Matt Collins, EESC part-time faculty, co-authors a new paper in Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.

In the article, entitled "Channel response to a dam‐removal sediment pulse captured at high‐temporal resolution using routine gage data", the research team shows how existing stream gages can be used to document and investigate sediment pulses from dam removals, and other sources like landslides, at 15-minute resolution over many years. With these data they show a two-phase response to a Maryland dam removal, corroborating earlier work at the site using different methods and adding new details. The two-phase response to dam removal sediment releases was first described by a Boston College research team at a site in New Hampshire.