World's largest dam removal reverses coastal erosion

JA Warrick, AW Stevens, IM Miller, SR Harrison… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Coastal erosion outpaces land generation along many of the world's deltas and a significant
percentage of shorelines, and human-caused alterations to coastal sediment budgets can …

Morphodynamic evolution following sediment release from the world's largest dam removal

AC Ritchie, JA Warrick, AE East, CS Magirl… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Sediment pulses can cause widespread, complex changes to rivers and coastal regions.
Quantifying landscape response to sediment-supply changes is a long-standing problem in …

Physical processes controlling mud depocenter development on continental shelves–geological, oceanographic, and modeling concepts

L Porz, W Zhang, TJJ Hanebuth, C Schrum - Marine Geology, 2021 - Elsevier
Mud depocenters (MDCs) represent major proximal-marine sinks for fine-grained
terrigenous material, carbon, and contaminants on modern continental shelves. Throughout …

Coastal habitat and biological community response to dam removal on the Elwha River

MM Foley, JA Warrick, A Ritchie… - Ecological …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Habitat diversity and heterogeneity play a fundamental role in structuring ecological
communities. Dam emplacement and removal can fundamentally alter habitat …

Increased sediment load during a large-scale dam removal changes nearshore subtidal communities

SP Rubin, IM Miller, MM Foley, HD Berry, JJ Duda… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
The coastal marine ecosystem near the Elwha River was altered by a massive sediment
influx—over 10 million tonnes—during the staged three-year removal of two hydropower …

Nearshore subtidal community response during and after sediment disturbance associated with dam removal

SP Rubin, MM Foley, IM Miller, AW Stevens… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Dam removal is used increasingly to restore aquatic ecosystems and remove unnecessary
or high-risk infrastructure. As the number of removals increases, there is a growing …

Fluvial delivery and wave resuspension of sediment in a sheltered, urbanized Pacific Northwest estuary

DJ Nowacki, AW Stevens, RK Takesue… - Estuaries and …, 2024 - Springer
The sequence and timing of sediment delivery and redistribution in coastal systems is
important for shoreline stability, ecosystem services, and remediation planning. In temperate …

Spatiotemporal variation in distribution, size, and relative abundance within a Salish Sea nearshore forage fish community

KE Frick, AN Kagley, KL Fresh… - Marine and Coastal …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Forage fish are schooling species commonly occurring in both offshore pelagic and
nearshore coastal habitats. Beyond use by some species for spawning, the dynamics of …

Formation and removal of a coastal flood deposit

EF Eidam, AS Ogston… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
During floods, small mountainous rivers transport large sediment loads to the coastal ocean.
This sediment often deposits near shore, and if conditions allow, various types of gravity …

Impacts of suspended sediment on nearshore benthic light availability following dam removal in a small mountainous river: in situ observations and statistical …

HE Glover, AS Ogston, IM Miller, EF Eidam… - Estuaries and …, 2019 - Springer
The 2011–2014 removal of two dams from the Elwha River, WA, delivered~ 19 Mt of
sediment to the marine environment, creating an opportunity to study the sensitivity of a …