BREAKFAST
Continental breakfast is included in your registration.
Schedule
* All times are based on Canada/Eastern EDT.
7:30 AM
Canada/Eastern
2 parallel sessionsREGISTRATION
Registration Desk is open.
8:30 AM
Canada/Eastern
Opening Ceremonies
Welcome to SCAS 2025. Indigenous land acknowledgement. A message from the President. Meeting housekeeping.
9:20 AM
Canada/Eastern
Stevenson Award & Lecture: Jacob Brownscombe
Toward Digital Twins of Natural Ecosystems: The Technological Era of Natural Science and Management
10:00 AM
Canada/Eastern
Coffee break
Coffee break (coffee/tea/juice/pop and snacks available)
10:20 AM
Canada/Eastern
Frank Rigler Award & Lecture: Shelley Arnott
Ecological context shapes zooplankton response to salinization
11:00 AM
Canada/Eastern
Robert H. Peters Award & Lecture: Chun Ngai Chan
Experimental Ecosystem Eutrophication Causes Offsetting Effects on Emissions of CO2 CH4 and N2 O from Agricultural Reservoirs
11:20 AM
Canada/Eastern
Plenary 1: Vivian Nguyen
Provisioning fisheries: a human dimensions framework for recognizing the fuzzy boundaries around commercial, subsistence, and recreational fisheries
11:40 AM
Canada/Eastern
Plenary 2: Paul Snelgrove and Liisa Peramaki
Making Science Count in Canada’s Oceans
12:00 PM
Canada/Eastern
LUNCH (off site)
1:20 PM
Canada/Eastern
6 parallel sessions(1A) RS16 Fish, Fisheries, and Stock Assessment, Part 1
Chairs: Marten Koops and Jon Midwood [Fisheries and Oceans Canada], Erin Dunlop [Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources]
(1B) SS3 Freshwater Biodiversity, Part 1
Freshwater biodiversity under threat: Conserving Canada’s freshwater Species at Risk - Chairs: Markelle Morphet, Jennifer Powell, Dominique Rumball [University of Toronto Scarborough], Andrew Drake, [Fisheries and Oceans Canada]
(1C) SS9 Molecular Tools, Part 1
Using molecular tools to monitor aquatic ecosystem changes - Chairs: Valérie Langlois [McGill University], Geneviève D’Avignon [Université de Sherbrooke], Joanna Gauthier [University of Ottawa], Yuanyu Cheng [McGill University]
(3A) RS17 Harmful Algal Blooms
Chair: Francis Pick [University of Ottawa] and Gertrud Nurnberg [Freshwater Research]
(3B) SS8 River Thermal Regimes
River thermal regimes: processes, analysis, and modelling - Chairs: Andre St-Hilaire, Eva Enders, Normand Bergeron [INRS - Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Centre Eau Terre Environnement]
(3C) RS13 Aquatic Food Webs, Part 1
Chairs: Charlotte Ward and Reilly O'Connor [University of Guelph]
3:20 PM
Canada/Eastern
Coffee break
Coffee break (coffee/tea/juice/pop and snacks available)
3:40 PM
Canada/Eastern
6 parallel sessions(1A) RS16 Fish, Fisheries, and Stock Assessment, Part 2
Chairs: Marten Koops and Jon Midwood [Fisheries and Oceans Canada], Erin Dunlop [Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources]
(1B) SS3 Freshwater Biodiversity, Part 2
Freshwater biodiversity under threat: Conserving Canada’s freshwater Species at Risk - Chairs: Markelle Morphet, Jennifer Powell, Dominique Rumball [University of Toronto Scarborough], Andrew Drake, [Fisheries and Oceans Canada]
(1C) SS9 Molecular Tools, Part 2
Using molecular tools to monitor aquatic ecosystem changes - Chairs: Valérie Langlois [McGill University], Geneviève D’Avignon [Université de Sherbrooke], Joanna Gauthier [University of Ottawa], Yuanyu Cheng [McGill University]
(3A) RS19 Urban Water Management
Chair: Andrea Kirkwood [Ontario Tech University]
(3B) RS18 Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Chair: Preston Lennox [Minnow Environmental]
(3C) R13 Aquatic Food Webs, Part 2
Chairs: Charlotte Ward and Reilly O'Connor [University of Guelph]
5:00 PM
Canada/Eastern
SCAS Business Meeting
Everyone is invited and encouraged to attend.
6:00 PM
Canada/Eastern
Poster Session (Level 3)
Please attend the poster session. Pizza is provided, plus coffee/tea/juice/pop; cash bar available.