Wednesday, 20th May Society for Freshwater Science 2026 Annual Meeting

2026 Hynes Award for New Investigators Presentation
Hynes Award Talk: Audrey Goeckner, University of Florida, 2026 Hynes Award Recipient
Plenary Speakers (Angus McIntosh & Faith Kerns)

• Cultivating resilience in science and science communication - Faith Kearns
• Beyond recovery: embracing the multiple dimensions of river resilience - Angus McIntosh

•  From Projects to Resilient Watersheds: Core Outcome Themes from the EU MERLIN Project - Sebastian Birk
• Implementing freshwater restoration under real-world constraints: European lessons for building resilient watersheds - Yaron Hershkovitz
• Multiple stressors and biomagnifying contaminants jeopardize restoration of mining and industrially-impacted ecosystems: the Upper Clark Fork River case.  - Chris Frissell
• Evaluating the Trojan Y chromosome strategy for the removal of invasive Sacramento Pikeminnow from the Eel River, California - Alexander Juan
• Harnessing airborne thermal infrared survey data of stream temperature to inform restoration across the Willamette River basin, Oregon from 1999 to 2024. - Sylvia R Gholson
• The Trees Speak: Examining the Health of a Managed River through Riparian Growth - Noelle Patterson

• Biogeomorphic feedbacks along the Middle Green River, Utah: Implications of flow management on vegetation encroachment and channel narrowing - Catherine M. McClure
• Longitudinal patterns of dissolved organic matter following floodplain restoration in a Northwestern forested river system - Arya Mohanan
• Do Geophysical Habitat Types and Their Network-Scale Diversity Predict Fish Species Richness Across Freshwater Ecoregions? - Abhiram Pamula
• Interannual flow variability and its effects on isotopic niche overlap in a regulated, high-elevation river - Kelley A Sinning

• Ecosystem metabolism of tropical rivers: exploring river ecology and people perceptions - María M Castillo
• How are changes in stream water N₂:Ar and CH₄:Ar saturation ratios linked to estimates of ecosystem metabolism? - Robert S. Brown
• Green ribbon in a blue-ribbon fishery: exploring synchrony between algal biomass and river metabolism - Cora M Steinbach
• When floodplain channels desynchronize: consequences of lateral connectivity dynamics on ecosystem metabolism  - Basile BC Cousin
• Characterizing variable inundation in non-perennial streams with a terrestrial model and commercial satellite imagery - Etienne Fluet-Chouinard
• Quantifying stream metabolic stability to storm disturbance using integrated resistance and resilience metrics - Michael C Beall

Additional Session Chair: Erin Hotchkiss

• Temporal dynamics of CO₂ and CH₄ concentrations and fluxes at 27 National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) stream and river sites - Yuseung Shin
• Dissolved inorganic carbon inputs to streams are shaped by soil respiration, riparian groundwater respiration, and subsurface weathering - Ashif Hasan Abir
• High-frequency sensor evidence for widespread, condition-dependent photodegradation and recharging of aromatic DOM - Alex Collins
• Integrating biodiversity and allometric theory to explain macroecological patterns of community biomass in streams - James R Junker

• Quantifying Basal Resources of Aquatic Insect Assemblages in Beaver-Engineered Streams Using Two Stable Isotope Methods   - Abigail Hullihen
• Determining periods of beaver impoundment using floodplain softwood stress - Kendal Massey
• Beaver augmentation of BDA structures increases wetland characteristics - Susan Washko
• Using remotely sensed data to quantify the influence of beaver dams on surface water in small prairie streams. - Matt Webster
• Does size matter? Quantifying crayfish ecosystem engineering behavior across body and sediment sizes under global change - Lydia J L Bushey
• Moving mud: Ecosystem engineering by an invasive crayfish alters stream bank stability and water condition regardless of disease expression - Anna C French

• Environmental consulting and the adventures of a fish biologist - Christina Linkem
• Freshwater Science with the City of Austin - Abel Porras
• It’s a Consultant’s Life for Me: From Data to Decisions in Aquatic Ecosystem Management - Benjamin Block
• Protecting aquatic habitats in Minnesota: Science, standards, and stakeholders - Will Bouchard
• Stewards of urban watersheds: Managing stormwater in the built environment - Ariana Dionisio
• Together, we find a way: Conserving freshwater resilience at The Nature Conservancy - Peter S Levi

• Ecological Structure and Function of River Confluences - Amy R Chance
• Afromontane damselflies as indicators of freshwater ecosystem change - Lenin D Chari
• Spatial and temporal variation in the composition of Grand Canyon parasite communities, surveyed through 18s metabarcoding.   - Isaac J Schuman
• Biodiversity of Adult Odonata Communities of South Central Virginia - Scott M Starr
• Seasonal and spatial patterns of fish community composition in Tonle Sap Lake revealed by environmental DNA - YI YU

Additional Session Chairs: Erin Seybold & Adam Price

• The Impact of Non-perennial Flow Regimes and Urban Land Use on Headwater Stream Microbial Community Composition and Extracellular Enzyme Activities. - David Roberts
• Flow regime shifts alter microbial extracellular enzyme production in non-perennial river systems - Claire R Utzman
• Drying history, not connectivity, controls nitrogen processing in nonperennial streams - Sarah M Flynn
• Stream warming drives biofilm metabolism recovery following drought - Annabel R Schreiber
• Warming alters biofilm nutrient cycling recovery after drought - Jacqueline E Todd
• Seasonal and hydrologic variation influences habitat and functional structure of stream fish assemblages - Joshua D Tivin

• Cryptic chemoautotrophic and methanotrophic processes complicate the use of carbon stable isotopes in rivers - Amanda G DelVecchia
• Time-varying drivers of phenological change in an estuarine food web - Robert Fournier
• Variation in basal resource isotope values and their contributions to a keystone wetland piscivore - Matthew S. Foli
• Towards understanding the combined effects of warming and drought on stream food web stability - Nate M Heili
• Discovering in reverse: using isotopes and omics to reveal ecological interactions in microbiomes in stream ecosystems. - Jane Marks

• Salinization of lakes in west Michigan: how problematic is it?  - Alan Steinman
• Evaluating benthic macroinvertebrate communities in streamside management zones in private, working forests.  - Haley Vaglienti
• Assessing the Impact of Anthropogenically Modified Land Uses on Wetland Health - Stanley M.S Liphadzi
• Do quantitative macroinvertebrate samples from riffles and depositional habitats provide accurate estimates of stream condition across a gradient of agricultural land cover? - Brice Crum
• CONDITION OF STREAMS ACROSS BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT LANDS: ASSOCIATED STRESSORS AND TRENDS - Jennifer L Courtwright
• Transport of 6ppd-quinone in water and sediment from small streams in the Puget Sound lowlands during fall storms - Rich Sheibley

• Assessing Spatial and Temporal Variation in the Size Spectra of Benthic Macroinvertebrates in the Urban Santa Ana River - Ria Ghosh
• The Urbanization Affect: How Biodiversity is Impacted Along an Urbanization Gradient   - Cameron S Lockett
• Influence of trash substrate on biofilm growth and metabolic activity in urban streams - Gianna Parrish
• A hybrid approach to rating curve development: refining hydraulic models with field data - Andrew N Chu
• Beyond the daily average: Why high temporal resolution streamflow data matters in urban watersheds - Kristina Hopkins

The Nonperennial Ecosystem Chapter (NPE) is hosting our first chapter mixer to give members a chance to meet, mingle, talk about science, and discuss the future of the NPE Chapter.

Cost: Free to attend for members interested in joining the chapter and those already involved. Please RSVP via the registration page to confirm your attendance.

This Queer Social event is an opportunity for identifying individuals to connect in a relaxed, safe environment. All career stages are welcomed and encouraged to join, and we hope to cultivate conversations about queerness in the field of freshwater science. We ask that allies respect this as a safe space.

Cost: Free to attend for students. Please RSVP via the registration page to confirm your attendance.

Please join Dr. Robyn Smyth, permanent Program Director in the Division of Environmental Biology at the U.S. National Science Foundation, for a Lunch and Learn. Dr. Smyth will fill us in on the changes happening at NSF on many levels but focus her discussion on the questions you bring about the funding landscape at NSF. Please come ready to engage!

Cost: Free to attend for students & early career members. Please RSVP via the registration page to confirm your attendance.
*Note: Lunch is not provided, attendees need to bring their own.

About Dr Robyn Smyth
Robyn Smyth currently serves as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the Ecosystem Science division, a position held since September 2021, and previously worked as a Rotating Program Director. From August 2012 to September 2023, Robyn held the role of Associate Research Professor of Environmental and Urban Studies at Bard College, focusing on teaching, advising, and conducting freshwater research and outreach. Additionally, Robyn served as an Assistant Faculty member, teaching and advising in the Environmental and Climate Policy M.S. program. Prior experience includes a position as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, specializing in bio-physical ocean modeling, and a Knauss Fellowship at NSF, where Robyn provided staff support for the Advisory Committee for Environmental Research and Education. Robyn holds a PhD in Aquatic Biology/Limnology from UC Santa Barbara, a Master’s Degree in Water Resources from the University of Vermont, and a Bachelor of Science from Cornell University.

• Understanding thermal mixing dynamics at tributary confluences in a large managed river to enhance cold-water refuges. - Francine Mejia
• An evaluation of localized habitat manipulation effects on native and nonnative trout in springbrooks of the Snake River-floodplain, Idaho, USA - Kaitlyn Warner
• Identifying tradeoffs between agro-economics and water resources to guide future management decisions under a drier climate - Breanna Rivera Waterman
• Process-Based Ecological Restoration Involving the Local Community of the 65 Square Mile Tenmile Creek Watershed in Mendocino County, Northern California, USA - Patrick T Higgins
• Focused Q&A and Discussion Block - Sebastian Birk

• Drivers of hyporheic nitrogen concentrations across wetting, flowing, and drying periods in an intermittent stream - Alba Argerich
• Groundwater-surface water exchange influences on the longitudinal spatial distribution of toxigenic cyanobacterial proliferations in the South Fork Eel River, California, USA - Andrea Garcia Jimenez
• Hyporheic Microbial Communities at Two Central Texas Rivers - Eryl Austin-Bingamon
• Relationships between benthic and hyporheic insect communities across environmental gradients in Texas rivers - Erika E Frandsen
• Longitudinal patterns in hyporheic stygobiont distribution in a karst spring-fed river - Ben Hutchins

• Pinpointing drivers of covariance, persistence, and synchrony in stream metabolism across a heterogeneous watershed - Jonathan Behrens
• Harnessing artificial intelligence to automate environmental predictions - Avni Malhotra
• Explicit representation of hyporheic hydrology in whole-ecosystem metabolism models  - Hayley Oakland
• Duckweed (Lemna and Wolffia spp.) coverage does not alter organic matter decomposition rates in small ponds - McKenzie E Goodwyn
• Flow-driven plant removal can reduce river ecosystem metabolism - Aaron C Pelly
• A Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning Approach for Inferring Metabolism Regimes in Streams and Rivers - Peter Regier

Additional Session Chair: Wilfred Wolheim

• Using the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) aquatic sites to explore the drivers of stream particulate quantity and quality across the United States and Puerto Rico - Zacharie Loveless
• Continental-scale monitoring to identify high-nutrient, low-chlorophyll (HNLC) regions in streams and rivers - David Costello
• Environmental filtering plays a larger role than resource stoichiometry in macroinvertebrate community stoichiometry across North America. - Nathan Tomczyk
• Synthesis of global river silicon data shows long-term change, stoichiometry, and seasonality are linked to land cover/land use - Kathi Jo Jankowski

• Neutral theory and the beaver: facilitation of fish communities by ecosystem engineering. - Niall Clancy
• Macroinvertebrate and habitat responses to low-tech process-based stream restoration in northeastern Oregon - Tucker D Hoffman
• Mercury Dynamics in Beaver-Dominated Mountain Streams - Clifford Adamchak
• Influence of beaver engineering on fatty acid content and contaminant load of predatory stream insects - Emily R Arsenault

• From Streams to Landscapes: how the Tennessee Aquarium is advancing watershed conservation - Helaina Gomez
• Instream flow standards support amphidromous macrofauna in tropical island freshwater communities - Ayron M Strauch
• Mercury biomagnification across food webs with varying non-native fish presence: Implications for native fish conservation in the upper Colorado River Basin - Charles Wahl
• Aquatic macroinvertebrates at the continental scale: Using NEON data to detect community patterns - Stephanie M. Parker
• Focused Q&A and Panel Discussion - Christina Linkem

• Prioritizing watersheds to support aquatic biodiversity under changing climates - Allison Roy
• Spatial and seasonal variation in occupancy of native and invasive fishes in an aridland spring ecosystem - Matthew Troia
• Assessing patterns of freshwater fish extirpations in the southeastern United States - Eric Walther
• The effects of in-stream habitat complexity on translocated bluebreast, Tippecanoe, and variegate darter populations - Julia Glandorff

Additional Session Chairs: Frank McCormick & Christina Murphy

• Mining effects on stream physical properties from minutes to millennia - Charles M Shobe
• Mining, selenium, and the conundrum of fish-tissue based criteria in the Kootenai River, Idaho and Montana - Erin M Murray
• Assessing long-term impacts of mining in a subarctic stream - Thomas House

Additional Session Chairs: Shannon Speir & Adam Price

• Controls on nutrient export moving downstream an intermittent stream network - Karessa G De La Paz
• Spatial and Temporal Variability of Nitrogen Cycling in a Non-Perennial Stream  - Lien Tran
• Hydrologic transitions drive divergent controls on dissolved oxygen behavior in non-perennial grassland streams - Erin C Seybold
• Inundation history controls sediment oxygen consumption more strongly than pyrogenic organic matter additions in parafluvial systems  - Vanessa Garayburu-Caruso
• Non-perennial flow enhances impacts of sediment texture on hydro-biogeochemical parameterization - Yunxiang Chen
• Towards transparent, robust use of LLMs in writing peer reviewed publications - James Stegen

• Nitrogen flows in two arctic stream food webs of contrasting disturbance regime - Tori A Hebert
• Successional controls on trophic transfer in an oligotrophic river - Augustine Sitati
• Flow permanence alters size spectra of stream macroinvertebrate communities     - Chelsea R Smith
• Periphyton biomass in tropical montane streams of Puerto Rico: biotic and abiotic controls - Adriana Villanueva-Cruz
• Meta-food webs in dendritic systems: decreased resistance and increased resilience to disturbance - Sarah F Sorensen

• What is an algal bloom in a river? Diverse algal bloom types necessitate diverse research and management needs in flowing waters - Joanna R Blaszczak
• Using Hydroacoustics to Analyze Microcystis and Fish Distribution During Harmful Algal Blooms in Lake Erie - Ali Shakoor
• Extreme genome diversity, hybridization, and cryptic speciation in the toxic alga Prymnesium parvum - Jennifer Wisecaver
• Hybridization in the Toxic Bloom-Forming Microalga Prymnesium parvum - Nathan Watervoort
• Effects of repeated alum treatments on phytoplankton and zooplankton community structures in a managed urban lake. - Trajan EL Bitner
• Spatiotemporal variation in algal and bacterial assemblages associated with toxigenic benthic cyanobacteria Microcoleus and Anabaena in northern Californian rivers - Jordan Zabrecky

Additional Session Chair: Sandra Clinton

• Mind the gap: Where Clean Water Act rulemaking fails to meet the science and legislative intent in defining waters of the United States and the biodiversity left unguarded.  - Susan Colvin
• Home range size and movement of giant salamanders, Amphiuma means and Siren lacertina, in seasonally inundated, isolated wetlands - Madeline N Zickgraf
• Occupancy drivers of Midwestern headwater stream fishes in a northeastern Indiana watershed - Darren J Shoemaker
• Headwaters are fish habitat:  Fish diversity and protection status of headwater streams in the United States - Jared A Ross

Taxanomic Fair Experts & Groups Represented:

• Sean Sullivan - Various
• Bohdan Bilyj - Chiros
• Sarah Spaulding - Diatom
• Fredric Govedich - Leeches
• Michael Broomall - Misc
• Gregory Wallace - Oligochaeta
• John Pfeiffer - Beetles
• Matt Hill W - EPT

• Game of Flows: Algal functional groups & their response to the presence and absence of grazers in Texas intermittent riverine pools  - Incy Z Rojas Pina
• Benthic Macroinvertebrates and Juvenile Winter Run Chinook Salmon in Sacramento River Side Channels: Indicators of Juvenile Salmonid Habitat Quality - Jordan Kruger
• The effects of heavy metal contaminants on negative phototaxis behaviors in a common mayfly - Emily L Paul
• Unravelling environmental influences on relative biological integrity across national freshwater assessments using interpretable machine learning - A. S. Shafiuddin Ahmed
• Spring Into Summer, Crawl Into Fall: How Seasonality Affects the Results of Macroinvertebrate Bioassessments - Zara Baltzell
• Bioassessment post-introduction of endangered darters in the Muskingum River Watershed (Ohio, USA) - Elizabeth Tristano
• A dual-framework approach to stream bioassessment: morphology and DNA metabarcoding - Almando Morain
• Characterizing fluorescence signatures of grass and silver carp milt for environmental detection - Arden Fraley
• Advancing wetland forecasts for restoration planning: Can integrating flow better predict food web performance targets? - Marco Fernandez
• Open Data, Diatoms, and Decision-Making: A Pilot Application of a National Diatom MMI Using NEON Diatom Data - nesy Oja
• Biological assessment of a grazing impacted first-order stream in central California by undergraduate students - Angelina Medina
• INVURTS & NEON: Macroscale vs local effects on stream macroinvertebrate community composition - Elizabeth B Sudduth
• Carbon in the Capillaries: DOC Lability from Ice-Wedges to Rivers in Arctic Alaska - Owen Werkeiser
• Climate Change and Decomposition: How Will Temperature and Precipitation Affect Decomposition Rates in Rivers Under Future Climate Scenarios? - Ruth Morara
• Permafrost thaw causes hydrologic change in interior Alaskan upland headwater streams. - Abbey Raison
• Carbon cycling in a novel floodplain under wet-dry conditions - Samantha Holdaway
• A nitrogen river continuum model - Alicia Dixon
• Concentration-Discharge Hystereses Reveal the Dominant Hydrological and Biological Controls on Nitrate Concentration Dynamics along the Upper Clark Fork River, Montana, USA - Rylie Dupuis
• Nitrate budget for the Nyack Floodplain reach of the Middle Fork Flathead River - Danielle E. Colling
• Determining InStream Transport and Natural Complexity of eDNA: Using model eDNA methods to determine the drivers of the fate of genetic material in streams - Leonardo A Medellin
• Overlooked Nitrogen Dynamics in Reservoir Sediments: Insights from Phosphorus Flux Studies - Bradley Austin
• Seasonal fluctuations in greenhouse gas emissions and nutrients across the stream-riparian interface. - Alayna Kruse
• Distributed embedded system design and performance for dynamic temperature control in tank and mesocosm experiments - Scott Griffith
• Thresholds in the responses of Pacific chorus frogs (Pseudacris regilla) to a gradient of temperatures and a heat shock - Annika Rose-Person
• A Comparative Study on Climate Change and Geographic Origin's Impacts on Pseudacris regilla - Ashlee N Fiorito
• Biodiversity within Kalamazoo River mnomen beds - Margaret Gilbert
• Changes in biological metrics in small streams in the Puget Sound lowlands - Katie Marx
• Effects of Fish on Macroinvertebrate Community Structure in Non-Perennial Streams - Oluwatobiloba S. Adenola
• Effects of elevated and extreme temperature events on freshwater zooplankton assemblages. - Sidney Ashby
• Using Size Spectra to Analyze the Effects of Sampling Bias on Stream Macroinvertebrates - Isabelle Neville
• Baseline Survey of a Headwater Stream Before Weir Installation - Robert G Verb
• Agriculture in, Algae Out? Land Use Controls on Phytoplankton Species Diversity and Productivity - William F. Mejia
• Distribution and diversity of freshwater snails in Ichawaynochaway Creek, southwest Georgia - Courtney E. Fouke
• A cryptic concern: In situ surveillance of Cryptosporidium serpentis in wet-prairie dependent snakes of Killdeer Plains Wildlife Area - Katherine Krynak
• Response of benthic organisms to patterns of alternating channel stability along the Gasconade River, Missouri (USA) - Korinna Brandt
• The effects of sedimentation on Odonata predator and prey sensing  - Helena Loucas
• Exploring stream chemistry in post fire watersheds using a large monitoring dataset - Kaitlyn A Thomas
• The Effects of Hydrological Fluctuation and Macrophyte Species on Detrital Food Web Dynamics in Experimental Ponds - Madison Condron
• Defining Blackwater Systems through the Examination of Physicochemical and Biological Parameters - Hazel Quarterman
• Bridging a knowledge gap between the social and the ecological in riverscape restoration on the Willamette River  - Alexis C Griffin
• Stream ecosystem metabolism in a dystrophic Scottish highland tributary network. - Eric Snyder
• Endocrine and Gonadal Responses of a Tropical Catfish to Anthropogenic Environmental Stressors in Two Nigerian Lagoons    - Olusola A Akangbe
• Effects of glyphosate on growth and photophysiology of the cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa - Luca Morones-Calcagno
• Individual and Combined Effects of Fluoxetine and Microplastics on Physa acuta - Andrea Elaez Miranda
• Comparing Long-Term Educational Pond Studies at a Wildlife Sanctuary and Working Farm with Prior Intensive Inventory Results - Betsy A Colburn
• Kern River in Crisis: Rapid dewatering of the river drastically impacted fish communities - Stephaniee Florez
• Investigating the Osmoregulatory and Physiological Responses of an Aquatic Salamander (Amphiuma means) to Acute Salinity Stress: A Comparison of Coastal and Mainland Populations - Henna Gavem
• Using eDNA for Population Monitoring of American Eel (Anguilla rostrata) in the Susquehanna River Basin - Leslie Rieck
• Modeling Multiple-Stressor Effects on Stream Fish Functional Diversity and Redundancy in the Tennessee River Valley - William Meyer
• Confirmation of Species Identity and Age Estimation of Pygmy Whitefish from Sullivan Lake WA. - James Greene
• Weak complexity-stability relationships in tropical and temperate stream food webs. - Pedro Guerra
• Dynamics of flow intermittency affect cross-directional trophic subsidies of ephemeral streams - Sophia M Davis
• Butterflies and turtle tears: lachryphagy is common and widespread in tropical South America - Adam L.S. Cannella
• Do freshwater mussel beds influence the nutritional quality of aquatic subsidies? - Antonio J Tirotta
• Pathways of pigments: Investigating carotenoid dynamics in lake food webs   - Nora Yousefi
• Environmental DNA (eDNA) as a tool for rare freshwater mussel detection and restoration planning - Mickala D. Stratton
• Effects of varying preservation methods on freshwater mussel fatty acid profiles - Kaydence Dubroc
• Non-lethal methods to create length-mass regressions for freshwater mussels: calculate biomass of two native species in western North America from shell length - Lusha M Tronstad
• Assessing native, freshwater mussel distribution in the Great Lakes National Forests - Shay S. Keretz
• Age and growth in five species of freshwater mussels in Bogue Chitto River, Louisiana - Jennifer L Haase
• Exploring historical trends in Wyoming freshwater mussel distribution through an archaeological collection - Alexis H. Hollander
• Trends in sediment and nutrient concentrations at multiple temporal scales in a southwest Ohio watershed. - Brock Anderson
• Hyporheic resilience: Invertebrate communities minimally affected by variable channel stability along a gravel-bed river. - Connor Bruemmer
• How does fire stewardship affect carbon cycling in wetlands? - Vic Secondine
• Limnological monitoring of Lake Roosevelt for tribal fisheries resilience - Linnea A Rock
• Shapley Solutions for Sustainability: Contextualizing Equitable Cost-Sharing in Rural Water Infrastructure Financing in Nepal   - Subodh Sharma
• Assessing the Impacts of Microplastic Pollution on Lasthenia fremontii in California Vernal Pool Ecosystems - Maddison F Orquiz
• Effects of drying frequency and duration on ecosystem metabolism in non-perennial streams - Connor L Brown
• Ten Years of Timber Harvest Effects on Stream Intermittency in Southwest Washington - Welles Bretherton
• Adult emergence in aquatic insects: contrasting intermittent and perennial mountain streams at the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest - Tatiana Latorre
• Precipitation Effects on fDOM C-Q Relationships of Intermittent Streams in Kansas - Claudia O Dorantes
• National horizon scan of terrestrial and aquatic invertebrates assessing the social media pathway of the pet trade - Emillee R Monahan
• Ecological traits mediate contrasting effects of stream network connectivity on the success of invasive fish   - Jonah Piscitelli
• Ecological and Hydrological Thresholds Differentiating Native and Non-native Fish Occurrence in Great Plains Streams - Gavin P Sáenz
• Combining bioenergetic and demographic modeling to estimate consumption of native organisms by invasive Sacramento Pikeminnow in the Eel River, California - Alexander Juan
• Impact of Polystyrene Microplastics on the Bioaccumulation of Silver Nanoparticles in Daphnia magna - Sara Kamanmalek
• A survey of gastropods across the state of Missouri using a wide-spread volunteer participatory science network - Hannah Griffis
• Macroinvertebrate assemblages associated with blackwater streams and wetlands in Alabama - Barrie Sullivan
• Hydropsychidae density and diversity in relation to substrate embeddedness and flow in the Spokane River watershed - Patrick Frerks
• Cicadas in the Stream: Quantifying Periodical Cicada Drift Densities in Streams - Andrew Wildman
• Effects of nutrient enrichment and groundwater calcium on gastropod distribution in the Spokane River watershed - Christopher Close
• Evaluating the utility of functional feeding groups for predicting aquatic insect diet: a case study from Sucker Brook, New York, USA  - Alex A Bautista
• Impact of physico-chemical & hydraulic variables and crayfish occurrence on hellgrammite populations - Sam Wilson
• Tributary Macroinvertebrate Drift Providing Food Resources to the Mainstem Kootenai River - Aisling Hall
• Woody wetlands as productivity hotspots: contrasting macroinvertebrate biomass and diversity across land use gradients in the Pend Oreille Basin - Devlin Mee
• Influence of Limestone Quarry Discharge on Benthic Macroinvertebrate Communities - Leslie A Riley
• Developing new genetic barcodes for endemic Idaho snowflies to improve biodiversity conservation and stream monitoring - Jack Stafford
• The impacts of wildfire and rising temperatures on Spiny Mayfly (Ephemerellidae) diversity and abundance in the Pend Oreille watershed  - Brent Bowlen
• Does elevation outweigh urbanization in shaping BMI communities? - Parsa Saffarinia
• Disentangling climate vulnerability in lentic and lotic odonates using trait-based and geographic metrics - Wade A Boys
• Documenting the presence of Plecoptera in fire-affected mountain streams of the H.J Andrews Experimental Forest. - Sophia M Lopez
• New Jersey’s Reference Lake Monitoring Network: A Look at Seven Minimally Disturbed Lakes Across the State - Carly Conticchio
• From open water to wetland: Evaluating changes in shoreline dynamics in Amazonian floodplain lakes - Davia A Anthony
• A Disturbance in the Watershed: The Influence of Land Use on Stream Impairment Across New Jersey  - Alice Belskis
• Assessing the Impact of Flood Potential and Geographic Features on Water Quality and Pollutant Mitigation in Central Massachusetts Water Bodies - Corey J Charron
• Assessing land-use and seasonal drivers of volatile and nonvolatile suspended solids in Southwestern Ohio streams   - Lauren-Grace Ballenger
• We (mostly) haven't used a p-value in ten years, and so can you - Jeff Wesner
• The Influence of Land Use on the Biotic Composition and Function of Southeastern Coastal Streams - Jane A Jones
• Aquatic insect subsidies mediate seasonal bat activity in the Grand Canyon - Margaret Mattson
• Hidden Reservoirs: Native Fishes Harbor Greater Genetic Diversity Than Nonnatives in the Lower Colorado River–Grand Canyon Ecosystem - Colin J Grosvenor
• Microbiome Diversity Differences Amongst Fish Species in the Colorado River. - Westley J Swindell
• Injury Rates and Condition Factor as Indicators of Health in Native Fish of the Modified Colorado River Ecosystem - Emily K Brouwers
• Development of a Web-based Conservation Map and Prioritization Model for the Middle Rio Grande Riparian Bosque, central New Mexico, USA - Mackenzie Stamey
• Environmental drivers of bacterial community composition in 46 headwater streams in the upper Delaware River Basin, USA - Steven T Rier
• Arsenic contamination drives homogenizing selection in freshwater lake periphyton - Jessica Z Buser Young
• Polyphasic identification of filamentous cyanobacteria from  anatoxin-a-producing mats in the Shenandoah River - Bruce Cahoon
• Linking Genotype to Phenotype: How Cryptic Diversity Shapes Prymnesium parvum Blooms in Inland Waters - Timilehin Jeje
• Investigating the impacts of land use on aquatic biodiversity within an agricultural watershed using environmental DNA - Jenna Benson
• Investigating the impact of glyphosate-containing herbicides on Aeromonas growth - Deeya Chandran
• Bacterial Isolates from Mill Creek River Pre and Post Fire - Gordon P Fomusoh
• The combined effect of temperature and light on the growth and photophysiology of the bloom-forming cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa  - Audrey O'Hara
• Predator-prey interactions and body morphology of freshwater species under thermal stressors. - Charlie Wyman
• Aquatic ecosystems under pressure: how anthropogenic land use and flow regimes shape stream macroinvertebrate communities and organic matter decomposition - Hannah VanWinkle-Kirtlink
• Assessing the influence of specific conductivity on fish traits in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed - Rio Palmeira
• High resolution UV-VIS observations of DOM gradients in the North American Great Lakes - Alex Collins
• Leaf litter decomposition as a proxy for ecosystem services of riparian forest composition with macroinvertebrate and microbial community assessment - Hana Sato
• Leaf litter decomposition patterns at a continental scale: leverage the NEON network to understand detrital food webs  - Caricia C. Alcantar
• Characterizing the Abundance, Composition, and Transport of Fine Particulate Organic Matter (FPOM) in South Sandy Creek Watershed, Alabama - Sneha Paudel
• Microplastic seasonal variation in coastal shellfish and sediments linked with estuary protection status and watershed anthropogenic development - Alexandra J Brown
• Microplastics in the Tittabawassee-Saginaw River: an analysis of freshwater river microplastic pollution based in varying landscapes - Rachel Rassette
• Influence of Urbanization on Microplastic Pollution in River Systems: A Comparative Analysis of Brevard (USA) and Karatina (Kenya) - Marcella Steele
• Mapping Wetland Inundation Regimes using Google’s AlphaEarth Embeddings: A Case Study in the Florida Everglades - Jenna Abrahamson
• Hydroelectric Dam Removal and River Restoration in Elba, AL - Sydney Bernard
• Building a toolbox for monitoring small estuary restorations in Puget Sound - Wesley Hull
• Do constructed wetlands support aquatic top predators? - Ethan I Isaac
• Uncovering the ecological upshots of uncovering urban streams. - Brynn E Kayhill
• Hydrologic response to beaver dam analogs in a semi-arid intermittent stream - Taylor Cain
• Vegetation restoration impacts on water temperature, light, and insect emergence patterns along Stroubles creek - Kathleen Groarke
• Two years of benthic macroinvertebrate community recovery following low-head dam removal in a semi-arid Rocky Mountain stream - Charles M Shobe
• The Mountain Futures YouTube Channel: Sharing Mountain Science With a Global Audience - Scott Hotaling
• Meet the Neighbors: Microcaddisflies (Trichoptera: Hydroptilidae) of the Willamette Basin, Oregon, USA - Bill Gerth
• Community Structure and Food Web Dynamics in the Face of Invasion: Using Round Goby (Neogobius melanostomus) as a Model System - Elise Rinke
• From Reaches to Regions: A Decade of NEON Sediment Data Reveals Patterns Across Freshwater Ecosystems - Zachary Nickerson
• Characterizing Macrophyte Communities and Abundance of Macroinvertebrates in the Deep Meandering Section of the Kootenai River  - Christopher A. C. Brooks
• Investigating spatial patterns of denitrification potential and soil nutrient stocks in a beaver-created ecosystem - Skylar K Ross
• Do beaver ponds serve as sinks or sources of greenhouse gases?  - Marissa Ortiz
• Impact of water temperature and competition on distribution of invasive crayfishes Procambarus clarkii and Faxonius rusticus in an urban river system - Rachel Egly
• Drivers of Crayfish Community Composition in the Altamaha River Basin of Georgia - Evan Wahmhoff
• Modeling the influence of environmental factors on invasive P. clarkii Catch Per Unit Effort in an urban river system - Penelope Reynolds
• Assessing Aquatic Ecosystem Resilience: Bioaccumulation Potential of 6PPD-Q in Rusty Crayfish - Mary Engels
• Influence of harmful algal blooms on mercury cycling in New York lakes - Donovan S Vitale
• Phytoplankton communities and risk of harmful cyanobacteria blooms in urban stormwater ponds contaminated by road salt - Merit Williams
• Bolstering the mercury biosentinel toolbox: riparian spiders and dragonfly larvae show strong agreement across exposure gradients - Madeline Hannappel
• Experimental insights on how selenium speciation drives sediment, biofilm, and macroinvertebrate bioaccumulation - Michelle E Fillion
• Employing passive samplers for monitoring urban stream health and informing management of 6PPD-q - Jeremy Walls
• Temporal and interspecific variation in mercury between three avian species in northwest Greenland - Nicole Fordree
• Ghost Forest Forensics: What drives variation in soil carbon emissions in coastal forested wetlands? - Joshua Goozman
• From sediment to invertebrates: tracking metal uptake from 27 years of data on the Clark Fork River - Christopher A Hyder
• The Effects of Toxic Trace Metals on Macroinvertebrate Secondary Production in the Spokane River Watershed - Sadie Gray
• Concentrations and trends of metals in Alaskan transboundary river sediments - Julia David
• Use of long-term dataset to evaluate how strongly selenium concentrations in fine sediment and fine particulate organic matter correlate to selenium concentrations in benthic macroinvertebrate tissues - Jennifer Shanteau
• Insecticides in intermittent streams and their effects on non-target macroinvertebrates - Milton F Svetanics
• Seasonal emergence patterns of a diverse assemblage of Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, and Trichoptera in two non-perennial headwater streams  - Tanner L Conwell
• Influences of fish on ameletid mayfly and nemourid stonefly adult body size in two small, non-perennial streams.  - Lily A Smith
• Spatiotemporal variation in ecosystem functioning in a semi-arid intermittent river - Hannah A Mattes
• Where Cattle Meet the River: Predicting Stream Susceptibility to Grazing Disturbance Using Fuzzy Logic - Andrew Britton
• Investigating dispersal modes of macroinvertebrate occupants of mussel beds  - Jonah A Fronk
• Ichthyological teaching collection curation by undergraduate students - Cole Yoklavich
• Working at the confluence of wildfire, hydrology, drinking Water, and human dimensions  - Riley Barton
• Investigating the role of landscape connectivity on dissolved organic matter and nitrogen dynamics in an ice-wedge permafrost landscape - Claire G Griffin
• Announcing the second edition of “Where Rivers Are Born: The Scientific Imperative to Protect Small Streams and Wetlands” - Seth Wenger
• Diversity and Ecological Roles of Pupil Shapes in Freshwater Stream Fishes of the United States   - Mobin H. Shohan
• Investigating fish assemblage response to wildfire and fire regime in a wilderness river network.  - Heather Swartz
• Investigating the predator-permanence hypothesis for macroinvertebrates in southeastern lentic habitats - Scott Messick
• Nutrient Enhancement in the Westside Tributaries to the Kootenai River in Northern Idaho: Using Alternative Measures to Increase Productivity - Campbell Olson
• Quantifying areal excretion and egestion rates of endemic freshwater snail Elimia boykiniana in a low-gradient, karst stream - Tayton C Alvis
• Evaluating paired air and stream temperatures as a method to monitor process based restoration - Nathan Tomczyk
• Opportunities In Integrated Ecosystem and Water Chemistry Data for Springs in the Valley and Ridge Province of Central Appalachia - Emma Hall
• Hidden in plain sight: freshwater sponges in eastern Washington - Kayla Dickson
• Impact of urbanization on the behavior of freshwater invertebrates - Riley Westman
• INVURTS + NEON: temperature variability measures for rural and urban streams of the eastern U.S. - Patricia A Saunders
• Does Raw Sewage Fuel Food Webs in Urban Streams with Failing Infrastructure? - Jason Aguirre
• Restoration monitoring of large floodplain wetland - Leslie Rieck
• Evaluating the effects of hydrologic variability on the population dynamics of a burrowing crayfish - Christina M. Tilley
• Active vegetation management increases metaphytic mats and shifts aquatic animal communities in degraded wetlands - Ariana Jonas
• Management of Urban Stormwater Runoff using Green Stormwater Infrastructure - Chelsea Crenshaw

This BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) event is intended to create a safe space for identifying members to connect and share their experiences as marginalized members within freshwater sciences. Meet other BIPOC scientists and use this time to reflect on your experiences back home and at the conference. We ask that allies respect this as a safe space.

Cost: Free to attend for students. Please RSVP via the registration page to confirm your attendance.

Join us at the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture for an enjoyable evening spent with colleagues and friends while enjoying good food, drinks and the museum exhibitions.
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