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Portrait of Joshua Viers from UC Merced

Engineering resilience to climate change

  • by Z Sarkissian
  • February 10, 2014

In the environment magazine Ensia, Center for Watershed Sciences affiliates Joshua Viers and Sarah Null discuss research aimed at helping California dam operators figure out how to dial in suitable temperatures and flows to sustain native fish in a warming climate.

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Big Dam Turnaround

2013 study: A Method to Consider Whether Dams Mitigate Climate Change Effects on Stream Temperatures

2012 study: Water Management Adaptations to Prevent Loss of Spring-Run Chinook Salmon in California under Climate Change

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