Thursday, 21st May Society for Freshwater Science 2026 Annual Meeting

• Long-term resilience, regime shifts and recovery of aquatic communities in metal-contaminated watersheds - William Clements

• Monitoring benthic macroinvertebrates in urban stream restorations - Chris Ruck
•  Monitoring long-term water quality benefits of urban stream restoration - Kira D Burnett
• Effects of tropical forest  restoration on  stream invertebrate and periphyton communities. - Paula dos Reis Oliveira
• Stream restoration reorganizes riparian arthropod communities along lateral gradients - Katelyn P Driscoll

• Urbanization restructures but does not consistently reduce freshwater pond biodiversity - Julia Portmann
• Tolerant taxa and hydrologic isolation lead to few landscape effects on water chemistry and aquatic invertebrate communities in restored agricultural wetlands in central Wisconsin. - Jered Studinski
• Spatial distribution and hydrology as controls on aquatic insect beta diversity across geographically isolated wetlands - Elizabeth Sicking
• Essential fatty acid and methylmercury fluxes from emerging aquatic insects: implications for wetland insectivores - Alan J Mock
• Community responses to environmental variation in alpine pond ecosystems - Mia Ashby
• Chironomid community composition in alpine ponds - Mason Chow

• Islands in the stream: Aquatic bryospheres are sites of high nitrogen-fixation in oligotrophic headwaters - Heili Lowman
• Nutrient Load Scaling: Deviations in Nested Relationships   - Jazzmyn Luna
• Frequent hypoxia increases the potential for benthic sediment P release within the Maumee River, OH - Sophie E Dziekan
• Partitioning assimilatory and dissimilatory processes in ammonium uptake in response to light availability and biofilm colonization using experimental streams - Anna Vincent
• Two Decades of Nutrient Sampling in the Klamath River, CA, Reveal Impacts of Dams and Agricultural Pollution across Time and Space - John R. Oberholzer Dent
• Two-station Models for Estimating Nitrate Uptake in Rivers - Robert Hall

Additional Session Chairs: Carla Lopez Lloreda & Natalie Griffiths

• Effect of warming on solute fluxes from peatland streams: synthesizing results from a 10-year, whole-ecosystem experiment - Natalie Griffiths
• Seasonal hydrology effects on CO2 and CH4 emissions from a geographically isolated cypress swamp in the Southeastern United States - Chloe Hall
• Linking oxygen and carbon dynamics to characterize dominant biogeochemical processes in headwater wetlands - Carla López Lloreda
• The interactive effects of hydrology and plant species on freshwater wetland CH₄ cycling. - Aileen Taylor
• Examining Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Nitrous Oxide in a Restored Wetland Receiving Elevated Nitrate Loads - Jonathan Norton
• EVALUATING CHEMICAL SIGNATURES IN CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS TREATING RECLAIMED WATER: A COMPARATIVE STUDY WITH NATURAL WETLANDS - Chamoda P.D.M. Dissanayake

Additional Session Chair: Julian Olden

• The Presence of Regulated Crayfish Species in Aquarium Stores in the Great Lakes States - William Ota
• Do invasive crayfish have a metabolic advantage over native crayfish? - Brian Helms
• Assessing structural barriers as a potential method of containing the spread of an invasive crayfish - Jacob B. Watson
• The Invasive Crayfish Collaborative: translating science into regional coordination and action - Natalia Szklaruk
• Assessing environmental, spatial, and phylogenetic drivers in crayfish assemblages of the Ogeechee River - Reginald Turner
• Persistence of crayfish populations on coastal barrier islands of the southeastern USA - Nicholas A Macias

• Restoration in riverscapes: using spatial food-web modelling to inform restoration planning - Holly Harris
• Testing thermal niche adaptations on energy demands between high- and low-elevation fishes within benthic and pelagic habitat guilds - Karmann Kessler
• Use of Thermal Refugia by Brown Trout on the North Branch Au Sable River, Michigan - Logan D. Clark
• Diet of Pygmy Whitefish Prosopium coulterii in Sullivan Lake, Pend Oreille County, Washington - Haley Bedell
• Assessing the potential for evolutionary rescue in imperiled Southern Plains fish species - Kasey Pruett
• FUTURE HABITAT SUITABILITY OF NATIVE, NON-NATIVE, AND GAME FISHES ACROSS FIVE LARGE LANDSCAPES - Taylor Woods

• Holistic approach to lake restoration - Johnny S Richardson
• Cross-Sectoral Governance for Water-Linked Disease Risk Management in South Africa: A Qualitative Review of Constitutional, Legislative, and Policy Frameworks - Chika F Nnadozie
• Incorporating angler perspectives and ecological evidence to inform management of non-native fish interactions with native Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout in the Teton River Basin, Idaho - Lucas Ellingson-Cosenza
• Abundance and types of anthropogenic litter in southeast Pennsylvania headwater streams and effects of single-use plastic bans - Megan Fork

Additional Session Chairs: Sooyeon Yi & Ted Grantham

• Establishing a Functional Flows Framework for Rivers and Wetlands in the Great Salt Lake Basin - Noelle Patterson
• Ecological risk assessment of flow alteration: A regional, multi-species framework for flow management  - Kris Taniguchi-Quan
• Climate and hydrologic environmental thresholds for stream fish species and assemblages across flow regimes - Dan Magoulick
• Trait-based Prediction of Fish Assemblage Response to Hydrologic Alteration - Mark B. Lueders

• Charades, association games, improvisation, and videography: Fun, interactive, and effective activities for ice breakers, science communication, and outreach - Juliana D'Andrilli
• Science Communication and Outreach in the Age of Film:  How to Expand Audiences by Turning Science into Stories with Documentary Film - Brandon Gaesser
• River Stories: The Kalamazoo River in Watercolor - Bonnie F Lord
• Grab some attention! Twelve minutes to dramatically enhance your poster or slides . . . in PowerPoint - Daniel McGarvey

• Are positive effects associated with ecosystem engineers detectable at large scales: Beyond mesocosms and mechanisms  - Samuel F Fritz
• Positive biotic interactions homogenize metacommunities - Akira Terui
• Effects of climate stressors on positive outcomes of ecosystem engineers: Current patterns and future expectations - Lindsey K Albertson
• How invasion can create evolutionary mismatches that decouple positive interactions in a freshwater cleaning symbiosis: consequences for crayfish plague - Bryan Brown
• Bugs care how many hippos are there - Therese Frauendorf
• Trophic highways and dead ends: Algal identity regulates nutrient flux and energy transfer in stream food webs - Michael C Zampini

Free to attend for members of the chapter and those interested in joining the chapter.

• From reservoirs to rivers: documenting ecosystem recovery and project success after two years of the Klamath River Renewal Project restoration journey. - Caitlin Boise
• Fish community response after dam removal: eDNA metabarcoding reveals diversity recovery and short-and-long term impacts - Stephanie Burnette
• How can afforestation benefit or impair hydrological processes and aquatic ecosystems in tropical regions? - Silvio Ferraz

• Comparing the effects of climate and land use changes on stream communities - John R Olson
• Bioenergetic plasticity of larval Chironomidae across an Icelandic stream thermal gradient - Sam J Larkin
• Očhéthi and Wóuŋspe: How Freemont Cottonwood Origin and Growth History Shape Microbial Response to Stream Warming - Amanda Rouillard
• Impact of Climate Change on Macroinvertebrate Functional Traits in the Pacific Northwest - David Wooster
• No snow? Do years with lower snowpack have warmer summer stream temperatures and lower streamflow? - Sherri L Johnson

• Carbon availability mediates nutrient removal in high-arctic streams in NE Greenland. - Jennifer L. Tank
• Oxygen dynamics regulate sediment-water phosphorus exchange in agricultural headwater streams - Grace A Watson
• Heterogeneous Freshwater and Solute Export from a Mountainous Headwater Stream Network - William F. Mejia-Garcia
• Particulate organic nitrogen losses partially offset nitrogen retention in a plant-dominated river - Sarah S Roley
• Stream warming and light availability mediate post-disturbance recovery of nutrient uptake rates and reach-scale metabolism. - Ryan T Meyer
• Scaling Nitrogen Fixation in a Coastal California River - Steve Thomas

Additional Session Chairs: Phoenix Rogers & Shuo Chen

• Dissolved organic matter primarily determines the potential microbial nutrient acquisition strategy in stormwater ponds in Florida, USA - Shuo Chen
• Carbon reactivity in freshwaters across the continental US was related to climate and organic matter composition - Jake Hosen
• Browning or Clearing: Does recovery of acidification consistently alter dissolved organic carbon exports from small watersheds? - Jonathan P. Gilman
• Context matters: how riparian forest restoration and landscape resilience shape water quality in headwater streams - João Miguel Merces Bega
• Organic matter dynamics in a coastal plain watershed: insights from nested synoptic sampling of dissolved and particulate optical properties in the Southeastern United States. - Laura M Phillips

Additional Session Chair: William Ota

• Thermal ecology meets disease: stress responses to crayfish plague in Faxonius virilis - Stacy A Schmidt
• Exotic or Endangered: The Conservation Paradox of Translocated Astacopsis gouldi Populations - Caitlin Silberberg
• Crayfish effects on salmonids in fresh waters: A synthesis of current knowledge and research priorities - Julian Olden
• Focused Q&A and Further Discussion Block - William Ota

• The effects of microplastic uptake on amphibian growth and development - Andre Felton
• Fish community structure, diet composition, and gut microbiome of the two dominant fish species in an African savanna river  - Joshua Benjamin
• Local environmental factors outweigh spatial factors in shaping beta-diversity patterns of tropical island fish assemblages - Kai Chen
• Decadal trends in native and non-native fish assemblages in the Willamette River in Oregon - Stan Gregory

• Seeing the Unseen: Serendipity, Perception, and the Science Hidden in Plain Sight     - Amy Burgin
• Navigating uncharted waters: establishing practical and cost-effective methodologies for environmental RNA (eRNA) - Elise Snyder
• Flawed theory or lack of biological understanding?: Responses of benthic macroinvertebrate taxa to environmental alteration in western USA streams are neither strongly nor predictably associated with biological traits - Charles P Hawkins
• Kern River in Crisis: Lessons learned while exploring how excessive water loss transforms the ecology of a river ecosystem - Rae E McNeish
• From Closed Doors to Open Windows: Reflections on “Failure”, Interdisciplinarity, and Opportunities in Academia and Non-Academia - Ryan McManamay
• Persist, persist, and if necessary, pivot – lessons from establishing model ecosystems in the lab - Angus Webb

Additional Session Chairs: Sooyeon Yi & Ted Grantham

• Opportunities for accelerating flow regime restoration - Seth Wenger
• Can Hydrologically Relevant Stormwater Management Regulations Improve In-stream Biological Conditions?  A 20-year Case Study from Northern Kentucky. - Matt Wooten
• Transitioning: Evaluating approaches to flow ramp-down in a complex floodplain system - Alex A Stacy
• Causal Inference, Adaptive Management and Environmental Flows: a Cool Mix - Charles Yackulic
• Evaluating environmental flow performance in California’s Central Valley under alternative management scenarios - Sooyeon Yi

Additional Session Chair: Fredric Govedich

• Teaching taxonomy to undergraduate students - Fredric R Govedich
• Think global, teach local: Engaging undergraduates in long-term monitoring of temperature, stream flow, and biological indicators in local headwater streams. - Shannon J O'Leary
• Building Interdisciplinary Capacity in Urban Science Through the REMUS REU Program - Sandra Clinton
• Indigenous student engagement in freshwater field education: lessons, challenges, and opportunities - Carolyn Cummins
• Focused Q&A & Discussion Block - Patina Mendez

Additional Session Chairs: Emma Thrift-Cahall, Jennifer Tank & AJ Reisinger

• Agricultural land use and hydrology controls patterns and persistence of multiple antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs) in an agricultural stream - Emma M. Thrift-Cahall
• Acclimation in action: Recycled water boosts nutrient uptake over time - Ashley Hennessey
• Watershed land use influences the prevalence of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in streams and rivers - Mitchell J. Liddick
• Exploring the interaction between stream warming and benthic biofilms on the fate and transport of antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs) using experimental mesocosms - Grace C Krane