2025 Local Arrangements

Cindy Chu, PhD, Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Andrew Drake, PhD, Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Marten Koops, PhD, Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Jon Midwood, PhD, Fisheries and Oceans Canada

2025 Scientific Organizing Committee

Co-Chairs:

Karen Kidd, PhD, Professor, McMaster University 

Allen Curry, PhD, Professor, University of New Brunswick

Committee Members:

Sessions:

• Using molecular tools to monitor aquatic ecosystem changes
• Invaders in a dangerous time
  
• Ecotoxicology - effects of chemical exposure on aquatic organisms
• A lake trout legacy; honoring the research and mentorship of Dr. John Gunn
  
• Marine Fisheries (a Canadian Perspective)
  
• Application of long-term knowledge and data in solving aquatic environmental problems
  
• Real Talk: methods, mistakes and lessons learned navigating social dimensions research
  
• Freshwater biodiversity under threat: Conserving Canada’s freshwater Species at Risk
  
• River thermal regimes: processes, analysis, and modelling
  
• Policy driven scientific research and advice for aquatic conservation and management
  

• Advances in limnology

• Wetlands and biogeochemistry

• Urban water management

• Translating science to policy

• Restoration and rewilding of habitats

• Land-water linkages

• Indigenous Knowledge Systems

• Harmful algal blooms

• Great Lakes ecosystems

• General

• Fish, fisheries, and stock assessment

• Ecohydrology

• Cumulative effects and stressors

• Community-based monitoring and community science

• Climate change

• Behavioural ecology

• Aquatic food webs

• Applications and technologies in aquatic sciences