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FBA Conferences in Aquatic Biology
The Freshwater Biological Association Conferences in Aquatic Biology are prestigious 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.
Second Freshwater Biology Summit
Achieving ecological outcomes: aquatic ecological responses to catchment management 12-15 April 2010, FBA Windermere, Cumbria, UK
Convenor and Guest Editor: Prof. Graham Harris, Lancaster Environment Centre
Following the success of the inaugural conference in September 2008 (see below), plans are now underway for the second in the series, which will be held in 2010 in the English Lake District. The theme of this second conference, focusing on integrated catchment management, will be of interest not only to scientists working in this field, but also those responsible for practical management. There will also an allocation of subsidised places for students. Emphasis will be placed on interaction and discussion, with a mix of lectures from world-renowned invited speakers and workshops, as well as an opportunity for each delegate to display a poster to introduce their work.
Details will be posted to this website as they become available. Places are limited, so early booking is recommended. If you would like to be placed on the mailing list for information about the conference, email: info@fba.org.uk.
Sponsorship
Sponsorship opportunities exist to support speakers’ expenses, subsidised registrations, printing costs for the subsequent publication, and for receptions/dinners. Please contact Karen Rouen (krouen@fba.org.uk) for further information.
Special Issues of Freshwater Biology
Contributions to the inaugural conference held on "Multiple Stressors in Freshwater Ecosystems" (see below) will be published online in 2009 as a special issue of Freshwater Biology, the world leader in freshwater publication. The special issue will guest-edited by Prof. Steve Ormerod and will be free access to all.
Papers from the second conference, to be held in 2010, will also be published in an online Special Issue of Freshwater Biology, guest-edited by Prof. Graham Harris.
Previous conferences
The Inaugural Freshwater Biology Summit
Multiple Stressors in Freshwater Ecosystems
1–4 September 2008, FBA Windermere, Cumbria, UK.
The inaugural conference focused 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.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Environment Agency of England and Wales.
Keynote address: Prof. John Beddington (Chief Scientific Advisor to HM Government)
Speakers:
- Stuart Bunn (Australia) – Integration of science and monitoring of river ecosystem health to identify potential causal factors of degradation and guide investments in catchment protection and rehabilitation
Professor Bunn is an expert in the assessment of ecosystem health.
- Jenny Davis (Australia) – Multiple stressors and regime shifts in shallow freshwater ecosystems
Professor Davis studies wetlands and their management in water-stressed environments.
- Barbara Downes (Australia) – Back to the future: little-used tools and principles of scientific inference can help disentangle effects of multiple 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) – Multiple stressors in north temperate streams: lessons from linked forest-stream ecosystems in Japan
Professor Fausch specialises in the ecology and management of freshwater fish.
- Nancy Grimm (USA) – Combined influences of climatic and anthropogenic drivers on nitrogen transport and retention in aridland stream-riparian systems
Professor Grimm specialises in biogeochemistry and urban ecology.
- David D Hart (USA) – Rethinking the role of ecological research in the sustainable management of freshwater ecosystems
Professor Hart is an expert in catchment science and management.
- Louise Heathwaite (UK) – Challenges for land and water systems science in a changing environment
- Bob Hecky (Canada) – Interactions of multiple stressors cause rapid ecosystem change in Lake Victoria
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.
- Stephen Maberly (UK) – Top-down and bottom-up effects of multiple stressors on lakes: analysis of long-term records from Windermere
Dr Maberly specialises in the ecophysiology of aquatic plants and in limnology.
- Brian Moss (UK) – Climate change, nutrient pollution and the bargain of Dr Faustus
Professor Moss is an expert on the eutrophication of shallow lakes and its interactions with climate change.
- Margaret Palmer (USA) – Dealing with stress: does heterogeneity enhance restoration or resilience in streams?
Professor Palmer is an expert on stream restoration.
- John Quinn (New Zealand) – Interactions among land-use, water quality and hydrological pressures
Dr Quinn researches the effects of agriculture and forestry on running waters.
- Vince Resh (USA) – Climatic influences and anthropogenic stressors: invertebrate response, restoration, and water management in Mediterranean streams
Professor Resh is an expert on bioassessment of water quality and habitat restoration.
- John Smol (Canada) – The power of the past: using sediments to track the effects of multiple stressors on lake ecosystems
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) – Biological traits to resolve multiple stressors on stream and river ecosystems
Professor Statzner has pioneered the use of species traits for detecting stress in freshwater ecosystems.
- David Strayer (USA) – Freshwater ecosystems in the Homogocene: the challenge of alien species
Dr Strayer is an expert on aquatic biodiversity, conservation and invasive species in fresh waters.
- Klement Tockner (Switzerland) – Multiple stressors on river-floodplain linkages
Dr Tockner researches the environmental and biotic diversity of floodplains, floodplain management and river corridors.