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Scottish Freshwater Group (SFG) Meeting

The 80th meeting of the Scottish Freshwater Group will take place on Thursday 3rd April 2008 at the University of Stirling.  The afternoon session will be dedicated to talks on the theme of "Carbon in Freshwaters".

Programme

Morning Session
10:00  Morning Coffee (provided free at entrance to LTV1 courtesy of CEH)

  • 10:30  Laurence Carvalho, Welcome and Introduction
  • 10:35  Mike Dobson Freshwater Biological Association, New direction for the FBA
  • 11:10  Bernard Dudley et al., CEH Edinburgh, Aquatic plant diversity in Scottish lochs
  • 11:45  Liz Etheridge & Colin Adams University of Glasgow, Morphological responses of Scottish powan (Coregonus lavaretus) to a conservation translocation
12:20 Lunch & Poster Demonstrations

Poster Demonstrations
  • Iain Gunn et al., CEH Edinburgh, Site Condition Monitoring of Scottish Lochs
  • Kerry Dinsmore & Mike Billett, CEH Edinburgh, CO2 and methane transfer through the soil-water-atmosphere system
  • Additional posters on the day are very welcome
Afternoon Session - “Carbon in Freshwaters”
  • 1.45  Julian Dawson University of Aberdeen Soil C losses across the UK
  • 2.15  Ian Grieve & Dave Gilvear, University of Stirling. Effects of windfarm construction on concentrations and fluxes of DOC and suspended sediment from peat catchments
  • 2.45  Jonathan Grey, Queen Mary, University of London, Conversion of catchment carbon into fish flesh
  • 3.15  Don Monteith, CEH Lancaster, DOC trends in freshwaters resulting from changes in atmospheric deposition chemistry
  • 3.45  General Discussion of Afternoon Session
4.00  Meeting Finishes

For more information visit the web site: http://www.ceh.ac.uk/sci_programmes/water/sfg_80_meeting.html

Future Events

The next meeting of the Scottish Freshwater Group will be on Thursday 30th Oct 2008. Half of the meeting will be devoted to talks on the theme of “Environment & Health”

Anyone wishing to make a contribution to future meetings, please contact the organiser at the address below:

Dr Laurence Carvalho,
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH Edinburgh), Bush Estate, Penicuik EH26 0QB.

Email: laca@ceh.ac.uk

Web: http://www.ceh.ac.uk/sci_programmes/water/scottish_freshwater_group.html