Team Spotlight: Fish Passage and Preservation
Fish Passage and Preservation
Around twenty professionals (biologists, engineers, geomorphologists) and wildlife technicians make up the team dedicated to the passage of fish through anthropogenic and natural infrastructure.
Ms. Valérie Tremblay manages the Aquatic Environment Group for AECOM Canada-East. Her titles include Practice Lead since 2016, AECOM Biologist since 2004, and Senior Project Director. Her approach to work involves bringing the right people together, both within her own team and with her clients.
She emphasizes the synergy between teams at AECOM, allowing for unrestricted multidisciplinary collaboration. She is passionate about business development in all areas and strives to broaden available services by devising innovative strategies for booming markets, all within an attentiveness to impeccable quality.
Her master’s degree on the American eel gave her a particular penchant for projects specializing in the passage of fish and migratory species, including the American eel. What’s more, she makes sure to incorporate ecohydraulic principles into the many environmental projects to her name. Her team is especially renowned for managing monitoring operations for the largest migration passages set up for eel in the St. Lawrence watershed, not to mention for its many design and implementation projects for infrastructure intended to restore the range of the eel by reconnecting habitats downstream of obstacles with preferential nursery habitats located upstream.
Her team is especially renowned for managing monitoring operations for the largest migration passages set up for eel in the St. Lawrence watershed
The team dedicated to the passage of fish through anthropogenic and natural infrastructure comprises around twenty high-calibre professionals (biologists, engineers, geomorphologists) and wildlife technicians who aspire to innovation based on creativity and fueled by an inclusive, diverse, multidisciplinary, considered, and effective vision.
All in all, this work requires extensive knowledge of biology and the migratory behaviour of the target species, not to mention taking into account all of the hydrological conditions specific to intervention sites. The expertise of hydraulic engineers and geomorphologists is often woven into the workflow in order to see to the durability of the solutions put forth, design excellence, and environmental performance.
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