Brett D. Pflugrath

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory — United States

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

16h-index899citations40works0.02yr avg
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Research Topics

Fish Ecology and Management Studies(32), Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes(11), Fish Biology and Ecology Studies(9), Fish biology, ecology, and behavior(8), Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems(6)

Publications40 total

Maximizing safe passage for large fish: Evaluating survival of rainbow trout through a novel hydropower turbine
Environmental and Sustainability Indicators·2025Open Access
Enhancements to Lab-on-a-Fish Technology: Final Report for I3T Project 81245
2025
Examination of an Electrified Bar Rack Fish Guidance Device for Hydropower Turbines
Water·2023Open Access
Safe passage of American Eels through a novel hydropower turbine
Transactions of the American Fisheries Society·2022· 10 citedOpen Access
PNNL CRADA No. 488, Amendment 2 with Natel Energy, Inc.: The Center Sender
2022Open Access
Lab-on-a-Fish: Wireless, Miniaturized, Fully Integrated, Implantable Biotelemetric Tag for Real-Time <i>In Vivo</i> Monitoring of Aquatic Animals
IEEE Internet of Things Journal·2021· 42 citedOpen Access
Tutorial Guide: Biological Performance Assessment (BioPA) Toolset for High Head Passage
2021· 1 citedOpen Access
Biological Response Models: Predicting Injury and Mortality of Fish During Downstream Passage through Hydropower Facilities
2021· 11 citedOpen Access
American eel resilience to simulated fluid shear associated with passage through hydroelectric turbines
Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems·2021· 6 citedOpen Access
Empirical investigation into the applicability of surrogacy for juvenile salmonids (Oncorrhynchus spp.) exposed to hydropower induced rapid decompression
Ecological Indicators·2020· 1 citedOpen Access
Using transparent fish to observe barotrauma associated with downstream passage through hydropower turbines
River Research and Applications·2020· 3 citedOpen Access
The Susceptibility of Juvenile American Shad to Rapid Decompression and Fluid Shear Exposure Associated with Simulated Hydroturbine Passage
Water·2020· 11 citedOpen Access
Final report Improving the design of irrigation infrastructure to increase fisheries production in floodplain wetlands of the Lower Mekong and Murray- Darling Basins Final report: Improving the design of irrigation infrastructure to increase fisheries production in floodplain wetlands of the Lower Mekong and Murray-Darling Basins
2020Open Access
Over or under? Autonomous sensor fish reveals why overshot weirs may be safer than undershot weirs for fish passage
Ecological Engineering·2019· 20 citedOpen Access
American eel state of buoyancy and barotrauma susceptibility associated with hydroturbine passage
Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems·2019· 16 citedOpen Access
Predicting hydraulic structure-induced barotrauma in Australian fish species
Marine and Freshwater Research·2018· 25 cited
Physical and hydraulic forces experienced by fish passing through three different low-head hydropower turbines
Marine and Freshwater Research·2018· 44 cited
Sensing what fish feel about passage through three different low-head hydropower turbines
ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst (University of Massachusetts Amherst)·2018Open Access
How low can they go when going with the flow? Tolerance of egg and larval fishes to rapid decompression
Biology Open·2016· 38 citedOpen Access
A piecewise regression approach for determining biologically relevant hydraulic thresholds for the protection of fishes at river infrastructure
Journal of Fish Biology·2016· 40 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Zhiqun Deng(20), Richard S. Brown(19), Alison H. Colotelo(16), Craig A. Boys(10), Thomas J. Carlson(9), John Stephenson(9), Adam Seaburg(9), Robert P. Mueller(8), Lee J. Baumgartner(7), Martin L. Ahmann(7), Jayson J. Martinez(5), Andrew J. Gingerich(4), Robert L. Johnson(4), Brett Miller(4), Katrina V. Cook(4), Ryan A. Harnish(4), Kristin Engbrecht(4), Sterling Watson(4), Colin J. Brauner(3), Mike J. Langeslay(3)