Geosciences professor José Constantine gave a talk at the last Log Lunch about how dams are changing the course of the Amazon — literally.
“America used to be the best at dams. Damn, we were good,” said a punny Professor Constantine.
Now, we see dams introducing a ton of problems to the human and nonhuman habitats they impose themselves upon: specifically, in the Amazon rainforest.
Although this may seem like a distant issue in a faraway land, Constantine stressed the omnipresence of dam-related issues; we can study these issues even so close as within the PCB-infested waters of the Hoosic!
–Jane Tekin, ’19