Tuesday, 19th May Society for Freshwater Science 2026 Annual Meeting

2026 SRC Undergraduate Student Travel Award Recipients
2025 Student Presentation Award Recipients
Plenary Speakers (Caj Matheson & Laura Laumatia)

• River frequencies for river health - David A Lytle
• Anticipating ecological responses to extreme climatic events in rivers - Jonathan D Tonkin
• From fundamental ecology, to restoration experimentation, and on onward to policy-relevant restoration.   - Margaret Palmer
• Trait-based ecology and LeRoy’s quest for generality over contingency  - Julian D Olden
• Beyond the Baseline: The Natural Flow Regime in Complex Decision Making Processes - John Matthews

• Discontinuous permafrost impacts the contributions of terrestrial dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) sources to headwater streams at a watershed in Interior Alaska - Kristin Kraus
• From Land to Lake: A Continuous Flow-Path Framework for Land-Use Impacts on Water Quality - Mikaela Sako
•  Investigating Seasonal Changes in Microplastic Pollution in the Davidson River, NC - Ariel Podlogar
• Temporal and spatial changes in nutrient concentrations in the War Eagle Creek Watershed, Arkansas   - Brandy N Everett
• Growing climate is more important than induced defenses for predicting chemistry and consumption of riparian tree leaves - Claire W Asmussen
• Landscape Watershed Condition and Drought Vulnerability Assessment in the Western U.S. - Jeffrey Falke

• Potential Fate, Transport, and Impact of Enhanced Rock Weathering Products in Freshwater Ecosystems - Emily Bernhardt
• Seasonality modulates urban influences on dissolved organic carbon bioavailability - Mary Munt
• Tide-driven soil respiration:Impacts of Tidally-Induced Water Table - Yinuo Yang
• Examining influences of submerged macrophytes on fluvial CH₄ and CO₂ drivers and concentrations. - Jaden Nguyen
• Enhanced greenhouse gas emissions with floating and emergent plants in wetlands - Nathan O Earl
• Facilitation of aquatic bryophytes by baldcypress extends oxic periods and offsets carbon emissions in blackwater swamps - Andrew S Mehring

• Do agricultural conservation practices promote biogeochemical resilience in a tile-drained and intensively fertilized landscape? - Lindsey M. Rasnake
• Effects of biochar-modified poultry litter on water quality - Mahima Quazi
• Age of the two-stage: time since floodplain restoration mediates the hydrologic signature of storms in an agricultural watershed - Caroline G.T. Anscombe
• Long-term nutrient impacts of the afforestation of agricultural lands reveal a lag in dissolved phosphorus reduction - Kathleen Cutting
• Impacts of a forested state park and weather on stream and reservoir nutrient concentrations in a Midwestern agricultural watershed - Bartosz Grudzinski
• Migratory Shorebird Stopover Habitat Management Enhances Wetland Biogeochemical Function in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain Agroecosystem - Jason Taylor

• Embracing the zoogeochemical framework in freshwaters to understand and predict the ecosystem-level consequences of conservation (Joint talk with Taylor Michael) - Jonathan W Lopez
• Embracing the zoogeochemical framework in freshwaters to understand and predict the ecosystem-level consequences of conservation (Joint Talk with Jonathan Lopez) - Taylor C Michael
• A 44-year study of amphibian-mediated zoogeochemical connectivity in Carolina bays - Irene Sanchez
• From strategy to structure: decomposition dynamics of unionid mussel shells  - Lauren M Morris
• Mussel-mediated nutrient fluxes in a coastal plains river - Madison P. Kuczek
• Environmental conditions induce growth rate and stoichiometric trait plasticity in captivity reared freshwater mussels - Garrett Hopper

• Catching what we miss: what eDNA metabarcoding adds to endangered shiner monitoring in the Brazos River watershed - Zacchaeus G. Compson
• Toward Regional Thermal Tolerance Indices for the Pacific Northwest: Evaluating the Weighted Averaging Optimum Framework for Benthic Macroinvertebrates using State-wide Biomonitoring Datasets. - Garrison S Ferone
• Factors That Cause of Nile tilapia Depletion in Lake Hayq, Ethiopia - Alemken Mengist
• Interpreting random forests and navigating illusions of importance in spatial data - Michael Dumelle
• Targeting biodiversity and standardization with a modified aquatic macroinvertebrate sampling method  - Jacob Lott
• STUDIES ON THE MAJOR CHARACTERISTICS OF THE KARATOA RIVER AT SHAHJADPUR AND ITS FISHERIES   - Bijoy Kumar Ghosh

• Naturalness shapes dry-phase refuges and invertebrate community recovery in headwater streams - Rachel Stubbington
• Spatial and temporal variation in occupancy of stream-associated amphibians. - Tiffany Garcia
• Macroinvertebrate diversity in climate-stressed ponds: when will communities recover from drying? - Rebecca Best
• High Sodium Lifestyle: The physiology and habitat preferences of a rare diving beetle endemic to an extreme environment. - Audrey Lindsteadt
• Beaver restoration as a nature-based solution for sustaining perennial streamflow during drought in Sierra Nevada headwater streams - Chloe Faehndrich
• Integrated hydrological and biological monitoring reveal ecological patterns in intermittent streams - Daren M Carlisle

• Modeling changes in temporal beta diversity across seasonal and non-seasonal temperature regimes. - Kurt E Anderson
• Assessing Bergamann's rulein freshwater macroinvertebrates using NEON data - Reece Bollinger
• Changes in macroinvertebrate communities in national parks of the southwestern United States across a ten-year period: patterns and challenges - Rocío J. Guzmán Ojeda
• Aquatic breeding in a dry land: determining drivers of amphibian water site use and reproductive success in the Sonoran Desert - Sadie Roth
• Unpredictable waters: lentic community responses to experimental hydroperiod variability - Courtney Hendrickson
• Predicting biodiversity patterns and the importance of connectivity, stochasticity, and environmental variation in river ecosystems  - Adrian Ortiz-Velez

• Connecting in-stream toxicity testing with community-level responses in an impacted stream - Louise Stevenson
• Ecosystem Processes in the Age of Antibiotics - Michael Strickland
• Emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from shallow eutrophic UK reservoirs that supply drinking water - Faith Luciana L Imhanze
• Cobalt as an Emerging Contaminant: Ecosystem-Scale Responses to Metal Mixtures in Freshwater Mesocosms - Travis S Schmidt
• Contaminant spiraling as a unifying conceptual model for predicting fate and effects of contaminants on aquatic-terrestrial meta-ecosystems - David Walters
• Evolving metal-related risks and sources in an ecosystem impacted by a century of mining - Madison J Foster

• Wastewater Regulatory Challenges and Strategies in Austin, Texas  - Kaela Champlin
• Nutrient makeover: Effects of a wastewater treatment plant upgrade on a delta ecosystem - Kyle Leathers
• Coupled watershed and stream modeling to quantify cumulative wastewater impacts in urban streams - Angel Santiago
• Effective treatment of wastewater for microbial removal - Hemant Sagar
• Modeling Surface and Subsurface Transport of Land-Applied Treated Wastewater in Urban Watersheds - Harshita Mahaseth
• Wet wipes as potential carriers of pathogens and antibiotic resistance genes in urban streams - David Calvo-Mora

• ‘River, keep on rolling. Carry my soul to the sea.’ - David Merritt
• LeRoy Poff’s Role in Defining the Form, Function, and Future of Flow Regimes - Ted Grantham
• From streamlines to storylines: A Poff Lab-er's journey from science to freshwater filmmaking - Jeremy Monroe
• ENVIRONMENTAL FLOWS AND THE LAW - David Allan
• Looking back and looking forward: river conservation in a human-dominated world - N LeRoy Poff

• Vertebrate Biodiversity via eDNA at the air-water interface - Pedro FP Brandão-dias
• Aquatic-terrestrial linkages and biodiversity spillover in forest streams - Francis J Burdon
• Dynamic variation in the impact of Artificial Light at Night (ALAN) on aquatic-terrestrial insect fluxes - Elizabeth M Parkinson
• Wood, Water, and Wildlife: Avalanche-Delivered Wood Accumulations Support Elevated Fish Abundance and Riparian Bird Species Richness - Anna Reside
• Stressor-response relationships linking human activities to Pacific salmon in freshwater ecosystems - Marta Ulaski

• Delivery of carbon gases by preferential groundwater discharge across a river network - Ashley M Helton
• Decomposition rate and microplastic flux in urban environment: two contrasting watersheds in central kenya - Erasme Uyizeye
• Spatio-temporal changes in the physicochemical characteristics of Lake Atitlán Basin - Natalia Vargas López
• Modeling Nitrate Attenuation in Tidal Riparian Zones Using a 1D Boussinesq-Based Monte Carlo Framework - Chuanhui Gu
• Sediment conditions may support benthic cyanobacteria bloom formation in an oligotrophic river reach - John Buster
• Storm-driven nitrate loading varies with land use along a headwater stream continuum - Joseph Baldus

• Tradeoffs between nutrient retention and greenhouse gas emissions in managed agricultural wetlands - Amanda K Suchy
• Nitrous oxide production and emissions in tailwater recovery systems in Eastern Arkansas over a year (2025). - Nellie I Little
• Nitrous oxide emissions from tailwater recovery systems - Auldyn L. Faulk
• Gas exchange in an agricultural watershed under changing biogeochemical conditions - Allison Herreid
• Assessing Morphological, Developmental, and Genetic Responses of Hydropsychid Caddisflies to Cry1Ab Exposure - Pedro FP Brandao-Dias
• Rainfall and temporal controls on inorganic nutrients in a salinization mesocosm experiment - Samuel AT Dias

• Stronger together? Exploring synergistic potential in mussel-macroinvertebrate nutrient dynamics - Rowan Scott
• Direct emissions and bioturbation from the invasive Asian clams (Corbicula spp.) drive CO₂, CH₄, and N₂O cycling in streams - Nguyen Tien Anh Quach
• Scaling up: How fish ontogeny and evolution shape ecosystem nutrient flux - Amina Mohamed
• Whole-stream isotope additions reveal light and predator controls on nitrogen fluxes in Tropical stream food webs - Frank C Akamagwuna
• Spatiotemporal trends in nutrients in two biodiverse rivers - Annie Blalock

• The assessment of riverine wetland conditions, macroinvertebrate assemblages, and physical habitat conditions of streams on Santa Rosa Island, Channel Islands National Park. - Daniel Pickard
• Stream macroinvertebrate functional organization and biological integrity across headwaters in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. - Sergio A. Sabat-Bonilla
• Diatoms.org: training, transforming, transcending - Sarah Spaulding
• Assessing the Patterns and Spread of Disease in Wetlands Along a Natural to Urban Gradient - Andrew Hopkins
• Community body-size distributions inform ecological integrity in aquatic systems - Brent Murry
• Skewed Power Laws: Biased Data Bends λ and How to Bend it Back - Justin Pomeranz

• Insect colonization alters resistant taxa population dynamics but not community composition in ephemeral wetland mesocosms - Christopher F Frazier
•  Evaluating the effects of warming on the resistance and resilience of stream communities to drought - Allison Sutcliffe
• Food Webs in Flow: Spatiotemporal Variation in Diversity and Food Web Structure in an Intermittent River - Jered Davenport
• Drying out diversity: functional, but not taxonomic, shifts in aquatic insects under ephemeral conditions - Hayden Hays
• Parallel patterns or divergent responses? Investigating species-genetic diversity correlations among macroinvertebrates in streams across the southern United States - Meryl C Mims

• Aquatic insect declines in protected tropical rainforest streams, Costa Rica - Alonso Ramirez
• Spring-fed tributaries function as seasonal refuges for juvenile masu salmon - Masaru Sakai
• Trialling Whakaweku for Invertebrate Sampling in Tasmanian Streams - Caitlin Silberberg
• Can thermal performance curves predict fish distribution across a thermally diverse watershed? - Benjamin Zdasiuk
• Density-dependent movement shapes the spatial community structure of stream fishes - Ashley LaRoque
• Quantifying the effects of interannual variation in flow and temperature on the abundance of fishes in two biodiverse southern Appalachian rivers - Phillip Bumpers

• Plastic pre-production pellets, “nurdles”, in rivers: Sampling methods, distribution, and implications for policy - Timothy J Hoellein
• Trash Talk: River flow dynamics and bridges impact anthropogenic litter patterns    - Dana C Garcia
• Hydraulic controls on microplastic transport and deposition across riverine flow habitats - Enahoro Kennedy Owowenu
• Distribution and point-source contributions of pre-production plastic pellets in an urban river  - Olivia Schaul
• Macroinvertebrates and microplastics: understudied ecological communities in Appalachian freshwater springs - Benjamin E Jackson
• Influence of land use and hydrology on plastic pollution in the riparian zone of a Mediterranean river - Eugenia Martí

• Urban stream reflections: What can we learn from long-term waterway management and research? - Brian Murphy
• Drying cities – lessons from the water crisis of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro in South Africa and implications for management and policy - Nelson ON Odume
• Developing an assessment framework for nature-based recreation, an overlooked ecosystem service in urban settings that depends on ecological health - Raphael D Mazor
• Cool tools for warming streams: A new thermal stressor index helps managers in King County, WA interpret trends in macroinvertebrate communities - Kate Macneale
• A framework for assessing how urban stormwater systems shape water quality in streams in King County, Washington - Malia Scott
• The Puget Sound Stream Benthos database: A powerful regional tool and local application in Bellingham, Washington. - Mateo Scoggins

SFS Business Meeting
Endowment Awards
Discussion/Q&A Session with Sally Entrekin & Natalie Griffiths

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