Scottish Freshwater Group: 83rd Meeting

A joint meeting of the Scottish Freshwater and Marine Groups took place on 29 October 2009 at the University of Stirling.

Speakers* included:

• Helen Lubarsky et al, University of St Andrews: Biogenic stabilisation of river and estuarine sediments by microbial assemblages [PDF, 1.5mb]
• Hamish Moir, Macauley Institute: Spatial hierarchical geomorphic controls on salmonid spawning habitat [PDF, 1.45mb]
• Caroline Kneller, SEPA: Environmental Genomics in Mussels [PDF, 0.4mb]
• Ted Schlicke, SEPA: Dissolved Oxygen in the Clyde [PDF, 1.66mb]
• Susan Stevens, SEPA: The use of satellite imagery in Marine systems [PDF, 1.92mb]
• Rob Briers, Napier University: Dissecting large-scale spatial patterns in freshwater invertebrate species richness [PDF, 0.2mb]
• Janet Khan, SEPA: Marine Biodiversity [PDF, 1.54mb]

*If you wish to cite any of these presentations, please request permission of the author first.

The next meeting of the Scottish Freshwater Group will be on Thursday 8 April 2010, with talks on the theme of "Loch Restoration".

The Scottish Freshwater Group is organised by Dr Laurence Carvalho, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, and hosted by David Gilvear, of the School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling.