Luiz is a senior scientist at the Institute for Environmental Engineering, ETH-Zürich, Switzerland, working in the field of ecohydraulics and freshwater fish ecology. For over 17 years he has been involved in research focused on assessing the effects of barriers and flow alteration on freshwater ecosystems, particularly on fish species. Luiz has been active in fish passage research for over a decade now. He has led and collaborated with studies in the Southern and Northern hemispheres on a broad range of topics, including upstream and downstream fish passage, fish migration, dispersal of early life-stages of fish, laboratory-based (hydraulic flume) studies, and habitat mapping and modeling. Throughout his career, Luiz has worked closely with the hydropower industry globally, to contribute to the development of management plans and guidelines to minimize the impacts of dams on fish and fisheries.

Lisiane is a Brazilian biologist and technical director of Neotropical Environmental Consulting Company. Her work and research interests in the last 20 years are focus on the investigation of fish movements in South American rivers, especially in the Amazon basin, employing technologies such as radio and acoustic telemetry. She also leads the studies about the performance of fish passages in largest dams in South America. Lisiane has an M.S. in Zoology and a PhD in Freshwater Ecology.

Marcela is a Research Engineer at US Army Engineer Research and Development Center – Water Quality and Contaminant Modeling Branch. She has expertise in numerical modeling of the hydrodynamics and water quality parameters in rivers, tailraces, reservoirs and fish passage structures. Her background includes modeling of multiphase flows, total dissolved gas, and heat and mass transfer.

Dana McCoskey is an Environmental Technology Manager in DOE’s Water Power Technologies Office. Her background includes 18 years of conservation, fish and wildlife monitoring, and field ecology research. Her work at DOE involves both hydropower and marine energy. Research topics range from fish passage and aquatic connectivity, developing novel monitoring capabilities for sensitive species including acoustic telemetry and eDNA, turbine environmental performance, and advancing sustainability science to improve environmental outcomes of energy systems. She works closely with Reclamation and US Army Corps staff under the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for Federal Hydropower on fish protection topics and leads environmental research coordination with the Norwegian hydropower research institutes under a DOE-Norway MOU. She holds degrees in Zoology from Portland State University and Environmental Science and Public Policy from George Mason University.

Shauna is the Managing Director of Lower Columbia Fish Enhancement Group in Vancouver, Washington. Shauna has a B.S. in Wildlife Biology from the University of Montana, a Master’s of Public Administration from Boise State University, and a Ph.D. in Fisheries and Wildlife from Michigan State University. Her career highlights include working on double-crested cormorant management for USFWS in the Washington DC area, followed by completing doctoral studies in human dimensions and teaching environmental science in Michigan.  In 2018, she returned to her home state of Washington where she now leads a nonprofit that focuses on salmon habitat restoration and community engagement. 

Eva is a Research Scientist at Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s Freshwater Institute in Winnipeg. Her research team studies the effects of natural and anthropogenic changes on freshwater fishes in the prairie and arctic regions of Canada. Research areas include fish migration, fish passage, and the impacts of hydropower on fish.

Lee is a Professor and Research Scientist for the Institute for Land, Water, and Society at Charles Sturt University in Australia. He has lived and breathed fish passage research for over 20 years and has worked in government, universities and private industry. His research has been in several broad areas, including fish passage and fish migration, dietary interactions among native fish species, the impact of human disturbance on aquatic ecosystems and, more recently, mitigating hydropower impacts on tropical rivers in South East Asia. Lee’s work has also focused on developing innovative methods for assessment and improving existing fish collection techniques. Much of his work is applied and has fed back into adaptive management strategies, including the development of state and national policy related to fish passage in Australia and South East Asia. Lee presently manages over $10M in research projects and has active global collaborations on fish passage.

Teppo is a Senior Research Scientist at the National Resources Institute Finland (Luke). His expertise is in environmental ecology, especially related to fisheries and aquaculture. Recently he has been working to restore migratory fish species and conduct studies on fish community structure. For example, he oversees the fish-based ecological classification of rivers in Finland for the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD). He has also been working on experimental studies, mainly with juvenile salmonids but also related to invasive species. He is involved with projects for several international organizations and has published more than 50 peer reviewed articles, several conference papers, and technical publications.

Aline is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Program in the Environment at the University of Michigan. She is currently the Faculty advisor for International Programs in Engineering. Her research interests are in the areas of biological, environmental and geophysical fluid dynamics, in particular stratified turbulence and fish behavior in turbulent flows. As co-founder of the Women in Fluids Network and the Women-Water Nexus, she has created partnerships between women engineers and scientists in developed and developing countries to promote research with a focus on the education of women in STEM, with an emphasis on the African continent. She has received numerous awards for her teaching/research and outreach efforts including a 2017 Fulbright Scholar at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa, 2016 Arthur F. Thurnau named Professorship, 2015 Willie Hobbs Mentoring Award, 2014 Global Engagement Recognition Award, and the 2012 University Undergraduate Teaching Award.

Connie is a Hydraulic Engineer at the Bureau of Reclamation’s Technical Service Center in Denver, Colorado in the Hydraulic Investigations and Laboratory Services group. Connie has 20 years of experience in physical hydraulic modeling and hydraulic analysis related to fish protection and fish passage, hydraulic structure performance and modifications, dam safety, canal operations, and river restoration. Connie is the theme lead for Reclamation’s prize competitions related to environmental compliance and was Reclamation’s technical lead for prize competitions on fish protection at water diversions and intakes and downstream fish passage at high-head dams. Connie obtained a Bachelor of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and a Master of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Connie is a registered Professional Engineer (P.E.) in the State of Colorado.

Kelly is an Assistant Professor with the Quantitative Fisheries Center in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Michigan State University. Kelly’s research is focused on the ecology and management of Great Lakes fishes, as well as the application of decision analysis to natural resource management problems in the Great Lakes and beyond. Kelly received her B.A. in Biology and Spanish from the University of Virginia, her M.S. in Marine Biology from the College of Charleston, and her Ph.D. in Fisheries Science from the University of Georgia. Some of Kelly’s current research includes applying decision analysis to barrier removal and fish passage decisions in the Great Lakes, understanding the effects of ecosystem change on native preyfish species, and developing a decision framework for building resilience in Michigan’s coldwater streams.

Karilyn is a fisheries biologist and fluvial geomorphologist for the Okanagan Nation Alliance (ONA). Her work focuses on river restoration for salmon habitat using guidance from Traditional Ecological Knowledge. Karilyn has been working with the ONA Fisheries Department since 2002 supervising projects such as the McIntyre Dam and Skaha Dam fish passage, Shingle Dam decommissioning, Shuttleworth and Ellis creeks sediment basin fish passage, and the 13 Okanagan River Restoration Initiative projects. She lives and works in the unceded territory of the syilx / Okanagan Territory.

Leah is a Fisheries Biologist for the Bonneville Power Administration.