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Our Aquatic Insects Special Interest Group event brings together researchers, conservation practitioners and enthusiasts to explore cutting-edge approaches in aquatic ecosystem monitoring and management.
Day 1: Thursday 26 February (9.30am – 3.30pm London, UK, GMT)
Conservation, Management, and Taxonomic Innovation
Join keynote speakers Michael J. Samways (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) and Dr Jessica Ware (American Museum of Natural History) and other great speakers sharing their research presentations and interactive sessions on current conservation challenges and emerging taxonomic tools.
Day 2: Friday 27 February (9.30am – 12.30pm London, UK, GMT)
Data-Driven Approaches to Aquatic Ecosystem Assessment - Hands-on Workshop in R-Machine Learning Applications in Ecology
This optional half-day workshop (included in the price) focuses on a hands-on R workshop exploring machine learning applications with aquatic macroinvertebrate and environmental data. Participants will learn to use packages like Random
Forest for ecological data analysis, beginning with data exploration and visualisation of macroinvertebrate community datasets alongside environmental covariates such as water chemistry and habitat metrics.
Register now via royensoc.co.uk/event/aquatic-insects-sig-2026