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This annual meeting showcases Irish freshwater science and will be of interest to researchers and to those involved in management of water resources. It will take place on 19th March 2021 online, using Zoom, in two sessions: 10.00 -12.00 and 14.00-16.00. The Zoom link and login details will be circulated on 18th March to all who register .

Session 1 10.00-12.00: this session theme will be ‘Continuing and Emerging Challenges to Freshwater Quality and Biodiversity‘. This session will consist of 12-minute presentations (plus 3 minutes for questions) on well-advanced or completed projects.  Speakers will have the opportunity to illustrate the application of their findings for research, and for policy and management.

Session 2 14.00-16.00: the second session will include 7-minute presentations (plus 3 minutes for questions) on any on-going and new projects.

Abstract submission: please send you abstract (200 words) to s.harrison@ucc.ie by 17.00 on 6th March 2021.

Advance registration and payment of the non-refundable booking fee is necessary before Friday 12th March. The link for the meeting will only be circulated in advance to all registered participants.

16.00-17.00: ANNUAL MEETING OF IRISH FRESHWATER SCIENCES ASSOCIATION - this meeting will commence immediately after Session 2 using the same Zoom link

Organising committee chair:  Simon Harrison (University College Cork).

How can I contact the organiser with any questions?

Email: s.harrison@ucc.ie

Photo: Lough Feeagh, Mary Dillane (Marine Institute)

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PROGRAMME FOR MEETING:

9.55 Welcome & overview. Simon Harrison, University College Cork

Session 1: Continuing and Emerging Challenges to Freshwater Quality and Biodiversity (talks = 12 minutes + questions) – Simon Harrison (Chair)

10:00 Fran Igoe (LAWPRO) Implementing Ireland’s river management Plan in the Covid 19 pandemic

10:15 David Crowley (TCD) Acute toxicity of the insecticide Cypermethrin to three common European mayfly and stonefly nymphs

10:30 Jean O’Dwyer (UCC) Impact of the 2018 European drought on microbial groundwater quality in private domestic wells: a case study from a temperate maritime climate

10:45 Simon Parker (Teagasc) Classification of riparian delivery points for improved specification of mitigation measures

11:00 Kieran Cowhig (UCC) Lake dwelling pearl mussels (Margaritifera margaritifera ) - A unique Irish phenomenon?

11:15 Michelle Vedder (UCC) Bovine faecal contamination of surface waters in a dairy-dominated catchment in SW Ireland.

11:30 Sinead Hogan (UCD) Hydrochemical characteristics of the small stream network in Ireland.

11.45 Pascal Sweeney (Consultant) Decline of the white-clawed crayfish population of the River Suir catchment

12.00-14.00 LUNCH

Session 2: Well advanced research (talks = 7 minutes + questions) – Jean O’Dwyer (chair)

14.00 Irene O’Callaghan (UCC) Destroyed, not defeated: Ireland’s legacy of aquatic pollution

14.10 Maria Calderó Pascual (DKIT) Crustacean zooplankton taxa specific grazing experiments in Lough Feeagh, a temperate dystrophic lake.

14.20 Brendan McSorley (UCC) The Citizen Science Stream Index – a novel, simple, biomonitoring protocol for non-experts

14.30 Marcin R. Penk (UCD) An ecosystem service-based decision-support tool for river basin management

14.40 Mathias Kuemmerlen (TCD) Advances from the Hydromussel Project: Integrating remote sensing into freshwater pearl mussel conservation and management

14.50 Edward Cox (UCD) Developing an ecologically informative hydromorphological classification of Irish small streams.

15.00 Ann-Marie Kelly (UCD) Multiple-stressor effects of climate change drivers on the ecosystem functioning of streams in New Zealand impacted by deposited fine-sediment.

15.10 Darragh Murphy (UCC) The potential for offline water retention areas to attenuate floods and entrained water quality in an agricultural mini-catchment.

15.20 Emma Drohan (DKIT) An investigation of change in macroinvertebrate community structure in the littoral zone of Lough Feeagh over a 48 year period.

15.30 Ryan Smazal (DKIT) Comparing preliminary results from a palaeo-envionmental study of Lough Feeagh and past studies in the Burrishoole Catchment, Co. Mayo

15.40 – OPEN DISCUSSION & General meeting of IFSA - Mary Kelly-Quinn (Chair)

Agenda: Updates incl. links to European Federation of Freshwater Sciences ; SEFS 2021; AOB

16:00 FINISH