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Conference Program
Day 2      Day 3        Poster
Day 1
 
8:00-9:00 Registration

Welcome & Vallentyne Lecture
Plenary
9:00 - 9:10 Welcome
Munawar, Guchte, Price
9:10 - 9:40 Vallentyne
McGlade

Multi-attribute barometers of ecosystem health and performance

Session I: Ecotoxicological Assessment and Management (15)
9:40 - 10:10 Keynote
Sherry
Biomarkers in ecosystem health assessment.
10:10 - 10:30 #2
Massieux
Molecular analysis of biofilms community composition exposed to a diffuse toxicant stress.
10:30 - 10:50 #3
Boivin Adaptation to toxicants and ecological funtioning of microbial communities.
10:50 - 11:20 Coffee

11:20 - 11:40 #4
Simpson
Alginate immobilized algal beads as biomonitors of metals and nutrients in Hong Kong streams.
11:40 - 12:00 #5
Ek/Dave
Acute sublethal effects of TNT in rainbow trout.
12:00 -12:20 #6
Solis
Toxicological study of the water of the lake Tezozomoc park in Mexico City.
12:20 - 12:40 #7
Montuelle
Fate and toxicity of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PABS) mixture on Aquatic invertebrates in spiked sediment using mono & Pluri-specifc toxicity tests.
12:40 - 1:40 Lunch

1:40 - 2:10 Keynote
Gerritsen
Endocrine disruptors: from science to policy.
2:10 - 2:30 #9
Hulscher
Can chemical measurements predict bioavailability of organic contaminants in sediments?
2:30 - 2:50 #10
Lamy-Enrici
Influence of the organic matter on the bioavailability of phenanthrene for benthic organisms.
2:50 - 3:20 Tea Break

3:20 - 3:40 #11
Nirel
Authentication of physico-chemical variability index in freshwaters. Relationship with biological quality.
3:40 - 4:00 #12
Brink
The use of amphibians as indicators for the quality of freshwater: the pros and cons.
4:00 - 4:20 #13
Ferriss
The role of environmental indicators as estuarine management tools: Preliminary results of a study for estuaries of the Washington and Oregon (USA) outer coasts.
4:20 - 5:30 Posters
7:00 Banquet

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Day 2
Session II: Ecosystem Health and Resilience (8)
9:00 - 9:10
Welcome
9:10 - 9:40
Keynote
Munawar
An integrated assessment of the aquatic ecosystem health of a Canadian protected area: Fathom Five National Marine Park example.
9:40 - 10:00
#2
Burgi
Long-term change of functional properties and biodiversity of plankton in Lake Greifensee.
10:00 - 10:20
#3
Wilson/Price
Environmental status of Yemen's Gulf of Aden coast determined from rapid field assessment and satellite imagery.
10:20 - 10:40
#4
BijdeVaate
An index of Trophic Completeness (ITC) for ecological quality assessment of running waters based on benthic macroinvertebrate communities.
10:40 - 11:10
Coffee
11:10 - 11:30
#5
Salki
Resilience of the Southern Indian Lake reservoir ecosystem, 1972-1998.
11:30 - 11:50
#6
Fynn-Aikins
Ecosystem Management of fishery resources: a mission impossible?
11:50 - 12:10
#7
A.R. Khan
Seasonal occurrence of helminth parasites in Schizothorax in Dal Lake Kashmir.
12:10 - 1:20
Lunch
Session III Integrating Technologies and Approaches (10)
1:20 - 1:50
Keynote
Baudo
Integrating limnology and geochemistry.
1:50 - 2:10
#2
Schweigert
Ecotoxicology as a part of a module-step-concept in the evaluation of surface waters.
2:10 - 2:30
#3
Postma
Bioavailability along a gradient from sediment to soil and the consequences for accumulation and ecological risks.
2:30 - 2:50
#4
Cash
Integrating mesocosm experiments with field and laboratory studies to generate weight-of-evidence risk assessments for ecosystem health.
2:50 - 3:10
#5
Malley
Making waves in environmental analysis: field-portable near-infrared spectroscopy for on-site and potentially real-time multi-constituent analysis.
3:10 - 3:30
Tea Break
3:30 - 3:50
#6
Hobbs
Implementation of multicriteria definitions of ecosystem health in Lake Erie management: Fisheries management and lower trophic level research.
3:50 - 4:10
#7
Koop
Ecological modelling aids decision support in estuarine management.
4:10 - 4:30
#8
Ye
Harmonization of Ukrainian, European and international standards of drinking water quality in Ukraine.
4:30 - 4:50
#9
Jobbins
Effects of institutional arrangements on coastal governance capacity of North Africa.
4:50 - 5:10
#10
Al-Ajmi
The environmental information system for the State of Kuwait.
5:10 - 6:10
Posters
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Day 3 To run concurrent
Session IV (a): International Case Studies (7)
9:00 9:30
KeyNote
Guchte
No Abstract received.
9:30 9:50
#2
Schneiders
Implementation of the European Water Frame Directive:using indicators to define "good" and "high" ecological quality.
9:50 10:10
#3
Bergamin
Pollution monitoring of Bagnoli Gulf (Tyrrhenian Sea, Naples, Italy). A mulidisciplinary study.
10:10 10:30 #4
Hundert
A diagnosis and prescription for ecosystem health of the Bras d'Or (Cape Breton, Canada).
10:30 10:50
Coffee
10:50 11:10
#5
Carr
A survey of marine contamination from mining-related activites on Marinduque Island, Philippines: Porewater toxicity and chemistry.
11:10 11:30
#6
Koop/Pritchard
Upwelling more important then sewage nutrients and estuarine outwelling in driving algal blooms off southeastern Australia.
11:30 11:50
#7
Pu
4M as the key remediation approaches for a healthy aquaecosystem under high environmental pressure.
Session IV (b): Sediment Quality and Remediation (8)
9:00 9:30
KeyNote
Brink/denBesten
Effects of remediation on sediment contaminant composition, sediment toxicity and benthic community structure in the delta of the rivers Rhine and Meuse.
9:30 9:50
#2
Montuelle
Changes in the microbial communities of freshwater sediment after a wastewater discharge: from a functional approach to the taxonomic level.
9:50 10:10
#3
N.Y. Khan
An assessment of sediment quality of Kuwait Bay (Kuwait) by utilizing the sediment triad approach.
10:10 10:30
#4
de Deckere
The development of an ecological perspective for the Schelde estuary.
10:30 10:50
Coffee
10:50 11:10
#5
Brils
SEDNET: Demand driven, European sediment research network.
11:10 11:30
#6
Riber
Skjern River Restoration Project.
11:30 11:50
#7
Babut
Use of sediment quality guidelines in ecological risk assessment of dredged materials: recent developments and perspectives.
Session VI:
Plenary Synthesis and Final Remarks
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Poster

Session Presenter Title of Abstract
1 R. Iniesta
Effect of body size on detoxification of PSP toxins in the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis.
1 Isabel Maria Moreno Navarro
Growth rate and toxins production of three isolated strains of Microcystis aeruginosa from the Guadiana River
1 Guillermo Repetto
Ecotoxicological evaluation of pentachlorophenol using alternative test systems.
1 Angeles Jos
Ecotoxicological evaluation of pentachlorophenol using alternative test systems.
1 Laura Martinez-Tabche
Effect of food contaminated with DDT on ethoxyresorufin o-deethylase of liver from rainbow trout (Onchorinchus mykiss).
1 P.J. Besten
Concepts for the implementation of biomarkers in environmental monitoring
1 J.C.M.Veen
The use of the comet assay in field exposures with the zebra mussel "Dreissena Polymorpha" in the river Meuse
1 Isabel Maria Moreno Navarro

Influence of Microcystin-LR on the enzimatic activity in Rat Intestine
1 Federica Savorelli Evaluation of acute toxicity in European Sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.) exposed to sodium laureth sulfate.
2 A. Gerhardt Quality control of drinking water from the River Rhine with the multispecies freshwater biomonitor
2 Marie-Helene Lamy Influence of the organic matter on the bioavailability of phenanthrene for benthic organisms.
2 Takeshi Naganuma Fatty acids as markers for microfloral structure and function
2 Roland Rakotondrasata The short outlook of terrestrial activity impact on the aquatic resources in Madagascar
2 Julie Bremner Assessing marine ecosystem health: the long-term effects of fishing on functional biodiversity in north sea benthos
2 Anna Maria Cicero TRIX Index and phytoplankton abundance and composition in Italian coastal waters: A preliminary investigation for the assessment of surface water quality
2 Klaus Koop Use of multiple-year river macroinvertebrate data allows detection of low-level impacts
2 Klaus Koop Aquatic ecosystem health of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia: An integrated assessment
2 Klaus Koop Ecosystem study develops early warning indicators of nutrient pollution on the Great Barrier Reef
2 H.J. Lange Impact of sediment pollution on the carrying capacity of benthic communities in rover floodplain systems
2 M. Munawar Implications of zebra mussels and sediment dwelling bacterium Thioploca expansion to the Lake Ontario food web and fisheries
4 Ghislaine Verrhiest Influence of sediment type on the toxicity of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHS) on aquatic invertebrates.
4 R.Baudo

Screening lake sediments by phytotoxicity tests

4 R. Baudo Lake Maggiore (Italy) evolution since 1962 traced by sediment chemical composition
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