2026 Fish Passage Design and Engineering Field School

SRF is partnered with California Fish and Wildlife, Michael Love & Associates, Ross Taylor & Associates, and Creek Lands Conservation, to offer a hands-on Fish Passage Design and Engineering workshop in San Luis Obispo on February 24 - 26, 2026. The program is intended for engineers, hydrologists, biologists, and environmental planners, or those who are involved in the design and implementation of fish passage projects. The workshop curriculum covered aquatics species and stream crossings; channel morphology; and pre-design and project layout; including geomorphic based designs, profile control techniques, hydraulic designs using baffles and fishways, monitoring and adaptation strategies, and more. Two days were spent in a classroom setting and one day was spent in the field visiting project sites.

 

 

Main Presentation Slides (online only)
 

 

 

SLO Creek Watershed Overview: Hydrology and Barriers, Aleksandra Wydzga, Science Director at Creek Lands Conservation

CDFW Fish Passage Design Criteria/Guidance and Design-Review Process, Mark Gard, Senior Hydraulic Engineer – California Department of Fish and Wildlife

• CDFW Engineering Checklist

Population Status and Movement of Oncorhynchus mykiss in the San Luis Obispo Creek Watershed, Zach Crum, M.S., CDFW Region 4 District Fisheries Biologist, and Freddy Otte, Biologist, City of San Luis Obispo 

 

1. 2026 Fish Passage and Engineering Field School Agenda
2. Neefus Gulch Profiles
3. Nickerson Trib Exercise 
   1. Power Point Slides to accompany exercise
   2. Answers
4. Nickerson Trib 
5. Nickerson Trib Topo
6. Stream Simulation Design Checklist
7. Hydraulic Design Checklist