MS graduate Sam Dow co-authors paper on the effects of dams

Former EESC graduate student Samantha Dow (now a PhD student at the University of Connecticut) recently published a paper on her M.S. research with Noah Snyder’s lab group. In the project, the authors studied 20^th century sedimentation behind a dam in the South River watershed in western Massachusetts, and found evidence for changing sediment sources through time, as historic dams breached and released a pulse of stored from previous anthropogenic activities, followed by an increase in erosion from glacial-age deposits. This work bridges a research gap between short-term dam removal studies and longer‐term legacy sediment erosion.