1:00 EXPANDING THE USE OF THE REFERENCE CONDITION APPROACH DEVELOPED FOR THE FRASER RIVER BASIN TO ASSESS SLOW MOVING, SOFT BOTTOM STREAMS.
S. Sylvestre¹, T. Reynoldson², and T. Tuominen¹. ¹Environment Canada, Environmental Conservation Branch, #700-1200 West 73rd Ave., Vancouver, BC, V6P 6H9, ²National Water Research Institute, Environment Canada, 867 Lakeshore Rd., Burlington, ON, L7R 4A6

1:15 MONITORING WATER ECOLOGICAL QUALITY OF MEDITERRANEAN RIVERS USING MACROINVERTEBRATES: CRITERIA TO SELECT THE COLLECTING PLACES.
P. Pinto and H. Dias Figueiredo. Departtment of Biology, University of Évora, 7001 ÉVORA codex Portugal

1:30 POINT SAMPLING AS A BIOASSESSMENT TOOL.
D.K. Shiozawa. Department of Zoology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, 84602

1:45 WATER QUALITY MONITORING IN RUSSIA AND NORTH AMERICA: COMPARISON AND PERSPECTIVES.
T.S. Vshivkova¹, J.C. Morse², E.A. Makarchenko¹, and T.V. Nikulina¹. ¹Institute of Biology and Soil Sciences, Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Science, Vladivostok 690022, Russia, ²Department of Entomology, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-0365 USA

2:00 PREDICTIONS, PROPERTIES AND TESTS OF THE BIOMAP WATER QUALITY MODEL.
R. Griffiths. Department of Zoology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

2:15 ASSESSING THE UTILITY OF NUTRIENT LIMITATION MEASURES AS BIOINDICATORS FOR MANAGEMENT OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN RIVERS.
M. Bowman¹, D.W. Schindler¹, and P.A. Chambers². ¹Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E9, ²National Hydrology Research Center, Environment Canada, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, S7N 3H5

2:30 RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN TILLAGE PRACTICES AND THE BIOLOGICAL INTEGRITY OF TRIBUTARY STREAMS OF THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER.
R.J. Haro¹, A.F. Burgess¹, and P.H. Gowda². ¹River Studies Center, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse, La Crosse, WI 54601, ²Department of Soil, Water and Climate, University of Minnesota - Twin Cites Campus, 1991 Upper Bufford Circle St. Paul, MN 55108

2:45 THE ROLE OF BENTHIC MACROINVERTEBRATES AS INDICATORS OF THE "ECOLOGICAL STATUS" OF EUROPEAN RUNNING WATERS – THE AUSTRIAN WAY TO IMPLEMENT THE NEW EU-WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE.
O. Moog. Department of Hydrobiology, BOKU University of Agricultural Sciences, Max-Emanuel-Str. 17, A-1180 Vienna, Austria, Europe