2011 Conference, Brisbane, Australia
SIL Trust Prize Best (first equal) Oral Presentation
Frank Burdon (University of Canterbury): “The agro-ecological network: riparian drivers and the relative effect of fine sediment and nutrients on invertebrate communities in agricultural streams”
Rebecca Eivers (University of Waikato): “Restoring eutrophic shallow lakes with constructed wetlands: pollutant attenuation and habitat provision”
SIL Trust Prize Best Masters or Honours Oral Presentation
Melany Ginders (University of Waikato): “Hydraulic retention zones: towards understanding their function in the lower Waikato River”
SIL Trust Prize Best Poster
Helen Warburton (University of Canterbury): “Body mass-abundance relationships in streams: the importance of habitat size”
2010 Conference, Christchurch
NZFSS Best Student Paper Award
Hamish Grieg (University of British Columbia, Canada): Reinforcing abiotic and biotic time constraints facilitate the broad distribution of a generalist with fixed traits. By Grieg and Wissinger. Ecology, 2010.
SIL Trust Prize Best Oral Presentation
James Blyth (Waikato University): Ecohydrology of Whangamarino Wetland.
SIL Trust Prize Best Masters or Honours Oral Presentation
Teresa Burrell (University of Canterbury): Regionally specific interactions between shading and nitrogen affect stream trophic.
SIL Trust Prize Best Poster
Nina Von Westernhagen (University of Waikato): Measurements and modelling of eutrophication processes in Lake Rotoiti, North Island, New Zealand.
Department of Conservation Best Conservation Paper
Simon Howard (University of Canterbury): Flow-related distribution of threatened pencil galaxiids in the MacKenzie basin.
Department of Conservation Best Conservation Poster
Courtney Kellock (University of Waikato): Lateral movement of fish in the lower Waikato River during flood.
Golder NZ Best Applied Paper
Sarai Cosgrove (University of Otago): A paleolimnological analysis of anthropogenic impacts of Waituna Lagoon, Southland.
Golder NZ Best Applied Poster
Rebecca Eivers (University of Waikato): Attenuating sediment and nutrient losses from dairy farms – restoring shallow peat lakes.
Fish & Game NZ Best Fish and Game Presentation
Jennifer Blair (University of Waikato): Smelt dynamics and trout production in Lake Rotoiti, Bay of Plenty.
2009 Conference, Whangarei
SIL Trust Prize Best Oral Presentation
Phillip Jellyman (University of Canterbury): Chock full of fish! The role of terrestrial invertebrates in subsidizing stream food webs.
SIL Trust Prize Best Masters or Honors Oral Presentation
Katharina Doehring (University of Canterbury): How to cross a road - remediation of inanga (Galaxias maculatus) whitebait migration barriers by in-situ ramp installations.
SIL Trust Prize Best Poster
Stacey Lockie (University of Auckland): Lake Kawaupaku: the mystery of the algal blooms.
Department of Conservation Best Conservation Paper Andy Hicks (University of Otago): Limited dispersal and species-specific patterns of non-diadromous recruitment highlight the importance of larval habitat requirements for amphidromous fish.
Department of Conservation Best Conservation Poster
Claire Taylor (University of Waikato): Reducing establishment rates of non-indigenous zooplankton in constructed waters.
Golder NZ Best Applied Paper Tom Barber (Massey University): The effects of Roundup on freshwater invertebrate communities.
Golder NZ Best Applied Poster Melany Ginders (University of Waikato): Role of hydraulic retention zones in large rivers and their significance in the lower Waikato River.
Fish & Game NZ Best Fish and Game Presentation Jennifer Blair (University of Waikato): Bioenergetics modelling of rainbow trout and smelt predator-prey dynamics in Lake Rotoiti, Bay of Plenty.2008 Conference, New Plymouth
SIL Trust Prize Best Oral Presentation Duncan Gray (Canterbury University): Patterns in braided river benthic diversity: Are all braided rivers the same?SIL Trust Prize Best Masters or Honors Oral Presentation Raymond Tana (University of Waikato): The migration history and population dynamics of torrentfish (Cheimarrichthys fosteri, haast 1874), in two small Waikato streams on the North Island of New Zealand.
Department of Conservation Best Conservation Paper Amber McEwan (Massey University): It’s all about substrate: Microhabitat requirements of native freshwater fish in a pristine stream.
Department of Conservation Best Conservation Poster Amy Whitehead (University of Canterbury): Get more ducks for your bucks: Tools for prioritising conservation management of threatened species.
Golder NZ Best Applied Paper
Katherina Doehring (Canterbury University): Have you seen any fish in Nelson city lately? - Native fish distributions and the effects of culverts in an urban environment.
Golder NZ Best Applied Poster Jeremy Piggott (Otago University): Multiple stressors interact in a complex manner in pasture streams: The roles of increased sediment, nutrients and temperature.
Fish & Game NZ Best Fish and Game Presentation Jane Richardson (Massey University): A quantification of channel platform change on the Lower Rangitikei River, New Zealand, 1949-2007: Response to management?