BEE/WRGP Student Kelly Kibler Spends Year in China  

Water Resources Engineering PhD student Kelly Kibler is spending a year in Yunnan Provence, China, researching the ecological consequences of hydropower development.  Concerns about climate change make hydropower an attractive alternative to fossil fuels, and have led to a resurgence in interest about hydropower development, despite the many documented risks to rivers, biodiversity, and local people.  Hydropower development in western Yunnan takes many forms, including a proposed cascade of 13 large dams on one of China’s last free-flowing rivers that has roused the awareness of the international environmental community, as well as many smaller projects that receive less international attention.  Kelly is investigating the different environmental impacts associated with large hydropower stations that produce power on the order of thousands of megawatts, and smaller (less than 50 MW) projects.  Kelly’s research will contribute to development of the Integrative Dam Assessment Modeling (IDAM) tool (http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2009/jun/scientists-develop-groundbreaking-new-model-impacts-dams), a collaboration that brings together a diverse group of researchers from multiple disciplines and universities.  A Chinese partner in the IDAM project, the Asian International Rivers Center of Yunnan University, is hosting Kelly for one year.  

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