FBA Conferences in Aquatic Biology

Multiple Stressors in Freshwater Ecosystems

The Inaugural Freshwater Biology Summit
1–4 September 2008, FBA Windermere, Cumbria, UK.

Keynote Address: Prof. John Beddington (Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government)

The Freshwater Biological Association Conferences in Aquatic Biology are influential international workshops, drawing together the very best in aquatic biology and its application in environmental management. Essentially ‘summits’ of the world’s pre-eminent leaders in the field, the conferences promote the free exchange of ideas at the frontiers of aquatic research, advancing the science and analysing how it may be applied.

The theme of the inaugural conference focuses on multiple stressors in freshwater ecosystems: how they combine/interact, the consequences, and the implications to water managers who need to be able to predict outcomes and prioritise responses in highly complex circumstances. The theme’s timeliness, the likely range of approaches, and the quality of the contributors mean that the outputs will have resonance far beyond the freshwater field.

Special Edition of Freshwater Biology
Contributions to the conference will be published online as a special issue of Freshwater Biology, the world leader in freshwater publication, with free access to all. Guest-edited by Prof. Steve Ormerod, the issue will be a landmark collection of cross-disciplinary papers that not only demonstrate cutting-edge science in this important field but also show how relevant the theme of the conference is to practical management.

Registration
Registration details can be found in the flyer below. Discounted fees are available for early registration and for FBA Members, and there are a small number of subsidised places for students. Please note that delegates will need to make their own arrangements for accommodation (see list below for some examples).

Early registration deadline: 30 June 2008
Final registration deadline: 1 August 2008.

Sponsorship
Sponsorship opportunities exist to support speakers’ expenses, subsidised registrations, printing costs for the proceedings, and for the opening reception and conference dinner. Please contact Karen Rouen (krouen@fba.org.uk) for further information.

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Speakers

• Stuart Bunn (Australia) – Freshwater ecosystem health in a multi-stressed environment
  Professor Bunn is an expert in the assessment of ecosystem health.
  
• Jenny Davis (Australia) – Combined ecological effects of salinisation, variable flow and nutrients
  Professor Davis studies wetlands and their management in water-stressed environments.
  
• Barbara Downes (Australia) – Design issues in appraising combined stressors on freshwater ecosystems
  Professor Downes is an expert in the design and analysis of environmental monitoring programmes and on the siltation and regulation of
  rivers.
  
• Kurt Fausch (USA) – Combined stressors and fish/riparian predators
  Professor Fausch specialises in the ecology and management of freshwater fish.
  
• Nancy Grimm (USA) – Combined influences on stream N dynamics in arid-lands
  Professor Grimm specialises in biogeochemistry and urban ecology.
  
• David D Hart (USA) – Multiple issues in catchment management
  Professor Hart is an expert in catchment science and management.
  
• Louise Heathwaite (UK) – Sustainable water management in a multiple stressor context
  Professor Heathwaite is an expert on diffuse pollution and solute and sediment transport.
  
• Bob Hecky (Canada) – Combined stressors on lake ecosystems
  Professor Hecky specialises on the biogeochemistry and bioaccumulation of mercury and persistent organic pollutants, and the limnology of
  the great lakes of North America and Africa.
  
• Lucinda Johnson (USA) – General issues on multiple stressors in watershed management
  Dr Johnson specialises in bioindicators, monitoring protocols and risk assessment.
  
• Stephen Maberly (UK) – (title to be confirmed)
  Dr Maberly specialises in the ecophysiology of aquatic plants and in limnology.
  
• Brian Moss (UK) – Interactions between climate and eutrophication
  Professor Moss is an expert on the eutrophication of shallow lakes and its interactions with climate change.
  
• Margaret Palmer (USA) – Restoration in a multiple-stressor context
  Professor Palmer is an expert on stream restoration.
  
• John Quinn (New Zealand) – Interacting land-use, water quality and hydrological pressures on rivers
  Dr Quinn researches the effects of agriculture and forestry on running waters.
  
• Vince Resh (USA) – Interacting effects of water quality, climate and restoration on stream invertebrates
  Professor Resh is an expert on bioassessment of water quality and habitat restoration.
  
• John Smol (Canada) – Using palaeolimnological methods to resolve combined stressors on lakes
  Professor Smol is a renowned palaeolimnologist and specialises on the history of degradation and recovery of lakes, as well as
  reconstructing climates based on the record from lakes in the Arctic and Antarctic.
  
• Bernhard Statzner (France) – Trait-based approaches to resolving the effects of multiple stressors on river
  ecosystems
  Professor Statzner has pioneered the use of species traits for detecting stress in freshwater ecosystems.
  
• David Strayer (USA) – Invasive species and the challenge on invertebrate conservation in dynamic river
  environments
  Dr Strayer is an expert on aquatic biodiversity, conservation and invasive species in fresh waters.
  
• Klement Tockner (Switzerland) – Multiple stressors on floodplain-river linkages
  Dr Tockner researches the environmental and biotic diversity of floodplains, floodplain management and river corridors.