AMSA2006 Program - Catchment to Coast

The Conference Timetable and Abstracts are linked below.
General Conference Program (101kb)
Monday Timetable (28kb)
Tuesday Timetable(28kb)
Wednesday (Field Trips - no program)
Thursday Timetable(28kb)
List of AMSA2006 Posters
AMSA2006 Poster Abstracts (374kb)
Abstracts (875kb)

Plenary Talks

Day	Invited Plenary Speakers	Topic
Monday	Dr Conall O'Connell, Department of Environment and Heritage
	Professor John Avise	How phylogeographic perspectives have transformed the field of population genetics.
	Dr Max Finlayson, International Water Management Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka	Wetland ecosystems - balancing the outcomes of water management for agriculture with other ecosystem services
Tuesday	Dr Ong Jin Eong, Centre for Marine and Coastal Studies Universiti Sains Malaysia	Measuring and marketing mangrove carbon.
Tuesday noon (DVD presentation)	Professor June Olley, University of Tasmania	AMSA2005 Silver Jubilee Awardee (Fish technology for a rapidly changing marine environment: Some lessons from the past)
Thursday	Professor Donald F. Boesch, University of Maryland	Holistic restoration of catchments and coastal ecosystems
Thursday	Dr George Cresswell, CSIRO	AMSA2006 Silver Jubilee Awardee Our oceans: complex, challenging, & very exciting -- an oceanographer's perspective.

Please note that session times below are approximate - when available, timetables giving exact times will be linked above.
**NOTE Symposia listed below will be held on that day, not necessarily in that timeslot. Please refer to the timetable when available.

DRAFT TIMETABLE	Sun 9 July	Mon 10 July	Tue 11 July	Wed 12 July	Thu 13 July
0730		Registration	Registration		Registration
0830		0830 - 0910 Conference Opening Senator Campbell (DVD); Dr Conall O'Connell; Dr Gina Newton; Dr Barbara Bedford	0830 - 0930 Keynote Speaker Dr Ong Jin Eong	Choice of Tours	0830 - 0930 Keynote Speaker Professor Donald F. Boesch
0900		0910 - 0945 Keynote Speaker Professor John Avise
0930			0930 - 1000 Morning Tea		0930 - 1005 AMSA Silver Jubilee Awardee 2006 Dr George Cresswell
0935		0945 - 1035 Keynote Speaker Dr Max Finlayson
1000			1000 - 1200 Concurrent Sessions **Symposia: Sediment transport (Nittrouer & Harris); & Evo- & eco-devo goes native (Degnan)
1005					1005 - 1030 Morning Tea
1020
1030					1030 - 1250 Concurrent Sessions **Symposium: Seagrass futures (Mellors)
1035		1035 - 1100 Morning Tea
11:00		1100 - 1300 Concurrent Sessions **Symposium: Connectivity in the Marine Environment
1200			1200 - 1220 HALL A (DVD Presentation) AMSA Silver Jubilee Awardee 2005 Prof June Olley 1220 - 1300 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING -
1250	1100 - 1630 AMSA Council Meeting Beaches Room, Hilton (Clifton & Kewarra)				1250 - 1330 Lunch (AMSA Student Posters to be removed by 1330)
1300		1300 - 1400 Lunch	1300 - 1340 Lunch
1330					1330 - 1610 Symposium: The application of science in managing Great Barrier Reef catchments (Lynam) Concurrent Sessions**
1340			1340 - 1600 Concurrent Sessions
1400		1400 - 1600 Concurrent Sessions Symposium: Catchments and corals: land-sea interactions in the tropics (Fabricius)
1600	1600 - 2000 Registration 1600 - 1800 Poster Setup	1600 - 1630 Afternoon tea	1600 - 1630 Afternoon tea
1610					1610 - 1630 Afternoon tea
1630		1630 - 1830 Concurrent Sessions	1630 - 1830 Concurrent Sessions		1630 - 1730 Concurrent Sessions
1740					1740 ? 1830 (HALL A) AMSA Student Prize Presentations and end of Conference
1800	1800 - 2000 Welcome Function Cairns Convention Centre
1830		Poster Cocktail Function Judging of AMSA Student Posters (1830 - 2000) Exhibition Level		AMSA Conference Dinner & presentation of Honorary Life Memberships 1830 - 0000	1830 - 2030 SWS Silent Auction Bidding and Checkout & Cocktail Reception
1900			1900 Student Night Palm Court Terrace, Hilton Esplanade (with invited academics)
Evening		Free evening	Free evening