John M. Nestler USAE Engineering Research & Development Center Vicksburg, Mississippi Piotr Parasiewicz Cornell University Ithaca, New York N. LeRoy Poff.

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John M. Nestler USAE Engineering Research & Development Center Vicksburg, Mississippi Piotr Parasiewicz Cornell University Ithaca, New York N. LeRoy Poff Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, Colorado Zack Bowen US Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division Fort Collins, Colorado John M. Nestler USAE Engineering Research & Development Center Vicksburg, Mississippi Piotr Parasiewicz Cornell University Ithaca, New York N. LeRoy Poff Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, Colorado Zack Bowen US Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division Fort Collins, Colorado Analyzing Sustainability: A Conceptual Approach Analyzing Sustainability: A Conceptual Approach First Principles Based Attributes for Describing a Template to Develop the Reference River How To Decide What to Do

The Challenge - At Basin Scales Optimize Uses / Predict & Assess Impacts Optimize Uses / Predict & Assess Impacts Manage & Restore Natural Resources Manage & Restore Natural Resources Alt A Alt B Flood Hydro- Water Natural Control Power Supply Resources Benefits / percent change USES Sustainable Alt A Alt B Cost Fish Nutrients Habitat Benefits / percent change USES

Information Acquisition Through Scientific Specialties: Engineering, Biology, Hydrology, Fisheries, etc Inter-disciplinary Evaluation and Summarization Stake Holder Consultation EQ Trade-off Analysis Decision How Is Science Information Used? ? How Do They Relate to Each Other? Where Do The Tools/Concepts Come From? IF WE CANNOT ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS THEN WE CANNOT ACHIEVE SUSTAINABLE WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT

YEAR: ReferenceRiver Template CONCEPTS: River Continuum Concept Serial Discontinuity Concept Flood Pulse & Patch Dynamics Natural River & Normative River Importance of Hydrological Patterns Synthetic CONCEPTS: Water Resources Engineering IFIM (Hydraulic & Hydrologic) Temperature & Water Quality Multi-Dimensional Hydraulic & Water Quality Modeling Biological Modeling Incremental Time (months) Q Template Variable a (Hydrologic) Variable b (Physical) Variable c (Chemical) Variable d (Biotic) % Time Equaled or Exceeded Habitat Area

Acquiring, Preserving, Integrating, & Using Knowledge Incremental: Relax connection to Incremental: Relax connection to legal / institutional history & Embrace FPs legal / institutional history & Embrace FPs Synthetic: Quantitative Synthetic: Quantitative Use idea of “Reference” & “Template” to Use idea of “Reference” & “Template” to integrate the two approaches with FPs integrate the two approaches with FPs

Why Are FPs Important? “….in seeking regularity and focusing on the most salient features in their environment, in order to endure and thrive, animals have empirically discovered the laws of nature.” Kalmijn, A. J. (2000). Detection and processing of electromagnetic and near-field acoustic signals in elasmobranch fishes. Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society of London series B, 355(1401),

CS i =SV x SD x SC TOTAL H=  (TW i x CS i ) Q i =V x (D x W) TOTAL Q =  Q i V 1010 D 1010 C 1010 Calculating Q vs Calculating Habitat W Impacted Stream ~= W suit. stream VV D D W ? W

B DEPTH LATERAL DISTANCE CA How Is Habitat Structured in Rivers?

Historical vs Existing Conditions Nestler and Sutton 2000

Scale Analysis Shows Changes in MO River

CE-QUAL-W2 Hydrodynamic & Water Quality Model by Tom Cole et al. Nestler, Goodwin, Cole, Dennerline, Degan (2002) Moving Virtual Hydroacoustics Beam What are fish responding to ?

Constructive Criticism?