West Midlands and North West England Freshwater Group Autumn
meeting held jointly with the Freshwater Biological Association (FBA)
incorporating the FBA Annual General Meeting
Monday 27th October 2014
University of Manchester, Sackville Building Main (C001)
Sackville Street
Manchester
Programme
10:15 - 10:45 Welcome, tea/coffee and biscuits
10:45 - 11:10 Louise Lavictoire, Freshwater Biological Association
“Investigating substrate size and cleaning regimes for rearing juvenile
freshwater pearl mussels (Margaritifera Margaritifera) in captivity.
11:10 - 11:35 Jessica Picken, University of Birmingham
"Variation in abiotic variables and juvenile salmonid abundance across a
stream chronosequence in Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska"
11:35 - 12:00 Wendy O'Neill, Liverpool John Moores University
"The efficacy of vegetative buffer strips in the Shropshire Meres and Mosses"
12:00 - 13:00 FBA - Annual General Meeting
13:00 - 14:00 - Buffet lunch
14:00 - 14:25 Benoit Demars, The James Hutton Institute
"Temperature and the metabolic balance of aquatic ecosystems"
14:25 - 14:50 Andrew Folkard, LEC, Lancaster University
“Variations in Flow Resistance in Small Agricultural Streams”
14:50 - 15:15 Helen Gibbs, ATKINS
'TBC'
15:15 - 15:45 Tea/coffee and biscuits
15:45 - 16:10 Dave Ottewell, Environment Agency
"Biosecurity"
16:10 - 16:35 Collin Reynolds, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
"How frequent flushing influences water quality of a Like-District Lake: an
overview of a 40-year monitoring programme at Grasmere"
16:35 - 17:00 Chris Goldspink, Natural England
"Changes in the fish populations of a national nature reserve over a
50 year period. Is this the end of the 'road'?"
17:00 - 17:05 Closing comments
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