562 - ASCE/AFS Joint Committee on Fisheries Engineering and Science – Bringing Abiotic and Biotic Components Together to Achieve a Successful Multi-objective Project

Infrastructure projects at or near a waterway frequently involve elements of fish/aquatic organism passage and/or riparian or floodplain habitat (e.g road/stream crossings, channel stabilizations, hydropower/diversion structures). This biological aquatic element often requires a multi-disciplinary team to expeditiously achieve multiple objective projects. If your infrastructure project has such a component, where do you begin? The EWRI Fisheries Engineering Committee or the ASCE-EWRI/AFS-BES Joint Committee serves to connect engineers to biologists and geomorphologists for successful collaboration on multi-objective projects. The Joint Committee is a team of experienced professionals who develop collections of free resources to help bring the staff, components, and design elements together for a successful multi-disciplinary project, as well as furthering research in this field. This presentation will discuss various task groups, products, and projects of the Joint Committee, including webinar series, specialized annual conferences, project and career awards, trainings, fish passage databases, and literature products. These products enable designers and managers to quickly access the information and assemble the team they need to navigate a project in this specialized field. The presentation will also include examples of how these resources can be accessed to implement a fish passage or riparian project.