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Program subject to change.
Updated October 16, 2026

Posters will be available for viewing from Wednesday through Friday and the poster session will be on Wednesday, November 4 – 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Investigating Chemical and Biological Recovery of Acidified Lakes in Sudbury, Ontario

Mary Atkinson and Mark L. Mallory
Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada

Saltwater Sleuthing: Investigating a Toxic Nodularia Bloom in Hypersaline Little Manitou Lake, Saskatchewan

Deirdre Bateson, Raea Gooding, and John-Mark Davies
Water Security Agency, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

The Aquatic Ecosystem as a Sports Facility: Water Quality From a Scientific Perspective vs. User Expectations

Renata Dondajewska-Pielka1, Łukasz Bryl2, and Michał Rybak1
1Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland; 2University of Life Sciences, Poznan, Poland

Canada Water Agency’s Lake of the Woods Freshwater Ecosystem Initiative

Kelly-Anne Fagan
Canada Water Agency, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Indiana Statewide Lake Monitoring Program Evaluation: Collecting More Samples than Necessary?

Megan Gokey
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA

Unmanned Drone for Water Quality Profiling in the Berkeley Pit Mine: Innovations in Hazardous Site Water Sampling

Zack Henderson1, Catie Marchand1, Ian Fairweather2, Loren Burmeister3, Brandt Winkelman2, and James Jonas3
1Xylem, Inc., Yellow Springs, Ohio, USA; 2Fairweather IT, Bozeman, Montana, USA; 3Atlantic Richfield Company

Paleoecological Assessment of Chironomid-Inferred Hypolimnetic Oxygen Dynamics Under Anthropogenic Stress in Simon Lake (Sudbury, Ontario)

Mackenzie H. Hobbs and Elizabeth J. Favot
Cooperative Freshwater Ecology Unit, Vale Living with Lakes Centre, School of Natural Sciences, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

Hydrometric Standards: The Key to Known Quality

Terry Kenney
Aquatic Informatics, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Where the Water Goes – Comparing Spring and Fall Pump-Ups Into Candlewood Lake

Steve Kluge, Neil Stalter, and Michael Gasperino
Candlewood Lake Authority, New Fairfield, Connecticut, USA

Conservation and Restoration of Aquatic Diversity in the Face of Legacy and Emerging Stressors (CRADLES)

Adam Lepage1, Brie Edwards2, Thomas Johnston3, Elizabeth Favot1, Michael Rennie4, Mark Mallory5, Andrew Paterson6, John Smol7, and Jacqueline Litzgus1
1Vale Living with Lakes Centre, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada; 2Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation, and Parks, Vale Living with Lakes Centre, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada; 3Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Vale Living with Lakes Centre, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada; 4Department of Biology, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada; 5Department of Biology, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada; 6Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation, and Parks, Dorset, Ontario, Canada; 7Paleoecological Environmental Assessment and Research Laboratory (PEARL), Department of Biology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Metabolomics and Genomics Reveal High Diversity and Concentrations of Cyanopeptides During a Microcystis Bloom

Keri Malanchuk1, Nathalie Fortin2, Frances Pick3, David McMullin1
1Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; 2McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada; 3University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

When Bog-Fringed Lakes Turn Alkaline: Hydrologic Forcing, Peat Collapse, and Eutrophication Feedback

Claire Paul1,2, Benjamin Harris2, and Melissa Thomas2
1Western Colorado University, Gunnison, Colorado, USA; 2Raritan Headwaters Association, Bedminster, New Jersey, USA

Transforming Fishing Cat and Fish Farmer Conflict Into Conservation

Ganesh Puri
Ministry of Forest and Environment, Bagmati Province Nepal

Active Monitoring of Limnological Parameters Under Ice in Northern Minnesota

Brady Rudh
Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, Cass Lake, Minnesota, USA