Thursday, 24th July World Lake Conference 2025

• How and why to build informed trust in environmental models - Kate O'Brien

• Utilizing Lakes for a Sustainable Water Supply Network in Tanzania: A Strategy for Promoting Climate Resilience - Adam O Karia and William Senkondo
• Drinking water safety improvement and future challenge of lakes and reservoirs in China - Guangwei Zhu
• Measuring river basin condition and aquatic ecosystem health for water security - Ben Stewart-Koster
• Transforming aquatic plant diversity and freshwater invasive species control in the Lake Taihu drainage basin, China - Xiaolong Huang
• Unbalanced sediment transport weakens the ecological role of river microhabitat heterogeneity in mountainous regions - Penghui Z Zhu

• Floodplain Lagoons and Groundwater Interactions Under the 2022–23 River Murray Flood - Yuyang Zhu
• Rectification of small urban lakes – Challenges and Implemented Solutions - Shaun Leinster
• The impacts of flow on the metabolic structure and function of Australia's inland waters - Ryan M Shojinaga
• Niche characteristics and future dynamics of major Cyanobacteria genera in Chinese lakes under global warming - XIAOLI SHI
• Urban Lakes in India: Retrospectives and Prospects - Khushi Yadav

• Climate exerts a greater modulating role on the phytoplankton community after 2007 in eutrophic Lake Taihu, China: Evidence from 25 years of recordings - Chao Xuan Guo
• Competitive Release Leads to Dinoflagellate Dominance Over Cyanobacteria in Algal Blooms of the Pengxi River, Three Gorges Reservoirs - Lei Zhang
• Unveiling the Multifaceted Impacts of Excessive Nitrogen Loading on Shallow Lake Ecosystems: Mechanisms, Adaptations, and Management Implications - Haijun Wang
• Analysis of the reasons for the Improvement of Water Quality in Taihu Lake: Water quality, cyanobacteria and phosphorus flux - Wei Zhu

• Lessons learn from a collaborative design process for a monitoring, evaluation and research program in the Murray-Darling Basin - Carmel Pollino
• Integrating environmental justice into resource use and flood risk management of Metro Manila assessment and guiding principles - Eugene C. Herrera
• Working Across Boundaries to Cooperatively Manage 20% of the World's Surface Freshwater--the Great Lakes of North America - Peter Johnson
• Creating environmental learning around Lake Biwa - Takako Abe
• Restoring an urban lake system with everyone watching - Tony Weber

• Thermokarst lakes bring large uncertainties to carbon cycling in permafrost landscapes - Ze Ren
• Sources and fate of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in a highly eutrophic lake - Fen Guo
• Drivers of macroinvertebrate assemblages in littoral and pelagic habitats of a large shallow lake: implications for bioassessment - You Zhang
• Using desiccation-resistant eggs to explore the ecology of giant ostracods (subfamily Mytilocypridinae) in Australian salt lakes - Mahabubur Rahman

After you've had lunch please meet please meet at the entrance of the Rydges Hotel on Grey Street at 12:20pm if you wish to join us on a lunchtime walk.  Participants must be physically fit and able to walk at a brisk pace and consider sun block, hat and water for the walk. Walkers should take care on dual-use zones (pedestrian and cycling) to stay within the marked pedestrian areas.

The walk will proceed from the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre to The Wheel of Brisbane – an iconic landmark rising 60 meters above the ground for views of Brisbane's skyline. Walkers will then cross the Meanjin-Brisbane River using the recently-constructed Neville Bonner Bridge, named after the first Indigenous Australian senator, which connects South Bank to the Queen's Wharf precinct and the newly-constructed Star Brisbane, a resort complex and casino. From here walkers proceed to Gardens Point, the southernmost area of the Brisbane CBD for views of the Botanic Gardens, the Queensland Parliament, and the Queensland University of Technology. A crossing will then be made of the Goodwill Bridge – designed for pedestrians and cyclists – leading to the Queensland Maritime Museum, where it is possible to see historic vessels like the HMAS Diamantina and the steam tug Forceful. Walkers proceed to South Bank, reconstructed for the 1988 World Expo, viewing the free open swimming area, and then return to the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre.

• Salinity variation with water level in shallow lakes - Gavan McGrath
• Transforming Invasive Water Hyacinth into Nutrient-Rich Compost: A Sustainable Approach to Lake Restoration and Waste Management - Bright Mr Eshihu
• Unveiling the Self-Organized Criticality of Natural Lakes Through Percolation Modeling Based on Topographic Wetness Index - Ling Li
• Advanced Drainage Hygiene System (ADHS): Innovative Solutions for Sustainable Drainage Management and Efficiency - Khristine L Sandoval and Diosa Marie Marundan

• A review of the global evidence to support the use of molecular tools to enhance HAB monitoring programs both in predicton and management. - Mark Van Asten
• Sources and sinks of taste and odour compounds in a reservoir and river supplying a drinking water treatment plant - Hannah M Franklin
• Hydrodynamic process simulation and regulation for shallow lakes in densely populated plains - fuxin zhang
• Seasonal Reversal in Phytoplankton Assembly Mechanisms: Stochastic Dominance in Autumn vs. Deterministic Control in Spring within the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River - Dahai Zeng
• Microbial succession and metabolomic adaptations to a record-breaking flood in a hypersaline coastal lagoon - Christopher Keneally

• Nutrient reduction target for cyanobacterial bloom control in Lake Taihu, the third largest freshwater lake of China - Guangwei ZHU
• The importance of long-term ecosystem health monitoring for identifying spatio-temporal trends in an estuarine-marine environment. - Leigh Gould
• Empowering conservation through changing perception about ecosystem services: insights from Nalabana Bird Sanctuary and Global Community-Led Ecosystem Stewardship. - Ajit Dr Pattnaik
• Couples in the deep: dissolved organic and microbial communities in the oxygenated hypolimnion of a deep freshwater lake - Morimaru Kida

• When will farm actions to improve New Zealand’s water quality be detected? - Rich McDowell
• Reducing the outflow loads from agricultural lands flowing into Lake Biwa - Takashi Okamura
• THE POTENTIAL FOR, AND COMMUNITY BENEFITS OF CATCHMENT-SCALE IMPLEMENTATION OF DETAINMENT BUNDS PS120: A CASE STUDY IN MANGAONE WEST, MANAWATU - John Paterson
• Impacts of catchment decadal land cover change on the nutrient load draining to an aquaculture-rich lake in Aklan, Philippines - Franz D. Santos
• Recent advances in catchment pollutant export modelling in South East Queensland and how these advances are guiding management actions  - Ramanan Baheerathan

• Research in action and co-design for impactful outcomes AquaWatch4Lakes: Indonesia inland water quality monitoring using space and on ground data - Zandria Farrell and James Langston
• Fragmented rules failing lakes towards coherent regulation of Indonesian lakes - Mohamad Mova AlAfghani
• Paleolimnology: A Dark Horse in Indonesian Tropical Lakes Conservation - I Gusti Ayu Agung Pradnya Paramitha
• From volcanic origins to modern crisis: hydrology and environmental challenges of Lake Toba, Northern Sumatra, Indonesia - Raymond Valiant
• Risky business in tropical lakes - Arianto B Santoso

• Lerma-Chapala Basin Action Plan (2024-2034), an integrative effort to improve governance and territorial management. - Alejandro AJA Juarez-Aguilar
•  Advancing Transboundary Lake Management through Collaborative Networks and Capacity Building: Lessons from ACARE’s Advisory Groups and the African Women in Science Program - Stephanie Smith
• Fostering Generations of Water Stewards - Celebrating World Lake Day in Michigan - Emily Finnell

• Having the confidence to invest in nutrient offsetting - Jing Lu
• The application of a holistic and comprehensive Nature Based Solutions analysis to identify management options for the Bremer River catchment - Tony McAlister
• Informing nature-based solutions through long-term social–ecological evolution - KE ZHANG

• CSIRO AquaWatch: Water quality time series for Brisbane’s lakes - Leo Lymburner
• Comparison of optically active variables from Sentinel 2, an aerial multispectral sensor, and an in situ hyperspectral sensor - Jas Singh
• New Remote Sensing Technology for Hydrology of Rivers and Lakes - Shanlong Lu