Abstract Submission
The ISRS 2025 Organizing Committee is pleased to invite abstracts for oral and poster presentations.
Authors can submit both an oral presentation and a poster abstract on different topics for the conference, but each must be submitted as a separate submission.
Abstract submission deadline is Friday, 2nd May 2025
Special Session outlines:
Presentations on any aspect of river research will be considered. Presentations can be aligned with the following symposium topics or to general sessions:
Session 1 – Advances in Floodplain Science and Implications for Riverscape Resilience
Ryan Morrison, Colorado State University
Session 2 – Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions in Riverine Landscape Across Multiple Scales
Tyelyn Brigino, University of South Florida
Session 3 – Restoring and revitalizing large alluvial rivers and their floodplains to support biodiversity and multiple goals
Kristen Dybala, Point Blue Conservation Science
Session 4 – Data to Decision: Who governs ecological monitoring of the river commons?
Alex Fremier, Washington State University
Session 5 – Revitalizing Community and Landscape by connecting rivers, people, and science through field experiences
Andy Rost, University of Nevada
Session 6 – Rivers as Classrooms: blending experiential education into river restoration science and project monitoring
Aaron Zettler-Mann, SYRCL
Session 7 – Advancing Environmental Flow Management: Holistic Approaches for Sustaining Aquatic Ecosystems
Kris Taniguchi-Quan, SCCWRP
Session 8 – Science for a changing Klamath River following the world’s largest dam removal
Jenny Curtis, USGS, Alison O’Dowd, CalPoly Humboldt; Rob Lusard, UC Davis
Session 9 – Floodplains Forward: Aligning the ecologies and economies of large river valleys
Jacob Katz, CalTrout
Session 10 – Nature Based Solutions in River Restoration
Sarah Yarnell, Center for Watershed Sciences, UC Davis
Session 11 – Healthy Rivers & Landscapes
Louise Conrad, California Department of Water Resources
Session 12 – Advances in Bar-built Estuary Research: physiochemical, ecological and management perspectives
Rosealea Bond and Dr Robert Lusardi, UC Davis
Author Submission Details:
You will be prompted to submit the following information in the portal:
| Presentation Title | Title case, 25 words maximum |
| Presentation Type | Poster or oral presentation |
| Special Session | Select whether your abstract is for general submission or a special session |
| Presenting Author | Name, organization, email, address, country, phone number. Submitting author will be considered the lead presenter and corresponding author |
| Co-Authors | Up to 5 co-authors can be included |
| Abstract | 200 words maximum (2,000 characters), without subheadings. Abstracts are to be submitted as text. You can either type the details into the text box provided or copy and paste the text from a word document. No figures, tables, graphs or pictures can be submitted. Do not include abstract title or author details in the abstract text box – there are separate boxes for this information. The abstract should be submitted in the lead presenter’s name. Correspondence will be via the submitting author only |
Please check spelling and grammar. Submitted material will be published in the symposium program booklet as is – the abstract should contain no errors.
Abstract submission deadline is Friday, 2nd May 2025