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Contributed SESSION CATEGORIES

Subdiscipline

  • Biogeochemistry: Carbon Cycling

  • Biogeochemistry: Nutrient Cycling

  • Biogeochemistry: Other

  • Communities & Populations

  • Conservation

  • Ecotoxicology

  • Education

  • Evolution

  • Food Webs

  • Ecohydrology

  • Hydrology & Geomorphology

  • Molecular Ecology

  • Remote Sensing & Sensor Technology

  • Restoration

  • Systematics & Taxonomy System

Taxa

  • Algae & Aquatic Plants

  • Fish & other Vertebrates

  • Invasive & Non-Native Species

  • Invertebrates

    Freshwater Mussels

General/Miscellaneous

  • Bioassessment

  • Biodiversity

  • Climate Change

  • Disturbance

  • Ecological & Social Science Connections

  • Ecosystem Metabolism

  • Eutrophication & Harmful Algae

  • From Dead Ends to Discovery

  • Hyporheic Processes

  • Indigenous Knowledge Influencing Freshwater Science & Management

  • Indigenous Values of Freshwater

  • Landuse & Non-Point Source Impacts

  • Management & Policy

  • Multiple Stressors

  • Natural History

  • Organic Matter Processing

  • Plastics

  • Science Communication & Outreach

  • Stoichiometry

System

  • Freshwater-Marine Connections & Estuaries

  • Intermittent and Ephemeral Systems

  • Land-Water Connections

  • Large Rivers

  • Lakes & Reservoirs

  • Riparian Systems

  • Surface-Groundwater Interactions

  • Urban Systems

  • Wetlands

SPECIAL SESSION CATEGORIES

  • Zoogeochemistry in freshwaters: Integrating animal conservation with biogeochemistry

  • Biogeochemical cycling in human-made freshwaters

  • Contaminant Ecology

  • The other half of the river: elevating non-academic contributions to freshwater science

  • Assessment and management of wastewater in urban and suburban streams

  • Operationalizing remote sensing for water security and freshwater ecosystem integrity in dryland regions

  • The fire’s leading edge: Exploring the paradoxical effects of fire on freshwater ecosystems to support more resilient watersheds and communities

  • Non-perennial freshwater ecosystems: Resilience in a drying world

  • Biogeochemical Perspectives on Resilience in Agriculturally Influenced Freshwater Systems

  • State of the science of the Spokane Valley Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer and its watershed

  • The past, present, and future of freshwater invasion ecology and management: A career retrospective for David M. Lodge

  • Quantifying flow in urban streams

  • Lakes, ponds, and wetlands oh my! Drivers, feedbacks, and responses of the carbon cycle under changing climate and anthropogenic stressors

  • Unraveling wetland invertebrate dynamics: Connecting small-scale responses to landscape-level influences

  • Mining and streams: Best practices and impacts on stream food webs and water quality

  • Sym-Poff-ium: A celebration of and reflection on the impact of N. LeRoy Poff’s career in riverine ecology science and practice

  • Across ecosystem linkages: quantifying aquatic-terrestrial reciprocal connections to support resilient watersheds

  • Advancing environmental flow management: Holistic approaches for sustaining aquatic ecosystems

  • From dead ends to discovery: Embracing Failure as a Pathway to Scientific Progress

  • Scholarship of teaching and learning in freshwater science

  • Swimming together: Successful freshwater collaborations across multiple organizations to generate actionable science

  • Beavers and Beyond: Patterns and Processes Driven by Ecosystem Engineers

  • Positive biotic interactions in freshwater; importance, prevalence, and drivers

  • Claws and effect: the role of crayfish across ecosystems

  • The fluvial pharmacy: Pharmaceuticals and their residuals in freshwater ecosystems

  • The Changing Cryosphere and Its Impacts on Downstream Freshwaters

  • Chew on This: The Role of Beavers in Building Resilient Landscapes

  • Advances in freshwater biogeochemistry using open data across networks of sites

  • The ecology and diversity of our unprotected waters

  • Practical Tools for Urban Waterway Management

  • Building Resilience in Large Rivers of the Northwest

  • Restoring Freshwater Ecosystems to Build Resilient Watersheds and Communities: Insights from Europe and North America

  • Honoring the memory and scholarship of Mark Wetzel: Taxonomy, Life History, and Life Cycles of Aquatic Invertebrates

  • Challenges associated with bridging science and tribal perspectives

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