Schedule

Continental breakfast is included in your registration.

Registration Desk is open.

Welcome to SCAS 2025. Indigenous land acknowledgement. A message from the President. Meeting housekeeping.

Toward Digital Twins of Natural Ecosystems: The Technological Era of Natural Science and Management

Coffee break (coffee/tea/juice/pop and snacks available)

Ecological context shapes zooplankton response to salinization

Experimental Ecosystem Eutrophication Causes Offsetting Effects on Emissions of CO2 CH4 and N2 O from Agricultural Reservoirs

Provisioning fisheries: a human dimensions framework for recognizing the fuzzy boundaries around commercial, subsistence, and recreational fisheries

Making Science Count in Canada’s Oceans

Chairs: Marten Koops and Jon Midwood [Fisheries and Oceans Canada], Erin Dunlop [Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources]

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]

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]

Chair: Francis Pick [University of Ottawa] and Gertrud Nurnberg [Freshwater Research]

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]

Chairs: Charlotte Ward and Reilly O'Connor [University of Guelph]

Coffee break (coffee/tea/juice/pop and snacks available)

Chairs: Marten Koops and Jon Midwood [Fisheries and Oceans Canada], Erin Dunlop [Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources]

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]

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]

Chair: Andrea Kirkwood [Ontario Tech University]

Chair: Preston Lennox [Minnow Environmental]

Chairs: Charlotte Ward and Reilly O'Connor [University of Guelph]

Everyone is invited and encouraged to attend.

Please attend the poster session. Pizza is provided, plus coffee/tea/juice/pop; cash bar available.