The Future of Dams Publications
Science in action or science inaction? Evaluating the implementation of “best available science” in hydropower relicensing
Energy Policy, 143, 111457. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111457
Coordinated river infrastructure decisions improve net social-ecological benefits
Environmental Research Letters, 15(10), 104054. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/abad58
Exploring the Utility of Small Unmanned Aerial System (sUAS) Products in Remote Visual Stream Ecological Assessment
Restoration Ecology. doi:10.1111/rec.13228
Balancing fish-energy-cost tradeoffs through strategic basin-wide dam management
Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 161, 104990. doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2020.104990
Passage Performance of Alewife and American Shad in the Pawcatuck River, Rhode Island.
Memorandum prepared for the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Coastal and Partners Program. Brett Still and Art Gold facilitated URI support for this publication and 7 Future of Dams graduate students were recognized for their assistance with field work, data management and processing, and GIS mapping.
Language effects on bargaining
PLOS ONE, 15(3), e0229501. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0229501
“It’s just a cycle”: Resilience, poetics, and intimate disruptions.
Poroi, 12(1). doi:10.13008/2151-2957.1302
EMPOWERING SUSTAINABILITY LEADERS: VARIATIONS ON A LEARNING-BY-DOING THEME
In Developing Change Agents Edited by Kristi L. Kremers, Alexander S. Liepins, and Abigail M. York. EBOOK ISBN: 978-1-946135-57-5
A temporal perspective to dam management: influence of dam life and threshold fishery conditions on the energy-fish tradeoff
Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment. doi: 10.1007/s00477-019-01726-7
Forging future organizational leaders for sustainability science
Nat Sustain 2, 647–649 (2019) doi:10.1038/s41893-019-0357-4
What to Do With Dams: An Assessment of Public Opinion to Inform the Debate in New Hampshire
Many of New Hampshire’s dams are reaching the end of their lifespan and require expensive maintenance or removal in order to meet safety standards. While engineers and public officials struggle with the scale of the challenge surrounding various dam management alternatives, including removal, what does the New Hampshire public think? In this brief, authors Natallia Leuchanka, Catherine Ashcraft, Kevin Gardner, and Lawrence Hamilton present results from statewide surveys in New Hampshire that explore public views about dam removal. They report that a majority of respondents in three Granite State Polls prefer to remove dams when the alternative is to keep them for maintenance of waterfront property values, preservation of industrial history, or maintenance of lake- and pond-based recreation. A majority of survey respondents prefer to keep dams when dams are for hydropower generation. Respondents’ age, gender, and party affiliation often predict their preference for dam removal. Levels of formal education do not make much difference. Younger respondents, women, and Democrats are more likely to support dam removal, although this varies somewhat depending on the tradeoffs.
Observations of American Shad Alosa sapidissima Approaching and Using a Vertical Slot Fishway at the Head‐of‐Tide Brunswick Dam on the Androscoggin River, Maine
North American Journal of Fisheries Management, 39(5), 989–998. doi:10.1002/nafm.10330
Managing dams for energy and fish tradeoffs: What does a win-win solution take?
Science of The Total Environment, 669, 833–843. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.03.042
Evaluating core competencies and learning outcomes for training the next generation of sustainability researchers
Sustainability Science. doi:10.1007/s11625-019-00707-7
Role-Play Simulations and System Dynamics for Sustainability Solutions around Dams in New England
People and Conflicts in Dammed New England Landscapes: From a Stakeholder Assessment to a Science-Based Role-Play Simulation
Introduction to the Pearl River Negotiation Simulation: Negotiating the Future of Dams (video)
River Reach Restored by Dam Removal Offers Suitable Spawning Habitat for Endangered Shortnose Sturgeon
Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. doi:10.1002/tafs.10126
A multiscale approach to balance trade-offs among dam infrastructure, river restoration, and cost
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201807437. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1807437115.
A dam passage performance standard model for American shad
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 76(5), 762–779. doi: 10.1139/cjfas-2018-0008
Cradle-to-grave greenhouse gas emissions from dams in the United States of America
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 90, 945–956. doi: 10.1016/j.rser.2018.04.014
Does What Goes up Also Come Down? Using a Recruitment Model to Balance Alewife Nutrient Import and Export
Marine and Coastal Fisheries, 10(2), 236–254. doi: 10.1002/mcf2.10021
Dam Removal and Fish Passage Improvement Influence Fish Assemblages in the Penobscot River, Maine
Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 147(3), 525–540. doi: 10.1002/tafs.10053
I’ll Be Dammed! Public Preferences and the Future of Dams in New Hampshire
Slow and deliberate cooperation in the commons
Nature Sustainability, 1(4), 184–189. doi: 10.1038/s41893-018-0050-z
Tracing Rhetoric and Material Life: Ecological Approaches
Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-65711-0.
The Complexities of Counting Fish: Engaging Citizen Scientists in Fish Monitoring
Maine Policy Review, 26.2: 9-18.
Centring fish agency in coastal dam removal and river restoration
Water Alternatives, 10(3): 724-743.
Communicating about Hydropower, Dams, and Climate Change
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.442.
Opportunities for resilient communities, ecosystems, and infrastructure by optimizing management of New England dams
Resilience 2017 Conference Proceedings. Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre, Sweden, August 20-23, 2017.
How do we decide what to do with dams? Dynamic Design Planning (DDP) to shape collaboration for sustainability science
Resilience 2017 Conference Proceedings. Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre, Sweden, August 20-23, 2017.
Understanding the Cradle-to-Grave Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Dams
Conference proceedings from the Association of Environmental Engineers and Science Professors (AEESP) Research and Education Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 21-22, 2017.
Adaptive Management of Urban Ecosystem Restoration: Learning from Restoration Managers in Rhode Island, U.S.A.
Society and Natural Resources, 1–16. doi:10.1080/08941920.2017.1315653
Sustainability Science and Climate Change Communication
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.563.
Size selection from fishways and potential evolutionary responses in a threatened Atlantic salmon population
River Research and Applications, 33(7), 1004–1015. doi: 10.1002/rra.3155.
Acting and Modeling the Future of Dams: Knowledge Production Processes in Sustainability Science
Thinking Ecologically About Rhetoric’s Ontology: Capacity, Vulnerability, and Resilience
Philosophy and Rhetoric 50(1), 1-25. doi: 10.5325/philrhet.50.1.0001
Will Dam Removal Increase Nitrogen Flux to Estuaries?
Water, 8(11), 522. doi:10.3390/w8110522
Mobilizing the power of higher education to tackle the grand challenge of sustainability: Lessons from novel initiatives
Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 4, 000090. doi: 10.12952/journal.elementa.000090
Why rhetoric matters for ecology
Frontiers Ecology and the Environment, 14(1), 46–52. doi: 10.1002/16-0113.1
Practice at the Boundaries: Report from a workshop of practitioners working at the interfaces science, policy and society for environmental outcomes
Technical Report. Luc Hoffmann Institute, Pew Charitable Trusts, California Ocean Science Trust, Science and Resilience Institute at Jamaica
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The Skunkwork of Ecological Engagement
Reflections: A Journal of Public Rhetoric, Civic Writing, and Service Learning, 16(1), 75-95
Service learning and environmental communication: Communicating a case study of the Penobscot River Restoration Project
Technical report provided to the Campus Compact and Campuses for Environmental Stewardship program
Manager Perspectives on Communication and Public Engagement in Ecological Restoration Project Success
Ecology and Society, 20(1), 58. doi: 10.5751/es-07451-200158