Monday, 13th August 9th Australian Stream Management Conference 2018

• Data and Technology: A watershed in action - Stephen Cahoon

• Regular intervention monitoring providing valuable insights into vegetation responses to environmental flows on rivers - Chris S Jones
• A long-term temporal evaluation of environmental flow regimes in southern Victoria - Mark Stacey
• Tactics for stretching a waterbug based monitoring program across a continent - John Gooderham
• Monitoring fish responses to environmental flows across Victoria: a shift towards understanding processes, population dynamics and long-term projections - Zeb Tonkin
• Development of a state-wide map of the extent and location of high value, at-risk groundwater dependent ecosystems - Yi-Ming Ma

• Sociogeomorphic river recovery: integrating human and physical processes - Simon A Mould
• Rivers, amenity and art: the geomorphologist’s role in health and liveability - Sandra O Brizga
• Delivering priorities for the Gippsland Lakes through partnerships - Sean M Phillipson
• New ways of collaborating for improved catchment outcomes - Julie Francis
• ALRS - Key observations and lessons associated with the role out of a state wide flood recovery program. - Jesse J Webster

• Applied Fluvial Geomorphology in the 21^st Century: embracing a Waterway Asset Management approach - Leigh Smith
• Dredging up the past: what are the current implications for Victorian rivers from historic gold dredging? - James Grove
• Rates of bank erosion under natural and regulated flows in the Upper Murray River system - Khancoban Dam to Jingellic - Brett Phillips
• Rates of Bank Erosion under Different and Alternative-Flow Releases along the Mitta Mitta River - Developing Metrics to Limit Erosion Downstream from Dartmouth Dam - Andrew Simon
• Assessment of channel expansion and contraction using cross-section data from repeated LiDAR acquisitions in the Macquarie Marshes, NSW - Neda Yousefi

• Trialling the use of controlled burning for exotic vegetation management in novel riparian ecosystems - Rebecca Mabbott
• Causes and management of dieback in River Red Gum trees along Malcolm Creek, Craigieburn - Simon Treadwell
• Oxley Creek Transformation – An overview of waterway issues and restoration strategies - Ben Pearson
• Riparian fencing: can’t we just make them do it? No, and here’s why. - Greg Peters
• Restoring Riparian Resilience in the Mary River catchment - an integrated catchment management approach - Sarah Grimish

• When to break the habit: Adapting the FLOWS method for use in the highly modified Lower Broken Creek - Lisa Duncan
• Lifting our gaze: improved environmental water management requires a landscape-scale approach - Andrew K Sharpe
• Maintaining drought refuge pools in the Wimmera River - Amanda Shipp
• Detection of long-term change in waterway health due to flow - Terry Chan
• Werribee River Ecohydraulics - Parvin Zavarei

• Use of catchment carbon offsets to build climate resilience in catchments and help the water sector achieve zero net emissions - Craig Clifton
• Are trade-offs acceptable or just accepting defeat? - Glenn D Browning
• Collaborative water management in the Ringarooma River catchment Tasmania, Australia - Chris Cleary
• Imagine the Yarra: how community, legislation and land use planning is shaping the future of an iconic waterway - Karen White
• What happens to the stream when the coal mine closes – A cautionary tale for legislation, licencing and best practice - Phillip Lorenzelli

• Bank-stabilising rock fillets increase diversity and abundance of macro invertebrate and meiofaunal communities in the Kalang estuary, NSW. - Sam J Lewis
• Understanding the evolution of floodplain channels by avulsion: An investigation on the floodplain of Murray River - Abdullah Baky
• Channel erosion risk assessment of south east Queensland - Danielle Udy
• Managing erosion from vessel wash on a reach of the Murray River - Hugo Bowman
• Mid-King Cooperative Avulsion Management   - Andrew Briggs

• Rehabilitation of the Nimmie-Caira - Ross E Hardie
• Seed germination traits of two common floodplain eucalypts: optimum germination temperatures and influence of leaf litter - Ben E Vincent
• Willow control in the remote headwater waterways of gippsland - Matt Bowler
• From planting willows to pulling them out: The past, present and future of riparian management in Victoria - Jo Slijkerman
• Development of the stream rehabilitation guidelines for Queensland - Luke R McPhail

• Is my river health intervention project working? Results and lessons learned from 10 years of riparian works monitoring in the Melbourne region. - Apanie Wood
• Evaluation and redirection of a long term broad scale river health monitoring program in Tasmania Australia - Scott A Hardie
• Tracking platypus populations through genetic fingerprints - Josh Griffiths
• AquaBlitz: using environmental DNA to map freshwater biodiversity throughout Melbourne’s waterways - Andrew Weeks

• What Landholder is That? Tailoring Your Engagement Approach. - Lori Gould
• Georges River Aboriginal Riverkeeper Team: a model for successful engagement of Aboriginal communities in natural resource management of urban areas - Tony Wales
• What’s in it for me – an evidence based approach to improve landholder adoption of riparian works - Rob M Richards
• When Perception and Evidence Based Practice Collide - Floodplain and Waterway Management in the aftermath of the 2016 Floods at St Marys, Tasmania   - Julian Skipworth

• Returning native fish to an urban creek in Logan - Barnaby Resch
• Using concreted stormwater channels for determining ‘worse case scenarios’ when assigning grades of relative condition to urban waterways - David J Reid
• Concrete Stormwater Channels: Urban Stream Wasteland or Supercharged Ecosystems? - Carl Tippler
• Setting Appropriate Goals for Urban Stream Restoration: A Case Study from Blacktown City Council - Michael Dean

• Fish Passage Considerations for Retrofit of Base Flow Weir Gauges - Matt Curtis
• Groundwater the known unknown in floodplain management - Andrew Telfer
• Predicting opening duration of intermittently open/closed estuaries in victoria - Sarah L McSweeney
• When one model just isn’t enough - Danielle Udy

Steve is a Chartered Fellow of Engineers Australia. He has been a member for over forty years and still retains his passion for engineering. Since graduating, most of his work has been in the water industry where he has practiced in Civil, Mechanical and Environmental Engineering fields. He is a businessman who has retired a few times, only to be drawn back for a special cause. He has recently been working on extraction of PFAS from groundwater because a friend got him excited. After finding the necessary design criteria he is back to his personal writing and editing, hoping to publish his next book before Christmas. 

Since 2004 he has been active in promoting action on climate change and in 2007 he paddled and dragged his wheeled kayak on a journey from Brisbane to Adelaide down the Darling and Murray river system. That journey is detailed in his book, Cry Me a River. Since then he has made many long distance paddles that involve dragging the kayak when there is no water. All of these journeys involved observations that led him to question his engineering knowledge, some of which you will hear about this evening. 

In 2017 he dragged his kayak back to Engineering House in Canberra two years after he had left. In the meantime he paddled into the Eiffel Tower and became the only person to have paddled up the Mississippi in a flood.

• What is it like to paddle up the Mississippi in a flood? - Steve Posselt

Recommend casual dinning at the Atrium Bar