Monday, 2nd August 10th Australian Stream Management Conference 2021
Welcome Address
8:30AM - 8:45AM
Monday, 2nd August
Stream A
Chairs: Jessica Walker & Myles Coker
Plenary: Reflections for 10ASM - How did we get here and where are we going?
8:45AM - 9:30AM
Monday, 2nd August
Stream A
Chairs: Jessica Walker & Myles Coker
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Interactive Workshop: How might we...? Aspirations for the next 25 years of Australian Stream Management.
9:30AM - 10:30AM
Monday, 2nd August
Stream A
Chair: Myles Coker
Tea Break
10:30AM - 11:00AM
Monday, 2nd August
Lessons learned from waterway management strategies, plans and collaborative actions
11:00AM - 11:30AM
Monday, 2nd August
Stream A
Chair: Alison Miller
Data & Technology - From the sky
11:00AM - 11:30AM
Monday, 2nd August
Stream B
Chair: Jessica Walker
- A birds eye view: Using remotely sensed data to monitor Limits of Acceptable Change in the Gippsland Lakes Ramsar Site - Jennifer Hale
- Delta Green –a new metric for predicting trends in riparian vegetation recovery - Timothy Pietsch
- Delineating multiple flow paths in anastomosing river systems with wetlands using DEMs - Carl Helander
What should we do?! Decision support and prioritisation approaches for catchment and waterway management
11:30AM - 12:15PM
Monday, 2nd August
Stream A
Chair: Geoff Vietz
- Somewhere over the Rainbow - Geoff Park
- From fragmentation to interconnection – A landscape scale approach for floodplain wetland prioritisation and management - Simon Treadwell
- Identifying corridors of river recovery in coastal NSW for use in decision support and prioritisation systems. - Danelle Agnew
What have we done?! Monitoring, evaluation and reporting for catchment and waterway management
11:30AM - 12:15PM
Monday, 2nd August
Stream B
Chair: Jessica Walker
- Fires floods droughts and urban development. Assessing the relative impacts of multiple pressures on waterways through a long term monitoring program - Alice Blackwood
- Narrative-based reporting to evaluate river-basin management for waterbirds - Brittany Betteridge
- Building capacity in monitoring, evaluation and reporting for more effective waterway management - Trent Wallis
Including human factors and different people in design
12:15PM - 12:45PM
Monday, 2nd August
Stream A
Chair: Geoff Vietz
- Who are we designing for? Design approaches and perspectives for catchment management in the digital era. - Myles Coker
- Incorporating human dimension in water quality modelling: accounting for levels of adoption and co-benefits - Nick Marsh
- The use of citizen scientists to confirm the presence of platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) in north-west Sydney - Michelle M Ryan
Living Near Waterways
12:15PM - 12:45PM
Monday, 2nd August
Stream B
Chair: Jessica Walker
- Rivers, residents and restoration: Local relations to the Waimatā River, Aotearoa New Zealand - Danielle Cairns
- Assessing the benefits of stream frontage management to the condition of the Campaspe River - Jackie Myers
- Innovative eDNA citizen science for biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes - Helen Barclay
Lunch
12:45PM - 1:30PM
Monday, 2nd August
Flood
1:30PM - 2:25PM
Monday, 2nd August
Stream A
Chair: Andrew Morris
- The Behaviour of Floods in Australia’s Dryland Warrego River - Shjarn Winkle
- The ethics and legalities of waterway recovery and flooding impact. - Ben B Walker
- The March 2021 Flood On The Hawkesbury-Nepean River An opportunity to revisit The Flood-Dominated Regime and Drought-Dominated Regime Model - Tom Hubble
Panel Discussion
Bushfire
1:30PM - 2:25PM
Monday, 2nd August
Stream B
Chair: Ian RUTHERFURD
- Sharing knowledge and building capacity - Monitoring the impact of 2020 bushfires on Gunaikurnai Country. - Patrick Maiden
- Eastern Victorian Bushfires waterways recovery: our new approach - Astrid P Dunkley
- Key learnings from Australian drinking water authorities for catchment bushfire response – Preparedness, priorities, and performance - Rhiannon Hughes
Panel Discussion
Structures, controls and stabilisation
2:25PM - 3:00PM
Monday, 2nd August
Stream A
Chair: Andrew Morris
- Pile style – how advanced modelling can inform design of pile field stream bank stabilisation - Marnina Tozer
- Cost Effectiveness of Bendway Weir Stream Re-Training Techniques in Australia - Reece Fraser
- Striking gold - Thomson River fishway & walking track (Horseshoe Bend) - David Stork
- Building stable and resilient foreshores using a natural approach - Andrew Attewell
- Exploring the relationship between channel bed control structures and stream power in low-gradient floodplain wetlands - Timothy J Ralph
Bushfire
2:25PM - 3:00PM
Monday, 2nd August
Stream B
Chair: Ian RUTHERFURD
- Post-fire response in the Warragamba drinking water catchment. - Rebecca Mabbott
- East gippsland recovering together - Becky Hemming
- Bushfire recovery in the nariel valley a long way to go - Kelly Behrens
- Did the Black Summer bushfires turn up the heat on platypus populations? - Josh Griffiths
- Post-fire erosion and recovery in Warrumbungle National Park – An outlook - Esther Qinggaozi Zhu
Riparian lands and vegetation
3:00PM - 3:30PM
Monday, 2nd August
Stream A
Chair: Andrew Morris
- Management of riparian lands in Victoria, Australia- Issues and opportunities arising from a review of the Regional Riparian Action Plan 2015-2020 - Ross Hardie
- The recovery of riparian vegetation along rivers of coastal NSW since the 1980s: Implications for working with river recovery in management - Nuosha Zhang
- Reviewing fire as a vegetation management technique in highly modified riparian ecosystems - Elisha Duxbury
Wastewater
3:00PM - 3:30PM
Monday, 2nd August
Stream B
Chair: Ian RUTHERFURD
- Challenges for management of treated sewage urban and rural runoff in NSW Southern Highlands Waterway values include biodiversity (platypus habitat) drinking water catchment and World Heritage Area - Katherine Morrison
- Using riparian protection to offset discharged treated wastewater - Kirsten Roszak
- The geochemistry of cocaine and ecological impacts in the Hawkesbury-Nepean river - Jason K Reynolds
Tea Break
3:30PM - 4:00PM
Monday, 2nd August
Highlighting the diversity of greater catchment management Session I
4:00PM - 5:15PM
Monday, 2nd August
Stream A
Chair: Rhiannon Hughes
- Quantifying the impacts of carp and waterbirds on aquatic vegetation within a regulated lowland river - Chris Jones
- Wetland wildfire: seedbank response to different watering regimes - Ben E Vincent
- Impact of farm dam interception on environmental flow compliance - Katherine Szabo
- A new approach to measuring waterway physical habitat for biota - Thom Gower
- The effect of water quality, macroinvertebrate assemblages and habitat suitability on the distribution of Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus); a pilot study in Cattai Catchment, North West Sydney - Breony Webb
- Integrated Waterways - Glenn Browning
- Impact of urban development on endangered wetland ecological communities in the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area - Rani Carroll
- Drivers of organic matter decomposition of headwater streams in an urbanizing region - Stephanie E Brown
- Munching on Moira Grass: Vegetation response in wetlands in the Barmah Forest Ramsar site when feral animal grazing is controlled over 12 months. - Johanna E Slijkerman
- Remapping the distribution of Common Reed along the Wimmera River using satellite imagery. Why has the distribution and abundance changed in the last 15 years? - Jamie Kaye
- Catchment management options for reducing agri-chemical impact on waterways - Katrina Lansdown
- Beyond the Shed: poultry, poo and pasture - Andrew Morris
Highlighting the diversity of greater catchment management Session I I
4:00PM - 5:15PM
Monday, 2nd August
Stream B
Chair: Alison Miller
- Assessing the risk from domestic wastewater in open catchments and developing optimised investment programs to protect drinking water quality. - Morag Stewart
- An overview of the shoalhaven reclaimed water management scheme (rems) protecting river bay and ocean. - David B Fleeting
- Steps towards incorporating geomorphic considerations in farm and catchment management plans in the Waimatā Catchment, Aotearoa New Zealand - Khendra Harvey
- Stream bank erosion modelling and prediction in the Great Barrier Reef catchments - Misko Ivezich
- Worn down and wasting away: the impact of rainsplash erosion in alluvial gullies - James S Daley
- Commercial sand extraction accelerates the recovery of sand bed stream impacted by a sediment pulse - Alex Sims
- Reducing sediment delivery to the Great Barrier Reef using spatial data - Jacqui Reid
- Target the right gullies using the right approach to achieve the GBR Water Quality Targets - Andrew Brooks
- Where has all the sand gone? Understanding the implications of sand movement following renourishment works to protect Threatened tern habitat in the Gippsland Lakes - Sean Phillipson
- A gully is not a stream channel. How do we tell the difference and why does it matter? - Robin Thwaites
- Working with river process in managing sediment flux from the Kourawhero Catchment into Kaipara Harbour Aotearoa New Zealand - Jacqui McCord
- Innovations in eDNA Sampling Technology: Comparing Manual and Automated Techniques - Farley Connelly