Ninth International Conference on River Research and Applications

[Tim Barrows]

From: Martin Thoms - Martin_Thoms at enterprise.canberra.edu.au

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| Ninth International Conference on |
| River Research and Applications |
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| formerly Ninth International Symposium on Regulated |
| Streams (NISORS) |
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First Call for Papers
The Ninth International Conference on River Research and Applications will be
held on the banks of the River Murray at Albury, New South Wales, Australia,
from Sunday 6 July to Friday 11 July, 2003. It will be an opportunity for
environmental scientists, managers and students from throughout the world to
share their discoveries and ideas about river ecosystems.
The theme for the meeting is
THE NATURE OF VARIABILITY IN RIVER ENVIRONMENTS
By their nature, rivers extend over large areas and persist for long periods
of time, and to understand them we need to relate observations made at many
different scales of space and time. The ways that patterns and processes are
distributed across scales, from days to centuries and reaches to catchments,
may be what most distinguishes the big rivers of the world. Yet we know
little of the nature of this variability, its environmental and evolutionary
consequences and its significance for resource management.
The theme is not exclusive, as papers on all aspects of river regulation 
will be
considered.
Papers submitted for presentation may be considered for publication in the
international journal River Research & Applications, published by John 
Wiley and
Sons.

Albury is a small city (regional population 100,000) near the headwaters of
Australia's major river, the Murray. It offers excellent conference facilities
and proximity to a wide variety of attractions, including the famous Snowy
Mountains Hydroelectric Scheme and the Barmah-Millewa Forest, the finest stand
of river red gums in Australia. Albury has air links to major capitals and is
within a few hours? drive of Canberra and Melbourne.
The host for the conference is the Cooperative Research Centre for Freshwater
Ecology, a network of scientists and managers with headquarters at the
University of Canberra. The CRC maintains a river laboratory in Albury.
For more general information, see the Internet at
http//:www.conlog.com.au/NISORS.
Registration details and other logistic information should be directed to Ms
Elizabeth Medley (conference at conlog.com.au).
Inquiries about the scientific program should be directed to A/Professor Martin
Thoms (thoms at scides.canberra.edu.au).