"this century we have collectively bought, on average, one large dam per day."

-World Commission on Dams, 2000

dams deliver many benefits, but often at a high price with adverse and lasting impacts. though this dam modeling project, we are forming lasting and productive collaborations around the direct explication and assessment of the ecological, economic, and socio-cultural impacts, both beneficial and nonbeneficial, associated with dams. through the development of new tools to examine how dams stimulate change and how we may project potential ecological, economic, and socio-cultural outcomes of such change, this project may reduce uncertainty and risks associated with constructing (and removing) dams.