COS 1 - Aquatic Ecology: Streams And Rivers I

Monday, August 6, 2012: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
A103, Oregon Convention Center
1:30 PM
 Vegetative dispersal in riparian vegetation: Processes and impacts in braided rivers
Travis A. Henspeter, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities; Susan M. Galatowitsch, University of Minnesota
1:50 PM
 Effects of reservoir operations on aquatic macroinvertebrate community composition and production in the Deadwood River, Idaho
Claire C. McGrath, USDA Forest Service; Elizabeth E. Rosenberger, USDA Forest Service; James H. McCutchan Jr., University of Colorado; Robin D. Bjork, USDA Forest Service
2:10 PM
 Climate change and microbial mats in Antarctic meltwater streams: Modeling the scouring of mats by flood pulses
Diane M. McKnight, University of Colorado; Lee F. Stanish, University of Colorado; Diana R. Nemergut, University of Colorado; James Cullis, University of Colorado
2:30 PM
 Variable flow effects on phyto- and zooplankton at the river-estuary transition in the San Joaquin River, CA
Mark S. Brunell, University of the Pacific; Gary M. Litton, University of the Pacific; Nigel W. T. Quinn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; William T. Stringfellow, University of the Pacific
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
 Modeling riparian buffer restoration impacts on water quality in the upper Green River watershed of Kentucky and Tennessee
Ouida W. Meier, Western Kentucky University; Christopher Johanson, Western Kentucky University
3:40 PM
 Evaluating the impacts of wildfire on California coastal stream food webs
Michael P. Beakes, Simon Fraser University; Jonathan W. Moore, Simon Fraser University
4:00 PM
 Does watershed land use influence freshwater fish assemblages in San Francisco Bay Area streams?
Kristina M. Cervantes-Yoshida, University of California, Berkeley; Robert A. Leidy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Stephanie Carlson, University of California, Berkeley
4:20 PM
 Geothermal stream ecosystems in a changing world
Jon Olafsson, Institute of Freshwater Fisheries; Groa V. Ingimundardottir, Icelandic Institue of Natural History; Iris Hansen, Institute of Freshwater Fisheries; Ragnhildur Th. Magnusdottir, Institute of Freshwater Fisheries; Sesselja G. Sigurdardottir, North East Iceland Nature Center
4:40 PM
 Patterns and drivers of juvenile steelhead survival throughout a stream network
Richard B. Hartson, University of Idaho; Brian P. Kennedy, University of Idaho; Knut Marius Myrvold, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA)