RJA #6c: Protopage

http://www.protopage.com/rgardn15 

RJA #6b: Search Strings

Dam retirement also turned up a few results so 

Ecology AND Dam retirement

Environment AND Dam retirement 

RJA #6a

1:

• Name(s) of author(s) : Martin W Doyle,  Emily H. Stanly, John M. Harbor and Gordon S Grant 
• Title of article :Dam Removal in United States: Emerging Needs for Science and Policy
• Title of periodical : EOS, transactions, American Geophysical Union 
• Volume and issue number (if available) : Volume 84 Number 4
• Date 28 Jan 2003
• Pages on which article appears: 29-36
• Resource searched : ebsco
• Keywords used : Dam removal AND ecosystem
• Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches) AND
• Date of search : Sept 21st 2009
• Number of hits : 32
• Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5) : 5

2:

• Name(s) of author(s) : Martin W. Doyle, Emily H Stanley, Cailin H Orr, Andrew R. Selle
• Title of article: Stream ecosystem response to small dam removal: Lessons from the Heartland
• Title of periodical : Science Direct 
• Volume and issue number (if available) : 71
• Date : 2005
• Pages on which article appears : 277-244
• Resource searched : ebsco
• Keywords used : Dam removal and ecology 
• Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches) AND
• Date of search : Sept 21st 2009
• Number of hits : 32
• Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5) : 5 

RJA #5c

http://nicolegarza5.blogspot.com/2009/09/rja-4b-writing-search-strings.html?showComment=1253585718659#c1184422046570585215

http://jbaham.blogspot.com/2009/09/rja-4b-writing-search-strings.html#comment-form

RJA #5b: Books

From: Metro library 

Title: Environmental Science: earth as  living planet  

Author: Botkin & Keller

Ed: 4th 

date: 2003

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons printed in the NJ

RJA#5 A

Title: Stream ecosystem response to small dam removal: Lessons from the Heartland

Authors: Martin W. Doyle , Emily H. Stanley, Cailin H. Orr, Andrew R. Sellec, Suresh A. Sethib, and Jon M. Harborc

Origionaly from: Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin,

References over 30 total at the bottom of the artical

Received 6 December 2002; revised 13 April 2004; accepted 14 April 2004; Available online 21 April 2005.

From science directGeomorphologyVolume 71, Issues 1-2, 1 October 2005, Pages 227-244 Dams in Geomorphology
Date of search Sept 10th 2009

Hits: 6

Keywords: Dam removal; Stream ecology; Disturbance; Recovery; Biogeomorphology; Ecohydrology

Library data base

and more articles I found are posted in my delicious account 

RJA#4 C commenting

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RJA #4 B Search strings

1)  environment AND dam removal and long term 

     environment + dam removal + future 

2) dam removal AND ecology AND effect*

    dam removal + ecology + effect*

3) dam removal AND animals AND displacement

    "+"

4) dam removal AND large and small

5) dam removal AND native plants

6) dam removal AND ecology AND NO politics 

RJA #4 keywords

science>environmental issues>conservation>ecology restoration

science>engineering> dams

words:    environment:ecology:diversity 

restoration: rehabilitation

dam removal: dam upkeep

                long run: long term effects: future

 

RJA #3c: Developing Research Question

Should it be the state or the governments funding responsibility of maintaining and removing dams?

Should there be a policy determining the fate of all dams or should it vary due to size and location?

Does the removal of a dam in the long run hurt or help the surrounding ecology? 

Should dams be removed?

How does dam removal effect the habitat it’s located in?

What are the geomorphic effects of removing a dam?

RJA #3b: Narrowing Research Topic

As of right now I need to narrow my topic because there are so many controversial effects of dam removal. I could talk about the political and economical side to the issue, or the geologic effects including the sediments changes, or the river itself with flow and temperature or I could focus on the ecological effects mainly animals and plants. I plan to look into each one of these topics more to see which interests me the most with a lot of information to base my paper on. Then I will pick one or two related topics to begin to reasearch in depth.

RJA #2c: Delicious Account

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RJA #3a

Initial Ideas about my topic: discovering the arguments of both sides
Pro dam removal:
-Blocking migrational patterns
- Temperature
- Water quality
- Water fluctuations
- Increase plant and animal species
- beneficial to wet lands in surrounding areas

Cons
- Geomorphic disturbance
-Erosional soil changes
-Channel shape and hydrology
-more problems on already disrupted ecosystems
-Reservoirs harbor many contaminants that will be released
- Pollution later down the stream such as acid mine ect...


Groups Supporting
Association of concerned fisherman
River United Health

Groups Apposing
Scientists supporting Clean Energy
Valley Bottom Irrigators Association