Workshop chairs
- Prof. Angela Arthington - Program Leader, Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Australia.
Angela Arthington is a freshwater ecologist working on fish ecology, flow-ecological relationships and e-flow methods across wet tropics, subtropical and arid-zone rivers. Angela is coauthor of "Freshwater Fishes of North-eastern Australia" (CSIRO Publishing, 2004), and a member of the Freshwater Cross-cutting Network of DIVERSITAS, a global biodiversity science program.
- Assoc. Prof. Michael Douglas - Theme Leader, Aquatic Ecosystems and Water Resources, School for Environmental Research, Charles Darwin University, Australia.
For the past 15 years Michael Douglas have been researching how catchment management practices (including fire, weed and grazing management) affect the ecology of freshwater ecosystems (including tropical rivers, streams, wetlands and riparian zones). Most of his research is focused on aquatic animal (invertebrate and fish) and plant (macrophytes and riparian) communities and ecosystem processes (food webs). He also has a strong interest in weed management in tropical savannas, particularly in understanding the ecological consequences of exotic grass invasion. He currently leads multidisciplinary research projects focussed on weed ecology and management, riparian zone ecology and management, and environmental and cultural water requirements.
- Professor David Dudgeon - Head, Department of Ecology & Biodiversity, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong.
David Dudgeon has spent the last 25 years at The University of Hong Kong researching the ecology, biodiversity and conservation of the animals that inhabit the streams and rivers monsoonal Asia. He is the author of over 150 articles in international journals, book chapters and books, and has supervised more than 30 research postgraduate students. Dudgeon is a committee member of the Freshwater Cross-cutting Network of DIVERSITAS, and sits on the editorial boards of five international regional journals. He was awarded the Biwako Prize in Ecology by the Japanese Government in 2000 in recognition of his contributions to freshwater ecology and conservation in Asia.
- Prof. Jane Hughes - Program Leader, Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Australia.
Jane Hughes runs the Molecular Ecology laboratory at Griffith University. Her interests are in using molecular markers to answer ecological and evolutionary questions. She heads the aquatic conservation and biodiversity theme within the Australian Rivers Institute.
- Prof. Robert J. Naiman - Aquatic & Fishery Sciences, College of Ocean & Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, USA.
Currently a professor in the College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences at the University of Washington, Bob Naiman holds degrees from California State Polytechnic University (BS), UCLA (MA), and Arizona State University (PhD). Bob's multidisciplinary and administrative experiences include being a research scientist and director of the Matamek Research Program at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and director of the Center for Streamside Studies at the University of Washington. Bob's research interests focus on the structure and dynamics of stream ecosystems, riparian vegetation, and the role of large animals in influencing ecosystem dynamics. He has written and edited 10 books on aquatic ecology and watershed management, in addition to 200 journal articles. His current interests revolve around riparian systems, interactions between salmon, brown bear and riparian vegetation, as well as the environmental consequences of artificially changing water regimes. He has chaired - and is chairing - a number of national and international committees, has participated on advisory panels for the National Science Foundation, consulted for government research organizations in France and South Africa, and advised conservation organizations as well as private foundations. Bob's underlying philosophy is that effective decisions are founded on a balance of environmental and cultural principles, and that effective management solutions can be achieved through innovation. On weekends, he can be found building an environmentally friendly home on San Juan Island or, if fishing is good, on the water.
- Assoc. Prof. N. LeRoy Poff - Department of Biology, Colorado State University, USA.
LeRoy Poff's research focuses on the role of environmental variability in structuring riverine communities at local to global scales. He is particularly interested in developing general models using species traits to understand how riverine communities are hierarchically structured in response to multiple sources and scales of environmental alteration, including hydrologic alteration.
- Dr. Caroline Sullivan - Head, Water Policy and Management group, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, UK.
Caroline Sullivan is an environmental economist specialising in water management and policy, based at the Oxford University Centre for the Environment. Her main research interests are in improving water management for both humans and ecosystems. In addition to climate change, IWRM, and integrated indicators, she has worked on ecosystem values and services, tourism and forestry, water economics and transboundary water management in research projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America
- Prof. Charles Vörösmarty - Director, Water Systems Analysis Group, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824 (USA).
Charles Vörösmarty is a Research Full Professor at the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space at the University of New Hampshire. He serves as founder and Director of its Water Systems Analysis Group. His research interests focus on the development of computer models and geospatial data sets used in synthesis studies of the interactions among the water cycle, climate, biogeochemistry, and anthropogenic activities. His studies are built around local, regional, and continental to global-scale modeling of water balance, discharge, constituent fluxes in river systems, and the analysis of the impacts of large-scale water engineering on the terrestrial water cycle. Dr. Vörösmarty is a founding member of the Global Water System Project representing the inputs of more than 200 international scientists under ICSU's Global Environmental Change Programs. In this capacity he is spearheading efforts to develop global-scale indicators of water stress, to develop and apply databases of reservoir construction worldwide, and to analyze coastal zone risks associated with water diversion. He recently won one of two national awards through NSF to execute studies on hydrologic synthesis. Dr. Vörösmarty also serves on several national and international panels, including the US Arctic Research Commission, the NSF-ARCSS Committee (AC), and the Arctic HYDRA International Polar Year (IPY) Planning Team. In the US, he served on an NRC panel to review NASA's polar geophysical data sets, the decadal study on earth observations, and is co-Chair of the NSF-Arctic CHAMP hydrology initiative. The Water Systems Analysis Group serves as the Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership Initiative (NEESPI) Focus Research Center on Hydrology. He has assembled regional and continental-scale hydro-meteorological data compendia, including the largest single such collection, Arctic-RIMS (covering northern Eurasia and North America). For the United Nations he served as consultant to the 24-agency UN World Water Assessment Programme and represented the International Council of Scientific Unions at recent UN Commission on Sustainable Development meetings.