AGENDA
SOUTHEAST FISH AND AQUATIC SPECIES BARRIER ASSESSMENT WORKSHOP
November 15 and 16, 2006
North Carolina Arboretum, Asheville
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
“STATE OF THE SCIENCE”
| 9:00 – 9:05 am: | Welcome, Housekeeping Information | |
| 9:05 – 9:20 am: | Leslie Hartsell, National Fish Passage Coordinator, USFWS: Opening Remarks -- website | |
| 9:20 – 9:40 am: | Mark Hudy, National Aquatic Ecologist, USFS: Ten Things I Think, I Think - Aquatic Organism Passage in the Southeast, Lessons Learned That Don’t Need to be Repeated -- Presentation | |
| 9:40 – 10:10 am: | Angela Gardner, KCI Technologies, INC: Fish Passage Through Road Culverts (Thesis: NCSU) -- Presentation and Thesis | |
| 10:10 – 10:40 am: | Jenny Vander Pluym, NOAA: Impact of Road Crossings on Stream Fish Movement and Community Structure (Thesis, NCSU) -- Presentation and Thesis | |
| 10:40 – 10:55 am: | Break | |
| 10:55 – 11:25 am: | Paul Benton, Tennessee Technological University: Swimming Performance of the Barrens Topminnow (Fundulus julisia) and Western Mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis): Implications for Barrier Design and Topminnow Conservation (Authors: Paul Benton and Dr. Hayden Mattingly) -- Presentation and Paper | |
| 11:25 – 11:45 am: | Seth Coffman, USFS: Evaluation of a predictive model for upstream fish passage through culverts (Thesis: James Madison University) -- Presentation and Thesis | |
| 11:45 AM – 12:30 pm: | Lunch | |
| 12:30 – 1:00 pm: | James Norman, UGA: Application of a Multistate Model to Estimate Culvert Effects on Movement by Small Stream Fish (Authors: James Norman, Megan Hagler, and Mary Freeman) -- Presentation and Thesis | |
| 1:00 – 1:30 pm: | Seth Coffman, USFS: Aquatic Organism Passage Assessment Effort on National Forest System Lands in the Southern Region | |
| 1:30 – 2:00 pm: | Ted Castro – Santos, S.O Conte Anadromous Fish Research Center USGS/BRD: Predicting Permeability: Probability, Parsimony, and Polemics (i.e., What do we need to know to predict passage success and how much so?) -- Presentation and Papers | |
| 2:00 – 2:15 pm: | Break | |
| 2:15 – 2:45 pm: | Mary Freeman, USGS and UGA: Development and Elements of a ‘Stream Crossing Culvert Design’ policy for the Etowah HCP (Authors: James Norman, Emily Franzen, Megan Hagler, Heidi Millington, Bill Ensign, Seth Wegner and Mary Freeman) -- Presentation -- Etowah HCP | |
| 2:45 – 4:45 pm: | Kozmo (Ken) Bates, AquaKoz: Design of Road Crossings for Fish and Other Aquatic Organisms -- Presentation -- Summary |
Thursday, November 16, 2006
QUESTIONS and DISCUSSION RESPONSES