Aaron Beavers has 17 years of experience working for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) as a Fish Passage and Habitat Restoration Engineer and Co-administrator of the Programmatic Restoration Opinion for Joint Ecosystem Conservation by the Services (PROJECTS) Biological Opinion (BiOp). In these roles, he led and participated in permitting, design, and construction of over 900 fish passage and aquatic habitat restoration projects across the Pacific Northwest and California. Project scales ranged from small tributaries to large dynamic river systems. Aaron has worked with Tribes, hydro operators, irrigation districts, municipalities, federal, state, and local agencies, environmental groups, and watershed councils, leading and participating in every stage of project development and delivery. By inspecting, monitoring, and adaptively managing hundreds of aquatic habitat restoration projects and fish passage facilities, Aaron has developed subject-matter authority (SMA) in fish behavior and movement. He applies this knowledge when informing habitat design decision-making; developing upstream and downstream conceptual designs; optimizing the sequence and activities of fish collection, sorting, and transport; and mitigating fish injury through adaptive management. He excels at interpreting hydraulic and biological data through the lens of SMA to innovate feasible, sustainable, and permittable solutions, adding synergy to workflows and transformative value to project operations and biological performance.

Aaron has a B.S. and M.S. in Civil Engineering from Brigham Young University.