From 2003-07-06 to 2003-07-11

Venue: Albury, New South Wales, Australia

Summary:
The Ninth International Conference on River Research and Applications will be held on the banks of the River Murray. It will be an opportunity for environmental scientists, managers and students from throughout the world to share their discoveries and ideas about river ecosystems. The theme for the meeting is THE NATURE OF VARIABILITY IN RIVER ENVIRONMENTS By their nature, rivers extend over large areas and persist for long periods of time, and to understand them we need to relate observations made at many different scales of space and time. The ways that patterns and processes are distributed across scales, from days to centuries and reaches to catchments, may be what most distinguishes the big rivers of the world. Yet we know little of the nature of this variability, its environmental and evolutionary consequences and its significance for resource management. The theme is not exclusive, as papers on all aspects of river regulation will be considered.

Organizers: CRC for Freshwater Ecology
Contact Name: Prof. Martin Thoms
E-mail: thoms@scides.canberra.edu.au
URL: http://www.conlog.com.au/NISORS