The Mountain Hydrology Lab & Future River Flows
Episode description
The Mountain Hydrology Lab at West Virginia University has defined the density of whitewater river runs in the United States and cross referenced this data with how climate change will alter those flows, and how changes in river flows, to include low flows and floods, will impact the people living along those rivers. This episode talks at length with the Director of the Mountain Hydrology Lab, who is also a stout river kayaker, Associate Professor Nicolas Zegre about this work his students are doing, how West Virginia has the most dense collection of whitewater runs, and where students can gain excellent river based educations.
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Nicolas “Nico” Zegre, Associate Professor Forest Hydrology
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A note from Prof. Nico Zegre about the research work:
“sincerest gratitude to whitewater boater and recent graduate student of the MHL, Melissa “Mel” Shafer, who conducted the future boatable days analysis for the lower 48 states”
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