Ned Taft

Those in attendance included............... Steve Rideout, Alex Haro and Mufeed Odeh (USGS-Conte Anadromous Fish Research Center), Darryl Hayes (CH2MHill), Kent Zammit and Doug Dixon (EPRI), Ken Bates (WA Dept. of Fisheries), Chuck Coutant (ORNL), Barnaby Watten (USGS- Leetown Science Center), Russ Moursund (Battelle), Vince Mudrack (Fish & Wildlife Service), Ron Brown (Flash Technology), Judy Hillaby (Fisheries and Oceans Canada), John Veil (Argonne National Laboratory), J. Douglas Shepard (New York State DEC), Raymond Li (Texas A&M University), and Steve Amaral and Ned Taft (Alden Research Lab).
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President Ned Taft called the meeting to order at 5:40 PM . Those in attendance included Steve Rideout, Alex Haro and Mufeed Odeh (USGS-Conte Anadromous Fish Research Center), Darryl Hayes (CH2MHill), Kent Zammit and Doug Dixon (EPRI), Ken Bates (WA Dept. of Fisheries), Chuck Coutant (ORNL), Barnaby Watten (USGS- Leetown Science Center), Russ Moursund (Battelle), Vince Mudrack (Fish & Wildlife Service), Ron Brown (Flash Technology), Judy Hillaby (Fisheries and Oceans Canada), John Veil (Argonne National Laboratory), J. Douglas Shepard (New York State DEC), Raymond Li (Texas A&M University), and Steve Amaral and Ned Taft (Alden Research Lab).
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President's Report - Ned Taft reported the following BES activities and progress for the last year:

The Section has updated and enhanced its Website in an effort to improve communication. The Section Newsletter (current and recent past issues) now is included on the site. The site had almost 1000 "hits" in the past year after only several hits in the previous two years combined. Ned thanked Doug Ernst for his continuing administration of the site and to Steve Amaral for introducing a great new look to the Newsletter.
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Ned thanked EPRI's Doug Dixon for this great idea and generous donation.
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Ned sent this article (along with a plea for non-members to consider joining the Section) to all AFS Division and Chapter Newsletter Editors requesting that they include it in their next issue.
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Ned thanked MufeedOdeh for his excellent job in editing both books. Ned thanked everyone who helped him in his efforts as President to put some new life into the Section over the past year.
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Fish Passage Technology Committee - Chair Ned Taft reported that the Committee completed a report entitled "Guidelines for Evaluating Fish Passage Technologies" which proposes a peer-reviewed process for bringing experimental or new technologies to a level general acceptance. The document is available on the Section's Website. Continuing Education Committee - Chair MufeedOdeh reported that he organized a fish passage course that was given over the previous two days of the AFS Annual Meeting. The course was well-attended.
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MufeedOdeh presented a Certificate of Appreciation to Ned Taft in recognition of his service as Section President over the past year.
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(Grant Systems Engineering), Steve Gephard (CTDEP/Fisheries Division), Chuck Coutant (Oak Ridge National Lab), Allan Creamer (FERC), Steve Amaral and Ned Taft (Alden Research Lab) and Bob Rand (AFS).
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Ned Taft and Mufeed Odeh both agreed to work on a planning committee for BES III.
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Ned Taft reported that the BES Committee report entitled Guidelines for Evaluating Technologies for Upstream and Downstream Fish Passage has been completed and is ready for publication.
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Ned Taft presented distinguished Service awards to MufeedOdeh and Dale Honeyfield.
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Ned Taft was installed as the new Section President. Ned presented his Incoming President's report. His goals for the coming year will focus on increasing communication and membership (see BES Newsletter Vol. 17, No. 1 for more details; available on the BES Website: http://biosys.bre.orst.edu/afseng).
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Ned Taft recognized Steve for his outstanding efforts in preparing his first newsletter.
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Ned Taft discussed the need for section registration at anytime of the year (especially some type of online registration form), not just when the annual membership forms go out. He will pursue this with AFS headquarters.
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Ned Taft will pursue this.
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Attendees: Jim Meade, Ned Taft, Dave Owsley,
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Election results were given by Jim Meade - Ned Taft if the new VP.
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1. Ned Taft - Research Guidelines Committee.

2. Fish Passage Study Needs - group discussion.
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Jim Meade handed over the gavel to President Wayne Daley (not present) and Vice President Ned Taft, who addressed the group about new young members.
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Ned Taft thanked Jim Meade for his service as President.

July 2000 Report: Ned Taft, Committee Chairman, Fish Passage Technology Committees

Upstream and downstream fish passage is being required with increasing frequency at hydroelectric projects.
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Committee Members: Ned Taft (Chairman), Ken Bates, Tim Brush, Joan Harn, Al Solonsky, Marcin Whitman, Ed Zapel