Schedule
2011
Wednesday, June 29th
8:10 AM

Moderator 's Welcome

James Geiger, USFWS Fisheries

UMass Amherst

8:10 AM - 8:15 AM
8:15 AM

Invited Opening Speaker

Charles Coutant, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (retired)

UMass Amherst

8:15 AM - 8:40 AM
8:40 AM

Invited Plenary Speaker

John Lyons, Wisconsin DNR

UMass Amherst

8:40 AM - 9:05 AM
9:05 AM

Invited Plenary Speaker

Chris Bunt, Biotactic

UMass Amherst

9:05 AM - 9:30 AM
9:30 AM

Invited Plenary Speaker

Jon Marshall, DJ Case

UMass Amherst

9:30 AM - 9:55 AM
9:55 AM

Break

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UMass Amherst

9:55 AM - 10:15 AM
10:15 AM

Session A7; Culverts & Stream Crossings

P. Phifer, Moderator

UMass Amherst

10:15 AM - 10:20 AM

Session B7; Behavior & Passage Studies

T. Brush, Moderator

UMass Amherst

10:15 AM - 10:20 AM

Session C7; Economics of Fish Passage

M. Lyttle, Moderator

UMass Amherst

10:15 AM - 10:20 AM
10:20 AM

Session A7- Rapid assessment of road-stream crossings for aquatic organism passage

Scott Jackson, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Alison Bowden, The Nature Conservancy

UMass Amherst

10:20 AM - 10:40 AM

Session B7- A field scale study of fish passage in a watershed

Joel Cahoon, Montana State University
Thomas McMahon, Montana State University
Matt Blank, Western Transportation Institute

UMass Amherst

10:20 AM - 10:40 AM

Session C7- Conserving America’s Fisheries: An Assessment of the Economic Contributions from Fisheries and Aquatic Resource Conservation

John Charbonneau, USFWS
James Caudill (Presenter), USFWS

UMass Amherst

10:20 AM - 10:40 AM
10:40 AM

Session A7- Preliminary results and lessons learned by balancing stream habitat connectivity and transportation needs while pinching pennies

John Perry, Maine DOT

UMass Amherst

10:40 AM - 11:00 AM

Session B7- Understanding spawning-related movements of flathead chub in a prairie stream: Implications for fish passage

Robert Zuellig, U.S. Geological Survey, Colorado Water Science Center, Denver, Colorado
David Walters, U.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins Science Center, Fort Collins, Colorado
Harry Crockett, Colorado Division of Wildlife, Fort Collins, Colorado
James Bruce, U.S. Geological Survey, Colorado Water Science Center, Pueblo, Colorado

UMass Amherst

10:40 AM - 11:00 AM

Session C7- Institutionalizing dam removal

David Deen, Connecticut River Watershed Council

UMass Amherst

10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM

Session A7- Passage of native cutthroat trout through small culverts on steep slopes: what are the limits?

N. Phil Peterson, Forest & Channel Metrics
Ryan Simmons, Forest & Channel Metrics
Jeff Light, Plum Creek Timber Co.

UMass Amherst

11:00 AM - 11:20 AM

Session B7- Cyprinid swimming behaviour response to turbulent flow in pool-type fishways

Ana Silva, lnstituto Superior de Agronomia
Christos Katopodis, Katopodis Ecohydraulics
Jose Santos, lnstituto Superior de Agronomia
Maria Ferreira, lnstituto Superior de Agronomia
Antonio Pinheiro, lnstituto Superior Tecnico

UMass Amherst

11:00 AM - 11:20 AM

Session C7- Relating passage success to the location and movement of American shad within the Turners Falls power canal

Amy Kathryn Koske, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

UMass Amherst

11:00 AM - 11:20 AM
11:20 AM

Session A7- Assessment of fish passage through stream crossings on southern national forests

Andrea Dolloff, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station
Craig Roghair (Presenter), USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station
Keith Nislow, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station
Jon Walker, Daniel Boone National Forest

UMass Amherst

11:20 AM - 11:40 AM

Session B7- Fish passage research at Nash Stream State Forest, New Hampshire, USA

John Magee, New Hampshire Fish and Game Department

UMass Amherst

11:20 AM - 11:40 AM

Session C7- Building on the $10 million/year H TAP program for culvert mitigation on national forest system lands

Paul Anderson, USDA Forest Service Engineering
Nathaniel Gillespie (Presenter), USDA Forest Service, Watershed, Fish, Wildlife, Air and Rare Plants Staff

UMass Amherst

11:20 AM - 11:40 AM
11:40 AM

Session A7- Research

Keith Nislow, USDA Forest Service
Benjamin Letcher, USGS CAFRC
Mark Hudy, USDA Forest Service
Eric Smith, Virginia Tech

UMass Amherst

11:40 AM - 12:00 PM

Session B7- Evaluating brook trout genetic response to population isolation

Meredith L. Bartron, USFWS Northeast Fishery Center, Lamar, PA
John Sweka, USFWS Northeast Fishery Center, Lamar, PA

UMass Amherst

11:40 AM - 12:00 PM

Session C7- Building a dam removal program in Massachusetts

Beth Lambert, Massachusetts Division of Ecological Restoration

UMass Amherst

11:40 AM - 12:00 PM
12:00 PM

Lunch

- -

Umass Amherst

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM

Session A8; Climate Change and Hydrologic Forecasting

R. Palmer, Moderator

UMass Amherst

1:30 PM - 1:35 PM

Session B8; Passage Studies on Nature-Like Fishways & Open Rivers

J. MacBroom, Moderator

UMass Amherst

1:30 PM - 1:35 PM

Session C8; Partnership & Funding

S. Wells, Moderator

UMass Amherst

1:30 PM - 1:35 PM
1:35 PM

Session A8- Assessing potential climate change impacts to streamflow in the northeast U.S. using regional flow duration models

Neil Fennessey, University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth

UMass Amherst

1:35 PM - 1:55 PM

Session B8- Effectiveness of naturelike fishway designs for passage of an adaromous and riverine species

Theodore Castro-Santos, USGS

UMass Amherst

1:35 PM - 1:55 PM

Session C8- Status report on dam removal in the U.S. and American River’s role

Brian Graber, American Rivers

UMass Amherst

1:35 PM - 1:55 PM
1:55 PM

Session A8- Climate change and the design of stream crossings in New England

David Nyman, Comprehensive Environmental Inc.

UMass Amherst

1:55 PM - 2:15 PM

Session B8- Monitoring changes in diadromous populations resulting from fish passage improvements on the Acushnet River, Massachusetts

John Sheppard, Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries
Steve Block, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Marine Fisheries Service Restoration Center

UMass Amherst

1:55 PM - 2:15 PM

Session C8- Partnerships strategies: Nash Stream restoration project case study

James MacCartney, TU

UMass Amherst

1:55 PM - 2:15 PM
2:15 PM

Session A8- Flood frequency estimates for New England fish passage projects: Considering climate change in project design

Mathias Collins, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

UMass Amherst

2:15 PM - 2:35 PM

Session B8- Designing a 13-foot fish ladder and innovative eel pass on a thumbnail site next to Rhode Island’s signature historic dam Horseshoe Falls Dam fish ladder

Nils Wiberg, Fuss & O 'Neill. Inc.
Christopher Fox (Poss. Co-Presenter), Wood-Pawcatuck Watershed Association
James Turek, NOAA
Dick Quinn, USFWS
Alex Haro, USGS
Sean Arruda, Fuss & 14 with the Kenyon Mill Dam O'Neill, Providence, RI
John Sobanik

UMass Amherst

2:15 PM - 2:35 PM

Session C8- Migratory fish, Fish passage and the National Partnership between The Nature Conservancy and NOAA’s Community-based Restoration Program

Boze Hancock, TNC
Alison Bowden, TNC

UMass Amherst

2:15 PM - 2:35 PM
2:35 PM

Session A8- Instream flow needs mapped over natural flows: What are the stochastic characteristics of failure?

Thomas Ballestero, University of New Hampshire
Al Larson, Normandeau Associates
Piotr Parasiewicz, Rushing Rivers Institute
Wayne Ives, New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services
Jennifer Jacobs, University of New Hampshire

UMass Amherst

2:35 PM - 2:55 PM

Session B8- Evaluating Diadromous Fish Passage at Lower Shannock Falls Dam Removal and Nature-like Weir Installation, Pawcatuck River, Rhode Island

James Turek, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Narragansett, RI
Nils Wiberg, Fuss & O'Neill, Providence, RI
Sean Arruda, Fuss & O'Neill, Providence, RI
Amy Hunt, Fuss & O'Neill, Providence, RI
Melissa Belcher, USGS-UMass, Turners Fall, MA
Dick Quinn, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, N. Attleboro, MA
Mike Trumbauer, KCI Technologies, Sparks, MD
Mike Trumbauer, KCI Technologies, Sparks, MD
Kathy Hoverman, KCI Technologies, Sparks, MD
Chris Fox, Wood Pawcatuck Watershed Association, Hope Valley, RI

UMass Amherst

2:35 PM - 2:55 PM

Session C8- Funding resources and opportunities to enhance sportfish populations, restore sportfish habitat, and improve water quality

Johanna Laderman, Fish America Foundation

UMass Amherst

2:35 PM - 2:55 PM
2:55 PM

Field Trip

Caleb Slater, Field Trips Leader
Alex Haro, Field Trips Leader
Ted Castro-Santos, Field Trips Leader

Turners Falls Complex

2:55 PM