Wednesday, 12th December International Conference on River Connectivity (Fish Passage 2018)
Registrations Open
7:30AM - 5:30PM
Wednesday, 12th December
Convention Wing Foyer
Housekeeping
8:30AM - 8:45AM
Wednesday, 12th December
Auditorium
Keynote Presentations
8:45AM - 10:15AM
Wednesday, 12th December
Auditorium
Chair: Luiz Silva
Distinguished Project Award
10:15AM - 10:30AM
Wednesday, 12th December
Auditorium
Morning Tea, Poster Viewing & Exhibition
10:30AM - 11:00AM
Wednesday, 12th December
Banquet Hall
Hydropower & Fish Symposium IV
11:00AM - 12:40PM
Wednesday, 12th December
Auditorium
Chair: Luiz Silva
- The Importance of a Constructed Near-Nature-Like DanubeFish Way as a Lifecycle Habitat for Spawning, Fish Larvae, Juveniles and Adults – A Long Term View with Remarks on Management - Paul Meulenbroek
- Survival of fish passing downstream at a small hydropower facility - Stephen Amaral
- Surface bypass as a means to protect downstream-migrating fish – lack of standardized evaluation criteria complicates evaluation of efficacy - Elena-Maria Klopries
- Low-sloping racks and the importance of bar spacing for fish passage - Olle Calles
- Comparison of sonar-, camera- and net-based methods in detecting riverine fish movement patterns - Leonhard Egg
Fish Passage in the Mekong Basin
11:00AM - 12:40PM
Wednesday, 12th December
Chandelier Room
Chair: Ann Fleming
Sponsored by:
- Development of a comprehensive fish passage approach for floodplains of the lower mekong basin - Oudom Dr Phonekhampheng
- Wetland fish communities above stream regulators with and without fish passage in Lao PDR - Douangkham DK Singhanouvong
- Householder catch and use of fish before and after a wetland fishway at Pak Peung, Laos PDR - Khampeng Yui Homsombath
- A cautionary tale about the inhibitory effects of gated culverts on fish passage restoration efforts - Nathan Ning
- Listening to local knowledge to inform fish passage and fisheries management - Joanne Millar
Fish Passage Design I
11:00AM - 12:40PM
Wednesday, 12th December
Theatrette
Chair: Andrew Goodwin
- Merging biology and technology to achieve selective bi-directional fish passage - Daniel Zielinski
- Developing a theoretical model to help design ecologically-friendly fishway of the endangered fish species, scale-less carp (Gymnocypris przewalskii) in the Qinghai Lake watershed, western China - Mengzhen Xu
- Adding auxiliary discharge into the entrance pool of a fishway: influence of pool design on fish passage - Cornelia Schuetz
- Assessing the efficacy of flow restrictor plates in denil fishways for upstream passage of arctic grayling - Katey Plymesser
- Different roles for water speed, velocity gradient, and acceleration in reproducing juvenile Pacific salmon trajectories/passage in dammed and tidal free-flowing river environments - R. Andrew Goodwin
Ecology of Connectivity I
11:00AM - 12:40PM
Wednesday, 12th December
Elizabeth Room B
Chair: Jason Thiem
- Will they stay or will they go? Movement and recruitment dynamics of an iconic Australian freshwater fish in a cold-water impacted River - Zeb Tonkin
- The role of thermal plasticity in mitigating the negative effects of cold water pollution on fish swimming performance and fitness - Craig E Franklin
- Remediation of thermal stratification in an impoundment by the use of an aeration system and its effect on downstream fish assemblages - Nathan Miles
- A Framework to Evaluate Vulnerability of Upriver Migrants to Existing Hydroelectric Infrastructure and Climate Change - Rebecca Flitcroft
- Mitigating hypoxic blackwater events in river ecosystems with irrigation infrastructure - Josh Campbell
Non-salmonid passage IV
11:00AM - 12:40PM
Wednesday, 12th December
Elizabeth Room A
Chair: Tim Marsden
- Steep grade ahead? Optimizing fishway designs for small-bodied Great Plains fishes. - Christopher A Myrick
- The challenge of passing small and large fish in rivers with highly variable hydrology - Martin Mallen-Cooper
- Approaches to nonsalmonid small fish passage in arid areas of the American Intermountain West and Great Plains - William J Rice
- How low do we go - Advances in fish passage technology for small fish (<100 mm long!). - Tim Marsden
- Passage of Golden Perch and Murray Cod through ten vertical slot fishways. - Matthew Gordos
Lunch, Poster Viewing & Exhibition
12:40PM - 1:30PM
Wednesday, 12th December
Banquet Hall
Sponsored by:
WFMD 2020 Meeting
12:40PM - 1:30PM
Wednesday, 12th December
Board Room
Organiser: Herman Wanningen
Hydropower & Fish Symposium V
1:30PM - 3:10PM
Wednesday, 12th December
Auditorium
Chair: Brett Pflugrath
- Predicting barotrauma susceptibility for downstream passage at river infrastructure - Brett Pflugrath
- Injury and Mortality of Two Mekong River Species to Turbulent Shear Forces - Zhiqun (Daniel) Deng
- Sensing what fish feel about passage through three different low-head hydropower turbines - Craig A Boys
- Determining barotrauma in the Pictus catfish, Pimelodus pictus, experimentally exposed to simulated hydropower turbine passage - Luiz Silva
- Warning, it’s a catfish! Novel approaches are needed to study the effects of rapid decompression on benthonic species - Luiz Silva
Fish Passage in tropical systems I
1:30PM - 3:10PM
Wednesday, 12th December
Chandelier Room
Chair: Michael Roy
- Using otoliths to quantify diadromy in the Lower Mekong Basin - An Vu
- Fish passage at the Don Sahong dam site, Khone Falls, Mekong River, southern Laos - Kent G Hortle
- Monitoring fish passage and fisheries at the Don Sahong dam site, Khone Falls, Mekong River, southern Laos - Kent Hortle
- Dazed and confused: why behavioral constraints can impose enormous challenges to fish passage in the Neotropics - Paulo Santos Pompeu
- Evaluating the placement of PIT tags in tropical river fishes: a case study involving two Mekong River species - Lee J Baumgartner
Fish Passage Design II
1:30PM - 3:10PM
Wednesday, 12th December
Theatrette
Chair: Tim Marsden
- Energy efficient fish attraction - Patrik Andreasson
- Assessing multi slot versus single slot pool-type fishways suitability for potamodromous cyprinids: An experimental approach using numerical modelling and fish - Antonio N Pinheiro
- Seaham weir environmental flow control gates and integrated fishway - Klaas Smit
- Hydraulic design of an optimised vertical-slot fishway targeted at multi-range fish-biology based design criteria for low, medium and high river flows. - Heath Robinson
- Proposal an engineering solutions for fish migration upstream and downstream over one discharge sill located on the Bistra Mărului river - Răzvan Voicu
Ecology of Connectivity II
1:30PM - 3:10PM
Wednesday, 12th December
Elizabeth Room B
Chair: Chris Bice
- Role of fish migrations and ecosystem connectivity in PROBFLO holistic environmental flows assessments in Africa. - Gordon C O'Brien
- The effects of river discharge and instream barriers on the fish assemblages of the Clarence Basin, New South Wales, Australia. - Gavin Butler
- Barriers to Fish Passage in the Queensland Murray-Darling Basin Phase II: Validation of the “Keller” method for determining discharge at weir drown-out. - Janice L Kerr
- Understanding the effects of flow on the movement of Yellowfish using the FISHTRAC programme as a management tool in Southern Africa: Crocodile River, Kruger National Park case study. - Matthew J Burnett
- A connectivity conundrum for freshwater eels in South Africa: comparative study for relative abundance and distribution of freshwater eels in a highly regulated and free flowing river in South Africa. - Céline Hanzen
Fish Passage Monitoring I
1:30PM - 3:10PM
Wednesday, 12th December
Elizabeth Room A
Chair: Ivor Stuart
- Monitoring PIT-Tag Passage Through Steel Fish Bypass Baffle at Wells Dam, USA. - Steve Anglea
- Fishways and PIT reader systems: demonstrating the restoration of longitudinal connectivity in the Murray River, Australia. - Matthew J Jones
- WITHDRAWN: Use of a DIDSON acoustic camera improves fishway assessment results and understanding of fish migratory behaviour. - Andrew P Berghuis
- Fish migration assessment by acoustic telemetry in the lower Ebre river (Catalonia, NE Iberian peninsula, Europe) - Marc Ordeix
Afternoon Tea, Poster Viewing & Exhibition
3:10PM - 3:40PM
Wednesday, 12th December
Banquet Hall
Hydropower & Fish Symposium VI
3:40PM - 5:20PM
Wednesday, 12th December
Auditorium
Chair: Brett Pflugrath
- Flow characteristics in tailrace: understanding how hydrodynamics may attract fish to hydropower plant in South America - Hersília Santos
- Reservoir provides cool-water refuge for adult Chinook salmon in a trap-and-haul reintroduction program - Matthew L Keefer
- Optimizing hydropower development and ecosystem services in the Kafue River, Zambia - Ian G Cowx
- WITHDRAWN: Hydropower effects on aquatic species: lessons from individual-based modeling - Steven F Railsback
- Long-term study of reservoir cascade in Southeastern Brazil reveals spatio-temporal gradient in fish assemblages - Raquel C Loures
Fish Passage in tropical systems II
3:40PM - 5:20PM
Wednesday, 12th December
Chandelier Room
Chair: Vanthong Phengvichith
- Determining Migration Corridors and Lifecycle cues for Key Commercial, Subsistence and Conservation Freshwater Fish in Myanmar. - Maung Maung Lwin
- The importance of determining and maintaining migration corridors for the Hilsa Shad fishery in Myanmar Inland Rivers. - John Conallin
- Fish ladder as connectivity in a large Neotropical river: upstream and downstream movements of Prochilodus lineatus - Leandro F Celestino
- Twenty years of fish passage policies establishment in Brazil: a review of the current status of fish passage science - Luiz Silva
- Impacted fish movement into tropical freshwater wetlands discharging water low in dissolved oxygen; the tail of two wetlands - Trent Power
Fish Passage Design III
3:40PM - 5:20PM
Wednesday, 12th December
Theatrette
Chair: Matthew Gordos
- Beyond headloss: do we have the right ecological and hydraulic metrics to determine successful fish passage in rock ramp fishways? - Tim Marsden
- Restoring coastal connectivity through low cost rock ramp fishways - Matt Moore
- Kyogle weir a cost effective rock-ramp fishway design - Matt Sorenson
- Targeted improvement of the Dight’s Falls Fishway Complex - Penny Rogers
- The cone fishway, a new fishway type suitable for the passage of juvenile tropical fish species in Queensland, Australia. - Tim Marsden
Ecology of Connectivity III
3:40PM - 5:20PM
Wednesday, 12th December
Elizabeth Room B
Chair: Jason Thiem
- Restoring connectivity – how the Sea to Hume fishways will help achieve the environmental outcomes of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan. - Stuart Little
- Investigating larval dispersal patterns: simulating river flows in an experimental tank. - Lorena Nogueira
- Multiple lines of evidence reveal the contribution of non-diadromous recruitment and the importance or reversing lake outflows for supporting endemic fish populations within New Zealand’s longest river. - Bruno David
- Sins of dams over fishes in Albania - Spase Shumka
- Addressing the Connectivity Conundrum—A Vision for Selective Fish Passage - Andrew M Muir
Fish Passage Monitoring II
3:40PM - 5:20PM
Wednesday, 12th December
Elizabeth Room A
Chair: Ivor Stuart
- Advances in machine vision scanning - Steve Dearden
- Machine learning for automated sonar monitoring of outmigrating American eel behavior - Paul T Jacobson
- Is automatic monitoring accurate enough? - Magnus T Asgeirsson
- Fish behaviour at navigation locks - Raf Baeyens
- CFD modeling of fish passages - Amir Isfahani
Poster Session
5:30PM - 7:30PM
Wednesday, 12th December
Banquet Hall
- Diverse options for monitoring fishway effectiveness using PIT tag technology - Steve Anglea
- Barriers to migration: impacts of barotrauma on fish physiology - Helen A.L. Currie
- Real-time remote water quality, flow and ecological response monitoring of waste water treatment works and dams in the uMgeni catchment (FISHTRAC programme): design, implementation and preliminary results - Matthew J Burnett
- A novel mechanical test to better understand the impact of repeated invasive parasite infection (Anguillicoloides crassus) on the critically endangered European eel (Anguilla anguilla) - Helen A.L. Currie
- Fish migrations in the Volga River, Russia: Considerations for management of longitudinal connectivity - Konrad Górski
- Re-establishing connectivity and habitats: Considerations for fish passage in large rivers - Konrad Górski
- Does a large catch of fish behind a fish passage automatically mean a successful fish passage - Ben A.B. Griffioen
- CFD modeling and validation of the flow over a gabion weir structure - Amir Isfahani
- Providing refuges for adult Pacific lamprey inside fishways - Matthew L Keefer
- Coanda Intake Efficiency Test on the downstream of trout in a french river. - vincent mataix
- Assessing the effects and varied release mechanisms and operations and storage volume on thermal regimes downstream of a large reservoir - Laura Michie
- The invention of fish escalator - Manuel Enrique Posada González
- Pontic shads at the Iron Gates - Katarina Tosic
- Fragmentation of Europe’s rivers: a pan-European atlas of river barriers - Jeroen Tummers
- Rehabilitating and Restoring Unique Landscapes within Five Nova Scotia Watersheds along the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia, Canada. - Chelsey Whalen
- Fish friendly turbine and power plant layouts - Christian Winkler
- A variable-geometry flume for optimizing small-scale fishway designs - Christopher Myrick
- Exploring Chinook salmon passage through the world’s longest wooden fishway in the Upper Yukon River - William M Twardek
Public Lecture with Dr Zeb Hogan
7:30PM - 9:00PM
Wednesday, 12th December
Auditorium
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