Australian Shellfish Reef Restoration Network & 19th International Conference on Shellfish Restoration Preliminary Program The program overview below is provisional and is subject to change Day 1: Monday, February 19th 2018 8:00 am Registration opens Time Title Speaker Chair Opening Plenary Chris Gillies 9:00 AM Welcome to Country TBC 9:10 AM Welcome to Conference Chris Gillies 9:15 AM Welcome to South Australia Hon. Ian Hunter MP 9:30 AM Keynote: Developing an Oyster Mariculture Business Tom Looney Case (in NC) that Delivers Sustained Economic Development and Ensures Success 10:10 AM Keynote: Restoring Oysters in North Carolina (USA): Todd Miller A Blueprint for Action 10:30 AM Morning tea Enabling restoration and case studies: South Australia Boze Hancock 11:00 AM Loss, optimism and restoration of oyster reefs in Sean Connell South Australia 11:15 AM Windara Reef Part 1: Concept to stage I Sarah-Lena Reinhold 11:25 AM Windara Reef Part 2: Stage II and beyond Anita Nedosyko 11:35 AM Oyster optimism bridges cultural barriers to Dom Mcafee restoration 11:45 AM Port River Shellfish Restoration Project Catherine McMahon 12:00 PM Technical talk: Peopling WaterPlaces Mary Gardner 12:15 PM Poster ‘spruiker session’ Ben Cleveland Benjamin Freeling Catherine Larkin 12:30 PM Lunch Research and Development Dom Mcafee 1:30 PM The timing and type of substrate deployment Maria Vozzo influences recruitment of Sydney rock oysters, Saccostrea glomerata and associated communities 1:45 PM The mechanisms by which oysters facilitate Melanie Bishop invertebrates vary across environmental gradients 2:00 PM Technical talk: How to shoot videos from the field on Ian McLeod your mobile phone 2:15 PM Optimal oyster reef restoration on soft sediments Ben Cleveland benefits from substrate addition and prolonged grow out in South-East Australia 2:30 PM Faunal communities associated with Ostrea angasi Christine Crawford oyster reefs in Tasmania 1 2:45 PM Exploitation and supply of European flat oyster Bérenger Colsoul (Ostrea edulis Linnaeus, 1758) seeds 3:00 PM Afternoon tea Enabling restoration Ian McLeod 3:15 PM Reintroducing Native Oysters in the German North Verena Merk Sea: An offshore field study 3:30 PM Assessment of conservation metrics for oyster reef Sadar Aslam restoration at Hab River Delta, Balochistan, Pakistan 3:45 PM Developing a consistent approach to monitoring Simon Reeves shellfish reefs in Australia 4:00 PM The efficacy of eco-engineering interventions in Melanie Bishop enhancing native shellfish communities on seawalls across the globe 4:15 PM Technical talk: A prototype mobile application for Elisa Bone documenting remnant shellfish reefs 4:30 PM Oyster reefs in NSW: a new opportunity Kylie Russell 4:45 PM Technical talk: Making modern middens at Ningi Ben Diggles Ningi (Place of Many Oysters) 5:00 PM Session close 5:30 PM- BBQ and drinks 7:30 PM Day 2: Tuesday, February 20th 2018 Gulf St Vincent Oyster Restoration Field Trip Adelaide International Bird Sanctuary, Dolphin Sanctuary and Saltfields Meeting 8:00 am 9:00 am time Meeting/ University of Adelaide, Gate 9 Victoria Drive University of Adelaide, Gate 9 Victoria Drive drop off Location Itinerary Ardrossan township Adelaide Saltfields and Bird Ardrossan Lookout Sanctuary Stansbury oyster growers Semaphore Dalrymple Hotel Port Adelaide Dolphin Cruise Drop off 5:30 pm 5:00 pm time 2 Day 3: Wednesday February 21, 2018 Time Title Speaker Chair 8:00 AM Registration opens Opening Plenary Chris Gillies 8:55 AM Housekeeping Chris Gillies 9:00 AM Keynote: The development of oyster habitat Boze Hancock restoration in Chesapeake Bay leading to the world’s biggest project to date- Harris Ck 9:15 AM Keynote: Large-scale Oyster Restoration in the Andrew Lacatell Piankatank River, Chesapeake Bay (USA) 9:30 AM Keynote: Seventeen Years of Restoring the Eastern Bowdoin Lusk, Jr. Oyster in Virginia’s Atlantic Coastal Bays 9:45 AM Restoring the Bay Scallop (Argopecten irradians) to Bowdoin Lusk, Jr. Virginia After Restoring Its Eelgrass (Zostera marina) Habitat 10:00 From little things big things can grow again: Susie Chapman Pumicestone Shellfish Habitat Restoration 10:15 Pioneering shellfish reef restoration in Australia: Simon Branigan from ground zero to reality 10:30 AM Morning Tea Restoration case studies (cont.) and community engagement Simon Branigan 11:00 AM Bringing Oyster Reefs Back to Oyster Harbour Peter Cook 11:15 AM Oyster restoration in urbanised estuaries Victoria Cole 11:30 AM Historical baselines for shellfish reefs, from 100 Heidi Alleway million years ago to present 11:45 AM Past Aboriginal exploitation of Tasmanian’s marine Richard Cosgrove fisheries: using historical baseline data to track and explain change in shellfish/crustacean distribution over the last 8,000 years. 12:00 PM Restoring a lost ecosystem: citizen scientists helping Kade Mills restore what they did not know existed! 12:15 PM Returning oysters to Oyster Harbour- the logical Dylan Gleave progression of community-driven estuary restoration 12:30 PM Lunch Research and Development Anita Nedosyko 1:30 PM Oyster reefs as fish habitat in NSW Francisco MartÕnez Baena 1:45 PM Would ocean acidification affect the defence strategy Camilla Campanati of Saccostrea cucullata? 2:00 PM Assessing the biological feasibilities of oyster Sally Lau restoration in Hong Kong 2:15 PM Quantifying the Water Quality, Benthic Macrofaunal Andrew Lacatell Community, Nitrogen and Phosphorus Assimilation, and Fisheries Benefits of Oyster Aquaculture in the Chesapeake Bay (USA): Implications for Restoration and Science Communication 2:30 PM Valuing Australia’s oyster reefs Ian McLeod 3 2:45 PM The efficacy of suspended broodstock cages as a Luke Helmer restoration strategy for the European flat oyster Ostrea edulis Linnaeus, 1758: A case study in the Solent, UK 3:00 PM Afternoon tea Globalizing the recovery of shellfish habitats Heidi Alleway 3:15 PM Oysters of Hong Kong: ecology, distribution, and Marine Thomas cultural aspects 3:30 PM State of knowledge on Australian shellfish Chris Gillies ecosystems 3:45 PM The expanding network of native oyster habitat TBC restoration in Europe 4:00 PM Historical distribution and current conditions of Jun Cheng oyster habitats in China 4:15 PM Shellfish restoration in New Zealand TBC Closing plenary 4:30 PM Keynote: Is my receiving an Order of Australia for Colin Creighton services to coastal Australia next week enough? 4:50 PM Thank you and wrap up Chris Gillies 5:00 PM Conference Close 7:00 PM– Dinner: The Stag Hotel, 299 Rundle St, Adelaide 9:00 PM 4 .