HR: 10:50h
AN: ED52A-03    [Abstracts]
TI: Taking Research on the Road: Modeling the Effects of Dam Removal on the Elwha River
AU: * Sandland, T O
EM: tsandland@smm.org
AF: Science Museum of MN, 120 W. Kellogg, St. Paul, MN 55102 United States
AU: Campbell, K M
EM: kmc@umn.edu
AF: National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics, 2 3rd Ave. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414 United States
AB: The Science Museum of Minnesota's (SMM) Earthscapes River Restoration classes introduce students to the issues surrounding dam removal, provide context within which to explore data and concepts from National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED) research, and give students the opportunity to actively participate in ongoing research on river systems. The topics of Dam Removal and River Restoration provide excellent case studies from which to gain an interdisciplinary understanding of the ecological and physical processes that define and shape rivers and river networks. The geomorphic response of rivers to dam removal is extreme and provides a highly dynamic example of a river's natural tendency to move toward quasiequilibrium. Furthermore, the intense social, political, and economic questions and tensions raised by dam removal provide an engaging backdrop against which to explore a current scientific problem. This session will present classroom activities developed for the residency program in which students explore the issues alluded to above. Participants will have a chance to experiment with the classroom-scale dam-removal models developed by NCED researchers and SMM educators and to try out some of the classroom and data collection activities developed to date.
DE: 0820 Curriculum and laboratory design
DE: 1808 Dams
DE: 1825 Geomorphology: fluvial (1625)
DE: 1835 Hydrogeophysics
DE: 1856 River channels (0483, 0744)
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005