Society for Freshwater Science 2018 Meeting

Navigating Boundaries in Freshwater Science

In freshwater science and its applications, boundaries and divisions can be paradoxical. Our goal is to focus the SFS community on navigating and understanding boundaries during our 64th annual meeting. In some respects this is an old theme for our society, but it is also one with many important new dimensions appropriate to the place and time of this meeting. The meeting's program will emphasize frontiers of freshwater science focused on crossing habitat boundaries and linking disciplines, increase participation and perspectives connecting nations and cultures to address freshwater challenges, and guide us toward a more purposeful relationship between science and society to improve translation of the SFS community's science, education and service into action. In keeping with this theme and unique context, meeting activities will emphasize the sources of inspiration shared by our community, as well as our growing disciplinary and socio-cultural diversity.

NEON-Battelle Events and Attendance at this Meeting

Using metacommunity simulations to understand how stream network characteristics can affect macroinvertebrate community stability at local and regional scales

• Monday, May 21: 11:15am - 11:30am; Erik Sokol, Staff Scientist, Quantitative Ecology

C04 Microbial Ecology

• Monday afternoon; Moderator: Lee Stanish, Staff Scientist

Early insights into the NEON project for long-term studies of aquatic microbial ecology

• Monday, May 21: 3:15pm - 3:30pm; Lee Stanish, Staff Scientist

Using NEON observatory data to assess the effects of hurricane disturbance on Puerto Rico headwater stream communities

• Tuesday, May 22: 11:45am - 12:00pm; Stephanie Parker, Staff Scientist, Aquatic Ecology