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
• Long-term patterns in macroinvertebrate communities of the Willamette basin, Oregon - Aurooba AS Shafquat
• Do Geophysical Habitat Types and Their Network-Scale Diversity Predict Fish Species Richness Across Freshwater Ecoregions? - Abhiram Pamula
• Impacts from hydrologic variability on juvenile salmonid movement and growth at tributary confluences - Blake Toney
• 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

• 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
• The forgotten utility: 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
• Exploring Labeobarbus species (pisces: cyprinidae) diversity through barcoding across tributaries of the Lake Victoria Basin, Kenya - Emily Jepyegon Chemoiwa
• 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

• 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
• Influence of Reservoir Structure on Fish Community, Development, and Trophic Interactions in Puerto Rico  - Angel Sebastian Estruche Santos
• 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
• Socioeconomic gradients shape water quality in urban streams of São Paulo, Brazil - Beatriz BGP Guedes-Pereira
• 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

• Understanding thermal mixing dynamics at tributary confluences in a large managed river to enhance cold-water refuges. - Francine H 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

• 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
• Synthesis of global river silicon data shows long-term change, stoichiometry, and seasonality are linked to land cover/land use - Kathi Jo Jankowski
• 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
• Arkansas’s calm before the storm: Sub-seasonal weather whiplash intensifies following a multi-decadal decline - Shannon L Speir

• Neutral theory and the beaver: facilitation of fish communities by ecosystem engineering. - Niall G Clancy
• Juvenile coho salmon shift foraging tactics across current velocities and prey densities - Tyson B. Hallbert
• 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

• 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

• 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

• Relative allochthonous and autochthonous carbon assimilation and their contribution to secondary production following a major disturbance in a tropical stream - Pablo E. Gutierrez-Fonseca
• 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

• 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
• Examination of stygofauna ecosystems of the Beetaloo Sub-basin in Australia's wet-dry tropics - Paul McInerney
• 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

• A comparative study of fatty acid compositions and pigments in different Limnospira fusiformis strains cultured in anaerobic digestion effluent of water hyacinth - MOST FAHIMA AHMED ANNY
• 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
• Climate–water quality pathways shaping fish biodiversity in the Upper Niger Basin - Abdullahi A. Ibrahim
• 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
• On the development of ecological and reproductive traits at novel elevations in Odonata: A reciprocal transplant experiment - Martha R Young
• 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
• Effects of deforestation on water quality, with a focus on Total Organic Carbon (TOC), from Amazon streams - Flávio H. Souza
• 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
• Road–Stream Crossings and Freshwater Biodiversity in Puerto Rico - Christopher E Orozco Gonzalez
• 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
• Ecological Degradation and Carbon Footprint of a Rejuvenated Urban Lake: Linking Hyper-Eutrophication to Greenhouse Gas Emissions   - Amit Singh
• Land use change, nutrient export, and water quality degradation in the Upper Barataria Basin: an integrated assessment for fisheries management in Lac des Allemands, Louisiana, USA - Taherunnesa Rahi
• 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
• Age-0 lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) habitat selection in two Michigan rivers: Preliminary results - John Lawrence
• 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
• Effects on microplastics on redox conditions along hyporheic flow paths - Victoria Haneline
• How does fire stewardship affect carbon cycling in wetlands? - Victoria 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
• Understanding how Rewetting Events in Intermittent Rivers Impact Microbial Communities - Jun Sheng Lee
• 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
• Spatial and temporal dynamics of benthic macroinvertebrates in the primary successional streams of Mount St. Helens - Shannon M Claeson
• 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
• Monitoring Glyphosate in the Spokane River watershed: Seasonal trends in two key tributaries - Georgia LaPlante
• 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
• Heatwaves in the Willamette River: 23-year analysis of Frequency, Duration, Intensity, and Recovery - Sumon K. Das
• 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
• Beyond k: Probabilistically modeling time-varying patterns of leaf litter breakdown - Caleb Robbins
• 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  - Rocio Caricia C. Alcantar
• Characterizing seston and fine benthic particulate matter in South Sandy Creek Watershed, Alabama - Sneha Paudel
• Controlling for the effects of nutrient supply and litter quality to constrain the temperature sensitivity of leaf-litter decomposition by microbes and detritivores in streams - Sam Buswell
• 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
• The impacts of floodplain reconnection on stream ecosystems.       - Elisa Mickelson
• 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
• Aquifer to Estuary: Linking Groundwater Source Mixing to Stream and Salmon Responses - Tyelyn Brigino
• Working at the confluence of wildfire, hydrology, drinking Water, and human dimensions  - Katie Wampler
• 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
• Age-0 lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) habitat selection in two Michigan rivers: Preliminary results - Elliot Hoinville
• 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

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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