abstract submissions

Deadline for submission: January 26, 2025 at 11:59pm EDT. 

Individual abstract
submission details

Individual abstract submissions are now open!  

The 2025 Annual Meeting is accepting abstract submissions for both oral and poster presentations and this year there will also be the opportunity for accepted presenters to select to also present a short lightning talk of their accepted presentation in Spanish.

With over 60 categories and special sessions to choose from, ensure you submit your abstract early for consideration in the 2025 program. 

Proposals that address the conference theme of Expanding Horizons: Freshwaters from mountains to the sea are especially welcome.

Deadline for submitting abstracts is January 26, 2025 at 11:59pm EDT. 

    • Special Session: Water quality patterns, trends, and drivers along land-river-estuary continuums: Insights gained from large-scale monitoring and geospatial datasets

    • Special Session: Contaminant ecology Special Session: Scholarship of teaching and learning in freshwater science

    • Special Session: From the mountains to the seas: Expanding the sciences of non-perennial streams

    • Special Session: Freshwater storytelling: collaborative approaches to science communication and community engagement  

    • Special Session: Advancing economic valuation and policy analysis of freshwaters via collaborations between ecologists, economists, and policymakers

    • Special Session: Challenges, uncertainties, and strategies for continued improvement in methods for estimating stream metabolism.

    • Special Session: Tides of stress - Physiological responses and resiliency of aquatic organisms to environmental stress across freshwater and coastal ecosystems

    • Special Session: Ríos sin fronteras – honoring the boundless life and work of Dr. S. Mažeika Patricio Sulliván

    • Special Session: Celebrating participatory science in freshwater research and monitoring.

    • Special Session: Bridging Language Barriers: Engaging with Spanish-Speaking Communities in Freshwater Science Research

    • Special Session: Lakes to oceans and everywhere in between: using stable isotopes to reveal trophic bridges across ecosystems

    • Special Session: From dead ends to discovery: embracing failure as a pathway to scientific progress

    • Special Session: Trash Talk - Ecology of anthropogenic materials from freshwaters to the sea

    • Special Session: Expanding horizons by bridging the structural-functional divide: linking biodiversity and ecosystem function

    • Special Session: Beyond nitrogen and phosphorus:  Assessing the role of other essential elements in freshwater ecosystems

    • Special Session: Uncovering the drivers and consequences of benthic harmful cyanobacterial blooms in freshwater ecosystems

    • Special Session: Responses of fluvial ecosystems to solute and particle point source inputs: Patterns from headwaters to river mouth

    • Special Session: Hydrologic connectivity and watershed conservation: a session in honor of Dr. Cathy Pringle

    • Special Session: Aquatic ecosystems under multiple stress: Bridging empirical and modeling approaches to assess the effects of climate change and other pressures

    • Special Session: Beyond button collecting: emerging applications of DNA-based tools in freshwater science

    • Special Session: Lakes, ponds, and wetlands oh my! Drivers, feedbacks, and responses of the carbon cycle under a changing climate

    • Special Session: Addressing the Grand Challenges to Freshwater Biomonitoring

    • Special Session: Flowing Through Space and Time: Examining different dimensions of scale and using multiscale approaches in stream ecology

    • Special Session: The ecology of aquatic plants (macroalgae, bryophytes, and macrophytes) in streams, rivers, wetlands, and lakes.

    • Special Session: AI in freshwater science: Transforming aquatic ecology and sustainability with artificial intelligence

    • Special Session: Tropical Stream Biomonitoring & Bioassessment in the Anthropocene

    • Algae/Aquatic Plants

    • Aquaculture and Fisheries

    • Bioassessment

    • Biodiversity

    • Biogeochemistry

    • Climate Change

    • Communities and Populations

    • Conservation

    • Disturbance

    • Ecotoxicology

    • Eutrophication and Harmful Algae

    • Evolution

    • Fish and Other Aquatic Vertebrates

    • Food Webs

    • Freshwater-Marine Connections

    • Freshwater Science (General)

    • Hydroecology

    • Hydrology / Geomorphology

    • Hyporheic Processes

    • Indigenous Knowledge Influencing Freshwater Science and Management

    • Indigenous Values of Freshwater

    • Intermittent and Ephemeral Systems

    • Invasive and Non-Native Species

    • Invertebrates

    • Land-Water Interfaces

    • Landuse and Non-Point Source Impacts

    • Large Rivers

    • Lentic Systems

    • Management and Policy

    • Microbial Ecology

    • Molecular Ecology

    • Organic Matter Processing

    • Plastics

    • Primary and Secondary Production

    • Remote Sensing and Sensor Technology

    • Restoration

    • Science Communication - Education and Outreach

    • Stoichiometry

    • Surfacewater-Groundwater Interactions

    • Systematics and Taxonomy

    • Unionids

    • Urban Systems

    • Wetlands

further details

  • Means of Submission - Online

    By clicking on the link above, you will be taken to a web page where you can submit an abstract in several simple steps. You will be able to:

    • Preview a summary of your submission and make modifications to your satisfaction until reviewing commences.

    • Enter the name of all authors and their organisations and indicate the presenting author by ticking the relevant box.

    • Add relevant references.

    • You will receive an immediate email notification confirming your submission has been sent for review (please check your junk email if not received shortly after finalising your online submission).

    Online registration dashboard- Currinda

    Currinda is the registration and abstract submission system being used for SFS 2025.

    If you have not used Currinda before, you will be required to create a new account. You will need to provide the below information to create your account: 

    • Email address 

    • Password 

    • Full name 

    • Organisation 

    • Position 

    • Country 

    • Work phone number 

    • Mobile number 

    The registration system will not let you proceed until you have completed each of these fields & will prompt you to complete them if they are missed in the initial process. 

    Once you have created an account, you will be able to continue with your registration & session submission. 

    • You will be required to agree to the submission guidelines – please read these carefully at the start of your submission after you’ve logged in. 

    • You will be asked to select a presentation preference and provide any keywords or phrases to assist with categorising your session.

    • If you decide to withdraw your submission, this is where you can login and do so. 

    • You will be asked to provide session organizer names & email addresses.

    • Please note that the session organizer/s must be registered for the meeting in order for the submission to be considered. 

    • Once submitted, you will be able to login to make edits to your submission until the deadline, January 26, 2025 at 11:59pm EDT. 

  • As long as you have filled your own email address correctly, you will get an immediate confirmation of your abstract being submitted.

    Should you wish to make changes to your abstract after you have submitted it, please log back in to your online registration dashboard. Click the “manage” button. Under the Workshop abstract heading you will be able to view, edit or submit a new abstract.

    Note: Once the submission deadline has passed and reviewing has commenced, no changes are permitted.

  • Once the submission deadline passes, the Annual Meeting Program Committee will review all submissions. Once reviewing has been completed, notification of programming decisions will come from the ASN Events Team.

  • Final acceptance into the program is conditional on all presenters having valid SFS 2025 registrations.

  • The SFS 2025 Annual Meeting proceedings will be published in the online meeting program and app.