Tuesday, 11th December International Conference on River Connectivity (Fish Passage 2018)
Steering Committee Meeting
7:00AM - 8:00AM
Tuesday, 11th December
Board Room
Organiser: Kathy Hoverman
Registrations Open
7:30AM - 5:30PM
Tuesday, 11th December
Convention Wing Foyer
Conference Introductions
8:30AM - 9:05AM
Tuesday, 11th December
Auditorium
Sponsor/Exhibitor 1 Minutes Pitches I
9:05AM - 9:15AM
Tuesday, 11th December
Auditorium
Keynote Presentations
9:15AM - 10:45AM
Tuesday, 11th December
Auditorium
Chair: Lee Baumgartner
Sponsored by:
Sponsor/Exhibitor 1 Minutes Pitches II
10:45AM - 11:00AM
Tuesday, 11th December
Auditorium
Fish Passage Task Force Meeting
11:00AM - 4:00PM
Tuesday, 11th December
Board Room
Organiser: Matthew Gordos
Morning Tea, Poster Viewing & Exhibition
11:00AM - 11:40AM
Tuesday, 11th December
Banquet Hall
Hydropower & Fish Symposium I
11:20AM - 12:40PM
Tuesday, 11th December
Auditorium
Chair: Lee Baumgartner
- Hydropower symposium opening presentation. - Hans-Petter Fjeldstad
- The Xayaburi fishpass system – design concept and development - Michael Raeder
- Modification of Navigation Locks for upstream fish migration - Thanasak Poomchaivej
- Assessing the effectiveness of first fish passage facility to enhance sustainability of inland fishery resources in Indonesian River: a case study in Komering River, South Sumatera, Indonesia - Arif Mr Wibowo
Fish Guidance and Diversion Screening I
11:40AM - 12:40PM
Tuesday, 11th December
Chandelier Room
Chair: Craig Boys
- Influence of hydraulics on the dowsntream migratory route of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) - Ana Teixeira da Silva
- Behavioural guidance of outmigrating eels in a large river system - Thomas Pratt
- Evolution of the fish sorting and debris handling system at the Swift Hydroelectric Project Floating Surface Collector for juvenile salmonids - Dana E Postlewait
River connectivity and fish passage I
11:40AM - 12:40PM
Tuesday, 11th December
Theatrette
Chair: Luiz Silva
Non-salmonid passage I
11:40AM - 12:40PM
Tuesday, 11th December
Elizabeth Room B
Chair: John Harris
- Passage of pouched lamprey (Geotria australis) in vertical-slot fishways - Brenton Zampatti
- Upstream passage and attempt behaviour at a sloping weir by migrating adult river lamprey: are studded tiles effective in improving longitudinal connectivity? - Jeroen Tummers
- Quantifying the fine-scale behaviour of spawning run river lamprey (Lampetra fluviatilis) approaching a low-head weir retrofitted with studded tiles - Jim R Kerr
Fish Passage Design - Road Crossings I
11:40AM - 12:40PM
Tuesday, 11th December
Elizabeth Room A
Chair: Dan Shively
- Swimming in a 3D world: sediment deposition affects passage and behavior of juvenile rainbow trout in a baffled laboratory flume - Jason Duguay
- Stairs Pipe culverts: flow simulations and implications for European and Brazilian fishes - Hersília Santos
- Fish passage hydrodynamics New Zealand context - Morten MK Knapp
Lunch, Poster Viewing & Exhibition
12:40PM - 1:30PM
Tuesday, 11th December
Banquet Hall
Sponsored by:
Hydropower & Fish Symposium II
1:30PM - 3:10PM
Tuesday, 11th December
Auditorium
Chair: Zhiqun (Daniel) Deng
- Teasing out the impacts of hydropower on fisheries in the Lower Mekong Basin - Ian Cowx
- Understanding mortality mechanisms in hydro power plants: implications for Mekong hydropower development - Garry Thorncraft
- Assessing fisheries and environmental impacts and proposing policy recommendations for sustainable development of Mekong River Basin - Nam So
- Megadams and goliath catfish management in Amazonian scale: “running against the wind” - Lisiane Hahn
- Assessing the swimming ability and performance of Schizothorax oconnori to cross velocity barriers in fishway - Xiaotao Shi
Fish Guidance and Diversion Screening II
1:30PM - 3:10PM
Tuesday, 11th December
Chandelier Room
Chair: Craig Boys
- CFD modeling of fish exclusion screens - Amir Isfahani
- Ultrasound to guide American shad toward a spillway - Jean Caumartin
- Group behavioural responses of cyprinids to artificial acoustic stimuli: implications for fisheries management - Helen A.L. Currie
- Fish deterrents and screen designs - Peter Ebenwaldner
- Screening the Cohuna Channel to keep native fish in Gunbower Creek - Nicole Bullen
River connectivity and fish passage II
1:30PM - 3:10PM
Tuesday, 11th December
Theatrette
Chair: Jason Thiem
- Partial migration: some causes, consequences and connectivity - Anders Nilsson
- Exploring outcomes and assumptions of successful fish passage in the Murray-Darling Basin using individual-based modelling. - Daniel P. Svozil
- The migrations of amphidromous species: implications for fish passage and water infrastructure - Matt G. Jarvis
- Development of a fish passage inventory and evaluation of success rates of major fish passages on fish movements through barriers in regulated river systems of China - Jinlong Liu
- De-congesting London: Improving River Connectivity for Lowland River Fishes in Urban Streams - Angus J Lothian
Non-salmonid passage II
1:30PM - 3:10PM
Tuesday, 11th December
Elizabeth Room B
Chair: Lee Baumgartner
- Novel fishway entrance modifications to improve passage for native fish - Chris C Caudill
- Improving the conservation status of Arctic grayling: combining laboratory, field and modeling techniques to support the agency-irrigator decision making process - Katey Plymesser
- The effects of fishway entrance design on the passage time of adult American shad - Kevin Mulligan
- Arctic Grayling and Denil Fishways: Research to Determine Swimming and Passage Capabilities of Grayling in Relation to Fish Barriers - Kevin Kappenman
- Reducing slope improves small fish passage through a Denil fishway - Lee Baumgartner
Fish Passage Design - Road Crossings II
1:30PM - 3:10PM
Tuesday, 11th December
Elizabeth Room A
Chair: Justin O'Connor
- Fish Passage Considerations though Slip-Lined Culverts with and without Baffles - Blake P Tullis
- Improving fish swimming performance through the provision of roughened channel beds: implications for culvert remediation efforts in Australian waterways - Rebecca L Cramp
- Baffles versus beams: strategies to improve fish passage through culverts. - Craig E Franklin
- Issues and design considerations when negotiating fish passage at everyday road causeways - Jonathan Yantsch
- A Cross-section of Hydraulic Design Solutions to Address Vertical Profile Constraints at Road Crossing Design Projects - Michael Garello
Afternoon Tea, Poster Viewing & Exhibition
3:10PM - 3:40PM
Tuesday, 11th December
Banquet Hall
Hydropower & Fish Symposium III
3:40PM - 5:20PM
Tuesday, 11th December
Auditorium
Chair: Zhiqun (Daniel) Deng
- The effect of weir crest width and discharge on passage performance of a potamodromous cyprinid - José M. Santos
- Fish Passage Challenges and Opportunities in Indonesia - Arif Wibowo
- Stress indicators in Prochilodus lineatus breeders during migration through a fish ladder - Sergio Makrakis
- Effectiveness of a fish ladder for two Neotropical migratory species in the Paraná River - Sergio Makrakis
- Upstream passage of adult sea trout (Salmo trutta) at a low-head weir with an Archimedean screw hydropower turbine and co-located fish pass - Jamie R Dodd
Dam Removal
3:40PM - 5:20PM
Tuesday, 11th December
Chandelier Room
Chair: Laura Wildman
- Dam removal Europe: refuting myths and supporting professionals - Herman Wanningen
- Capturing the WIIFMs: a citizen handbook tool for influencing public perception of dam removal and fish passage projects - Lisa Hollingsworth-Segedy, AICP
- Dam Removal: When Less is More - Laura Wildman
- Damming a bedrock cut to daylight a buried stream under an abandoned railroad crossing in the Eel River Canyon of northwest California - Michael Love
- Landscape scale adoption of barrier removal and floodplain restoration to help fish and people adapt to climate change - Alison A Bowden
River connectivity and fish passage III
3:40PM - 5:20PM
Tuesday, 11th December
Theatrette
Chair: Brenton Zampatti
- Sequential fishways reconnect a coastal river - Meaghan L Duncan
- Fish barrier removal and river connectivity support glenelg river tupong populations. - Stephen Ryan
- Monitoring the Penobscot River Restoration Project: Baseline Data to Inform Ecosystem Response - Molly L Payne Wynne
- Fishways provide catchment-scale improvements to a diadromous fish population upstream of a barrier - Frank Amtstaetter
- Barriers benefiting biodiversity: when the lack of upstream fish passage is equally important - Tarmo A Raadik
Non-salmonid passage III
3:40PM - 5:20PM
Tuesday, 11th December
Elizabeth Room B
Chair: Tim Marsden
- eDNA as an efficient tool to assess the distribution of European eels upstream of pumping stations - Ian G Cowx
- Following the migration of glass eel and three-spined stickleback passing Europe’s largest pumping station and world’s largest sluice - Ben A.B. Griffioen
- Do silver eel find their way along sluices and pumping stations in highly regulated water systems - Ben A.B. Griffioen
- Migration of juvenile American eels through 2 power generating stations in the St-Lawrence system - Jean Caumartin
- Enhancing upstream passage solutions for juvenile eels: effects of climbing substrate and ramp placement - Johan Watz
Fish Passage Policy and Management
3:40PM - 5:20PM
Tuesday, 11th December
Elizabeth Room A
Chair: John Harris
- Exploring ways to deliver better fishway management - Justin O'Connor
- The Alaska model of fish passage policy - William J Rice
- River connectivity and fish migrations a missing link in Water Resource Management in South Africa - Gordon C O'Brien
- The ecosystem service values of fish ladders in poor counties: Who should pay? - Bethany Cooper
- Gender impact: a forgotten dimension in hydropower development - Dongdavanh Sibouthong and Ian Cowx
ACIAR Commission Visit Planning Meeting
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Tuesday, 11th December
Board Room
Organiser: Dulce Carandang-Simmanivong
Technology Social
5:30PM - 7:30PM
Tuesday, 11th December
Banquet Hall