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Environmental Forum | Dam Removal and Reoperation in an Age of Complex Hydrosystems - Desiree Tullos

Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment

Event Details:

Thursday, October 26, 2017
3:30pm PDT

Location

Y2E2 Building, Room 299
United States

Dams are critical, interdependent elements of society’s water infrastructure. As that infrastructure ages and environmental values and laws change, the management and operations of dams and reservoirs are also changing. These changes pose news challenges in, and highlights interactions between, the engineering, ecology, law, and socio-economics of dams. This seminar will emphasize the uncertain but critical interactions that make dams an archetype of complex systems. First, current research on the science, management, and community of dam removal will be introduced, with emphasis on how science is informing management, policy, and engineering design. Next, research on the reoperation of reservoirs under climate change will be presented, including the application and limitation of models and decision frameworks. Finally, other relevant examples (e.g. fish passage, environmental flows, sedimentation from wildfires) of complex interactions at dams will be briefly discussed. The seminar will close with motivations for teaching and research on the engineering of complex hydrosystems.

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