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Session E4: Basins that Work for Fish and Energy: Hydropower Planning for Fish Passage in Tropical Rivers
No full textPresenting Author Bio: Jeff Opperman, Director of Sustainable Hydropower Strategy and Lead Scientist, Great Rivers Partnership, has been working to protect rivers and lakes for nearly 15 years. He has provided strategic and scientific guidance to freshwater conservation projects across the United States as well as in China, Africa and Latin America. Through scientific research and collaborations and technical support to field projects, Jeff focuses on improving the environmental sustainability of hydropower and protecting and restoring river-floodplain ecosystems. Jeff has served on scientific panels that provided recommendations for floodplain management to the California Department of Water Resources, Montana’s Department of Environmental Quality and state and federal agencies for California’s Sacramento San Joaquin Delta Restoration Plan.
Jeff earned his B.S. in Biology from Duke University and a Ph.D. in Ecosystem Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He then studied floodplain ecology during a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of California, Davis. His scientific and policy research has been published in journals such as Science, BioScience and Ecological Applications. Jeff strives to communicate the challenges and opportunities of protecting fresh water through op-eds, articles and blog posts in such places as The New York Times, Outside, Grist, and The Guardian.Abstract: Global hydropower capacity is projected to approximately double in the next several decades, powered by thousands of new dams. Most of this development will take place in South America, Africa, and Asia (China, South Asia, and Southeast Asia). While providing valuable energy to meet growing demands, this expansion of hydropower threatens the diversity and productivity of fish in many tropical rivers, including several river basins where fish provide the primary source of protein to rural communities and larger regional populations. Maintaining the movement of migratory fish within basins undergoing development is a key challenge for governments and those who plan, design, and manage dams. While improving fish passage at dams is critically important, this session will highlight how the spatial arrangement of dams in a river basin impacts fish movement through a channel network. The applied focus of the panel will be maintaining fish passage and migration within river basins that are undergoing development, with an emphasis on tropical rivers. The panel will review current examples of fish passage that illustrate the need for a basin-scale approach, tools for assessing connectivity of different dam configurations, and examine the potential for system-scale planning for dam siting to produced more balanced outcomes between hydroelectric energy and fish migration
Kara Gust interviews author Jeff Vande Zande
No full textAuthor Jeff Vande Zande talks about teaching and writing, poems vs. short stories, developing characters in his stories based on his personal experience, and his current projects. Vande Zande is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Kara Gust for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writer Series
Jeff Rasley; Trekker, Author
No full textJeff, the author of Bringing Progress To Paradise, is a graduate of the University of Chicago 1975, A.B. magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, All-Academic All-State Football Team and letter winner in swimming and football; Indiana University School of Law 1979, J.D. cum laude, Moot Court and Indiana Law Review; Christian Theological Seminary 1988, M.Div. magna cum laude, co-valedictorian and Faculty Award Scholar. Rasley was admitted to the Indiana and U.S. District Court Bars in 1979 and later to the U.S. Supreme Court Bar. He practiced law in Indianapolis for thirty years. Rasley is currently partner in Knowledge Capture Publishing and editing, president of the Basa Village Foundation USA Inc. and U.S. liaison for the Nepal-based Himalayan expedition company, Adventure GeoTreks, Ltd. He teaches classes for IUPUI Continuing Ed. Program and Indiana Writers Center. He is an avid outdoorsman and recreational athlete. He leads trekking-mountaineering expeditions in Nepal and has solo-kayaked around several Pacific island groups. Rasley also loves to read and considers completing Marcel Proust’s 3600 page Remembrance of Things Past as one of his most enjoyable accomplishments. Rasley is married to Alicia, who is a multi-published author, RITA Award winner, and University professor
Author/historian Jeff LaHurd with one of his Books
No full textAuthor, journalist and local historian Jeff LaHurd poses with his book "Quintessential Sarasota: Stories and Pictures from the 1920s to the 1950s." He has written a number of books on the history of Sarasota
Author Jeff Vande Zande reads his selected works at the Michigan Writers Series
No full textAuthor Jeff Vande Zande reads selections from both his poetry and fiction, including "Transient" and "Threatened species", and answers questions from the audience. The event is convened by Peter Berg, head of Michigan State University Libraries' Special Collections. Part of the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held in the MSU Main Library
Jeff Rasley, Author and Coach
No full textJeff Rasley is a graduate of the University of Chicago, A.B. magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, All-Academic All-State Football Team and letter winner in swimming and football; Indiana University School of Law, J.D. cum laude, Moot Court and Indiana Law Review; Christian Theological Seminary, M.Div. magna cum laude, co-valedictorian and Faculty Award Scholar. Rasley has been admitted to the Indiana, U.S. District Court, and U.S. Supreme Court Bars. Rasley is currently partner in Knowledge Capture Publishing and Editing, president of the Basa Village Foundation USA Inc., and U.S. liaison for the Nepal-based Himalayan expedition company, Adventure GeoTreks Ltd. He has taught classes for IUPUI Continuing Ed. Program, Oasis, Indiana Writers Center, Butler University, and Marian University. He serves as an officer or director for five nonprofit corporations
Jeff Hewitt, 29th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textJeff Hewitt, a poet, musician, actor, visual artist and spoken word performer, was born in Naples, Italy in 1972. He studied acting at the prestigious Otterbein College near Columbus, Ohio. He helped found Norfolk\u27s Slam Poetry scene in the early 90\u27s, representing the city most recently at the 2005 South Eastern Poetry Slam. He is the author of nine collections of poetry and a member of several poetry collectives throughout the nation
Jeff Henderson, 37th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textChef JEFF HENDERSON is an award-winning chef, bestselling author and popular public speaker - and an ex-offender, having served nearly a decade in prison for drugs. He has become one of the most inspirational African-American chefs in the country. In 2001, Henderson became the first African-American named Chef de Cuisine at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and has worked as executive chef at several other top restaurants including Cafe Bellagio. His remarkable story of finding his passion for cooking while incarcerated and turning his life around was captured in his New York Times bestseller Cooked (William Morrow, 2007), now being turned into a major motion picture
Jeff Todd Titon
No full textJeff Todd Titon received the B.A. from Amherst College, and the M.A. (in English) and Ph.D. (in American Studies) from the University of Minnesota, where he studied ethnomusicology and wrote his dissertation on blues music. He has done fieldwork on religious folk music, blues, and old-time fiddling. His teaching began at Tufts University, where he was assistant professor of English, then associate professor of English and music. He has been a visiting professor at Carleton College, Amherst College, Berea College, the University of Maine, and Indiana University. Since 1986 he has been professor of music (ethnomusicology) at Brown. He is the award-winning author or editor of seven books, and also plays guitar, fiddle, and banjo, and restores violins. His full biography can be found at www.brown.edu/Departments/Music/people/facultypage.php?id=10318https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/songstorysamplercollectors/1010/thumbnail.jp
\u3cem\u3eBetween the Lines\u3c/em\u3e speaks with Jeff Rasley
No full textJeff Rasley is author of seven books. His most recent is Pilgrimage: Sturgis to Wounded Knee and Back Home Again, a Memoir. He is a partner in Knowledge Capture Publishing and Editing, a writing coach, and professor at Butler University
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