25.3 Wildfires and Loss of Snowpack: Two Way that Climate Change is Reducing Water Storage in the Columbia River Basin
What:
Student Poster
Part of:
When:
2:00 PM, Friday 8 Nov 2019
(1 hour 50 minutes)
Where:
Grand Ballroom A/B
How:
Discussion:
0
Water in the Western U.S. is vulnerable to climate change because of loss of reservoir storage and melting snowpack including magnified sedimentation after wildfires which are increasing in number and size. We modeled erosion in the Columbia River Basin before and after wildfires to inform management decisions.
