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Mary Power talks the Thirsty Eel River as keynote speaker at the Society for Freshwater Science

Mary Power (University of California Berkeley), Co-Investigator at the Eel River CZO

27 May 2016
News Source: The Society for Freshwater Science

Power spoke on 'Drought, floods, and alternate states of algal-based river food webs in the Thirsty Eel' at the 2016 SFS Annual Meeting.

Image: Mary Power (University of California Berkeley), Co-Investigator at the Eel River CZO [Click image to enlarge]

Mary Power (UC Berkeley) was choosen as one of the keynote speakers at the 2016 Society of Freshwater Science Annual Meeting. Her talk, "Drought, floods, and alternate states of algal-based river food webs in the Thirsty Eel," described the increasing stress the Eel River experiences by drought and water withdrawals. She discussed how the changes in summer discharge can potentially tilt the Eel River from a recovering salmon-supporting ecosystem toward a cyanobacterially degraded one. Agency, academic, and citizen scientists are now collaborating to monitor and study conditions that flip river food webs from salmon-supporting to cyanobacterially-dominated states, and to learn more about the fates of algal production in river and coastal food webs.

Read more about Mary's talk here.

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