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Advisory Board

  • Margaret Lang, Professor Cal Poly Humboldt State University
  • Margaret is an environmental engineer specializing in environmental fluid mechanics, hydraulic modeling, fish passage through hydraulic structures, and hydrology. She is a full professor in the Environmental Resources Engineering Department at Cal Poly Humboldt State University. Margaret has been involved in past fish passage conferences.
  • Prof. Guillermo Roberto Giannico, Secretary, Oregon State University
  • Guillermo is a Freshwater Fish Ecologist with many years of experience studying salmonid behavior and habitat selection in freshwater and estuarine systems. His research interests also span aquatic habitat restoration, land use impacts on fish habitat, integrated watershed management and fish passage. Guillermo has organized previous Fish Passage Conferences and served many times in the Steering Committee and Advisory Board.
  • Brian Bellgraph, Earth Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  • Brian is a fisheries biologist specializing in the impacts of human energy development on fishes and has conducted extensive research in hydropower-dominated basins in the U.S. and abroad. He is inspired by innovation and spends much of his time at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) developing new research areas toward improving our Earth-energy systems.  Brian helped organize the 2022 Fish Passage Conference hosted by PNNL in Richland, WA. 
  • Frank Masese, University of Eldoret, Kenya
  • Frank is a Senior Lecturer of Aquatic Science in the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Science at the University of Eldoret, Kenya. His research interests lie primarily in freshwater ecosystems in fields of aqueous biogeochemistry and aquatic ecology where he is researching community ecology (invertebrates and fishes), energy sources and flow in food webs, land use influences on nutrients and carbon dynamics, water quality and biomonitoring, watershed management and biodiversity conservation.
  • Dr Matthew Gordos, Program Leader Cold Water Pollution, NSW Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (Fisheries)
  • Matthew has worked for NSW Fisheries for over 20 years to "Do Good for Fish".  Over the past few years, his focus has shifted from fish passage remediation towards addressing Cold Water Pollution at high priority dams in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia.  Matthew previously co-chaired the 2018 Albury International Fish Passage Conference and served for a term on the Conference Steering Committee.
  • Luiz G. M. Silva, Senior Scientist, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
  • Luiz is a Senior Scientist based at ETH-Zürich, Switzerland in the Institute of Environmental Engineering. He is the PI of the Ecohydraulics Research Group based at the Stocker Lab at ETH-Zurich. Luiz has over 17 years of experience assessing the impacts of hydropower on fish and developing mitigation solutions on a global scale. His research has focused on the design and assessment of fish passage, turbine entrainment and mortality, hydropeaking and larval drift. Related to fish passage, Luiz led and collaborated on several research projects in Brazil, Australia and, most recently, Switzerland.