC
Biogeochemistry 1.0 · Chairs: Joanna Blaszczak, Jason Aguirre
Room 202 ABC
Special Session: Biogeochemical Perspectives on Resilience in Agriculturally Influenced Freshwater Systems 1.0 · Chairs: Kathleen Cutting, Karessa De La Paz
Room 203
Special Session: Assessment and management of wastewater in urban and suburban streams 1.0 · Chairs: Abel Porras, Christina Bryant
Room 205
Special Session: Zoogeochemistry in freshwaters: Integrating animal conservation with biogeochemistry 1.0 · Chairs: Jonathan Lopez, Taylor Michael
Room 206 A
Special Session & Workshop: Indigenous leadership and collaborative partnerships advancing freshwater science 1.0 · Chairs: Colden Baxter, Laurel Genzoli
Room 206 B
Bioassessment 1.0 · Chairs: Justin Pomeranz, Dave Arscott
Room 206 C
Special Session: Non-perennial freshwater ecosystems: Resilience in a drying world 1.0 · Chairs: Shannon Speir, Erin Seybold
Room 207
Special Session: Contaminant Ecology 4.0 · Chairs: Cailin Sinclair, Jessica Brandt
Rooms 206 D
Communities & Populations 1.0 · Chairs: Phillip Bumpers, Vamery González Hernández
10:30 AM
David A Lytle|River frequencies for river health
11:00 AM
Jonathan D Tonkin|Anticipating ecological responses to extreme climatic events in rivers
11:15 AM
Margaret Palmer|From fundamental ecology, to restoration experimentation, and on onward to policy-relevant restoration.
11:30 AM
Julian D Olden|Trait-based ecology and LeRoy’s quest for generality over contingency
11:45 AM
Deb Finn|LeRoy’s mentorship ethos: Read widely, write persuasively, go to NABS
10:30 AM
Mikaela Sako|From Land to Lake: A Continuous Flow-Path Framework for Land-Use Impacts on Water Quality
10:45 AM
Ariel Podlogar|Investigating Seasonal Changes in Microplastic Pollution in the Davidson River, NC
11:00 AM
Brandy N Everett|Temporal and spatial changes in nutrient concentrations in the War Eagle Creek Watershed, Arkansas
11:15 AM
Claire W Asmussen|Growing climate is more important than induced defenses for predicting chemistry and consumption of riparian tree leaves
11:30 AM
Jeffrey Falke|Landscape Watershed Condition and Drought Vulnerability Assessment in the Western U.S.
10:30 AM
Emily Bernhardt|Potential Fate, Transport, and Impact of Enhanced Rock Weathering Products in Freshwater Ecosystems
10:45 AM
Mary Munt|Seasonality modulates urban influences on dissolved organic carbon bioavailability
11:00 AM
Yinuo Yang|Tide-driven soil respiration: Impacts of Tidally-Induced Water Table Fluctuations on Soil Respiration in Riparian Zones
11:15 AM
Jaden Nguyen|Examining influences of submerged macrophytes on fluvial CH 4 and CO 2 drivers and concentrations.
11:30 AM
Nathan O Earl|Enhanced greenhouse gas emissions with floating and emergent plants in wetlands
11:45 AM
Andrew S Mehring|Facilitation of aquatic bryophytes by baldcypress extends oxic periods and offsets carbon emissions in blackwater swamps
10:30 AM
Lindsey M. Rasnake|Do agricultural conservation practices promote biogeochemical resilience in a tile-drained and intensively fertilized landscape?
10:45 AM
Mahima Quazi|Effects of biochar-modified poultry litter on water quality
11:00 AM
Caroline Anscombe|Age of the two-stage: time since floodplain restoration mediates the hydrologic signature of storms in an agricultural watershed
11:15 AM
Kathleen Cutting|Long-term nutrient impacts of the afforestation of agricultural lands reveal a lag in dissolved phosphorus reduction
11:30 AM
Bartosz Grudzinski|Impacts of a forested state park and weather on stream and reservoir nutrient concentrations in a Midwestern agricultural watershed
11:45 AM
Jason Taylor|Migratory Shorebird Stopover Habitat Management Enhances Wetland Biogeochemical Function in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain Agroecosystem
10:30 AM
Kaela Champlin|Wastewater Regulatory Challenges and Strategies in Austin, Texas
10:45 AM
Kyle Leathers|Nutrient makeover: Effects of a wastewater treatment plant upgrade on a delta ecosystem
11:00 AM
Angel Santiago|Coupled watershed and stream modeling to evaluate wastewater management scenarios in an urban stream
11:15 AM
Hemant Sagar|Effective treatment of wastewater for microbial removal
11:30 AM
Harshita Mahaseth|Modeling Surface and Subsurface Transport of Land-Applied Treated Wastewater in Urban Watersheds
11:45 AM
David Calvo-Mora|Wet wipes as potential carriers of pathogens and antibiotic resistance genes in urban streams
10:30 AM
Jonathan W Lopez|Embracing the zoogeochemical framework in freshwaters to understand and predict the ecosystem-level consequences of conservation (Joint talk with Taylor Michael)
10:45 AM
Taylor C Michael|Embracing the zoogeochemical framework in freshwaters to understand and predict the ecosystem-level consequences of conservation (Joint Talk with Jonathan Lopez)
11:00 AM
Irene Sanchez|A 44-year study of amphibian-mediated zoogeochemical connectivity in Carolina bays
11:15 AM
Lauren M Morris|From strategy to structure: decomposition dynamics of unionid mussel shells
11:30 AM
Madison P. Kuczek|Mussel-mediated nutrient fluxes in a coastal plains river
11:45 AM
Garrett Hopper|Environmental conditions induce growth rate and stoichiometric trait plasticity in captivity reared freshwater mussels
10:30 AM
Facilitators (Baxter & Genzoli)|Introduction to session/workshop
(no online abstract)
10:35 AM
Shawna Campbell-Daniels & Dale Chess, Coeur d'alene Tribe Natural Resources Dept.|Joint Presentation
(no online abstract)
10:55 AM
Lytle Denny (Shoshone-Bannock Tribes Natural Resources Dept.) & Kitty Griswold (Idaho State U.)|Joint Presentation
(no online abstract)
11:15 AM
John Oberholzer Dent, Karuk Tribe (present-day CA) Natural Resources Dept.|Presentation
(no online abstract)
11:30 AM
Joni Tobacco, Oglala Sioux Tribe, graduate student, Salish-Kootenai College|Lightning Presentation
(no online abstract)
11:34 AM
Julia Alcalá, descendent, San Carlos Apache People (present day AZ) and Yoeme People from Sonora Mexico, graduate student, Idaho State U.|Lightning Presentation
(no online abstract)
11:38 AM
Brutis SiJohn, Coeur d'alene Tribe undergraduate student researcher/intern|Lightning Presentation
(no online abstract)
11:42 AM
Serenity Martinez, Coeur d'alene Tribe undergraduate student researcher/intern|Lightning Presentation
(no online abstract)
11:46 AM
all presenters + plenary speakers Caj Matheson, Laura Laumatia, Desiree Tullos|Panel Discussion
(no online abstract)
10:30 AM
Zacchaeus G. Compson|Catching what we miss: what eDNA metabarcoding adds to endangered shiner monitoring in the Brazos River watershed
10:45 AM
Garrison S Ferone|Toward Regional Thermal Tolerance Indices for the Pacific Northwest: Evaluating the Weighted Averaging Optimum Framework for Benthic Macroinvertebrates using State-wide Biomonitoring Datasets.
11:00 AM
Jacob Lott|Targeting biodiversity and standardization with a modified aquatic macroinvertebrate sampling method
11:15 AM
Bijoy Kumar Ghosh|STUDIES ON THE MAJOR CHARACTERISTICS OF THE KARATOA RIVER AT SHAHJADPUR AND ITS FISHERIES
10:30 AM
Rachel Stubbington|Naturalness shapes dry-phase refuges and invertebrate community recovery in headwater streams
10:45 AM
Tiffany Garcia|Spatial and temporal variation in occupancy of stream-associated amphibians.
11:00 AM
Rebecca Best|Macroinvertebrate diversity in climate-stressed ponds: when will communities recover from drying?
11:15 AM
Audrey Lindsteadt|High Sodium Lifestyle: The physiology and habitat preferences of a rare diving beetle endemic to an extreme environment.
11:30 AM
Chloe Faehndrich|Beaver restoration as a nature-based solution for sustaining perennial streamflow during drought in Sierra Nevada headwater streams
11:45 AM
Daren M Carlisle|Integrated hydrological and biological monitoring reveal ecological patterns in intermittent streams
10:30 AM
Louise Stevenson|Connecting in-stream toxicity testing with community-level responses in an impacted stream
10:45 AM
Michael Strickland|Ecosystem Processes in the Age of Antibiotics
11:00 AM
Travis S Schmidt|Cobalt as an Emerging Contaminant: Ecosystem-Scale Responses to Metal Mixtures in Freshwater Mesocosms
11:15 AM
David Walters|Contaminant spiraling as a unifying conceptual model for predicting fate and effects of contaminants on aquatic-terrestrial meta-ecosystems
11:30 AM
Madison J Foster|Evolving metal-related risks and sources in an ecosystem impacted by a century of mining
10:30 AM
Kurt E Anderson|Modeling changes in temporal beta diversity across seasonal and non-seasonal temperature regimes.
10:45 AM
Reece Bollinger|Assessing Bergamann's rulein freshwater macroinvertebrates using NEON data
11:00 AM
Rocío J. Guzmán Ojeda|Changes in macroinvertebrate communities in national parks of the southwestern United States across a ten-year period: patterns and challenges
11:15 AM
Sadie Roth|Aquatic breeding in a dry land: determining drivers of amphibian water site use and reproductive success in the Sonoran Desert
11:30 AM
Courtney Hendrickson|Unpredictable waters: lentic community responses to experimental hydroperiod variability
11:45 AM
Adrian Ortiz-Velez|Predicting biodiversity patterns and the importance of connectivity, stochasticity, and environmental variation in river ecosystems
Tuesday, May 191:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Conference Theatre
Special Session: Sym-Poff-ium: A celebration of and reflection on the impact of N. LeRoy Poff’s career in riverine ecology science and practice 2.0 · Chairs: Deb Finn, W. Chris Funk
Room 102 AB
Land-Water Connections 2.0 · Chairs: Andrew A. Ali, Stanley Liphadzi
Room 201 ABC
Biogeochemistry 2.0 · Chairs: Lauren E Kinsman-Costello, Claire Griffin
Room 202 ABC
Special Session: Biogeochemical Perspectives on Resilience in Agriculturally Influenced Freshwater Systems 2.0 · Chairs: Nellie Little, Mahima Quazi
Room 203
Special Session: Practical Tools for Urban Waterway Management 1.0 · Chairs: Brian Murphy, Mateo Scoggins
Room 205
Special Session: Zoogeochemistry in freshwaters: Integrating animal conservation with biogeochemistry 2.0 · Chairs: Taylor Michael, Jonathan Lopez
Room 206 A
Special Session & Workshop: Indigenous leadership and collaborative partnerships advancing freshwater science 2.0 · Chairs: Laurel Genzoli, Colden Baxter
Room 206 B
Bioassessment 2.0 · Chairs: Anna Hamilton, Katelyn Lawson
Room 206 C
Special Session: Non-perennial freshwater ecosystems: Resilience in a drying world 2.0 · Chairs: Rachel Stubbington, Erin Seybold
Room 207
Plastics 1.0 · Chairs: Mary Engels, Matt Trentman
Rooms 206 D
Communities & Populations 2.0 · Chairs: Brian Helms, James Junker
1:30 PM
David Merritt|‘River, keep on rolling. Carry my soul to the sea.’
1:45 PM
Jeremy Monroe|From streamlines to storylines: A Poff Lab-er's journey from science to freshwater filmmaking
2:00 PM
David Allan|ENVIRONMENTAL FLOWS AND THE LAW
2:15 PM
Kris Taniguchi-Quan|LeRoy Poff’s Role in Defining the Form, Function, and Future of Flow Regimes
2:30 PM
N LeRoy Poff|Looking back and looking forward: river conservation in a human-dominated world
1:30 PM
Pedro Brandao Dias F Pinto|Vertebrate Biodiversity via eDNA at the air-water interface
1:45 PM
Francis J Burdon|Aquatic-terrestrial linkages and biodiversity spillover in forest streams
2:00 PM
Elizabeth M Parkinson|Dynamic variation in the impact of Artificial Light at Night (ALAN) on aquatic-terrestrial insect fluxes
2:15 PM
Anna Reside|Wood, Water, and Wildlife: Avalanche-Delivered Wood Accumulations Support Elevated Fish Abundance and Riparian Bird Species Richness
2:30 PM
Marta Ulaski|Stressor-response relationships linking human activities to Pacific salmon in freshwater ecosystems
1:30 PM
Ashley M Helton|Delivery of carbon gases by preferential groundwater discharge across a river network
1:45 PM
Natalia Vargas López|Spatio-temporal changes in the physicochemical characteristics of Lake Atitlán Basin
2:00 PM
Chuanhui Gu|Modeling Nitrate Attenuation in Tidal Riparian Zones Using a 1D Boussinesq-Based Monte Carlo Framework
2:15 PM
John Buster|Sediment conditions may support benthic cyanobacteria bloom formation in an oligotrophic river reach
2:30 PM
Joseph Baldus|Storm-driven nitrate loading varies with land use along a headwater stream continuum
1:30 PM
Amanda K Suchy|Tradeoffs between nutrient retention and greenhouse gas emissions in managed agricultural wetlands
1:45 PM
Nellie I Little|Nitrous oxide production and emissions in tailwater recovery systems in Eastern Arkansas over a year (2025).
2:00 PM
Auldyn L. Faulk|Nitrous oxide emissions from tailwater recovery systems
2:15 PM
Samuel AT Dias|Rainfall and temporal controls on inorganic nutrients in a salinization mesocosm experiment
1:30 PM
Brian Murphy|Urban stream reflections: What can we learn from long-term waterway management and research?
1:45 PM
Raphael D Mazor|Developing an assessment framework for nature-based recreation, an overlooked ecosystem service in urban settings that depends on ecological health
2:00 PM
Kate Macneale|Cool tools for warming streams: A new thermal stressor index helps managers in King County, WA interpret trends in macroinvertebrate communities
2:15 PM
Malia Scott|A framework for assessing how urban stormwater systems shape water quality in streams in King County, Washington
2:30 PM
Mateo Scoggins|The Puget Sound Stream Benthos database: A powerful regional tool and local application in Bellingham, Washington.
1:30 PM
Rowan Scott|Stronger together? Exploring synergistic potential in mussel-macroinvertebrate nutrient dynamics
1:45 PM
Nguyen Tien Anh Quach|Direct emissions and bioturbation from the invasive Asian clams ( Corbicula spp.) drive CO 2 , CH 4 , and N 2 O cycling in streams
2:00 PM
Amina Mohamed|Scaling up: How fish ontogeny and evolution shape ecosystem nutrient flux
2:15 PM
Frank C Akamagwuna|Whole-stream isotope additions reveal light and predator controls on nitrogen fluxes in Tropical stream food webs
2:30 PM
Annie Blalock|Spatiotemporal trends in nutrients in two biodiverse rivers
1:30 PM
Georgia Hart-Fredeluces (Asst Prof, Idaho State U.), Rebecca Croy (Potawatomi Nation & graduate student, Idaho State U.) and Julia Alcalá (see above)|Introduction to "the 6 Rs"
(no online abstract)
1:45 PM
(breakout activities)|Workshop activities, including small group breakout sessions
(no online abstract)
2:45 PM
(panel discussion)|Panel-led large group discussion
(no online abstract)
1:30 PM
Daniel Pickard|The assessment of riverine wetland conditions, macroinvertebrate assemblages, and physical habitat conditions of streams on Santa Rosa Island, Channel Islands National Park.
1:45 PM
Sergio A. Sabat-Bonilla|Stream macroinvertebrate functional organization and biological integrity across headwaters in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
2:00 PM
Sarah Spaulding|Diatoms.org: training, transforming, transcending
2:15 PM
Brent Murry|Community body-size distributions inform ecological integrity in aquatic systems
2:30 PM
Justin Pomeranz|Skewed Power Laws: Biased Data Bends λ and How to Bend it Back
1:30 PM
Christopher F Frazier|Insect colonization alters resistant taxa population dynamics but not community composition in ephemeral wetland mesocosms
1:45 PM
Allison Sutcliffe|Evaluating the effects of warming on the resistance and resilience of stream communities to drought
2:00 PM
Jered Davenport|Food Webs in Flow: Spatiotemporal Variation in Diversity and Food Web Structure in an Intermittent River
2:15 PM
Hayden Hays|Drying out diversity: functional, but not taxonomic, shifts in aquatic insects under ephemeral conditions
2:30 PM
Meryl C Mims|Parallel patterns or divergent responses? Investigating species-genetic diversity correlations among macroinvertebrates in streams across the southern United States
1:30 PM
Timothy J Hoellein|Plastic pre-production pellets, “nurdles”, in rivers: Sampling methods, distribution, and implications for policy
1:45 PM
Dana C Garcia|Trash Talk: River flow dynamics and bridges impact anthropogenic litter patterns
2:00 PM
Enahoro Kennedy Owowenu|Hydraulic controls on microplastic transport and deposition across riverine flow habitats
2:15 PM
Olivia Schaul|Distribution and point-source contributions of pre-production plastic pellets in an urban river
2:30 PM
Benjamin E Jackson|Macroinvertebrates and microplastics: understudied ecological communities in Appalachian freshwater springs
2:45 PM
Eugenia Martí|Influence of land use and hydrology on plastic pollution in the riparian zone of a Mediterranean river
1:30 PM
Alonso Ramirez|Aquatic insect declines in protected tropical rainforest streams, Costa Rica
1:45 PM
Masaru Sakai|Spring-fed tributaries function as seasonal refuges for juvenile masu salmon
2:00 PM
Caitlin Silberberg|Trialling Whakaweku for Invertebrate Sampling in Tasmanian Streams
2:15 PM
Benjamin Zdasiuk|Can thermal performance curves predict fish distribution across a thermally diverse watershed?
2:30 PM
Phillip Bumpers|Quantifying the effects of interannual variation in flow and temperature on the abundance of fishes in two biodiverse southern Appalachian rivers
Wednesday, May 2010:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Conference Theatre
Special Session: Restoring Freshwater Ecosystems to Build Resilient Watersheds and Communities: Insights from Europe and North America 1.0 · Chairs: Sebastian Birk, Chris Frissell
Room 102 AB
Hydrology, Geomorphology, & Ecohydrology 1.0 · Chairs: Robert Payn, Hayley Oakland
Room 201 ABC
Ecosystem Metabolism 1.0 · Chairs: Jonathan Behrens, Steve Thomas
Room 202 ABC
Special Session: Advances in freshwater biogeochemistry using open data across networks of sites 1.0 · Chairs: Wilfred Wollheim, Ashif Hasan Abir
Room 203
Urban Systems 1.0 · Chair: Timothy Hoellein
Room 205
Special Session: Beavers and Beyond: Patterns and Processes Driven by Ecosystem Engineers 1.0 · Chairs: Abigail Hullihen, Emily Arsenault
Room 206 A
Special Session: The other half of the river: elevating non-academic contributions to freshwater science 1.0 · Chairs: Christina Linkem, Benjamin Block
Room 206 B
Biodiversity 1.0 · Chairs: Christopher Swan, Christian Schuerings
Room 206 C
Special Session: Non-perennial freshwater ecosystems: Resilience in a drying world 3.0 · Chairs: Shannon Speir, Rachel Stubbington
Room 207
Landuse & Non-Point Source Impacts 1.0 · Chairs: Jonathan Juarez, Natalia Vargas López
Rooms 206 D
Food Webs 1.0 · Chairs: Therese Frauendorf, Lusha Tronstad
10:30 AM
Sebastian Birk|From Projects to Resilient Watersheds: Core Outcome Themes from the EU MERLIN Project
10:45 AM
Yaron Hershkovitz|Implementing freshwater restoration under real-world constraints: European lessons for building resilient watersheds
11:00 AM
Chris Frissell|Multiple stressors and biomagnifying contaminants jeopardize restoration of mining and industrially-impacted ecosystems: the Upper Clark Fork River case.
11:15 AM
Alexander Juan|Evaluating the Trojan Y chromosome strategy for the removal of invasive Sacramento Pikeminnow from the Eel River, California
11:30 AM
Sylvia R Gholson|Harnessing airborne thermal infrared survey data of stream temperature to inform restoration across the Willamette River basin, Oregon from 1999 to 2024.
11:45 AM
Noelle Patterson|The Trees Speak: Examining the Health of a Managed River through Riparian Growth
10:30 AM
Catherine M. McClure|Biogeomorphic feedbacks along the Middle Green River, Utah: Implications of flow management on vegetation encroachment and channel narrowing
10:45 AM
Arya Mohanan|Longitudinal patterns of dissolved organic matter following floodplain restoration in a Northwestern forested river system
11:00 AM
Abhiram Pamula|Do Geophysical Habitat Types and Their Network-Scale Diversity Predict Fish Species Richness Across Freshwater Ecoregions?
11:15 AM
Kelley A Sinning|Interannual flow variability and its effects on isotopic niche overlap in a regulated, high-elevation river
10:30 AM
María M Castillo|Ecosystem metabolism of tropical rivers: exploring river ecology and people perceptions
10:45 AM
Robert S. Brown|How are changes in stream water N 2 :Ar and CH 4 :Ar saturation ratios linked to estimates of ecosystem metabolism?
11:00 AM
Cora M Steinbach|Green ribbon in a blue-ribbon fishery: exploring synchrony between algal biomass and river metabolism
11:15 AM
Basile BC Cousin|When floodplain channels desynchronize: consequences of lateral connectivity dynamics on ecosystem metabolism
11:30 AM
Etienne Fluet-Chouinard|Characterizing variable inundation in non-perennial streams with a terrestrial model and commercial satellite imagery
11:45 AM
Michael C Beall|Quantifying stream metabolic stability to storm disturbance using integrated resistance and resilience metrics
10:30 AM
Yuseung Shin|Temporal dynamics of CO 2 and CH 4 concentrations and fluxes at 27 National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) stream and river sites
10:45 AM
Ashif Hasan Abir|Dissolved inorganic carbon inputs to streams are shaped by soil respiration, riparian groundwater respiration, and subsurface weathering
11:00 AM
Alex Collins|High-frequency sensor evidence for widespread, condition-dependent photodegradation and recharging of aromatic DOM
11:15 AM
James R Junker|Integrating biodiversity and allometric theory to explain macroecological patterns of community biomass in streams
10:30 AM
Ria Ghosh|Assessing Spatial and Temporal Variation in the Size Spectra of Benthic Macroinvertebrates in the Urban Santa Ana River
10:45 AM
Cameron S Lockett|The Urbanization Affect: How Biodiversity is Impacted Along an Urbanization Gradient
11:00 AM
Gianna Parrish|Influence of trash substrate on biofilm growth and metabolic activity in urban streams
11:15 AM
Andrew N Chu|A hybrid approach to rating curve development: refining hydraulic models with field data
11:30 AM
Kristina Hopkins|Beyond the daily average: Why high temporal resolution streamflow data matters in urban watersheds
10:30 AM
Abigail Hullihen|Quantifying Basal Resources of Aquatic Insect Assemblages in Beaver-Engineered Streams Using Two Stable Isotope Methods
10:45 AM
Kendal Massey|Determining periods of beaver impoundment using floodplain softwood stress
11:00 AM
Susan Washko|Beaver augmentation of BDA structures increases wetland characteristics
11:15 AM
Matt Webster|Using remotely sensed data to quantify the influence of beaver dams on surface water in small prairie streams.
11:30 AM
Lydia J L Bushey|Does size matter? Quantifying crayfish ecosystem engineering behavior across body and sediment sizes under global change
11:45 AM
Anna C French|Moving mud: Ecosystem engineering by an invasive crayfish alters stream bank stability and water condition regardless of disease expression
10:30 AM
Christina Linkem|Environmental consulting and the adventures of a fish biologist
10:45 AM
Abel Porras|Freshwater Science with the City of Austin
11:00 AM
Benjamin Block|It’s a Consultant’s Life for Me: From Data to Decisions in Aquatic Ecosystem Management
11:15 AM
Will Bouchard|Protecting aquatic habitats in Minnesota: Science, standards, and stakeholders
11:30 AM
Ariana Dionisio|The forgotten utility: Managing stormwater in the built environment
11:45 AM
Peter S Levi|Together, we find a way: Conserving freshwater resilience at The Nature Conservancy
10:30 AM
Amy R Chance|Ecological Structure and Function of River Confluences
10:45 AM
Lenin D Chari|Afromontane damselflies as indicators of freshwater ecosystem change
11:00 AM
Isaac J Schuman|Spatial and temporal variation in the composition of Grand Canyon parasite communities, surveyed through 18s metabarcoding.
11:15 AM
Scott M Starr|Biodiversity of Adult Odonata Communities of South Central Virginia
11:30 AM
YI YU|Seasonal and spatial patterns of fish community composition in Tonle Sap Lake revealed by environmental DNA
10:30 AM
David Roberts|The Impact of Non-perennial Flow Regimes and Urban Land Use on Headwater Stream Microbial Community Composition and Extracellular Enzyme Activities.
10:45 AM
Claire R Utzman|Flow regime shifts alter microbial extracellular enzyme production in non-perennial river systems
11:00 AM
Sarah M Flynn|Drying history, not connectivity, controls nitrogen processing in nonperennial streams
11:15 AM
Annabel R Schreiber|Stream warming drives biofilm metabolism recovery following drought
11:30 AM
Jacqueline E Todd|Warming alters biofilm nutrient cycling recovery after drought
11:45 AM
Joshua D Tivin|Seasonal and hydrologic variation influences habitat and functional structure of stream fish assemblages
10:30 AM
Alan Steinman|Salinization of lakes in west Michigan: how problematic is it?
10:45 AM
Haley Vaglienti|Evaluating benthic macroinvertebrate communities in streamside management zones in private, working forests.
11:00 AM
Stanley M.S Liphadzi|Assessing the Impact of Anthropogenically Modified Land Uses on Wetland Health
11:15 AM
Brice Crum|Do quantitative macroinvertebrate samples from riffles and depositional habitats provide accurate estimates of stream condition across a gradient of agricultural land cover?
11:30 AM
Jennifer L Courtwright|CONDITION OF STREAMS ACROSS BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT LANDS: ASSOCIATED STRESSORS AND TRENDS
11:45 AM
Rich Sheibley|Transport of 6ppd-quinone in water and sediment from small streams in the Puget Sound lowlands during fall storms
10:30 AM
Amanda G DelVecchia|Cryptic chemoautotrophic and methanotrophic processes complicate the use of carbon stable isotopes in rivers
10:45 AM
Robert Fournier|Time-varying drivers of phenological change in an estuarine food web
11:00 AM
Matthew S. Foli|Variation in basal resource isotope values and their contributions to a keystone wetland piscivore
11:15 AM
Nate M Heili|Towards understanding the combined effects of warming and drought on stream food web stability
11:30 AM
Jane Marks|Discovering in reverse: using isotopes and omics to reveal ecological interactions in microbiomes in stream ecosystems.
Wednesday, May 202:00 PM – 3:45 PM
Conference Theatre
Special Session: Restoring Freshwater Ecosystems to Build Resilient Watersheds and Communities: Insights from Europe and North America 2.0 · Chairs: Sebastian Birk, Chris Frissell
Room 102 AB
Hyporheic Processes 1.0 · Chairs: Chuanhui Gu, Benjamin Hutchins
Room 201 ABC
Ecosystem Metabolism 2.0 · Chairs: Eugenia Martí, Katherine Pérez Rivera
Room 202 ABC
Special Session: Advances in freshwater biogeochemistry using open data across networks of sites 2.0 · Chairs: Erin Hotchkiss, Ashif Hasan Abir
Room 203
Special Session: The ecology and diversity of our unprotected waters 1.0 · Chair: Susan Colvin
Room 205
Special Session: Beavers and Beyond: Patterns and Processes Driven by Ecosystem Engineers 2.0 · Chairs: Emily Arsenault, Abigail Hullihen
Room 206 A
Special Session: The other half of the river: elevating non-academic contributions to freshwater science 2.0 · Chairs: Benjamin Block, Christina Linkem
Room 206 B
Conservation 1.0 · Chairs: Karen Gaines, Brice Crum
Room 206 B
Special Session: Mining and Stream: Best practices and impacts on stream food webs and water quality 1.0 · Chair: Sherri Johnson
Room 206 C
Special Session: Non-perennial freshwater ecosystems: Resilience in a drying world 4.0 · Chairs: Erin Seybold, Rachel Stubbington
Room 207
Eutrophication & Harmful Algae 1.0 · Chairs: Ria Ghosh, Hector Esparra-Escalera
Rooms 206 D
Food Webs 2.0 · Chairs: Amanda DelVecchia, Sally Entrekin
2:00 PM
Francine Mejia|Understanding thermal mixing dynamics at tributary confluences in a large managed river to enhance cold-water refuges.
2:15 PM
Kaitlyn Warner|An evaluation of localized habitat manipulation effects on native and nonnative trout in springbrooks of the Snake River-floodplain, Idaho, USA
2:30 PM
Breanna Rivera Waterman|Identifying tradeoffs between agro-economics and water resources to guide future management decisions under a drier climate
2:45 PM
Patrick T Higgins|Process-Based Ecological Restoration Involving the Local Community of the 65 Square Mile Tenmile Creek Watershed in Mendocino County, Northern California, USA
3:00 PM
Sebastian Birk|Focused Q&A and Discussion Block
2:00 PM
Alba Argerich|Drivers of hyporheic nitrogen concentrations across wetting, flowing, and drying periods in an intermittent stream
2:15 PM
Andrea Garcia Jimenez|Groundwater-surface water exchange influences on the longitudinal spatial distribution of toxigenic cyanobacterial proliferations in the South Fork Eel River, California, USA
2:30 PM
Eryl Austin-Bingamon|Hyporheic Microbial Communities at Two Central Texas Rivers
2:45 PM
Erika E Frandsen|Relationships between benthic and hyporheic insect communities across environmental gradients in Texas rivers
3:00 PM
Ben Hutchins|Longitudinal patterns in hyporheic stygobiont distribution in a karst spring-fed river
2:00 PM
Jonathan Behrens|Pinpointing drivers of covariance, persistence, and synchrony in stream metabolism across a heterogeneous watershed
2:15 PM
Avni Malhotra|Harnessing artificial intelligence to automate environmental predictions
2:30 PM
Hayley Oakland|Explicit representation of hyporheic hydrology in whole-ecosystem metabolism models
2:45 PM
McKenzie E Goodwyn|Duckweed ( Lemna and Wolffia spp.) coverage does not alter organic matter decomposition rates in small ponds
3:00 PM
Aaron C Pelly|Flow-driven plant removal can reduce river ecosystem metabolism
3:15 PM
Peter Regier|A Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning Approach for Inferring Metabolism Regimes in Streams and Rivers
2:00 PM
Zacharie Loveless|Using the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) aquatic sites to explore the drivers of stream particulate quantity and quality across the United States and Puerto Rico
2:15 PM
David Costello|Continental-scale monitoring to identify high-nutrient, low-chlorophyll (HNLC) regions in streams and rivers
2:30 PM
Nathan Tomczyk|Environmental filtering plays a larger role than resource stoichiometry in macroinvertebrate community stoichiometry across North America.
2:45 PM
Kathleen J Cutting|Arkansas’s calm before the storm: Sub-seasonal weather whiplash intensifies following a multi-decadal decline
3:00 PM
Kathi Jo Jankowski|Synthesis of global river silicon data shows long-term change, stoichiometry, and seasonality are linked to land cover/land use
2:00 PM
Susan Colvin|Mind the gap: Where Clean Water Act rulemaking fails to meet the science and legislative intent in defining waters of the United States and the biodiversity left unguarded.
2:15 PM
Madeline N Zickgraf|Home range size and movement of giant salamanders, Amphiuma means and Siren lacertina , in seasonally inundated, isolated wetlands
2:30 PM
Darren J Shoemaker|Occupancy drivers of Midwestern headwater stream fishes in a northeastern Indiana watershed
2:45 PM
Jared A Ross|Headwaters are fish habitat:  Fish diversity and protection status of headwater streams in the United States
2:00 PM
Niall Clancy|Neutral theory and the beaver: facilitation of fish communities by ecosystem engineering.
2:15 PM
Tucker D Hoffman|Macroinvertebrate and habitat responses to low-tech process-based stream restoration in northeastern Oregon
2:30 PM
Clifford Adamchak|Mercury Dynamics in Beaver-Dominated Mountain Streams
2:45 PM
Emily R Arsenault|Influence of beaver engineering on fatty acid content and contaminant load of predatory stream insects
2:00 PM
Helaina Gomez|From Streams to Landscapes: how the Tennessee Aquarium is advancing watershed conservation
2:15 PM
Ayron M Strauch|Instream flow standards support amphidromous macrofauna in tropical island freshwater communities
2:30 PM
Charles Wahl|Mercury biomagnification across food webs with varying non-native fish presence: Implications for native fish conservation in the upper Colorado River Basin
2:45 PM
Stephanie M. Parker|Aquatic macroinvertebrates at the continental scale: Using NEON data to detect community patterns
3:00 PM
Christina Linkem|Focused Q&A and Panel Discussion
2:00 PM
Allison Roy|Prioritizing watersheds to support aquatic biodiversity under changing climates
2:15 PM
Matthew Troia|Spatial and seasonal variation in occupancy of native and invasive fishes in an aridland spring ecosystem
2:30 PM
Eric Walther|Assessing patterns of freshwater fish extirpations in the southeastern United States
2:45 PM
Julia Glandorff|The effects of in-stream habitat complexity on translocated bluebreast, Tippecanoe, and variegate darter populations
3:00 PM
Charles M Shobe|Mining effects on stream physical properties from minutes to millennia
3:15 PM
Erin M Murray|Mining, selenium, and the conundrum of fish-tissue based criteria in the Kootenai River, Idaho and Montana
3:30 PM
Thomas House|Assessing long-term impacts of mining in a subarctic stream
2:00 PM
Karessa G De La Paz|Controls on nutrient export moving downstream an intermittent stream network
2:15 PM
Lien Tran|Spatial and Temporal Variability of Nitrogen Cycling in a Non-Perennial Stream
2:30 PM
Erin C Seybold|Hydrologic transitions drive divergent controls on dissolved oxygen behavior in non-perennial grassland streams
2:45 PM
Vanessa Garayburu-Caruso|Inundation history controls sediment oxygen consumption more strongly than pyrogenic organic matter additions in parafluvial systems
3:00 PM
Yunxiang Chen|Non-perennial flow enhances impacts of sediment texture on hydro-biogeochemical parameterization
3:15 PM
James Stegen|Towards transparent, robust use of LLMs in writing peer reviewed publications
2:00 PM
Joanna R Blaszczak|What is an algal bloom in a river? Diverse algal bloom types necessitate diverse research and management needs in flowing waters
2:15 PM
Ali Shakoor|Using Hydroacoustics to Analyze Microcystis and Fish Distribution During Harmful Algal Blooms in Lake Erie
2:30 PM
Jennifer Wisecaver|Extreme genome diversity, hybridization, and cryptic speciation in the toxic alga Prymnesium parvum
2:45 PM
Nathan Watervoort|Hybridization in the Toxic Bloom-Forming Microalga Prymnesium parvum
3:00 PM
Trajan EL Bitner|Effects of repeated alum treatments on phytoplankton and zooplankton community structures in a managed urban lake.
3:15 PM
Jordan Zabrecky|Spatiotemporal variation in algal and bacterial assemblages associated with toxigenic benthic cyanobacteria Microcoleus and Anabaena in northern Californian rivers
2:00 PM
Tori A Hebert|Nitrogen flows in two arctic stream food webs of contrasting disturbance regime
2:15 PM
Augustine Sitati|Successional controls on trophic transfer in an oligotrophic river
2:30 PM
Chelsea R Smith|Flow permanence alters size spectra of stream macroinvertebrate communities
2:45 PM
Adriana Villanueva-Cruz|Periphyton biomass in tropical montane streams of Puerto Rico: biotic and abiotic controls
3:00 PM
Sarah F Sorensen|Meta-food webs in dendritic systems: decreased resistance and increased resilience to disturbance
Thursday, May 2110:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Conference Theatre
Restoration 1.0 · Chairs: Allison Roy, Robert Fournier
Room 102 AB
Special Session: Unraveling wetland invertebrate dynamics: Connecting small-scale responses to landscape-level influences 1.0 · Chairs: Julia Portmann, Elizabeth Sicking
Room 201 ABC
Biogeochemistry 3.0 · Chair: William Mejia
Room 202 ABC
Special Session: Lakes, ponds, reservoirs and wetlands oh my! Drivers, feedbacks, and responses of the carbon cycle under changing climate and anthropogenic stressors 1.0 · Chairs: Phoenix Rogers, Shuo Chen
Room 203
Science Communication & Outreach 1.0 · Chairs: Rich Walker, Alison Zachritz
Room 205
Special Session: Claws and effect: the role of crayfish across ecosystems 1.0 · Chairs: William Ota, Checo Colon Gaud
Room 206 A
Fish & other Vertebrates 1.0 · Chairs: Stan Gregory, Daniele Miranda
Room 206 B
Management & Policy 1.0 · Chairs: Krista Capps, Rachel Smith
Room 206 C
Special Session: Advancing environmental flow management: Holistic approaches for sustaining aquatic ecosystems 1.0 · Chairs: Kris Taniguchi-Quan, Sooyeon Yi
Room 207
Special Session: Positive biotic interactions in freshwater; importance, prevalence, and drivers. 1.0 · Chairs: Samuel Fritz, Lindsey Albertson
10:30 AM
Chris Ruck|Monitoring benthic macroinvertebrates in urban stream restorations
10:45 AM
Kira D Burnett|Monitoring long-term water quality benefits of urban stream restoration
11:00 AM
Paula dos Reis Oliveira|Effects of tropical forest  restoration on  stream invertebrate and periphyton communities.
11:15 AM
Katelyn P Driscoll|Stream restoration reorganizes riparian arthropod communities along lateral gradients
10:30 AM
Julia Portmann|Urbanization restructures but does not consistently reduce freshwater pond biodiversity
10:45 AM
Jered Studinski|Tolerant taxa and hydrologic isolation lead to few landscape effects on water chemistry and aquatic invertebrate communities in restored agricultural wetlands in central Wisconsin.
11:00 AM
Elizabeth Sicking|Spatial distribution and hydrology as controls on aquatic insect beta diversity across geographically isolated wetlands
11:15 AM
Alan J Mock|Essential fatty acid and methylmercury fluxes from emerging aquatic insects: implications for wetland insectivores
11:30 AM
Mia Ashby|Community responses to environmental variation in alpine pond ecosystems
11:45 AM
Mason Chow|Chironomid community composition in alpine ponds
10:30 AM
Heili Lowman|Islands in the stream: Aquatic bryospheres are sites of high nitrogen-fixation in oligotrophic headwaters
10:45 AM
Jazzmyn Luna|Nutrient Load Scaling: Deviations in Nested Relationships
11:00 AM
Sophie E Dziekan|Frequent hypoxia increases the potential for benthic sediment P release within the Maumee River, OH
11:15 AM
Anna Vincent|Partitioning assimilatory and dissimilatory processes in ammonium uptake in response to light availability and biofilm colonization using experimental streams
11:30 AM
John R. Oberholzer Dent|Two Decades of Nutrient Sampling in the Klamath River, CA, Reveal Impacts of Dams and Agricultural Pollution across Time and Space
11:45 AM
Robert Hall|Two-station Models for Estimating Nitrate Uptake in Rivers
10:30 AM
Natalie Griffiths|Effect of warming on solute fluxes from peatland streams: synthesizing results from a 10-year, whole-ecosystem experiment
10:45 AM
Chloe Hall|Seasonal hydrology effects on CO2 and CH4 emissions from a geographically isolated cypress swamp in the Southeastern United States
11:00 AM
Carla López Lloreda|Linking oxygen and carbon dynamics to characterize dominant biogeochemical processes in headwater wetlands
11:15 AM
Aileen Taylor|The interactive effects of hydrology and plant species on freshwater wetland CH 4 cycling.
11:30 AM
Jonathan Norton|Examining Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Nitrous Oxide in a Restored Wetland Receiving Elevated Nitrate Loads
11:45 AM
Chamoda P.D.M. Dissanayake|EVALUATING CHEMICAL SIGNATURES IN CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS TREATING RECLAIMED WATER: A COMPARATIVE STUDY WITH NATURAL WETLANDS
10:30 AM
Juliana D'Andrilli|Charades, association games, improvisation, and videography: Fun, interactive, and effective activities for ice breakers, science communication, and outreach
10:45 AM
Brandon Gaesser|Science Communication and Outreach in the Age of Film:  How to Expand Audiences by Turning Science into Stories with Documentary Film
11:00 AM
Bonnie F Lord|River Stories: The Kalamazoo River in Watercolor
11:15 AM
Daniel McGarvey|Grab some attention! Twelve minutes to dramatically enhance your poster or slides . . . in PowerPoint
10:30 AM
William Ota|The Presence of Regulated Crayfish Species in Aquarium Stores in the Great Lakes States
10:45 AM
Brian Helms|Do invasive crayfish have a metabolic advantage over native crayfish?
11:00 AM
Jacob B. Watson|Assessing structural barriers as a potential method of containing the spread of an invasive crayfish
11:15 AM
Natalia Szklaruk|The Invasive Crayfish Collaborative: translating science into regional coordination and action
11:30 AM
Reginald Turner|Assessing environmental, spatial, and phylogenetic drivers in crayfish assemblages of the Ogeechee River
11:45 AM
Nicholas A Macias|Persistence of crayfish populations on coastal barrier islands of the southeastern USA
10:30 AM
Holly Harris|Restoration in riverscapes: using spatial food-web modelling to inform restoration planning
10:45 AM
Karmann Kessler|Testing thermal niche adaptations on energy demands between high- and low-elevation fishes within benthic and pelagic habitat guilds
11:00 AM
Logan D. Clark|Use of Thermal Refugia by Brown Trout on the North Branch Au Sable River, Michigan
11:15 AM
Haley Bedell|Diet of Pygmy Whitefish Prosopium coulterii in Sullivan Lake, Pend Oreille County, Washington
11:30 AM
Kasey Pruett|Assessing the potential for evolutionary rescue in imperiled Southern Plains fish species
11:45 AM
Taylor Woods|FUTURE HABITAT SUITABILITY OF NATIVE, NON-NATIVE, AND GAME FISHES ACROSS FIVE LARGE LANDSCAPES
10:30 AM
Johnny S Richardson|Holistic approach to lake restoration
10:45 AM
Chika F Nnadozie|Cross-Sectoral Governance for Water-Linked Disease Risk Management in South Africa: A Qualitative Review of Constitutional, Legislative, and Policy Frameworks
11:00 AM
Lucas Ellingson-Cosenza|Incorporating angler perspectives and ecological evidence to inform management of non-native fish interactions with native Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout in the Teton River Basin, Idaho
11:15 AM
Megan Fork|Abundance and types of anthropogenic litter in southeast Pennsylvania headwater streams and effects of single-use plastic bans
10:30 AM
Noelle Patterson|Establishing a Functional Flows Framework for Rivers and Wetlands in the Great Salt Lake Basin
10:45 AM
Kris Taniguchi-Quan|Ecological risk assessment of flow alteration: A regional, multi-species framework for flow management
11:00 AM
Dan Magoulick|Climate and hydrologic environmental thresholds for stream fish species and assemblages across flow regimes
11:15 AM
Alexander Auhser|Quantifying the impact of water abstraction on macroinvertebrate communities in Austrian alpine streams
11:30 AM
Mark B. Lueders|Trait-based Prediction of Fish Assemblage Response to Hydrologic Alteration
10:30 AM
Samuel F Fritz|Are positive effects associated with ecosystem engineers detectable at large scales: Beyond mesocosms and mechanisms
10:45 AM
Akira Terui|Positive biotic interactions homogenize metacommunities
11:00 AM
Lindsey K Albertson|Effects of climate stressors on positive outcomes of ecosystem engineers: Current patterns and future expectations
11:15 AM
Bryan Brown|How invasion can create evolutionary mismatches that decouple positive interactions in a freshwater cleaning symbiosis: consequences for crayfish plague
11:30 AM
Therese Frauendorf|Bugs care how many hippos are there
11:45 AM
Michael C Zampini|Trophic highways and dead ends: Algal identity regulates nutrient flux and energy transfer in stream food webs
Thursday, May 212:00 PM – 3:45 PM
Conference Theatre
Restoration 2.0 · Chair: Sara Kamanmalek
Room 102 AB
Climate Change 1.0 · Chairs: Audrey Thellman, Wyatt Cross
Room 201 ABC
Biogeochemistry 4.0 · Chair: Robert Hall
Room 202 ABC
Special Session: Lakes, ponds, reservoirs and wetlands oh my! Drivers, feedbacks, and responses of the carbon cycle under changing climate and anthropogenic stressors 2.0 · Chairs: Carla López Lloreda, Natalie Griffiths
Room 203
Special Session: The fluvial pharmacy: Pharmaceuticals and their residuals in freshwater ecosystems 1.0 · Chairs: Mitchell Liddick, Ashley Hennessey
Room 205
Special Session: Claws and effect: the role of crayfish across ecosystems 2.0 · Chairs: Julian Olden, Checo Colon Gaud
Room 206 A
Fish & other Vertebrates 2.0 · Chairs: Alexander Juan, Amina Mohamed
Room 206 B
Special Session: From Dead Ends to Discovery: Embracing Failure as a Pathway to Scientific Progress 1.0 · Chairs: Elise Snyder, Amaryllis Adey
Room 206 C
Special Session: Advancing environmental flow management: Holistic approaches for sustaining aquatic ecosystems 2.0 · Chairs: Kris Taniguchi-Quan, Sooyeon Yi
Room 207
Special Session: Scholarship of teaching and learning in freshwater science 1.0 · Chairs: Elizabeth Sudduth, Patina Mendez
2:00 PM
Caitlin Boise|From reservoirs to rivers: documenting ecosystem recovery and project success after two years of the Klamath River Renewal Project restoration journey.
2:15 PM
Stephanie Burnette|Fish community response after dam removal: eDNA metabarcoding reveals diversity recovery and short-and-long term impacts
2:30 PM
Silvio Ferraz|How can afforestation benefit or impair hydrological processes and aquatic ecosystems in tropical regions?
2:00 PM
John R Olson|Comparing the effects of climate and land use changes on stream communities
2:15 PM
Sam J Larkin|Bioenergetic plasticity of larval Chironomidae across an Icelandic stream thermal gradient
2:30 PM
Amanda Rouillard|Očhéthi and Wóuŋspe : How Freemont Cottonwood Origin and Growth History Shape Microbial Response to Stream Warming
2:45 PM
David Wooster|Impact of Climate Change on Macroinvertebrate Functional Traits in the Pacific Northwest
3:00 PM
Sherri L Johnson|No snow? Do years with lower snowpack have warmer summer stream temperatures and lower streamflow?
2:00 PM
Jennifer L. Tank|Carbon availability mediates nutrient removal in high-arctic streams in NE Greenland.
2:15 PM
Grace A Watson|Oxygen dynamics regulate sediment-water phosphorus exchange in agricultural headwater streams
2:30 PM
William F. Mejia-Garcia|Heterogeneous Freshwater and Solute Export from a Mountainous Headwater Stream Network
2:45 PM
Sarah S Roley|Particulate organic nitrogen losses partially offset nitrogen retention in a plant-dominated river
3:00 PM
Ryan T Meyer|Stream warming and light availability mediate post-disturbance recovery of nutrient uptake rates and reach-scale metabolism.
3:15 PM
Steve Thomas|Scaling Nitrogen Fixation in a Coastal California River
2:00 PM
Shuo Chen|Dissolved organic matter primarily determines the potential microbial nutrient acquisition strategy in stormwater ponds in Florida, USA
2:15 PM
Jake Hosen|Carbon reactivity in freshwaters across the continental US was related to climate and organic matter composition
2:30 PM
Jonathan P. Gilman|Browning or Clearing: Does recovery of acidification consistently alter dissolved organic carbon exports from small watersheds?
2:45 PM
João Miguel Merces Bega|Context matters: how riparian forest restoration and landscape resilience shape water quality in headwater streams
3:00 PM
Laura M Phillips|Organic matter dynamics in a coastal plain watershed: insights from nested synoptic sampling of dissolved and particulate optical properties in the Southeastern United States.
2:00 PM
Emma M. Thrift-Cahall|Agricultural land use and hydrology controls patterns and persistence of multiple antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs) in an agricultural stream
2:15 PM
Ashley Hennessey|Acclimation in action: Recycled water boosts nutrient uptake over time
2:30 PM
Mitchell J. Liddick|Watershed land use influences the prevalence of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in streams and rivers
2:45 PM
Grace C Krane|Exploring the interaction between stream warming and benthic biofilms on the fate and transport of antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs) using experimental mesocosms
2:00 PM
Stacy A Schmidt|Thermal ecology meets disease: stress responses to crayfish plague in Faxonius virilis
2:15 PM
Caitlin Silberberg|Exotic or Endangered: The Conservation Paradox of Translocated Astacopsis gouldi Populations
2:30 PM
Julian Olden|Crayfish effects on salmonids in fresh waters: A synthesis of current knowledge and research priorities
2:45 PM
William Ota|Focused Q&A and Further Discussion Block
2:00 PM
Andre Felton|The effects of microplastic uptake on amphibian growth and development
2:15 PM
Joshua Benjamin|Fish community structure, diet composition, and gut microbiome of the two dominant fish species in an African savanna river
2:30 PM
Kai Chen|Local environmental factors outweigh spatial factors in shaping beta-diversity patterns of tropical island fish assemblages
2:45 PM
Stan Gregory|Decadal trends in native and non-native fish assemblages in the Willamette River in Oregon
2:00 PM
Amy Burgin|Seeing the Unseen: Serendipity, Perception, and the Science Hidden in Plain Sight
2:30 PM
Elise Snyder|Navigating uncharted waters: establishing practical and cost-effective methodologies for environmental RNA (eRNA)
2:45 PM
Charles P Hawkins|Flawed theory or lack of biological understanding?: Responses of benthic macroinvertebrate taxa to environmental alteration in western USA streams are neither strongly nor predictably associated with biological traits
3:00 PM
Rae E McNeish|Kern River in Crisis: Lessons learned while exploring how excessive water loss transforms the ecology of a river ecosystem
3:15 PM
Ryan McManamay|From Closed Doors to Open Windows: Reflections on “Failure”, Interdisciplinarity, and Opportunities in Academia and Non-Academia
3:30 PM
Angus Webb|Persist, persist, and if necessary, pivot – lessons from establishing model ecosystems in the lab
2:00 PM
Seth Wenger|Opportunities for accelerating flow regime restoration
2:15 PM
Matt Wooten|Can Hydrologically Relevant Stormwater Management Regulations Improve In-stream Biological Conditions?  A 20-year Case Study from Northern Kentucky.
2:30 PM
Alex A Stacy|Transitioning: Evaluating approaches to flow ramp-down in a complex floodplain system
2:45 PM
Charles Yackulic|Causal Inference, Adaptive Management and Environmental Flows: a Cool Mix
3:00 PM
Sooyeon Yi|Evaluating environmental flow performance in California’s Central Valley under alternative management scenarios
2:00 PM
Fredric R Govedich|Teaching taxonomy to undergraduate students
2:15 PM
Shannon J O'Leary|Think global, teach local: Engaging undergraduates in long-term monitoring of temperature, stream flow, and biological indicators in local headwater streams.
2:30 PM
Sandra Clinton|Building Interdisciplinary Capacity in Urban Science Through the REMUS REU Program
2:45 PM
Carolyn Cummins|Indigenous student engagement in freshwater field education: lessons, challenges, and opportunities
3:00 PM
Patina Mendez|Focused Q&A & Discussion Block