30th Congress of the International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology

30th Congress of the International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology

MONTRÉAL , QUÉBEC , CANADA

http://www.sil2007.org

• Online Registration and Call for Abstracts will open October 2006
• Abstracts submission period  October 2006 to February 15, 2007
• Deadline for submission of Abstracts February 15, 2007
• Deadline for reduced registration fees March 30, 2007
• Deadline for cancellation of registration with full refund less administrative costs June 8, 2007
• Deadline for guaranteed rates rooms at Congress hotels and cancellation of reservation

Special Sessions

• Advances in Lake Management - Gertrud Nurnberg, Freshwater Research / Kenneth Wagner, ENSR
• Alternative Microbial Pathways of Nitrate Removal From Aquatic Ecosystems - Amy Burgin, W.K.Kellogg Biological Station / Stephen Hamilton, W.K.Kellogg Biological Station
• An Ecosystem Approach to Inland Fisheries Knowledge Needed for Policy and Management - Doris Soto, Inland Water Resources and Aquaculture Service (FIRI)
• Assessing Water Quality and Ecological Status: Scale, Monitoring, Establishing Reference Conditions - Genevieve Carr, UNEP GEMS/Water Programme / Almut Gerhardt, LimCo International / Martin Kernan, Environmental Change Research Centre / Monique Dubé, Toxicology Centre, University of Saskatchewan
• Biogeochemical Cycling in Tropical Lakes - Sean Crowe, Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill University / Alfonso Mucci, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill University / Bjørn Sundby, Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill University / David Fowle, University of Kansas
• Carbon Cycling in Lakes: Components, Contrasts and Budgets - Noel Urban, Michigan Technological University / Martin Auer, Michigan Technological University
• Comparative Limnology of Tropical and Temperate Regions - Brij Gopal Jawaharlal, Nehru University
• Cultural Oligotrophication: Causes, Consequences and Corrections - John Stockner, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia / Goran Milbrink, Evolutionary Biology Centre, University of Uppsala
• Detection and Control of Cyanobacterial Blooms - David Bird, University of Quebec at Montreal / Alessandra Giani, ICB, UFMG / Frances Pick, Biology, U. Ottawa / Robert Vincent, Bowling Green State University
• Didymosphenia Geminata: A New Invasive Diatom - Craig Cary, University of Waikato / Max Bothwell, Environment Canada / Sarah Spaulding, US Geological Survey & EPA Region 8
• Disease Ecology in Aquatic Ecosystems - Paul Frost, Trent University / Val Smith, University of Kansas
• Dormancy in Aquatic Animals - Victor Alekseev, Zoological Institute of The Russain Academy of Sciences
• Ecohydrology as a Tool for Integrated Watershed Management - Richard D. Robarts, UNEP GEMS/Water Programme / Maciej Zalewski, International Centre for Ecology, Polish Academy of Sciences / Iwona Wagner, International Centre for Ecology, Polish Academy of Sciences / Christiane Hudon, Environment Canada 
• Ecology and Genetics of Clonal Organisms - Gregor Fussmann, McGill University / France Dufresne, Université du Québec à Rimouski
• Evaluation: Potential Long Term Effects of Global Warming, Climatic Change on the World's Lakes - Charles R. Goldman University of California
• Exploring New Frontiers in Aquatic Sciences - Anas Ghadouani, The University of Western Australia / Barry Moore, Washington State University / Marc Beutel, Washington State University
• External Forcing of Aquatic Microbial Communities - Angela Kent, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / Anthony Yannarell, Institute of Marine Sciences / James Rusak, Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin - Madison 
• Freshwater Mussels: Distribution, Function in the Ecosystem and Conservation - Hélène Cyr, University of Toronto / Frances Pick, University of Ottawa / John Downing, University of Iowa
• Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Natural Ecosystems and Reservoirs - Alain Tremblay, Hydro-Québec / Donald Adams, Center for Earth and Environmental Science State / University of New York / Michelle Garneau, UQAM / Peter Casper, Leibniz-Institut für Gewässerökologie und / Binnenfischerei Charlotte Roehm, UQAM
• High Latitude and High Elevation Lakes: Indicators of Environmental Change and Models for Evolution - Johanna Laybourn-Parry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Keele University / Dixon Landers, USEPA / Rick Battarbee, University College London / Warwick Vincent, Département de biologie, Université Laval
• Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity of Aquatic Ecosystems in Mediterranean Climate Regions - Nilgün Kazanc?, Hacettepe Univ.
• Influence of Hydrodynamics on Ecology and Biogeochemistry in Lakes - Andrew Folkard, Lancaster University / Sally MacIntyre, University of California, Santa Barbara / Teresa Serra, University of Girona
• Inland Saline Waters - Robert Jellison, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Inland Water Economics - Knut Seip, Oslo University College
• Lake Sediment Reconstructions of Far East Climate and Tectonic Histories - Philip Meyers, University of Michigan / Keiji Takemura, Kyoto University 
• Lakes, Streams, Groundwater and Wetlands in the Landscape: Linkages Among Freshwater Systems - Wayne Wurtsbaugh, Utah State University / Jean-Jacques Frenette, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières / Scott Larned, NIWA Christchurch / Marc Schallenberg, Department of Zoology, University of Otago / Patricia Soranno, Dept. of Fisheries & Wildlife / Emily Stanley, Univ. of Wisconsin
• Linking Aquatic Sciences and Management: Small Watershed Studies in North American Forests - Ellie Prepas, Lakehead University / Gordon Putz, University of Saskatchewan
• Major Concepts in Physical Limnology for Biologists and Chemists - Sally MacIntyre, UCSB / Andrew Folkard, Univ. of Lancaster / Bertram Boehrer, UFZ-Umweltforschungszentrum
• Managing The Large Lakes of the World: Health, Integrity and Risks - Mohiuddin Munawar, Fisheries & Oceans Canada / Markku Viljanen, University of Joensuu / Thomas Nalepa, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration / Eugene Silow, Irkutsk State University / Martin van der Knaap, Lake Victoria Fisheries Research Project / Robert Randall, Fisheries & Oceans Canada / Marten Koops, Fisheries & Oceans Canada
• Multiple Signals in Lakes? From Processes to Methods - Thorsten Blenckner, Uppsala University / Martin Dokulil, Austrian Academy of Sciences / D. Glen George, CEH
• New Insights on The Potential Role of Biochemicals in Aquatic Trophic Interactions - Dörthe Müller-Navarra, University Hamburg / Michael Brett, University of Washington
• Nitrogen Dynamics In Streams - Pat Mulholland, Oak Ridge National Laboratory / Eugenia Marti, Unitat Associada de Limnologia (CEAB-UB)
• Nutrient and Phytoplankton Dynamics in African Great Lakes - Stephanie Guildford, University of Waterloo  / Peter Gikumu-Njuru, LVEMP, Water Quality Management Component
• Nutrient Management of Ecosystem Health and Healthy Fisheries - John Gannon, International Joint Commission / Robert Hecky, University of Waterloo 
• Paleolimnology of High-latitude Regions - Reinhard Pienitz, Université Laval / Marianne Douglas, University of Toronto / John Smol, Queen`s University
• Physical and Chemical Aspects of Meromixis - Bertram Boehrer, UFZ - Centre for Environmental Research
• Physics of Lake Littoral Zones - Andrew Folkard, Lancaster University / Kevin Lamb, University of Waterloo
• Plankton Diversity, Detection And Enumeration Using Imaging, Flow Cytometry and Molecular Approaches - R. Michael McKay, Bowling Green State University / Harry Nelson, Fluid Imaging Technologies / George S. Bullerjahn, Bowling Green State University / Steven W. Wilhelm, The University of Tennessee 
• Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Microbial Biogeography - Eva Lindström Uppsala University / Karin Rengefors, Lund University
• Reconciling Divergent Views on Trophic Relationships: Functional Responses in Aquatic Environments - Lev Ginzburg, Stony Brook University / Peter Abrams, University of Toronto / Peter Morin, Rutgers University / Donald DeAngelis, University of Miami / Christopher Jon Jensen, Stony Brook University
• Recovery of Freshwater Ecosystems from Acidification in North America and Europe - Thomas Clair, Environment Canada / Dean Jeffries, Environment Canada
• Remote Sensing and GIS Application in Limnic Habitats - Klaus Schmieder, University of Hohenheim / Thomas Heege, German Aerospace Center  / Anthony Lehmann, UNEP GRID Europe
• Riverine Ecogeomorphology: Analysis at Broad Spatial Scales - Geoffrey Poole, Ecometrics / James Thorp, University of Kansas
• Role of Allochthonous OC in the Ecological Function of Lakes: A Cellular to an Ecosystem Perspective - Paul del Giorgio, Université du Québec à Montréal / Leigh McCallister, Rutgers University
• Springs and small streams: Understudied and underprotected key habitats for biodiversity conservation - Marco Cantonati, Trento Science Museum / John S. Richardson, University of British Columbia
• The Current State of Science and Policy Developments in Restoring Lake Tahoe (CA-NV, USA) - Sudeep Chandra, University of Nevada- Reno / John Reuter, University of California- Davis / Geoff Schladow, Univeristy of California- Davis
• The Role of Mysids in Lake Food Webs - Ora Johannsson, Department of Fisheries and Oceans / Michael Arts, Environment Canada 
• The Role of Wind in The Ecology of Lake Food Webs - W. Gary, Sprules University of Toronto at Mississauga / Mark Ridgway, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
• The State of Our Understanding of the Littoral Zone: Honoring the Life of Robert G. Wetzel - Gordon Godshalk, Alfred University / Paul Wetzel, Smith College
• The Use of High-frequency Data From Sensor Networks in Limnology - Tim Kratz, University of Wisconsin-Madison / David Hamilton, University of Waikato / Peter Arzberger, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology / Fang-Pang Lin, National Center for High-performance Computing
• Towards Integrated Research Efforts of Ancient Lake Systems - Oleg Timoshkin, Limnological Institute Irkutsk
• Using Species Traits and Other Environmental Indicators to Assess Freshwater Ecosystem Condition - Paul Bertram, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency / Virginie Archaimbault, Cemagref, Unité de Recherche Biologie des Ecosystèmes Aquatiques / Nancy Stadler-Salt, Environment Canada / Philippe Usseglio-Polatera, Université Paul Verlaine, Laboratoire Biodiversité et Fonctionnement des Ecosystèmes