Annual Meeting of Irish Freshwater Biologists 2011
5th of March 2011 – Medical Biology Centre, Queens University, Belfast
To register: cheque/postal order for €15/£13 payable to the National Biodiversity Data Centre.
Closing date for registration: 25 February 2011
9.30-10.00 – REGISTRATION
10.00 – Welcome– Dr Mary Kelly-Quinn, chair of the National Biodiversity Data Centre
Chair for session – Dr Mary Kelly-Quinn (talks =12 minutes + questions)
10.15 – Bad Biology, Good Chemistry: Contrasting evidence for water quality recovery in streams – Dr Bob Foy (AFBI)
10.30 - High Resolution Instrumented Platforms capable of Sensing key Limological Variables – Elizabeth Ryder (DKIT)
10.45 - A novel approach to mitigation of effects of hydropower dams on downstream migrating eels – Ruairi MacNamara (NUI, Galway)
11.00 - A combined isotopic, morphometric and genetic perspective on the three-spine stickleback in Ireland – Mark Ravinet (Queens)
11.15 – COFFEE BREAK
Chair for session – Dr Pascal Sweeney (talks =12 minutes + questions)
11.40 – Effects of altered habitat structure on littoral macroinvertebrates – Tamara Jurca (TCD)
11.55 - As dull as ditch water? - Elevating the status of the undervalued drainage ditch – Dr Jane Kavanagh
12.10 - The dynamics of iron deposition in streams and its effects on aquatic ecology – Dr Katrina Macintosh
12.25 - The use of water beetles in habitat assessment: progress towards an Irish manual – Dr Brian Nelson (NPWS), Prof Garth Foster, Dr Áine O Connor (NPWS)
12.40 - The use of behaviour in studies of freshwater ecology – Dr Jamie Dick (Queens)
12.55 - Songs from the Waters of Pollardstown Fen – Dr Tom Lawrence (DCU)
1.10 – LUNCH
Chair for session – Dr Ken Irvine (talks =12 minutes + questions)
2.15 - Motorway construction: Assessing the impact of sediment on Salmo trutta eggs – Letizia Cocchiglia (UCD)
2.30 – The Lough Derg Native Fish Biodiversity Project – Dr Fran Igoe (Irish Char Conservation Group)
2.45 - Roach in Ireland – trophic flexibility of a successful invader – Dr Brian Hayden (Queens)
3.00 - An atlas of freshwater fish in Irish lakes – Dr Úna Fitzpatrick (National Biodiversity Data Centre)
3.15 – Nutrient enrichment and stream salmonids in Ireland – Dr Conor Graham (UCC)
3.30 – A stitch in time – early warning system for invasive species – Colette O'Flynn (National Biodiversity Data Centre)
3.45 - COFFEE BREAK (Chair for next session – Dr Chris Harrod)
4.00 - Selective bait trapping: A novel approach to sampling lake benthic invertebrates– Dariusz Nowak (NUI, Galway)
4.15 - Landscape characteristics determine whether ecosystems are stabilized or destabilized by nutrient enrichment – Dr Ian Donohue (Trinity)
4.30 - Key biodiversity hotspots for freshwater invertebrates– Dr Eugenie Regan (National Biodiversity Data Centre)
4.45 - OPEN DISCUSSION & FINISH
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