Monday, 12th August 11th Australian Stream Management Conference 2024

• Incorporating First Nations knowledge in Basin planning - Rene Woods

• Soil moisture monitoring of Giant Gippsland Earthworm Megascolides australis streamside habitat – Don’t dry out our patch ! - Michael J Aberton
• Flooding in an Uncertain Future: Can Policy Keep Up with Science? - Alex Barton
• River responses to bushfires and floods: Insights from the Wadbilliga River, NSW - Carl Helander
• Thinking in systems about integrated water management – A case study - Himanthi Mendis
• Decision Framework post-flood events: The Victorian experience. - Miriam Jones
• Geomorphic differences in gravel-bed rivers three years after high-intensity bushfire - Carter T Lybeck
• Changes in riparian vegetation communities resulting from weir pool manipulation at the Lindsay-Mulcra-Wallpolla icon Site, 2020-2022 - Gary J Palmer
• The Branch Catchment Management Project: Leveraging, Partnerships and Patience - Andrew Morris
• Integrating stakeholder perspectives and attitudes to flood impacts in inland rivers - Michael C Rupic
• Monitoring ecological responses to Commonwealth environmental water in the Lower Murray River - Qifeng Ye

• Incorporating First Nations Knowledge into Technical Water Projects - Jamie Kaye
• Rivers of Carbon, river science in action: connecting farmers and community to practical river restoration solutions - Alex James
• Interweaving love, knowledge and action: how we are bringing back the Murray-Darling Basin's Forgotten River - Siwan Lovett

• Healthy Waterways Strategy mid-term review - Learning by Doing - Sharyn Rossrakesh
• Comprehensive Review and Strategic Renewal of the Largest River Works Program in the Murray-Darling Basin - Hugo H Bowman
• Developing the new Victorian Waterway Management Strategy - an evolution of catchment-based approach to sustaining living waterways - Nikki Gemmill

• Tea Garden Creek Weir Fishway – Worn-down weirs a way for fish to fare - Julian Martin
• Improving outcomes for a highly fragmented, poorly known River Blackfish population in peri-urban Melbourne - Matthew C Le Feuvre
• Fighting against extinction - the conservation of four native freshwater fish in the Lower Lakes - Sylvia Zukowski

• Delivering Natural Flood Management (NFM): Working with geomorphic, vegetative and hydrological recovery in nature-based river management - Kirstie Fryirs
• Bringing back the mangroves: Bank stabilisation and water quality in the Caboolture River - Margie Dickson
• From Fire to Flood: Lessons Learnt from a Nature-based Rehabilitation Strategy After 22 years at Stockyard Creek - Rhiannon M Hughes

• People, Passion and Policy - Rebecca R Freshwater
• Upper Avoca Healthy Catchment Plan: Centring Djaara values in catchment management planning - Carolyn Vivian
• Co-design and Co-delivery: Maintaining momentum at the mid-point of the Healthy Waterways Strategy for Melbourne (2018 – 2028) - Johanna Slijkerman

• Creation of refuge wetland habitat for the nationally-threatened fish species Dwarf Galaxias (Galaxiella pusilla) in the Cardinia Creek system, using an existing water authority retarding basin site. - Fiona Gilbert
• Making remote sense of wetland vegetation change over time - Leigh Smith
• Remediating A Wastewater Lagoon To Become An Ecological and Community Asset  - FELICITY HEWETT

Session 1 - Mon 12 Aug 1:30pm (1 hour) - Scoping action ideas

1. Introduction: where have we come from and where do we want to go?
2. Communities of practice: from enthusiasm to outcomes. Guest speaker Danielle Francis (Manager Policy and Strategy, Water Services Association of Australia) will share insights about the water industry Community of Practice she has built
3. Rapid brainstorming session: spark creative ideas for action pathways to ramp up sustainable, integrated stream and catchment management and protect and restore water-related ecosystems, across 5 action categories.

• Walking the talk: accelerating sustainable, participative stream rehabilitation and management - Kathy Russell, Danielle Francis, Kirstie Fryirs, Birgit Jordan and Geoff Vietz

• The use of eDNA to understand spatial and temporal patterns of platypus occupancy in Kosciuszko National Park - Breony Webb
• Riverside Recreation: Assessing the effects of flow regulation on the bars and benches of the lower Goulburn River - Thom Gower
• SRIF - Assessment of interim Jindabyne release arrangements - Andrew Little
• Innovation in Infrastructure - The construction challenges of delivering low flows - Damian Rowley
• Turning flow events into dollars and cents - Kira Woods
• Headwater streams restoration: “Two creek systems are not the same!” - Chamantha Athapaththu
• Cementing Success in a Rainbow - David Stork

• Catalising Positive Rural Landholder Practice Change for River and Water Quality Protection - Julian O'Mara
• Water quality impacts from post-fire erosional events: A case study from a peatland within the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area - Rani Carroll
• An integrated geoprocessing tool for assessing post-fire hydrogeomorphic risks in upland forested catchments - Kristen Joyse
• Site level vegetation and sediment processes observed over a decade of river rehabilitation - Jack Coates-Marnane
• Environmental benefits and risk assessment for the Victorian Constraints Measures Program - Ben Gawne
• The economic value of riparian restoration in the Mackay Whitsunday region’s waterways - Isabelle Flook
• Rivers of Data: Socio-Economic MER Frameworks for Environmental Watering - Edward McDonald

• Know your reach – a co-design approach to understanding waterway protection across the Wimmera - Carl Larsen
• Communicate environmental science and management with user-centred interactive design to empower data-driven decision-making - Tory Grice
• Quantifying decreased hillslope erosion rates from grazing management of pastoral lands - Robin Ellis
• Unlocking the Potential: The Challenge of Quantifying the Effects of Riparian Revegetation on Sediment Load Reduction - Daniel Trnovsky

• Catchment Stewardship in Victoria – Building on the legacy - Adam Hood
• Landscape Restoration and Water Stewardship with Communities of Practice - Jono Forrest
• The Victorian Riparian Works Review Program - Renae Ayres

• Watercourse protection after the Cudlee Creek bushfire - William Hannaford
• Unprecedented? Unlikely. - Daryl Lam
• Post-fire erosion mitigation investigation and trial in the Warragamba drinking water catchment - Rebecca Mabbott

• Instream vegetation distribution across a variable landscape - Scott A McKendrick
• Rehab: It's a process - James Grove
• Assessing the efficacy of a reach scale management program within the Mary River following the 2022 floods. - Misko Ivezich

For more information, please click here: https://www.11asm.org.au/more-than-a-fish-kill-screening