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| May 6 (Monday) Room/hours | ||
| Suzor-Côté Ballroom 1 | Session 1: Hydropeaking ecological impacts | Chairs: Davide Vanzo |
| 11:15 | Hervé CAPRA | Quantifying the impacts of hydropeaking on fish stranding and habitat selection |
| 11:30 | Joël Ronald Wittmann | Validation of the Fish Escaping Routes Model to Quantify Fish Stranding Risk in Rapid Flow Alteration |
| 11:45 | Bryan Bozeman | The ecological effects of sub-daily flow variability on riverine fishes: a systematic review |
| 12:00 | Mônica Basilio Hazas | Hydropeaking indicators for groundwater systems |
| 12:15 | Philippe BARAN | Assessing morphoecological impacts due to hydropeaking in the Rhone-Mediterranean and Corsica river basins |
| Krieghoff Ballroom 2 | Session 2: Recent advances in fish tracking techniques | Chairs: Adrian Jordaan |
| 11:15 | Jean-Francois Senecal | Observation of Sturgeons Habitat Use in relation to Ecohydrological Features and Ship Cooccurrences |
| 11:30 | Ianina Kopecki | A novel method to calculate 2D acoustic telemetry tracks: application example in high noise environment |
| 11:45 | Véronique Dubos | Oviduct tags and fine-scale acoustic telemetry can reveal timing, location and behavior of spawning in two Arctic salmonids |
| 12:00 | Daniel Deng | Next-Generation Miniature Transmitter Development for Fish Passage Monitoring |
| 12:15 | Daniel Deng | Lab-on-a-Fish |
| Borduas Ballroom 3 | Session 3: Environmental flows | Chairs: Francisco Martinez Capel |
| 11:15 | Mathieu Roy | Integrated Social Economic Environmental (ISEE) system to evaluate flood mitigation measures: A Case study of the Lake Champlain – Richelieu River basin. |
| 11:30 | André St-Hilaire | Environmental flows in Québec: Planning the next research priorities |
| 11:45 | Martina Bussettini | Implementation of ecological flows in Europe |
| 12:00 | Yangwen Jia | Quantifying Impacts of Groundwater Exploitation on Baseflows and Environmental Flows of the Weihe River Using the WEP-L Model |
| 12:15 | Claudio Consuegra-Matinez | Practical study of environmental flow determination for the Guayabero River and Quebrada La Reserva located in the AMEM, Colombia |
| Leduc-Fortin | Session 4: Optimizing fishway designs | Chairs: Marc Mingelbier |
| 11:15 | Kira Paik | Optimizing rock ramp fishway slope and length for small-bodied fishes of conservation concern: Topeka Shiner, Suckermouth Minnow, Rio Grande Sucker, Rio Grande Chub, and Mottled Sculpin. |
| 11:30 | Sylvie Tomanova | Macroroughness block ramp: an efficient solution to reduce the impact of weirs on fish circulation |
| 11:45 | Martin Hunt | Redesign and Rehabilitation of Fish Passage Systems of the Churchill Weir |
| 12:00 | Arif Wibowo | Improving fishway design through comprehensive biodiversity survey, a case study on irrigation weir at the Cibareno River, Java, Indonesia |
| 12:15 | Marq Redeker | How to best serve Sturgeon Steve? Design of fishways at the Iron Gate Dams on the River Danube using fish telemetry and CFD modeling |
| Pilot | Session 5: Habitat restoration | Chairs: Eva Enders |
| 11:15 | Line Sundt-Hansen | Cross-disiplinary approach to assess bottlenecks for ecological condition of fish and aquatic invertebrates and recreation in a regulated river |
| 11:30 | Vebjørn Kveberg Opsanger | Learning from the grey literature; lessons from the success and failure of past restoration and environmental design projects in Norway |
| 11:45 | Joachim Pander | The contribution of nature-like fish passes to fish diversity and the restoration of riverine habitats |
| 12:00 | Christin Kannen | Influence of the use of natural material on morphodynamics around instream structure on the example of a Triangular Pier |
| 12:15 | Abul Baki | Habitat complexity metrics around instream boulders in support of river restoration |
| 12:30-13:45 | Jean-Paul Lemieux | LUNCH (on-site) |
| Suzor-Côté Ballroom 1 | Session 6: Fish protection at dams | Chairs: Sterling Watson |
| 13:45 | John Nestler | Optimizing a Novel Fish Protection System at a Pumped-Storage Hydropower Dam Using Failure Mode and Effects Analysis |
| 14:00 | John Burnett | An International Trend Toward Increased Fish Protection at Water Intakes and Diversions |
| 14:15 | Blane Bellerud | Protocol for Estimating Downstream Survival of Diadromous Fishes at Hydroelectric Facilities |
| 14:30 | Anita Moldenhauer | (Electrified) curved bar racks for safe downstream fish passage – a promising solution to improve protection and guidance for a wide range of fish species |
| 14:45 | Joachim Bretzel | Impingement susceptibility and approach velocity responses of freshwater fish and crustacean species at a wedge-wire protection screen |
| 15:00 | Christian Haas | Protecting fish with a non linear electric field – electrical barriers as an effective measure for fish guidance at hydraulic structures |
| Krieghoff Ballroom 2 | Session 7: Tracking fish migrations | Chairs: Valérie Ouellet |
| 13:45 | François Martignac | A toolbox to assess the spatio-temporal dynamics of Atlantic salmon recolonization after dam removal on the Sélune River (Normandy, France) |
| 14:00 | Armin Peter | Downstream migration of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) smolts in the Aare and Rhine Rivers in Switzerland |
| 14:15 | Utashi D. Ciraane | Atlantic salmons smolts crossing successive dams and hydropower plants: a multiyear hydrodynamic analysis |
| 14:30 | Olivia Simmons | The influence of hydraulic conditions on Atlantic salmon swimming behaviour at a hydropower dam |
| 14:45 | Katrina Cook | Should I Stay or Should I Go? Advance and Retreat Movements of Migratory Bull Trout at the Site C Dam Fishway |
| 15:00 | Céline LE PICHON | The recovery of extinct Allis shad (Alosa alosa) in the navigated Seine River: what are the best routes for spawning migrations? |
| 15:15 | Mikel Cherbero | Environmental cues and phenological variations in spawning migration of Allis shad (Alosa alosa) |
| Borduas Ballroom 3 | Session 8: Habitat connectivity at high flows | Chairs: Mathias Collins |
| 13:45 | Paul Demuth | Flood refugia availability in a locally widened river reach |
| 14:00 | Brian Wardman | Enhancing Habitat and Reducing Flood Risk |
| 14:15 | Dan Gibson-Reinemer | Flooding allows rapid long-distance movements by native and invasive fish species in the Mississippi River |
| 14:30 | Jonathan Bolland | A global perspective on fish passage and protection at flood-relief pumping stations |
| 14:45 | Zachary Sherker | Fish and Floods: Floodgate and culvert remediations to improve salmon access to critical juvenile rearing habitat |
| 15:00 | Patrick Holzapfel | An energy-based approach to quantify habitat connectivity between functional fish habitats considering steady-state hydrodynamic flow fields in fluvial ecosystems |
| 15:15 | Megan DiNicola | High Flows Dictate Subadult Freshwater Mussel Suitable Habitat Patterns In an Engineered River |
| Leduc-Fortin | Session 9: Sustainable hydropower | Chairs: Hervé Capra |
| 13:45 | Atle Harby | Environmental design of hydropower regulated rivers |
| 14:00 | Ana T. Silva | Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) conservation and sustainable Hydropower in Norway: downstream passage solutions |
| 14:15 | Daniel Hayes | Ecohydraulic studies in the context of a hydropower project in Uzbekistan, Central Asia |
| 14:30 | Frédéric Burton | Aménagement d’une frayère en eau vive en aval du barrage de Saint-Timothée (fleuve Saint-Laurent) |
| 14:45 | Marie-Pierre Gosselin | Hydropower related hydromorphological alterations in freshwater pearl mussel (Margaritifera margaritifera) rivers: impacts, knowledge gaps and potential mitigation measures. |
| 15:00 | Joe Rathbun | Dams and Clams; Dam Removals and Freshwater Mussel Relocations |
| 15:15 | Véronique Gouraud | Method to identify effective hydropeaking mitigation measures: lessons learnt from site studies |
| Pilot | Session 10: Advances in numerical methods 1 | Chairs: André St-Hilaire |
| 13:45 | Mulugeta Genanu Kebede | Remote Sensing-based River Discharge Estimation for a Small River Flowing Over the High Mountain Regions of the Tibetan Plateau |
| 14:00 | Melina Sattelmeier | Analyzing Relative Influences of Pumped-Storage Hydroelectricity Operations and Reservoir Characteristics on Hydraulic Conditions |
| 14:30 | Dominic Lagrois | Effects of ecohydraulic properties on acoustic propagation in the fresh waters of the St. Lawrence River, Canada |
| 14:45 | Anders Andersson | Hydraulic modelling of seasonal flow variations in regulated Nordic rivers |
| 15:00 | Mohammad Golestani Eraghi | Impact of rainfall spatio-temporal variability on rainfall-runoff and flood modelling in the Selke catchment |
| 15:15 | Mariana Acosta | Non Darcy Turbulent Flow in Porous Media Study |
| 15:30-16:00 | Foyer | BREAK |
| Suzor-Côté Ballroom 1 | Session 11: Recent development in fish screening techniques | Chairs: Andrew Goodwin |
| 16:00 | Stefan Hoerner | Towards a reliable and validated toolbox to replace live fish tests for the assessment of injury and mortality during downstream passage |
| 16:15 | Aljon Salalila | Development of the Sensor Fish Suites for Hydropower and Marine Hydrokinetic Technologies |
| 16:30 | Eric De Oliveira | Fish species recognition based on morphological and swimming pattern on acoustic videos |
| 16:45 | Helmut Mader | The development of an AI-based automated 24/7/365 fish monitoring system |
| 17:00 | Pedro Romero-Gomez | Combining Sensor- and Simulation-based Assessments of Fish Passage through Hydro Turbines |
| 17:15 | Philippe Hamel | Investigation of computational fluid dynamics and autonomous device methods to estimate fish mortality in a hydroelectric turbine |
| 17:30 | Jeffrey Tuhtan | Smart Fish Counter Software for the Automated Monitoring of Fish Species and Body Length |
| Krieghoff Ballroom 2 | Session 12: Selective fish passage | Chairs: Jessica Stanton |
| 16:00 | Daniel Zielinski | Exploration of the science supporting selective connectivity at fish migration barriers |
| 16:15 | Mahmoud Abdelbaky | Comparative swimming performance of Brook Trout, White Sucker, and Sea Lampreys in a baffled channel |
| 16:30 | Dencil MATHEW | Baffle designs to improve selective passage in sea lamprey barriers |
| 16:45 | Kassandra Reynolds | Hydraulic and hydrologic characteristics of effective sea lamprey barriers |
| 17:00 | David Smith | Assessing Invasive Carp Response to Three-Dimensional Geometric Structures with Known Hydrodynamic Flow Patterns |
| 17:15 | Avery Schemmel | Assessing Zebra Mussel Impact on Fishway Efficiency: McNary Lock & Dam Case Study |
| 17:30 | Ambroise Percheron | Rehabilitation of the Davis Diversion Intake: A novel environmental solution |
| Borduas Ballroom 3 | Session 13: Hydrodynamics in fishway designs 1 | Chairs: Bryan Sojkowski |
| 16:00 | Lucas Stiles | 3D CFD Modeling – A Cornerstone of the Fish Passage Design Process |
| 16:15 | Robin Andersson | Simplifying Faunapassage Outlet Positioning: A Hydraulic Approach |
| 16:30 | Sebastian Schwindt | Fish passage and flood safety: multi-model perspectives |
| 16:45 | Philipp Werner | Experimental analysis of climate change influenced flows on an adapted vertical slot pass |
| 17:00 | Haitao Liu | A study on the connection mode of fish upstream passage in the dam downstream water reducing reach of hydropower station |
| 17:15 | Damien Calluaud | Vertical double slot fishways flow: influence of geometry, slope and discharge |
| 17:30 | Vincent Autier | Designing Technical Upstream Fishways Capable of Adjusting to Changing Environmental Conditions |
| Leduc-Fortin | Session 14: Vegetation in ecohydraulics: Wetlands and coastal areas | Chairs: Valerie Tremblay |
| 16:00 | Jacob Stolle | Seasonal change in wave attenuation through Canadian saltmarshes |
| 16:15 | Antoine Maranda | Machine Learning Elevation Correction Model for Coastal Wetlands in the Laurentian Great Lakes. |
| 16:30 | Rémi Gosselin | Extracting local physical variables for wetlands response modelling from large-scale climatic predictions of the Great Lakes |
| 17:00 | Graham Hill | Restoring coastal ecosystems, rematriating landscapes, and contributing to coastal resilience |
| 17:15 | Samantha Chan | Utilizing Drone Imagery to Predict Coastal Protection Provided by Vegetation |
| 17:30 | ||
| Pilot | Session 15: Fish passage: opportunities for funding and collaboration 1 | Chairs: Michelle Lennox |
| 16:00 | Nick Anderson | Barriers to Fish Passage and Historic Investments under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law |
| 16:15 | Gillian O’Doherty | Fish Passage and Habitat Connectivity: Federal Highway Administration |
| 16:30 | Shannon Boyle | Fish Passage and Habitat Connectivity: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service |
| 16:45 | Brian Kelder | Fish Passage and Habitat Connectivity: National Marine Fisheries Service |
| 17:00 | Nancy Munn | Restoration of climate-smart fish passage as a tool in species recovery in the Pacific Northwest |
| 17:15 | James Turek | Scaling-Up Community-Based Fish Passage Restoration through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act: Successes and Challenges in Southern New England |
| 17:30 | Dana McCoskey | Working with the Water Power Technologies Office to advance fish passage science and technologies |
| May 7 (Tuesday) Room/hours | ||
| Suzor-Côté Ballroom 1 | Session 16: Understanding and managing aquatic habitats | Chairs: Francine Mejia |
| 10:15 | Gregory Pasternack | Near-Census Evaluation of Anadromous Salmonid Cover Types In A Regulated Gravel River |
| 10:30 | Mathias Chabal | Predicting bed material size along Atlantic salmon rivers from LiDAR data |
| 10:45 | Simon Joly-Naud | Formation and persistence of cool-water zones in Atlantic salmon river pools |
| 11:00 | Yaqi Luo | Response of macroinvertebrate communities to the environmental patterns in highland river networks |
| 11:15 | Francesca Padoan | On the generality of the Habitat Suitability Indexes of brown trout (Salmo trutta L.) in relation to ecohydraulic variables |
| 11:30 | José Lorduy | Habitat suitability index of the Bocachico (Prochilodus magdalenae; Steindachner 1879) in the Bajo Sinù large swamp and Betancí swamp, Córdoba, by the implementation of a hydrodynamic and water quality model. |
| 11:45 | Maxime Brousseau | Concilier la nature et le développement : Gestion innovante des barrages de castors pour la préservation de l’habitat de la tortue mouchetée |
| 12:00 | Jonathan Czuba | Effects of dam hydropeaking on juvenile freshwater mussel settling |
| Krieghoff Ballroom 2 | Session 17: Environmental flows and aquatic organisms | Chairs: TBD |
| 10:15 | Mathias Collins | Historical occurrence and predictions for environmental streamflows important for diadromous fish |
| 10:30 | Bruno Mendonca | Brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) as a model anadromous species to evaluate water withdrawal effects in a groundwater-driven coastal watershed. |
| 10:45 | Robert Milhous | Beneficial Use of Water for Environmental Needs |
| 11:00 | Luiz G. M. Silva | A novel methodology to study the effect of environmental flow conditions on early life stage Salmonids |
| 11:15 | Marie-Pierre Gosselin | Towards the next level of environmental flows for fish: Introducing the work of the International Energy Agency-Hydro Task 19 Hydropower and Fish 2.0. |
| 11:30 | Veronique Gouraud | Towards a characterization and classification of the ecological impacts of thermopeaking |
| 11:45 | Simon Führer | A multi-stressor framework to study effects on cyprinid fish populations in Austrian rivers |
| 12:00 | Mengzhen Xu | Assessing the Effects of Environmental Factors on Filtration Rate of Golden Mussel (Limnoperna fortunei) |
| 12:15 | Piotr Parasiewicz | Developing environmental flows for fish community macrohabitat types with help of MesoHABSIM model |
| Borduas Ballroom 3 | Session 18:Integrating fish behavior in fish passage and exclusion | Chairs: Steve Cook |
| 10:15 | Andy Goodwin | Toward near- and real-time prediction of fish passage and guidance with ELAM theory-informed generative AI |
| 10:30 | Scott Miehls | Field and lab evaluations of downstream migratory behavior of juvenile sea lamprey and use of white light as a potential guidance cue. |
| 10:45 | Fabio Tarena | Artificial light at night affects fish passage rates in two small sized cyprinids |
| 11:00 | Vindhyawasini Prasad | Assessment of bubble screens as a dispersal barrier to control the movement of drifting invasive grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) eggs |
| 11:15 | Jessica Stanton | Underwater acoustic deterrent effects on invasive carp behavior downstream of a navigation lock |
| 11:30 | Guangning Li | Experimental study on fish behaviors affected by local color inside a fishway |
| 11:45 | Kendra Vorenkamp | Quantifying the schooling benefit of small-bodied fish for optimal fishway design |
| 12:00 | ||
| Leduc-Fortin | Session 19: Man-made & natural barriers | Chairs: Adrian Jordaan |
| 10:15 | Scott Hinch | A conservation physiological perspective on dam passage by fishes |
| 10:30 | Fielding Montgomery | Effects of rail infrastructure on Pacific salmon and steelhead habitat connectivity in British Columbia |
| 10:45 | Morgan Wright | The rockslide that blocked salmon migration in the Fraser River, British Columbia |
| 11:00 | Morgan Wright | The search for hydraulic barriers to salmon migration in a bedrock river |
| 11:15 | Lindsay Davis | Examining the Hydraulics of a Series of Clustered Alternating Vortex Rock Weirs with Drone-based Image Velocimetry |
| 11:30 | ||
| 11:45 | ||
| 12:00 | ||
| Pilot | Session 20: Fish passage: opportunities for funding and collaboration 2 | Chairs: Michelle Lenox |
| 10:15 | Kelly Hughes | Merging infrastructure asset management surveys with fish barrier identification |
| 10:30 | Paul Matson | Building a national-scale dataset of fish passage facilities at hydropower developments in the United States |
| 10:45 | Nick Mazany-Wright | The Canadian Aquatic Barriers Database: tools to support freshwater connectivity restoration and management decisions |
| 11:00 | Gillian O’Doherty | Evolution of Best Practices for Aquatic Organism Passage at Waterway-Roadway Crossings |
| 11:15 | Craig Mount | Update on the Provincial Fish Passage Program in British Columbia, Canada |
| 11:30 | William Twardek | Collaboration between fish passage scientists and engineers: Insights from an international questionnaire |
| 11:45 | ||
| 12:00 | ||
| 12:15-13:45 | Jean-Paul Lemieux | LUNCH (on-site) |
| Suzor-Côté Ballroom 1 | Session 21:Insights on thermal habitat | Chairs: Christian Torgersen |
| 13:45 | Francine Mejia | Closing the gap between science and management of cold-water refuges in rivers and streams |
| 14:00 | Batistin Bour | Détection de refuges thermiques en rivière par drone/Thermal refuge identification using drone |
| 14:15 | Baptiste Marteau | Unravelling summer thermal habitat conditions in salmonid-bearing rivers using infrared thermal mapping |
| 14:30 | Eisinhower Rincon | Deriving distributed daily flow and water temperature time series in data-sparse region: Case study the Northern Quebec region. |
| 14:45 | Nicolas Francisco Gamarra | Numerical Modeling of Stream Temperature in a Regulated Section of the Lech River |
| 15:00 | Davide Vanzo | Too hot to handle: modelling thermal dynamics in a residual-flow Alpine river |
| 15:15 | Mostafa Khorsandi | Assessing the surface downward longwave irradiance models using ERA5 input data for station and watershed scales in Canada |
| Krieghoff Ballroom 2 | Session 22: Safe downstream passage | Chairs: Adrian Joordan |
| 13:45 | Sterling Watson | Improved turbines for fish passage: a timely innovation for today’s hydropower fleet |
| 14:00 | Jesse Wechsler | Juvenile Alewife Passage through a Compact Hydropower Turbine Designed for Fish Safety |
| 14:15 | Eric De Oliveira | LIFE4FISH project: Improvement of downstream migration success through successive HPP in the channelized River Meuse |
| 14:30 | Falko Wagner | Quantitative Behavioral Analysis of Fish Passage: A Laboratory Study of Hydraulic Conditions Relevant to Turbine and Pump Inlets |
| 14:45 | Linus Kaminski | Evaluation of Downstream Fish Passage Design Criteria across Weirs using Numerical Simulations |
| 15:00 | David F. Vetsch | Evaluation of downstream fish passage measures for a run-of-river hydropower plant with pondage |
| 15:15 | ||
| Borduas Ballroom 3 | Session 23: Hydrodynamics in fishway designs 2 | Chairs: Daniel Zielinski |
| 13:45 | François-Xavier Cierco | Design of a fish pass influenced by regulated hydraulic works |
| 14:00 | Tyler Kreider | Shikellamy NLF: Value of Pre- and Post-Construction Site Investigations |
| 14:30 | Gordon Clark | Application of hydrodynamic models of varying complexity for assessment of upstream passage and habitat suitability of smelt (Osmerus mordax) under pre- and post-construction conditions for dam removal on the Jones River in Kingston, MA. |
| 14:45 | Adrian Strain | Computational Fish Dynamics: Using 3D hydrodynamic numerical models to assess and design fish passage facilities |
| 15:00 | Seth Schweitzer | Large scale, high resolution, image-based flow velocity measurements for fish management applications |
| 15:15 | ||
| Leduc-Fortin | Session 24: Eel migrations in regulated rivers | Chairs: Valérie Tremblay |
| 13:45 | Hervé CAPRA | Determining the downstream migration routes of silver eels through a run-of-river hydroelectric scheme on the lower Rhône River (France) |
| 14:00 | Alexandre Guindon | Juvenile American eel tracking using acoustic telemetry at the Carillon hydro-electric facility |
| 14:15 | Felix Eissenhauer | A mark-recapture approach to estimate the population size and demographics of American eel elvers (Anguilla rostrata) arriving at a dam in a large river |
| 14:30 | Jenna Rackovan | Downstream Passage Evaluation to Restore American Eel in the St. Croix River, Maine |
| 14:45 | Jesse Waldrip | Continued Search for the Silver Bullet for Silver Eels |
| 15:00 | Jean-François Dumont | Temporary : American eel habitat connectivity : the Quebec action plan |
| 15:15 | ||
| Leduc-Fortin | Session 25: IAHR | Chairs: TBD |
| 13:45 | Gregory Pasternack | How to write a good paper for an International Scientific Journal: The Example of the Journal of Ecohydraulics and other IAHR journals |
| 15:30-16:00 | Foyer | BREAK |
| Suzor-Côté Ballroom 1 | Session 26: Restoring aquatic connectivity | Chairs: Valérie Ouellet |
| 16:00 | Mariana Unda | An approach to integral ecological connectivity in terrestrial and aquatic landscapes |
| 16:15 | Roman Zurek | Restoration of the ecological continuity of the Vistula River and the lower stretches of the Soła and Skawa rivers on 165 km distance – issues and successes. |
| 16:30 | Gizachew Teshome | Diversity, abundance and spatiotemporal distribution of Labeobarbus species in below and above irrigation dam of the Megech River, Lake Tana sub-basin, Ethiopia |
| 16:45 | Bijoy Kumar Ghosh | Hydraulic impact on fish migration in a sariakandhi fish pass of Bangladesh. |
| 17:00 | Mahmoud Omer Mahmoud Awadallah | Physical habitat diversity and connectivity in response to varying sediment supply in an Alpine river widening |
| 17:15 | Kyu Jin KIM | A study on the longitudinal continuity assessment method of Korean rivers considering the swimming ability of fish living in Korea |
| 17:30 | Miriam Lebeau | Restoring aquatic connectivity for culturally significant species at risk in the Restigouche River watershed |
| Krieghoff Ballroom 2 | Session 27: Advances in numerical methods 2 | Chairs: André St-Hilaire |
| 16:00 | David F. Vetsch | An experimental study on seed dispersal by hydrochory in an alpine river floodplain |
| 16:15 | Binbin Wang | Development, evaluation, and application of a three-dimensional egg drift model (SDrift) for invasive carps in the Lower Missouri River |
| 16:30 | Binbin Wang | Suspension of surrogate carp eggs in grid-modulated jet-stirred turbulence |
| 16:45 | Shigeya Maeda | Impact of Nest Size on Deposition of Detached Filamentous Algae within Fish Nests in an Agricultural Drainage Canal: Application of a 3D Hydrodynamic Model |
| 17:00 | John Chapman | How do we consider the settling velocity of organic material? |
| 17:15 | Jose Carlos Ramirez | Optimal Design of Stormwater Sewer Collectors in Sewer Networks |
| 17:30 | Li Gu | The Dispersion of Municipal Wastewater Effluent in a Fjord-type Estuary |
| Borduas Ballroom 3 | Session 28:Vegetation in ecohydraulics | Chairs: Luiz da Silva |
| 16:00 | Un Ji | Quantifying patchiness effect of emergent woody riparian vegetation on reach-scale flow resistance |
| 16:15 | Inga Prüter | Numerical validation and assement of Flow-Vegetation for Nature-Based solutions |
| 16:30 | Eunkyung Jang | Implementation of the three-dimensional shape of woody riparian vegetation using remote sensing imagery |
| 16:45 | Jiwon Ryu | Analysis of physical and geometric characteristics for emergent riparian vegetation patches using UAV spatial information |
| 17:00 | Jiaqi Liu | Reproduction of suspended sediment transport in partially vegetated alluvial channels: effects of using different 2D eddy viscosity models |
| 17:15 | Ana Santos | ¿Intensive care in complex swamps? Path of diagnosis and care considering local experts and scientists |
| 17:30 | ||
| Leduc-Fortin | Session 29: Restoring aquatic organism passage | Chairs: Danielle Frechette |
| 16:00 | Cailey McCutcheon | Make it FAST: A field-based tool for rapid fish passage assessment |
| 16:15 | Shane Scott | Aquatic Organism Passage (AOP) Solutions at Culverts and Fish Barrier Management in North America |
| 16:30 | Christian Fox | Identifying Cost-Optimized Road-Stream Crossing Barrier Removals |
| 16:45 | Justin Duncan | Review of emerging regulatory and policy tools and a prescription for successful aquatic habitat restoration at scale |
| 17:00 | Andrew Anderson | Whiskey Creek – a tale of never ending barriers |
| 17:15 | Anna Mallonee | Quiota creek fish passage program: would updated guidelines have improved resiliency of fish passage designs? |
| 17:30 | Michael Chelminski | Dam Removal and Upstream Fish Passage |
| May 8 (Wednesday) Room/hours | ||
| Suzor-Côté Ballroom 1 | Session 31: Working across the riverscape |
Chairs: Normand Bergeron |
| 10:15 | Christian Torgersen | Riverscape approaches in practice: Perspectives and applications |
| 10:30 | Katrina Vaughan Cook | Connecting a river to it’s estuary: A conservation success story for juvenile Chinook Salmon |
| 10:45 | Simon Geist | Getting a handle on the influence of longitudinal connectivity on fish population dynamics |
| 11:00 | Wouter van de Bund | A method for characterising free-flowing rivers in Europe combining assessments at catchment and local scale |
| 11:15 | Beatriz Negreiros | Multi-dimensional river connectivity analyses leveraged by a database approach |
| 11:30 | Edward Dilks | eDNA metabarcoding as a tool for assessing spatial distributions of fish communities in a heavily fragmented UK river |
| 11:45 | Nick Lapointe | Conservation successes from the application of a watershed connectivity restoration planning process |
| 12:00 | Donné Mathijssen | Examining the benefits for fish after 31 years of improving water quality, connectivity, and habitat diversity in a novel ecosystem |
| Krieghoff Ballroom 2 | Session 32: Innovative fish passage designs | Chairs: Jesus Morales |
| 10:15 | Boyd Kynard | Performance of a New Alternating Side-Baffle Fishway at Passing Diverse Potamodromous and Diadromous Fishes |
| 10:30 | Scott Miehls | Test of Archimedes screw style fish lift for passage of non-jumping migratory fish species. |
| 10:45 | Kimberly Capone | Evaluation of the Fishheart Hydraulic Fishway for Passing American Shad Upstream at a Hydropower Dam |
| 11:00 | William Peirson | Tube Fishway Attraction and Transport of Salmonids Upstream Over Dams and Weirs |
| 11:15 | Brett Pflugrath | An Evaluation of the Stralkin Helix: a Novel Bi-directional Fish Passage System |
| 11:30 | Leticia Carrero-Díez | Uphill flow rock ramps: A new fish friendly ladder. Design, modelling, and monitoring of the first experience in Spain. |
| 11:45 | Janine Bryan | Fish passage technology design to assist fish guidance via flow modulation |
| 12:00 | Michael Messina | Technology Benefiting Nature – Multi-Species Fish and Elver Passage at Low-Head Dams |
| Borduas Ballroom 3 | Session 33: Fishway monitoring & evaluation 1 | Chairs: Daniel Deng |
| 10:15 | Juan Francisco Fuentes-Pérez | Advancing Fishway Management: Shaping the Future of Fishway Monitoring |
| 10:30 | David Nijssen | Comparison of methods to determine the efficiency of multispecies fishways |
| 10:45 | ||
| 11:00 | Panos Panagiotopoulos | A large-scale passage evaluation for multiple fish species: lessons from 82 fishways in the Netherlands |
| 11:15 | Luiz Silva | Quantifying fish passage efficiency at hydropower plants in the Upper Rhine River catchment in Switzerland. |
| 11:30 | Nich Burnett | Four years of monitoring upstream fish passage at Site C, a new hydroelectric dam in British Columbia, Canada |
| 11:45 | Shokoofeh Abbaszadeh | Bio-inspired robotic fish for assessment of injury risks during the fish passage |
| 12:00 | Christian Haas | Beyond the surface: exploring fish dynamics with camera-based monitoring |
| Leduc-Fortin | Session 34: Fish locomotion in unsteady flow | Chairs: Theodore Castro-Santos |
| 10:15 | Katharina Bensing | Hydrodynamic detection, ranging and imaging: the role of the fish body in ethohydraulics |
| 10:30 | Florence Gibouin | Swimming kinetics of fish in different turbulence conditions |
| 10:45 | Sam Steele | Sprinting Capabilities of Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout in a Swim Chamber |
| 11:00 | ||
| 11:15 | Ianina Kopecki | Estimating fish swimming speed using non-invasive backpack sensors in a laboratory flume at high flow velocities |
| 11:30 | Kamal Prasad Pandey | FishPath Project: Behavioral Responses of Atlantic Salmon Smolts to Vertical Eddies |
| 11:45 | Adam Grodek | Movement and behavior of minnows in experimentally derived complex, turbulent flows |
| 12:00 | Joschka Wiegleb | Improving fish pass design via understanding fish swimming patterns in challenging flow |
| Pilot | Session 35: Modelling aquatic habitats | Chairs: Davide Vanzo |
| 10:15 | Eva Enders | Insights on a cumulative effects modelling approach for the prioritisation habitat restoration efforts |
| 10:30 | Daniele Tonina | Mapping salmon rearing carrying capacity at the riverscape: The role of fish size, multi-life stage interactions, and fish behavior |
| 10:45 | Francisco Martinez-Capel | Habitat assessment in present and climate change scenarios for native fish in the Jùcar River (Antella, Spain) |
| 11:00 | Shinji Fukuda | Effect of flow intermittence on fish fauna in an agricultural channel network in Tokyo, Japan |
| 11:15 | Samuel Valman | Operationalizing the hyper-temporal benefits of CubeSats through artificial intelligence to provide new opportunities for measuring and monitoring geomorphic change in rivers. |
| 11:30 | Karine Smith | Investigating fluvial processes in an ice-covered riffle-pool sequence |
| 11:45 | Beatrice Pinna | River habitat modeling for the entire macroinvertebrate community |
| 12:00 | Justus Hargett | Predicting embeddedness from bankfull shear velocity across entire gravel-bedded river networks |
| 12:15-12:45 | Jean-Paul Lemieux | LUNCH (to go) |
| May 9 (Thursday) Room/hours | ||
| Borduas Ballroom 3 | Session 36: Aquatic habitat modelling and management | Chairs: Marianne Bachand |
| 08:30 | Donatella Termini | Early-Warning of climate change disturbance in rivers by means of freshwater mussels’ response |
| 08:45 | Cameron Stevens | A habitat-based solution for spawning salmonids in a regulated sub-Arctic river in the Northwest Territories, Canada |
| 09:00 | Zhonglong Zhang | CE-QUAL-W2 Hydrodynamic and Water Quality Simulation Capabilities in Support of Reservoir Operation and Management |
| 09:15 | Iana Kopecki | Conflict between canoeing and fish habitat – A habitat-based assessment approach |
| 09:30 | Nicolas Guillemette | Analysis of Dredged Sediment Impacts on Water Quality and Aquatic Habitats in the St‐Lawrence Estuary |
| 09:45 | Christian Haas | Best Practice for Effective Camera Monitoring in River Ecosystems – Using Cameras in Open Water for Determine Fish Behavior and Migration |
| 10:00 | ||
| 10:15 | ||
| Leduc-Fortin | Session 37: Optimizing fishway designs | Chairs: Guillermo R. Giannico |
| 08:30 | Bjorn Lake | Goldilocks and the three fishways – Our attempt to design a fish ladder that is just right. |
| 08:45 | Sean Bennett | Fishway Design for the Emerald Shiner (Notropis atherinoides) in the Upper Niagara River, New York |
| 09:00 | Filipe Romão | Cyprinid Passage Performance Thresholds: Exploring literature recommendations |
| 09:15 | Cornelia Schütz | Fishway bottleneck: Passage of an entrance slot by small-bodied fish |
| 09:30 | Lina Focht | Effect of Velocity Fluctuations on Vertical Slot Passage of Small Non-Salmonid Fish |
| 09:45 | Panos Panagiotopoulos | Unraveling socio-ecological complexities in improving fish migration: Understanding fishways as heterogeneous networks |
| 10:00 | Tracey Steig | Insights into Migration Success of Alewife Through a Hydro-Facility using Complementing Technologies |
| 10:15 | ||
| Pilot | Session 38: Aquatic Habitat quality | Chairs: Mathias Chabal |
| 08:30 | Mostafa Khorsandi | Assessing the surface downward longwave irradiance models using ERA5 input data for station and watershed scales in Canada |
| 08:45 | Todd Buxton | Promoting diurnal thermal stratification in river pools for water management, species conservation, and fish passage in a warming climate |
| 09:00 | Sandrine Picotte | Cumulative Impacts of Pollutant Discharges: Exploring Thermal Refuges in the Rimouski River Ecosystem |
| 09:15 | Markus Noack | Riverbed clogging – functional relationships between governing key parameters |
| 09:30 | Jean N Namugize | Water quality and sediment monitoring in the Nile basin countries |
| 09:45 | Mathewos Kebede | Impacts of water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) on the diversity and abundance of fishes and littoral macroinvertebrates in Koka Reservoir, Ethiopia |
| 10:00 | Morihiro Harada | Spatio-temporal distribution of flood disturbance and community response in a mountainous river system in Central Japan |
| 10:15 | Muhammed .A. Oyinlola | Unveiling the Complex Interplay: Evaluating Hydrothermal Exposure Risks for Key Aquatic Species in the Nechako River System, British Columbia, Under Climate Change |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Foyer | BREAK |
| Borduas Ballroom 3 | Session 39: Fishway monitoring & evaluation 2 | Chairs: Bjorn Lake |
| 11:00 | Ryan Hill | Limitations of non-volitional upstream passage for alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) and blueback herring (Alosa aestivalis) |
| 11:15 | Chris Pinney | Failed engineered hydraulics for salmon passage and survival through the four federal lower Snake River dams, Washington, U.S.A. |
| 11:30 | Matt Blank | Westslope Cutthrout Trout Passage Through Scaled Denil Fishways |
| 11:45 | Alejandro Perez | Fish Passage in the Belo Monte Fishway, Amazon River Basin, Brazil |
| 12:00 | Etienne Cormier | Saint-Jean River in Quebec – Salmon Fishway design, construction and performance monitoring work |
| Leduc-Fortin | Session 40: Agricultural & urban habitats stream restoration | Chairs: Eva Enders |
| 11:00 | David Bidelspach | Awe Restoration – “Ecosystem Restoration in Urban Stream Management Corridors to Stimulate Mental Health Treatment and Community Revival” |
| 11:15 | Peter Flödl | Particle-bound pollutants and river restoration – challenges and insights |
| 11:30 | David Gould | Building a Municipal Stream and Wetlands Restoration Program |
| 11:45 | Juan Escajadillo | Integration of Fluvial Hydraulics, Plan Formulation Process and Bioengineering Measures for Riverbank Stabilization along a River Bend-Case Study |
| 12:00 | Renée Gravel | Small streams in agricultural landscape : an undervalued source of restauration sites? |
| Pilot | Session 41: Hydropeaking ecological impacts | Chairs: Patricia Johnston |
| 11:00 | Robert Naudascher | Repeated hydropeaking reveals fine scale movement responses of juvenile fish |
| 11:15 | Yann Le Coarer | Horizontal ramping rates to link hydropeaking and fish densities |
| 11:30 | Maria João Costa | Examining native fish attraction to artificial flow refuges of differing geometries and upon the presence of the invasive bleak (Alburnus alburnus) amidst pulsed flows |
| 11:45 | Jean-Michel Matte | Response of juvenile Atlantic salmon to artificial flow downstream of an hydroelectric dam |
| 12:00 | Brent Mossop | Lessons learned from reach-scale channel modifications in a large river: balancing multiple objectives at the Site C Clean Energy Project |