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2012
Tuesday, June 5th
8:35 AM

Rebecca Wodder – Keynote Address

Rebecca Wodder

UMass Amherst

8:35 AM - 9:20 AM

9:20 AM

Arthur Popper - Plenary Speaker

Arthur Popper

UMass Amherst

9:20 AM - 10:05 AM

10:05 AM

Break

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UMass Amherst

10:05 AM - 10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Session A1 - Fish Passage in the Salmonid-free Southeast and Gulf of Mexico: History, Ecological Benefits, Challenges and Future Directions

Prescott Brownell, NOAA Fisheries, Charleston, SC

UMass Amherst

10:30 AM - 10:50 AM

Session B1 - Behavior, impingement, and entrainment of shortnose sturgeon at a vertical bar rack: with and without a bypass orifice

Boyd Kynard, "Boyd Kynard, BK Riverfish, LLC Don Pugh, Trout Unlimited"

UMass Amherst

10:30 AM - 10:50 AM

Session C1 - Stream Functions Pyramid Framework

Richard Starr, Stream Mechanics

UMass Amherst

10:30 AM - 10:50 AM

Session D1 - Susquehanna River Two-Dimensional Hydraulic and Habitat Modeling

Gary Lemay, Gomez and Sullivan Engineers, P.C. (Licensing Consultant) on behalf of Exelon Generation Company, LLC (Licensee) Kimberly Long (Exelon)

UMass Amherst

10:30 AM - 10:50 AM

10:50 AM

Session A1 - History of fish passage public policy

Alex Hoar

UMass Amherst

10:50 AM - 11:10 AM

Session B1 - Biological and Engineering Studies of American Eel Anguilla Rostrata at the Conowingo Project

Ray Bleistine

UMass Amherst

10:50 AM - 11:10 AM

Session C1 - Case Study - Project Application of the Stream Functions Pyramid Framework

Ben Hutzell, US Fish & Wildlife Service

UMass Amherst

10:50 AM - 11:10 AM

Session D1 - Application of CFD Models in Support of Fish Passage Facilities Design

Mizan Rashid, Vice President, AECOM

UMass Amherst

10:50 AM - 11:10 AM

11:10 AM

Session A1 - Examining State Fish Passage Laws: Applicability and Enforcement

Serena McClain, American Rivers

UMass Amherst

11:10 AM - 11:30 AM

Session B1 - Using Fish Morphological Characteristics to Re-design Hydroelectric Turbines

Glenn Cada, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

UMass Amherst

11:10 AM - 11:30 AM

Session C1 - Comparing the Fish and Benthic Macroinvertebrate

Scott Stranko, Maryland Department of Natural Resources

UMass Amherst

11:10 AM - 11:30 AM

Session D1 - CFD Improves Upstream Fish Passage at Hadley Falls

George Hecker, Alden Research Laboratory

UMass Amherst

11:10 AM - 11:30 AM

11:30 AM

Session A1 - Status and Overview of Federal Interagency East Coast Fish Passage Manual

James Turek, NOAA

UMass Amherst

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Session C1 - Applying the Stream Functions Pyramid to Geomorphic Assessments and Restoration Design

Will Harman, Stream Mechanics

UMass Amherst

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Session D1 - The Efficacy of CFD Modeling at Brunswick Station (Maine)

John Richardson, ARCADIS

UMass Amherst

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

12:00 PM

Lunch

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UMass Amherst

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Session A2 - Fish Migration Day

Herman Wanningen, Wanningen Water Consult

UMass Amherst

1:30 PM - 1:50 PM

Session B2 - Assessing, Prioritizing, and Implementing Numerous Small Culvert AOP Projects in a Short Period of Time

Roy Schiff, Milone & MacBroom, Inc.

UMass Amherst

1:30 PM - 1:50 PM

Session C2 - The art and science of assessing stream gradient and bankfull width

Steven Koenig, Project SHARE

UMass Amherst

1:30 PM - 1:50 PM

Session D2 - Use of 3D Acoustic Telemetry to Monitor Upstream Passage of American Shad on the Merrimack River in Massachusetts

Timothy Hogan, Alden Research Laboratory

UMass Amherst

1:30 PM - 1:50 PM

1:50 PM

Session A2 - Following a river basin approach for optimal fish passage in the boundary crossing River Vecht

Iwan de Vries, vd Molen

UMass Amherst

1:50 PM - 2:10 PM

Session B2 - Critical Linkages: Assessing Connectivity Restoration Potential for Culvert Replacement and Dam Removal in Massachusetts

Scott Jackson, Dept of Environmental Conservation, UMass Amherst

UMass Amherst

1:50 PM - 2:10 PM

Session C2 - Bed and Bank Design Considerations When Selecting Culvert Width

William Rice, U.S. Fish and Wildlife, Anchorage Field Office Habitat Restoration Branch, Anchorage, Alaska

UMass Amherst

1:50 PM - 2:10 PM

Session D2 - Juvenile Steelhead Survival and Predator-Prey Interactions Using JSATS through the Priest Rapids Reservoir in 2011

Leah Sullivan, Blue Leaf Environmental

UMass Amherst

1:50 PM - 2:10 PM

2:10 PM

Session A2 - A historical perspective on downstream passage at hydroelectric plants in Swedish rivers

Olle Calles, Department of Biology, Karlstad University

UMass Amherst

2:10 PM - 2:30 PM

Session B2 - Identifying Opportunities for Barrier Removal and Fish Passage Improvements within the Hudson-Raritan Estuary

Diana Kohtio, USACE, New York District

UMass Amherst

2:10 PM - 2:30 PM

Session C2 - Stream Simulation: Analytical versus Standards based design methodology

Robert Gubernick, USDA Forest Service Eastern RegionTechnical Services Team

UMass Amherst

2:10 PM - 2:30 PM

Session D2 - A cabled acoustic telemetry system for detecting and tracking juvenile salmon

Daniel Deng, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA

UMass Amherst

2:10 PM - 2:30 PM

2:30 PM

Session A2 - Free access for riverine fish along the Dutch Rhine, hydraulics and construction of the Dutch Rhine fishways

Kees Dorst, Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment

UMass Amherst

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Session B2 - Assessing fish passage connectivity at the watershed scale: Truckee River case study

Jock Conyngham, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Environmental Laboratory, Missoula, Montana

UMass Amherst

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

3:00 PM

Break

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UMass Amherst

3:00 PM - 3:25 PM

3:25 PM

Session A3 - Fish passage survival improvements measured at Positive Barrier Guidance Systems

Shane Scott, S. Scott and Associates LLC

UMass Amherst

3:25 PM - 3:45 PM

Session B3 - Assessing Fish Passage through Culverts in Midwest Streams: Identifying Design Parameters that Correlate with Passage Success

Hans Tritico, Youngstown State University, Department of Civil/Environmental and Chemical Engineering

UMass Amherst

3:25 PM - 3:45 PM

Session C3 - Pullen Mill natural Constructed Pool and Weir Fish Passage Project

Daniel Baumert, USDA/Natural Resources Conservation Service

UMass Amherst

3:25 PM - 3:45 PM

Session D3 - Lessons from a comprehensive survey of a fish pass by a digital video system in the Reuss River

Armin Peter, SCHAGER Eva

UMass Amherst

3:25 PM - 3:45 PM

3:45 PM

Session A3 - Graduated-Field, Pulsed-DC Fish Guidance Technology: Successes, Challenges and New Concepts

Carl Burger, Senior Scientist, Smith-Root, Inc., Vancouver, Washington USA

UMass Amherst

3:45 PM - 4:05 PM

Session B3 - Road crossings as barriers to pearly mussel distribution in the southwestern Lake Ontario basin

Marie Schrecengost, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Lower Great Lakes FWCO

UMass Amherst

3:45 PM - 4:05 PM

Session C3 - Fish Passage Restoration at the Briggsville Dam: Using Sediment Transport Analysis for Natural Channel Design

Jessica Louisos, Milone & MacBroom, Inc.

UMass Amherst

3:45 PM - 4:05 PM

Session D3 - Fish Passage Restoration at the Briggsville Dam: Using Sediment Transport Analysis for Natural Channel Design

Ashley Ficke, Colorado State University Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology

UMass Amherst

3:45 PM - 4:05 PM

4:05 PM

Session A3 - Survival improvements at Fish Guidance Systems designed to improve safe downstream passage of anadromous and catadromous fish

Shane Scott, S. Scott and Associates LLC

UMass Amherst

4:05 PM - 4:25 PM

Session B3 - Survival improvements at Fish Guidance Systems designed to improve safe downstream passage of anadromous and catadromous fish

Theodore Willis, Stantec

UMass Amherst

4:05 PM - 4:25 PM

Session C3 - A 10 Year Retrospective Look at the Current Condition and Success of Nature-Like Fishways Installed on Three Maryland Rivers

Kathy Hoverman, KCI Technologies, Inc

UMass Amherst

4:05 PM - 4:25 PM

Session D3 - Physical and biological assessment of the Eel River Headwaters restoration sites in Plymouth, MA

Ellen Douglas, University of Massachusetts Boston, Environmental, Earth and Ocean Sciences Department

UMass Amherst

4:05 PM - 4:25 PM

4:25 PM

Session A3 - Neptun: the electronic guidance system that effectively manages fish movement in a down and upstream waterway.

Piotr Parasiewicz, Fishways Global, LLC

UMass Amherst

4:25 PM - 5:00 PM

Session B3 - Road crossings limit nothern pike access to seasonal spawning habitat

Matthew Diebel, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

UMass Amherst

4:25 PM - 5:00 PM

Session C3 - Channel Damage, Repair, and Recovery after Extreme Floods

James MacBroom, Vice President, Milone & MacBroom IncandLecturer, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Science

UMass Amherst

4:25 PM - 5:00 PM

Session D3 - Fish Passage Monitoring, What’s really going on out there?

Brett Towler, University of Massachusetts Amherst Civil & Environmental Engineering

UMass Amherst

4:25 PM - 5:00 PM

5:00 PM

Poster Session

No Author

UMass Amherst

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM