Organizing Committee and Advisory Board

Organizing Committee

	Guillermo Giannico, Co-chair Guillermo is the Associate Professor and Extension Fisheries Specialist in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Oregon State University. He carries out research and extension/outreach work on salmonid ecology and behavior, fish habitat restoration, aquatic ecology, and watershed management-related issues.
	Margaret Lang, Co-chair Margaret is a Professor of Environmental Resources Engineering at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California. Her research focuses on the engineering design and effectiveness of river restoration, and laboratory and field studies of fish passage structures.
	David Ahlfeld David is a Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research interests include groundwater flow and contaminant transport and adaptation of water resource systems to a changing climate.
	Ted Castro-Santos Ted is a research ecologist with the USGS, S.O. Conte Anadromous Fish Research Center. He has been working on issues of fish passage for more than twenty years, and focuses on adapting and developing novel telemetry technologies and statistical methods in order to improve understanding of fishway performance as well as the underlying mechanisms that determine performance. Related interests and research topics include biomechanics, locomotion, modeling, and movement theory.
	Madeleine Lyttle Madeleine Lyttle is a fishery biologist with Region 5 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Madeleine has been involved with the National Fish Passage Program since it's initiation in 1999. She has both on-the-ground as well as programmatic planning experience and works in both the Fishery and Partners for Fish and Wildlife Programs. Madeleine is currently based in the Lake Champlain Fish and Wildlife Resources Office with project jurisdiction in all waters of Vermont (including the Connecticut River) and the Lake Champlain basin (including New York).
	Kevin Mulligan Kevin is a Research Assistant and Doctoral Student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the Department of Environmental and Water Resources Engineering. In addition to his water resources research, Kevin recently received his specialization in fish passage engineering from UMass and was also the Lead Student Organizer for Fish Passage 2011 & 2012 held at UMass.
	Dan Shively Dan is the Regional Fish Passage and Habitat Partnerships Coordinator for the Pacific Region of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He administers the agency's National Fish Passage Program throughout Oregon, Washington, Idaho and the Pacific Islands; a voluntary, non-regulatory program providing both funding and technical assistance to restore aquatic connectivity for streams, wetlands, and estuaries.
	Larry Swenson Larry is a P.E. and the Hydraulic engineer at NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service in Portland, Oregon. He designs fish passage facilities in the Columbia River Basin and in the coastal rivers and estuaries of Oregon and Washington.

Advisory Board

	Alison Bowden, Chair Alison Bowden is Freshwater Program Director with The Nature Conservancy in Massachusetts. Her work focuses on developing and implementing innovative science and policy tools to protect and restore rivers as well as linking freshwater and marine conservation for migratory fish. Alison has worked on a wide range of policy issues including transportation, water resource management and fisheries management and is a member of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission Shad and River Herring Advisory Panel. She earned a M.S. in Water Resources from the University of New Hampshire and a B.A. in Environmental Science from American University.
	Greg Apke Greg is the Statewide Fish Passage Program Leader with the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife’s (ODFW) Fish Division in the Headquarters Office Salem Oregon. His primary responsibility with ODFW is to administer Oregon’s fish passage law across the state. Greg, through his 20+ years as a fish biologist and passion for fish passage issues, brings a wealth of enthusiasm and experience into the ODFW Fish Passage Program. Prior to his current position with ODFW, he led the Oregon Department of Transportation’s Biology, Endangered Species Act, and Fish Passage Programs.
	Bruce Hansen
	Paul Jacobson Paul currently manages EPRI’s research related to marine and hydrokinetic technologies as well as research related to environmental aspects of conventional hydropower. His professional work over the past 25 years has focused on environmental assessment in aquatic ecosystems. Prior to joining EPRI in September, 2009, he worked in the environmental consulting arena, most recently for 13 years as the founder and principal scientist of Langhei Ecology, LLC. Dr. Jacobson’s specialty is design, analysis, and interpretation of monitoring and assessment programs to support environmental decision-making. Since 1998, Dr. Jacobson has been a faculty member of the Johns Hopkins University, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, where he teaches a graduate course on ecological assessment.
	Scot Lawrence Scot is a Hydro Licensing Project Manager at Portland General Electric in Portland, Oregon. A 37-year employee, Scot is the implementation project manager for the Pelton Round Butte Hydroelectric Project on the Deschutes River in central Oregon, which received a new 50 year FERC operating license in June 2005. Scot is involved in project-related fish passage projects, and other fish passage and habitat projects in the upper-Deschutes basin.
	Arturo Leon Arturo is an Assistant Professor in the School of Civil and Construction Engineering at Oregon State University in the area of Water Resources Engineering. His areas of research include real-time control of multi-objective reservoir systems, transient flows, computational fluid dynamics and physical modeling of hydraulic structures.
	Mike McGowan
	Austin Polebitski Austin is an Assistant Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at the University of Wisconsin – Platteville and a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts. His research focuses on hydrological prediction and water resources management, with specific interests in the use of forecasts in operations, hydrological prediction at ungaged basins, and linking climate forecasts to natural resources decision making. He served as a conference coordinator and organizing committee member for the Fish Passage 2012 conference.
	Paulo Pompeu Paulo is a Professor of Ecology at Federal University of Lavras, Brazil. His research focuses on rivers conservation, fish biology and studies of fish passage structures. He organized the first International Symposium on Fish Passage in South America, in 2007.
	Frank Shrier Frank is a Certified Fisheries Professional and the Principal Aquatic Scientist at PacifiCorp Energy, Portland, Oregon. Frank assists fish passage engineering design teams with emphasis on the fish’s point of view. He is also part of the Fish Passage Operations group on PacifiCorp’s Lewis River project. His project area ranges from the lower Columbia River to eastern Idaho and Utah.
	Amy Singler Amy works for American Rivers' River Restoration Program and The Nature Conservancy's Connecticut River Program managing dam removal projects and promoting efforts to improve river restoration in New England. She also leads regional efforts for both programs on culvert and stream crossing policy and implementation. Amy has a M.S. in Water Resources Management from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a B.S. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Rochester.
	Chick Sweeney Charles is a P.E. and the Senior Technical Fellow at Alden Research Laboratory in Redmond, WA. Chick has 38 years of experience as a hydraulic engineering and modeling consultant and is the founder of Alden’s Redmond, WA hydraulic engineering and modeling laboratory practice. He is a recognized expert in applying field data collection programs and both numeric and physical hydraulic modeling to solve site selection, design, operation, and permitting problems. His experience includes dams, hydropower, fisheries facilities, hydraulic structures, navigation facilities, and pump stations. He has participated in the design of fish exclusion and passage facilities at hydroelectric projects throughout the Pacific Northwest.
	Amy Unthank Amy is the National Fisheries Program Leader for the USDA Forest Service. She has worked previously for the Forest Service in the Southwestern Region and the Pacific Northwest Region. She began her career with a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Fisheries Research Center (now affiliated with USGS) in Seattle, Washington after earning her Masters in Fisheries Science from the University of Washington. Throughout her Forest Service career Amy has worked on issues related to the Forest Service’s huge road system, including fish passage.
	Sean Welch Sean is a P.E. and the Program Engineer for Bonneville Power Administration's Fish and Wildlife Program. Sean supports the delivery of BPA’s Fish and Wildlife program as the technical expert in hydraulic engineering, river mechanics, hydrology and geomorphology. Sean performs geomorphology assessments; watershed assessments; planning and design of habitat restoration and fish passage projects; design review; assessment of restoration project effects on fluvial systems and develops technical criteria and standards for BPA's policies affecting restoration and conservation activities.
	Susan Wells
	Laura Wildman