Dr. Patrick Driver, an aquatic ecologist, has supported NSW Government water planning since 1998. His work includes assessing the ecological impacts of proposed water management scenarios under future climates, wetland ecology, carp impacts in fresh waters and helping preserve ecological knowledge for future water management challenges (please see the AFSS 2026 poster on this). This collaborative talk focuses on temporal changes in wetland invertebrate alpha diversity following inundation across different catchments in NSW.