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Programme schedule

Tuesday, May 27 2003

07:00 am - 09:00 am                           Editorial committee meeting/breakfast

08:00 am - 05:00 pm                           Registration

09:00 am - 12:00 pm                           Pre-executive meeting

09:00 am - 04:00 pm                           Workshop1: Intermittent vs. perennial stream determinations and the assessment of stream stability and function

                                                            Workshop 2: Trichoptera

                                                            Graduate Resources Committee

12:00 pm - 01:00 pm                           Luncheon, Graduate Student Workshop

01:00 pm - 04:00 pm                           Graduate Student Workshop

01:00 pm - 04:00 pm                           Executive Committee meeting

01:00 pm - 05:00 pm                           Exhibitor setup

04:00 pm - 05:00 pm                           Projectionist training

04:30 pm - 07:00 pm                           Graduate student mentoring mixer/dinner

05:00 pm - 07:00 pm                           Dinner on your own

05:00 pm ? 07:00 pm                          Endowment Committee meeting/dinner

07:00 pm -11:00 pm                            2003 Meeting Welcome

                                                            Presidential Address

                                                            Award of Excellence Presentation

                                                            Distinguished Service Award Presentation    

                                                            Welcoming mixer

Wednesday, May 28 2003

07:30 am - 08:30 am                           Coffee, tea, assorted pastries

08:00 am - 05:00 pm                           Registration

08:00 am - 05:00 pm                           Poster set-up

08:00 am - 11:30 am                           Plenary session

09:30 am - 10:00 am                           Break (refreshments)

11:30 am - 01:00 pm                           Business Meeting and lunch

01:00 pm - 03:00 pm                           Contributed and Special Sessions

03:00 pm - 03:30 pm                           Break (refreshments and snack)

03:30 pm - 05:00 pm                           Contributed and Special Sessions

05:30 pm - 07:30 pm                           5K Run/Volleyball

06:00 pm - 10:00 pm                           Dine-around-Athens event, sponsored by local restaurants and bars

Thursday, May 29 2003

07:30 am - 08:30 am                           Coffee, tea, assorted pastries

08:00 am - 05:00 pm                           Registration

08:00 am - 09:30 am                           Contributed and Special Sessions

09:30 am - 10:00 am                           Break (refreshments)

10:00 am - 12:00 pm                           Contributed and Special Sessions

12:00 pm - 01:30 pm                           NABS Committee meetings

12:00 pm - 01:30 pm                           Lunch on your own

01:30 pm - 05:30 pm                           Poster session

                                                            Taxonomy fair

                                                            Refreshments

05:00 pm - 06:00 pm                           Endowment Contributors and Beneficiaries Reception

05:30 pm - 07:00 pm                           Dinner on your own    

07:00 pm -11:00 pm                            Mixer

                                                            Auction

Friday, May 30 2003

07:00 am - 08:00 am                           New Executive Committee Breakfast

07:30 am - 08:30 am                           Coffee, tea, assorted pastries

08:00 am - 05:00 pm                           Registration

08:00 am - 09:30 am                           Contributed and Special Sessions

09:30 am - 10:00 am                           Break (refreshments)

10:00 am -12:00 pm                            Contributed and Special Sessions

12:00 pm - 01:00 pm                           Lunch on your own

01:00 pm - 03:00 pm                           Contributed and Special Sessions

03:00 pm - 03:30 pm                           Break (refreshments)

03:30 pm - 05:30 pm                           Contributed and Special Sessions

06:00 pm -11:00 pm                            Banquet

                                                            Entertainment

Saturday, May 31 2003

07:30 am - 08:30 am                           Coffee, tea

08:00 am - 09:30 am                           Contributed and Special Sessions

09:30 am - 10:00 am                           Break (refreshments)

10:00 am - 12:00 pm                           Contributed and Special Sessions

12:00 pm - 01:00 pm                           Lunch on your own

01:00 pm - 03:00 pm                           Contributed and Special Sessions

03:00 pm - 03:30 pm                           Break (refreshments)

03:30 pm - 05:00 pm                           Contributed and Special Sessions

04:00 pm                                             Leave for Ichauway Reserve trip

                                                            (return to Athens on Monday afternoon)

Sunday, June 1 2003

05:00 am - 06:00 pm                           Fly fishing day trip

08:00 am - 06:00 pm                           SREL day trip

                                                            Coweeta day trip
Date StartTime EndTime Session Title
28/05/2003 1:00:00 PM 2:45:00 PM Opportunities to Incorporate Science in Freshwater Conservation Advocacy: The NGO Perspective
28/05/2003 1:00:00 PM 2:45:00 PM Organic Matter Processing I
28/05/2003 1:00:00 PM 2:45:00 PM Landscapes
28/05/2003 1:00:00 PM 2:45:00 PM Approaches for Using Algae to Monitor and Assess Freshwater Ecosystems I
28/05/2003 1:00:00 PM 2:45:00 PM Ecotoxicology
28/05/2003 3:15:00 PM 5:00:00 PM Mobile Basin Mollusks: Ecology and Conservation
28/05/2003 3:15:00 PM 5:00:00 PM Organic Matter Processing II
28/05/2003 3:15:00 PM 5:00:00 PM Bioassessment I
28/05/2003 3:15:00 PM 5:00:00 PM Approaches for Using Algae to Monitor and Assess Freshwater Ecosystems II
28/05/2003 3:15:00 PM 5:00:00 PM Land/Water Interfaces
29/05/2003 8:00:00 AM 9:45:00 AM Tropical Stream Ecology I
29/05/2003 8:00:00 AM 9:45:00 AM Do Meiofauna Matter? Contributions to Aquatic Ecosystem Biodiversity, Structure, and Function I
29/05/2003 8:00:00 AM 9:45:00 AM Bioassessment II
29/05/2003 8:00:00 AM 9:45:00 AM Systematics and Life History I
29/05/2003 8:00:00 AM 9:45:00 AM Community Ecology I
29/05/2003 10:15:00 AM 12:00:00 PM Tropical Stream Ecology II
29/05/2003 10:15:00 AM 12:00:00 PM Do Meiofauna Matter? Contributions to Aquatic Ecosystem Biodiversity, Structure, and Function II
29/05/2003 10:15:00 AM 12:00:00 PM Bioassessment III
29/05/2003 10:15:00 AM 12:00:00 PM Systematics and Life History II
29/05/2003 10:15:00 AM 12:00:00 PM Community Ecology II
30/05/2003 8:00:00 AM 9:45:00 AM Ecosystem Function in Bioassessment: Comparisons and Opportunities I
30/05/2003 8:00:00 AM 9:45:00 AM Disturbance Ecology I
30/05/2003 8:00:00 AM 9:45:00 AM Biogeochemistry I
30/05/2003 8:00:00 AM 9:45:00 AM Population Ecology
30/05/2003 8:00:00 AM 9:45:00 AM Food Webs
30/05/2003 10:15:00 AM 12:15:00 PM Ecosystem Function in Bioassessment: Comparisons and Opportunities II
30/05/2003 10:15:00 AM 12:15:00 PM Changing Land Use Effects on Aquatic Food Webs
30/05/2003 10:15:00 AM 12:00:00 PM Disturbance Ecology II
30/05/2003 10:15:00 AM 12:00:00 PM Biogeochemistry II
30/05/2003 1:00:00 PM 2:45:00 PM Frameworks and Methods for Defining Different Levels of Biological Condition: Global Perspectives I
30/05/2003 1:00:00 PM 2:45:00 PM Extending the Food Web: Consumer-Resource Dynamics at the Aquatic-Terrestrial Interface I
30/05/2003 1:00:00 PM 2:45:00 PM Disturbance Ecology III
30/05/2003 1:00:00 PM 2:45:00 PM Biogeochemistry III
30/05/2003 3:15:00 PM 5:00:00 PM Frameworks and Methods for Defining Different Levels of Biological Condition: Global Perspectives II
30/05/2003 3:15:00 PM 5:00:00 PM Extending the Food Web: Consumer-Resource Dynamics at the Aquatic-Terrestrial Interface II
30/05/2003 3:15:00 PM 5:00:00 PM Disturbance Gradients
30/05/2003 3:15:00 PM 5:00:00 PM Periphyton
31/05/2003 8:00:00 AM 9:45:00 AM Ecological Stoichiometry I
31/05/2003 8:00:00 AM 9:45:00 AM Community Ecology III
31/05/2003 8:00:00 AM 9:45:00 AM Large River Ecology
31/05/2003 8:00:00 AM 9:45:00 AM Urban Ecology
31/05/2003 8:00:00 AM 9:45:00 AM Molecular Approaches to Population Structure and Bioassessment
31/05/2003 10:15:00 AM 12:00:00 PM Ecological Stoichiometry II
31/05/2003 10:15:00 AM 12:00:00 PM Community Ecology IV
31/05/2003 10:15:00 AM 12:00:00 PM Fish Ecology
31/05/2003 10:15:00 AM 12:00:00 PM Wetlands and Lentic Ecology
31/05/2003 10:15:00 AM 12:00:00 PM Geomorphology
31/05/2003 1:00:00 PM 2:45:00 PM Restoration Ecology
31/05/2003 1:00:00 PM 2:45:00 PM Management of Aquatic Systems
31/05/2003 1:00:00 PM 2:45:00 PM Conservation Ecology
31/05/2003 1:00:00 PM 2:45:00 PM Hyporheic Processes
29/05/2003 1:30:00 PM 3:30:00 PM Food Webs
29/05/2003 1:30:00 PM 3:30:00 PM Production Ecology
29/05/2003 1:30:00 PM 3:30:00 PM Life Histories
29/05/2003 1:30:00 PM 3:30:00 PM Systematics and Taxonomy
29/05/2003 1:30:00 PM 3:30:00 PM Wetlands
29/05/2003 1:30:00 PM 3:30:00 PM Lentic Ecology
29/05/2003 1:30:00 PM 3:30:00 PM Tropical Stream Ecology
29/05/2003 1:30:00 PM 3:30:00 PM Large River Ecology
29/05/2003 1:30:00 PM 3:30:00 PM Population Ecology
29/05/2003 1:30:00 PM 3:30:00 PM Community Ecology
29/05/2003 1:30:00 PM 3:30:00 PM Conservation Ecology
29/05/2003 1:30:00 PM 3:30:00 PM Unionid Ecology
29/05/2003 1:30:00 PM 3:30:00 PM Fish Ecology
29/05/2003 3:30:00 PM 5:30:00 PM Management of Aquatic Systems
29/05/2003 3:30:00 PM 5:30:00 PM Bioasessment
29/05/2003 3:30:00 PM 5:30:00 PM Disturbance Ecology
29/05/2003 3:30:00 PM 5:30:00 PM Restoration Ecology
29/05/2003 3:30:00 PM 5:30:00 PM Biogeochemistry
29/05/2003 3:30:00 PM 5:30:00 PM Organic Matter Processing
29/05/2003 3:30:00 PM 5:30:00 PM Land/Water Interfaces
29/05/2003 3:30:00 PM 5:30:00 PM Hyporheic Processes
29/05/2003 3:30:00 PM 5:30:00 PM Landscapes
29/05/2003 3:30:00 PM 5:30:00 PM Approaches for Using Algae to Monitor and Assess Freshwater Ecosystems
29/05/2003 3:30:00 PM 5:30:00 PM Periphyton
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