Wednesday, 9th September 12th Australian Streams Management Conference 2026

• Working on Ourselves as Practitioners as We Live and Evolve with Change - Rosie Wheen

Advancing Action Strategies for Stream Management

• Traditional Owner joint management of environmental flows for the Coliban River - Luke Mr Wilson
• Embracing Indigenous environmental knowledge: A narrative journey from an old(ish) white scientist supported by a young(ish) Aboriginal scientist - Paul Frazier
• Traditional Owner led FLOWS study for Campbells Creek in Victoria - Conan Mr Peterson
• In the middle of the river – Observations on drivers, successes and failures in supporting stream and catchment management - Stephanie Kermode
• Released from the wild: Immersive 3D digital storytelling to strengthen community connection and environmental awareness in a remote regional community  - Rebecca Damm
• Across the world rivers are screaming. What will it take to listen to and learn from them? - Gary J Brierley
• Where waters meet: Re-grounding stream management through epistemic devices and more-than-human collectives - adrian mackenzie

• Quantifying estuarine bank erosion using field survey and remote sensing data in NSW  - James S Daley
• Seeing rivers from the desktop: Methods for assessing geomorphic change in the Murray–Darling Basin - Tom Atkin
• Assessing the likelihood of river avulsions under a changing climate - A case study from the Lower Burdekin Delta - Misko Ivezich
• Modelling river systems under change – Quantifying climate driven risks to environmental values in complex regional systems - Ella Guthrie
• Three models walk into a pool: A process-based, multi-method framework for understanding dryland pool sediment dynamics   - Sam Munger
• Quantifying sediment export from evolving mine landscapes: A hydrid modelling framework for adaptive catchment management - George Robotham

• Open Historical Aerial Photography in Australia: Scale, Coverage, and Utility - William McAlister
• A (not so) beginners guide to waterway rock installation - Elsa Burnell
• Comparative Analysis of Hydraulic Modelling Tools for Rock Chute Design in Waterway Management - Hamid Ghajarnia
• The forest road erosion toolbox: Modelling, mapping and treating sediment delivery from roads to waterways  - Alex Sims
• Sediment and phosphorus source hysteresis during extreme flood events: The case of Tropical Cyclone Alfred on the Albert River, Southeast Queensland - Maarten Wynants
• Meet Dr. Eflow: A web application to aid in the design, review, and adjustment of regulated environmental flow releases - Lydia Drake
• Tried, true and new: An ever-evolving vegetation monitoring program - Trish Grant

• The challenges of implementing nature-based solutions (NBS) in reach-scale river management in NSW - Rhiannon Hughes
• Tasmanian NRMs: Scaling nature-based solutions (NbS) for flood resilience and recovery - Jesse MR Webster
• To use nature based solutions or not? That is the question. - Megan Holcomb
• What are source water catchments worth: The economic benefits and values for South East Queensland - Amar Doshi
• Incorporating nature positive concept to foreshore remediations design - Daryl Lam
• INVESTING IN CATCHMENTS FOR DRINKING WATER QUALITY: A COUNTERFACTUAL ANALYSIS OF THE 'DO NOTHING' OPTION - Chris Thompson
• Nature based or process driven: Choosing the right solution for the right reasons - Julian C Martin

• Take nobody's word for it: Field experiments in nature-based river rehabilitation - Logan Zingus
• Ten years of learning from catchment‑scale stream stabilisation: Lessons from Laidley Creek, South East Queensland - Vanessa Durand
• Lessons from the front: The highs and lows of success and failure - Paul Stolz
• Bamboo retaining structures for riparian erosion control: A pilot test on the Richmond River - Pierre Rognon
• Meeting the challenge of re-establishing instream vegetation in a sediment loaded stream – A trial to improve Macquarie Perch habitat in the Hughes Creek, central Victoria. - Bryan Mole
• Caboolture riverbank stabilisation: Two years on - Margie Dickson
• From paddock to catchment: Sustainable agriculture as a river health strategy in the Tweed - Eli Szandala

• New policy directions - The third Victorian Waterway Management Strategy - Nikki Gemmill
• We did it our way: Regional collaboration for catchment scale impact by Resilient Rivers South East Queensland - Joanne Burton
• Evolving from a working river to a river that works again – The Latrobe River (Durt’yowan) Transformation Strategy   - Anthony Goode
• Resilient rivers require resilient leaders - Belinda Chapman
• Crossing the line: Australian lessons in managing planetary boundaries thinking for the Mekong Basin - Andrew Little
• Integrating socio-economic analysis into catchment planning: Insights from the Fitzroy Basin - Edwin Chihava
• Tweed Shire Council Waterways Program - Matthew Bloor