Ed is a civil engineer with 39 years of experience in hydraulic, hydrologic, hydropower, and fisheries engineering developed in a variety of engineering assignments throughout the western United States, Alaska, and Canada. These include such projects as spillway designs, sluice gate designs, high pressure valves and outlet works, small hydropower facilities, water temperature control withdrawal structures, energy dissipation structures, river intake structures, reservoir hydropower intake and outlet structures, and river sediment control structures. Ed has also designed numerous fish exclusion, guidance, and screening and bypass systems for low and high-head dams and reservoirs for both juvenile and adult salmonids up to 5,000 cfs capacity. His experience also includes a variety of river engineering projects, including sedimentation and erosion analysis and management, debris flows, fish passage barrier removal and channel restoration, habitat enhancement, and general fisheries engineering.