• Data acquisition (remote sensing, ADCP, digital terrain, etc.)
• Instream flow response relationships
• Riparian Vegetation affect on Instream Flow
• Sediment Transport
• Ecological Integrity of Aquatic systems
• Biomass and habitat index validation
• Ecological community composition
• Adaptive Management of Stream Flow
• Successful and unsuccessful applications
• Modeling Scales: Watershed, River, Reach

2. Latest tools and their appropriate uses

• SEFA - System for Environmental Flow Analysis
• 1D, 2D, 3D hydraulic modeling
• ELOHA - Ecological Limits of Habitat Alteration

3. Policy/Regulatory

• Current State policies, approaches, and rulemakings
• Federal perspective, especially for endangered species management/recovery
  

4. Implementation/Operation of hydropower, M&I, and irrigation projects

• Feasibility of implementing variable environmental flows
• Compatibility with new policies (e.g. natural flow regime) by project type