"You hope that every event like this keeps people alert, and thinking of the future. It's not going to be a one-off, and you can't put your head in the sand," the professor of geography says in a New York Times story about Vermont's flood protection efforts.
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Detailed satellite imagery reveals significant global shifts in sediment yield due to large dams and land use change
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"One way to think about this is that we, as a nation have been building on average, one dam per day, since the signing of the Declaration of Independence."
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The geographers are recognized for significant contributions to the field.
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Dam removal in the United States is an increasingly attractive option for advocates of river restoration. Sneddon, Magilligan, and Fox use dam removal in New England as a lens for examining state actors' capabilities to govern environmental processes.
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