Monday, 7th September 12th Australian Streams Management Conference 2026

• Repairing Our Relationships with Living Rivers - Erin O'Donnell

• Waterways adaptive planning - A key planning mechanism to meet obligations and objectives over a 10-year+ timeframe - Kylie Swingler
• Advancing flood resilience and stream health: Whau catchment options and risk assessment - Jack Clothier
• Geomorphically adaptive management of an evolving anabranch network of the Murray River - Michael Cheetham
• Living with change: Working with groundwater-geomorphic processes to inform river rehabilitation design in Seqwater’s Source Protection Program, North Pine River, Dayboro QLD - Nicole A Wheeler George
• Linking catchment processes to coastal management program (CMP) outcomes: A strategic prioritisation approach for the Richmond River NSW - Andrew P Brooks
• What are the best options to restore degraded urban waterways? Developing and applying an urban waterway assessment and prioritisation framework in the Parramatta River catchment  - Alexa McAuley

• Ecologically-informed stormwater control to protect peri-urban platypus habitat - Kathy Russell
• Harnessing excess stormwater for distributed environmental flows - Sarah Law
• Restoring the health of urban streams through stormwater management: Lessons from the Little Stringybark and Dobsons Creeks project - Belinda Hatt
• River Torrens / Karrawirra Pari debris program - Helen Braithwaite
• Managing bank erosion in a constrained urban environment - Adam AB Buller
• Integrating River Styles Framework and "Room for the River" for urban catchment management - Chamantha Athapaththu
• A new lens for visualising trade‑offs and synergies in urban waterway management - Glenn Browning

• Moira the Merrier: Vegetation Recovery Following Grazing Reduction in the Barmah Forest Ramsar Wetland - Stephanie Phillips
• Engineering a conservation refuge: Wetland restoration for critically endangered species - Peter Sandercock
• The tale of Ross Billabong – Toorale National Park - Mark Southwell
• Time and tide wait for no mangroves: High‑resolution remotely sensed mapping of coastal saltmarsh vegetation    - Leigh Smith
• Just add salt: Opening the floodgates for coastal wetland restoration - Lynise Wearne
• Restoring hydrological function at Ryans Lagoon Nature Conservation Reserve - Catherine McInerney
• Considering geomorphology for management of the Great Cumbung Swamp, Lachlan River, NSW - Jessica Honor

• Developing a MERI plan for Murray River wetlands that receive environmental water in the Mallee, Victoria - Stephanie McNaulty
• Riverbank mass failure and enhanced sediment supply after fires and floods in the Tuross River, NSW - Timothy J Ralph
• Characterising channel degradation in low-energy floodplain wetlands, Gum Cowal, Macquarie Marshes, NSW - Jessica A Honor
• Effects of Reduced Stream Water Isotope Data Availability on Modelled Isotope Time Series - Fatemeh Babaei
• Catchment-based assessment of drainage to assist water management on small farms - Timothy J Ralph
• Mapping geomorphic floodplain wetlands as assets for consideration in delivering natural flood management (NFM) across coastal catchment of New South Wales (NSW), Australia - Lin Wang
• Rivers, channel breakdown and floodplains: Resolving a regulatory dilemma on lowland rivers in NSW - Fergus Hancock
• Monitoring soil hydrology for giant Gippsland earthworm (Megascolides australis) on a streamside bank in Gippsland, Victoria - Michael Aberton
• Evolving with change in natural disaster recovery programs in North East Victoria - Kelly Behrens
• From activation to acceleration: Thirteen years of adaptive urban stream recovery  - Britt Rogers
• All the best intentions (and information): Using multiple and sequential data sources to inform the large-scale rehabilitation of the Cann River, East Gippsland, Victoria. - Alex Sims
• Living and evolving with change: 30 years of the Australian Stream Management conferences. - Kirstie Fryirs
• Nature-based solutions: Building flood resilience in the Lismore Catchment - Louissa Rogers
• Quantifying the Manning’s n roughness coefficient for riparian vegetation classes using the Specht vegetation classification scheme - Jay Kumar Singh Chauhan

• Sands through the hourglass: A 30 year journey towards rehabilitation of the Genoa River, East Gippsland, Victoria. - Sean Phillipson
• Resilience-based triage for post-disaster recovery: the Cyclone Jasper case study - Lyndsay Charlton
• Where is natural flood management (NFM) occurring in eastern New South Wales? Detecting signals to guide strategic on-ground rehabilitation - Kirstie Fryirs
• Natural Flood Management in eastern Australia: applying geomorphic insights to enhance NFM outcomes in practice - Isabelle Flook
• Quantifying trajectories of river recovery through analysis of riparian vegetation regreening and assemblages of geomorphic units - Nuosha Zhang
• The role of historical legacy in urban stream geomorphology: insights from Quinzeh Creek. - Lukman A Soboyejo
• Channel adjustment in the Wadbilliga River following fires and floods, Tuross Catchment, NSW - Timothy J Ralph
• Rapid geomorphic recovery of the Erskine River wave-dominated estuary after flash flooding - Sandra Brizga
• Desynchronisation and attenuation of tributary–trunk stream interactions through natural flood management in eastern NSW, Australia: A 2D hydraulic modelling framework for multi-tributary catchments - Mehran Khan
• “Making room” for change: Community sentiment for natural flood management (NFM) in coastal catchments of New South Wales (NSW), Australia - Michael C Rupic

• Designing for diversity: Integrating rock-based habitat with ecohydraulic modelling to support native fish in regulated rivers - Christine L Arrowsmith
• SEQ Resilient Rivers – Improved tools to quantify aquatic biodiversity and waterway health? - Josh Griffiths
• Bridging ecology and infrastructure: The Oyster Creek success story - Melinda Scanlon
• Breaking barriers – Reconnecting the Albert River - Ros O'Connell
• Designing fishways for a dynamic river: Permanent connectivity solutions for temporary sand diversions - Bryce BD Davies
• A methodology for prioritising fish barrier mitigation efforts underpinned by quantitative cost-benefit analysis - James Shelley
• Case study: Improved fish survey outcomes using eDNA in aquatic ecological monitoring, contrasted to traditional techniques - Luke J Stone
• The potential acidity of montane peatlands in the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area: What might this mean for waterways downstream? - Rani Carroll
• Stratification and mixing dynamics in river waterholes: Insights from high-frequency observations - Asma Rabiei
• Rivers without fences: Testing the promise and limits of virtual fencing - Greg Peters

• Let’s be SMART about objectives - Michael Newham
• From recovery to resilience: Using evaluation to strengthen riverbank rehabilitation projects   - Bronwyn Cameron
• Evolution in regulated river-works programs: Using planning and MERI to demonstrate impact - Mick Bettanin
• Watering the things that matter - Andrew Sharpe
• Unlocking multiple benefits of Crown water frontages in Victoria - Ross E Hardie
• Reality check: How effective has Queensland's State Planning Policy been in protecting waterways? - Alan Hoban
• Out of reach: catchment-scale geomorphic assessment for urban development in Ipswich and the case for moving beyond the property boundary - Ben Pearson
• Be brave: Enforcing compliance to protect and share water - Brett A Ibbotson
• ‘Riparian – It’s just a vibe’: Developing definitions for management and mapping.  - James R Grove

• Opportunities for stream management in Australia: The next 30 years - Ian D RUTHERFURD
• Stream reflections (Part 1): What can we learn from 30 years of waterway management? - Rhys Coleman
• Stream ripples (Part 2): What might the next 30 years of waterway management look like? - Geoff Vietz

Panel and Q&A discussion facilitated by Kirstie Fryirs