(OMAHA, Neb. - August 31, 2009) - Nine HDR staff members will be among the featured speakers at the 139th annual meeting of the American Fisheries Society in Nashville, Tennessee, from Aug. 31 through Sept. 3.
HDR participants, their offices and presentations include:
John Burnett, Pearl River, N.Y.: Offshore Wind Farms—Implications to Fisheries and Environmental Regulation
Elizabeth Baldi, Folsom, Calif., and Morgan Neal, Sacramento, Calif.: Improving Fish Passage along California’s Highways
Michael McMahon, Denver, Colo.: Climate Change and the Tools for Identification, Adaptation and Mitigatino
Bill Mavros, Bellevue, Wash.: In Search of the Holy Grayling
Thomas Englert, Pearl River, N.Y.: Modeling the Effects of Power Plant Heat Load on Aquatic Biota
Todd Williams, St. Louis, Mo.: Blending Sustainable Stream Restoration Techniques to Enhance the Urban Environment
Stephen Stringer, Folsom, Calif.: The Optimization of Hydrostatic Pressure Treatment to Induce Triploidy in American River Chinook Salmon
Heidi Weigner, Anchorage, Ala.: A GPS-based Method for Habitat Mapping: Case Study Terror River, Alaska
The American Fisheries Society is the world's oldest and largest organization dedicated to strengthening the fisheries profession, advancing fisheries science, and conserving fisheries resources.
HDR is an employee-owned architectural, engineering and consulting firm with more than 8,000 professionals in more than 185 locations worldwide. All of them are committed to helping clients manage complex projects and make sound decisions. HDR is No. 13 overall in the Engineering News-Record Top 500 Design Firms rankings for 2009.