Wednesday, 23rd July World Lake Conference 2025

Bird Watching (SOLD OUT)

Participants must provide their own binoculars (field guide if needed); a printable check-list can be accessed here (extra copies will be available on the bus).

Please dress for the outdoors and the weather; walking at Archerfield Wetlands is easy on level, well-established trails.

• Date: Wednesday 23 July
• Time: 6:45AM - 8:45AM
• Location: Archerfield Wetlands (455 Bowhill Rd, Durack QLD 4077)
• Pick-Up & Drop-Off Location: Bus will pick you up and return you to, BCEC Entrance on the corner of Glenelg St

Host Piet Filet

• This is a wetland restoration project and bird watching

• Restoration of eutrophic shallow lakes: challenges in monsoon climate zone - Zhengwen Liu

Abstract delivered by Marise Stuart followed by a Panel Discussion led by Phil Duncan

• Lake Omapere Restoration - If you look after the lake, the lake will look after you - Marise K Stuart

• Regime shifts and ecological function restructuring in source water reservoir microbial communities under environmental stress - Xucong Lyu
• Body-size dependent biogeography of lacustrine planktonic communities across China - Huabing Li
• Changes in Assembly Discussion about Invasive Alien Aquatic Plants: A Case Study of Ludwigia grandiflora in Akanoi Bay, Lake Biwa - Naoko Hirayama

• Enhancing diatom growth with targeted micronutrient addition to reduce macronutrients and cyanobacteria in raw water storage. - Simon JC Tannock
• Combating Eutrophication in Urban Lakes: Effects of Polyaluminum Chloride on Phosphorus Dynamics and Water Quality - Inta Dimante-Deimantovica
• Effects of floating photovoltaics on phytoplankton reduction in irrigation ponds - Minami Morii
• How efficient are pre-dams as reservoir guardians? A long-term study on nutrient retention - Taynara Fernandes

• Automated real-time measurement of dissolved inorganics: laboratory-sensitivity results in the field with Eco Detection - Jefferson Harcourt
• Development of sustainable fertiliser applications to combat eutrophication - Edoardo Bertone
• High frequency real-time analyser technology for water quality monitoring - David Hamilton

• A hybrid approach for cyanobacteria forecasting in freshwater systems - Duy Nguyen
• Development of a one-dimensional multi-layer water quality model for global assessment of future climate change impacts on lakes - Naoya Ikuta
• Assessing algal bloom risks from purified recycled water addition to Lake Wivenhoe - Songyan Yu
• Incorporating intra-specific trait variability into three-dimensional individual-based modelling of cyanobacterial dynamics - Mohammad Hassan Ranjbar

• Climate warming and heatwaves accelerate global lake deoxygenation - Yibo Zhang
• Climate change vulnerability assessment and adaptation pathways for Ramsar wetlands in the Murray-Darling Basin - Ashmita Sengupta

•   From Source to Screen: Co-Creating Films for Global Waterways - Stephanie Smith

Second poster session featuring all Monday evening posters. This session will be judged. 

Please ensure you are standing near your poster to get it judged. 

Poster winners will be announced at the closing ceremony on Thursday. 

• Development of a water hyacinth management system in Lake Tana, head waters of the Blue Nile, Ethiopia - Kanako Ishikawa
• A chilling tale of cold water pollution mitigation at a large dam. - Matthew Gordos
• Artificial Destratification by Bubble Plumes to Mitigate Cold Water Pollution.  Trials, Optimisation and Experiences - Brett Miller
• Designing for long term water quality and ecosystem health in urban lake restoration projects - Dylan Cain

• Extreme rainfall regimes modulate cyanobacterial bloom dynamics in deep reservoirs: Synergistic effects of nutrient pulses and hydrological perturbations - Hai Xu
• A multiscale framework to assess the effects of extreme weather events on inland water quality - Jiatan Liang
• Lake ecosystem responses to extreme weather events - Matthew Prentice

• Implementing Participatory Ecosystem Services Shared Value Assessment to Enhance Integrated Lake Basin Management and Research Initiatives in Malaysia - Zati Sharip
• Reviving Heritage: A Scientific Approach to Ecologically Restore the Priya Kund, Barsana, Uttar Predesh, India  - Sayali Mrs. Joshi
• Aquatic Ecosystem Shared Value Services Assessment in Uyaan Lake, Madamba, Lanao Del Sur, Mindanao Is., The Philippines: Focus on Regulating Services - Misael Sanguila
• From the First World Lake Conference to World Lake Day: Shiga Prefecture’s Ongoing Efforts to Restore Lake Biwa with Its Residents - Tomoki Sogabe

• Developing a new wetland model for assessing nutrient reduction in tropical climates - Tony Weber
• Use of process-based wetland modelling as a guide to contribute to water quality improvements - Natnael Shiferaw Legesse
• Modelling nitrogen reduction in a wetland of a Great Barrier Reef catchment: Addressing the challenge of limited monitoring data - Liliana Pagliero

• Local climate conditions and management practices could reshape the characteristics of the newly created littoral habitats with cascading effects on invertebrates - Hui Jin
• The roles of the dominant small omnivorous fish in shallow lake restoration - Jinlei Yu
• Invasive alien aquatic plant management with herbicides in sensitive lake ecosystems - Tobias O Bickel
• A land to water approach to prioritize large scale lake restoration - Andres Felipe Suarez Castro

• Reshape of phytoplankton community structure in response to nitrogen and phosphorus enrichment in a large oligotrophic drinking water reservoir - Man Xiao
• Quantitative analysis of algal toxins associated with blue-green algal blooms in freshwater dams, Tanzania - Josephine J. Gobry
• Dolichospermum Blooms and the Underlying Nutrient Dynamics in Two Consecutive Years in an Australian Cool Temperate Lake - Xiamei Man
• Are we underestimating biodiversity decline? Community homogenisation among lakes hides local biodiversity loss - Rose Gregersen

• 'Which few lakes in each region will we seriously try to save?’: A case study of Aotearoa New Zealand’s Te Waihora/Lake Ellesmere - Jonathan West
• Working Together Toward Environmental Justice and Building Resiliency Through Collaborative Partnerships - Emily Finnell
• Stewarding the North American Great Lakes through Binational Cooperation, Collaboration, and Governance - Emily Finnell

• Development of a wetland hydrology and nutrient model using a novel aquatic vegetation bathymetry approach - Tony Weber
• Inundated Tamarix forest: the limnology of a novel, climate change-induced littoral habitat in Lake Kinneret, Israel - Tamar Zohary
• Risk assessment of heavy metals in different land use types of typical water level fluctuation zones in the Danjiangkou Reservoir area based on source orientation - HouKuan Ding